• Glenn Fleishman:
  Fascinating to me that some men of my acquaintance don?t instantly notice the diffs between two Meridas. A lesson here about perception?

• Jean MacDonald:
  @GlennF @davidcaolo You guys gave me something to be cranky about today. Merida is my hero. F?k princessification.

@macgenie @glennf @davidcaolo At the risk of being contrarian: w/o the hubbub, I’d see the “new” Merida as just change in animation style.

• Kevin van Haaren:
  @jeffporten @macgenie @glennf @davidcaolo except the new style removes her uniqueness and goes in a stereotyped direction.

@kvanh @macgenie @glennf @davidcaolo Not arguing in favor of the changes. But I could make similar argument w/ comic vs cartoon of Superman.

• Kevin van Haaren:
  @jeffporten @macgenie @glennf @davidcaolo a new artist making a new interpretation is fine (to me), just that this one is specifically bad

• Jason Snell:
  @hotdogsladies Here?s one – http://www.nafisa.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/dashboard.jpg ? – it?s hard to see but that?s the numeric keypad on the dash

• Merlin Mann:
  @jsnell Holy. Crap. Even Batman would need a manual and a month off to figure that junk out.

• Jason Snell:
  @hotdogsladies Here?s my mom?s car dashboard. Note the two power buttons on the left side. http://static.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/images/Auto/izmo/324515/2011_buick_lacrosse_tempcontrol.jpg ?

• Merlin Mann:
  @jsnell I?m starting to smell a new Tumblr here.

• Jason Snell:
  @hotdogsladies I?ve been meaning to write a Macworld/TechHive article about it. The text equivalent of pointing and laughing.

@jsnell @hotdogsladies Back in ’86, I completely screwed with my dad by setting his car to use KM instead of MPH. Button on passenger side.

@jsnell @hotdogsladies I say, “Dad?” He looks down and sees 120 in speedometer, slams brakes. Great prank, he nearly killed me…

@jsnell @hotdogsladies …until I told him I checked for traffic *before* I pranked him.

• Glenn Fleishman:
  @jeffporten @jsnell @hotdogsladies I have a theory that airlines are actually five sometimes warring tribes of employee groups, too.

• Daniel Pasco:
  Not sure why I started saying ?<so-and-so> is aces? but I?m pretty sure I learned it reading Heinlein which means it?s at least 60 years old

@dlpasco Sounds to me like poker etymology, most of which entered the US lexicon in late 19th century.

@jessespector Then ask Matt Thornton about Irkutsk. @thorntonmh

?@io9: Simulation of soap bubbles popping…. http://on.io9.com/Zno9LoW ? // Thank God someone is addressing our critical soap shortage future.

?@CaraSantaMaria: Landed in New Mexico! Time to shoot a teeeeveeee showwwww!!? // Breaking Bad? Because that would be AWESOME.

• Melody Joy Kramer:
  Id badge acquired. Tour taken. Time to write an article or two.

@mkramer If there’s going to be a feed to follow your NatGeo work, post it somewhere.

• Glenn Fleishman:
  Email has a first means of contact has already gone into the dustbin as some avoid publishing any public address. http://econ.st/165ZQN6 

@GlennF Hmm. Makes me wonder if there’s a market for turnkey [many] at [http://yourname.com ] service, since most geeks do that already.

@GlennF @lexfri Recapitulating yesterday’s tweet: I didn’t know cyborgs or Fembots had internal efficiency rankings.

• Chris Gonzales:
  @Moltz @GlennF @lexfri I can?t fault Glenn for that, he?s got a *whole pre-Twitter lifetime* to make up for.

• Moltz:
  @Gromble @GlennF @lexfri You?re saying Lex was grown in a vat? Interesting. Would explain why he?s only seen five movies.

• Glenn Fleishman:
  @Moltz @Gromble @lexfri Lex is actually an acronym for LEX EX X.

@GlennF @Moltz @Gromble @lexfri I thought Lex Friedman didn’t echo. Is there a Snopes for this?

• Lex Friedman:
  @GlennF Mostly watch TV and woo ladies. And I?m all out of gum.

@lexfri @GlennF And thighs of steel. Don’t forget the thighs of steel.

• Glenn Fleishman:
  If you think *I* exhaust you, you should look at all the things that @lexfri does. He makes me look lazy.

• Moltz:
  @GlennF @lexfri Lex makes it up by not tweeting a thousand times an hour.

• Glenn Fleishman:
  @Moltz @lexfri I have this curiosity that if I tweeted 60% less if I?d have 3x the followers or 1/3rd.

@GlennF @Moltz @lexfri I suppose you could test this by limiting yourself to 98 characters.

• Melody Joy Kramer:
  The entire work wardrobe for someone who hates clothes: 4 shirts, 6 pairs of pants, 8 dresses, 2 pairs? http://instagram.com/p/ZOwTrEAbXI/ 

@mkramer seems to me a NatGeo wardrobe should just be a couple of skins. #ButNotARealGreenDressThatsCruel

• io9:
  Doctor Who season finale shows up in the mail a few days early http://on.io9.com/FibRYTk 

?@io9: Doctor Who season finale shows up in the mail a few days early http://on.io9.com/FibRYTk ? // amazed this isn’t on BitTorrent already

• Melody Joy Kramer:
  So far I have found a board game bar and 87 pho places. This city is ok

@mkramer Board game bar is news to me. Which?

• Melody Joy Kramer:
  @jeffporten dunno the name. It’s near dupont

@mkramer I’d appreciate an address; I sometimes work near Dupont.

• Melody Joy Kramer:
  @jeffporten I don’t know where I was.

@mkramer LOL. Okay. Just make a note to buzz me next time you wander by. Sounds to me it’s probably a Gaiman door to Neverwhere, DC.

• Lex Friedman:
  @settern NOT: Maps, any weather app.

• Serenity Caldwell:
  @lexfri Anything using iPhone GPS will by default have issues. But the app does pretty well for itself. If only it had sync + more data.

• Lex Friedman:
  @settern oh, I just meant as an intellectual exercise: What?s the most accurate in the App Store?

• Jason Snell:
  @lexfri @settern I?ve been impressed with the accuracy of Couch To 5K. But couldn?t any app that uses full-on GPS say the same?

• Lex Friedman:
  @jsnell @settern Maybe Camera. Adequately reflects reality.

@lexfri @jsnell @settern I think the Lytro proves that a 2D image isn’t reality. Beyond that, we get into Allegory of the Cave stuff.

• Lex Friedman:
  @jeffporten @jsnell @settern figured it out: No app better reflects the harsh realities of life than the one for my bank accounts.

@lexfri @jsnell @settern so I guess I’m saying the most accurate app is Calculator… except that it has to be binary, not base 10.

@lexfri @jsnell @settern Yes, but WHICH banking app?

• Serenity Caldwell:
  @lexfri @jeffporten @jsnell Sad face.My most accurate: Clock.

• Glenn Fleishman:
  @settern @lexfri @jeffporten @jsnell Tiny Wings.

• David J. Loehr:
  @GlennF @settern @lexfri @jeffporten @jsnell The Magazine.

• Jeff Potter:
  So, if the human skull has a resonate frequency of ~160Hz, does that mean listening to that particular frequency will be painful?

@cookingforgeeks it’s not painful, but looking at a CRT while your head is vibrating is VERY weird. #ThingsAccidentallyLearnedInCollege

Not sure what kind of popcorn the guy next to me is eating, but my guess is on “rancid yak butter”.