I like to listen to Weezer's Island In The Sun and REM's...
I like to listen to Weezer's Island In The Sun and REM's Leaving New York on loop, a little fact about me.
➛Ftrain, by Paul Ford
August 2021
this is Weezer's entire Spotify bio
A great offer I look forward to testing!
@chrisbrandow A great offer I look forward to testing!
➛IDK, says "Science."
When you peer into the abyss and it answers back "THE?" and...
When you peer into the abyss and it answers back "THE?" and points out the next five abysses.
➛I'm getting to the part of learning about climate where I...
I'm getting to the part of learning about climate where I can SORT OF comprehend a broad outline (forcings, Mauna Loa, PPM, BBG Green, RCPs, drawdown, Hansen 2016, Kaya identity) and the more data-ey stuff (CMIP6 DECK, netCDFs, R Studio) & now it's all starting to look like this:
There's ANOTHER Benatar who believes that hell, hell is for...
Wait which book
@andrew__yarf Wait which book
➛RIP Tom T. Hall you taught me it was okay to go slithering...
RIP Tom T. Hall you taught me it was okay to go slithering through the grass and drink all the root beer.
➛I can't empty the dishwasher right now because 1,000+...
I can't empty the dishwasher right now because 1,000+ people are watching @foone livestream a Win95 machine that is about to crash after 49 days and I don't want to miss it. youtu.be/...
➛This is my favorite bit. I think about it all the time.
One of my all time faves. Every page is a nightmare.
@bcantrill One of my all time faves. Every page is a nightmare.
➛I mean that's some great baby.
Dear God. Also I saw My Life With the Thrill Kull Kult at...
Slackware circa '94/'95, It ruled. But also Caldera Network...
@film_girl Slackware circa '94/'95, It ruled. But also Caldera Network Desktop around then, too. I remember when the 2.0 kernel came out, it was faster than 1.x, and it was amazing to me that an OS could run faster than its predecessor.
➛Google Lens is being...extremely weird about cookies.
When atmospheric scientists cheat on oceanographers that's...
When atmospheric scientists cheat on oceanographers that's a current affair.
➛Sometimes (actually often) I look at the computer and go,...
Cotton totes, the new straws.
Cotton totes, the new straws.
➛NEVER TURN YOUR BACK ON THE SEA.
@ChappellTracker NEVER TURN YOUR BACK ON THE SEA.
➛My aesthetic is Sneakerwave (weather)
My aesthetic is Sneakerwave (weather) weather.gov/...
➛who better to cancel me than my own child?
@heather_merrick who better to cancel me than my own child?
➛Now she's sitting here next to me watching likes come in...
Now she's sitting here next to me watching likes come in and cackling as I get owned in real time.
➛I asked my daughter how she'd treat me if I was her...
I asked my daughter how she'd treat me if I was her daughter and she was the dad. And she thought for a moment and said “You get NO cookie. Now go read your boring Hitler books.”
➛Yeah it puts just how unbelievably bad that was into sharp...
@merveille Yeah it puts just how unbelievably bad that was into sharp relief.
➛you're right but also it's midnight and I gotta just roll...
@banannaise you're right but also it's midnight and I gotta just roll with what javascript/vega wants to give me
➛gen x is safe
No other way to interpret that data than to say you should...
No other way to interpret that data than to say you should have been at church.
➛The NOAA makes available a database of storm-related...
it broke me
@beatrixwithanx it broke me
➛I mean...it looks great!
I was thinking about you, you're utterly in the sweet spot...
Doom emacs is good (once I turned off the default vi...
Doom emacs is good (once I turned off the default vi emulation). I jumped on it after I started to configure lsp-mode and became very sad. REPL-ey modes work out of the box (as does notmuch). I never want to configure emacs again. github.com/...
➛It's also that he has all the Dennehy movies on laserdisc.
@ryanlawler It's also that he has all the Dennehy movies on laserdisc.
➛I was reminded of the greatness of this song today because...
I was reminded of the greatness of this song today because someone mentioned O'Doul's youtu.be/...
➛Delicious airpods case
It's not pleasant!
@squanderingtime It's not pleasant!
➛sqrs pls
Man are they!
Do you like open data for social good? Look at this pretty...
i know but sometimes i don't have that hill in me
@lolibrarian i know but sometimes i don't have that hill in me
➛Anyway my decided route is starting at Newkirk up...
Anyway my decided route is starting at Newkirk up Marlborough, along the left of the park (PPSW -> PPW) -> Vanderbilt -> Navy Yard -> Fulton -> Through the Wegmans Parking Lot -> Manhattan Bridge -> Bowery -> 17th St. -> Postlight. Say hi if you see me I'm a giant human and slow.
➛Also 10 years ago it was more "I will enter gridlocked car...
