Posts

2022

Revisiting "Tokyo Vice" | April 9 | Tagged: japan books

Thoughts on a Clockwork Orange | January 25 | Tagged: podcasting movies

Elegy: Death of a Medium-Box Store | January 23 | Tagged: nyc upper_west_side

Plugging for "Quiet Little Horrors" | January 22 | Tagged: movies media

The Doo-Wop of the Damned | January 13 | Tagged: music nostalgia ronnie_spector dennis_farina doo_wop_of_the_damned family

Standout November / December Episodes at "The Signal Watch" Podcast | January 2 | Tagged: movies podcast

2021

Seeing "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" | September 30 | Tagged: nyc entertainment stephen_colbert

On Having a Guy | September 30 | Tagged: nyc linguistics culture

How to Rate Biopics | September 29 | Tagged: criticism movies

Bike Ride to Staten Island | September 28 | Tagged: nyc bicycling staten_island day_trip

Facebook and Instagram are Toxic Shitpools of Misery and Misinformation and You Should Quit Them | September 25 | Tagged: social_media

Vaccine Hesitancy and the Herman Cain Award Reddit | September 25 | Tagged: covid covid_vaccine trumpism anti_science dominance_based_masculinity

The Violet Candy: C. Howard | September 24 | Tagged: nyc candy mad_men history

The Time I Got Roofied and Why I am Pro-Choice | September 6 | Tagged: austin sexual_harassment violence abortion pro_choice crime personal dominance_based_masculinity

Jazz Age Lawn Party | August 19 | Tagged: jazz nyc dancing

Birthday 2021 | August 11 | Tagged: birthday nyc personal

Typewriter History | August 5 | Tagged: typewriters personal design olivetti

Against Domination-Based Masculinity | August 3 | Tagged: masculinity toxic_masculinity modern_times culture

Shanties of New York | July 15 | Tagged: covid nyc

Visiting Aruba | July 14 | Tagged: travelogue aruba

Fourth of July 2021 | July 14 | Tagged: holidays fourth_of_july

Epic Manliness | July 2 | Tagged: latin writing gender clyde_pharr

Storage Build-Out | June 17 | Tagged: furniture nyc ikea diy

New Blog Section: Long Form | June 3 | Tagged: meta blog writing

Rainy Night Under Scaffolding | June 2 | Tagged: new_york video weather

Nick Cave on a Mother's Grief | June 2 | Tagged: music writing nick_cave

Reclaiming My Facebook Content | May 24 | Tagged: facebook python data_migration

Resisting the January 6th Memory Hole | May 19 | Tagged: anti_trump insurrection

Resisting Fast Fashion | May 18 | Tagged: modern_times environmentalism fast_fashion sustainability

Facing the Maskless Life | May 14 | Tagged: covid personal nyc

My New Bike | May 14 | Tagged: nyc bicycling

Basking Byron | May 1 | Tagged: byron

Sometimes Business Is Merely a Question of Endurance | May 1 | Tagged: business nyc

Springtime, Housman, and My Grandmother | May 1 | Tagged: nyc poetry

Fully Vaccinated | May 1 | Tagged: vaccine covid

Moving in Manhattan | April 30 | Tagged: nyc personal

Celebrating an Anniversary | April 30 | Tagged: personal

Constitutional Carry Morning and Carnage Afternoon | April 22 | Tagged: politics texas austin politics

The Yearly Chucks | April 22 | Tagged: personal nyc clothing

Life With Onion Crunch | April 22 | Tagged: food trader_joes

The End of Silicon Valley: Tim O'Reilly | April 21 | Tagged: san_francisco bay_area technology

Unclear Goals in Hiring Engineering Managers | April 20 | Tagged: engineering management hiring

Photos for the Week | April 15 | Tagged: nyc photos

Marie Kondo and the De-Stuffing of America | April 12 | Tagged: modern_times tidying capitalism

Megatron | April 9 | Tagged: toys transformers drama

The Healing Power of Code | April 9 | Tagged: programming zen life

Hyperreality and the War on Language | April 9 | Tagged: linguistics hyperreality philosophy trumpism

Onion Crunch | April 8 | Tagged: food snacks

The KNACK Sticker | April 8 | Tagged: austin rememberances

Autocorrect Hilarity | April 2 | Tagged: technology humor

An Imagedump of Tech Memes | April 1 | Tagged: technology internet_culture

Covid Vaccine Shot 1 | April 1 | Tagged: covid new_york vaccine

Insanely Large Trucks | March 31 | Tagged: wrong_thinking trumpism environmentalism

More Fans of the Text-Driven Internet | March 31 | Tagged: rss text_internet

Updated Tweet Archive | March 31 | Tagged: meta blogging hugo

My Favorite Meme About Recursion | March 25 | Tagged: programming humor

Mask Discipline Variance Considered Harmful | March 15 | Tagged: politics covid

Pandemic Night Out: Bourbon in the Battery | March 14 | Tagged: bourbon nyc covid personal

Foxes! | March 14 | Tagged: animals personal

Winter Vacation to the Finger Lakes | March 12 | Tagged: travelogue new_york

Organizing Blog Internals | March 12 | Tagged: blogging meta hugo

Happy Seventh Birthday Byron | February 24 | Tagged: personal dog

Giving Notice | February 23 | Tagged: new_york personal

The Lucifer Myth and the Brain's Hemispheres | February 21 | Tagged: neuroscience religion

The Flocked Trees of the UWS | February 8 | Tagged: photos manhattan

Pandemic Burqa Style | February 7 | Tagged: modern_times covid

Hearing "Red Right Hand" Anew | February 7 | Tagged: politics trump music

A Winters Walk | February 6 | Tagged: personal winter

The Social Media That Should Have Been | February 5 | Tagged: social_media programming modern_times

Information Cults | February 5 | Tagged: trumpism sam_harris

Quitting Facebook Properties | February 2 | Tagged: modern_times programming

Mobile Upload: The snow falling along a block of Broadway that still has some life. | February 1 | Tagged: mobile photography new_york

Conspiracy-Deranged Finally Realize They Were Horribly Wrong | January 23 | Tagged: anti_trump politics

Trumpism Loves Violence | January 11 | Tagged: anti_trump politics

Blaming the Insurrection on "Antifa" Agent Provocateurs | January 10 | Tagged: anti_trump politics

Seditionist Senators | January 10 | Tagged: anti_trump politics

Seditionist Arrested | January 9 | Tagged: anti_trump politics coup

We Told You So | January 9 | Tagged: anti_trump politics

He's Worse Than I Could Have Imagined | January 7 | Tagged: anti_trump politics

2020

Mobile Upload: Ready to be a snowbeast! | December 16 | Tagged: mobile photography dog

Mobile Upload: Anyone heard from the nominal president on this? Poor performance. | December 15 | Tagged: anti_trump politics

Mobile Upload: Can this abominably Ill-run coup be called over now? | December 12 | Tagged: anti_trump politics

Mobile Upload: Where. Is. The. President? | December 5 | Tagged: anti_trump politics

Mobile Upload: Last Christmas here.. | November 30 | Tagged: mobile photography new_york

Thanksgiving Leftovers | November 29 | Tagged: mobile photography

Trump Recount Requests Continue Confirming Biden Won | November 28 | Tagged: anti_trump politics

In Memoriam: The Hacker Edward Lodewijk van Halen | November 15 | Tagged: personal

The World Historical Year 2020: Intermission: Joe Biden Wins the Election | November 10 | Tagged: personal

Mobile Upload: Remember to look up some time. | November 8 | Tagged: mobile photography new_york

No Dogs in Trump White House | November 8 | Tagged: anti_trump politics

You're Delusional and Dangerous, Donnie | November 7 | Tagged: anti_trump politics

Fox News Calls It: Biden Wins | November 7 | Tagged: mobile photography politics anti_trump

Celebrating PRESIDENT-ELECT JOE BIDEN | November 7 | Tagged: mobile photography

Trump Versus Philly | November 7 | Tagged: anti_trump politics

Migas! | November 5 | Tagged: mobile photography food

The World Historical Year 2020: The Temperamentally Unfit Mister President | November 5 | Tagged: personal

Making Coffee With a Bialetti Moka Pot | November 1 | Tagged: personal coffee

The World Historical Year 2020: The Next Crisis | November 1 | Tagged: personal

The World Historical Year 2020: The Community Aftermath of Trump's Failure | October 31 | Tagged: personal covid

The World Historical Year 2020: The Personal Aftermath of Trump's Failure | October 30 | Tagged: personal covid

Mobile Upload: Trump loves 70's Disco | October 30 | Tagged: coronavirus anti_trump

The World Historical Year 2020: The Scourge | October 29 | Tagged: personal 2020 covid

SF's Coca-Cola Sign Goes Away | October 27 | Tagged: modern_times programming austin san_francisco

The World Historical Year 2020: Outbreak | October 23 | Tagged: covid personal

Rewriting Naur's "Programming as Theory Building" | October 23 | Tagged: curriculum writing

Trip to the Adirondacks | October 23 | Tagged: travelogue new_york personal

Stable | October 20 | Tagged: coronavirus anti_trump

Mother's Closes in Austin | October 15 | Tagged: austin

The World-Historical Year 2020: Introduction | October 7 | Tagged: personal archive history

Building Custom Quick Fix Buffers in Vim From JSON | October 6 | Tagged: vim programming

Trump, Shocker, Gets Coronavirus | October 5 | Tagged: coronavirus anti_trump

#latestagecapitalism and Grunge | October 1 | Tagged: music

Social Collapse | October 1 | Tagged: modern_times coronavirus anti_trump

"Dune" trailer | September 9 | Tagged: modern_times programming

QAnon, “Plandemic.” Conspiracy Thinking Likely to Shape the Election | August 17 | Tagged: mobile photography politics disinformation

Mobile Upload: Seen in Oakland | August 16 | Tagged: mobile photography

Mobile Upload: Summer Birthday Escape to Beacon, NY | August 10 | Tagged: mobile photography travel

Mobile Upload: Which came first, the movie or the katsu? | August 7 | Tagged: mobile photography movies food

Byron loves duvet cover wash day. | August 5 | Tagged: mobile photography dog

Trump on Axios interview | August 5 | Tagged: coronavirus anti_trump

Mobile Upload: Made some real deal southern-Atlantic biscuits | August 4 | Tagged: mobile photography food

Herman Cain, Trump supporter, anti-masker, Dies of Covid | July 30 | Tagged: coronavirus anti_trump

Mobile Upload: Sure was hot in Manhattan today. | July 19 | Tagged: mobile photography new_york italy

New York Going the Right Way | July 13 | Tagged: coronavirus anti_trump

Florida Peaks | July 12 | Tagged: coronavirus anti_trump

Huh, Trump Rally is a Superspreader Event. Imagine that. | July 9 | Tagged: anti_trump politics coronavirus

Mobile Upload: "Gosh why can’t they just follow the law?" | July 8 | Tagged: mobile photography coronavirus

Mobile Upload: Cafeteria > Sports > COVID | June 26 | Tagged: mobile photography coronavirus

Texas: 5000 New Cases in a Day | June 24 | Tagged: modern_times programming texas coronavirus

Trickle-Down Economics Never Works | June 18 | Tagged: modern_times economics

Houston Ailing | June 18 | Tagged: mobile photography coronavirus

Mobile Upload: I call this dog post “Chile” | June 14 | Tagged: mobile dog photography

Mobile Upload: He’s worse than Delores Umbridge | June 12 | Tagged: mobile photography

Texas Hospitalizations Surge | June 9 | Tagged: modern_times coronavirus

Black Lives Matter in Vidor, TX | June 8 | Tagged: modern_times programming

Take a Minute, My White Brethren Before We Speak | June 4 | Tagged: modern_times blm

Racial Reckoning...Someday? | June 3 | Tagged: modern_times blm

WAGAKKI BAND! | May 27 | Tagged: music

Mobile Upload: Wormsign | May 19 | Tagged: mobile photography

Specialty's Bakery of the Silicon Valley to Close | May 17 | Tagged: modern_times bay_area

...man skeptical of coronavirus gets infected, changes opinion | May 14 | Tagged: modern_times programming coronavirus maskholes

Armed Citizens Defy Pandemic Protocol | May 13 | Tagged: modern_times programming

Bless Shai-Hulud! | May 12 | Tagged: modern_times programming

Shady Grove on Barton Spring to Close | May 12 | Tagged: modern_times austin

Mobile Upload: Windy spring motion and sound. | May 10 | Tagged: mobile photography new_york

Mobile Upload: Just another day in Milan; looking gorgeous while out on a pandemic bike ride. | May 10 | Tagged: mobile photography italy

Disinformation Testing: "Plandemic" | May 10 | Tagged: modern_times coronavirus disinformation

The Begging of the Vulnerable | May 7 | Tagged: coronavirus programming

Florian Schneider of Kraftwerk RIP | May 6 | Tagged: music rip

Riots for the Right to Superspread | May 6 | Tagged: coronavirus maskholes

Mobile Upload: Let’s open restaurants and beaches! | May 4 | Tagged: coronavirus maskholes

Quarentime Grooming for Byron | May 3 | Tagged: photography dog

Mobile Upload: I won’t lament the world getting back underway | April 30 | Tagged: mobile coronavirus animals photography

Men of Good Fortune | April 29 | Tagged: music coronavirus anti_trump

Competently-Led Nation Eases Restrictions | April 25 | Tagged: coronavirus anti_trump

Germany and the Pandemic: Superior Leadership by Merkel | April 24 | Tagged: coronavirus anti_trump

Trump Recommends Bleach Injections..I can't make this up | April 24 | Tagged: coronavirus anti_trump

Mobile Upload: After all this finishes - or if it goes on for 6 months more - we all might need this referendum. | April 23 | Tagged: modern_times drug_war politics

Passing the Buck All Around | April 23 | Tagged: modern_times coronavirus

COBOL's Back (again) | April 22 | Tagged: coronavirus programming

Mobile Upload: Pre-anniversary, pandemic haircut from wife | April 22 | Tagged: pandemic coronavirus

Mobile Upload: What Real Presidents Say | April 19 | Tagged: coronavirus anti_trump

Death Cultin' | April 18 | Tagged: coronavirus anti_trump maskholes

Pandemic Preparedness | April 14 | Tagged: coronavirus anti_trump

Mobile Upload: It was a tough puzzle to get started today until... | April 11 | Tagged: mobile photography

Mobile Upload: It’s gotten this bad? | April 11 | Tagged: mobile photography coronavirus

City Lights Bookstore in SF In Trouble | April 11 | Tagged: coronavirus san_francisco

Mobile Upload: “I don’t get why the millennials are so hot for socialism.” | April 11 | Tagged: mobile photography

John Prine Dies of Coronavirus | April 8 | Tagged: music rip austin

Mobile Upload: What the ever-living fuck? Is Republicanism a literal death cult? | April 5 | Tagged: coronavirus anti_trump maksholes

Unfair to Trump | April 1 | Tagged: coronavirus anti_trump

Witch Doctor Pastor of Prosperity Gospel Declares Covid Over with Magic Spell | March 31 | Tagged: coronavirus anti_trump

Lissie Online Concert | March 28 | Tagged: music

My Neighbors: the Haudenosaunee | March 28 | Tagged: modern_times programming

Mobile Upload: Honestly If COVID has killed me and broken my streak I’d have been pissed. | March 28 | Tagged: mobile photography

HEB Crushes it in the Texas Pandemic | March 26 | Tagged: coronavirus anti_trump

Mobile Upload: We can’t be trusted with AI or gene editing if this is our discipline level | March 25 | Tagged: coronavirus anti_trump maskholes

Dan Patrick is a Bozo | March 24 | Tagged: modern_times programming

Mobile Upload: Please take Coronavirus Seriously | March 23 | Tagged: mobile photography

Mobile Upload: Trump: Odious as Harry Lime | March 21 | Tagged: coronavirus anti_trump

Watch Trump's Incompetence Wither the Resolve of the Competent | March 21 | Tagged: coronavirus anti_trump

Another Trump Bankruptcy | March 19 | Tagged: anti_trump politics coronavirus modern_times

Mobile Upload: We're Sick with Something | March 19 | Tagged: coronavirus modern_times maskholes

Students on Spring Break Swarm Failing to Heed Virus Warnings | March 16 | Tagged: coronavirus modern_times maskholes

Enabling Swap on Low Space Droplets | March 3 | Tagged: digital_ocean sysadmin hugo

Happy Birthday Byron! | February 24 | Tagged: mobile photography dog

"Conversation" Re-Release! | February 24 | Tagged: movies

Music from "Portrait of a Girl on Fire" | February 23 | Tagged: movies

The Gothic and My Grandmother | February 21 | Tagged: personal appalachia southern_gothic

