• When you own a wine store, reps come by and give you free samples. My retirement plans now include a wine store… #
• RT @BillCalkins Make friends with plants – grow your veggie & herb #gardening skills with this awesome guide – http://cot.ag/bnhYws #
• Here here!
  RT @mastermaq Start offering bus service to #EIA from Century Park! #yegtransit #yeg #
• Technology's next leap has to close the gap between computer literate and illterate… for my sanity's sake. I hold out hope for the #iPad #
• Still looking for the perfect app to make publishing non text based books an affordable reality. #
• People who register a .ca domain should always check out the .com domain first. Because there are some really bad coincidences out there… #
• RT @yourAGA Which Escher poster did you have on your dorm room wall? We’re going to have 54 Escher prints @ AGA soon. #
• RT @illustratedword Cool! Vintage Czechoslovakian book covers. From Round My Skull #
• Watch out and hide your healthcare cards! RT @scalzi Have successfully infiltrated Canada. #
• RT @EnjoyCentre: A new 3d view of the Enjoy Centre is up! #
• RT @Eyjafjallajokul: As I was telling the trolls just the other day: "WE are in this together. There's no 'i' in Eyjafjallajökull." #
• Cool new company in #stalbert selling electric scooters. Gonna go for a test drive! http://edmontoneride.ca/ #
• Southgate Mall is all fancy and new. And has a http://www.apple.com plastered all over an empty bay!!!! #yeg #

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• Gotta add this one…
  RT @OHnewsroom I.T. answering machine: “Press 4 to report a revenue-impacting emergency.” #
• Now that Adobe CS5 has been announced, I think I can finally find the budget to buy CS4! Now I just need a machine that can run it… #
• Edmonton Journal does a photogallery of the growing ranges at Hole's #
• The Linda Steele twitter fiasco revealed: Punished by the #abgov for the sake of 4 minutes. #
• Actually, IMHO, they are.
  RT @GrammarMonkeys Why we need hyphens: Because 300-odd editors are not the same as 300 odd editors. #ACES2010 #
• Trying to take an ebook out of #epl to scope out the experience. Hardly any epubs and the one I wanted: all copies out. WTF #
• Visited Lacombe Park Spirits in #StAlbert Run by 2 brothers; very pleasant surprise and the cooler is well worth the visit. #
• Don't like Tom Wood adaptations! #
• RT @lavermeer It came from my notebook, part 2: According to Robert Bringhurst: "Authors are a real pain in the ass!" #

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• Really want to see iTunes bookstore here in Canada. Wonder if the delay is another one of those rights issues we keep having? #
• After all this time, and all this technology, I still end up glueing pictures to foamboard for displays. #somethingsneverchange #
• RT @GrammarMonkeys "Advance planning" is redundant. Planning is the laying out of a future course, so "advance" is superfluous. #
• Lol RT @OHnewsroom: About demise of pay phones: Editor: “Where would Superman change nowadays?” Reporter: “Change? Where would he work?” #
• Just played with my first ipad. Multi layer PDFs and intelligent comic books. Publishing has definitely changed. Now I want one… #
• Off to see the final game of the Oil tonight. Skybox tickets with parking pass! W00t! #
• RT @GrammarMonkeys Why we need hyphens: Because an inflatable business owner isn’t the same as an inflatable-business owner. #
• RT @craigmod Email for me now boils down to a terse response or no response. I'm reading everything but flying at aprox 10% response rate. #
• A bunch of new Enjoy Centre pictures are up on the website… #
• Oh, I have them for coworkers (C!)
  RT @OHnewsroom Reporter on the phone: “It’s hard for me to understand how you don’t understand.” #
• Been playing w/ an iPad here in #yeg Still not sure if I want one & what the economic model 4 ebooks is gonna be, but O' the possibilities #
• RT @illustratedword Post-Gutenberg era? Ebooks good for Cdn indie pubs but this bookworm says-the medium does matter #
• Just took "Which Crazy Writer Are You?" and got: F. Scott Fitzgerald! Try it ? #
• Dinner at 100 last night. A lovely night w/ lovely people & I have nothing bad to say; but oddly enough I don't think I'll go back #yegfood #

