From orbit: Launch was awesome!! I am feeling great, working hard, & enjoying the magnificent views, the adventure of a lifetime has begun!

As of date, Astronaut Mike Massimino has over 1.3 million followers. NASA’s official verified account lists 19 astronauts on Twitter, including astronaut Jose Hernandez. Astronaut Jose Hernandez was the first person to tweet from space in English and Spanish. As a Mexican-American, Joe Hernandez, tweets in both English and Spanish about his training and experience. Here is his first tweet from space.

Settling in and realizing my dream… Micro G is great. Finished setting up the computers and ready for bed! Don’t need pillow!

A minute later, he tweeted in Spanish.

Espero la cosecha de mi sueno sirva como inspiracion a todos! Acabo de configurar las computadoras. Buenas noches!

Current NASA astro twitterers include TJ Creamer, Soichi Noguichi, and Jeff Williams. Astronaut Soichi Noguichi is a currently in space on the International Space Station and is the most prolific twitterer. Many of his numerous tweets include twitpics from pictures he has taken from space. Seeing his profile page on twitpic is just awe inspiring.

Glacier Lake in Southern Patagonia

Southern Alps of New Zealand

Images by Astro Soichi

It was reported that the Google boss said the following:

I would say that we did not understand how to communicate Google Buzz and its privacy. There was a lot of confusion when it came out… [last] Tuesday, and people thought that somehow we were publishing their email addresses and private information, which was not true.

Eric Schmidt is either a liar or a dummy, pick any two! With the issues outlined above, it is possible to find out peoples email address, and worst, find out people close to however you are virtually stalking, I mean friending. Let’s take a public example, let’s see if we can find Mark Zuckerberg’s close contacts and email address using Google Buzz.

First you will need to log into your GMail account and click into the Buzz inbox. If this is your first time, you will probably already have a few followers. Under the text area to enter your buzz, you will see a link that reads ‘Find people.’ There is a search box where you can find more people to follow. In this box, enter Mark Zuckerberg. Mark of Facebook fame should be one of the first few people that comes up. Originally I was going to do this experiment with Eric Schmidt but I had a tougher time finding his profile. You can follow Mark or view his public profile. Mark is probably busy playing Farm Ville or working on new Twitter features to copy so he probably has not configured the privacy settings of his Google Buzz account.

It might also be worth while to question if this is the real Mark Zuckerberg, we can not be sure, but if you see the people that are following this profile you will see that very connected Silicon Valley technologists are following this person.

Mark Zuckerberg's Google Buzz contacts

In Mark’s public profile you will see that he is currently following 16 people. A quick glance of said followers shows Mark Zuckerberg is following Charles Cheever, Dustin Moskovitz, Adam D’Angelo, Paul Buchheit, amongst others. So now you can do this to each person that Mark follows on Google Buzz, etc. and easily develop a social graph of people Mark Zuckerberg contacts and connects with via email. Looking these folks up, on Google, you will find that they are early Facebook founders and fellow Silicon Valley entrepreneurs.

If you click on his public profile you will see that his Google Profile vanity URL is the following.

http://www.google.com/profiles/mark.zuckerberg#buzz

Notice his user name, mark.zuckerberg. If you append “@gmail.com” to his profile name, you will get Mark Zuckerberg’s GMail address. Feel free to send him a note telling him how much you enjoy getting updates about your friends finding alien cows on Facebook. Mark is a private guy, I mean you can’t just add Mark Zuckerberg as a friend through his Facebook profile page. As the founder and CEO of Facebook, Mark is tech savvy so I can’t imagine him intentionally making his GMail address publicly available.

It is evident, that Eric Schmidt is not aware how easily it is to find private email address of Google Buzz users or he is lying. I think that Google should change their motto from “do no evil” to “it’s okay to do dumb shit with your privacy.” What I can’t believe is that apparently Google Buzz was in use inside of Google and by some of their 20,000++ super genius bar qualified engineers for a year or so and no one caught this.