Mobile Upload: Instagram is now showing me the following. Welcome to our post-"Parasite" present? | February 10 | Tagged: movies

Mobile Upload: Returned from the Netherlands; got flu | February 7 | Tagged: personal

Mobile Upload: My next read. | January 25 | Tagged: mobile photography

Using dot to Help Visualize Data Structures Part 2 | January 19 | Tagged: unix data_structures tooling

Don't go to Texas for Bargains | January 18 | Tagged: urbanism economics

Using dot to Help Visualize Data Structures | January 14 | Tagged: unix data_structures tooling

Neil Peart, RIP | January 11 | Tagged: music

Automating Development With Tasks in VSCode | January 8 | Tagged: programming tooling editors vscode

The Vulnerable World Hypothesis | January 4 | Tagged: catastrophe vulnerable_world

2019

Are Finns Better at Dealing With a Disninformation Society? | December 18 | Tagged: modern_times politics

Dominick the Donkey | December 15 | Tagged: christmas new_york

Power-wash the Tenderloin | December 5 | Tagged: san_francisco

SF's Tuesday Noon Sirens Go Silent | December 4 | Tagged: san_francisco

Queen Elizabeth, Latin Translator | December 1 | Tagged: latin linguistics history

The Visual Genius of David Mallett | November 22 | Tagged: music bowie film music_videos nostalgia

Mobile Upload: He gave us so many amazing images | November 22 | Tagged: mobile music photography

Confronting Whiteness in Mountain Music | November 20 | Tagged: music modern_times

Seeing "Live From Here" Recording Tonight | November 19 | Tagged: music

Murder Ballads, Dolly Parton, the Southern Gothic, and I | November 16 | Tagged: music the_south history

Mobile Upload: Go home Aggregator and trending algorithm, you’re drunk. | November 15 | Tagged: social_media programming

Cleaning Up Your Github Repos | November 8 | Tagged: github git jq

Gritty Vancouver Photos | November 6 | Tagged: photography travel canada vancouver

Mobile Upload: Kinda weird that two couples I know have the same anniversary date. | November 3 | Tagged: mobile photography

Mobile Upload: A Caryll rune that transcribes inhuman sounds. "Blood Rapture" is the raw euphoria of the warmth of blood. | October 31 | Tagged: mobile photography video_games

Managing Curriculum Development in New Model Education | October 12 | Tagged: curriculum education

Shim Sham Notes | October 10 | Tagged: dance nyc howto

Extracting JSON Data With jq | October 10 | Tagged: programming shell

Seeing "Hamilton" the Musical | October 7 | Tagged: newyork broadway

Mobile Upload: “Poodles are so smart!” 🤣🐩❤️ | October 2 | Tagged: mobile photography new_york central_park

Mobile Upload: Some days New York will grind you like a keelhaul. And other days you get mariachis while you have a poodle in your lap. | September 20 | Tagged: mobile photography new_york

Mobile Upload: Fall light is finally here. | September 11 | Tagged: mobile photography new_york

Mobile Upload: Quick Reminder: The US Government sponsored over two decades of psychic warfare research | September 2 | Tagged: books politics

Mobile Upload: The bill at Amelie arrived in this book. | August 11 | Tagged: mobile photography

Ford Taurus & America | July 28 | Tagged: mobile photography

On Euclidean Pedagogy | July 27 | Tagged: pedagogy education

Car Camping Pack List | July 15 | Tagged: camping pack_list

External Link: https://youtu.be/n12lyKTAa50 | July 10 | Tagged: modern_times programming capitalism politics

The Life and Times of Schoolgirl Maud Fenstermaker | July 7 | Tagged: grammar history

Teatro Nuovo at the Church of the Heavenly Rest | July 6 | Tagged: music latin performance

Microdosing and Psychedelics | July 4 | Tagged: psychedelics books san_francisco

The Oxycontin Epidemic | July 4 | Tagged: modern_times art

Revisiting Dark Souls and Nietzschean Philosophy | July 3 | Tagged: video_games philosophy

Mobile Upload: Kevin, a fellow WeWorker | June 27 | Tagged: mobile photography

Austin's Hut's Hamburger's Closes | June 11 | Tagged: austin

Reflections on Inspectional Reading | June 8 | Tagged: reading education

Guy Clark Live | May 18 | Tagged: music

Mobile Upload: Storm-Menacing Day in Riverside Park | May 10 | Tagged: mobile photography

Mobile Upload: When you’re a member of the coolest library in the world your library card looks like this. | May 7 | Tagged: mobile photography books nypl new_york

Mobile Upload: The Gender Gap, Illustrated | April 27 | Tagged: mobile photography feminism modern_times

Mobile Upload: Byron Cavorts on a Humid Spring Day | April 26 | Tagged: mobile photography dog

The Mueller Report Has Two Spaces After Every Sentence/ | April 20 | Tagged: modern_times programming

Mobile Upload: Baby Puppy Byron | April 20 | Tagged: mobile photography puppy dog

Mobile Upload: Hey New Yorker anniversary celebrants, what’d you do when you got back to NOLA? 🤟Costco🤟 | April 19 | Tagged: mobile photography

Mobile Upload: I am so getting this library card | April 4 | Tagged: mobile photography new_york nypl books

My Manager Readme | March 25 | Tagged: blog hiring management

Dick Dale: King of the Surf Guitar Catches the Ultimate Wave | March 18 | Tagged: music rip

Byron and Friend Frolic at Central park | March 3 | Tagged: photography new_york central_park dog

Collapse | February 23 | Tagged: modern_times collapse

Working With Git Submodules in Hugo | February 12 | Tagged: hugo git command_reference

Measles. In the 21st Century | February 10 | Tagged: modern_times vaccines science

A Simple Note Taking App in React | January 30 | Tagged: reactjs javascript stuffimade amajson

Mobile Upload: Methinks the machine translator needs some more training. | January 30 | Tagged: mobile photography technology

"I'm Sorry." and the Male Gaze | January 26 | Tagged: feminism misogyny

Mobile Upload: This is proper way to wear parka. Or as I call it, PeoplePomppa. | January 21 | Tagged: mobile photography dog new_york

Mobile Upload: We’re hiding. | January 21 | Tagged: mobile photography

Byron Thanks Me | January 14 | Tagged: photography new_york dog

Family History in the Boroughs | January 7 | Tagged: genealogy photos new_york

The Lore of Gritty | January 5 | Tagged: modern_times

The Cupid of Chelsea | January 2 | Tagged: new_york chelsea christmas

Mobile Upload: Happy New Year from Manhattan. #punsfordays | January 1 | Tagged: mobile photography

2018

4th Great-Grandmother's House / Grocery | December 30 | Tagged: genealogy new_york

Grandfather's House in Queens; 1940 | December 30 | Tagged: modern_times programming new_york genealogy

Mobile Upload: “I love fuzzy ball!” | December 26 | Tagged: mobile photography dog

Mobile Upload: Wonderful Books from My In-laws | December 25 | Tagged: mobile photography

Mobile Upload: A beautiful werke from the Ruhr region. Thanks, Santa Wife. | December 25 | Tagged: mobile photography

Facebook is a Curse | December 20 | Tagged: modern_times

My Favorite Christmas Album Is Michael Bublé: "Christmas" | December 20 | Tagged: christmas music traditions

Teaching Children for the Future | December 16 | Tagged: education philosophy

Cleaning Up a Bloated Git Repository | December 13 | Tagged: git reference

How I Came to Work in Education | December 10 | Tagged: personal education reflection work

Mobile Upload: Manhattan Christmas decor | December 4 | Tagged: mobile photography new_york

Mobile Upload: Once there was a baby puppy... | December 2 | Tagged: mobile photography dog

Trip to London | December 2 | Tagged: travelogue london

Mobile Upload: NYPL Reminds You Books Are Free | November 23 | Tagged: mobile photography new_york books

Thanksgiving Walking | November 22 | Tagged: photography personal

Mobile Upload: Holidays in NYC | November 22 | Tagged: mobile photography personal

Lauren Scissorhands | October 31 | Tagged: modern_times programming film halloween

Mobile Upload: Our debonair Mr. Wolf has a Tex Avery moment in 96th street station. | October 28 | Tagged: mobile photography new_york

Mobile Upload: Back in Prospect Park | October 17 | Tagged: mobile photography new_york

Mobile Upload: In England we are comfortable with our masculinity. Evidently. | October 15 | Tagged: mobile photography

Mobile Upload: Celebrating Her Birthday | October 14 | Tagged: mobile photography travel london

Trip Upstate for Apple Picking | October 9 | Tagged: travelogue new_york

Byron Reaches Escape Velocity | October 5 | Tagged: mobile photography dog new_york

NYPL Collection History of Shorthand | October 4 | Tagged: shorthand history nyc research

San Franscisco Edge to Edge Run | September 24 | Tagged: san_francisco photos running

The Astounding Octopus | September 22 | Tagged: animals

Configure File for Building Vim From Source | September 20 | Tagged: vim compilation

Late Summer Trip to Rockaway Beach With Byron | September 17 | Tagged: travel byron dog nyc

Hugo Boss Coat Clothing Repair Dead End | September 14 | Tagged: nyc personal

I'm Quitting Twitter | September 5 | Tagged: twitter social_media modern_times

Spotify Recommendations From Twitter Archive | August 29 | Tagged: music personal playlist

Mobile Upload: Tea in London with Max and Jen | August 19 | Tagged: mobile photography travel england

@SketchesbyBoze HOW MANY fireplaces did you say are at Rosings? | Tagged: tweet

This tweet was metaphysically and near-religiously targeted for my wife. @lauren_n_roth | Tagged: tweet

@J__Swift @thanatos_net @TheGoodDeath My grandma grew up in rural North Tennessee. Once, when at an antique place, she saw an item mislabeled. | Tagged: tweet

In line with this. RANDOM ACTS OF FLYNESS is bold, inventively edited, and educational. I will watch more, @HBO. 👏 @terencenance | Tagged: tweet

@raorao_ @JEG2 @JEG2 Inverting dependencies and representing constituencies. Published author (without ghostwriter), father, advocate for underserved populations, and steward of the environment. | Tagged: tweet

RT @nixcraft: Announcing an international Vim conference VimConf 2018 and its CFP being open. VimConf is a place to share your love of Vim… | Tagged: tweet

@WeWork is not done working with us to help envision workspaces of the future: work zones and living walls and…who knows. As a Jane Jacobs fan, cool to “beta” spaces. | Tagged: tweet

Currently we’re in the open office plan but that’s going to change. If this is as good as it gets, it’s a huge leap from what I’ve known. | Tagged: tweet

@FlatironSchool dogfooding the latest physical spaces innovated by @WeWork Our entry cafe and reception. | Tagged: tweet

All this socialism might really undermine the economic prospects of Akron! Sad! #yesthatssarcasm | Tagged: tweet

@TheAcademy “America,” family, power: choose one. | Tagged: tweet

I think this is The Bad Place. | Tagged: tweet

Apple emoji picker. Activate it and type b-e-a-r…. | Tagged: tweet

RT @altclassic: Happy 60th birthday to the inimitable #KateBush | Tagged: tweet

Dog Steals GoPro | July 29 | Tagged: entertainment

Migrated to Hugo | July 29 | Tagged: productivity hugo blogging

RT @z_rose: Beatrix Potter developed her drawing skills on fungus and scientific drawings more generally. She discovered that lichen is a s… | Tagged: tweet

I love watching my dog play chase, but I never see the eyes of the leader. Thanks to GoPro this is possible and the dog’s perception of the terroir, the chasers, etc as shown in its eyes is amazing. | Tagged: tweet

I guess it’s 2018 and yay be all edgy about recognizing non-monogamy people as a sales demo and all. | Tagged: tweet

I’ve been thinking about this since I read it. I looooove editors, especially vim, but if composition of functions were compelled by the tools as well…what would these look like? Maybe not so strange given our transpiled code era and npm’s tendency to uni-method utils… | Tagged: tweet

Looking for the best rss readers for iOS and Android. LMK | Tagged: tweet

RT @yokoono: Remember, many feminists have followed the ways of men and hurt their health by drinking, smoking and pursuing more money and… | Tagged: tweet

RT @tlakomy: My girlfriend told me to take the spider out instead of killing it. We went and had some drinks. Cool guy. Wants to be a web d… | Tagged: tweet

@tomdale Aperol++++ would Italia again. | Tagged: tweet

RT @Botanygeek: The smell of the air after a storm is caused by Geosmin: A chemical released by dead soil bacteria. | Tagged: tweet

RT @jumper_krazy: rt if you grew up going to the library | Tagged: tweet

This week I wrote Perl, JavaScript, awk, bash, transformed data in and out of google sheets, queried APIs to calculate differences in complex structures, taught some vim fu, edited a vimrc, and wrote memos to improve operations. How does anyone work without code on their side? | Tagged: tweet

Starting to plot my facebookicide. Export everything, migrate it into hugo, merge blog to Hugo, keep IG, keep twitter. Delete my history post by post. Leave this abomination. | Tagged: tweet

RT @semaphore_P: Wow. 20 years of real footage of stars orbiting the black hole in the center of our Milky Way from @ESO. You can even see… | Tagged: tweet

We are too stupid for a computerized society. | Tagged: tweet

@PolyGalSeeks @amandamull I’m a man of UWS diners and the iconic Zabars. Take a kindle and get a bagel / nova at Russ & daughters | Tagged: tweet

RT @andywingo: ┏┓ ┃┃╱╲ in ┃╱╱╲╲ this ╱╱╭╮╲╲house ▔▏┗┛▕▔ ╱▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔╲ ML refers to a programming language ╱╱… | Tagged: tweet

Mobile Upload: Rainy day time lapse. | July 25 | Tagged: mobile photography

Good for all these rust contributors. What a good showing! | Tagged: tweet

RT @shanselman: An unofficial fan-made prequel to “Day of the Tentacle?” For Mac, Windows, and Linux? Free? YES PLEASE - “Return of the Ten… | Tagged: tweet

At @FlatironSchool Curriculum dept. we had some docs in Gitbook, whose biz model no longer for us. We needed to migrate our content out, pref. to Markdown. I wrote this quick&dirty script to turn their exportable JSON => Markdown: #hopeithelps #ymmv | Tagged: tweet

RT @fredwilson: Diversity is at the core of what makes NYC tech so potent | Tagged: tweet

Also, Rabbit family dreadfully afraid of briar patches. | Tagged: tweet

The cutest accent ever is the way Auli’i Cravalho pronounces “canoe” in “Moana.” | Tagged: tweet

RT @liamantt: Guy on grindr was called farm boy so I messaged saying it’s pasture bedtime and he blocked me | Tagged: tweet

@chadfowler @jessfraz I like windows 10 WSL. If only it were better integrated with @code it’d be my Linux of choice…. | Tagged: tweet

@funionnn @chelsea Will your day of adoration interfere with mine? | Tagged: tweet

RT @416Bando: The bible says Adam and Eve not florence and the machine | Tagged: tweet

RT @wycats: Any sufficiently complicated company w/o management contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation o… | Tagged: tweet

@SaraJChipps Miranda is a hard compliment. She’s the only one in that clique that has any sense. | Tagged: tweet

RT @greekhistorypod: With life expectancy being so low, the Greeks felt the need for a word specifically denoting a child with both parents… | Tagged: tweet

RT @ditzkoff: Roses are red New York is a metropolis | Tagged: tweet

On the train uptown it was clear the unseasonably cold rain had canceled Saturday night. Cute and daring tops did not enter clubs. Button down shorts still looked pressed and fresh. Romantic pairs discussed groceries. Library books were cracked open. | Tagged: tweet

RT @JenAshleyWright: If I was a sexy Russian operative, I would want my name to be Jennifer Sleepinova. | Tagged: tweet

@cjc @kimmaicutler Former SF resident: On the other side, NYC has restaurants that are open past 9 & here I have seen a local child in the last year, a thriving live performance scene, warm beaches, genuine diversity, a functionalish transport sys & every pleasure base and sublime in 3-train stops | Tagged: tweet

Paging @lauren_n_roth who always does the extra to make everyone else’s life better. | Tagged: tweet

Here’s an interesting utterance (in our long slide to a pictographic language like “Darmok” or Egyptian hieroglyphs): | Tagged: tweet

@JimDedman @melbotis @rhp7 Concur. Read the book. But Dune is a beautiful, fabulous dream that was too heavy for the air (or spice-gas cloud) which was assumed could bear it. | Tagged: tweet

Unnamed King amirite | Tagged: tweet

Well, @Zipcar is doing the right thing here and has gotten in touch with me. Here’s to hoping we can find further models for their provisioning that allows for consistent service. | Tagged: tweet

