Teaching my boys right from wrong…

Aidan Prefers Chrome from Eric Burke on Vimeo.

I love the Internet.

This is how I feel about Java IDEs.

Check out what my wife bought me here at the Mall of America’s LEGO Store:

Are you attending Google I/O? I’m not, but @davidangry is.

Submit your best @davidangry Google I/O story on Twitter. After the conference ends, the best Tweet wins a $20 Amazon gift certificate.

Rules

• Your tweet must mention @davidangry (so I know how to find it)
• Your tweet must include the #io2009 hash tag
• I am the judge.

The contest is real. @davidangry is not. Let the tweeting begin.

I generally don’t pay attention to who follows me on Twitter. In fact, I have GMail automatically archive Twitter email notifications whenever someone new follows me. That bucket currently has 700+ unread messages. (I just checked so I could put a number in that sentence.)

This offends some people. They believe that by following you, you should in turn follow them back. You scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours. Twitter is weird like that.

So how do I decide who to follow? I generally follow these groups of people:

• People I work with or know personally.
• People who are well known in fields I’m interested in, like Android development.
• Familiar names that keep popping up on Twitter among the people I already follow.
• People who @reply to me with interesting comments.

More and more, that last bullet is how I choose who to follow. If someone sparks my interest with a comment, I’ll click their profile and check out their time line and bio. If I like what I see, I’ll follow. It’s as simple as that.

Un-Follow

If people spend a lot of time tweeting about religion, teabagging, or other things I don’t like, I silently un-follow. That stuff stresses me out, which kind of defeats the whole purpose of Twitter. For me, Twitter is a way to relieve stress and amuse myself.

Speaking of un-following, there are tools to notify you when someone un-follows. Last year someone (who I don’t know) send me a personal email telling me he was un-following me. It’s OK, really. You don’t need to tell people when you leave, just go away.

I believe people should not concern themselves with un-follows. Sanitizing your thoughts and censoring yourself is a great way to be boring on Twitter. Instead, just be yourself and have fun.

I am designing a new web site for my comics. The new site will be comics-only, and I am looking for suggestions. As an experiment, I am collecting feedback using a Google Docs form. Please help me out!

I’m not too old to want this LEGO Eiffel Tower:

3-1/2 feet high, 3,428 pieces.

Every time you people do this shit,

God kills a kitten.

Stop. Now.

These are things I fantasize about doing, but probably won’t. They are either impossible, or are things I may not actually enjoy if I had the chance. For example, people turn abandoned missile silos into homes all the time, but in reality, the homes are isolated, cold, and awkward to live in.

• Walk up (or down might be better) the Arch stairs. You can see the “forbidden stairs” as you ride the trams to the top. 630 feet is a long way, however. This would get really painful and boring. But I’m still annoyed that the best part of the Arch is off limits.
• Visit the inside of a Google data center.
• Live on a private island. Because I’m afraid of pirates. And too poor.
• Turn an abandoned missile silo into my home.
• Build a house with at least one hidden room and some secret passageways. This item seems attainable.