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Are you there @OccupyBaltimore? It’s me Greg. Can you set your sites on stopping HarborPoint TIF or at least turning into a public vote? 🔄 3 👍 2 Original URL

Thanks to all who participated in #baltimore civic engagement with the #hptif. This was fun. Thanks to @lukebroadwater and @BaltimoreBrew 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@chrisfromabc2 @aapd0418 @MairZdoatz you need an iPhone and a ustream account. Surely we can afford that. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

Now we have time to form a PAC: TIF Has Gone Far Enough 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

RT @lukebroadwater: I’m told there will be no vote tonight; a work session will be scheduled for the first week in August 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

We can hope that this project will turn out as nice for Central Ave as West Side redev has been for Howard St 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@TonyDeFranco When I told this to my four year old, she said “For real!?” No dear, it’s called snark. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@TonyDeFranco I call Unicornlossus! 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

RT @TonyDeFranco: “I want to build a giant unicorn that straddles the Harbor and I need City financing.” “For God sakes, why?” “Jobs” “Y… 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@TheBrownWord negotiation: “is there a church?” “No?” “Can we have some money then?” 🔄 0 👍 2 Original URL

What about #TIFisridiculous for a hash about city council 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@jeffbigham great, let me set up my telegraph. You think I’m kidding… 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

RT @jeffbigham: @gxwalsh Resolution 2394023, authorized May 23, 1982 provided funding for hearings on cable television and telegraph machi… 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

Right now I really wish I had cable to watch this hearing.I wonder why city council can narrowcast on cable but can’t get a ustream account? 🔄 2 👍 1 Original URL

@TheBrownWord it’s better than Matlock 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

@lukebroadwater a Chrome plated Statue of Liberty would look awesome there 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

“@lukebroadwater: Kreitner calls the subsidies a “travesty” drawing applause” Applause Applause 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@bmoreconnected we’ll never be safe from Chromeo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daxRQMHWqe0 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

RT @bmoreconnected: So aside from the tax issue, how certain are we that, workers, residents, and neighbors are safe from the stuff under t… 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

Can someone who is following the #baltimore city council hearing tell me who votes at the end? The council or the tax committee? Now/later? 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@lukebroadwater so it passed? 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

“@lukebroadwater: Beatty, thanks @prezjackyoung for his “leadership” in pushing to secure the TIF funds” translates to cahoots 🔄 1 👍 0 Original URL

RT @Ed2BeFree: @lukebroadwater thank you for the informative live tweets 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@lukebroadwater thanks 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@lukebroadwater is there a RE to the pocket park question? 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@lukebroadwater I thought vein giving was a new tax strategy! 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

In other news, look at Artscape not the important hearing going on says Baltimore mayor @MayorSRB 🔄 1 👍 0 Original URL

I think that this Harbor Point tax incentive should be turned into a bond and voted on by the people of #Baltimore 🔄 1 👍 0 Original URL

@MairZdoatz @paulmgardner @chrisfromabc2 that’s my conservative estimate 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@paulmgardner @chrisfromabc2 I estimate a bajillion jobs will be created. Maybe I should testify. 🔄 1 👍 0 Original URL

@lukebroadwater thanks I thought it was at 4 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@lukebroadwater any word on the vote? 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

RT @lukebroadwater: About 100 people are City Hall now protesting the $107 million in public financing for the Harbor Point project 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

“@MairZdoatz: RT @chrisfromabc2: The line to get into the hearing on the Harbor Point “TIF” at City Hall http://t.co/wBsFX8S30L” yay action 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

Parks will not only be funded by #baltimore but then will be leased back to Baltimore and @RecNParks will maintain it? @bmorebill vote no! 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

Whoops… you need to tell @councilmancarl & @bmorebill devs should pay $60M for Harbor Point parks…not city : http://www.baltimorebrew.com/2013/07/17/gold-plated-parks-for-harbor-point-city-is-budgeting-59-million-for-them/ 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

I guess Exelon really likes to see rec centers closed in favor of a pretty HQ. Seems fair. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

Few things get me fired up like city greenspace.Thanks for giving me 60M reasons to get angry.Parks are so imprtnt the dev should pay 4’em 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

$81/$107 million of tax incentives would be funneled to Harbor Point parks and the promenade (thnx @BaltimoreBrew) #pattersonpark gets 400k 🔄 1 👍 0 Original URL

