This morning I am thankful for Rooibos. A steaming mug, an almost-impossible technical task, and the whole day ahead of me. Happy sigh…. — @KentBeck

Heading for home after a week of fire hydrant brain transfer on the coolest project ever. Plus, suitcase is filled with hardware. Awesome! — @jimweirich

Hacking on Cocoa. Watching Boardwalk Empire. Happy. — @alancfrancis

First time skiing in a helmet. Built-in headphones make it all worth while. Sun is shining, #phish is in my head. — @scottdavis99

The secret society continues to treat me well. — @JEG2

“Thank you! Your first invoice will be billed on December 31, 1969.” Sweet! — @ryanirelan

Dry corporate indoctrination right after lunch. Brutal. — @undees

IM’ed to me during a boring conference call: “This reminds me a scene from Attack of the Killer Tomatoes.” — @squarepegsys

Paul’s and my tolerance for lameness is pretty high, but one hour of Lexx 2.0 left us twitching uncontrollably on the floor. — @marick

I’ve always heard that you shouldn’t read slides to your audience. It’s even worse when it’s the first time you’ve read them. — @daveklein

Sadly, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Supercharged Kama Sutra Illustrated does not have a “Look Inside!” at Amazon. — @marick

“If it wasn’t for disappointment I wouldn’t have any appointments.” — @noradio

Just when my sense of self worth couldn’t get worse, @pandora_radio pegs me as someone who would enjoy that cheesy Just Breathe techno song. — @noradio

Oh crap, I can’t go shopping at Apple. I’m wearing my Apple hoodie from the mothership. — @invalidname

Seriously... why does everything in New Jersey close at 9 pm? — @rit

On days like this I just think, why didn’t I become a doctor like my mom wanted me to? — @jeffcohen

There are times when Beethoven Symphony 9, last movement, just pisses me off. — @marick

Agile process in the absence of agility is like wings on a penguin; you can flap but not fly. — @venkat_s

People are attracted to large companies because of their stability. One can see how such people are slow to adopt agility. — @tottinge

Feeling the tension between agile, emergent design and considered, consistent interface design. — @ronhitchens

“In the long run every program becomes rococo—then rubble.”—Alan Perlis (cs.yale.edu/quotes.html) via: @jakedonham — @noradio

Refactoring is a mighty river. Take one step in along the edge which leads you to another and pretty soon you’re swept out to sea. — @KentBeck

Great process is so easy. Just like losing weight or getting in shape. — @jaredrichardson

It’s not the right set of tools that help us succeed, it’s the right set of tools in the hands of the right set of people. — @venkat_s

“Leadership” is a term of art in Agile. We use it to reassure alpha primates that they’ll get to keep their status. — @marick

CSM’s are now walking out of a 2 day course and calling themselves Agile Coaches? AWESOME! — @davidjbland

“The Road”—Well, that was cheerful. Great sound design. — @marick

“The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise & thinking that having problems is a problem.”—T. Rubin. — @estherderby

Beware certainty: “Doubt grows with knowledge.”—Goethe — @PragmaticAndy

“Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion which by reasoning he never acquired."—Jonathan Swift — @marick

The more I understand about spacetime, the less I understand time. — @mtnygard

If your shirt buttons pucker, you need a bigger shirt. #observationfromlastweek — @adamgoucher

Victory belongs to those in the fight; you can’t win if you don’t play the game. — @bdudney

Just because an ideal can’t be met, is no reason to dismiss the ideal. — @jwgrenning

You’ll never be up to date, but you can be ahead. — @KentBeck

A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion but doesn’t. — @PragmaticAndy

Why are there never zombie dogs? Zombie dogs would be cool. — @marick

@marick “Last Man on Earth” with Vincent Price had one. — @tottinge

Apparently the fictional universe is awash with zombie dogs. — @marick

“Zombie stories are inherently Hobbesian.”—the social theories behind “The Walking Dead.” http://bit.ly/hpInzP — @marick

“The legal status of a zombie is an interesting question.” Ain’t the internets grand? http://bit.ly/enloYF — @marick

While I liked “The Walking Dead” this author has a point: it’s not (yet) a zombie show. http://bit.ly/fvhIlj [He overlooked some scenes tho] — @marick

47% of parrots are left-handed, 33% right-handed, and 20% ambidextrous. (It varies by species.) http://bit.ly/hmZ6UE — @marick

Meat-eating furniture: http://n.pr/hQPOq9 — @marick

West coast is starting to arrive at the office; it’s now email o’clock it seems. — @adamgoucher

Hi, my name is Chris, and I NSLog() too much. — @invalidname

“man ascii” has been my friend for more years than any living human. — @marick

I just discovered droidwords. Now I have to convince my wwf buddies to switch to Android. — @pragdave

Caught up on 2 days worth of tweets. Strangely, I’ve had two productive days. #hmmm — @adamgoucher

OH: Why are all vocal proponents of Software Craftmanship consultants? #speakerconf — @aslak_hellesoy

When is the last time you read something in an ACM or IEEE journal that changed how you program or the tools you use? Ever? — @gvwilson

Is it weird that I download all three PragProg ebook formats to the same device? And use all three? — @noelrap

I wish my IDE had an “I’m Feeling Lucky” button. — @chadfowler

I’m often surprised by what Rubyists think they need a gem for. — @JEG2

Amending previous tweet about how fast FF4 is. It’s fast during the times when it’s not beachballing. — @jeffcohen

Do Swedish Mac users call the command key the “campground key”? #just_wondering — @jeff_lamarche

The Internet is now full—RT @IPv4Countdown: The number of allocatable IPv4s just dropped to zero. #IPv6 — @benrady

Phew. Sure glad there was an IP address left for me to get on the Internet today. That was close. — @bphogan

So... Canada’s ISPs have implemented very low caps on monthly data. So users are now paying to see ads. This changes Google’s model. — @jaredrichardson

Canadians: have things downloaded in America, burned to disk, and shipped to you, avoiding bandwidth caps: http://twitpic.com/3vt1cs — @marick

“@jm: Figuring out really concentrated but non-contrived examples *has* to the hardest part of writing a tech book.” // seconded — @noelrap

I’m kinda glad I don’t have a way to know how much I underbill due to my hatred of time tracking. — @adamgoucher

I’m going to coin the term SPDA: Sales Pitch Driven Architecture. — @wfaler

Untold story of the Egypt crisis: thousands of farms on Facebook are going untended. — @jamesmarcusbach

I wouldn’t be surprised if they wrap the Presidio in a Faraday cage this year after what happened last year. — @jeff_lamarche

So, listening to the Indigo Girls while driving a big honkin’ Suburban is kinda like a carbon offset, isn't it? #guiltyHippy — @scottdavis99

Anyone else feel like lamb tastes sort of like wool? Need backup on my claim. — @brynary

Have you tried almond milk? Sorry, goats, but the almonds are giving you a run for your money. — @chadfowler

As requested, pictures of deep fried peach pie. twitpic.com/3w9e12 — @rit

21st century problem: strangers who share enough of my genome that we are probably related want to meet. — @neal4d

Apparently “tedia” is not a real word. What's a good one-real-word alternative? #lazytwitter — @dchelimsky

After showing http://youtu.be/H7FEK3_6QaE to the office the general consensus is none of us should have made it out of our 20s. — @adamgoucher

Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun: As if being a rocket scientist weren’t bad ass enough. — @noradio

Thankfully, the poolside bar opened at noon. — @jeff_lamarche