August 2019

Aug 30, 2019

Another Brooklyn neighborhood ruined by hentrification

Another Brooklyn neighborhood ruined by hentrification buzzfeednews.com/...
Aug 30, 2019

If you want to make a marble chessboard look really sad but...

If you want to make a marble chessboard look really sad but also glamorous you use Lana Del Reytracing. In this SIGGRAPH paper I will
Aug 29, 2019

tbh this was probably faster than going through laguardia

tbh this was probably faster than going through laguardia t.co/...
Aug 29, 2019

I'll quietly ruin this by noting that the web has always...

I'll quietly ruin this by noting that the web has always been interpreted as a natively postmodern artifact because of when it was born, but software as a discipline is high modernist. Algorithmic feeds are a failed attempt to assert modernist strategies in a postmodern context.
Aug 29, 2019

I took Twitter off my phone to read more. This morning I...

I took Twitter off my phone to read more. This morning I re-read T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land on the train. It's a panoply of random voices collaged together, impossible to follow, and fills you with dread and despair. And I realized it's sort of a perfect replacement.
Aug 28, 2019

Friends, it is with a heavy heart that I must inform you...

Friends, it is with a heavy heart that I must inform you that I am an IT Visionary. mission.org/...
Aug 26, 2019

It's so wild that William Carlos Williams only wrote one...

It's so wild that William Carlos Williams only wrote one poem.
Aug 22, 2019

If you want to take a break from being consumed by despair,...

If you want to take a break from being consumed by despair, I finally finished my usesthis.com interview, nine years after @waferbaby asked. It's 3,300 words so take your time and savor every Emacs mention. usesthis.com/...
Aug 20, 2019

TikTok Teens: (Perform elaborate 20-second choreography...

TikTok Teens: (Perform elaborate 20-second choreography about their chronic depression/lack of economic and educational options while wearing food service uniforms, driving millions of views to a China-controlled platform with no compensation.)

Twitter dad: The kids are alright!
Aug 19, 2019

God I love taking Kaleidoscope Wake CBD to do my HVAC...

God I love taking Kaleidoscope Wake CBD to do my HVAC system concepting before the grandkid sleepover.
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Aug 17, 2019

Talk about a library of congress!

Talk about a library of congress! x.com/...
Aug 14, 2019

It's an amazing tool for listening to and sometimes helping...

@katienotopoulos It's an amazing tool for listening to and sometimes helping other people. We just see the awful part.
Aug 14, 2019

Sometimes I want to create an anonymous MEDIA AND TECH...

Sometimes I want to create an anonymous MEDIA AND TECH INSIDER TELLS IT LIKE IT IS twitter accounts where you shit all over everyone but after about three posts I'd just end up writing "we all have our struggles and working inside of big orgs is challenging btw this is Paul."
Aug 13, 2019

All I could think is that it's turtles getting all the way...

All I could think is that it's turtles getting all the way down all the way down.
Aug 13, 2019

I'm in Delaware and just saw a turtle and realized he was...

I'm in Delaware and just saw a turtle and realized he was probably here to start a shell company.
Aug 12, 2019

I'm happy for the Tumblr community and hope Tumblr goes...

I'm happy for the Tumblr community and hope Tumblr goes free software like WordPress. Local federated Tumblr would be a lot of fun.
Aug 11, 2019

As a grown-ass man I enjoy summer outings to

As a grown-ass man I enjoy summer outings to
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Aug 9, 2019

Google just asked me to erase about 1500k of memes from my...

Google just asked me to erase about 1500k of memes from my 128gb phone, which makes me feel unbelievably judged.
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Aug 6, 2019

I can't wait until my kids are 11 so we can all have the...

I can't wait until my kids are 11 so we can all have the same sense of humor.
Aug 6, 2019

Reminds me of when my nephew (the one getting married, but...

Reminds me of when my nephew (the one getting married, but back then he was eight) made a card for my dying grandfather that said “dear pop pop have a good time in heaven."
Aug 6, 2019

Kids made a card for the upcoming wedding.

Kids made a card for the upcoming wedding.
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Aug 6, 2019

Why We Can't Have Nice Things

@anildash @jordne Why We Can't Have Nice Things
Aug 5, 2019

Because I could not stop the hogs They kindly stopped for...

@kjhealy Because I could not stop the hogs
They kindly stopped for me
The front yard held but just my kids
And 50 skulls-to-be
Aug 5, 2019

<three months later> And that's why we're introducing...

<three months later> And that's why we're introducing the BROTE, the re-usable canvas bag for carrying your MANLY meals back from the General Store (slide comes up of canvas tote bag printed with mudflap girls, piled high with Bob's Red Mill Vegan Eggs and Morningstar Sausages) x.com/...
Aug 3, 2019

Despite repeated urgent requests over several years, the...

Despite repeated urgent requests over several years, the children regularly refuse to contribute to the household grocery discourse. Yet they frequently complain about the choices we make on their behalf. I have now distributed this document to the children.
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