Barnaby Walters • Notes

Aaron Parecki: Just got my first Facetime call from a number I don't recognize. Realized I'm even more hesitant to answer an... http://t.co/m7QTwC4d

Aaron Parecki I wish they would show you which email/number they're calling if you hav multiple. Gives it some context.

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Aral Balkan: I just love rail travel in the UK. You meet the most interesting people. Today I met drunk guy drinking beer and coughing on me.

aral my fondest memory of rail travel is when I got stuck in a train toilet and the nice men with crowbars had to rip it off to get me out. Some nice royal marines offered me beer (I was 13)

Trying to create a splodge on seb_ly’s moonlander art! http://moonlander.seb.ly/

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Simon Willison: Dammit, my favourite Lego Cuusoo project the Modular Western Town has been rejected by Lego for competition reasons :( http://t.co/OiA4tz1K

simonw LOVING that cactus!

This is the best photo of carrots:

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Erin Jo Richey: "User Research in the Wild" - An old picture I dug up from Italy http://t.co/Sdq0ptHH

Erin Richey ooh, what is "Thumos"? Italy looks shiny

Good advice: Ignore the people who say you're wrong.They're all assholes. /by davewiner

If you believe the apocalypse is coming tomorrow, take this evening to CC-licence everyone you've ever made.

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Jovian Salak: Been given a conditional offer from LSE! (Yay!)

joviansalak nice one, congratulations!

“And for your birthday… the HEARTY CARROT” — jwentomologist #family #surreal

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Sophie Dennis: Westward! Ho! #homewardbound

sophiedennis I assume this is a reference to enwp.org/Westward_Ho! …?

Some cracking fiddle playing from this supremely talented, weird “baroque” group:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tS9PsNsEaM

Ah, I forgot how good it feels to write pseudo-philosophical waffle

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Sophie Dennis: Anyone want to come to Kefuffle tonight in Oxford? Have spare ticket - free to good home :)

sophiedennis that sounds great, I’m a bit far away though :) Have a good time!

Oh crap, my manual beard trimming device just broke, and I have half a beard. So now I have to spend a week tilting my head so the lighter part is in shadow :/

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Andrew Clarke: I stay in all the best hotels. (@ Premier Inn) http://t.co/HybbzO1Y

malarkey hey, Premier Inn gave me free cake once. When I stayed in a Hilton they were not so generous :(

Nothing says “generic, unimaginative christmas present” like a perfume. On which note, the perfume adverts this year are the worst yet :/

Brennan Novak it passed hours ago for me. I should have warned you US inhabitants nothing exciting was going to happen ;)

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Aral Balkan: My year on Twitter has apparently been really bland. It’s just stuck on the ‘hang on, while we analyze your tweets…’ screen at 0%.

Aral Balkan this is the markov tweet generator? I haven’t been able to get it to work for ages :(

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Tom Morris: Just made my 500th edit to @OpenStreetMap.

Tom Morris my own noob mistakes, that is