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• RT @jmaxsfu RT @timescolonist: BC's enviro minister has candle-lit Earth Hour date with wife; sets cat on fire. #
• The entire city is going to Muse tonight. My son is off to see Hedley. #swimmingagainstthestream #
• RT @kerstinschoc Enter our Digital Easter Egg Hunt contest (which starts today) and win some chocolate! #yegfood #yeg #
• Lois Hole Hospital for Women Open House: Saturday, April 10, 2010 from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm #
• Unanticipated ebook problem: my cat like the cover and keeps dragging the reader off in the middle of the night. #
• Rendering video. Must… have… new… computer… gasp #
• RT @GrammarMonkeys On the blog: That and which, and when to use each. http://ow.ly/1sWVK @akemimats #
• rt @jamie_oliver if u want better food 4 your kids in schools sign the petition & retweet link http://tiny.cc/cij7x thanx so much guys! jxxx #
• Sigh! RT @mastermaq: I'm late to this but the #lyndasteele decision is stupid … organizations don't have conversations, people do. #yeg #
• RT @GrammarMonkeys Ha! RT @gerrrib There's a book called "Shrink Lits" that boiled down Strunk and White to two words: "Write tight." #
• RT @craigmod Google's new, amazingly efficient Japanese keyboard: http://googlejapan.blogspot.com/2010/04/google.html #
• My favorite illustator is now on Twitter @illustatedword One of her past Xmas cards & my favorite so far!
  http://twitpic.com/1cgnn5 #
• Two books on my must-read list now releases in HC. The countdown to me spending $14+ on an ebook is slowly ticking down… #
• RT @lavermeer Making nouns plural FAIL: "Slush'es" at the corner store. Poor signage where language profs are the customer base. #grammar #
• LOL RT @illustratedword Interested in finding inappropriate books for children? Who isn't? Check out: Curious Pages #
• Here here! RT @lisaloveslove not everyone is born with a silver spoon shoved up their ass. http://tinyurl.com/yejff6y #stalbert #yeg #
• I would love to be able to use my Sony ebook with iTunes. One central multimedia warehouse. Apple posses me off sometimes… #
• He's still an ass:
  RT @mastermaq Man behind controversial letter speaks out; Chris Perry talks about letter #stalbert #

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• Starting a new email campaign. Surprises to find we still have no spam legislation on Canada! #
• RT @yourAGA Red Shoes. The 1948 film influenced generations of filmmakers, artists and ballerinas. FREE. Friday. 7pm. #
• Why even sign makers need a good ( and multi lingual) editor: #
• Amazon goes crazy Film at 11:00 http://nyti.ms/d8Z5kW The estore who caused death to many a bricks & mortar, seeks to suicide by arrogance #
• Here here: I think Christianity is a fine religion and I wish more Christians practiced it. @scalzi #
• Reluctantly moving from PDF newsletter mailouts to HTML. Still a pain on an OS X machine. Anyway to streamline this? #
• The glass is up on one of two production greenhouses! Pictures soon! #
• The north production greenhouse is now under glass. It's really coming together fast now. http://twitpic.com/1ai95e #
• A shout out to the people over at @sonyelectronics for monitoring the twitterverse and offering to help out after my whining… #
• Spent the day trying to publish HTML emails from a #Filemaker database. Not quite an exercise in futility, but I've done easier things. #
• For mothers of little boys everywhere: RT @garnerandrews At Layne's house. Now THAT is funny! http://twitpic.com/1bfw7v #
• Not sure if I'm enjoying Pure Pwnage or not. An internet hit now on Showcase, good but they had to make a lot of compromises. #

