Everything Ben

LOTR is a great movie to have in the background while programming … it is not too distracting...

Mar 3rd

why don’t sleeping babies like to be put down?

Mar 3rd

interesting plane just flew over my house … http://skitch.com/bwyrosdick/8ryt/aperture...

Mar 2nd

Sunday afternoon seems to be a slow time for tweets …. they are rolling in at a whopping 2 per...

Mar 2nd

welcome to twitter @billabel

Mar 2nd

Isaac had a 7 hour stretch of sleep last night w00t

Mar 1st

do people still use feedburner that much?

Mar 1st

feedburner link to CommonThread blog … http://feeds.commonthread.com/CommonThread...

Mar 1st

joining the #fntp

Mar 1st

my good friend @jmccay surprised me with a white chocolate mocha from starbucks … makes for...

Mar 1st

I am finally being dragged over to the git side … I held out for a while but now I am seeing...

Mar 1st

I just taught my first all day rails training today

Mar 1st

it just dawned on me that most people are paid salary so they work an extra day for free this year...

Mar 1st

dang ichat switching to incoming tweets

Feb 29th

up

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ok

Feb 29th

wow … Linus Torvalds has some very strong opinions … and seems to think everyone who is...

Feb 29th

Bring It On

Feb 28th

if anyone has a github invite burning a hole in their pocket hit me up … I would like to try...

Feb 28th

this is an interesting amazon suggestion … Coffee Maker and “A Christmas Story”...

Feb 28th

good read for people confused about extend vs include in ruby … http://tinyurl.com/2vkmv3...

Feb 28th

preparing to teach a workshop

Feb 28th

eating popcorn … wishing I had good popcorn salt

Feb 27th

looks like @jmccay is taking his ball and going home

Feb 27th

ohh

Feb 27th

can someone explain this to me … http://tinyurl.com/2oorbf [http://tinyurl.com/2oorbf] …...

Feb 27th

why in the world does twitter put the url twice and take up my characters … AAARRRRGGG

Feb 27th

beginning to think that truemors.com [http://truemors.com] is the only site that @guykawasaki visits

Feb 27th

budget lunches start today …. I am enjoying chicken ramen & a crunchy PB&J

Feb 26th

just ate one of @jmccay’ s muffins … very tasty

Feb 26th

we just dropped to a one income family … my wife notified her boss that she will not return...

Feb 26th

dang twitter and it’s 140 character limit … and dang iChat for not telling me how many...

Feb 26th

Flash development sucks so bad … I forgot how much I hate this stuff … ohh the day when...

Feb 26th

my computer completely locked up again … I was afraid I lost my 3rd HD in just a few months

Feb 26th

off to do a demo

Feb 25th

wow … chocolate syrup in your coffee ftw

Feb 25th

sleeping baby FTW … now time for caffeine & coding … demo tomorrow

Feb 25th

I have got to stop looking at lenses … I can’t afford one right now … :(

Feb 25th

welcome to the twitterverse @MaMoore

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Isaac: Sara says he looks like me in this picture

Feb 23rd

Watching the season finale of Monk

Feb 23rd

all clean and sitting down with a fresh cup of Kona Blend and an Eggo Waffle

Feb 23rd

Sara just got home … time to unload groceries

Feb 23rd

Time to shower … maybe Isaac will not wake up from his nap *fingers crossed*

Feb 23rd

remember the milk now has google gears integration to let you manage your list offline

Feb 23rd

I wonder if anyone has ever made breast milk ice cream ?

Feb 23rd

javascript and haml … joy

Feb 23rd

looks like @tigermatt may be going to portland with us … w00t

Feb 23rd

now that @lessallan mentions it … it is time for some coffee

Feb 23rd

now time for the Dr Pepper remix … http://tinyurl.com/2otw3b [http://tinyurl.com/2otw3b]

Feb 22nd

just downloaded the Chocolate Rain mp3 … http://tinyurl.com/2h2pwe [http://tinyurl.com/2h2pwe]

Feb 22nd

me and @jmccay had a very “intense” design discussion … I offered to hug it out...

Feb 22nd

waiting for my wife to return with Chick-Fil-A minis

Feb 22nd

just fixed some bugs and a new rails helper via screen share … leopard rocks

Feb 22nd

lightning outside & rolling thunder … storm is getting near

Feb 22nd

time to go feed a baby … and hope he wants to go right back to sleep *fingers crossed*

Feb 22nd

imagine a day when all the browsers fully support the latest CSS …. what a dream

Feb 22nd

all this talk of cereal … I am about to have a bowl … mmmmm

Feb 22nd

who knew rainy mornings could be so fun …. what a difference a dash of drama adds :)

Feb 21st

about to enjoy a Fire on the Mountain

Feb 21st

going to bed … super tired

Feb 21st

What did I do before Rails? … PHP? … .NET? … Java? … ugh

Feb 21st

that datatable in YUI looks nice … time for someone to do this in jQuery :)

Feb 20th

I like how @draper7 ignores my chats all day but I see him on twitter … I know you are there

Feb 20th

enjoying some Big Mountain Coffee … Yemen Java / Jamaica Me Crazy mixture

Feb 19th

ARG … twitter and it putting urls twice sometimes … http://www.wyrosdick.com/blog

Feb 19th

my wife has started to blog about our son … I am proud of her for joining this brave new...

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Isaac Blue Bloomers

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Feb 19th

off to feed a baby … then … who knows

Feb 19th

baby fed, changed and put back to bed … time to get back to work

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after watching @jmccay ‘s video … I am glad I have a Keurig coffee machine …...

Feb 19th

takin’ it to the house

Feb 18th

got to go feed a baby then hopefully get some sleep

Feb 18th

castaway is not the movie to watch knowing I will have to take a long flight in just a few months

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103 days until RailsConf … maybe @tigermatt will join us *fingers crossed*

Feb 15th

I have resigned to the fact that I will never beat One on hard … 85% is my best

Feb 15th

my sandal is being held hostage by @jbutler … so far this is all I have gotten...

Feb 14th

crying it out is no fun for first time parents … he is breaking my heart

Feb 14th

I go through twitter spells .. I am in a dry phase right now

Feb 11th

dropping the dogs off at the groomer then off to work

Feb 11th

just got back from watching the kids Mercedes Marathon …. there was a kindergartner that ran a...

Feb 9th

Does anyone know if this spider looks like a brown recluse?...

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Unknown Spider: If anyone knows what kind of spider this is...

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the Canon DSLR moves out of RAW mode if you chose one of the auto functions … boo

Feb 9th

time to play GH3 for the first time in weeks

Feb 9th

listening to some Derek Webb … despite what @jmccay says it is good stuff

Feb 8th

napster FTW

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front door open, back door open, enjoying the breeze

Feb 6th

this makes me want to vote for Obama … http://youtube.com/watch?v=1yq0tMYPDJQ...

Feb 5th

TimeMachine saves the day … I almost lost all the changes I have made to my whole photo...

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it seems @jmccay likes losing lunches to me

Feb 5th

it seems that @jmccay needs one of his world famous twitter lessons

Feb 5th

It’s peanut butter jelly time … sans baseball bat

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Making the switch to Aperture and RAW …. much better than iPhoto and has flickr export from...

Feb 4th

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finally bit the bullet and bought our tickets to RailsConf … Portland here we come

Feb 3rd

WOW … Frenchmen can kick … o_0

Feb 2nd

watching Monk on DVR, holding a sleeping newborn and hacking away at a rails project for one of our...

Feb 1st

My Amazon AWS account was billed today … Total: $0.04 … now thats what I call cheap...

Feb 1st

hey twitter IM seems to back … hurray

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