Mark Zuckerberg's Friends on Google Buzz

Xwoop

• If in the future everybody will have 15 minutes of fame, they will all speak in tweet size sound bites.
• The first tip of math is don’t trust the calculator to make sense of the nmbers, first understand the problem before you enter the digits.
• Consumerist’s Prayer: May the bargain goddess bless us with shopping bliss.
• If you really give a shit what others think of you then you would be scared shitless of their nonsense.
• The funny thing about traveling is that there is so much to see that you spend more time driving around than people who live there have to commute
• Dancing is not just about moving your butt, a good dancer will move their fingers and hair in unison with the music…
• Angelina Jolie wants to adopt more kids. Octomom wants to find income to pay for all those kids. Angelina Jolie should adopt Octomom!
• At Disney you wait in line to buy a ticket to wait in line to get in to wait in line to get on a ride that follows a track.
• What is your philosophy? Live and let live? Live to work? Work hard play hard? No pain no gain? Etc….
• Those in the rat race want you to stay in the race so to compete with you. The system is built to keep you perpetually lost in the race.
• Talking about ‘Boss Blindspots’ with coworkers. Boss Blindspots are places, conference rooms, etc. you sneak to make an undesturb call…
• My favorite podcasts are Time Business, This American Life, Slate Magazine, Killer Innovations, FLOSS Weekly, Entrepreneurial Thought Leader
• The battle of the Bands in my iPhone. The Thing Things vs the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
• Is Chris Brown related to Bobby Brown? Just catching up on Chris Brown’s arrest for allegedly beating up on Rihanna.
• Our society has made huge advancements in its musical taste, from boy bands to teen musicals.
• After 2004 election Bush thought he had a big mandate. Obama says his mandate is bigger.
• Salesperson: fine line between annoying and helpful.
• In this economy, paying 10% off is like paying full price…
• Get lost intentionally, find yourself serendipitously
• Clutter makes an opportunity for distraction.
• At the gym burning calories, call the fire marshal!
• Unique Perspective + New Experience = Original Insight
• The first control substance was in the garden of Eden.
• Having a home made cupcake, it has more heart than frosting!
• You can always monitize those that want to monitize something else.
• A mixer is the female equivalent to a power tool.
• Valet would be that more useful if the fill your car with gas.

LOLprez

• My question is, when will the government tax you for your virtual profits and earnings on virtual money.
• If keeping a real budget wasn’t enough, people want to make me budget virtual money….
• They took your gold standard backed money and gave you commodity money, they want to take that and give your virtual money.
• My new pickup line: I’m to big to fail!
• Don’t stand in the way of what comes to you.
• Some report the news, other report the network effect on the news.
• For a fish that comes out of the sea, that is one dry mofo mackerel.
• They said that GM was to big to fail. You know what is to big to fail, the government.
• A government big enough to give you all you want will be big enough to take all you have!
• Some folks like to drink Sex on the Beach, I like to drink Intercourse in Outerspace!
• Don’t pick and choose between political candidates, let then pick and choose where they stand and then stand ten feet back.
• Obama spoke against the Jewish Holocaust deniers but said nothing of the Armenian Holocaust deniers!
• Obama first reached out to investment bankers, now he is reaching out to Muslims… I guess imams should expect a bonus.
• The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything * 10 = 420… Coincidence? I think not.

Questions

• When did the Spelling Bee become a televised sport?
• Is a race car driver an athlete?
• Forget your cheese, who moved my iHeadPhones?
• Who needs a business plan if you have a million users?
• What is the Internet saying about you?
• Paper or plastic? Kirk or Picard?
• What is money good for, to earn, to save, or to spend?
• What is your favorite time killer? Twitter, Digg, Reddit, facebook, LOLcatz, cute overload?
• What is your favorite iPod color?
• Which is your favorite celebrity brand?
• What percentage of your shopping is online?
• Which is your favorite brand? CK, Tommy, Baby Phat, Bebe, LV, Coach, Ed Hardy, Armani, Juicy Couture, Avirex, Michael Kors, Vera Wang, etc?
• What would you do if there were no way you could fail?
• Is Electric Avenue in Funkytown?
• What is your personal motto?
• How fresh is fresh?
• What is helping you weather the recession, books, movies, games, etc?
• What is your favorite social networking site?
• What is your next big idea?
• Will there be a exchange rate market to buy, sell, and trade points from different systems such as XBox, Wii, PlayStation, WoW, Second Life?
• What is the best gift you’ve ever received for Valentine’s Day?
• Is brushing your teeth better than taking a shower?
• Has anyone checked out “Invitation Only Shopping” sites?
• What would you do with one extra hour a day? One extra day a week? One extra week in a year?
• Potato chips, tortilla chips, or pita chips?
• How many hours of productivity do companies lose because employees are wrapping up with taxes?
• Why are social networking sites not more socially conscience?
• Why does Hawaiian pizza have Canadian bacon?
• If they call it self help, why would you pay someone for it?
• Which is best, to spread like a wild fire or to bloom like a wild flower?