I think everything about being human is summed up in the dictum by Livy: we cannot stand our evils, nor their remedy. | Tagged: tweet

Mobile Upload: Some of you did this. | July 17 | Tagged: anti_trump politics

Rot | July 17 | Tagged: anti_trump politics

The Psychosis of Truth | July 17 | Tagged: anti_trump politics

@charcrea @cxhrndz @MTA Move to New @nycgov, they said. See what a “real” transit system looks like, they said. | Tagged: tweet

Quo usque tandem abutere, Orangina, patientia nostra? | Tagged: tweet

@luciferxavier Springfield Twerkship, founded 1684 by Anabaptist rumpshaykaz exiled from England by Charles II for their disrespect of his new-model sovereign wall-twerk. | Tagged: tweet

After seeing #WontYouBeMyNeighbor I see why late Xers like me felt Bourdain’s death so: he was curious, open, felt things, and showed you could too and still be a valid person, esp. a low-/no- toxicity man. He was a grittier Mr. Rogers for an later, not larger, “modulation.” | Tagged: tweet

I have a @Zipcar is for in frequent, but high importance, use. They let me down and have me wondering why I should continue to pay the monthly fee. | Tagged: tweet

To add insult to injury, the @Zipcar rep told me the car had reported as dead battery. Well then, “Why didn’t you call me to tell me this?! You have my number on file?!” | Tagged: tweet

Yesterday I arrived at my @Zipcar and the battery was dead. | Tagged: tweet

RT @Sona_Sonara: GIMP just stands for graphicdesign is my passion | Tagged: tweet

Edie Brickell on at Trader Joe’s. Time to go home, order a Mr Gattis and play Karnov and Rygar on NES before Arsenio Hall. Or tape it if I’m close to winning. | Tagged: tweet

The fact that an human had to write this to an audience of educated humans to teach them Humanity 101 suggests to me that the humanities might be missing in tech education. | Tagged: tweet

Carlos D, a Decade On | July 11 | Tagged: music

I wanted to find out what happened between Interpol and Carlos D(engler). His interview here is profound, emotional, and revealing. Through his path through therapy, Stella Adler, etc., he shows a humanity that makes me curious about his acting | Tagged: tweet

I suspect open office plans are actually unhelpful to their purported key value (“collaboration”). To keep my flow I un-headphone, stride to do an activity to maintain my meat exosuit, and stride back to my chair, re-headphone. I see this happen all day long. | Tagged: tweet

RT @dhh: Look, open-space offices may be necessary for some companies, if they can’t afford private offices. But don’t dress up such a comp… | Tagged: tweet

RT @classicsforall: “A clay tablet discovered during an archaeological dig may be the oldest written record of Homer’s epic tale, the Odyss… | Tagged: tweet

@ethanschoonover Mr. Prelutsky came to my elementary school back in the day. Read from “The New Kid on the Block.” It was pretty epic for a 3rd grader. | Tagged: tweet

I wish I could shout my favor of “Sorry to Bother You” more loudly. But it’s really good. @lauren_n_roth described it as “Idiocracy” meets “Hollywood Shuffle.” That’s a perfect elevator pitch. | Tagged: tweet

Know what I love about NYC? When I, a nerd, parse rules on the web-site and decide that nothing really applies and call the help desk and they tell me that “Nobody cares about those rules, do this instead and save some bucks.” | Tagged: tweet

Me: Got my fresh new Converse kicks for summer. So white rubber. So black canvas. NYC: MELTED TAR ON YOU SHOE, BITCH. Me: snuff You sweet summer child, I was raised in the tar-pebble beaches of the Galveston, TX in the 80’s. I know how to deal with you. | Tagged: tweet

Someone needs to get out there and salt these NYC roads. The melting tar in these intersections is a real slip and fall hazard. #thinkofthechildren | Tagged: tweet

Is there a generic tool for defining and graphing dependency hierarchies. Surely someone in library science, education, etc. has figured this out (altho if it existed, how come bundler and npm/yarn rolled their own?) | Tagged: tweet

So many of my younger friends are applying to or attending @recursecenter. The whys I’ve heard are fascinating and tend to involve the phrase “late stage capitalism.” | Tagged: tweet

Abstractions for Education Writers | July 4 | Tagged: modern_times programming education

Linguistic musing: Latin noun and adjective order was flexible. As it vulgarized in Spain, did contact with Arabic and Hebrew promote the noun/adjective order of Castilian Spanish? | Tagged: tweet

@lauren_n_roth and I saw “Leave No Trace” and it was a beautiful film. Like a more PNW-“Winter’s Bone” minus the noir but with so much heart, and tenderness, and awareness of the burdens of vets. It reminded me of the beauty of the PNW as described by @NekoCase. Recommend. | Tagged: tweet

Walked into a restaurant on Bleecker and they were playing The Strokes. I see what you did here. | Tagged: tweet

This trackpad thing in iOS is great for anyone who writes text in the form of sentences with more than 20 syllables. | Tagged: tweet

Every time i go back to Daft Punk “Alive 2007” I think…wow. Still. | Tagged: tweet

I had never thought it would be a part of my life, but now that it is, I realize how wonderful it is to watch boats throughout the day. | Tagged: tweet

“I’m sorry, but will someone please tell that Nazarene, Josh Josephson, to treat the money-changers more civilly?” | Tagged: tweet

@ow @codepo8 @code Thanks for the outreach. I want WSL as my shell and @code as my IDE. Basically a Redmond Unix. I want to use the WSL to config my Python, Ruby, Node multi-version installs (e.g. | Tagged: tweet

OHAI did I mention I finished IQ84? Murakami fan friends and I can now talk about this. | Tagged: tweet

So Much Blood Spilled | June 24 | Tagged: anti_trump politics

I can’t handle how much blood was spilled to make this country sometimes. The enormity is so staggering. Where would anyone start to repay the blood debt? | Tagged: tweet

AmaZing. Houston has shifted so far since I left decades ago. Urbanism, pride, cricket fields!? | Tagged: tweet

Quick Check: does national “the cramps” appreciation day exist yet? | Tagged: tweet

@DanielMiessler This proximity was noted by none other than Dante Aligheri himself; although his level of rigor in linguistics was probably a notch above “folk tales, prejudices, and wild guesses.” | Tagged: tweet

Sugar Man | June 21 | Tagged: music

I ragehate the Udemy Python ads so much. “Python’s where it’s at” – What is this, two turntables and a mic? “You can do almost anything with it.” – In what sense? “You should take a course with Udemy” - wtf are you? Why are you telling me what to do? | Tagged: tweet

Ripping Babes from Arms | June 20 | Tagged: anti_trump politics

One of the most painful pieces of art ever made is Lou Reed’s “Berlin” which features a song where children scream (for seemingly-endless minutes) for their mother. | Tagged: tweet

RT @neilhimself: Am I the only one who doesn’t think of the Four Horsepeople as Antagonists? They are just doing their job. | Tagged: tweet

@fox At University of Texas, my MIS had a legal env. of business class had a good dose of what’s legal isn’t always ethical (R. Prentice); Management 1 also (J. Westphal). my Philo. degree had no strict ethics req. but I did 1 sem. of Contemp. Moral Problems. | Tagged: tweet

RT @wbruce: An important life lesson I’ve learned: Don’t trudge through a task you hate. Stop to reflect on your emotional state, then focu… | Tagged: tweet

RT @vespertinena: get in loser we’re going cloudbusting | Tagged: tweet

There’s a very strong girl / Muslim skateboard culture in NYC. Wished the hijabi working on her Ollie Eid Mubarak. | Tagged: tweet

RT @slpng_giants: This is a concentration camp for children. | Tagged: tweet

Enjoying Food and Life in memoriam of Anthony Bourdain | June 14 | Tagged: modern_times rip

Visited @xianfoods in memoriam to Mr. Bourdain. | Tagged: tweet

“Busy, busy, busy, is what we Bokononists whisper whenever we think of how complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is." | Tagged: tweet

@Racheldoesstuff @jasonpbell @TheRock What about Yael Rasooly for a cabaret ou français number? | Tagged: tweet

You know, it’s hard to express honest love of jazz flute in the post-“Anchorman” era. | Tagged: tweet

Morning mood: “Soul Vibrations” by Dorothy Ashby from “Afro-Harping.” | Tagged: tweet

I’m glad they made #SoloStarWars in 2018. Had they done it in 2001, with Nic Cage, and featuring an arc with Han working in a band playing a stringed instrument, I can’t imagine it faring well. Who’d have wanted to see “The Corellian Captain’s Mandolin?” | Tagged: tweet

RT @radleybalko: “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.”… | Tagged: tweet

Bourdain Exits | June 8 | Tagged: rip

@cczona As an educator in the code realm, curriculum @FlatironSchool might be a good change. My team is awesome and the company is growing in many exciting ways! Write, code, philosophize and change lives is a good week. | Tagged: tweet

RT @BenedictEvans: The fact we have Twitch for games videos but no equivalent for makeup videos tells us something about Silicon Valley. | Tagged: tweet

Lockdown | June 7 | Tagged: modern_times politics

As I’ve continued programming for years I’m finding my preferred IDE is vim + job control. I’m totally about that CTRL+z / fg life. | Tagged: tweet

@lauren_n_roth and I watched the 1972 film based off of “From the mixed-up files of Mrs basil e. frankweiler.” It holds up! But damn that movie dumbed nothing down for kids: vocab, humor, strategy. Amazing Ingrid Bergman role too. | Tagged: tweet

Who Can Functional Program on this Day? | June 2 | Tagged: travel programming

Because prosecco is pricier in NYC the quality is better. Ergo these home made aperol spritzs are lethal. | Tagged: tweet

RT @NetflixFilm: ATTENTION HUMANITY: Coco is now on Netflix! Here’s a quick thread to celebrate the tiny details in filmmaking that make th… | Tagged: tweet

RT @copiesofcopies: There are three simple rules for choosing flights out of New York: | Tagged: tweet

I’ve been shoulder surfing the creation of @FlatironSchool’s data science materials. I know its good because I saw like…so…many Greek letters. So you’re either going to learn Greek or a new way to interpret reality. | Tagged: tweet

I’m going to finish @neilhimself ‘s NORSE MYTHOLOGY on my subway ride today and I’ve loved how bouncy and fun they are. He keeps the mythic poetic rhythm & repetition tropes so the myths are familiar AND novel. I recommend! 2️⃣ train is now called Jörmungandr in my head 🐍🌎🐍 | Tagged: tweet

RT @funionnn: Hey everyone I figured out the problems, we forgot to keep putting the Netiquette rules at the top of every website | Tagged: tweet

@DanielBrami1 @NekoCase Vae! Omnes urbes tuae in pulveribus…occiderunt — Anxient Siouxie | Tagged: tweet

RT @AndrewTCollin: A diss track is just two grown men sitting in separate rooms, writing poems about each other. | Tagged: tweet

OK someone’s gotta do it. Who of us is going to bait him into tweeting about “Roseanne?” | Tagged: tweet

Hey my tweets have been all over the place today, but I did want to say this “A Quiet Place” was fundamentally perfect. See it before it leaves theaters. | Tagged: tweet

@timoni 1. Southern Reach 2. Xenocide 3. “Darmok” 4. Watts’ “Blindsight” | Tagged: tweet

I wish there were a bootcamp course for mid-life: geometric proofs, Euclid’s Elements, λ-calculus, Arabian al-Jebr, {Newtonian, quantum} mechanics, growing food, textile production, decision theory, stats, adv. econ, assembly. I agonize around the words “too late.” | Tagged: tweet

@worrydream I do love that Oxbridge / MIT / Harvard 19-29th c. style of typesetting (my copy of Hardy’s _Mathemetician’s Apology; Allen & Greenough’s Latin Grammar) as shown in the Greek and math samples. | Tagged: tweet

Amazing. From being “America’s mayor” on 9/12/2001 to being booed at Yankee stadium. Cronyism hurts legacies, people. | Tagged: tweet

@ChipotleTweets I thought about and I think the reason people steal ‘em is because some customers love the spice. To empty sufficient (for me) smoky Tabasco takes like 200 shakes to fill the dish? Triple that for a bowl. BULK dispensers or big pre-filled dishes for HOT HEADS like me would help! | Tagged: tweet

So wrong. I’d handle the household if she wants to do the career at peak-earner. It’s some sexist-ass stupidity to believe that maintaining the home & family is anything less than a critical role. | Tagged: tweet

Is there anything really exciting happening in tech that doesn’t involve a coin or a block chain that’s really exciting and in need of tons of new practitioners? Where’s the Rails of 2005 for 2018? | Tagged: tweet

@ChipotleTweets If I were to see see < 1 plastic dish worth of Tabasco, and I were to take the bottle, would you still hate me? #AskingForAFriend | Tagged: tweet

When I survived my quarter-life crisis I thought I was an aberration. But as I’ve known more people, esp. in their career-change throes, I can tell you in sum: people are tweaked, nervous, directionless, confused, en masse. Not sure if it’s the industry or the times, but it’s bad | Tagged: tweet

I loved “Annihilation” the movie and just finished the Southern Reach trilogy. I’d recommend it. The third book rewards the slog of the second and suggests a subgenre of affectless xeno-ecotastrophic-lovecraftian horror. | Tagged: tweet

RT @JakeRudh: Happy birthday to the truly original #SiouxsieSioux 🖤 | Tagged: tweet

Post wedding stress dream. I wake up because I was so late to a reception that everyone was mad, missed dinner, and instead had guzzled the liquor, angrily. | Tagged: tweet

RT @radleybalko: It isn’t easy for a man to rip a screaming child away from his mother. Most of us couldn’t do it. This is where “animals”… | Tagged: tweet

Text Internet | May 25 | Tagged: modern_times programming text_internet

I wonder what the GDP productivity hit is due to open-plan offices where people are trying to find music that’s loud enough but not too distracting but peppy but not cloying but can cover the mids of room-based conversation but which doesn’t mean you won’t hear a fire alarm | Tagged: tweet

Come and get me, Japanese fairy butterfly mothership! | Tagged: tweet

Going back to text-mode internet sounds more and more appealing every day. Maybe the French were right with Minitel being sufficient and filling the rest of their lives with delicious food, wine, family, art snobbery, cinéma. | Tagged: tweet

You know the meme punchline image of Leonardo DiCaprio, ebullient, parading through SoHo(?)? Today is a day like that in NYC. If you’ve never been that happy – that winter is over, that the humidity isn’t yet making draining you – you’ve never experienced NYC. | Tagged: tweet

@antiheroine Can’t upvote this enough. @lauren_n_roth and I saw it at during a run at @SymphonySpace and all I want to do is make sure everyone sees it: to celebrate Hedy as well as to show how narrow conceptions of womanhood wrecks lives. | Tagged: tweet

@NekoCase @marthabayne First @NekoCase song I ever heard was Pretty Girls. Later a lyric about a fearless lady pilot. So I’ve known pretty clearly since “blacklisted.” | Tagged: tweet

RT @IL0VEthe80s: 36 years ago this year the Commodore 64 was first revealed at the Consumer Electronics Show, in Las Vegas back in January… | Tagged: tweet

I Loathe Open-Plan Offices | May 24 | Tagged: modern_times work

Perhaps open-plan offices are like capitalism unto communism as detailed by Marx’s model: the necessary Hell-state before unfolding into a glorious future. | Tagged: tweet

Saw a girl on. Roadway this morning wearing the Use Your Illusion double cover shirt. She was the age I was when they came out. | Tagged: tweet

@webtwozero @aviflombaum @robcobbable @emilyst @kodewithklossy Every day we build and tune a machine that, when properly calibrated, has the necessary outcome of paving over all bad learning experiences with focus, approachability, philosophy, and, with any luck, Bauhaus references. | Tagged: tweet

@EricaJoy Searching for my bravery and trying to disentangle me from the system. I know you know this better than I ever will. | Tagged: tweet

I can’t decide whether I’m filled with anger or agreement or despair. | Tagged: tweet

RT @qrush: BY AGE 3,500 YOU SHOULD HAVE BROUGHT PEACE TO THE GALAXY THROUGH CONTROL OF THE SPICE, MERGED LIFEFORMS WITH ANOTHER SPECIES, AN… | Tagged: tweet

@RachelBros We love it. We love you. We love Amy. The Mrs says she saw extras dressed in Maisel fashion in the neighborhood the other day and we were sooooo excited. | Tagged: tweet

RT @TohoKingdom: R.I.P. Yuriko Hoshi (Mothra vs. Godzilla, Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster, Godzilla vs. Megaguirus) Dec 6th, 1943-May… | Tagged: tweet

RT @AlexIsrael: “There is no place like it, no place with an atom of its glory, pride, and exultancy.” –Walt Whitman on New York | Tagged: tweet

