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Steve Ivy

When you’ve managed to make it too hot for cacti to survive, you’ve broken the desert. #climatechange #cacti #heatwave

Cacti need to cool down at night or through rain and mist. If that does not happen they sustain internal damage. Plants now suffering from prolonged, excessive heat may take months or years to die, Hernandez said.

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Phoenix has it's own "I can't Breathe" case. The outcome was exactly the same

AZCentral: Phoenix has its own ‘I can’t breathe’ case. The outcome was far different

“Three years ago, Phoenix had its own “I can’t breathe” case. But its outcome has so far been very different than that of George Floyd’s.”

Let’s see, black man doing basically nothing at the time:

“In 2017, Muhammad Abdul Muhaymin Jr. tried to take his dog with him to the bathroom at a city community center in west Phoenix. The police were called, discovered he had a warrant for his arrest, and decided to detain him.”

Sounds the same to me. Maybe the police response was entirely different?

At least four officers got on top of him and held him down. Some put their knees on his neck and head.

Exactly like George Floyd. Perhaps Muyaymin was released without harm?

“I can’t breathe,” Muhaymin is heard saying several times in police body camera footage. When officers eventually got off him, Muhaymin had no pulse, according to comments from officers in the video, and lay in a pool of his own vomit.

With the same unnecessarily violent, incomprehensibly callous response from law enforcement, same tragic outcome for a non-violent black man.

The outcome was exactly the same. The “outcome” that matters is the life or death of this black man. The rest is just wrap up.

Once the headline had to say Phoenix had it’s own ‘I can’t breathe’ case, it was too late. I want to see the headlines saying “Our community has not had a case of police brutality in 5 years”, “…10 years”, “… 50 years”.

#georgefloyd #racism #death #mentalhealth

Steve Ivy

Oh my Fascination Street #bass #thecure #alternative1989

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Steve Ivy

Expiring Federal social distancing guidelines

Trump seeks to further distance himself from increasingly unpopular and politically costly coronavirus lockdowns.

“Unpopular”, “politically costly”, but effective at flattening the curve. I think maybe people don’t realize that in order to #flattenthecurve on #covid19 you have to maintain the suppression activities over the life of the curve. If you stop, the curve goes back up.

This are projections for Arizona from CovidActNow.org:

http://monkinetic.blog/uploads/flatten-the-curve-lift-restrictions.png

Right now the “expected hospitalizations” curve is nice and flat, but lift the restrictions on activities too soon, and the demand for beds exceeds supply in about 10 days. Calling for new restrictions after they’ve been lifted would be a hard sell to a population frustrated with the isolation and hurting from the economic effects we’re already seeing. There’s no easy answer, but I believe that solutions are going to involved more government aid to – yes, small businesses – but especially to disadvantaged populations who are getting hit the worst.

#lockdown #stayhomestaysafe

#flattenthecurve #covid19 #lockdown #stayhomestaysafe

Steve Ivy

In order to fix my archives and daily digests, I might have to address timezone handling on my blog. Or I might just stop blogging #timezonehell #blogging #programming

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Steve Ivy

Thread: https://twitter.com/timkmak/status/1251936242834563073 – Same people resisting masking, different pandemic. #COVID19 #masksforall #publichealth

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Steve Ivy

I need suggestions for some wholesome content to put on my extra screen that is NOT minute-by-minute pandemic information #mh #mentalhealth

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Steve Ivy
Steve Ivy

Getting my Matrix on #thematrix

http://monkinetic.blog/uploads/matrix_music.png

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Steve Ivy

Converting a small playground #python data pipeline from ruffus to #apachebeam and wrecking my assumptions

https://beam.apache.org/

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Steve Ivy

Reading through some Apache Beam examples in #python #apache #dataprocessing

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Steve Ivy
Steve Ivy

MONSTER Blew My Mind

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R.E.M. recently celebrated the 25th anniversary of the release of 1994’s MONSTER, an album that french-fried expectations of both critics and fans of R.E.M., after the success of the rich, string and mandolin-y flow of ‘92’s Automatic For The People.

