Tweets on a single topic ("Visiting Istanbul") published within a short period.
Shown here in the order tweeted (earliest first).
2446Feb 9 2011: ISTANBUL — Right now! Turkish cat. http://twitpic.com/3y2aga←Live photo from the road! [location|more] [view in context] 2447
Feb 9 2011: http://twitvid.com/5GUQZ - Landing in Istanbul (3 hours ago). 2448
Feb 9 2011: .@gisforgangstaa "You're in Turkey?!" <== Got to keep moving! His Holiness is only one step ahead of a CIA rendition team out to get him. 2449
Feb 9 2011: Don't have a clue where I am. Not even sure which continent. But at least I have a comfortable bed! http://4sq.com/g1PzOS 2450
Feb 9 2011: .@akierig "Germany, Switzerland or Austria?" <== Duh! There's German in the Starbucks signs! Can we narrow it down? #mysteryphotos 2451
Feb 9 2011: The more you use your creativity, the more of it will come. 2452
Feb 10 2011: @akierig "Frankfurt Airport?" <== Nein! Although the first photo credibly could be. 2453Feb 10 2011: Good morning, Istanbul! http://twitpic.com/3y77un←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2454Feb 10 2011: Istanbul Travelogue, Part 1: Arriving in Taksim Square. http://youtu.be/f13ls-XzkTY (Video #36) ←Our original YouTube video [more] 2455Feb 10 2011: I learned my first word in Turkish! "süt" (milk). I learned the lesson quickly when I bought ayran by mistake. http://twitpic.com/3y7w7k←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2456
Feb 10 2011: Istanbul Facebook Album: http://j.mp/dJKbFd - Photos will be added here throughout our visit. Check back later for more! 2457
Feb 10 2011: A hostel is about halfway between a hotel and staying in someone's home. It can be a little strange sometimes. 2458
Feb 10 2011: It's fun to read relationships when you don't know a word of the language. Body language and tone of voice tell you everything. 2459Feb 10 2011: Heading out from the hostel to walk to the Hagia Sophia. Could take the Metro, but I'll learn more by walking. http://twitpic.com/3y8mad←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2460
Feb 10 2011: Istanbul Facebook Album: http://j.mp/dJKbFd - Photos will be added here throughout my visit. 2461Feb 10 2011: Istanbul: Hagia Sophia Mosque. Right now! (I love a mosque with free wifi!) http://twitpic.com/3y9zzh←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2462Feb 10 2011: From where I sit. http://twitpic.com/3ya0xd←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2463
Feb 10 2011: http://twitvid.com/YLGKY - A TOTALLY UNPREVOKED cat attack in the streets of Istanbul. (Okay, well maybe a LITTLE provoked.) 2464
Feb 10 2011: Valentines thought: How would we express our love for each other if we couldn't buy things and give them to people? Would there be no love? 2465
Feb 10 2011: Just woke up. What time is it? What date? Which continent? Maybe I'll go to Asia today. Or tomorrow. Or yesterday. 2466
Feb 10 2011: Mammals have two modes of aggression: Attack to kill, and "just playing". (See Twitvid video.) The latter is practice, used with siblings. 2467Feb 10 2011: Istanbul Travelogue, Part 2: The Spice Market. http://youtu.be/U2xOVCdHi1Y — Walking through the busy souk earlier today. ←Our original YouTube video [more] 2468Feb 10 2011: Trying to make sense of it all in Istanbul. http://twitpic.com/3yfs0a←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2469Feb 11 2011: Dragon on the Bosporus. http://twitpic.com/3yggbo More Istanbul photos from today: http://j.mp/dJKbFd←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2470
Feb 11 2011: On My Bucket List: A career in sales. [See Full Bucket List] 2471Feb 11 2011: Philosophy video from Istanbul: Too Much String Cheese! http://youtu.be/D0fKoOufVFo (Video #38) ←Our original YouTube video [more] 2472
Feb 11 2011: I prefer to take preemptive actions for prophylactic reasons, both to prevent disaster and because I like to say "prophylactic". 2473Feb 11 2011: Morning at the Arch-Ist Hostel. http://twitpic.com/3yk2oo←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2474Feb 11 2011: From where I sit. Right now! http://twitpic.com/3yk6ia←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2475
Feb 11 2011: Creative source material is everywhere, all around you. You just have to see it. 2476
Feb 11 2011: Diacritics freak me out! I'm like, "Speak Roman, will ya?!" 2477
Feb 11 2011: Valentine's Day is nice, but shouldn't we have an alternate holiday to remember all our romances that failed? Oh, yeah, April Fools Day! 2478Feb 11 2011: Istanbul for $13/night! Here's a look at my hostel. http://youtu.be/mRKJT2GHofw (Istanbul Travelogue, Part 3) ←Our original YouTube video [more] 2479Feb 11 2011: Another handsome young Turk. http://twitpic.com/3ypkui — Added 30+ Istanbul photos today: http://j.mp/dJKbFd←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2480
Feb 11 2011: The most dangerous thing in the world is to believe you have found permanent happiness. 2481
Feb 11 2011: "Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated." — say the people who have already been assimilated. 2482
Feb 11 2011: You don't want to get too stuck on one idea. It is better to have a lot of ideas and exercise them quickly, thereby making room for more. 2483
Feb 12 2011: The highest standard of freedom is to imagine doing something then promptly do it. The lowest is to imagine but never do. 2484
Feb 12 2011: On My Bucket List: Own a convenience store in a poor neighborhood, selling cigarettes, alcohol and lottery tickets to those who need them. [See Full Bucket List] 2485