Truth: I pronounce “numpy” as if it rhymes with “bumpy.” | Tagged: tweet

Wow, The Dustbowl Revival’s “Got Over” just broke my heart. This playlist needs to come with a warning and a lexapro. | Tagged: tweet

RT @dantoml: grep, sed, awk, and comm are the standard big data tools. | Tagged: tweet

RT @slicingeyeballs: Happy birthday, Andrew Eldritch | Tagged: tweet

Just completed a 7.77 mi run - Back on the wagon pasta-boy. #Runkeeper | Tagged: tweet

RT @BodegaBot: These two ex-Github engineers want to replace bagel shops with the Semantic Web Stack | Tagged: tweet

My peer group, if you’ve not seen @SHO_HAPPYish you are missing something you really need (on Netflix). Beautiful zenith of existential absurdist late-capitalist humor. Kathryn Hahn and Steve Coogan are stellar. | Tagged: tweet

RT @ohgoddickie: Happy mother’s day from the Dune coloring book | Tagged: tweet

@mperham Fudsy-B is my old-school hip-hop alias. | Tagged: tweet

Liz Phair's Classic | May 10 | Tagged: music feminism

Reading about @PhizLair ’s experience of (music) Guyville in the late 90’s reads just like every conversation I’ve had with a woman in software. The Guyville guys sold their Rickeys, moved to SF, and got code jobs with benefits and organic cashew bars. | Tagged: tweet

@ishabazz Shitty keyboards on laptops. They’re going to corner the market. And then they’re going to use this asset and some hitherto unimaginable way. | Tagged: tweet

@rauschma For me it’s staggering for @Apple hardware to go from the machines every developer wanted their company to switch to, to something that every developer wishes they could leave if only WSL + @code integration were slightly better. | Tagged: tweet

Watched Thor 2 and 3. They were both a lot of fun. | Tagged: tweet

Vatican Museum | May 4 | Tagged: modern_times programming wedding travel italy rome

I hung this print for years before leaving home. I knew it was Michaelangelo; and then later studied Heraclitus (whom the figure portrays); but only today I learned he was a last minute addition. Raphael was so moved by what was next door he added his colleague as a necessity. | Tagged: tweet

@gnomeslair So much memories. | Tagged: tweet

Day 7 in Italy. I’m. Kinda. Ready. For. Salad. | Tagged: tweet

Most European Thing ever happened: I heard the water in the electric kettle for my Nescafé bubble over so I sped out of the bathroom and the draft caught a €5 and sent it into the bidet. | Tagged: tweet

It was a pleasure to share my own weird of experience of programming with the world. I hope your learners enjoy discovering Ruby’s malleability on their own. | Tagged: tweet

Honeymoon pro tip: skip a some of the sites and sleep 12 hours. After 6 days our brains are finally in a place where worry-free sleep is possible. 10, 10, and 12 hours thanks to walking & Tuscan sun and wine is a blessing. | Tagged: tweet

In Europe, New Yorkers dress as Europeans; Europeans, in as much NYC / Brooklyn swag as possible. 🤔 | Tagged: tweet

2018: you wake up from a nightmare where you accidentally / imprudently retweeted a dog whistle meme and now find yourself unemployed and vilified. Woke up and scrolled my history to see whether it had been real. | Tagged: tweet

Seen a lotta Python shirts here in Florence. Is python a preferred language of Tuscany? Given what happens to languages that get big here, is there a looming Dante of the dictionary here in the area? | Tagged: tweet

@antiheroine Tho adjacent article was awesome too: | Tagged: tweet

A curse that comes with success - realizing your practices need to formalize and accelerate. | Tagged: tweet

@EricaJoy I now shamelessly rock the surgical mask look on busy subways. | Tagged: tweet

Mobile Upload: Saturday night at The Doge’s House. | April 28 | Tagged: mobile photography wedding travel italy venice

Mobile Upload: About to see Vivaldi (a Venetian) performed in Venice in period costume | April 27 | Tagged: mobile photography wedding travel italy venice

In line at JFK behind many EU passports | Tagged: tweet

Me: …the Hell that is writing without a fountain pen. | Tagged: tweet

Every. Woman. I. Know. In. The. Bay. Says. This. | Tagged: tweet

@linkblaine Wife and I agree, very cute. | Tagged: tweet

1 hr 15 minutes so far to JFK from UWS. Clearly this infrastructure has everything: scale, resilience, delightfully-cologned Persian drivers. | Tagged: tweet

RT @AndrewCrow: On the last @VirginAmerica flight from JFK to SFO. Pictures being taken, everyone is sad. People singing the safety video l… | Tagged: tweet

Mobile Upload: For everyone asking after Byron over the weekend.... | April 24 | Tagged: mobile photography dog travel

It’s a sci-if story about a generation ship but it’s really just a car leaving JFK for the City | Tagged: tweet

RT @mike_sell: An NRA protestor at our high school had a sign that read, “EXPLAIN CHICAGO!” so I told her, yes, the Kander-Ebb tunes posses… | Tagged: tweet

You have never eaten grits until you taste Blakley Kymen’s kitchen’s take on it at Marcello’s in New Orleans. Served at my wedding and at a tasting about a year ago, it is absolute perfection when paired with shrimp. | Tagged: tweet

Got married yesterday. It’s awesome. She’s amazing. | Tagged: tweet

External Link: Peak New Orleans? | April 20 | Tagged: photography wedding nola travel

Peak New Orleans? | Tagged: tweet

For 21 years I’ve known the Lucinda Williams line about “back in Algiers my darlin’ broke my heart.” In the next hour I will get a marriage license in the same village. | Tagged: tweet

So Michael Schur the runner behind @_TheGoodPlace also owns the rights to “Infinite Jest.” If anyone could do the impossible it might be him in filming it. OTOH I know it’s safe from lesser attempts by lesser directors so if he did it as prophylaxis, thanks. | Tagged: tweet

@NekoCase @FirstAidKitBand @ShempLabs Oh please oh please. Pump in extra oxygen for those pipes | Tagged: tweet

It’s like when NY Phil people busk in the subway and get told “keep practicing!” | Tagged: tweet

@almondmilka That bear is the sweetest. I always wondered what the program was that he nodded off to? “On the Media?” “Prairie Home Companion?” “Learn Spanish in 12 Tapes?” “Bodak Yellow?” | Tagged: tweet

@alicegoldfuss I think some of us have a deep memory. I can remember slights that happened decades ago. I didn’t realize that others don’t have this until recently. They can assume we don’t still smart from it when they see us at pizza hut decades later. | Tagged: tweet

@SaraJChipps We’re at the finish line. Next Saturday the event happens. Will report back. But as far as I can tell the “ bridezilla” phenom. is a reasonable response to having a full time job dumped on you while you stage direct and go broke. | Tagged: tweet

RT @NekoCase: One of my favorite things about Berlin is you see elderly couples dressed like Roxette | Tagged: tweet

RT @PaulMMCooper: You can almost hear the brickmaker shooing away his dog from this clay brick that was used in the building of the Ziggura… | Tagged: tweet

OK Rant time: HOW GOOD IS “THE GHOST WHO WALKS” by @KarenElson_. The pedal steel like falling hammered metal rain; the prosodic genius of the uniformity in “The Birds They Circle” twisting on “secrets in my bones,” “down to the dirt below.” So glad this exists in this timeline. | Tagged: tweet

RT @kinnsyg: Just tried this…………….My wife did mind. | Tagged: tweet

My dog got shots today and it really tires him out. | Tagged: tweet

@EricaJoy Leave your unnecessarily adorned Mac and cheese the Hell at home, Karen. - T’Challa | Tagged: tweet

Fans of Infinite Jest: What do YOU think happens to Hal after the book chronologically ends end? In Arizona. I worry (too much) about Hal; his ailments and how his life goes post-S.T. (@noradio @chadfowler?) | Tagged: tweet

@dastels @garybernhardt @CompSciFact Is there a solid canonical textbook or curriculum for the LC? Studying the LC as continued growth but often find strange assumptions or glosses where repetition would be appreciated. Any recomms? | Tagged: tweet

RT @garybernhardt: My favorite reason to learn a bit about the lambda calculus: it shows us 1) how simple computation is (at first it seems… | Tagged: tweet

This Duane Reade is playing Best Coast signing about SoCal. My fellow New Yorkers are sharpening things and eyeing the speakers. | Tagged: tweet

@iano @SaraJChipps ❤️blessings of love❤️ | Tagged: tweet

@izakaminska Have you ever noticed how SV and Bay Area types use the noun “reality” to describe totally fucked situations? Do a count on how often FB c-suite use it. It’s a tell. Sandberg uses it here too. | Tagged: tweet

@edevfoley Not braggin’ but my team (not including me) once we reach full staffing will be 50-50% at worst with a rotation from another team which will put it 60-40% with woman majority. So. Y’know. #bragging @FlatironSchool | Tagged: tweet

Mobile Upload: The busy bustle of the Coenties heliport, boat bustle of the East River, pedestrians, sweeping clouds. | April 5 | Tagged: mobile photography new_york

@cyberduckapp is a great app. But something’s not right with that duck icon. It’s looking at me…. | Tagged: tweet

JavaScript and English | April 4 | Tagged: modern_times programming linguistics

Maybe Trump will do Amazon a favor and after mocking the PO incessantly, drop the service and let Amazon have a total monopoly. Enjoy that Phyrric victory there, Ace. | Tagged: tweet

If citing the “Pizza, ‘suh; Lasagna, ‘za” sketch is ever wrong, I don’t want to be right. | Tagged: tweet

(I’m of the era that knew VBScript and JS for writing marquees in browser so…) | Tagged: tweet

Excel is the Jupyter notebook of the C-suite. | Tagged: tweet

Flatiron School Expands to Houston | April 3 | Tagged: modern_times programming education

RT @lauren_n_roth: New favorite Turkish place. Harmony Grill on 31st and 8th ave. | Tagged: tweet

Friends in education and/or coding. I’m finding out third hand that you’re applying (or thinking about it) @flatironschool. 🙌 Wherever you are in the process, even if idle musing, let me help. Warm handoffs of great people is my passion. | Tagged: tweet

RT @oldpicsarchive: “Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid… | Tagged: tweet

RT @slicingeyeballs: Watch: The Breeders return to Conan O’Brien’s show after 25 years, play ‘Wait in the Car’ http… | Tagged: tweet

@timoni The bay to breakers course is always awesome. I do it whenever I visit Sf to see how it’s changed. | Tagged: tweet

RT @mikebroberts: Sqlite is an undervalued adhoc analysis tool. I never realized you can give it a CSV file and it will immediately let you… | Tagged: tweet

RSS Should Return! | March 31 | Tagged: modern_times programming

Thesis Sans Revision Control? Agony | March 31 | Tagged: modern_times programming

Hm. I’ve been thinking about writing a script to take the Facebook download and extract it to Jekyll posts…then Exit Facebook | Tagged: tweet

Nine Years Sans Appendix for my Fiancée | March 30 | Tagged: personal

Between the fog, humidity, and preparing halal carts, Wall street is basically a cloud of onion-ness. | Tagged: tweet

It just dawned on me that a measure of Infinite Jest’s achievement is that I could easily imagine character sheets for a table-top RPG set in Boston, Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment. | Tagged: tweet

Shout out to seton hospital and to the appendix that convinced me I was definitely not going to live a life without her happily; we get married next month. :) | Tagged: tweet

Bat for Lashes: "Daniel" | March 29 | Tagged: music

Sun (Ra) Salutation | March 29 | Tagged: music

Mobile Upload: So poignant. Sir McCartney Speaks | March 25 | Tagged: mobile photography

Linux Stockholm Syndrome | March 24 | Tagged: modern_times humor programming

It’s hilarious because it’s true. We’re so Stockholm syndrome we think curses and readline keybindings are deluxe. | Tagged: tweet

Man I’ve been missing the stupidly talented Bill Hader since he kinda took some time away. “Barry” looks great though (still Vinnie Videcchi is a masterpiece). | Tagged: tweet

@dark_shark @NekoCase I’m put in mind of the Bowie invitation of Fripp to Berlin: “Do you want to make dangerous rock-n-roll?” | Tagged: tweet

Today: Finished “Infinite Jest.” I’m still rattling through some of the custody of a certain samizdat, and tying together some characters’ forays, but I’m glad to have read it (and not have to lug it on the subway). | Tagged: tweet

I work for @WeWork but I’ve never worked in a @WeWork. I have to say, if I had my druthers, I’d never work anywhere else. The co-tenants are inspiring, beautiful spaces, surprising conversations. They all keep my brain from stultifying. It’s a new high bar for office space. | Tagged: tweet

Saw Hedy Lamarr doc “Bombshell” at @SymphonySpace. It was really outstanding. It’s so hard to be a woman in tech, but all the more so when one’s seen as a great acquisition by male egos due to beauty. Catch it if you can. | Tagged: tweet

Pivotal Album Gets the Big Boxed Set Treatment: Exile in Guyville | March 17 | Tagged: music

RT @shannon_last: Today I saw a Honda Odyssey with ILIAD on the license plate. It made my day. | Tagged: tweet

The Algorithm | March 16 | Tagged: modern_times programming

RT @svershbow: Date someone who wants to leave for the airport as far in advance as you do. | Tagged: tweet

RT @antiheroine: This seems as good a time as any to share that, as of next Monday, I’ll be joining the curriculum team at @FlatironSchool.… | Tagged: tweet

“Steven!” Yelled the amazing woman in the @WeWork kitchen on the 27th floor. 3 years ago I had had a hand in her programming education. She’s now working through a thorny code upgrade process at a company on the same floor. Amazing people in this location! <3 | Tagged: tweet

Just so much opportunity @FlatironSchool. If you really love tech and want to do educate people in a new model, you should really work with us. Community builders, curriculum writers, marketers, curators of better lives….hmu. | Tagged: tweet

Mobile Upload: Snow whorls downtown. | March 13 | Tagged: mobile photography new_york

When I was listening to @NuShoozMusic “I Can’t Wait” on “Nick Rocks,” if you’d told me I’d be listening to it while watching helicopters land from an office in NYC on the 27th floor, I’d have thought you bonkers. But… | Tagged: tweet

Fitting Room Urban Legend: A man comes in with the max # of items, tries them on, brings them out in a heap without hangars. He is asked to hang his items. He plays the “never in my life” card. Attendant: “First time for everything, I guess.” | Tagged: tweet

Non-Hispanic White Male here who wants to promote @netflix ’s @OneDayAtATime. The stories are timeless and abuelita is pure hilarity. It’s tender, sincere, real, and loving. I love this show so much. | Tagged: tweet

My dog ran up to a homeless person and gave hugs and attention. She then saw him sit outside a deli because he wanted a sandwich. I told her this. She shook her coin cup to count out enough for him. I had to insist no, but thanks. A little love makes the world better. | Tagged: tweet

Quick Reminder: In this timeline we have Kate Bush’s “Hounds of Love.” | Tagged: tweet

@johnregehr “Who can quote passages from mid-seventies Prog-era through “Signals” Rush with the accuracy of a Replicant and the precision of a flux capacitor” would have only narrowed it slightly more awkwardly. | Tagged: tweet

55% Infinte Jest. I hope my favorite character stays my favorite. | Tagged: tweet

The Music, the Mystery of P.M. Dawn | February 28 | Tagged: music

In the biopic for the life of Serge Gainsbourg, only Jessica Paré will do for playing Jane Birkin. | Tagged: tweet

Mobile Upload: Maybe west-siders are a target market... | February 25 | Tagged: mobile photography animals new_york

Black urban beekeeping | February 24 | Tagged: animals

Year of the Purdue Wonderpill | February 24 | Tagged: modern_times politics

@hayesdavis Ignore these amateurs. If you want to plumb the abyss of misery, try Lou Reed’s “The Kids” from “Berlin.” | Tagged: tweet

Mobile Upload: Probably the last snow of the season...but I love it still. | February 17 | Tagged: mobile photography new_york

Absent a President with Eloquence or Tact... | February 16 | Tagged: anti_trump politics

Your unwillingness to enact sensible gun control means that this Good Boy has to comfort grief-stricken teens instead of smelling trees and gettting belly-rubs. Fuck the NRA AND THEIR CRAVEN QUISLINGS. | Tagged: tweet

“He’s a connoisseur of anger, …he senses a prelude to their anger about a lot more…‘It’s not Me Too. It’s…an anti-patriarchy movement. Time’s up on 10,000 years of recorded history. This is coming. This is real.’” | Tagged: tweet

The “Joelle and has Too Much Fun” section of Infinite Jest may be my new favorite section of a book ever. So much going on… | Tagged: tweet