Me? I loved AFTP so completely. I have multiple singles and special releases, including the one in an actual wooden box with vellum prints of the band (back when packaging was a thing). I was living in the states when MONSTER was released, and I recall rushing to play it for my small group of friends, who honestly looked at me like I was insane. Monster was SO different, so raw, simultaneously in your face and hiding behind a flash facade. Grinding electrics, stripped back thumping percussion, and Michael Stipe alternatively crooning or growling.

The first track, and first single, Whats the Frequency, Kenneth? – I was hooked from the first guitar, and Buck’s possibly-recorded-backwards-then-played-forwards solo left me agape. My CD copy of the single is scratched now beyond believe, but treasured.

Crush with Eyeliner’s droning guitar wah, backed by Mike Mill’s walking bass lines #chefskiss she’s three miles of bad road

Make your moneyKing of Comedy introduced voice-crushing compression on Stipe’s and Mills’ vocals, perhaps for the first time? I was all “whuuuh whoa”

I don’t sleep I dream, dreamy piano, atmospheric distortion, and a more tom-driven drum background that keeps the song less driven than almost rolling forward. Also featuring Stipe – Stipe’s falsetto – on lead vocals.

Star 69 starts fast, stays fast, and still Mike Mills lays down interesting bass lines throughout. The title makes sense to us olds, ask your mother. squirrelies didn’t chew the wire

“I don’t know, why you’re mean to me”, starts Strange Currencies, a slow, rising tune that doesn’t so much confront as much as wish. Stipe brings his plaintive, meaningful voice to this and I’m there for it. During a bridge, playing the strings above the bridge of his guitar, Buck adds a childish, toy-like section that is both sweet and creepy.

Tongue is a full falsetto crooner from Stipe, over a (likely Mills-provided) Hammond organ. Not my favorite track on the album, but I won’t skip it either.

Bang and Blame is a pretty full rocker, still with Bill Berry’s steady but tom-heavy drums keeping the song rolling more than driving. The guitars, with a long, echoey reverb, are more accent than impact.

Nice tag at the end, too.

I Took Your Name is another guitar-heavy rocker, with the wah and distortion cranked to 11. Another one that’s not a fave, but I usually won’t skip it. It definitely has its moments. There was some confusion, some confusion, as to who’s to blame

Let Me In – another song I will often put on repeat, Let Me In is Stipe’s, and the bands’, tribute to Kurt Cobain. The guitar is heavy, droning, omnipresent. I believe in concert Mike Mills sometimes played Cobain’s left-handed sky blue guitar for this track. Stipe’s voice is almost reverent, plaintive, then powerful as he sings out his love for Cobain.

Circus Envy – another WTF tune that is really fun to listen to even while SMH at the crawling, self-loathing lyrics. Put pepper in my coffee I forgot to bark ON COMMAND

YouI woke up in a sleeping bag, with no where else to run I love you crazy just keep on I love you madly just keep on I love this album just keep on

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#music #r.e.m. #chefskiss

Steve Ivy

Progress today: post editing and deleting, many template updates.

I managed NOT to throw the laptop across the room when figuring out golang html/template :win:

Working on a @TravisCI build pipeline, here’s to again not throwing my laptop

#goldfrog #blogging #writetheweb

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Steve Ivy

I’m not sure, but I think Userland Manila was the first blog software I used that had the new post form integrated right into the front page. Tonight I got #goldfrog doing the same, and I am SO excited. #writefortheweb https://t.co/dEGOZRbPyj

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Steve Ivy

@peter_ravn @jephjacques #wearethedatabase

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Steve Ivy

@DenimAlley BTW please let me know if I can borrow one of the registered FTOs (Forces of Total Obliteration), I have a cat here who’s driving me crazy… #therook

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Steve Ivy

Is there anyone @bandcamp that can help me with a broken gift purchase? #bandcamp #radiohead oops

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Steve Ivy

“SystemExtensions is a new framework that allows to install and manage user-space code that extends the capabilities of macOS.” #extensionhell #conflictcatcher https://t.co/kW1EM2V1mu

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Steve Ivy

Any tips for interviewing your engineering manager’s replacement? #headscratch

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The Political Machinations of Disenfranchisement, 2016

> “I don’t want everybody to vote. Elections are not won by a majority of the people. They never have been from the beginning of our country and they are not now. As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.”