Quotes

• I am so 3008 / you are so 2000 and late – Fergie
• Russian roulette is not the same without a gun/And baby when it’s love if it’s not rough it isn’t fun — Lady GaGa
• Attitude that came outta struggle/Destitute but I make it hopeful — K’naan
• That woman speaks eight languages and can’t say "no" in any of them. – Dorothy Parker
• Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today. – Herman Wouk
• Death and taxes may be certain, but we don’t have to die every year. – Unknown
• In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. – Benjamin Franklin
• To err is human, To purr is feline. To arr is pirate. – Robert Byrne
• Many a false step was made by standing still. – Fortune Cookie

I

• I discover much of my music through car commercials…
• I like to travel from the comforts of my own home.
• I want to fly away and have the airline lose the emotional baggage.
• I sell this shyet by the kilo.
• I heart bargains, discounts, sales, giveaways, and followers.
• Why did I wake up from a dream where I was the lead in Grease? I haven’t even seen the movie!
• Some people need their beauty rest. I think there is no greater beauty than work!
• I have 839 podcasts which equals to 17.8 days and takes up 12.78 GB. I have 5097 songs which equals to 15 days and takes up 23.10 GB.
• Using the scientific method, I think most scientists are drones.
• Watching a comedy special from like 1995. I don’t get most of the jokes! What’s funny is their fashion…
• Watching a movie, a period piece really, Valley Girl. I just can’t believe the outfits people wore back in the 80’s, LOL.
• How much different entertainment medium don’t you intake each day? I consume TV, radio, magazines, interweb, phone, and text on a daily basis.

Quick Tweet

• TGIFIGTHH: Thank goodness it’s Friday, I’m going to happy hour!
• It seems like everybody is an internet marketter.
• Homework hurts my brain and it hurts trees.
• Life is both the instrument and melody.
• I’m in the zone… browsing online…
• Make a catwalk out of the side walk.
• Life is about making memories!
• New Motto: moan don’t whine…
• I holla back and follow back!
• Denver Nuggets = Thuggets?
• Cash. Money. Liquidity.
• Waiting for my AIG bonus!
• Facebok is for dummies.
• Bacon is meat candy.
• Talk more chat less!
• Freak your dreams!
• RT: OH: WTF FTW!
• Tweet talk to me!
• Pull my finger!

Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It’s staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in.
– Casey Stengel

I’ve come to the conclusion that the two most important things in life are good friends and a good bullpen.
– Bob Lemon

Hanging out with Derek Jetter sucks beause all th women flock to him.
– Tim Raines

Thoughts on noise…

In antiquity there was only silence. In the 19th century, with the invention of the machine, Noise was born. Today, Noise triumphs and reigns supreme over sensibility of men.
– Luigi Russolo

Love is three minutes of squelching noises.
– Johnny Rotten

In Mexico an air conditioner is called a plicatician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn’t work very well.
– Len Deighton

Thoughts on guilt…

A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.
– Doug Larson

The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
– Chaucer

There is a difference between him who does no misdeeds because of his own conscience and him who is kept from wrongdoing because of the presence of others.
– The Talmud

Inauguration

• A dream deferred will soon be a dream redeemed.
• Anybody getting tomorrow off because of the inauguration? For some people, this is turning out to be a four day weekend.
• Watching the inauguration of Barack Obama.
• Obama became the president four minutes ago, has yet to take the oath.
• "I, Barrack Hussein Obama, do solemnly swear…"
• "On this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear…" – Obama
• "America is a friend of each nation" – Obama
• "We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus, and non believers" – Obama
• "The World has changed, and we must change with it" – Obama
• Praise song for the day this horrible inauguration poem ends.
• Explaining that Bush did not get ‘kicked out’ of the White House but that his lease simply expired.
• Obama cruzin the parade route on his new caddy.
• There seem to be half as much security officers as civilians, police two feet apart, two set of barricades, two SUVs full of SS agents.
• Secret Service don’t do a good job at keeping secret, those along the parade route will have more pictures of SS agents than Obama.
• Obama is in the house!! I am thinking of a new sitcom ‘Fresh Politician of Capitol Hill.’
• Security along the parade is colder than the weather, sparse crowds reported.
• I, for one, welcome our new democrat overlords.
• Prez Obama making short appearances at gala events. Mrs Obama wearing Jason Wu. Prez Obama dances like a white guy.
• Prez Obama gave historic inauguration speech, Wall Street responded by losing 332 points, going below 8000.

• Anil Ambani (was worth: $42 billion/current worth: $12 billion)
• Oleg Deripaska ($28 billion/$10 billion)
• Bjorgflur Gudmundsson ($1.1 billion/$0)
• Luis Portillo ($1.2 billion/$15 million)
• David Ross ($1.4 billion/$150 million)
• Tulsi Tanti ($3 billion/$500 million)
• Wong Kwong Yu ($3.5 billion/$2.5 billion)
• Larry Yung ($3 billion/$750 million)
• Konstantin Zhevago ($3.4 billion/$350 million)

You can read the full story on Billionaire Blowups of 2008.

The only change Obama wants, is to change his current address to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Obama will not be the first black president. It was said that Bill Clinton was the first black president. If Obama gets elected to president, Bill Clinton will still continue to be the only black president. Obama will be the first president to make everybody think he is black, his politricks are very whity.

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