The Daily Adventures of Mercat

Aha! I have procured a method to recieve "@" replies only.

The intructions, should that site disappear:

1) Head over to this Yahoo Pipe (http://pipes.yahoo.com/geekygirldawn/ea0f9c9d6e951617143d4def230d4d3b)
2) Enter your Twitter username in the field and click the "Run Pipe" button
3) After the pipe is done running, click the "Get as RSS" button
4) A new window will be loaded with your RSS feed. Copy the RSS link from the navigation bar
5) Head over to notify.me and register for a new account
6) Configure each notification method that you would like to use: SMS, Email, and IM
7) Click the "Sources" tab
8) Paste your Yahoo Pipe RSS feed from step 4 into feed box and click the "Add Feed" button
9) The field will appear in the blue box below the "Add Feed" section. Click on the buttons for the type of notifications you would like to receive. In my case, I only have SMS selected.

I am currently testing this out to see how effective it is. Woo!

[EDIT] It takes about a half an hour to get a message, which is quite steep. Hopefully Twitter will set up something directly. In the meantime, I am wondering if I can hack this to get rid of the "from yahoo" and "Mercat (mercat):" parts of the message to only see who it's directly from ("Mercat") so I'm not wasting characters. Because not being able to read the whole message kind of defeats the point.

Heeeeey, look! Trivia from the Wizard of Oz movie. Did you know that the "hanged munchkin" story is just an urban legend, but that the coat used for the Wizard (well, the Kansas-wizard, Professor Marvel) once belonged to Baum? That's pretty cool. Also, I don't understand how anyone ever thought that bird was a hanged person... It just looks like a frigging bird stretching its wings. A large bird, yes, but nothing an emu couldn't handle. Also I forgot that the Witch was burned with her trap door escape... Sounds familiar? Maybe witches are vulnerable to trap doors?

Also, I totally watched about a quarter of the Dark Side of the Moon/Wizard of Oz sync-up and it is indeed creepy.

WOAH I just went upstairs to talk to Candice about Conficker and my head is totally pounding. How did I carry a heavy box up a steep hill after giving blood and yet simply going upstairs four hours after giving blood today is enough to do that? Weird. *Hoo.*

Um, someone buy me one of these?


OHHH GOOOOD STAR TREK AD I can't wait to take my little. She is so awesome =)

Oh man, someone said that the Indy game release date got pushed back to June 2. That blows. Now I definitely have to wait until I get back to play it.

Um, someone buy me this too? Mucho coolo.

Dramatic readings about atheism directly from fundamentalist message boards. Funniest thing I saw all day.

Global hacker ring exposed. This is... very scary. I find it incredibly disturbing that cameras can be turned on remotely like that.

Okay, that's probably good for now. I have a shit-ton of stuff to post buuuuut I don't care right now.