The New Face of Jim Crow: Voter Suppression in America – People For The American Way

Working to discourage one’s political opponents’ supporters has a long history, but the machinations on display in the last decade, and this election in particular, are offensive.

Election committees are moving polls to difficult-to-reach areas in youth and minority populations, as Jonathan Katz tweets:

Donald Trump is encouraging his supporters to:

> “…go down to certain areas and watch and study, and make sure other people don’t come in and vote five times”

Trump Is Recruiting an Army of Poll Watchers. It’s Even Worse Than It Sounds. [Emphasis mine.]

Pro-Trump trolls are buying fake Clinton ads on Twitter targeting minorities, telling them they can text in their votes (you can’t):

>The recent social media ads target Clinton supporters with the hashtag #ImWithHer and give instructions to “Vote Early” by texting “Hillary” to the number

Some other tactics being deployed, mostly derived from the aforementioned PFAW study:

Burdensome of ID Laws

From my own home state of Arizona:

> In November of 2004, Arizona voters passed Proposition 200, which implemented harsh voter identification requirements (as well as proof-of-citizenship requirements—discussed in the next section of this report). The law requires voters who cast a ballot at a polling place on Election Day to present photo identification deemed “acceptable” by Arizona’s Secretary of State, such as a driver’s license, or two alternate forms of ID that include the name or address of the voter such as a utility bill or a bank statement. Such requirements can disenfranchise voters without photo ID by making it hard for them to cast ballots if they live at a residence where someone else, such as a spouse, parent, or roommate pays the bills, or if they are uninformed about the rules. Students, the poor, and senior citizens are among the groups that are most likely to be adversely affected.

Proof-Of-Eligibility as Voter Intimidation

> In this corner of rural Georgia, African-Americans are arrested at a rate far higher than that of whites.

> But the deputy had not come to arrest Mr. Flournoy. Rather, he had come to challenge Mr. Flournoy’s right to vote.

Critics See Efforts by Counties and Towns to Purge Minority Voters from Rolls

Fear-Mongering and Voter Registration

>Such proof-of-citizenship requirements are often rationalized through fear tactics—namely the claim that non-citizens (especially “illegal immigrants”) are attempting to register to vote. But no evidence exists to indicate that this is a problem.

The New Face of Jim Crow: Voter Suppression in America – People For The American Way

Reduced Polling Resources and Lines

In communities where the number of polling places and hours of operation are reduced, resulting long lines impact voter turnout.

> While long lines can suppress the vote in any precinct, evidence indicates that such lines often form at polling places that are frequented by students, people of color, and low-income voters who often do not have the time or the resources to wait many hours.

The New Face of Jim Crow: Voter Suppression in America – People For The American Way

In North Carolina, as one example, Republicans lobbied to limit the hours during which minorities tended to vote:

>Emails uncovered by Reuters through a public records request revealed that local Republican leaders lobbied at least 17 county election boards to limit the hours that voting sites could stay open — particularly to cut down on weekends and evenings, when Democratic voter turnout tends to be higher

North Carolina Republicans conspired to limit early voting to keep African-Americans from the polls

#imwithher

Randomized color choices in SASS

For a bit of variety, I decided to figure out how to generate a new front page header background and link colors whenever I rebuilt the blog (new posts, etc). This is still a static site, so no wizzy javascript stuff, I just wanted to do it in SASS.

This is what I came up with.

    $colors-list: (
      // background color, link color
      #DAE076 #AD5C55,
      #A9C9C5 #4A676D,
      #AD5C55 #5E7D68,
      #374768 #718A8A,
    );
    $color-index: random(length($colors-list));
    
    // Header description box
    $colors: nth($colors-list, $color-index);
    $header-desc-background-color: nth($colors, 1);
    // Link color
    $link-color: nth($colors, 2);

I may rework this as a map (dictionary) later on so I can add other theme-y things, but it was kinda fun to work out for now.

