Screw the rules, I have green hair | 🇩🇪🇺🇸 SF Bay native | tech × design × art × psych | ex-eng @Patreon, @Microsoft, @honor | @ITP_NYU @cmuhcii educated

San Francisco & Brooklyn
Joined April 2013
Hello world! 👋 I'm Karina and I'm a creative technologist, software developer, and designer. I currently work as a new media exhibit technician for the Exploratorium in SF and I also freelance for startups under my own small agency (appropriately called KACHOW! LLC 🗯️ (1/7)
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As an ex Microsoft employee, I know at least 6 people taking this offer. And another 2 who are don't want to but are terrified what will happen to them in the following year if they don't.
NEARLY 1 OUT OF 3 (60,000 EMPLOYEES) AT MICROSOFT BEING OFFERED VOLUNTARY TERMINATION Emails should be going out any minute to those receiving the offer. Absolutely insane.
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TechBro: “Hey babe, I have a fun date night planned for us” The date spot: 🏢
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Reflected light from outside the building prism exhibit where you can turn knobs to change things. Water drop photography. Frank Oppenheimer! And one of the workshops where @karomancer and the rest of the crew there make the magic happen.
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Getting to see the explOratorium at the end of September. One of several posts probably. Thank you again @karomancer
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Sinnamon's survival skills 🙀
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Annie “Ancho” Choi is a brilliant young artist whose wonderful animations landed her a gig working for the famed Studio Ghibli. This is a short compilation. [🎞️ anchoponcho]
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Brandon Johnson possibly crafts the creepiest Halloween costume, using old clothes, stilts and papier-mâché [📹 spiritwalker]
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Replying to @SmokeAwayyy
Isn't that the beauty of it though? Life is all about choices, and for every choice there is a consequence. Good or bad. I know someone that regretted never following their passion for medicine, went back to school & they became a doctor in their late 50's. It could still be you!
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San Francisco's latest walking tour takes people past cats in windows, and apparently, the demand is enormous. Nearly 100 people gathered Saturday for a neighborhood “catwalk,” a free afternoon stroll past the homes of local cats, all volunteered by their owners for a moment in the spotlight. The cats, by all accounts booked and busy, had become local celebrities without lifting a paw. Organizer Lora Lafon told SFGATE the idea began with a Reddit thread inspired by a similar event in Minneapolis. More than 50 households across San Francisco signed up, and interest quickly outgrew what a single afternoon could accommodate. The inaugural walk was capped at 100 people, leaving another 406 on the waitlist and 388 more expressing interest. “We're such a big dog city (love dogs too) that it's been really sweet to see how proud the cat owners are when people stop to admire their babies in the window,” Lafon said. Fortunately for the city's aspiring cat admirers, more walks are in the works, both in San Francisco and potentially across the Bay Area.
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But make it automata
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A few of my friends have told me that after watching You Can See Everything, they now find Elizabeth Holmes charming and attractive. Y'all... Please don't become angel investors please. 😅
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Finally made an about page, it includes my heart rate neal.fun/about/
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Oh yea. I forgot I had a missing frontal lobe
Women ☕️ 😂😂
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Guy shows how nothing is real now on social media.
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So clever.
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You Can See Everything was absolutely incredible. I saw it yesterday and still want to see if again. Greatly recommended!
“YOU NEED TO SEE IT FOR YOURSELF.” Experience Nathan Fielder & Lance Oppenheim’s YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING featuring Elizabeth Holmes. Now playing in theaters nationwide — Get tickets.

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You Can Eat Anything (by tommcgovern27 on IG)
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Did you know that Japan had its own version of the Dutch tulip bubble...but with rabbits? When Japan reopened trade with the West at the end of the Edo period, they started purchasing foreign goods in droves and were introduced to domesticated European rabbits. (1/5)
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The craze went beyond rabbit sales and into art, textiles, and more. Eventually the craze went so insane that it attracted high crime so the Japanese government had to get involved and both taxed and required rabbit sales to be reported. This burst the bubble. (4/5)
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Today, rabbits still remain a popular pet choice in Japan, partially because of their centuries-long folklore about them, partially because they are cute and quiet apartment-suitable pets, and perhaps partially because of this rabbit craze! (5/5)
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