RT @mcclure111: TFW your monotheistic God is actually just three polytheistic gods hiding in a raincoat | Tagged: tweet

My Favorite "This American Life" Ever | February 8 | Tagged: entertainment radio art

Moving Efficiently on the Command Line | February 6 | Tagged: modern_times programming unix

::cosmic mind:: all the vendors use excel so make life easy by using sheets or excel | Tagged: tweet

Eleanor | February 4 | Tagged: modern_times programming travel woodstock

RT @mattsebastian: I’m old enough to remember when Best Buy was a CD store that also carried computers and refrigerators | Tagged: tweet

Mobile Upload: Hiking near Woodstock, view of the Hudson. | February 3 | Tagged: mobile photography travel woodstock

Nerd achievement unlocked: streak 30 days of NYTimes crossword; solo, no external help. | Tagged: tweet

That feeling when you ask something on Stack Overflow and don’t get flamed into oblivion and you think “Huh, maybe something isn’t /quite/ right after all and I’m not a complete idiot faker loser dirty little pig boy (or girl).” | Tagged: tweet

@Noahpinion The soccer fields where I learned soccer and was first exposed to Mexican culture, 30 years on now has a cricket pitch on it as well: Houston. | Tagged: tweet

Mobile Upload: Turn your sound on for poodle snoring. | January 28 | Tagged: mobile photography

RT @JEG2: When you adopt a framework like Rails, you’re agreeing to let other developers manage some of your concerns. | Tagged: tweet

RT @lauren_n_roth: Planning verse and prose for a wedding ceremony is a sure trigger for tears. | Tagged: tweet

@gobslapped It’s the piping of that data to vim that destabilizes the terminal. The -o in xargs keeps it sane. | Tagged: tweet

Life-Changing Use of xargs | January 25 | Tagged: modern_times programming unix

RT @bowiesongs: one of the great coincidences of the 20th C: Ursula Le Guin and Philip K Dick went to the same high school, at the same tim… | Tagged: tweet

Talking Heads Never Saw This Coming | January 18 | Tagged: music art

Worf teaches most of what you need to know about Nietzsche in his discourse on the Klingon tea ceremony: | Tagged: tweet

The first book I completed of 2018 was “This Spake Zarathustra.” What a work. Maddening and dense and hopeful and baffling. I harvested a ton of great quotes. | Tagged: tweet

RT @mlroach: “Why don’t any senior engineers apply here?!” | Tagged: tweet

The @Petco At Columbus center on the #uws is closing. Yesterday we walked in to @flo_tweet ‘s “The Dog Days Are Over” playing. | Tagged: tweet

Every time I start a new job I burn too hot too short and get sick about week 3. | Tagged: tweet

HAWAII. Couple at a silent, awkward breakfast: | Tagged: tweet

Quantum Computer: Beautiful | January 11 | Tagged: modern_times programming art

Smart People: Point Blank in their Honesty | January 10 | Tagged: modern_times programming

Mobile Upload: Byron is Famous at Work | January 10 | Tagged: mobile photography

Teens Aren't Partying | January 8 | Tagged: modern_times society

Mobile Upload: It’s really odd to say this | January 6 | Tagged: anti_trump politics

Mobile Upload: The Hudson is still. That is not normal | January 6 | Tagged: mobile photography new_york

@lauren_n_roth found a beautiful and powerful part of “Lady Bird’s” plot mechanics. It’s like the coming of age mounts for 95% and then bursts forth like a dammed river. ❤️ | Tagged: tweet

Silicon Valley is beyond irony. It’s approaching the Trump valley. | Tagged: tweet

Dressing for Sexual Harassment Hearings | January 5 | Tagged: politics

Maybe Sessions should ask his boss, a hotelier whose grandmother was a hotelier about he lucrative nature of intoxicant sales. | Tagged: tweet

Only perk of Sessions going after pot is, like T. Roosevelt actually enforcing blue laws (alcohol sale outside “hotels” on Sunday), it lead to the clear, legal, and taxed sale of alcohol on Sunday. It also united the German vote against the Democrats in NYC. | Tagged: tweet

Successfully established a style guide point of 80-col width. 2018 is looking up. | Tagged: tweet

RT @GeorgeLakoff: Trump uses social media as a weapon to control the news cycle. It works like a charm. His tweets are tactical rather than… | Tagged: tweet

So AWOLnation are coming to nyc but the tickets are really expensive. I’m going to wait a bit and see if they go on….sale! | Tagged: tweet

California Legalizes Recreational Cannabis | January 2 | Tagged: modern_times drug_war

Recreational Pot Is Officially Legal in California via @NYTimes - every single incarcerated person in for sale or use within these tolerances deserves a purged slate. | Tagged: tweet

2017

Mobile Upload: I made a MAGA-themed Christmas cookie. | December 30 | Tagged: anti_trump politics

On this gentle, snowy day we're playing Lissie's "My Wild West." | December 30 | Tagged: music

Listened to Kwanzaa programming on @WNYC. After a year of great tribulation, the African rhythms and folk tales are calming. Thanks for opening up my ears. | Tagged: tweet

The Phases of Aerobie for Christmas: A Play in 5 Acts | Tagged: tweet

Mobile Upload: Steven Peppermint, 3rd Lord Candycane wishes a Happy Christmas to all in Her Majesty’s Overseas offices. | December 25 | Tagged: mobile photography new_york personal

Mobile Upload: Santa been bringing apple and orange and nuts since as long as I can remember | December 25 | Tagged: mobile photography christmas new_york

Most powerful musical rest since “Knock on Wood” and the opening of Beethoven’s 5th | Tagged: tweet

RT @isilitke: Werner Herzog voice | Tagged: tweet

Many nights I wake up 45-90 minutes after sleep with the urge to kick my legs uncontrollably. Remedies seem to be magnesium and peanut butter. Any ideas what this is. Worse when stressed. | Tagged: tweet

I hope Santa brings that copy of “Thus Spake Zarathustra” I requested for Christmas. | Tagged: tweet

Work highlight: finding the #dogs Slack channel and introducing the team to Byron. | Tagged: tweet

Everyone’s shitting on 2017, fair enough. But I’m down at least 1000% on hearings of “Hey there, Delilah.” #takethewin | Tagged: tweet

When you are swooning over the lovely romantic songs of @KITTENTHEBAND but then find out @Chlochai is 17 and you are much, much older. | Tagged: tweet

I get why George Lucas gave it up. | Tagged: tweet

I can order a car on demand, dozens of cuisines, chat with people in Australia. But to get a pass in a Battery-area office building I must wait in line with a letterhead as approval. You thinking what I’m thinking? BLOCKCHAIN 2 THA RESCUE. | Tagged: tweet

@kenkeiter @sarahmei Stark is an MIT guy: its in Lisp. Now Spideys suit….hackathon writ so, Python (also hackable by a boy in a chair (rahhhhhhh)) | Tagged: tweet

I was so busy yesterday that I forgot to tweet that I’m thrilled to have joined the team at @FlatironSchool as curriculum team manager. Day 1 included reviewing reducer code, talking rogue bitcoin harvesting, and admiring Black Thought’s breath control with @aviflombaum. | Tagged: tweet

Dude just ordered a “mescaline” salad. Mesclún, my dude. | Tagged: tweet

SNL: "Spelling Bee" | December 17 | Tagged: humor

FCC Sellout by Ajit Pai | December 15 | Tagged: anti_trump politics

Fence-Hopping Byron | December 13 | Tagged: modern_times programming dog

#fullfrontallive #samanthabee show with @lauren_n_roth. Time to see the evisceration in person. #perchselfie | Tagged: tweet

@questlove WOW! Your “roots” with Dr. Gates was so moving, so profound, and so cruel. Hearing about the Clothilde reminded me of the bet at the center of “Trading Places:”? childish, ignorant, destructive, and cavalier. Shameful history but a powerful story. | Tagged: tweet

So, nerd, you’re gonna go back in time and use your superior technology to (with any luck) escape to Baghdad or somewhere civilized from “Christendom?” About as likely as irrational-based measurement leaving the US. | Tagged: tweet

Mobile Upload: It started like this. | December 9 | Tagged: mobile photography

Starving Polar Bears | December 9 | Tagged: science animals anti_trump

End of DBC | December 9 | Tagged: modern_times programming dbc

Met an amazing woman studying Python and Data Science solo. She’s Oracle-certified, Unix strong, worked for multiple Big Banks. She’s nervous about tech interview & learning wrong tech. IMO she has a huge edge but is still nervous. Retraining might be the next phase of bootcamp. | Tagged: tweet

First snow is magical. It’s kinda wet and all, but Manhattan feels 80% quieter. | Tagged: tweet

@alycit Feeling was mutual. I think my experience was that I had given so much I needed to refill the pool. I also wrote down all the things I wished to have time to do Looking back now, I did quite a few! It helped me feel like I got better each day. | Tagged: tweet

All Confederate monuments must be removed. | Tagged: tweet

@alycit I recommend giving this feeling tons of time. I also (sorry?) disconnected from the ecosystem. I didn’t want to reminisce or trade what-ifs. I signed up for coursera courses. I wrote fun code, fixed my home tech-life and let my sole soul guide me to when I ought emerge. | Tagged: tweet

Farewell to my friends winding down @devbootcamp today. I was glad to receive a special Christmas ornament. | Tagged: tweet

Oral Traditions Record Sea Rise | December 8 | Tagged: science linguistics

California | December 7 | Tagged: california

@SaraJChipps @PBS @jewelbots To be clear, I miss the BBS’, not teens. I mean, they’re alright and all, but y’know, I don’t need their angst on top of my own. | Tagged: tweet

Things it is not := { “Terri Garr”, “Terrycloth” } | Tagged: tweet

I love “Actors on Actors” on YouTube. Add this: document.getElementsByTagName(“video”)[0].playbackRate = 2.25 in the console. Very helpful. | Tagged: tweet

RT @alycit: Two days left of this beautiful and amazing place we created. This sentiment rings so true right now. We are what made @devbo… | Tagged: tweet

Fear an old man in a discipline where men usually die young.“California, the place where anything was possible, has become the place where nothing is affordable.” – Didion-esque | Tagged: tweet

How the Index Card Cataloged the World | December 5 | Tagged: modern_times programming

Doki Doki Whiteboarding Interview Club | Tagged: tweet

Changing Mores on Psychedelics | December 4 | Tagged: modern_times politics

Episode 106 of #MrsMaisel is brilliant. Alex Borstein and @RachieBros just told such a beautiful story. It’s the “Gilmore” grade magic. | Tagged: tweet

@fbz I do! Those were so great. I liked Land of Lisp for a similar reason. Something magical about transcribing code to make things run. | Tagged: tweet

RT @lauren_n_roth: If you want a pure antidote to everything terrible in the world, watch The Fabulous Mrs. Maisel. It’s so wonderful. | Tagged: tweet

RT @DrAndrewThaler: Folks, I think we need to start coming to terms with the idea that the rapture happened and only David Bowie and Prince… | Tagged: tweet

@lissiemusic Cannot wait for “Castles.” Where does the Ojai girl after she finds her own Wild West? Definitely getting the vinyl. | Tagged: tweet

Goddammit when I say I want Trance I want Trance. I don’t want House, I don’t want Deep House, I don’t want Vocal House, I want some goddam Trance #20inthe90sineruope | Tagged: tweet

What Etruscan Sounded Like | November 30 | Tagged: modern_times programming

RT @VK_HM: The reason Frasier is so popular with millennials is that he basically hosts a podcast and is always alone | Tagged: tweet

RT @pt: Silicon Valley, where we celebrate the 80 hour workweek & the four hour workweek, but consider everything in between a life of quie… | Tagged: tweet

If @Apple were trying to tell Serious Developers (tm) that they don’t give a fig about the Mac except as a platform for writing iOS apps, leaving a gaping root exploit is a good way to say “Thank you, we’re through.” Wide open door, @Microsoft. | Tagged: tweet

RT @GPollowitz: Prince Harry’s kids will be Americans. What if one grows up to be president and is in line for the throne at the same time?… | Tagged: tweet

Mobile Upload: The 45th President of these United States: secure in his identity, steady in his leadership. | November 27 | Tagged: anti_trump politics

I really dug “Girls Trip.” I’ve been a fan of @TiffanyHaddish since I heard about her great charity work on @unqualified. @ReginaKing was wonderful, @IAMQUEENLATIFAH too. Also really dug @jadapsmith ’s character going from very pent up to very misbehaving. Very funny! | Tagged: tweet

Cupsouls | November 26 | Tagged: video_games

Beautiful Re-Release: Okami | November 26 | Tagged: video_games

Open Laptops Inhibit Learning | November 25 | Tagged: education

Byron B&W | November 25 | Tagged: photography dog

Fall With Groomed Dog | November 25 | Tagged: photography dog new_york

Mobile Upload: Byron After Grooming | November 25 | Tagged: mobile photography dog new_york

Former boot-camp teacher here: students with a good pen and an overflowing notebook performed better, consistently b/c they never confused “learning the magic words to type” with “learning.” | Tagged: tweet

RT @HistoricalPics: Chevy Chase in the late 1970’s in between a food fight. | Tagged: tweet

One of the more surreal moments of my life, as I reflect on it, was my 7th grade science class reading a script to “WKRP in Cincinnatti” where Johnny Fever gets hooked on uppers in our anti-drug week. How did that deal get done? | Tagged: tweet

GYRO | November 23 | Tagged: modern_times programming

@btaylor My future mother in law, a Midwesterner, has an audible comma after “Alexa” as if Alexa might once say “one moment please.” | Tagged: tweet

Screens and Teens | November 22 | Tagged: modern_times programming

FCC Net Neutrality Policy Changes | November 21 | Tagged: modern_times programming

@NekoCase @TMobile @ATT Neko Case: voice that can fill a canyon, wireless connectivity troubleshooter, community organizer, visual artist. | Tagged: tweet

Proof you're awful: Elephant Hunting | November 19 | Tagged: anti_trump politics

Honestly the Americanness of Queens is the best part of Spider Man: Homecoming. | Tagged: tweet

“You know @mattbaker could convincingly play Jim Henson in a biopic,” I thought upon leaving the exhibit at the Museum of th Moving Image. | Tagged: tweet

Mobile Upload: When you meet a nightmare | November 18 | Tagged: mobile photography movies new_york

I’m about to start “Infinite Jest.” Any tips? Skip the footnotes? Pause narrative, read footnotes and hop back? Maximum page count per diem recommendation? | Tagged: tweet

More Alan Kay | November 16 | Tagged: modern_times programming

Preview of American Fascism | November 16 | Tagged: modern_times programming politics

Lawrence Fishburne on @nerdist is 🔥🔥. Reagan, Latin education, Black culture + filmmaking + rise of hip-hop, lack of humanities, praise of no-nothingism, “self-revealing versus self-reflecting” cultures. Give it 6 minutes from this timepoint: | Tagged: tweet

Going to see the exhibition on “The Dark Crystal” at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria on Saturday. You can do amazing stuff all the time in #NYC. If any of my tweeps are interested LMK. | Tagged: tweet

Life Doesn't Make Narrative Sense | November 14 | Tagged: music television

This time of year, New Yorkers could really use kotatsu. | Tagged: tweet

RT @captainsafia: Take: People don’t miss Google Reader, they miss the ability to curate their content consumption without the invasive nat… | Tagged: tweet

Nietzsche: ““If this writing be obscure to any individual, and jar on his ears, I do not think that it is necessarily I who am to blame” | Tagged: tweet

Windows Returns as a Platform for Web Development Again | November 12 | Tagged: programming productivity

RT @samim: “The Case For RSS”: RSS needs a comeback. Twitter is basically a glorified realtime RSS reader. | Tagged: tweet

Mobile Upload: An early cold snap. Took the parka for a test run to the wine shop with Byron. | November 11 | Tagged: mobile photography

In these times I am thankful for the creativity and brilliance of @nbcthegoodplace, it’s writing, @IMKristenBell ’s subtlety, @DarcyCarden ’s interpretation and all the myriad of moments the entire cast and writers bring. | Tagged: tweet

@DarcyCarden you are amazing. | Tagged: tweet

@FirstAidKitBand I believe you were born to endure this kind of weather. | Tagged: tweet

Uma Thurman on Sexual Bullying | November 6 | Tagged: modern_times

Greta Gerwig: Auteur | November 6 | Tagged: movies

Mobile Upload: Oddly, there's a correlation between NRA donations and the superstition that #thoughtsandprayers fix a thing. | November 6 | Tagged: anti_trump politics

“Her T’s are shiny and bright, like the ringing of a hand bell.” | Tagged: tweet

The great joy of introducing an adult to Django Reinhardt. | Tagged: tweet

Superstition is a technology too. #zomg | Tagged: tweet

@goldman Orkut will always be a success to me. Met @lauren_n_roth on it. Nuptials next year. | Tagged: tweet

