Man, my follow list on Twitter just got even more ridiculous. Gee, thanks, Wired for posting a list of 100 geeks you should be following on Twitter.

I just can't resist blogging about other people's funny Twitter updates. I think that makes me a meme black hole or something.

Anyway, successive tweets from this morning:

hodgman: Myself, I still haven't gotten out of my Quilty yet. ("Quilty"=the wearable quilt I am marketing.)

hodgman: Ironically, given the name, it makes you look LESS like a mysterious possible pederast than snugglie.

hodgman: Sorry: snuggie.

How's that for pretentiously obscure lit jokes? I heart it.

In other news, the Daily Show coverage of Twitter last night was AWESOME. I don't want to spoil the jokes, but I will say that the segment is titled "Old Man Stewart Shakes His Fist at Twitter."

Hoping to avoid another 10-hour day in lab rearranging things in Adobe Illustrator, but I don't know if that's even an option. Secondary goal: avoid the following additional 4 hours work at home (I mean, I compiled all the stats during last night's 4 hours, so what could I possibly do tonight? Don't answer that.) We're so close I can't sleep properly. I seem to be awake during the day though so I guess I can't complain (and it's MUCH better than last week's "it-doesn't-matter-how-much-I-sleep-I'm-constantly-exhausted" thing.)

Twitter has taken a bit of a beating lately, what with the discovery that Karl Rove is the most followed political tweeter, and the general mockery of Twitter users. (Amusing sidenote, this is one of my favorite quotes from last year's Comicon.) But I just wanted to stick up for it a bit.

First of all, I think it's a rather nifty challenge for communications-- in 140 characters or less, try to summarize your place in life at any given moment. For me, it's a bit like the six-word memoir exercise, though on a somewhat less introspective level. I try not to use too many abbreviations or leave out too many words, just because I do regard it as kind of a game of succinctness.

Second of all, there are some really interesting and hilarious people on Twitter. I follow several celebrity types, though many don't update that often (John Cleese, for instance). But the ones who do are great. And eerily interconnected, which I think is more a factor of Twitter being the way it is than of everyone already being buddies in meatspace. Some of my favorite Twitterers are John Hodgman, Felicia Day, Wil Wheaton, and Warren Ellis. The last's are particularly weird and amusing (for those who don't know, this is the man who brought us Transmetropolitan). John Hodgman refers to his Twitter followers as HIVE MIND. Jonathan Coulton takes requests for upcoming concerts via Twitter. Felicia day noted that she was looking to get new RPG dice but couldn't find any at WonderCon, so Wil Wheaton sent anyone within Twitter range to help find her some. It's a little incestuous, but that is one group of people I would love to hang out with (Neil Gaiman? Stephen Fry? Adam Savage? These are some seriously awesome people.)

And just to prove that it's not a wasteland of "I had a ham sandwich for lunch," here are some interesting recent Tweets (and this isn't even including the people I actually know in IRL):

warrenellis: i have been incautious with several bottles of wine that somehow fell into my bloodstream

paulapoundstone: I was trying to explain the financial crises to my kids, again, and my son interrupted to ask me to buy him Legos.

anamariecox: Rick Santorum just said "porkulus" with utter sincerity. You take it from there.

feliciaday: Screw it. We're going to get Sangrias. Donut infused ones. (j/k).

warrenellis: Altered my tv show pitch to DANCING WITH THE MANY WIVES OF POLICE DOCTOR BATMAN, PSYCHIC ATTORNEY ON ICE. Pitching it to the BBC next week.

hodgman: I think I just passed mo rocca on the streets of new York. Felt timespace shudder, nearly collapse into a nerd singularity.

hodgman: They cut the adlib where Katee Sackhoff told me to shut the frak up. B Probably b/c I burst into tears. She is serious business! [re: his appearance on BSG a couple weeks ago]

Muchas gracias to caethan for this morning's linkety awesomeness (Megan, this is for you!): single-sentence synopses of popular comics.

Second, h/t to Misty at Shakesville for my new twittery goodness: Michelle Norris Facts!

And finally, this pretty much sums up my current mood: