By Brendan Loy (Twitter/FriendFeed)

WOW! RT @denverpost: Gonzalez hits walkoff homer, completes cycle to lead Rockies to a 6-5 win over the cubs: http://dpo.st/b52Hef

By Brendan Loy (Twitter/FriendFeed)

Someday our children will ask: Where were you? RT @TweetSmarter: Reminder!! 5 HOURS of Twitter maintenance begins 2 hours from now

By Brendan Loy (Twitter/FriendFeed)

RT @SpaceflightNow: Part of the International Space Station’s cooling system has run into trouble. http://tinyurl.com/36dbrew

By Brendan Loy (Twitter/FriendFeed)

#PANIC!!! RT @snarkandboobs: We have a Duck Crisis (TM) in my neighborhood, apparently http://twitpic.com/2akj5x | I blame Obama.

By Brendan Loy (Twitter/FriendFeed)

Scheduled Twitter outage coming shortly. So basically just a normal evening on Twitter. #failwhale

By Brendan Loy (Twitter/FriendFeed)

Apparently somebody got married today in upstate New York, or something. #chelseaocolypse

By Brendan Loy (Twitter/FriendFeed)

RT @HurricaneAlerts: Pakistan monsoon floods kill at least 800 in deadliest weather disaster of 2010 http://bit.ly/depwGI

By Brendan Loy (Twitter/FriendFeed)

Oh, that’ll go over well. #idiots RT @Drudge_Siren: Immigration Protesters Run Onto Baseball Field With Mexican Flags… http://plu.gd/9Sk

By Brendan Loy (Twitter/FriendFeed)

#PANIC!!! RT @Drudge_Siren: 5-Foot Sand Shark Forces Closure of Snooki’s Beach… http://plu.gd/9Sm

By Brendan Loy (Twitter/FriendFeed)

RT @LarrySessions: Mars not as big as Full Moon. Not 2010. Never! http://bit.ly/bnXJRb | This nonsense appears in email chains every summer.

By Brendan Loy (Twitter/FriendFeed)

RT @InsideUSC: Reggie Bush unhappy USC is distancing itself from him: http://bit.ly/anlfjH. | Yeah well I’m unhappy he blew up our program.

By Brendan Loy (Twitter/FriendFeed)

Got an email from BabyCenter titled “Your 2-Year-Old: The Power of “‘No’.” Could double as analysis of GOP policy platform. #whoneedsideas

By Brendan Loy (Twitter/FriendFeed)

I believe it is physically impossible to #PANIC, or be upset about anything, while listening to “Jack and Diane.” #holdonto16aslongasyoucan

By Brendan Loy (Twitter/FriendFeed)

RT @Sean_Callahan: @brendanloy I believe they [Nebraska's Suh-donated iPads] are permanently put inside of each locker.

By Brendan Loy (Twitter/FriendFeed)

.@Sean_Callahan Do the players get individual iPads for personal use? If so, is that an “extra benefit” for NCAA violation purposes?

By Brendan Loy (Twitter/FriendFeed)

RT @Sean_Callahan: Pretty cool…Ndamukong Suh donated 123 ipads to the Nebraska football team making them the first known pro or college team to have them.

By Brendan Loy (Twitter/FriendFeed)

“Daddy, are you sad because your car doesn’t have any seats?” –Loyette, after I said my car has no carseats, so we have to take Mommy’s car

By Brendan Loy (Twitter/FriendFeed)

RT @dmataconis: If you think the “The Imperial Presidency” didn’t come into existence until 1/20/09, you haven’t been paying attention for the past 60 years

By Brendan Loy (Twitter/FriendFeed)

RT @warbiany: I think Bill and Hillary are whores for power and fame, but I’ve got nothing against Chelsea. Well-wishes and congrats to her today.

By Brendan Loy (Twitter/FriendFeed)

I love mass transit, but LA is just too sprawling for it. RT @warbiany: LA push to become nation’s mass transit leader: http://bit.ly/9BQ87v

By Brendan Loy (Twitter/FriendFeed)

RT @jppalm: Watch out, Sen. Hatch!! RT @TheOnion: Lip-Reading BCS Computer Kills Officials Who Want To Shut It Down http://onion.com/avIxmB

By Brendan Loy (Twitter/FriendFeed)

“You’re really good at sharing, Daddy.” –Loyette, after I gave her a piece of my bagel. #awww

By Brendan Loy (Twitter/FriendFeed)

Wow! RT @denverpost: Rockies’ 17-2 rout of the Cubs…11 straight hits: http://dpo.st/aN5AVt | Rox’ 2nd straight W after losing 8 in a row.

By Brendan Loy (Twitter/FriendFeed)

RT @franklinavenue: Good news, Masturbating Bear: NBC might let Conan take his ‘Late Night’ and ‘Tonight Show’ bits to TBS: http://bit.ly/aXNoI8

By Brendan Loy

As you’ll undoubtedly notice, I’ve made some major blog layout changes. I’m not in love with the return of the three-column layout, but I’ve concluded it’s a necessary evil, so that I can keep tweets on the homepage — thus keeping the site fresh when I’m not blogging much — while preventing them from overrunning the main body of the blog, as has been happening with increasing frequency. Bonus: this will help facilitate the auto-importing of Becky’s tweets — coming soon! [UPDATE: Becky auto tweet import now up & running!]

The whole direct tweet-to-blog thing has always been an uneasy and imperfect arrangement, all the moreso as I’ve become a more prolific tweeter. I find that concerns about an overrun homepage constantly affect both the way I tweet (there have been way too many tweets lately containing the characters *# — that prevents them from posting to the blog) and the way I blog. So I want to try something different. And I think I have the leeway to do so, since I see from my stats that 1024×768 is pretty much the minimum screen resolution of my blog audience, so expanding the page width from 835px to 985px hopefully won’t pose too much of a problem.

Anyway. bottom line, all of my tweets (and soon, Becky’s) will appear in the sidebar at right. A handful of selected tweets will occasionally appear in the main body of the blog, when I choose to emphasize them, along with FriendFeed links. (There’s more there right now than there will usually be, because we’re in a transitional phase.)

I’ll have more to say later, probably. For now, I’m still doing a lot of tinkering — this is definitely a work in progress. As always, comments and suggestions are welcome.