#374768 #718a8a #dae076 #a9c9c5 #themes #programming #ad5c55 #4a676d #5e7d68 #sass #css

Steve Ivy

Holy Cow Tom Jones

#thewexfordcarols

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Steve Ivy

@thehighlandway @marypcbuk we can only honor the dead, wounded and survivors if we are real about their experiences #warishell

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Steve Ivy
Steve Ivy

We talked about #gamergate, harassment of women in gaming and more. Eye opening and she wants to talk more. #themoreyouknow

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Steve Ivy

Dubstep videos featuring robots > Dubstep videos featuring objectified women #themoreyouknow #equality

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Steve Ivy

Glad that I don’t fall into several of these categories, and squirming that I do. #sexism #themoreyouknow http://t.co/cWqlHUdT4k

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Steve Ivy

When you fix that frustrating bug right as a great song from your favorite band comes on. All the win. #chairdance #checkitin

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Steve Ivy

Not really #theconstructioning but I made a berm today. Dirt is heavy. http://t.co/o3yUqLqkIh

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Steve Ivy

The completed concrete pad #theconstructioning http://t.co/Xa0TdWnIPS

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Steve Ivy

That wheelbarrow wasn’t quite as fun to use as it was to buy #theconstructioning

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Steve Ivy

I could watch this stuff all day #theconstructioning http://t.co/fIEFUe2A9y

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Steve Ivy

I’m building a new shop/garage so I can do more of something I love - make things out of metal. #theconstructioning #domoreofwhatyoulove

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Steve Ivy
Steve Ivy

When I am king, there will be no end to bacon and the bacon will be without end. #wheniamking

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Steve Ivy

Sunday I said goodbye to @markboxapp, a failed product I still love. Today I’m writing its personal-sized little brother. #help

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Steve Ivy

@wilw I need you cool. Are you cool? #photoshopwilwheaton http://t.co/PrfbFHSwK3

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Steve Ivy

How the heck is @mattgemmell 35 years old?? I recall him being like 23. #theolds

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Steve Ivy

My sunglasses are truly offensive. Extremely polarizing. #seewhatididthere

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Steve Ivy

Watching Thriller video in line at Kings Dominion. 13-yo: “creepy” #kidsthesedays

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Steve Ivy

Muppet training today. Oh, wait i mean Puppet. #puppetflail #thepuppetshow

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Steve Ivy

Reports are coming in that the new Glitch Mob is EPIC. #headbangarang #moarbeats #chairdance

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Steve Ivy

Start iTunes Radio station based on 1990 R.E.M. song, immediately crushed by melancholy of hearing Tori Amos, James, etc…. #dreamofthe90s

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Steve Ivy

@lmorchard Chairface Chippendale. Get it right, nerd. :-) #someoneiswrongontheinternet

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Steve Ivy

Listening to Daft Punk SO LOUD. #soloud #loud #aroundtheworld

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Steve Ivy

I’ve updated my post about a weird sqlalchemy error I don’t understand: http://t.co/VCRMTJwH32 #help

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Steve Ivy

Glory Box. So sublime. #portishead

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Steve Ivy

OH: “They’re coming they’re coming!” Kids watching the Krispy Kreme conveyer belt. #thegoodlife

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Steve Ivy

Finally using OS X’s built-in Tweet widget as a “fewer distractions” mode. Makes Twitter “write-only” while client is closed. #theshed

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Steve Ivy

@Gawker @strategiclee I wish people would be up front about the “unarmed/inert” part of that story. #badheadlines

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Steve Ivy

Why do I have “Jet City Woman” running through my head as “Blog City Woman”? #queensryche

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Steve Ivy

Real Steel: the 80’s feel-good fighting robot movie with the 90’s grunge and techno and 00’s hip-hop soundtrack. #iamtheaudience

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Steve Ivy

Sure you can pick up the new Mac Pro by the top, but you’re going to want the burn unit nearby. #thermalcore #WWDC

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Steve Ivy

Summertime is almost enough to drive me back to an office #kidsinthehall #andoffice #andkitchen

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Steve Ivy

RT @cjeffblaine: Polite request for #opschef dev community to not assume all interested people have lived a life of daily Ruby development …

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Steve Ivy

Ah, some quality time with an angle grinder. #whatthedoctorordered

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Steve Ivy

Another awesome @fastly moment: found another employee who loves Mystery Men as much as I do. #theshovelerishammered