Just installed a 1TB SSD into my dead and forgotten in the closet 2011 Mac Mini. The beast rides again (zippy & silently). | Tagged: tweet

At this point my retirement plan is to buy some Michigan land with water now while I have some cash and to live best I can of what i grow. | Tagged: tweet

Kids think they’re gettin’ candy tonight when their parents computers are gettin’ my root kit. | Tagged: tweet

Mobile Upload: 'Tish and Gomez wish you a spectacular Halloween | November 1 | Tagged: mobile photography

Dark Souls and Nietzschean Philosophy | October 31 | Tagged: philosophy video_games

RT @newtgingrich: Robert Mueller is superb choice to be special counsel. His reputation is impeccable for honesty and integrity. Media shou… | Tagged: tweet

When you aren’t sure if you’re on a familiar block because a scaffold has (dis-)appeared, seemingly instantaneously #nyc | Tagged: tweet

That break in “Kiss them for Me” where they do the Indian voices. #siouxsieforever | Tagged: tweet

RT @ohen39: wife: I just got stung by a jellyfish. quick, pee on it me: [peeing on jellyfish] this is for stinging my wife | Tagged: tweet

Review Hyatt Regency New Orleans | October 26 | Tagged: travel wedding personal

External Link: Portraying Authors | October 25 | Tagged: authors

Keeping Context With Tmux and Digital Ocean | October 24 | Tagged: productivity tmux

New Blog Post: Remove the Symbols of the Confederacy: | Tagged: tweet

Remove the Symbols of the Confederacy | October 23 | Tagged: history southern_gothic personal

@Brooklynology @rowmyboat Follow Up: Found my g-g-ma buying the property where her husband’s saloon (for which he was protested!) stood in W’burg(h) | Tagged: tweet

Reflections on a Year of Engagement | October 20 | Tagged: personal engagement

The Purple Light and New York Weddings | October 20 | Tagged: personal wedding nyc new_york

Mobile Upload: My 4th Great-Grandmother's Deed | October 19 | Tagged: mobile photography

Mobile Upload: Engagement shoot in the French quarter | October 18 | Tagged: mobile photography travel wedding

Zipcar: A Lesson in Confusing Customers | October 18 | Tagged: personal travelogue

Mobile Upload: The sanest place in the French Quarter. Strong AC and peaceful. | October 15 | Tagged: mobile photography travel nola wedding

@mattwhitlockPM @kurt_loder Young Beignet here to rep the 504. | Tagged: tweet

Mobile Upload: Dogs of New Orleans play pool | October 14 | Tagged: mobile photography nola wedding travel

Mobile Upload: Astro hangs out at our florist. | October 12 | Tagged: mobile photography nola wedding

Mobile Upload: Byron in a Coffee-table Book | October 10 | Tagged: mobile photography new_york

Mobile Upload: If they were laughing at us before... | October 10 | Tagged: anti_trump politics

Coursera is the UDP of education. | Tagged: tweet

Mobile Upload: #wokeuplikethis | October 6 | Tagged: mobile photography dog

Smuggled White Nationalism | October 6 | Tagged: anti_trump politics

i dream to bathe in a barrel of magnesium fire. | Tagged: tweet

Farewell Tom Petty | October 5 | Tagged: music rip

The last 2 minutes of Portishead’s “Wandering Stars”…and the previous 3 minutes, too. | Tagged: tweet

Debugging JavaScript Power Tools | October 4 | Tagged: modern_times programming

@triketora Why do they have to get jazzy with the sirens? Bop de Bwap boop a beeeeee booooo beeeee boooo ba ba bar bar bar Barbara ann beeee booooo | Tagged: tweet

Nine Rounds a Second | October 3 | Tagged: modern_times politics

@FirstAidKitBand You two are a gift. I remember Pandora (early days) serving you two up and it was a gift in my SF winters with my gf; soon to be my wife :) | Tagged: tweet

RT @SaraJChipps: Today has made me appreciate how good Obama (as president) was at comforting a grieving nation. | Tagged: tweet

Lotta babies were made to tom petty; or after that one extra beer you had because his music felt so nice on such a pretty day. | Tagged: tweet

RIP Tom Petty | October 2 | Tagged: music rip

Serj Solo | October 2 | Tagged: music

Mobile Upload: My country loves the ability to own automatic weapons more than it hates to watch real-life "Hunger Games." | October 2 | Tagged: mobile photography

My upbringing included the following phrase which I can’t stop thinking about today: Eloi Eloi lama sabachthani | Tagged: tweet

The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity. - Yeats | Tagged: tweet

The Buried Complexity of Software | September 30 | Tagged: modern_times programming

Errors Inhibiting Complex Software | September 30 | Tagged: software leadership programming

Mobile Upload: VC Conference OR Kid Pick-Up at Palo Alto High? | September 30 | Tagged: mobile photography

Guide to Developing Chrome Context Menu Applications Part 5 | September 27 | Tagged: programming javascript google_chrome

Guide to Developing Chrome Context Menu Applications Part 4 | September 27 | Tagged: programming javascript google_chrome

Guide to Developing Chrome Context Menu Applications Part 3 | September 27 | Tagged: programming javascript google_chrome

Guide to Developing Chrome Context Menu Applications Part 2 | September 27 | Tagged: programming javascript google_chrome

Guide to Developing Chrome Context Menu Applications Part 1 | September 27 | Tagged: programming javascript google_chrome

Guide to Developing Chrome Context-Menu Applications | September 26 | Tagged: programming javascript google_chrome

In my mind Aiden Gillen plays John Cale (“Drella” era) in the biopic | Tagged: tweet

Remember it’s all jokes and fun for boys until it isn’t. Beautiful smiling youngsters enacting hate with laughter. | Tagged: tweet

Where’s the biopic for Dorothy Ashby cc:@questlove | Tagged: tweet

Latin | September 22 | Tagged: latin

Migrating From Octopress 2 to Octopress 3 | September 20 | Tagged: technology blogging ruby

RT @goosemangus: Totally hypnotized by the amazing @Maisie_Williams pulling off this ridiculous dagger move!! | Tagged: tweet

Beautiful "New Yorker" Cover | September 19 | Tagged: media new_york

This week’s “New Yorker” digital edition’s cover is beautifully enhanced with animation of leaves. | Tagged: tweet

The awkward time of year when McSweeny’s class white people have to decide if it’s too early to share the “decorative gourd season” article. | Tagged: tweet

Hiatus Projects | September 18 | Tagged: personal

So, I'm Not Working | September 18 | Tagged: personal dbc

Book Notes Extraction: A Mind at Play | September 18 | Tagged: books

Blog: So, I’m Not Working: | Tagged: tweet

@garybernhardt : 3 dozen Teslas pull up to Palo Alto High : “Oh are we on a board together and they moved the meeting here? Oh you read the tweet too LOL!” | Tagged: tweet

Michael Cera is so nice every tribe is willing to let him in. And I gotta say, he’s kinda killin’ the Pauly D hair. | Tagged: tweet

I asked her to marry me. Proof of the love: designing the Capfile to deploy our wedding app. | Tagged: tweet

Mobile Upload: Edward "Winnipeg, Winnie-the-Pooh" Bear is a New Yorker. | September 16 | Tagged: mobile photography new_york

Chrome Extension: amaJSON: Export Notes From Kindle Books as JSON | September 14 | Tagged: javascript programming productivity

Chrome extension to extract your Kindle notes / annotations out of Amazon and into beautiful JSON. | Tagged: tweet

RT @WritNelson: When your job is creative and your side projects are creative and the things you do to relax from both are also creative-re… | Tagged: tweet

Bowie: Space alien, knower of “Fashion”, occasional chooser of dull shirts. If he can swing to brilliance AND failure, so can you. | Tagged: tweet

After Catastrophic Hurricane... | September 12 | Tagged: modern_times

Returning to the Site | September 12 | Tagged: personal

White Supremacists Love Nietzsche but Nietzsche Would Hate White Supremacists | September 12 | Tagged: philosophy

RT @hunterroseeee: “Girls don’t mature faster than boys, they’re just groomed earlier for sexual consumption and physical /emotional labour… | Tagged: tweet

Grace in the Face of Hatred | September 10 | Tagged: anti_trump politics

@marthakelly Monkey Island I; Indy jones / Atlantis; Space Quest IV; Sam & Max | Tagged: tweet

Infowars "reporter" Mocked by Young Girl | September 9 | Tagged: anti_trump politics

Debbie Harry Forever | September 8 | Tagged: music programming

We have a Zojirushi rice cooker. When cleaning up I take the leftovers and mush them into small balls that I call “Mifunes.” #kurosawasan | Tagged: tweet

Jury duty tomorrow. Proud to serve my fellow citizens of the Empire State. 🗽🤔🤝 | Tagged: tweet

Hurricane Music | September 6 | Tagged: music

Conor Oberst's "A Little Uncanny" | September 6 | Tagged: music

Something about Septermber and “Floodland.” | Tagged: tweet

Girl Finds Sword in Cornish Lake | September 5 | Tagged: modern_times humor

“This is currently undocumented but easily understood by reading the source.” Advice: Add a period after the 4th word, delete to end. | Tagged: tweet

Politics of Partition | September 4 | Tagged: politics humor

There was whisky, tender flesh in tawdry costume, dancing, diabolical violins, “Happy Birthday,” a boat close hauled. | Tagged: tweet

Must be fall on the East Coast: heard Guster through open windows at a bar. | Tagged: tweet

Mobile Upload: Out for an Evening Sail | September 1 | Tagged: mobile photography music new_york

“And in all of the west lands the voice of the water, with her eternal disasters is feared, and heard” - H. Marsman; Dutch poet; died at sea | Tagged: tweet

Strongbad Nostalgia | August 29 | Tagged: modern_times programming

@BCAppelbaum It’s been 20+ years since I left Houston but I know “Mattress” Mack 1) will save me moneeeeyyyy and 2) is a fine philanthropist and human. | Tagged: tweet

In my unemployment I’m writing C and Lisp and Python everyday. And I can’t help thinking I see a different bootcamp in between the ; and ()s | Tagged: tweet

If only we had stopped the Internet at the brothers Chaps…..it got no better. | Tagged: tweet

Mobile Upload: TGIF from Byron! | August 26 | Tagged: mobile dog photography

I never anticipated how much @rushtheband ’s “The Trees” (1978) would prepare me for life in the 2017. | Tagged: tweet

Mobile Upload: No A/C, no job, run with Byron, late summer hiatus | August 24 | Tagged: mobile photography

Erin Rae | August 24 | Tagged: music

If you think a statue of a mounted Grant guiding bayonets into rebels is in bad taste, you should get why Confederate monuments are too. | Tagged: tweet

RT @sigridellis: My son was at his blacksmithing camp yesterday. He came home with a knife “forged in the dark of an eclipse.” | Tagged: tweet

I had a lot about Civil War monuments. Here’s one for the morally correct view: THE UNION. | Tagged: tweet

@altclassic One of the best records of the 90’s; one of the best concerts of my life (Utrecht, ‘98): an opening scratch battle that awed… | Tagged: tweet

University of Texas Mothballs Statues | August 21 | Tagged: personal

W145th : 12:30 pm: threat of la chancla deployed to vicious effectiveness. Acting like fools stopped for a 3 block radius. | Tagged: tweet

There is a town in Texas whose name, if you google it, shows you a picture of an Applebee’s. | Tagged: tweet

I love “@Atypical” on Netflix. Such wonderful acting and a tender script and autism reality. So good. And WE LOVE PAIGE! | Tagged: tweet

Mobile Upload: Humid Run | August 18 | Tagged: mobile photography new_york

Willpower Doesn't Work, Here's How to Actually Change | August 18 | Tagged: modern_times programming career

Mobile Upload: Did the AncestryDNA for my birthday | August 18 | Tagged: personal

In SF, I often saw femme-projecting women ignored, marginalized, mocked, minimized or set aside. | Tagged: tweet

RT @TheEconomist: Donald Trump is politically inept, morally barren and temperamentally unfit for office | Tagged: tweet

@JohnLegere, CEO, rocks @TMobile magenta everywhere all the time. His employees know he is always selling their team’s work. | Tagged: tweet

Mobile Upload: Byron in sunlight channels Richard Gere "American Gigolo." | August 16 | Tagged: mobile dog photography

Mobile Upload: "us" | August 15 | Tagged: mobile photography

A Moment for Stoicism | August 15 | Tagged: anti_trump politics philosophy

Claude Shannon: Inventor of Information | August 15 | Tagged: science programming

@avdi I’m actually doing the cracking the coding interview tasks in Lisp and I feel it - even if I can’t yet harness it… | Tagged: tweet

Charlottesville Rally | August 13 | Tagged: anti_trump politics

Charlottesville Is What Trump Promised | August 13 | Tagged: anti_trump politics

Mobile Upload: Guess who "buried" his prized headless hedgehog baby in the decor pillow lair? | August 13 | Tagged: mobile photography dog

RT @mzbitca: the president has taken a harsher stance on Kristen Stewart cheating on Rob Pattinson than he has neo nazi marches and violence | Tagged: tweet

The Ghastly Attack on Protesters | August 12 | Tagged: modern_times

War movies are interesting: “Pvt. Ryan” made life seem cheap meat to slaughter; “Dunkirk” conveys that every one is dear and afraid. | Tagged: tweet

Mobile Upload: Thanks for all the birthday wishes | August 10 | Tagged: mobile photography personal dog

@sarahmei I’ve been told we’re called Xennials. | Tagged: tweet

FUCK “The Kingsman” which made anal sex with a princess a prize as a stupid and unnecessary joke — ruining the whole vibe of the thing. | Tagged: tweet

Rewind: Bacall and High Point Decaf Coffee | August 6 | Tagged: entertainment

I wore pants in #nyc today. Let’s get that fall on. | Tagged: tweet

RT @CodyBrown: For many entry level engineering jobs at Google, you get kids w/ a CS degree from MIT and a Gender Studies minor from Reddit. | Tagged: tweet

BTW: the scientists we hope are not making Skynet / F’stein’s monster have the same level of humanities education as Google Memo Guy. #hosed | Tagged: tweet

Bet: Google Memo Guy guy thought his liberal arts requirements were “a waste” because he’s “logical.” | Tagged: tweet

RT @BFriedmanDC: “The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” | Tagged: tweet

@kamrinklauschie Reading about Lisp: “s-expression.” Sounds like a Prince song title. | Tagged: tweet

Mobile Upload: Jazz Club Around the Way | August 5 | Tagged: new_york dog

RT @hoverbird: @noradio @sayrer @iano getting a fresh made turkey club at 4am | Tagged: tweet

Bearing the Cross and Wrapped in a Flag | August 4 | Tagged: modern_times

RT @girlziplocked: The myth of male immaturity is a social construct. It’s a way for men to get away with disavowing the consequences for e… | Tagged: tweet

Donald Trump Can't Close Deal: Failing Salesman | July 30 | Tagged: anti_trump politics

The Glory of the Octopus | July 30 | Tagged: animals

Pity Which Nation? | July 28 | Tagged: anti_trump politics

@cwshevlin @devbootcamp It was you that did the most! The teachers second. I’m glad to have played a part though. | Tagged: tweet

People: I have low levels of b12 and vitamin D. Anyone else suffer with this / have a solution? | Tagged: tweet

Taking my dog to groomers, I passed today’s shoot and saw the “Mrs Meisel” lettering and am now so excited for more @RachieBros as Midge. | Tagged: tweet

External Link: https://t.co/j2j8Tb1uYt | July 23 | Tagged: modern_times programming

I’m sure she has sore muscles, a bad day, a cold, etc. but we never hear of her failing to be Diana Prince. It’s work I want to recognize. | Tagged: tweet

NYC needs to get over itself re: summer. Suits in the subway with the heat we had today!? With global warming this is just the start. | Tagged: tweet

Waiting for dental appointment in Manhattan and HGTV host used the phrase “suburb of Waco.” Tempus fugit. | Tagged: tweet

Sperm Whales, Sleeping | July 16 | Tagged: animals

Cold open to steady string of bass quarter notes: “Psycho Killer” or “Hardest Button to Button?” T’would be a stellar mashup. | Tagged: tweet

One of the more humorous experiences one can have is hearing @escaping_mind meep @maroon5 ’s “Animals” as Beaker the Muppet. | Tagged: tweet

RT @JenAshleyWright: Donald Trump Jr., at 39, is being called a kid. | Tagged: tweet

Music: Allie X | July 13 | Tagged: music programming

When you’re in a transitional moment in life and then you discover that Sia has a new record. 🔥 | Tagged: tweet

