Steve Burnett @steveburnett@mastodon.social
He/him. Writer, musician/sound designer, technical anthropologist in RTP NC. I do not speak for my employer or anyone else.
Baby Driver is The Transporter of La La Land where driving is a martial art while everything is in time to the music, including sirens, gunfights, & the baristas making coffee.
Ticketmaster’s top three “personalized recommendations” for soon and upcoming local shows were Pilobolus, Slayer, and Social Distortion. Hmm. That’s better accuracy than I expected from them.
"Army of Raspberry Pi 3s" is the new "Beowulf cluster".
Okilly Dokilly (Ned Flanders of The Simpsons metalcore) is the only mosh pit I've seen at which square dancing broke out. Also performing: Beatallica. https://www.flickr.com/photos/52422536@N00/albums/72157681369597613
"Every company has a test environment. Some companies even have a production environment, too."
Where to go for dinner without reservations on Mothers' Day? WAFFLE HOUSE.
The bluetooth keyboard has a not shielded enough power switch so it occasionally turns itself on and connects to my phone. Which is why my phone kept randomly bursting into song this morning. Which was The Boondock Saints soundtrack.
Does Slack have a killfile? Asking for a friend.
In the spirit of my occasional misadventures of autocorrect: an OCR misread converted “Mephistopheles’ perspective in Goethe” to “Mephistopheles’ perspective in gardening”.
This is a great poster design for one of my favorite movies http://web.pdx.edu/~dillon4/portfolio/thefall.html
This documentation effort requires the support of The Art of Noise https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seduction_of_Claude_Debussy
What pushes me to an electric car may be the rise of gas pump video screens.
“Dremel” is the new “regular expressions”.
I quote this scene from the pilot of Magnum, P.I. far more often than one might expect. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjuQX2g8uNo
Ziploc bag, reinforced with duct tape. https://mastodon.social/media/HOy0xcYxVk8ACg9sH88
After having been required to roll up my slacks above the knee, I have decided jodhpurs are not a good look for me.
Gogol Bordello and Into the Whale at Cats Cradle Carrboro NC 10apr2017 https://www.flickr.com/photos/52422536@N00/sets/72157680681317280
THERE IS NO 3RD ANIMATION STEP IN THIS POWERPOINT SLIDE THERE IS ONLY ZUUL
Pro tip: vi commands don't work in PowerPoint.
