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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-09-25

  • Who knew Oakland vs Buffalo would be such a great game? #
  • Hell yes! Go #Steelers #
  • The Emmys are my Oscars! Go "Mad Men"! #
  • Congrats to Margo Martindale for her win for #justified #
  • Congrats to Martin Scorsese for directing #boardwalkempire #
  • Kate! Kate! Kate! Kate! #
  • Hell yes! #madmen wins again! Yes! Yes! Yes! #
  • Seriously – why ARE Hollywood celebrities obsessed with cop killers? #TroyDavis #MumiaAbuJamal #
  • @JeffersonObama hahaha! You're a funny guy! #
  • @cynthiaboaz haha! That's one funny tweet! #
  • Wow… these #p2 people are morons! #
  • Mexico still waiting for answers on Fast and Furious gun program – Los Angeles Times http://t.co/C4BfrM83 #
  • @Lizardoid Are you going to start riding your bike in front of @AndrewBreitbart's house 20 times a day, too? #
  • @calman3000 Oh God! I hate that shit! Did an online app for Dollar General – I swear it would be 50 pages on paper! I feel your pain! #
  • #GiveEmHellTech #GoJackets #THWG #
  • YES! YES! YES! #GoJackets #UNCSUCKS #THWG #GiveEmHellTech #
  • We're 4-0, bitches! Gee, what happened the last time #gatech started 4-0? 🙂 #GoJackets #THWG #

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Quote of the Day

“Who is it you think you see? Do you know how much I make a year? I mean, even if I told you, you wouldn’t believe it. Do you know what would happen if I suddenly decided to stop going in to work? A business big enough that it could be listed on the NASDAQ goes belly-up. Disappears! It ceases to exist without me. No, you clearly don’t know who you’re talking to, so let me clue you in: I am not in danger, Skyler. I AM THE DANGER. A guy opens his door and gets shot, and you think that of me? No. I AM THE ONE WHO KNOCKS.”

– Bryan Cranston
as Walter White
in Breaking Bad

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BREAKING NEWS: R.E.M. have broken up!

One of my all-time favorite bands, R.E.M. have broken up after 31 years together!

From the band’s official website:

As R.E.M., and as lifelong friends and co-conspirators, we have decided to call it a day as a band. We walk away with a great sense of gratitude, of finality, and of astonishment at all we have accomplished. To anyone who ever felt touched by our music, our deepest thanks for listening.

Even though I haven’t really kept up with them in the past few years, it’s still sad news. They were just one of those bands I always expected to be around forever. It therefore only seems fitting to send them out with their first big hit:

Good luck guys. God bless, and thanks for all the great tunes over the years! Fables of the Reconstruction will always be one of my all-time favorite discs!

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Quote of the Day

From here:

Why did anyone ever think that 17 disparate countries, with different economic cultures, different work ethics, different industrial bases and different standards of living could ever adapt to a one-size-fits-all currency?

Why did they ever think a single currency could work in 17 different countries with 17 different finance ministers, 17 different tax systems, and 17 different economic policies? Why did they think it would work when country after country – including significant ones such as France and Italy – repeatedly flouted the rule forbidding them to run deficits of more than 3pc of their GDP, and nobody punished them?

Amen.

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-09-18

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Random Atlanta\Georgia Trivia

So the other day I was looking for some info about a Braves game, so I went to my former hometown newspaper’s site: ajc.com. While there I discovered that my favorite section of the paper – “Q&A on the News”, where people can write in any marginally newsworthy question in hopes of getting an answer – not only still exists… but that there’s an extensive archive of old topics, too!

Here’s some of the fun stuff I found:

Georgia is the only state to be admitted to the Union three times. (link)

Of course, Georgia was the fourth state, ratifying the U.S. Constitution on January 2, 1788. And, like most Confederate states, Georgia was readmitted after the Civil War on June 26, 1868. However, widespread violence led Congress to re-impose Reconstruction on the state (another dubious honor, this being the only state to have this happen). Georgia was readmitted for the third and final time in July 1870.

Atlanta’s Northside Hospital delivers more babies than any other hospital in the United States. (link)

Over 18,000 babies are born there every year… including me (although that was a looooonng time ago!).

St. Mary’s, Georgia is the second oldest continually-inhabited city in the United States (link)

The city was founded “sometime in the mid 1500s” by the Spanish. It became an incorporated city in 1792. Only St. Augustine, Florida is older.