Feb 12 2011: True, Hannibal crossed the Alps with elephants in 218 BC, but that's only part of the story. Google it! 2486
Feb 12 2011: Look at a map and you'll see the Alps were deliberately built to protect Italy from the rest of the world. Didn't work in Hannibal's case. 2487
Feb 12 2011: The Fabian strategy is to avoid direct confrontation but instead harass your enemy on the fringes and cut off his lines of supply. 2488
Feb 12 2011: @tammyphinney "Car broken into." <== Happened to me in Vancouver a few months ago. It builds character and encourages data efficiency. 2489
Feb 12 2011: @TheBosha cc @tammyphinney Canadians don't kill each other, but they're big into property crime, thanks to DRUGS FROM AMERICA. 2490
Feb 12 2011: RT @OhCrap: RT @BadDalaiLama The Fabio strategy is to be the most beautiful man alive. And always have hair product on hand. 2491
Feb 12 2011: http://www.twitvid.com/SL1EC - A small kitty in a big world. 2492
Feb 12 2011: It's easy enough to detect the jerks and douche bags of your own gender. It's only with the opposite gender that your vision gets clouded. 2493
Feb 12 2011: Don't confuse cleverness with wisdom. Cleverness helps you solve a problem. Wisdom helps you choose the right problem to solve. 2494Feb 13 2011: Istanbul Moving Postcard (on the ferry from Europe to Asia). http://youtu.be/cBcv0MfO1-Q - Like a postcard, but moving. Cool 3D effect! ←Our original YouTube video [more] 2495
Feb 13 2011: RT @ispeakfemale: Facebook is like a refrigerator. You get bored and keep checking it, but nothing new ever shows up. 2496
Feb 13 2011: If pheromones are critical for mating http://su.pr/1N48gJ, dating services should distribute scratch'n'sniff cards! (Monetize, @LolaHayes!) 2497
Feb 13 2011: http://www.twitvid.com/YFQCF - Enjoying a fine protest in Istanbul. (8 minutes of local disgruntlement) 2498
Feb 13 2011: Does a woman's nose ever lead her astray? Does the nose know all, or does it sometimes make mistakes? #pheromones 2499
Feb 13 2011: RT @michellazarenko: @BadDalaiLama@pwr I'd prefer another thought - cleverness helps to solve problems, wisdom helps to prevent problems.. 2500
Feb 13 2011: "Sometimes you are one twisted holiness, your holiness!" @ZyLaw (re "Own a convenience store in a poor neighborhood...") 2501
Feb 13 2011: RT @Krystelisms: .@DalaiLama's account is verified. Because of that, I find I can't trust him fully. Paradox? Yeah kinda.. 2502
Feb 13 2011: .@Krystelisms "We should all try tweeting like we have zero followers" <== Or we should all tweet like we had a million followers. 2503
Feb 13 2011: Honesty may be better than lying, but holding ones tongue is a valuable median solution. 2504
Feb 13 2011: Our personality is the habits and beliefs we have already committed to. It is the foundation we build upon and the chains holding us down. 2505
Feb 13 2011: Instead of a rooster crowing just before dawn, I hear the call to prayer from a nearby mosque. Right now! 2506
Feb 14 2011: Words, symbols, gestures, credentials, awards, proposals, promises... so often mistaken for action. 2507
Feb 14 2011: The "cost of opportunity" is what you could be doing but can't because of what you're doing right now. 2508
Feb 14 2011: Seriously, is what you're doing now worth all that you're giving up to do it? 2509
Feb 14 2011: Easy success is poisonous to ones personal development, stopping it dead in its tracks. 2510
Feb 14 2011: @Krystelisms "Or we could tweet like our mothers were following.. That wouldn't be very fun" <== LOL! No, not fun at all! 2511
Feb 14 2011: Sometimes you say, "No problem," when it really is a problem but you just don't want to rock the boat. 2512
Feb 14 2011: We construct our own romantic disasters. The opposite gender just fulfills them for us. 2513
Feb 14 2011: There are no fat people in Turkey, which is good, but they're also heavy smokers, which is bad. 2514
Feb 14 2011: An increase in information does not imply a growth in wisdom. 2515
Feb 14 2011: RT @GreatestQuotes: "Life is the art of drawing without an eraser." - John W. Gardner 2516Feb 14 2011: AÄŸa Çırağı Street doesn't live up to its billing. Google says street, but I see stairs. http://twitpic.com/3zsf8j←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2517Feb 14 2011: Click your heels together three times and say, "There's noplace like home! There's noplace like home!" http://twitpic.com/3zsif1←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2518Feb 14 2011: Today's Best Photo: Woman selling pigeon food outside the New Mosque in Istanbul. http://twitpic.com/3zsrnw←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2519
Feb 14 2011: People can change, but only at their own pace in and their own way. By all means encourage it, but don't bet your own future on it. 2520
Feb 14 2011: Follow our old account @KilroyCafe for occasional retweets of the Bad Dalai Lama's ancient wisdom (since he can't retweet his own). 2521
Feb 14 2011: television — n. the distribution of pseudo-experiences to those without the initiative to seek real ones. 2522
Feb 15 2011: Daytime is when we collect experiences. Sleep is when we assimilate them. 2523
Feb 15 2011: People decline to solve their own problems because in some secret way those problems serve a purpose. 2524
Feb 15 2011: Leaving Istanbul. (@ Sabiha Gökçen Uluslararası Havalimanı w/ 4 others) http://4sq.com/dKItZR 2525Feb 15 2011: Going to Asia for the last time (on the bus to the airport). Foreground is Europe. Background is Asia. http://twitpic.com/401tlr←Live photo from the road! [location|more] [view in context]
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