RT @Jillrosen: Why do churches have a say? Church. State. MT @BaltBizOnline Harbor Point developer Michael Beatty negotiates hiring goals w… 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@paulmgardner @prezjackyoung “but I see a site that’s vacant” You see a brownfield site…it’s vacant for a reason and lack of parks isn’t 1 🔄 1 👍 0 Original URL

@paulmgardner @prezjackyoung Putting $60M into new parks is a slap in the face to all those neighborhoods with no reccenters. 🔄 4 👍 1 Original URL

RT @paulmgardner: @prezjackyoung Also parks. $60 million worth of free parks for Baltimore’s newest richest neighborhood. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

Pls RT! .@MayorSRB .@RecNParks Spend $59M on existing parks in Baltimore not proposed parks for devs! #pattersonpark http://bit.ly/11WLPzK 🔄 7 👍 1 Original URL

.@MayorSRB .@RecNParks Please spend $59M on existing parks in Baltimore…we need it more than the developers! #pattersonpark 🔄 2 👍 0 Original URL

RT @BaltimoreBrew: City, @MayorSRB want to spend $59M on “public” parks at private Harbor Pt. “Beyond excessive,” says ex-parks direc. http… 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

This story was buried with all the news going on but my wife is quoted in it: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-ci-day-care-20130713,0,1606240.story Families in Baltimore need good daycare 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

.@MayorSRB .@RecNParks That sounded snarkier than it was meant…the outdoor concerts are really nice. Maybe call it Jazz under the Big Sky? 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

Many stars out 6-8? RT @MayorSRB: FREE tonight: “Cylburn Sounds” Jazz under the Stars, Concert Series. @RecNParks http://t.co/4k3LBjQp9J 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

Bad story but people listen to kids in the design process of toy cars…who would have guessed it? http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2013/07/09/199085090/pedal-power-to-horsepower-toys-point-towards-future-of-cars #design #children 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

Dear Science: If you’re going to make an autonomous jet fighter, can you not make it look so,oh I don’t know, Terminatorish? #x47b 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

RT @AmericanTowns: It’s national parks and recreation month. Find a park near you, like Patterson Park in Baltimore, MD: http://t.co/94OwUw… 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@RectorSun Do you consider Patterson Park as South Baltimore? You should add it to the Sun’s South Baltimore masthead. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

It may not be 100% official but #dontpavethepark seems to have worked: http://baltimoreguide.com/http:/baltimoreguide.com/plan-adopted-for-patterson-parking/ 🔄 1 👍 1 Original URL

@MairZdoatz The homestead credit act works so well, how could that possibly get messed up? 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

Just to clarify, I’m procrastinating doing work by solving #baltimore problems. I’d like more people to make this their home 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@mairzdoatz I guess we could income tax everyone but give residents a credit equal to the tax? And businesses credit for % of resident emps? 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

Legality of residency requirements in cities from 1980. Basically it seems like if the city needs it, it can do it http://digitalcommons.law.wustl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1550&context=urbanlaw 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

@mairzdoatz We need backbone. Baltimore has so much potential yet so little motivation. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

New Orleans requires residency: http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/02/want_a_job_with_the_city_of_ne.html #baltimore 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

Springfield Mass. to enforce residency reqs for city employment: http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2013/06/springfield_council_president_2.html #baltimore 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@MairZdoatz A quick search brought up a bunch of cities that require residency.We supposedly require department heads to be residents. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

What would happen if #Baltimore required city employees to live in the city? Can a city do that? 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

What if #Baltimore made tolls for drive-in traffic M-F 8-5? Would more people commute via transit? 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

RT @schneiderfa77: #Google to move into the (casual?) video #gaming industry, with its own console: http://on.wsj.com/1alGRiM 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

Interested in going further with your UX/IA knowledge but don’t want a masters now? Consider #ubalt ’s certificates: http://www.ubalt.edu/cas/graduate-programs-and-certificates/certificate-programs/certificate-in-information-design-new-media-publishing/index.cfm 🔄 1 👍 0 Original URL

Waiting in line for pandas in DC 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

RT @idc2013: Bert introducing @carnegiehall Weill Music Institute! 3rd graders! Musicians! IPads! This is going to be a great performance #… 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

Don’t forget to see @Mona_Leigh give her talk on It Worked for Disney: Incorporating Princesses and Anthropomorphism in CoDesign #notidc2013 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