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• L's info on future of books comes from books: books are a going concern. My info comes most from new media: books are on shaky ground. Huh. #
• RT @jdarrah Feel like a Lada at -30C. Can't get started this a.m. #
• Alberta Readers' Choice Awards… Vote today! http://www.albertareaderschoice.ca/ #
• RT @emckean wonderful word! RT @dscape: anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant #
• RT @craigmod I suspect the no-physicality/ownership stance is largely irrelevant for < 30 y/o folk They're used to not owning their media #
• She says it wasn't a bare shave! #
• Why does baked chicken take twice as long as fries chicken? Supper's gonna be late! #
• RT @jmaxsfu: "The explosion of unmediated writing … just may b the best guarantee we have of keeping culture alive" #
• RT @craigmod: A treasure trove of timeless grammar deliciousness: @thatwhichmatter #
• Teaching a class on book mfg tomorrow. Is it finally time to start introducing XML/ebook prep etc to Making a Book 101? #
• If you haven't visited Thomas Fuchs 'A Heart a Day', you should: http://www.aheartaday.com/ #
• RT @lavermeer Bravo, Vancouver. The Canada Line is fantastic! From tarmac to my hotel room in just over an hour — that is impressive! #yvr #
• Book Production for n00b starts in 7 minutes. Still haven't decided how much 'new media' to go into. Maybe I'll just pass my phone around 🙂 #
• This is book publishing! Not only not glamorous, but we’re all nerds! Why does the world think we still do 2-martini lunches –Megan Halpern #
• Convicted: failure to comply is a felony. Bad adventures in crossing the border: http://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=1186 #
• RT @pwmartin: "A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort." – H … #
• Very Cool! #yeg transit Tweet @ etsinfo 2872 & it will return: Trips from stop 2872 (109 Street & 74 Avenue): 9: 03:57 PM 51: 04:06 PM etc. #
• Man, I love Alberta… RT @lavermeer Seriously?!? http://tinyurl.com/yex2vut #
• Go Lyra! RT @mastermaq http://twitpic.com/19wkm2 – Lyra Brown at #yegswap in reply to mastermaq #

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• #ebook The battery gauge on my ebook is like my car's gas gauge: I'd rather run out of gas on a deserted road than lose my book mid chapter #
• Art is learning your colours again, but with names like maroon instead of red. – Emily Nobbs #
• RT @lavermeer Poetry Tuesday: "life / keeps dropping the soap / i / keep bending over to pick it up" — Andy Weaver from _were the bees_ in reply to lavermeer #
• No. Been trying to convince people we need to band together for our collective good. RT @katepullinger But does every book need its own app? #
• Nice! RT @PenguinCanada Writers, does this self-contained office give you workspace envy or what? *whistles* -B #
• RT @flowerlover99 today at work (Hole's) is my trial run of "flower hour" with discounted fresh bouquets… #
• Everytime I have to render video, I want a new computer. Imagine that… #
• RT @lavermeer: Poetry Wed "am i separated from your body smile brain hands merely / to become the jumping puppets of a dream?" e.e. cummings #
• A fun new video tour of Hole's Enjoy Centre http://www.unearththepossibilities.com/video.asp #
• Reading a real paperback for the first time in months. I miss the ebook when reading in bed but frankly I am at a loss to choose a favorite. #
• RT @lavermeer Poetry Thurs "…lives are good for you / when you are alive / you can eat and drink a lot / and go out with girls" R .McGough #
• Becoming more & more important in this cloud-based era RT @bookoven Writers, who gets your digital remains? @maudnewton #
• Still not sure about privatization, but the trip to my registration bureau is a whole lot easier than a decade ago. #
• RT @lavermeer "O swallow, pointed silence, / mourning full of joy, / halo over lovers, / have mercy on them." – Wislawa Szymborska #
• Testing Echofon iPhone client. Hanging baskets at Hole's http://twitpic.com/18kubi #

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• Sony ebook reader file management makes me appreciate my iPhone even more… Stupid synching… #
• RT @quillandquire Store seeks savvy, bookish feminist(s) with capital for preservation of beloved institution: In an… #
• Ooh, I wanna! @liza Awesome nerd (XML, postscript) + oldschool (hand-bound) experiment. RT @benosteen: Blog-to-Book #
• RT @bookoven Wish there were fewer blog posts titled "the future of …" and more stories about "the successful implementation of…" #
• Words of wisdom: you can't make a greenhouse out of glass without breaking a few panes! http://twitpic.com/16fkfa #
• RT @mastermaq Edmonton’s Newest Climbing Habitat – #yeg #
• Cool idea… Unlock a local car whenever you need it. I think we need this here in #yeg where transit is…iffy… http://www.zipcar.com/ #
• International Airs Shaft Day… Thank god for ductwork! #
• RT @suzannevega St. Albert! What a nice crowd last night! Sold 2 boxes of cd's. @lavermeer She's talkin' about u Les! #
• After one trip to NYC, I once said #yeg just didn't have enough culture. I'm starting to regret those words. #cultureoverload #
• A must read! RT @katepullinger Elegant look @ future of book 'formless' v 'definite' content hugely useful concept #
• Brian Webb Dance Series. Worth it. 2 awesome shows In a row. #yeg #
• RT @liza I may regret my optimism, but lettuce seeds have been planted. Never Regret! I just might do it myself… #

