BBQ, doughnuts, the demoscene, machine perception, digital media/arts, and cats. I made lots of public mistakes on the early social internet.
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Today's software engineering word is "farpotshket." This is a Yiddish word meaning, "broken, because someone tried to fix it."
I made a thing to scan friends for mastodon URLS. This was less useful than I expected.
github.com/adenyes/exomus
But I was thinking it would work better if it also looked at tweets.
Today is as good a day as any to see if your friends are on Mastodon, which is like twitter but you can hide your friends list. @andr00@mograph.social
Fridays:
"Anyone got any big plans for the weekend?"
...
"I'm going to go through my socks and get rid of any that don't make sense."
Looks weird, devoid of context. If this is literally someone's employment history, then it's a data point.
Realistic? It depends on what you were doing before the timeline, what the company's like, and what you are spending your time doing. This is about titles not aptitudes.
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A MajorBBS I was on in the 90s gave forum managers the ability to charge other users "credits" for use of their forum. The credits don't go into the forum owner's account, though.
So of course I made my forum charge people negative credits.
I presume the Rosenbrock Banana Function got its name this way.
Oh, we also played "the word game" in late shift ISP tech support. Ed got "penguin" at some point, and so he advised his next caller that "we'll make your connection as smooth as a penguin going down an ice-slide."
Look, slightly younger adults. The reason my generation has battery anxiety is because our first charged devices took 24 hours to charge and 2 hours to empty. They were made of nickel, cadmium, and ass. If you didn't have two battery packs, you had none.
Me standing in front of the massive vat of poop and cherries, which is our experimental results, holding out a bowl of shining cherries
The ACM: Come back to SIGGRAPH. We know you've been here. Look how much you enjoyed yourself last time we had one in person.