Wow @alliex sounds like Emmylou Harris washed in electropop on this one: | Tagged: tweet

Another Beautiful Thing We Ruined | July 10 | Tagged: modern_times

Coffee in Montreal | July 10 | Tagged: travel

@JimDedman Mile End, Montreal, Quebec, Canada | Tagged: tweet

Said @escaping_mind : Montreal is like if French people built Austin (yep: 6th street plus boot stores). | Tagged: tweet

Mobile Upload: New Yorkers getting drenched. | July 7 | Tagged: mobile photography new_york

New York in the 70s Series at FilmForum | July 7 | Tagged: film

Gonna buy a French “Valérian et Laureline” whilst in Montreal. | Tagged: tweet

“Indiana Jones and the ‘it belongs in a museum’ speech for a culture-robbing, eschatological death-cult called … Hobby Lobby” | Tagged: tweet

Matte Manhattan | July 5 | Tagged: mobile photography

Watched “Taxi” S1E3 which featured Angela, for whom their iconic theme “Angela” was composed. | Tagged: tweet

Ticks | June 29 | Tagged: animals health

Feminine Identity by Betty Gilpin | June 28 | Tagged: feminism television

Man “I Love Lucy” was edgy: The early drama of late-stage Captialism, monogamy, urbanism versus suburbanism | Tagged: tweet

@Zalambar Liberal arts and art were knowledge for those born wealthy. As we move backward to inequality, this might be a sacrifice in the step back. | Tagged: tweet

Thrift Shop by Postmodern Jukebox | June 24 | Tagged: music

Mobile Upload: Simulacra et Simulation | June 24 | Tagged: mobile photography dog

The Female Gaze | June 20 | Tagged: modern_times music television

Meeting Your Dog in Miniature | June 19 | Tagged: modern_times programming travel new_jersey dog

I wish I could get my “We Will Rock You” a la carte. I wanted stamping, not your “We Are the Champions” loser-time bereftness. | Tagged: tweet

Our hotel uses real keys. And puts them on keysticles. | Tagged: tweet

Overnight in Monmouth co, NJ we relaxed to OG battlestar, Wonder Woman, and Trek’s “Menagerie Pt 1.” U jelly? | Tagged: tweet

Every time I see a bolt of lightning across the clouds I think of “The Gunslinger” by @StephenKing and lightning as ideograms across the sky | Tagged: tweet

The Magic of Iced Coffee Season | June 13 | Tagged: new_york

Thanks jabberwockeez for blessing this day. | Tagged: tweet

What’s diversity done for you? Given you “Master of None S2.” Wonderful stories from lives you might not have considered. | Tagged: tweet

Duane Reade no longer sells microwave popcorn. I guess it’s gone to that big date night in the sky to join Blockbuster video. | Tagged: tweet

Trump Remains a Predator | June 9 | Tagged: anti_trump politics

At the beginning of the week I asked stack overflow how to combine, and convert several files in Node.JS. Not a single answer. | Tagged: tweet

A Common Node Task with No Clean Implementation | June 6 | Tagged: programming nodejs pipelines streams

Mobile Upload: Yorktown, VA | June 1 | Tagged: mobile photography travel

Richmond, VA feels like Austin 1998. Young people in cool houses. I king to Fresh Market from yoga classes. | Tagged: tweet

Dadaist Graffiti of New Jersey | May 28 | Tagged: modern_times programming

Quick Musical Thought | May 27 | Tagged: music

As I aged her and Prince’s shadows have only grown longer. | Tagged: tweet

@ethanschoonover Rush’s “Presto:” Zork and D&D maps; later: Rifts and Illuminati. | Tagged: tweet

RT @monkchips: arguably the most powerful tech company in the world hires engineers in their 60s. we should all learn from that | Tagged: tweet

RT @CoryBooker: Please read this profound speech by Mayor of New Orleans, Mitch Landrieu re: the removal of confederate monuments. https://… | Tagged: tweet

Hearing Chris Cornell scream across a piano’s range in key is one of the highlights of my teens. #RIPChrisCornell | Tagged: tweet

When Soundgarden ruled the air bands wrote and performed their songs. Virtually unthinkable in pop today. 1/2 | Tagged: tweet

Some day I will be able to not eat an entire box of Mike & Ike’s in one sitting. | Tagged: tweet

How *NOW*, "Scientific American." | May 15 | Tagged: mobile photography drug_war

Professional Burnout Resource | May 14 | Tagged: modern_times programming depression burnout

Verbs and Nouns Sound Different | May 12 | Tagged: linguistics

Delia Derbyshire | May 6 | Tagged: music

Ron-kón-kuh-ma | Tagged: tweet

My dog is a New Yorker. “delivery” is a word that induces excited dancing and prancing. | Tagged: tweet

My skill in designing technical curriculum was best trained by Sierra game savepoints and cheating through choose your own adventure novels | Tagged: tweet

“Max Headroom” was right about everything except the conduit. It was TCP/IP (wired/unwired), not coaxial cable. | Tagged: tweet

Code With Me | April 26 | Tagged: personal

Byron Mugging | April 23 | Tagged: personal

Tulip Festival | April 23 | Tagged: personal

Spring Picnic | April 23 | Tagged: personal

@DanielMiessler I just drop to shell with Ctrl-z; reattach with fg. | Tagged: tweet

Sex Education is Poorly Handled by the Internet | April 20 | Tagged: modern_times

RT @thomas_violence: i’ve tweeted about this before but Sugababes being a perfect example of the Ship of Theseus paradox is the most beauti… | Tagged: tweet

Every Tech Q&A | April 16 | Tagged: modern_times programming

Seasons on the UWS | April 15 | Tagged: nyc uws

Satire: How Victims are Covered | April 13 | Tagged: modern_times journalism

Fabulous Life in Space Renderings | April 8 | Tagged: art

Disappearance of a Giodarno Bruno Fan | April 4 | Tagged: modern_times

Performance Artist Marina Abramovic Social Experiment | April 3 | Tagged: modern_times art

The Dazzling Designs for a New York That Never Existed | April 2 | Tagged: new_york

Stem Cells Return Sight | April 2 | Tagged: anti_trump politics science

Coal Sabotages the Future | April 2 | Tagged: anti_trump politics

How the Republicans Sold Your Privacy To Internet Providers | April 1 | Tagged: anti_trump politics

My favorite breakout performers of the last 2 years have both been Rachels: @Racheldoesstuff and @RachieBros. Fearless and funny. | Tagged: tweet

“Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” is as if Zabar’s, “Broad City,” “Kimmy Schmidt,” and “Mad Men” had a Gilmore baby. Rachel Brosnahan is hilarious. | Tagged: tweet

More Arby's Sauce, Less Coal | March 31 | Tagged: anti_trump politics

Trump is So Full of It | March 26 | Tagged: anti_trump politics

Admitting People Need Health Care | March 25 | Tagged: politics

My Pull Quote in 'New York Magazine' | March 25 | Tagged: programming

We all lose our in innocence in degrees, but the day one realizes the wooden cap on Cholula is merely decorative has a special tangy burn. | Tagged: tweet

Was Francis Fukuyama the First Man to See Trump Coming? | March 22 | Tagged: anti_trump politics philosophy

In Manhattan everyone is checking phones while they wait; in NOLA while waiting for dinner an absent-minded twerk broke out. #puritains | Tagged: tweet

RT @daisyowl: if you ever code something that “feels like a hack but it works,” just remember that a CPU is literally a rock that we tricke… | Tagged: tweet

New Orleans: coffee with a side of Ginuwine. Guess the song. | Tagged: tweet

Webs: Spiders' External Brains | March 19 | Tagged: animals science

Mobile Upload: I was surprised to walk into St. Pat's last night; tonight, St. Genaro's parade | March 19 | Tagged: mobile photography travel nola

So spiders kill prey for interrupting their train of thought. | Tagged: tweet

Mobile Upload: St. Patrick's Dinner at the Court of the Two Sisters | March 18 | Tagged: mobile photography travel nola

Coding Is Not the New Literacy | March 17 | Tagged: modern_times programming

Just remember, you don’t need the liberal arts. You know how to code! | Tagged: tweet

Guess What, We're Going to Pay for the Wall | March 16 | Tagged: anti_trump politics

America Needs a Second-Person Plural | March 16 | Tagged: linguistics

Mobile Upload: Snowy retrieval and a Weimaraner after the snow | March 14 | Tagged: mobile photography

External Link: #NowPlaying Fall on Me by Kitten | March 8 | Tagged: music

Really, my dream is to think in Lisp and sleep peacefully at night. | Tagged: tweet

Dying Wife Extols Husband | March 4 | Tagged: modern_times relationships

Mobile Upload: Farewell Uber | February 24 | Tagged: tech

Moana is Released! | February 24 | Tagged: movies

Few shows have created characters such that a proper noun and a gerund could invoke such terror: “Omar strollin’.” | Tagged: tweet

External Link: Why Cities Make You Liberal | February 20 | Tagged: urbanism

Mobile Upload: Go'n dust these snowflakes off | February 16 | Tagged: mobile photography travel woodstock

That special moment when you get the worst bloody nose you’ve had in years as the plane is taxiing out and you’re wearing a new shirt. | Tagged: tweet

Mobile Upload: Video in Woodstock | February 13 | Tagged: mobile photography travel woodstock

Mobile Upload: 53 weeks ago I took a picture through this same window. | February 12 | Tagged: mobile photography travel woodstock

With all these displays of unity, decency, and piety, I wonder if converts will increase. Then we’ll see “Who’s a real American” get nasty | Tagged: tweet

Mobile Upload: You might need a poodle at maximum ferocity. | February 2 | Tagged: mobile photography dog

Mobile Upload: Handsome Byron | February 2 | Tagged: mobile photography dog

Giving up on humanity. My M.O. is to make sure dogs inherit the Earth. Consider all of Trump’s decisions in that light. | Tagged: tweet

The poetry of David Berman on The Silver Jews’ “Natural Bridge” is sublime: it’s like Miltonian Judaism..20 years later. | Tagged: tweet

Cryptography Against Dictators | January 31 | Tagged: anti_trump politics cryptography

Mobile Upload: Snowy Manhattan morning. | January 31 | Tagged: mobile dog

Wrote JavaScript to extract my highlights and notes taken on my Kindle to a file. When you know how to code, life is better. | Tagged: tweet

Just for a moment let me remind you of something: we live in a world with rye toast and coffee. | Tagged: tweet

Bought the @KarenElson_ “Ghost who Walks” record just in time to be ready to get her next record. Definitely the optimal format for her. | Tagged: tweet

Cheated | January 25 | Tagged: anti_trump politics

Is there post apocalyptic Native American sci-fi? E.g. After rising waters and ruined industrial food chain First Nations know how to adapt? | Tagged: tweet

Got Interpol's "Turn on the Bright Lights" on vinyl | January 23 | Tagged: music

I’ve dreamed of playing @Interpol’s TOTBL on vinyl in NYC on a rainy night for 15 years. Tonight. Now. It sounds amazing, it looks amazing. | Tagged: tweet

I love #TheGoodPlace. The cast are all great. Smart writing, funny enacting of philosophy dilemmas. Fun. | Tagged: tweet

Heard from @AlecBaldwin: New York is a river, LA is a lake; one, you let the street carry you, the other you gotta dig your oars in to go. | Tagged: tweet

Seagulls! Meme | January 19 | Tagged: music

Kid Encounters Nick Cave | January 18 | Tagged: music

Love it so much. Kid is wearing a Miley shirt in front of a man whose demons could press tears from angels. | Tagged: tweet

Mobile Upload: Found an 18th century poodle showing his "lunettes." Definitely ready to be a scamp. | January 15 | Tagged: mobile photography chicago travel

Mobile Upload: Last time I was here I wished she were here too! | January 15 | Tagged: mobile photography travel chicago

In Chicago with Lauren | January 14 | Tagged: modern_times programming travel chicago

Some Byron Looks | January 14 | Tagged: byron dog poodle

Black Lives on TV | January 14 | Tagged: modern_times television

Mobile Upload: Last night I was on Broadway, tonight in Printer's Row, Chicago. | January 13 | Tagged: mobile photography chicago travel

Winter in the Den | January 8 | Tagged: mobile photography new_york

We love the tree hallway in all seasons in Riverside park. | Tagged: tweet

Translations | January 6 | Tagged: modern_times programming

I got engaged to @escaping_mind which is cool….but I’m thinking maybe I should have married Trader Joe’s Jalapeño Pub Cheese instead. | Tagged: tweet

I was going to marry her anyway, but she bought me “Purple Rain” on vinyl. | Tagged: tweet

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2016

Children of Men | December 31 | Tagged: movies

Mobile Upload: Byron observes (belatedly) an English tradition of wearing a paper crown during Christmas. | December 29 | Tagged: mobile photography dog

Couple behind me evaluated #LALALAND as “Terrible. Depressing.” I think they should visit dreamers or LA and re-view. | Tagged: tweet

Feats of Home Maintenance | December 26 | Tagged: family travel

When your stepdad fixes your sisters air conditi ning with a Makita 18v, hair dryer, and profanity and saves a Texas Xmas by doing so. | Tagged: tweet

Holy shit I’m in a smoking section in a restaurant. | Tagged: tweet

Mobile Upload: Fear not for your safety boulevardiers! Byron watches! | December 19 | Tagged: mobile photography dog

Totalitarianism | December 19 | Tagged: modern_times politics

Early Reports Suggest Russian Election Interference | December 15 | Tagged: politics disinformation

Keybase.io Against Authoritarians | December 14 | Tagged: modern_times programming politics

Mobile Upload: Early winter play in Riverside Park. | December 14 | Tagged: mobile dog

Seen in subway: Ubiquitous beige totebag with the file path to a PSD printed on it instead of the contents. #metaartist | Tagged: tweet

Verifying myself: I am sgharms on Keybase.io. On8E7qswnY1pKixwBiI6612vyxAnU8tX-uTi / | Tagged: tweet

RT @Kasparov63: The point of modern propaganda isn’t only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annih… | Tagged: tweet

RT @maxgladstone: 1999, me: “Fight Club is a movie about challenges facing men in 20th c” Dad: “This movie is about how fascist movements g… | Tagged: tweet

RT @grossdm: For the 5,000th time, the problem isn’t liberal arts majors who don’t study STEM. It’s STEM majors who don’t study liberal art… | Tagged: tweet

Mobile Upload: Trump Earns My Distrust | December 12 | Tagged: anti_trump disinformation politics

Avoiding Avoidance | December 12 | Tagged: work

French Futures | December 12 | Tagged: art scifi

Morrissey: Chicano Icon | December 12 | Tagged: music

Mobile Upload: The Only Tyrant | December 11 | Tagged: comics art

RT @sarahjeong: How many times a day do you ruminate on how unfit you are to scavenge for survival amid the ruins of civilization | Tagged: tweet

Hours of Wu-Tang Kung Fu Movies | December 10 | Tagged: movies personal

Trump Does Not Prepare for the Future: He Nurses Grievance | December 9 | Tagged: anti_trump politics

Just in case I never write it down: Please play Cale’s “Big White Cloud” at my funeral. | Tagged: tweet

Bicameralism | December 6 | Tagged: psychology linguistics

Mobile Upload: Byron Says: "I'm ready for my closeup now." | December 3 | Tagged: mobile photography dog

Mobile Upload: Symbols of our Travels | December 2 | Tagged: mobile photography personal

We Love Moana | December 2 | Tagged: movies

Seduced and Betrayed by Donald Trump | December 2 | Tagged: politics economics anti_trump

Preservation of the Union | December 1 | Tagged: new_york anti_trump

Empathy Vacuum in Silicon Valley | November 29 | Tagged: modern_times programming

Arrival | November 29 | Tagged: movies linguistics

Moana: "How Far I'll Go" | November 29 | Tagged: music movies

LAX gates 31-34 is a proof of concept for bus terminals of the skies. | Tagged: tweet

"Gilmore Girls" Revival! | November 24 | Tagged: television

Margaret Hamilton Presidential Medal Winner | November 22 | Tagged: programming

Crafting the Alien Alphabet of "Arrival" | November 22 | Tagged: movies linguistics

RT @pashulman: Look to how Berlusconi was defeated as a model for Trump. This is the smartest thing on politics I’ve read all week. https:/… | Tagged: tweet

US Propaganda Against Authoritarians | November 16 | Tagged: politics anti_trump

Mobile Upload: Byron in autumnal sunlight | November 14 | Tagged: mobile photography dog

Trump Leads Backward | November 14 | Tagged: politics anti_trump

Is it just me or do you wish we could go back to a simpler time when our biggest fear was David S. Pumpkins? | Tagged: tweet