Also 10 years ago it was more "I will enter gridlocked car traffic alone and emerge alive" and now it's "I will follow a flow of indifferently maintained bike paths, surrounded by an absolute chaos of ebikes, escooters, eunicycles, mopeds, delivery trucks, and pedestrians."
➛I started biking again in NYC after ten years and two...
I started biking again in NYC after ten years and two things I've noticed: [1] There is 5x the infrastructure but it meets 20% of the need; [2] people love to push right up in front of everyone else at the light then CHECK their PHONES and when the light changes THEY DON'T MOVE.
➛Whoa
@spicyburgers Whoa
➛Listen I know Wankdorf is a place, I can tell the...
Listen I know Wankdorf is a place, I can tell the difference between a sign and a signifier, and I chose signifier.
➛Why can't we also have a nice wankdorf.
Nothing says “we give up” like a multiverse. “We heard you...
Nothing says “we give up” like a multiverse. “We heard you like candy.” (Dumps a Whitman's Sampler in a trough w/six lbs Jolly Ranchers on top.)
➛I think python to its enormous credit just isn't as...
That R Studio experience plus tidyverse is just magical....
Absolutely Russian space program.
@mariabustillos Absolutely Russian space program.
➛Tweet
When I'm less confused!!!
Finally
@benwerd Finally worrydream.com/...
➛Last bit: R and Jupyter notebooks are the current meeting...
Two things that I'm finding useful: learning as much of...
@benwerd Two things that I'm finding useful: learning as much of basic stats as my mind can tolerate (since the true language of climate is distributions of projected anomalies from baseline, derived from models), and this very helpful free undergrad textbook: open.oregonstate.education/...
➛At a broad level the work for digital folks is to connect...
What I'm doing is learning about (and doing client work...
i just typed "git pus" and wanted to throw up
i just typed "git pus" and wanted to throw up
➛good to know
@robynkanner good to know
➛do people still stan
do people still stan
➛SIR FIGMA IS ALREADY DOWN TO 3% WE CAN'T FIND ANY MORE ROOM...
SIR FIGMA IS ALREADY DOWN TO 3% WE CAN'T FIND ANY MORE ROOM WITHOUT—
THEN TAKE IT TO 1%
SIR THIS ISN'T ILLUSTRATOR—
GODAMMIT GIVE ME THE SCROLL WHEEL I'LL DO IT MYSELF
➛THEN TAKE IT TO 1%
SIR THIS ISN'T ILLUSTRATOR—
GODAMMIT GIVE ME THE SCROLL WHEEL I'LL DO IT MYSELF
A kaiju movie where the origin story is people in suits...
A kaiju movie where the origin story is people in suits asking designers to make the logo bigger...no BIGGER...no...BIGGER and the designers go IF I ENLARGE THE LOGO ANY FURTHER THIS WILL BE ON YOUR HANDS at which point the logos finally break free and destroy many cities.
➛I love it too but it's @prestonrichey's textmoji thing!
@bennyfactor I love it too but it's @prestonrichey's textmoji thing!
➛Well that's excellent! I'm happy you shared that.
@joeljohnson Well that's excellent! I'm happy you shared that.
➛Just biked in to the office. How you doing?
@joeljohnson Just biked in to the office. How you doing?
➛This is great! Will read.
@Qwertycris @WIRED This is great! Will read.
➛neeeeeeeerrrrrrdddddssssssss
I wrote about my uncertain relationship with nature for...
Sink, stove, lights, doors, windows.
@shabbychef @neuey Sink, stove, lights, doors, windows.
➛That's wise
I don't know if this makes sense but I think of writing in...
@j_zimms @ibogost I don't know if this makes sense but I think of writing in 2021 as "kissing the ass of a ghost," and everyone is like, WHAT are you doing? That industry is dead!, and you go, well, I know if I kiss hard enough the ghost will take care of me later, smooch smooch. But we keep going
➛"Guys listen we're going to need a lot of rhymes for...
"Guys listen we're going to need a lot of rhymes for horses." —The lead singer from The Killers.
➛Oh this album is great I'm two songs in. Thank you.
@MattLikesLBoxd Oh this album is great I'm two songs in. Thank you.
➛Exactly, I keep telling everyone I am 20.
@lisaphillips Exactly, I keep telling everyone I am 20.
➛man i just utterly understand this
@MattLikesLBoxd man i just utterly understand this
➛i mean at this point in the industry's self-destruction...
how embarrassing is it to suddenly get into the killers
how embarrassing is it to suddenly get into the killers
➛i like the way this makes me emotionally unavailable to my...
I have to go upstairs and finish my column.
The gap between the blank page and any kind of eventual...
You're right though, there's a 0.01% chance C--- could get...
Oh I'll gladly delete but how would they know WHICH cable...
Oh god we went through that. I'll light a candle in hopes...
@rstephensme Oh god we went through that. I'll light a candle in hopes you'll avoid it. But! It moves very fast so if you're not sick now you're probably good.
➛In an absolutely all time new experience someone is just...
In an absolutely all time new experience someone is just blasting overseas news on the Q train.
➛My spouse just texted me "to discuss: they have spots"...
My spouse just texted me "to discuss: they have spots" about the kids and I had a panic attack but she was talking about spots at the after-school program in September.
➛There is both a cat and dog on different parts of this Q...
There is both a cat and dog on different parts of this Q train car and the cat person just made friends with her seatmate.
➛Welcome, new friends!
They're giving up.
I also think this will change/is changing rapidly as boards...
I also think this will change/is changing rapidly as boards get involved. But I'm not sure at all how it will evolve.
➛I've been looking at the different parts of big orgs tasked...
I've been looking at the different parts of big orgs tasked with responding to climate change. It looks like if it rolls up to Risk it means the CEO cares, if it rolls up to Sustainability it means the CEO doesn't care, and if it rolls into Innovation it means no one cares.
➛"I get CO2 tanks from our local party store; I order...
"I get CO2 tanks from our local party store; I order 5-gallon bag-in-boxes of Diet Coke syrup from restaurant-supply companies." —extremely normal person @dankois slate.com/...
➛Google calm down
Which will liquefy first? Me or the air?
Which will liquefy first? Me or the air?
➛I love biking home in this weather. It becomes purely about...
I love biking home in this weather. It becomes purely about survival.
➛Oh god no
@ginevra @silviakillings Oh god no
➛I'm just a total sucker for notchey stuff like the top of...
I like it!
I like it!
➛why does twitter look like dropbox now
why does twitter look like dropbox now
➛The kids sculpted our cats out of discount kocoa krispies...
You're out walking by the decommissioned Post Office when...
Yep. Watching Powell lie at the UN, going to protests,...
This weekend after getting zero help tidying I took...
@VictoriaMia This weekend after getting zero help tidying I took pictures of paragraphs from the puberty books they find horrifying (but had left on the table), had Google lens OCR the text, pasted it into an app that does text-to-speech, and had Sonos play it through the house.
➛Imagine hearing a gentle knock, putting on a robe,...
You truly start to understand why people in the 1920s moved...
mother dislikes troublemakers
@hondanhon mother dislikes troublemakers
➛dan shhhhhh or the ai won't wake you
@hondanhon dan shhhhhh or the ai won't wake you
➛reading up on the IPCC report this AM and thinking about...
@caleb_crain reading up on the IPCC report this AM and thinking about the industrialization at the root and the thought that popped unbidden into my head was “Steamboats actually did ruin everything.”
➛PDF is a great format as a paper-analogue that can be...
Yes, it goes in and out of being a daily tool for me. If I...
@arctictony Yes, it goes in and out of being a daily tool for me. If I was in the office/meetings more often I'd use it all the time; right now I'm self-directed and working in R Notebooks/emacs.
➛I swear one of the reasons I bought a Remarkable 2 is so I...
I swear one of the reasons I bought a Remarkable 2 is so I could read these bad boys.
➛another thing that's unequivocal is that climate people...
another thing that's unequivocal is that climate people just absolutely love pdfs
➛For example glaciers are increasingly decentralized.
For example glaciers are increasingly decentralized.
➛Gosh you guys are gloomy did you ever stop and think that...
Gosh you guys are gloomy did you ever stop and think that the IPCC report might be full of good news.
➛Come sit in the handball courts with the rest of us.
@Jo_Livingstone Come sit in the handball courts with the rest of us.
➛You have no idea how jealous that makes me.
@professorlemeza You have no idea how jealous that makes me.
➛That last swirly one is the Weichel projection. These are...
That last swirly one is the Weichel projection. These are all from a tool from NASA called Panoply which I totally recommend if you enjoy being confused about geoscience. giss.nasa.gov/...
➛Web programmers: I have to research, evaluate, and choose...
Web programmers: I have to research, evaluate, and choose the exact right front-end component framework for this project.
Geoscientists:
Geoscientists:
Accurate
@tonyhschu @hondanhon Accurate
➛gdal pals
Extracting GeoTIFFs to netCDF.
Welcoming the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation...
Welcoming the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation to the marketplace of ideas.
➛I watch this five times a day.
I watch this five times a day.
➛Hello human and welcome to Google Rooms Onboarding! You...
Hello human and welcome to Google Rooms Onboarding! You have never met me but I am First Bot, and shall I get you the WEassessment scores? For it is my function!
➛I love these guys
The weird thing is that it's basically very good and works...
The weird thing is that it's basically very good and works fine.
➛Is it common knowledge that Google has a Slacklike thing...
Is it common knowledge that Google has a Slacklike thing called "Rooms" embedded directly in Gmail? I just noticed it. It has everything humans love! Including Bots that report your advertising analytics, Tasks with Optional Dates, and Google Drive. How long has it been there?
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