I’m watching Christmas Vacation for the 7th time in 2018.
Author: ryan
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I’m watching Christmas Vacation for the 6th time in 2018.
I’m watching Christmas Vacation for the 6th time in 2018.
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Checking out my Twitter past with the Twitter archive
I joined twitter in March of 2007, and my first tweet was not Shakespeare by any means.
To find this piece of internet history, I had to download my archive of tweets from Twitter. This doesn’t sound like it would be to tough of a job, but of course there is a gotcha.
After logging in to Twitter, go to your settings page. Once there, DO NOT go to the obvious Your Twitter Data, scroll to the bottom and select Download Data.
No, DO NOT USE THIS! It is a cruel joke played on you by Twitter. One would think this is where you get your archive, but one would be WRONG! That link will only get you data that Twitter thinks you’ll find useful, and the data is in a bunch of files in JSON format. Don’t go there, just don’t.
Instead, select Account on the left and scroll down to Request your Twitter Archive
This .zip file, once it is ready, will contain your entire history. Download and unzip the file. Open up the newly created folder and double-click on the index.html file. This will open the file up in your default browser, giving you an interface into a world that you might have forgotten exists.
I have no idea what I was doing with Tweets like this in 2007:
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Happy birthday @rachel_collins12
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This Geek in Review for December 7th, 2018
Welcome to the first This Geek in Review, a weekly column where I share some of the internet’s geek side.
Last week we lost the creator of Spongebob Squarepants, Stephen Hillenburg, to Lou Gehrig’s disease. One of his early animations from animation school is available on Youtube.
The Guardian has posted some great pictures from the production of the original Star Wars Trilogy. I love all of the model work, especially of the Imperial Walkers on Hoth.
Researchers have concluded that Wizard of OZ is the most influential movie of all time (via ArsTechnica). Star Wars was number 2, and the top 20 movies all were made before 1978.
If you’ve ever used a USB cable, you know that they defy the laws of physics and mathematics, whereas 80-90% of the time you will be holding the end wrong when you attempt to plug it in. Now Amazon has you covered with a 3-pack of reversible micro USB cables. I added these to my Amazon Christmas wishlist, maybe I’ll get a set and see if they work as well as the reviews state. And along with these technological marvels comes the Amazon Alexa enabled Big Mouth Billy Bass which is now available for preorder. Unfortunately, it needs to be paired with an existing Echo, you can’t use it by itself. For some reason, all I can think of is Jeff Goldblum:
Barnes & Noble Announces New NOOK® 7” Tablet Just in Time for Holiday Shopping. Amazon has had a cheap 7″ Kindle Fire tablet for a couple of years, but this Nook has something the Kindle Fire does not have, the Google Play store. That means the Nook has access to all of the apps in the Google Play store, where as the Kindle Fire tablet can only use the Amazon App store. For bonus points, install the Kindle app on the new Nook and buy books from both Barnes & Noble and Amazon.
Meanwhile, in Beilstein, Rhineland-Palatinate.
