Secrets of the City

You’re 40?

You’re 40?

A lot of us are (nearly). This surprises you?

I thought Max was 39.

40 is the new 20.

Did that article just say Sailor Martin is a puppet and that Sparber is Vader?

Max is really Chad Vader.

Max is no more 40 than I’m a liberal Democrat.

Oh, I’m 40. Born May 8, 1968.

First time in Ages…I actually believe what I read.

Well dog my cats.

You seem so youthful. You are changing my perceptions!

I’d hit it.

Is Alie suggesting she’d hit Twitter? Or the puppet?

40?!

Forty ain’t old.

She’s saying she’d hit the 40 year old!

I hope.

I dunno Max, the puppet is pretty hott.

I’d be afraid of splinters.

40 is the new 20.

Thank god.

25 is the new 18

barely legal baby

also I still don’t and probably never will understand twitter.
I mean, what the fuck?

I just started tweeting this month. Better late then never.

I’ll tweet when I’m dead.

I’d think you’d like Twitter wayne. One if it’s best uses is on a Friday night, trying to find out where your friends are to meet them out. Or more importantly: finding out where your “friends” are.. and then avoiding those places.

I finally set up my Twitter so I can text to it. My schtick will be posting things I’ve learned each day. Odd facts, and the like.

I too thought Max was 39. I feel lied to. Almost like the time when Max lied and said he had the movie Mandingo, but he did not.

I too thought Max was 39. I feel lied to. Almost like the time when Max lied and said he had the movie Mandingo, but he did not.

Also, don’t believe him when he says he’s had a vasectomy…

I don’t like Twitter. At least for myself. Too many electronic posting options confuse and upset me.

Also, don’t believe him when he says he’s had a vasectomy…

Now you tell me.

I guess nobody’s lonesome any more.

Mb, did you have a pact with Max?

McLuhan said the medium really is the message, so I would say that the message of Twitter is ADHD.

Twitter is annyoing but it’s an outlet I feel compelled to plug.

Okay, so this article compelled me to start twittering. I set everything up this morning to tweet from my cellphone. I’m trying to figure out a few things, but now everyone should follow me. kcmpls.

So Sailor Martin has gone mainstream media. That just seems so wrong.

The only twitter experiences I have are from my bro when he’s out in Reno and sending things like: ” this microceleb is having a sazerac.”

I don’t even know what that means!

Nate… I believe that’s French for “look at me…I am a douchebag”

Been twittering more than a year, and only have a small group of followers/following, so it’s not too much. I like it! I especially like summing up a situation in the briefest of terms.

(Hey nateek: been biking in? Isn’t it great seeing so many more bike commuters this year?)

I’m shocked by how little traffic there has inbound on 394 in the morning over the past 2 months. It’s fantastic for drivers, too.

I signed up awhile ago, but have yet to use it. I feel like I’m too boring to really put it to use.

No doubt jane. It’s explosive. I’m no statistician, but I’m guessing there are 75% more cyclists this year than last. At my work alone, it’s gone from two of us to about 10.

I think ‘gas prices’ isn’t quite the reason either. I think people might start because of that, but they keep biking because they just like it.

Now if I could figure out how to twitter while I was biking…

I don’t have enough friends on twitter to make the most useful portions of it pertinent. I don’t think my geeky friends scattered across the country care much that I’m at whatever bar or restaurant in the twin cities…

With Twitter, you can stay hyperconnected to your friends and always know what theyre doing. Or, you can stop following them any time. You can even set quiet times on Twitter so youre not interrupted.

This just seems strange to me, borderline creepy.
I’ll stay away from twitter.

I wonder how the Strib decides which stories to open up to comments. This seems like a no brainer that they would solicit comments. Instead, they let people comment on the business item about the 22-year-old Target employee. Bizarre.

Okay, so this article compelled me to start twittering.

Aha! I thought it might be *that* kc, but I wasn’t sure. And, of all the things, this article compelled you to start twittering? Why?

I wonder how the Strib decides which stories to open up to comments. This seems like a no brainer that they would solicit comments.

Yeah, I don’t know.

I’m curious about the Strib comments in general after reading the barefoot running story. Instead of linking to Vibram’s webite vibramfivefingers.com they have the link going to fingers.com. I can only imagine the surprise of some readers when clicking on that.

MNspeak just broke Twitter!

Oh, Twitter has been mostly broken for the last couple of months. Without IM functionality, it’s pretty much worthless to me; camping the site blows and getting two million SMS messages it out of the question. If it doesn’t come back soon, I’m just gonna bail on the damn thing.

I actually set up a twitter account months ago. But I don’t have unlimited text messages, so what was the point?

Then I started doing the Facebook thing which I love, but hate that some people don’t update thier stuff enough.

Then this came up here, I remembered my twitter account, and I set it up. When I get home tonight, I’m going to have to upgrade us to unlimited text messages, which we should do anyhow.

My just plain Twitter acount

I’m following Chuck and Jason.

I was wondering about the Strib comments too. I was trying too predict what some of them might be, were the comments open..”Kids these days just don’t know how to communicate!” “In real life you have to talk and pay attention for more than 140 characters!”

