My kids are Growing

It's weird. They are turning into cool, sophisticated little people.

I have nothing else to say today except, look at how cool they look.

Also, the last pic is one with me and the kids in our continuing series called: "Max's Back." (For some reason many of our best photo's are take from the backside of Max's perspective. Dunno why, it just seems to happen. It may be that he sees the excellent things before the rest of us...)

--tomb

Apologies for Technical Ineptitude…

So apparently I am a Twidiot. A gigantic Twidiot, in fact.

Basically, I found out that Twitter was enabling UK Vodaphone (finally) for SMS and Text updates (like the rest of the proper world.) So in my excitement, I went into the “admin” functions of my Twitter account. Upon delving these depths, I found a little function that lets me see EVERYONE who has been sending me direct messages.

Didn’t even know I could do this.
Didn’t even know that people were talking to me/mentioning me directly.
Didn’t even know that I could’ve nay—should’ve been responding in some manner.
Didn’t even know how to respond (until this morning, actually.)

How Rude of me!

HEY—folks @Twitter.com? How about an Effing-Tutorial for us Dumb-asses in the world? Dammit.

In any case, I am using my blog to apologize for my Twidiocy. (Yes, MY BLOG…Many of you know how I like to keep the “temple of my mind” as sacred ground, so I MUST be serious about this.) I will also attempt to respond to all my friends and RadioTiki Listeners (btw: not mutually exclusive descriptors--since all my RadioTiki peeps at are siblings of my soul.)

I only did the mentions from 2009. So, if anyone “said” something to me on Twitter in 2008, I am sorry—I had to cut it off somewhere.
Additionally, I will “stem the tide” of my rudeness by being a bit better on the tweet-response time. I am not a celebrity in any way at all. However, quite a few Listeners to the show have honoured me by following my inanity. The least I can do is provide some inane content.

From Twitter, the evidence for your perusal:
Mentions of @_tomb

1.)wdonohue@_tomb Could be Twitter, could be BT network lag. At least you're not on Deutsche Telekom
tomb: Actually I am on Deutsche Telecom everytime I use my 3G card on the laptop. All the adds are in German--and they are Naughty!

2.)dltabor@_tomb Do you mean @thewholeworld? It has been on here for a while. ;-)about 16 hours ago
tomb: I was too busy following @life_the_universe_and_everything. It's a much better read. :)

3.)wdonohueyou should follow @EMSL, @_tomb, and @hjarche.
tomb: Very kind of you to recommend me, but as I have demonstrated, I am an idiot.

4.)javinchi@_tomb TMI?7:31 PM Mar 6th
tomb: Yes. But, then this has always been part of my problem and my charm. :)

5.)DLGroover@_tomb Ok, so I've heard awesome things about london style curry, but where can I pick some up in the states? Also, WTF is a kebab.5:28 PM Feb 27th
tomb: UK Kebab = Fully Loaded Gyro in the USA. I am NOT the person to ask about Curries over here. I do not understand the national obsession with what essentially amounts to "spicey stew" that you must have over rice or its a mess.

6.)SirBob@_tomb on behalf of Nottingham, we would like to welcome Tiki!12:28 PM Feb 5th
tomb: I LOVE Nottingham. I stay at the Hilton by the big shopping mall and I can walk to "ye olde Trippe" for dinner and many pints! Woo! (I have been temped by the "Robin Hood Experience." Should I?)

7.)DLGroover@_tomb Be sure to link to your morphine-fueled bloggings on your twitter! Also, glad the surgery went well.5:11 AM Jan 28th
tomb: Last round of surgery, the Morphine was a disappointing muse. I wasn't nearly as insipred as I was back in September. However, I was quite annoyed that it stops "other functions", temporarily.

8.)jesscapps@_tomb Glad it sounds like it went well. Freezing over here-literally. :)1:54 AM Jan 28th
tomb: Total success on the surgery. It's April 2nd and I can run, climb, hike, ride a bike. It's awesome. Only weird thing--I can't bend the one leg enough yet to put a sock on like normal person. Gotta stretch that tendon some more.

9.) wdonohue@_tomb Oh, you mean the *joint* resurfacing. Should still get a guarantee, though. They may say it's Teflon, but you can't see it, can you?10:05 PM Jan 26th
wdonohue@_tomb Hope you got a guarantee on that resurfacing - if they just threw some hot patch on there, it's gonna start peeling before spring.10:03 PM Jan 26th
tomb: Just like Chicago in the Winter--first warm day and a truck goes over my noew hip and it pops out, creating the mother-of-all-potholes!

10.)brandonmhorn@_tomb I think there's apps out there that allow you to update everything at once...just saying (I'll look into it for you :)
tomb: please do, but--send me a private email--I will give a a preview copy of my blog about social networks that I am co-writing with UK-Friend who lives in the states.

11.)mostlybob@_tomb Tom, Tommy, Tom! good to see you. :-)7:50 PM Jan 19th
tomb: Bawb, Bawbby, Bawb (phonetic spelling of the Boston Twang.) Brill to be back. Sorry it took 3 months to get back to ya.

12.)DLGroover@_tomb Holy shit, the first new RadioTiki since October! Tom, you need to get on top of these things, shamelessly plug it on twitter! YGFR!5:44 PM Jan 18th
tomb: We really are trying to do it more often, but...it seems that Saturdays work best for the International version. You'd be suprised how hard it is to schedule a Saturday. As it is, we can almost never count on Brad as he is sporting event-junkie.

13.)jesscapps@_tomb - Boo! You poor, poor soul. What ever shall you do. I shant bare(bear?) to think!3:44 PM Jan 16th
tomb: It gives me a warm-fuzzy feeling inside just to know that you were thinking about me. It goes miles toward changing my glum dispositon. :)

14.)brandonmhorn@_tomb are you sure its not your settings? Seems you should be able to get the feed at least.
tomb: Definitely was Vodaphone. Because--now I "should" be getting it.

15.)jeffedsell@_tomb Good to see you on Twitter! (R. Daneel here.)3:11 PM Jan 12th

16.)DLGroover@_tomb Looking forward to the new show, also twitter updates!6:28 AM Jan 12th

17.)brandonmhorn@_tomb nice! thanks for the update.11:03 PM Jan 11th
tomb: Answering 15-17--well, you can see how well I've screwed up this little experiement. :)

brandonmhorn@_tomb Listener bhorn appreciates the inane. That's why he tunes in to Radio Tiki every 1...well 2...no, actually 3(???) months. J/K.
tomb: 'Nuff said. Said well, too, I think! Cheers.


--tomb