Gnostic Web Development | November 12 | Tagged: programming

Post-Trump: Grab 'Em By the Cryptography | November 11 | Tagged: anti_trump politics cryptography programming

First step in making america great again: Bringing back Google Reader, this time with yuuuge offline caching. | Tagged: tweet

Upper West Side is silent. Only motors and mechanical sounds. | Tagged: tweet

RT @samesmail: Please tell me you’re seeing this too | Tagged: tweet

Mobile Upload: Is He Really Such a Control Freak | November 8 | Tagged: anti_trump politics

RT @piersb: All operatives in this time period: 48 hours to Divergence. | Tagged: tweet

External Link: http://www.spin.com/2016/08/96-best-alternative-rock-songs-1996/5/ | November 7 | Tagged: music

Mobile Upload: My whole youth was preparation for this moment. | November 5 | Tagged: mobile photography

Mobile Upload: All alone at the dog park in a beautiful autumn day | November 4 | Tagged: mobile photography dog

Mobile Upload: Mamas feet are perfectly muzzle width. | October 29 | Tagged: mobile photography dog

Philosophy grad watching #Westworld : “Is this Gnostic allegory with Tarot esoteric tradition motifs?” #fb | Tagged: tweet

@evanrachelwood you are amazing in “Westworld.” The staggering girl we saw in “Seventeen” has grown more formidable and subtle. | Tagged: tweet

Whither the Conservative Intellectual? | October 26 | Tagged: politics anti_trump

How I Pack: 2016 | October 24 | Tagged: travelogue

Mobile Upload: The benefit of missing Paris is that as one of the most filmed cities ever we can visit any time. | October 22 | Tagged: mobile photography personal travel

“It’s hard to be sad to music that makes you want to Charleston” <3 @crazyxgfwriters | Tagged: tweet

Mobile Upload: A minute of monkey time before Lauren comes home. | October 19 | Tagged: mobile dog

Is SF is where tech-Siddarthas are sent to encounter age, disease, death after living in their rich castles of “meritocracy.” 1/ | Tagged: tweet

Kaopectate and Pepto Bismol both use the same active ingredient. So the PB Pink color was a … conscious marketing decision. #tmyk | Tagged: tweet

Pro-Bidet | October 18 | Tagged: modern_times

My countrymen and women, let us now admit it: We need the bidet. | Tagged: tweet

GO TO HELL WEB PAGES WITH AUTO-PLAYING VIDEO WITH AUDIO ON. | Tagged: tweet

Thoughts on Evaluating Students | October 17 | Tagged: education

“I Hate the Internet” captures my response when some confused NY’er asks: “You left California to come h-h-h-here?” Yes. Would move again. | Tagged: tweet

For anyone breaking / broken up with SF or the Bay Area recently I cannot recommend Kobek’s “I Hate the Internet” enough. Thanks @gtvrhs. | Tagged: tweet

Violence and the Way of Trump | October 16 | Tagged: anti_trump politics

Mobile Upload: Time to head home! | October 16 | Tagged: personal

“Brain we’re flying back home in a few hours so let’s make the most?” | Tagged: tweet

I Got Engaged | October 15 | Tagged: personal travel

A+++++++ 10/0 would engage again. #jjabramslensflare ❤️😘@escaping_mind | Tagged: tweet

In honor of Serge Gainsbourg: un bouteille Coca-Cola. | Tagged: tweet

Biggest change since I was in France last is how quickly Parisians use English. Or my horrid French is so horrible they want me to STAHP. | Tagged: tweet

Did I mention I got engaged to this lady 2 nights ago? In the function signature of my life there will be @escaping_mind #swiftlove | Tagged: tweet

OK seriously conservative apologists: it’s not the word “pussy,” it’s “grabbing” someone’s sexual parts without consent that’s offensive 1/n | Tagged: tweet

...a candidate for president of the United States has actually bragged about sexually assaulting women... | October 14 | Tagged: politics anti_trump

Teaching Mindfulness to Kids | October 14 | Tagged: modern_times

Teaching mindfulness to kids in Paris, @erinmkidwell. Funny title! “calm and attentive…like a 🐸” | Tagged: tweet

Mobile Upload: The Red Son is in Place Madeline | October 13 | Tagged: comics travel

Dennis Ritchie Dies | October 13 | Tagged: rip programming

Even Conservative Pundit Glenn Beck Supports Hillary | October 12 | Tagged: politics anti-trump

Foreign Policy Mag Endorses Hillary | October 10 | Tagged: politics anti_trump

RT @wycats: I’m pretty scared of what will happen the first time someone runs on Trumpism who isn’t as fatally flawed as Trump. | Tagged: tweet

RT @BreneBrown: To dismiss Trump’s comments as “guy talk” is an insult to good men and boys. This is what rape culture looks & sounds like. | Tagged: tweet

Primordial Origin Stories | October 4 | Tagged: science linguistics history literature

Mobile Upload: Carnegie Deli damage. L'Shana Tova indeed! | October 4 | Tagged: mobile photography new_york

Mobile Upload: Rise and Chew Stick | October 3 | Tagged: mobile photography dog

Mobile Upload: If your bagel shop doesn't have this, I feel bad for you son | October 2 | Tagged: mobile photography new_york

Being Effective Advice From Tim Ferriss | October 1 | Tagged: modern_times work

You know, homages to the 90’s are a thing now…but will no one revive the slinky beauty of the Suede family tree? | Tagged: tweet

Schneider und Hutter forever. | Tagged: tweet

Vital Questions When Looking for New Work | September 28 | Tagged: work

RT @Classlicity: People criticizing Clinton’s preparedness probably also don’t realize Hermione is the only reason Harry Potter survived 7… | Tagged: tweet

Stop Pretending You Don’t Know Why People Hate Hillary Clinton | September 27 | Tagged: politics

T.S. Eliot Sees Cats for the First Time | September 27 | Tagged: broadway humor

RT @MissWhoeverUR: This election is a clear representation of what it’s like to be an overqualified woman who has to deal with an unqualifi… | Tagged: tweet

Obama and Doris Kearns Goodwin | September 25 | Tagged: politics

No, I'm From New York | September 24 | Tagged: humor california new_york

A world where this message has infected a 7 year old child is a world where social justice is needed. How could I comfort that gap? 2/2 | Tagged: tweet

Story about owning a black dog: a black child asks her parent whether white people love black dogs as much as they love white ones. 😭 1/2 | Tagged: tweet

We watched the first 4 episodes of @fleabag after hearing Phoebe on @dinnerpartydnld and its hilarious, bawdy, and fun. | Tagged: tweet

Mr. Robot Season 2 and The Prisoner | September 23 | Tagged: television

Public Service Announcement: Someone seems to have lost their fingerprint dusting powder on Riverside Drive. Notify police. | Tagged: tweet

Mobile Upload: Met new poodles at the park. Lucy is a sophisticated older lady. | September 20 | Tagged: mobile photography dog

I found this hilarious show on Hulu called “Community.” Man this shit will play forever because it’s so funny and original right? Right? | Tagged: tweet

Young Men: Idle and Idling | September 19 | Tagged: modern_times

Mobile Upload: Byron the Grinning Goon | September 18 | Tagged: mobile photography dog

English Usage: Anyone Versus Everyone | September 18 | Tagged: linguistics

WANTED: Art where anthropomorphized poodles perform jobs (e.g. cop), play sports in a pastel, graphic-ish 80’s health club style #serious | Tagged: tweet

@samesmail I find there to be a lovely parallelism from “The Prisoner” to @whoismrrobot. It’s a brave move. Ready to “Fall Out.” | Tagged: tweet

My New Lamy Safari | September 16 | Tagged: fountain_pens

20 Years of Loving the Cardigans | September 16 | Tagged: music

A man thanked Byron and I for not being racist and ignoring him. Fist bump, then: “We all come from the same source!” “Africa?” “No, ETs!” 😳 | Tagged: tweet

My new Lamy Safari; next to my very old runner of Safari. Went metallic for a change of pace. | Tagged: tweet

Bay Area puppy has a chew toy hedgehog named “Hetch Hedgie.” | Tagged: tweet

Mobile Upload: Stuck in Boston | September 15 | Tagged: mobile photography

RT @lauren_n_roth: Determining the difference between “important” and “urgent” is an art honed only with experience. | Tagged: tweet

If “Moulin Rouge” is the price we had to pay to get #TheGetDown, it was worth it. | Tagged: tweet

The Bitch America Needs | September 13 | Tagged: politics feminism

Shout out to Troy and Gris who helped this guy out at @jetblue flight JFK to ORD this morning. You’re both legends. | Tagged: tweet

NYFD widows and children memorial packed with comrades, spouses, and teens who never knew their parent reminds us to #NeverForget. | Tagged: tweet

Isn’t it odd that “graphic” and “drawn-out” don’t mean the same thing? | Tagged: tweet

RT @HistoricalPics: Salvador “I don’t do drugs I am drugs” Dalí painting The Face of War, 1941 | Tagged: tweet

I wonder if the rise of fast recompile languages correlated to decline in thoughtful mental code-tracing and debugging. | Tagged: tweet

OMG #KuboMovie was so great. Just beautiful all around. | Tagged: tweet

RT @altclassic: “One day in Berlin, Eno came running in and said, ‘I have heard the sound of the future’ and put on ‘I Feel Love”-DB https:… | Tagged: tweet

A Cheat Sheet For Avoiding Cognitive Bias | September 5 | Tagged: philosophy

Where is the deeply researched docudrama about what happened to Montel Jordan? Amid “Pulp Fiction” and 1995 ésprit he seemed assured glory. | Tagged: tweet

Judging by mass incarceration rates, I wonder: “Will prisons become the melting pot we always believed our cities were?” #5446wasmynumber | Tagged: tweet

#tryswiftnyc feels like the conference that changed my life and put me on Ruby years ago. Swift is going to be huge by this feel. | Tagged: tweet

Been a while since Big Blue seemed so relevant and edgy but with Watson, Swift extensions for web, Kitura. I say ¡WELCOME BACK! #tryswiftnyc | Tagged: tweet

@IBM staff CRRRRUUUSSSHHHHEEEED this morning. Swift in Linux more performant than Java and node. 👏🏻🙌🏻👏🏻 #tryswiftnyc | Tagged: tweet

Communicating Across Uncrossable Expanses | August 30 | Tagged: modern_times programming scifi linguistics

Mobile Upload: The fabulous stage for "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time." | August 27 | Tagged: mobile photography broadway

RT @altclassic: 36 years ago today, #DavidBowie was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘Ashes To Ashes’ | Tagged: tweet

Emboldened to Hate | August 22 | Tagged: antiracism modern_times

RT @SwiftOnSecurity: Windows users with bash. Linux users with PowerShell. FreeBSD users with WiFi. It’s been a crazy year. | Tagged: tweet

When you love actresses with dark under eye circles and aren’t sure if it’s ok to tell them that you love their circles. #takes12know1 | Tagged: tweet

Through the air I go into tomorrow. 🗽 | Tagged: tweet

One might bemoan the state of diversity in techl, but today I saw a db table with a column of first names that included: “Ta-Nehisi” | Tagged: tweet

New metric for hotels: can you hear tall men urinating in other rooms while lying in bed? | Tagged: tweet

I watched this video and tied a bow tie on my second attempt: | Tagged: tweet

SF friends. I’m here in Soma for the next week. Love to hear what you’re up to | Tagged: tweet

@dstfelix on @ForColoredNerds. Loosely quoted: “Wes Anderson is Tyler Perry for white people.” I died. | Tagged: tweet

Genius @samesmail of #MrRobot tested audience’s implicit bias: 2 hijabi, boy named Mohammed playing with a passenger plane. Nervous? Why? | Tagged: tweet

I am in love with prose style and economy ofin Ch.1 of Thinking Recursively with Java by Eric Roberts | Tagged: tweet

Why Corporate America Is Leaving the Suburbs for the City (via @Pocket) cc:@convojito | Tagged: tweet

Turned off the AC’s. No fan running. Just the peace and quiet of sirens and 8.4 * 10**6 million people going about their lives. | Tagged: tweet

RT @catallman: RIP, Seymour Papert, who died today at 88. Co-invented the LOGO learning programming language | Tagged: tweet

NYC Trifecta: Dude rich enough for a high rise apt. with a rain bath shower. With a window with blinds. That he leaves up, #dgaf-stylee. | Tagged: tweet

Marni Nixon screen test: she kills in vibrato, pitch, tone and smiles at every phrase’s ending. When done, she smirks at the camera #ripboss | Tagged: tweet

Love the John Carpenter style soundtrack to “Stranger Things.” | Tagged: tweet

In #nyc summer, women’s fashion gains the options of “fancy short opened-back hospital gown” and “fancy shortened finger-painting smock.” | Tagged: tweet

Quick way to test if you’re dead: Listen to @lissiemusic ’s “My Own Wild West.” Did you feel nothing? You are dead. Otherwise, yay. | Tagged: tweet

If you say you’ll have time for diversity after you get things going, you’re assuming that you can reach success without a diverse team. | Tagged: tweet

@RedVines how can it be that there are no results for within 10 miles of Manhattan? | Tagged: tweet

If anyone knows where to get BLACK @RedVines in Manhattan let me know. NOT Twizzlers; NOT red red vines. Thought this city had everything. | Tagged: tweet

@aviflombaum @SaraJChipps “Will I actually be writing pentameter if I get this job?” “No you’ll be shifting haiku by one syllable.” #broken | Tagged: tweet

Big World and Small World | July 5 | Tagged: geopolitics economics

My favorite movie about America? “The Godfather:” BONASERA: “I believe in America.” | Tagged: tweet

In which Gilmore girls predicts me life arc: WOMAN: Dave, do you have your space pen? MAN: Do you have to ask? | Tagged: tweet

RT @SarahSoWitty: I think David Bowie was holding this world together a lot more than we ever comprehended. | Tagged: tweet

3/3 As urban, globalized centers get tired of eye-rolling at their reactionary birthmother nation states, will they go global? | Tagged: tweet

2/3: @paragkhanna wrote in Connectography, p. 75: “London props up England’s depreseed depopulated [pro-Leave] regions…liabilit[ies]” | Tagged: tweet

1/3 Idea: Londonexit: A Hansa-inspired free-trade city linked to Hansastad M’chester and EU country Scotland in a commonwealth 1/3 | Tagged: tweet

Pullman on UK: cobwebbed, rotten, diseased and decaying mess of a patched-up, cobbled-together, bloated, corrupted, leaking stinking hulk | Tagged: tweet

Study Latin to Become a Better Programmer | June 17 | Tagged: latin programming

If there’s ever a homicidal mail carrier dogs are gonna be so “I told you so.” | Tagged: tweet

JavaScript and Christology | June 16 | Tagged: javascript religion

I’ve lain with the Devil / Cursed God Above / Forsaken Heaven / To Bring You My Love – @PJHarveyUK still levels mountains 21 years later | Tagged: tweet

The Brexit and the Londonexit | June 7 | Tagged: geopolitics economics

At @TheCrucibleBway: I repeat: so excite. | Tagged: tweet

So excited to see @TheCrucibleBway tomorrow! | Tagged: tweet

Khanna's Connectography, Bootcamps, and Mobility | June 2 | Tagged: books culture technology

Parag Khanna's Connectography and Refactoring by Martin Fowler | June 1 | Tagged: books technology culture

Read: Parag Khanna's Connectography | May 31 | Tagged: books technology culture

Mobile Upload: Home After Travels | May 30 | Tagged: mobile photography

Remixing Political Parties | May 25 | Tagged: politics

Mobile Upload: Evening, crossword, bed, poodle, sun, Hudson, New Jersey, America. | May 22 | Tagged: mobile photography

Her seduction of me was intense: a stare, licking of lips. I adjusted my jacket to find a blob of shallot cream cheese on my lapel. #nyclife | Tagged: tweet

Guy Clark Remembered | May 18 | Tagged: music rip

Guy Clark & Emmylou Harris | May 18 | Tagged: music austin rip

Just daydreamed while listening to “Don’t Give Up On Me” that @lissiemusic held a LissiePalooza in a field on her farm. Camping. Bees. <3 | Tagged: tweet

Mobile Upload: Memba when? Puppy Byron | May 12 | Tagged: mobile photography puppy dog

Emmylou Harris | May 12 | Tagged: music

Mobile Upload: Staggering data about higher education | May 12 | Tagged: education

Mobile Upload: Hi Steve, we're bad ideas! | May 11 | Tagged: mobile photography

Mobile Upload: Programmers: Duck Typing | May 9 | Tagged: mobile programming

I’m struck by how closely Typescript resembles Swift. They are preparing to heal the Great Schism. | Tagged: tweet