Jason Becker
I look at LinkedIn like once every 2 weeks and write nothing. I don’t blog or microblog anywhere about work or what I’m doing professionally. The great conscious uncoupling of my identity is well afoot.
Hopefully this just leads to better mental heath and no professional consequences of note.
Elsa: let’s go for a walk this morning!
The walk: 5 minutes to Chuck’s Trading Post for breakfast.
≈36 min set is complete, with another song pretty close. Time to book shows.
The current set list for Ancestral Worm is:
Optional: Everybody Blast Now
The one chore I absolutely have to do today is change the strings on my main electric. I hate doing it so much, but I’m playing enough now that I can’t really go longer than 4-6 weeks.
Back in 2011 I wrote about how I thought the social web should work. This isn’t what I’d describe as my ideal social web anymore, but I wish someone had taken a shot at this.
Technical debt: when all of the senior members of your team begin to grumble about the same part of the code base and/or circling introducing the same new abstraction/refactor from different angles to solve different problems.
Twitter is just a platform of bots training other bots. I can’t remember what book it was, but it reminds me of an SF book I read about a whole portion of Mars being given to the robots because they’ve been adversarially evolving for decades and it’s incredibly dangerous to enter it…
Another day, another HDCP issue.
I have somehow trained Instagram to give me primarily ads for new albums or touring bands and it’s been… a surprisingly effective music discovery tool?
I’m begging you Amazon, please stop with this war on buttons. Hardware page turn buttons are non-optional.
I’m going to end up buying a Kobo Sage aren’t I? And converting hundreds of Kindle books.
I confirmed today that I have some issues with my rotator cuff, which is what has kept me off the volleyball court almost entirely since May. I’ll need an MRI and to start physical therapy, and hopefully that’ll lead to a full recovery.
Somehow I just showed Elsa Johnny Cash’s - Hurt video for the first time and I feel like I have failed in some deep way.
Shrinking is continuing its streak of dumping straight joy into my soul.
I just learned about the Fender Meteora and… oh wow. I thought I’d be getting a Tele next for sure… but…
I have some bullshit issue with HDCP or Dolby Vision almost every day at this point and it makes me want to scream. I have changed my HDMI cables multiple times. I have modern equipment. What the hell is wrong with this industry and standard? I can’t even diagnose TV, receiver, AppleTV, or cables?
Waking up from a nightmare totally alone sucks.
Wordpress is officially in an old fashion flame war with no way out. It feels like 1999. Just like then, everyone is being a jerk who just can’t stop posting through it. Unlike then, everyone involved is incredibly rich and they have real reputations they’re putting on the line for nothing.
You know, it’s sad. I used to think that my dream next job would be to work on Tumblr. No longer.
Sunny on AppleTV is another winner.
AppleTV is building a schedule to keep me watching. Slow Horses and Bad Monkey just finished, now Shrinking is back. Silo is following. Then Severance. Right now there’s no other service giving me something every month I want to see.
Trump and Vance are lying monsters that spread fear and violence in exchange for power that they want to to use to spread fear and violence.
Their lying about FEMA’s response is just another way they prey on the people they’re meant to support and represent.
What’s a big, ridiculous sci-fi movie I probably haven’t seen that I should watch since I’m home alone tonight and just broke fast?
Elsa went away for the weekend and it’s Yom Kippur. I’m going to be whining so much.