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I’ve officially been at just this employer for longer than any other work I’ve done in my adult life (theater carpentry pretty much dried up in the mid-to-late 2000’s), and they do the weird corporate thing around these arbitrary quarterly borders in the year where you provide ‘feedback’. Anyway instead of blabbing excessively about that specifically, I’m…
When I write it’s probably for the best I stick to tech topics, and therefore the posts tend to always be innocuous when it comes to impact or gravity. Like maybe a vendor or employer or customer would be offput is about the extent of waves. So it’s not easy to get into the mode where I can share that Charles Edge meant things to me, nor does anyone find it easy to speak of someone…
(This should be spoiler-free, for reasons I’ll describe later.) Because my sig. other would be hearing about the movie (with a reverse-viral PR stunt of… almost not marketing it whatsoever) on the radio shows they listen to (Japan has different media than the rest of the world, obvs) I found myself rushing to see the ‘last’ Miyazaki movie this past Friday. I’m going to cop to the fact that…
Home center trip, part two I had never heard of this brand before, although I know Panasonic/National have made power tools for years This is the flamethrower section, people commonly burn ‘organic matter’ on their property (farms) to dispose of it or treat wood paneling Roadwork is pretty clean, but you have to be in the sticks to see lots of brand new signage for private individuals to pick up I…
Home center trip, part one because tumblr doesn’t want me to upload more than 5 images I guess? I went to the home center (it had the Jack in the Donuts spot I posted about earlier on the Mastadons) and there’s many reasons I really, really like home centers This is the free lockup so you can store your pets (or anything else I guess) while you shop? But it seems like everybody else isn’t really…
In no particular order I might update this a few times, hope you like it, like to hear it hear we go Coffee: Coffee Wrights , at Higuma Donuts, for the flimsiness of the decor and oat milk and decaf Allpress in Toranomon for the physical distance and oasis in the middle of a weird part of town Fuglen (even though no decafs,) by Yoyogi Park for opening early and staying open late, when the hipsters…
Allister Banks (@Arubdesu@hachyderm.io) My voice is my passport, is that how it goes or something? I’d prefer to tell all those remaining deplorables ‘I’m not locked in here with you, you’re locked in with me’ but it’s not a place I want to participate in as much
in principle, enough
Sometimes I try to reality check myself, is my tech snobbery on any particular topic complaining about the (to borrow an MKBHD-ism) ‘car panel gaps’? No, no it is the children who are wrong
Damning with faint praise… 😏 “I’m simultaneously a pretty extreme leftist and convinced that free marketplaces, deployed in our service, can produce useful results.” ongoing by Tim Bray · Protect Me From What I Want
When the irresistible force meets the immovable object
Reinstate Boaty McBoatface
My take on in-person events for the foreseeable future (Downer/whining warning, but this is my blog, so) I was at a ‘team offsite’ with ~30 people a few weeks back and it was super awkward to constantly get food on the inside of my mask because I chew with it on but… I didn’t have time to quarantine nor does my risk acceptance level include any amount of covid or its effects, period. I was seeing…
TIL Kobe Bryant and dude from Antibalas went to the same high school in bklyn as Bobbito aka Dj Cucumber Slice aka KoolBobLove
https://betweentheplaces.glitch.me (Not pictured: Park Slope, Astoria, or Clinton Hill) Via https://kottke.org/20/12/between-the-places-where-i-have-lived Between the Places Where I Have Lived BETWEEN THE PLACES
Over the years I’ve collected a bunch of mixes from various artists/producers/DJs, and more recently have gone between SoundCloud and Mixcloud for discovering parties and music. I think DJ Shadow put me on to Rashad/DJ Spinn on his All Basses Covered mix, which got me into Footwork, and BoilerRoom has been streaming a crazy amount and variety of artists. (BoilerRoom just did an event entirely…
Lime
I said ‘those window shades look like punchcards!’ and the sig. other says ‘I know all about that - it was in Hidden Figures’
Photobombed
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