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• RT @shitmydadsays "A parent's only as good as their dumbest kid. If one wins a Nobel Prize but the other gets robbed by a hooker, you failed #
• The ten rules for writing… times 10. #
• RT @jmaxsfu Electric Lit: retweeters = distributors, co-publishers. That's neat. #toccon #
• Book publishing takes a step forward and thinks ahead. Gutenberg 2.0 Online PD #
• RT @TheReadOnion RT @gourmet: Top ten mispronounced foodie words #
• I luv that @cactusclubcafe RT's so-so reviews: Thks for writing this review! RT @tturbo West Ed what do u think? http://tinyurl.com/ygm8cg2 #
• If you can't beat them, join them. Microsoft and university researchers take over spammers' computers! Yeah! #
• Extrordinary orchid arrangement today at Hole's http://twitpic.com/15auiy #
• RT @HolesOnline About 2000 hanging baskets being planted this week, just the beginning of our total numbers. http://tweetphoto.com/12484976 #
• I was already a John Scalzi fan; am quickly becoming a John Scalzi addict: This manuscript make jobs! #
• (Forgot the tag) I was already a John @Scalzi fan; am quickly becoming a John Scalzi addict: This manuscript make jobs! #
• Set of Sweeny Todd at the Citadel #yeg Delicious show! http://twitpic.com/15dbv2 #
• Revolution calls for revolutionaries but all too often transforms them into anarchists. Collectivism being too much work… don'tya know… #
• The move from a php mindset to a ruby on rails one is going to kill me. Mongrel is definitely growling at me… #
• RT @mastermaq I identify more as a Canadian than an Albertan. #rebootab Here here! #
• Discovered that free backlisted ebooks are sometimes free for a reason. Do yourself a favour & buy something you'll like the first few reads #
• Johnny Weir responds… Too bad most 'professionals' can't handle things with this much sense and poise. #

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• Listened to drunk & mate scream 'you're just a fuckin bartender' @ the Mac last night. Way stupid place to show your lack of class moron… #
• The magazine distribution model NEEDS to change. All those unsold copies on the racks really really hurt me #
• RT @lavermeer Sound-alikes forgo (to do without) and forego (to come in advance of) are distinct words: don't confuse them! #grammar #
• RT @IreneGallo Who's awesome? Credit the artists: * Damn right… 90% of the books I buy are because of the cover! #
• A reason to live in NYC: pedestrian-friendly initiatives! #yeg needs to do more #
• RT @lyndasteele: New AB baby names revealed: Feenix, Epic, Dice, Whip, Boss, Bison. These parents shd be banned fr having kids 🙂 Hey Bison! #
• Anyone know how to create a dynamic asp page that hooks up to a text file? Shaw supports Sun One asp and plain ASCII databases. I can't #
• For those of us who grew up in Montreal: Brother Andre is finally a saint… Sainthood by petition… woot! #
• Awesome orchids… RT @HolesOnline: I posted 5 photos in the album "orchids..exotic and needing a good home" #
• High school musicals… Missed it by 'that' much… Should be their motto. But they make me smile… #
• Brian Webb Dance… First time I saw them was 1981 in the Harr. Now they play the Shoctor #
• Ebook notes: chapter breaks are important; when switching scenes, typography is important; the end of the book sneaks up on you… #
• 8 Ways to Tell if Your Loved Ones Plan to Eat You http://theoatmeal.com/comics/eat_you from @oatmeal #
• RT @lavermeer #yeg Kidd Pivot's "Dark Matters" Urban, industrial, postmodern: fantastic modern dance. So well structured, utterly moving. #

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