My presentation tomorrow at #notidc2013 will be “It’s in the Jeans: a case study of denim dungarees for intergenerational co-design” 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@Mona_Leigh and I just discussed why we design with children. Why do you? #idc13 🔄 1 👍 0 Original URL

Really proud of the number of #HCIL members (students, faculty, alum) presenting at #IDC13 this year. 🔄 1 👍 0 Original URL

Four months later (and coincidentally while leaving NYC) this is a really great analogy. https://plus.google.com/104360811287780346386/posts/FgwMRfyhBEw 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

Germans love David Hasslehoff AND Linux. Can you imagine Baltimore getting behind something like this? http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/d0od/~3/zzziauOI0C0/germany-to-hand-out-free-ubuntu-cds-on-xps-deat 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

RT @idc2013: @carnegiehall here at @thenewschool working w/ kids to explore new ideas in music Ed and #technology #IDC13. http://t.co/QAdGe… 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

Sunny in NYC, raining in New Jersey. I couldn’t make this up if I tried. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@ahnjune @jasoncyip I’m in….a train station 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@ChipChantry does you militia have a fireplace in the middle or a donkey kong 2 machine? 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

RT @meaganletwit: @gxwalsh leads a hands-on design session w/ kids and Carnegie hall musicians using iPads #IDC13 http://t.co/VsrKsZowIu 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

RT @jasoncyip: @gxwalsh @adruin Amazing, we are doing codesign methods with children at the #CarnegieHall iOS music at #idc13 children and … 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

I’m so New School. http://t.co/GI4sy4bJS3 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

I love this cartoon. It shows that no matter when, people always think back to when things were “better”. I’m not… https://plus.google.com/104360811287780346386/posts/GNx9sTuEjsj 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

Congrats to .@jasoncyip on his new postdoc at .@joanganzcooney a la Sesame Street! http://www.bigyipper.com/?p=1144 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

This blimp/Mayflower picture is the most surreal I’ve ever seen.I want to be a Nat’l Geographic photog http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2013/06/natgeo-blog-mines-their-incredible-archives-for-precious-gems/#slideid-21519 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

Before Edward Snowden gets on a plane, I hope he watches the 1960’s show The Prisoner esp Chimes of Big Ben 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

just finished a Runtastic run of 6.2 mi in 1h 16m http://www.runtastic.com/sport-sessions/86405838 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

Everyone gives me a hard time about my keeping my office lights low. Now I have a rebuttal. #ubalt http://www.psmag.com/blogs/news-blog/dim-lighting-sparks-creativity-60437/ 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@MornCommute What kind of minivan/vehicle is that…the sunroof is great. I looked through your posts but didn’t see the make/model. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

What are you building? I saw postgres andi pooh-poohed it until I saw those other two projects. https://plus.google.com/104360811287780346386/posts/ae34muxzRZ1 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

I’m glad to see “skeuomorphism” being used in so many conversations now. I guess the iOS interface guidelines are going to be changed. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@maccymacx I saw a sketch note you did at CHI about kids and design and (I think) you included me…thanks! 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

just finished a Runtastic run of 5.57 mi in 1h 19m…at least I ran…I was pushing my 4 yr old in a stroller with… https://plus.google.com/104360811287780346386/posts/LFM5F2EYTK7 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

Playing with PhoneGap and found out that Android 2.3 is more in use than Android 4.0 http://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

Does your 7-11 yr old like coming up with new ideas?You’re in luck because I’m recruiting for KidsteamUB! http://home.ubalt.edu/gwalsh/kidsteam.html #baltimore 🔄 6 👍 0 Original URL

Do you want to help me find out more about kids and joysticks? I need interview participants: Parents of 3-13 yr olds http://home.ubalt.edu/gwalsh/joystick.html 🔄 2 👍 0 Original URL

Mediocre people are always at their best - Bill Cosby #ubalt 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

just finished a Runtastic run of 2 mi in 25m 38s http://www.runtastic.com/sport-sessions/73889971 http://www.runtastic.com/en/users/greg-walsh-4/sport-sessions/73889971 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

Just saw the #goodyearblimp over #pattersonpark in Baltimore! 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

Did JC Penny’s Online get hacked? A “system error” sent out an email about locked account and CS rep said for us to change password. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

valleyForge http://youtu.be/iKZ0_N7pp_A 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL