evilchili @evilchili@mastodon.social

you know how a coupla years back, just as the Outage Machine was really starting to hum, there was this orthogonal push to stop tweeting about your lunch, because nobody cares about your sandwich? that was the thing I loved best about Twitter: people sharing their most mundane, their most regular experiences. It's like a warm blanket, mercifully free of judgement and outrage. I'm no Buddhist, but I really dig the concept of the sacredness of the every day.

I had grilled cheese with bacon, btw.

Hello! I do Ops at Amazon, but don't hold it against me. I'm married to the best person I know and have 4yr old twin boys I'm teaching to be empathetic, careful and considered members of society and also D&D.

I dig music. I drink coffee. I play games. I have a greyhound, Rufus; he's a lovable idiot. I have a golden apple tattoo and a fishbones tattoo and one made of unicode characters and so far I've resisted getting more. So far.

current weekend status:

For my birthday I got everyone in the party new dice, and I got myself a TPK #DND

http://telisar.evilchi.li/posts/episode_17_the_feather_and_the_ferryman/

A little pre-game #DND lore for tonight's session:

Always Pay The Ferryman - http://telisar.evilchi.li/posts/always_pay_the_ferryman/

replaced the #DND campaign tumblr with a hugo-powered static site and i am very happy about it.

Noobhammer! - http://telisar.evilchi.li/

Got busted for stealing that chair.

also it's cesspool.

Someone at work transitioned and the announcement email got so many responses of congratulations and encouragement she couldn't reply to them all.

Tech is a sesspool, so we gotta cheer for these little moments of humanity when they occur.

Dingus: Hello I'm Mr. Cool Guy.
Me: you still have yogurt on your face, Cool Guy.

#DadOps

reallocated these resources from a few rows down the hall to maximize my productivity. #DevOps #agile #FurnitureIsPower

coupla days late but finally got my Lambert House tee. ♥️

Added a lexical date parser to my #dnd campaign calendar, and used it to put together a timeline of major events because there's no hope for me now.

https://gist.github.com/evilchili/b026d19221158f78bd80a4872f5019a8

hey #language nerds, when defining a thing relative to something else, as in:

X is before Y

What is the name for Y? There's a word and I can't find it. Referent? Subject?

Okay, non-hosers, this is Tiger Tail: vanilla, orange and black licorice. As a kid visiting my grandparents summers outside London, Ontario we'd stop at the end of the road and visit Salim and Mrs. Salim's gas station and ice cream stand and I'd get tiger tail swirl.

@evilchili

Dingus (reading my shirt): Pops, what is a sucka MC?
Me: son when a rapper fronts like he can rock the party, that rapper is a sucka MC.
Dingus: so they're bad.
Me: Whack, son. They are whack.
Dingus: *nods* whack.

#DadOps

I posted this just prior to tonight's session to help set the tone. I stole it from Patrick Rothfuss's _the Wise Man's Fear_ because I am shameless. But it captures the theme of my campaign really well I think.

https://the-noobhammer-chronicles.tumblr.com/post/175157249136/thorus-and-the-beggar-man

#DND #SorryNotSorry

Several players were only able to attend a portion of tonight's session, so I framed it as an opportunity to focus in on role-play, to explore each other's back stories, and generally have a low-stress drop in/drop out night. They did not disappoint! #dnd

https://the-noobhammer-chronicles.tumblr.com/post/175164783781/episode-sixteen-come-by-my-fire

Dingus is reading us books. Shadowdingus is listening intently. #DadOps

For mandatory optional happy fun time the ops team hosted a team coffee break with donuts and waffles. Available brews: syphon, french press, v60, clever dripper, cezve, espresso, aeropress.

Breaking Bad references: 4
Alchemy references: 2
coffees served: many

PS we're hiring!