• John Scalzi:
  It’s Cinco de Mayo, so naturally I am having an Italian sausage hoagie for lunch.

@scalzi I think you may have been infected on your last book tour to Philly.

• John Scalzi:
  @jeffporten it’s entirely possible.

@scalzi Advanced symptoms include a craving for Cheez Whiz.

• Melody Kramer:
  Things I am going to do this summer: write, swim, relax, bike, hike, not worry about fall, obtain a roofdeck, cook, read, turn 29.

@mkramer I suggest “buy really really big backpack” prior to “obtain a roofdeck.”

Hey, #OmniFocus experts—looking for an Android inbox that’s easy to sweep into OF later. Ideas? Captures URLs and short tasks.

• Jesse Spector:
  The guy shaving in the Penn Station men’s room… I have so many questions that I don’t know how to ask.

@jessespector done similar stuff. It’s “oh, shit, I’ve been traveling for two weeks and forgot I have to look respectable in an hour.”

• Jesse Spector:
  @jeffporten But the Penn Station men’s room?

@jessespector ever try to shave on a bus?

• Jesse Spector:
  @jeffporten Heavens, no.

@jessespector well, there you go. If the choices are Penn Station or bleeding out, might do the same thing. (Or not shave.)

• Jesse Spector:
  @jeffporten I’ll take not shave and spend as little time in a place that smells like that as possible.

@jessespector The trick is to jam as much shaving cream up your nostrils as possible.

• Karen Lopez:
  APOD: 2013 May 5 – A Supercell Thunderstorm Cloud Over Montana http://zite.to/17F0nTs  < Wow.

• Julian Sanchez:
  I refuse to believe that even Zach Snyder could fuck up a Superman story THIS badly. http://io9.com/the-man-of-steel-rumor-that-would-change-superman-for-t-487577190 …

@normative Kind of used to having my movies and comic books living in different continuities.

Just bought a $600 phone. More excited than I should be that it has an FM radio.

• Glenn Fleishman:
  If god didn’t want fluoridation, she wouldn’t have made it naturally occurring, too.

@GlennF Oddly, you can say the same thing about nuclear reactors. https://www.google.com/search?q=natural+nuclear+reactor …

• Peter Cohen:
  Kentucky Derby protip: If your mint julep contains anything besides bourbon, mint leaf, sugar and water, it’s not a mint julep.

@flargh Also, should be mixed by a cantankerous old man exclaiming, “I’m a doctor, not a bartender.”

• Glenn Fleishman:
  Everything I am working on professionally right now is awesome. Thank you, collaborators and editors.

@GlennF I feel the need to pitch you something boring to be contrarian.

Guy on the Metro has a tablespoon in his breast pocket. This is a new one to me.

• Jon Seff:
  @jeffporten It’s for Absinthe, clearly.

• rik panganiban:
  @jeffporten Is he “The Tick” in disguise? SPOON!

@rikomatic Probably more qualified to be an Arthur.

Wow. @jonseff wins for creative uses of spoons.

• Jon Seff:
  @jeffporten http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absinthiana#Absinthe_spoon …

HTC One seems to have impressive uptake. Heading to get mine (on TMo $100 trade offer); have seen 2 in the wild today.

• rik panganiban:
  Met up w @jesseminer and his son Ace. Always worthwhile (re-)seeing my museum @calacademy through the eyes of a child. #fb

@rikomatic Whenever I meet somebody named Ace, I’m reminded of the Bat-hound from the 1950s.

• Glenn Fleishman:
  Just used car2go. Not bad but remarkable this far in there are so many rough points and friction in the process.

@GlennF Is that from the process, or from getting a middle-aged body into and out of that car?

• John Siracusa:
  Eleanor Rigby is 2 minutes and 6 seconds long.

@siracusa Two minutes and six seconds of sheer, unremitting loneliness.

• Jacqui Cheng:
  Ahh, being caressed on the arm by my seat-mate who is not Clint. Awesome flight: check.

@ejacqui Fly the friendly skies.

• Sharon Hill:
  Why aren’t recipes copyrighted? People steal and share them all the time.

@IDoubtIt IIRC, was actually due to early publishing lobbying in 19th century.

• rob corddry:
  If I ever go to see The Rocky Horror Picture Show in a theater I will dress as a middle finger that is giving the middle finger.

@robcorddry Don’t think you’re allowed to go as yourself.

• Alex Hillman:
  Philly made a list of the 10 Most Exciting Cities in America, but the selection criteria is…curious. http://j.mp/18x5UtP 

@alexknowshtml Risking heart disease from a 90% fat diet is very exciting.

• Lex Friedman:
  Macworld/PCWorld/TechHive: Many employees, six names.

• Jason Snell:
  @lexfri My daughter’s softball team has three Katies and two Marissas.

• Jon Seff:
  @jsnell @lexfri There were two Olivias at the dentist this morning. Out of two girls there.

• Peter Cohen:
  @jonseff @jsnell @lexfri THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE! #highlander

• Jon Seff:
  @flargh @jsnell @lexfri You’re the second person on Twitter to make a Highlander reference to me in the last two days.

@jonseff @flargh @jsnell @lexfri I’m still rather skeptical of stabbing oneself in the chest as an aphrodisiac.