Stephen J Burke

• Rounding off the series of everything I own is breaking.. the air conditioning. http://t.co/oQcX6VP #
• The HVAC industry is almost as layered with BS as the auto industry. This must be what it is like for people seeking car repair. #
• And I thought I was a slow adopter. Windows XP Finally Falls Below 50% Market Share. http://t.co/Agwh1KO #
• I have removed the voodoo hex from @rotork stock now that I found out I still have some to sell. http://t.co/8UoOtYP #
• Windstream buys PAETEC and we are one step closer to Skynet. #
• Nautique prepped for minor surgery. Easiest motor placement ever to work on, minus the surrounding interior. http://t.co/OJ3zrPP #
• Tonight involves a broken Nautique, a case of beer, supermodels, a talking chimpanzee and unicorns. Ok, some of those. http://t.co/yYNTV1G #
• Nothing confuses a parts counter more than telling them you don't have a car to reference. http://t.co/C0uA0fn #
• Need the final head bolt torque for a GM 5.7 vortec cast head. Only info missing in our plan. #
• That my friends is a burnt exhaust valve in cylinder 2 of the Nautique PCM motor. http://t.co/Alyl7BS #
• Always have a healthy donor on hand before performing surgery. http://t.co/ft0r49U #
• It was a good night. The boat was running in the driveway at 6:15 and would have made the launch if the exhaust manifold gasket held. #
• Resorting to hand filing my exhaust manifold flanges to get back on the water. http://t.co/rAtK0Fx #
• Water test successful. Boat is once again cleared to remove arms from sockets. http://t.co/r716g2A #
• At some point this weekend, allergy season took over. #

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• Kanjam: designed by fat guys who didn't like running far for a frisbee and couldn't catch. #
• Hail to the king, baby…
  No really, hail.
  Bonus if you actually get the movie quote. http://t.co/zmrvsbI #
• Why do "IT experts" tell me they have been in this business 25 years? I immediately translate that into "I am completely full of shit" #
• I need to find a way to share videos of my morning commute, without acting as evidence of potential speed violations. http://t.co/nuiqfNC #
• Spent the morning listening to NY state both pitch and make excuses for their new software. They are so proud yet so naive. #

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• How many backpacks I would have saved without all of those books. Amazon kindle rentals for school books, brilliant. http://cnet.co/p7hj1q #
• Missing ski nite to fix for an Avaya phone system which should have been updated years ago fucking sucks. Odds it will happen again? Zero #
• I am not excited that I have to use the app store to obtain Lion. #
• In the age of increasing bandwidth caps it seems irresponsible or even naive for Apple to only distribute their 3.74Gb OS update online. #
• Made the mistake of looking how much my macbook pro still sells for. #
• Tomorrow we deploy to pickup the car from Magnus. Time to prep the truck and trailer for extraction. http://t.co/nlxFLq4 #
• Can I petition to keep Google Labs open? Should be the place to roll out anything new before launching it on everybody. http://t.co/N2MIFzi #
• Evening extraction from Canada was exhausting but successful. The car is home. http://t.co/oCXOTgp #
• I wish more things were open at 5am. Especially when I get put into a rain delay for skiing. #

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• Douchbag price hike by netflix to separate streaming and DVDs. Guess there is no loyalty reward. http://t.co/hPVD5qr #
• Forcing old addictions into the schedule and water skiing before work. http://t.co/CVwe7tp #
• Proposed 2012 One Lap Route is hitting the web. West didn't make it over the Rockies. http://twitpic.com/5pnmbz #

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• Returning to work after a week on the water, off the grid, redefines that future goal of working from home. http://t.co/20NTlCz #
• I was off the grid too long and missed the Google Plus invite loops. It's like standing outside the concert when you know the band. #
• 24 hour recap. Wife with boat, middle of nowhere, bearing let's go, fire, extinguished, steve sleeps in truck, NAPA parts and roadside fix. #
• Photo of trailer bearings after the meltdown. Why Nautique agreed to a single axle trailer is beyond me. http://t.co/qxpJvMr #
• By dumping tar and gravel on the road we plan to chip the shit out of your car paint, while retaining jobs for us. http://t.co/Lp4k3BH #
• I would like to meet the Toyota engineer who came up with this cartridge filter and kick him square in the testicles. http://t.co/48ZEoWd #

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• Spent the day staining the front of the house. Not nearly as impressive as getting my wife to balance on ladder. http://t.co/KHRYAKU #
• My hopes of being on Extreme Makeover are squashed. This house is too damn nice. http://t.co/AESELGZ #
• The operation was a success! Under the skilled hands at the Magnus Surgery Center this patient is awake and running. http://t.co/cTn5SNe #
• Ask for a travel grill, and the portable station of grilling awesomeness shows up. http://t.co/OkOlAEj #
• Packing only the essentials for camping. Tent, sleeping bag, grill portable water ski slalom course. http://t.co/pRcHtjR #

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• Having a Mitsubishi parts manager who coordinates orders over gmail chat is almost too ideal. #
• Stopped by moms and broke into the neighbors car which was in the driveway. Apparently any key will open a grand am. #
• What's the best alternative for DimDim, now that they were sold off to Salesforce? Really miss the open web conferencing platform. #
• I need to recruit a new boat crew for water skiing at dawn. The original early morning crew isn't so early anymore. #
• After a few street survival clinics, my skills are honed to stay out of the news videos. Here is the YNN recap. http://bit.ly/mO7iA3 #

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• Amazed that I still have to resort to text feeds and image uploads of WWDC to hear about the technology that brings it all together. #
• Huge celebration here on Global IPv6 day. I believe everybody in Wayne County who knows that IPv6 exists, is here in my office. #
• Snuck into the Tire Rack video of One Lap with some wet skid pad laps. http://t.co/TSY6yZ6 #
• Amazed at how good the regional tech sales teams are at hunting down my email address. Social engineering at work. #
• Spanish police arrest alleged members of Anonymous. Subsequently doomed any computer system run by Spanish government.
  http://lat.ms/j8tqPQ #
• Out in the barn making beads. http://t.co/Oo5pO2L #
• Sorry @Wegmans I didn't ask for extra plastic wrap in my sub. http://t.co/FdCYvbx #
• Street Survival day where we turn ice into cracked corn and sacrifice cones to keep teens safe. @tire_rack http://t.co/i598mfb #
• I am not sure how effective putting the $96k car outside of the teen driving course really was. http://t.co/bAOotfy #

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• Power out…meh. Coffee pot out…WTF. #
• The more I rake the more attractive the price tags look on a large enough tractor to pull a york rake. http://t.co/5oBoar4 #
• Evo X recovery parts have been gathered. http://wp.me/priSZ-ZW #
• Maintenance on a ski boat is like working in a classroom with your engine on a pedestal. Way too easy nautique. http://t.co/WGla7YU #
• Tonight's lesson…There are 2 fuel filters in the nautique. Be sure to change them both. http://t.co/6JITft0 #
• Moved the entire server room before work started. Almost looks legit now…almost. #

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• Perhaps the best wakeup call is the sound of track bound cars firing up before dawn. #
• Nice SLS outside of the Seneca Lodge. http://t.co/jKOEY9Y #

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