(with thanks to Ana Marie Cox for the post title) I suppose the first question to be answered is, which “me” are you following? There are at least four. Yes, I know. Sigh. @smartwatermelon is my first, original Twitter account. It’s public, so anyone in the world can read my Tweets and follow me if [...]

(with thanks to Ana Marie Cox for the post title)

I suppose the first question to be answered is, which “me” are you following? There are at least four.

Yes, I know. Sigh.

@smartwatermelon is my first, original Twitter account. It’s public, so anyone in the world can read my Tweets and follow me if they so desire. Nowadays @smartwatermelon is the account most closely associated with my job at HP/Palm–many of my recent followers are (directly or indirectly) a result of this Tweet from Lisa Brewster (@adora) of Palm’s Developer Relations:  

That, on my first day at HP/Palm, gained me around 100 followers almost immediately and since I’ve been active in the webOS Twitter community I’ve picked up a few hundred more.

@smartwatermelon is also (sort of, a little bit, in some circles) known for being name-checked on The Rachel Maddow Show as a result of this Tweet, retweeted by Rachel herself and actually displayed on the show. I’m still gobsmacked over that one. 

Finally, as my primary public account, it’s the one to which I have various social-network services tied. You’ll see Tweets from Foursquare, GetGlue, Twitpic and Untappd. Quite a lot from Untappd, actually. It’s also the account which is shown in the Twitter widget in the right column of these pages.

So: techy stuff with an emphasis on mobile devices, Macs and general geekitude; politics, especially the liberal/progressive kind and especially the ridiculous aspects of such; social-network checkins; and beer.

The name? Oh, the name comes from a watermelon-flavored soft drink made by the Coca-Cola company that’s only sold in China but can be tasted at Club Cool at Epcot in Walt Disney World and also at the Coke Museum in Las Vegas. Well, you asked.

Interested? Intrigued? Inchoate?

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@swm_photos is a special account I use for live photoblog updates using my EyeFi card. When I take my camera, phone (for tethered Internet access) and EyeFi card on a photowalk, the resulting pictures are uploaded in nearly realtime and tweeted to @swm_photos. This is mostly so I don’t overwhelm @smartwatermelon followers with quick-succession tweets. I’ll tweet from @smartwatermelon when photos are forthcoming to @swm_photos.

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You’ve come here from a link from MousePlanet–one of my (infrequent) articles, the Twitter widget on the MousePlanet home page or perhaps you met me at at Disney park? You want @MPAndrew, my public account for MousePlanet, Disney and related Tweets.

I’m far less active on @MPAndrew than on @smartwatermelon (which might be a good thing) but if you want to know what I’m doing in the Disney-related Web arena then @MPAndrew is the account for you. It gets busiest around the time of our semi-annual MouseAdventure events and whenever I’m at or near one of the parks. I also occasionally tweet about some of the “backstage” or behind-the-scenes technical aspects of my work on MousePlanet.com.

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Not enough? You want to know the real me? Then @andrewmrich is the account for you. This one, however, is a private account. That means Tweets from this account aren’t visible to anyone I haven’t allowed to follow me.

My use of @andrewmrich is much more of a long-term, very high-latency conversation among friends who already know each other. If you already know me in real life (and it’s not from work or from a Disney connection) then feel free to put in a follow request.

I keep the followers down to a minimum on @andrewmrich, though, to keep the conversation at a comfortable pace, so don’t be offended if I don’t approve it. Just scroll up to the top of this post and re-read the clever and witty descriptions of my other three accounts again.

And thanks for reading.

No-talent overhyped "singers" like B.o.B. who rely on real musical artists like Hayley Williams and Rivers Cuomo to make themselves look good. Old B.O.B. from The Black Hole statue at the D23 booth at San Diego Comic-Con International A sub-peeve is in the lyrics of "Airplanes", where this knucklehead complains about how the "rap game" [...]

No-talent overhyped "singers" like B.o.B. who rely on real musical artists like Hayley Williams and Rivers Cuomo to make themselves look good.

Old B.O.B. from The Black Hole statue at the D23 booth at San Diego Comic-Con International

A sub-peeve is in the lyrics of "Airplanes", where this knucklehead complains about how the "rap game" has descended into politics and he wishes he could go "back to the day". Note that this is the first single from his first release. And already he wants out. I would be oh, so very happy to grant this wish if only I could.





(Yes, I know the picture is the wrong B.O.B, but it was the first result from Plinky's "find a picture" tool and it made me laugh. So it stays.)

Here’s the simple answer to the blizzard of initiatives slated for this fall’s Special Interest Bonanza: Vote no on all of ‘em. You can read all about the bizarre politics behind the special election at the article linked above. Yesterday, we saw a guy pushing petitions on University Ave in Palo Alto. He had a [...]

Here’s the simple answer to the blizzard of initiatives slated for this fall’s Special Interest Bonanza: Vote no on all of ‘em. You can read all about the bizarre politics behind the special election at the article linked above.

Yesterday, we saw a guy pushing petitions on University Ave in Palo Alto. He had a whiteboard sign, with a line down the middle, and “Liberals!” in blue on the left (with a list of so-called “liberal” issues) and “Conservatives!” in blue on the right (with a similar list). I was just amazed.

This is all over the news by now, but in case you haven’t heard: Attorney General Ashcroft, Commerce Secretary Evans Resign President Bush accepted the resignations of Attorney General John Ashcroft and Commerce Secretary Donald Evans late Tuesday in what is expected to be a series of Cabinet changes prior to the Jan. 20 start [...]

This is all over the news by now, but in case you haven’t heard: Attorney General Ashcroft, Commerce Secretary Evans Resign

President Bush accepted the resignations of Attorney General John Ashcroft and Commerce Secretary Donald Evans late Tuesday in what is expected to be a series of Cabinet changes prior to the Jan. 20 start of his second term.

Both have held their posts since President Bush took office in 2001 and are the first two Cabinet-level officials to announce their departure since the president’s reelection.

My feeling is pretty much what’s being expressed on Slashdot: Yay, Ashcroft’s gone. Uh-oh, who could be next? Uh-oh, we have a Supreme Court opening any day now and a prime candidate.

In other words, this is not necessarily “good news”.

Salon (remember them?) are reporting that Mr. Bush may have been wearing a wire during the first debate last week. This is backed up by strange, even for him, stops and starts during some of his responses: On several occasions, the president simply stopped speaking for an uncomfortably long time and stared ahead with an [...]

Salon (remember them?) are reporting that Mr. Bush may have been wearing a wire during the first debate last week. This is backed up by strange, even for him, stops and starts during some of his responses:

On several occasions, the president simply stopped speaking for an uncomfortably long time and stared ahead with an odd expression on his face. Was he listening to someone helping him with his response to a question? Even weirder was the president’s strange outburst. In a peeved rejoinder to Kerry, he said, “As the politics change, his positions change. And that’s not how a commander in chief acts. I, I, uh — Let me finish — The intelligence I looked at was the same intelligence my opponent looked at.” It must be said that Bush pointed toward Lehrer as he declared “Let me finish.” The green warning light was lit, signaling he had 30 seconds to, well, finish.

It’s also worth noting that the agreed-upon debate conditions stated that no cameras were to be placed behind the candidates–a condition that Fox News (of all people!), as the pool video provider, ignored.

I’ll be listening to the debate tonight in the car, so I won’t be able to spot any mystery bulges. But you can bet several million people will be looking.