Landry has been staying with me in NYC this week and pushed out this Tweet today. It was funny because even though he was sitting right next to me, I didn’t know all these people were in town until I read it on Twitter.

I knew it! Your interweb addiciton has caused the two of you to lose the capacity for speech.

I actually set up a twitter account months ago. But I don’t have unlimited text messages, so what was the point?

You can specify who you want to get txt or IM notification from and leave the rest for the web. Or if you have web access on your phone, you can hit m.twitter.com. Or if you have a smartphone there are various twitter clients you can use.

Oh god, I just browsed through some of twitter and remembered why I stay away. It’s a giant public IM transcript.

I’ll kinda miss being a Twitter lurker. I had fun reading Chuck’s tweets about his latest idiot client (ahem).

Bob Collins is so meta

Aside from the fact the times I’ve tried to follow anything, that it seemed too disjointed to figure out what the hell anyone was talking about, it also seems to be pretty pointless if you don’t have some form of mobile access.

I can barely get family and friends to use email, let alone IM or, god forbid-twitter.

If by some miracle, they did start using twitter, here’s how it would probably go:

I’d check up on them at my computer at home, and learn that a groupd of them were at X. I’d head over to meet them, and by the time I get there , they’d have moved on someplace else, and I’d have no way of finding out where they are.

It’s really shocking the amount of reactionary language in this thread about the supposedly worthless, wasteful nature of Twitter.

Here. On MnSpeak. Seriously. HAHAHAHAHAHA.

I mean, you people remind me of how my mom used to talk about email. And then blogs. And then social networking sites. “I don’t have time for that kinda stuff,” she’d say. Now you can’t pry her Facebook account from her.

“you people”?

to hell with the yankee cultural imperialist! we like it here in flyover country.

I think rex just opened the door for us to talk about his mom.

It is an odd mix. Half of the commentors won’t go near Twitter, the other half were interviewed in the article.

I just won’t go near Marsh’s Twitters.

Fourth year for me, in 1998, in Bath. They were obsessed with those freaking Vikings. I lived there for a year when I was ten. I wouldn’t say I studied, though. If you were ten in 1998, then how come you aren’t twenty in 2008, Max?

Last time I went near Marsh’s twitters, I got a rash.

Typo. In fact, I was in England in 1978, when I was 10.

I just won’t go near Marsh’s Twitters.

Neither will Teucer’s mom. Who knew she had standards?

my mind works in twitterish soundbites, but I just don’t feel like adding another social networking tool. I had a wickedcool myspace page, but it was laid to waste once I started using facebook and I no longer use it.

I wish I was as cool as Rex. sigh…

My MySpace page was awesome, too. It had a bunch of glittery animated GIFs and seven YouTube videos in every category.

And an op art background.

And also disco.

sorry, mb. rex not only started MNSpeak, he invented prairie cool.

mb: I wish you were too.

grote: YOU PEOPLE!

Typo. In fact, I was in England in 1978, when I was 10.

Ah

I’m actually addicted to Marsh twitters.

Oh please. Twitter can obviously be useful for certain people. But an outsider reading the front page of a stranger’s tweets? It’s a total mess, and it doesn’t make me want to join at all. And I’m saying this as someone who joins almost every other site like this at the snap of a finger.

Then again, I’m just bitter because I would be tweeting to myself like a little lonely bird. *whistles*

bo derek was a 10 in 1979.

Now, she’s a Republican.

Then she’s down to zero.

(heh)

Not really, GOP types. I just couldn’t resist…

Always think it’s a damned shame when nice looking women take that route.

I wish I was as cool as Rex. sigh…

Don’t worry, you can give me my big break after I get fired from Gawker (but before my big cover story in Parade Magazine).

how can you dis marsh tweets with hard hitting reporter-on-the-street updates like this:

stephenhero

2 black kids on 26th and Hennepin evenly split on souljah/ice-t feud.

37 minutes ago from txt

This post should morph into a “post your favorite tweets” theme…

But an outsider reading the front page of a stranger’s tweets? — Except that’s not how it works. Why would you follow a stranger if you knew nothing about them? (Unless you’re trying to market something to them.) The point is to follow people you know or at least know of.

Enh, different strokes. I like it. It works for me. Mostly. It works enough for me enough of the time that I can put up with the parts that don’t.

I can’t believe of all the things I said that that was the quote he put in the article. Actually, yes I can.

And now the whole frickin’ world knows I live in Eden Prairie. Dammit.

The aforequoted Bob Collins tweet on this thread is my favorite tweet today.

The strib has now opened up comments on the original article. After more than 80 comments have been posted here. Weird.

the strib was better when rex was here.

Now I clicked it again, and the “Post a comment” box disappeared. It’s a mystery!

I heard they just found the comment box wandering naked in the woods of Western Wisconsin.

I now believe in miracles.

My favorite Twitter poster is whoever updates the Mars Phoenix lander account in the first-person, as if it were a sentient being.

Maggie has just landed in L.A.