While I'm not a huge fan of Twitter, I do take a daily look at it just to see if there are any interesting tidbits from the SolidWorks Community. There are the occasional UG meeting announcements (@housug), links to interesting projects (@KsMason71), blog post notices (@avephoenix, @gol10dr, @SolidSmack), and a lot of morning coffee updates (@everyonedoesthis).
This morning when I checked Twitter, I ran across a long list of posts from Christie Jordan, North Alabama SolidWorks User Group leader Ricky Jordan's better half. I had added Christie (@SouthernPlate) to my following list after she posted this on her blog (read the part about engineers). Seems Ricky and his family are on a little road trip, and he's trying out a new GPS App for his iPhone. Here are a couple of teasers from the "conversation":
and then this one....
it gets even better now....
and perhaps my favorite....
These are just a few, the entire conversation is much longer and VERY funny - I was laughing out loud the whole time I was reading. If your a Twitter user, follow @SouthernPlate to see the entire thing. While you're at it, follow @rickyjordan - I'm sure he we'll be hearing his side of the story soon.
yeah I heard about this
must be all over the net
scarey times but appparently he's safe now.
you know it could have been worse,his wife might have been reading a map in which case they may never have been found.
Lets be careful out there Ricky ;)
Posted by: Neil | July 03, 2009 at 05:58 PM
LOL! Yeah...we had quite the time on the trip over. What's the best way for a gloried tech geek to test out his new toy? Well test it of course. :-)
Turns out that AT&T Navigator isn't quite all it's cracked up to be. We ended up losing both cellular AND GPS signal on my iPhone while in the mountains. LOL! I had to stop twice and re-read the map since the turn by turn went out! :-)
It's amazing how much our little tweet stream has been talked about. :-) It doesn't hurt when your better half is incredibly quick witted and hilarious on top of that.
Ricky
Posted by: Ricky Jordan | July 07, 2009 at 12:58 AM
I guess I was agging her on a bit... Sorry Ricky!
Posted by: BillGent | July 07, 2009 at 01:05 AM
Hahaha...this is hilarious. I can't believe you wrote about it. Go Christy! lol
Posted by: Su | July 07, 2009 at 01:28 AM
hehe! This is too cool. It is amazing how many followers I got from those tweets, too!
To get them blogged about (and on Solidworks no less!) is fun fun fun!!!
Now that I have all of y'all's attention... join me in my campaign to have a Southern Plate Hospitality room at SWW10!!!
~holds out a petition~
Posted by: Christy Jordan | July 07, 2009 at 10:51 PM