2018

January

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

@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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

@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

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

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

February

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

Eleanor | February 4 | Tagged: modern_times programming travel woodstock

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

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

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

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

“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

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

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

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

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

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

Black urban beekeeping | February 24 | Tagged: animals

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

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

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

March

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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

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

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

The Algorithm | March 16 | Tagged: modern_times programming

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

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

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

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

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

@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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

April

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

@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

@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

@iano @SaraJChipps ❤️blessings of love❤️ | 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

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

@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

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

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

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

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

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

@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

@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

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

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

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

Peak New Orleans? | Tagged: tweet

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

Got married yesterday. It’s awesome. She’s amazing. | 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

@antiheroine Tho adjacent article was awesome too: | 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

May

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

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

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

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

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

@gnomeslair So much memories. | Tagged: tweet

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

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

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

@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

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

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

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

RT @ohgoddickie: Happy mother’s day from the Dune coloring book | 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 @BodegaBot: These two ex-Github engineers want to replace bagel shops with the Semantic Web Stack | Tagged: tweet

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

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

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

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

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

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

@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

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

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

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

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

@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

@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

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

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

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

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

Text Internet | May 25 | Tagged: modern_times programming text_internet

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

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

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

@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

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

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

@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

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

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

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

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

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

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

June

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

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

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

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

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

@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

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

Lockdown | June 7 | Tagged: modern_times politics

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

@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

Bourdain Exits | June 8 | Tagged: rip

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

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

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

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

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

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

RT @slpng_giants: This is a concentration camp for children. | 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 @vespertinena: get in loser we’re going cloudbusting | 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

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

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

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

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

Sugar Man | June 21 | Tagged: music

@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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

July

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

@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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

@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

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

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

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

Rot | July 17 | Tagged: anti_trump politics

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

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

Unnamed King amirite | 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

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

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

RT @JenAshleyWright: If I was a sexy Russian operative, I would want my name to be Jennifer Sleepinova. | 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 @ditzkoff: Roses are red New York is a metropolis | 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

We are too stupid for a computerized society. | 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

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

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

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

@tomdale Aperol++++ would Italia again. | 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

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

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

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

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

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

Dog Steals GoPro | July 29 | Tagged: entertainment

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

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

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

August

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

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

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

@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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

September

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

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

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

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

The Astounding Octopus | September 22 | Tagged: animals

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

October

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

November

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

Thanksgiving Walking | November 22 | Tagged: photography personal

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

December

Trip to London | December 2 | Tagged: travelogue london

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

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

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

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

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

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

Facebook is a Curse | December 20 | Tagged: modern_times

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

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

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

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

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