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Steve Ivy

Since I don’t have a dribbbbbble invite…

http://t.co/amhhVvif

What do you think? #markboxapp #design #makethelogobigger

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Steve Ivy

Whoever finds and distributes the Star Wars OTR will rule the nerd world. #starwars #findtheotr

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Steve Ivy

RT @Ihnatko: “James Cameron doesn’t do what he does for James Cameron. James Cameron does what he does because he IS James Cameron.” #HE

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Steve Ivy

OH: “I keep going on first dates with girls without smartphones.” #welltheresyourproblem

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Steve Ivy

@kcunning A blog engine has long been my goto “hello world”. But then, I’m old. #dreamofthe90sisaliveinblogging

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Steve Ivy

@raster I never said it wasn’t my list! :-D #youngatheart #ningas

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Steve Ivy

@monkchips Nerdsplosion. #crossthestreams #dubstep

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Steve Ivy

Just launched the OPML editor, and I’m having flashbacks. #dreamofthe90s

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Steve Ivy

“You have successfully purchased ‘Dinosaurs on a Spaceship’” #thedoctor

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Steve Ivy

9yo son has discovered the old Godzilla cartoon. #upfromthedepths #oldskool

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Steve Ivy

@jezhumble Is the Enterprise ready for DevOps? Well, they had Scotty. #godfatherofdevops /cc @monkchips

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Steve Ivy

Firing up my first non-headless vagrant box, for linux (ubuntu maverick) browser testing. I’m afraid. #linuxonthedesktop

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Steve Ivy

Once again, bitten by the “git pushed but didn’t knife upload” brian bug. #dammitchef

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Steve Ivy

@bitprophet are you taking over maintaining Paramiko? Did I miss the news? Or have you always maintained it? #behindthetimes

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Steve Ivy

@tswicegood Worst part? or BEST PART? #anywayyouwantit #thatsthewayyouneedit

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Steve Ivy

Writing a blog post on Chef, Vagrant and Fabric. #allthetoys

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Steve Ivy

I walk through minefields #theprodigy

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Steve Ivy

I want to love the Prometheus movie: but the latest trailer reminds me that I don’t handle squick very well. #notthetargetaudience

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Steve Ivy

Vagrant + a provisioner is kind of magic. #vagrant #chef #devops

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Steve Ivy

I believe in what you do, I believe in forking you #REMcoderanthems

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Steve Ivy

git is the choice, git in my heart, git is the truth, git is the word, git is the tears #REMcoderanthems

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Steve Ivy
Steve Ivy

I hit 150 today, a huge milestone for me. #health #nerds

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Steve Ivy

Yes, I just bought a Golden Earring song. #whenthebullethitsthebone

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Steve Ivy

I’ve now lost 15lbs since reducing refined sugars, a lot of carbs, and watching calories. I feel so much better - I never knew. #health

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Steve Ivy

Took my belt in an extra notch this morning #health #winning

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Steve Ivy

As of this morning, I’ve lost 10 lbs. in 2 weeks, largely due to a combination of quitting most sugars, and increased exercise. #health

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Steve Ivy

Pakistan looks a lot like a Right Whale. #themoreyouknow

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Steve Ivy

I’m down to a half-teaspoon of sugar in my coffee, from 3tsp a month ago. #healthwithcoffee

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Steve Ivy

I love the idea of @sprintly but I seem to be having a hard time getting my brain around the “as a ___ I want ___ so that ___” format. #help

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Steve Ivy

Standing in line at apple store for iPod shuffle while my new iPhone restores from iCloud backup. #thefutureisnow

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Steve Ivy

My mother is helping my daughter with her spelling homework over iChat video. #thefutureisnow

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Steve Ivy

I need an iPhone with NFC so I can set Reminders for the kitchen, bedroom, garage, etc. #addneedhelp

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Steve Ivy

@kantrn Got kinda far last night adding packages to my run list, but failing to grok how to get started on my own cookbooks/recipes. #chef

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Steve Ivy

Damn, got spooked and got off MAX long before city center #itsdarkouthere #djangocon

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Steve Ivy

Headed to #djangocon tomorrow evening. Not early, but I won’t be late! Looking for a break from the MonthInHell. #phxweather

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Steve Ivy

No idea what kind of app Battleheart is; first thought was some kind of mortal-kombat-via-stellar thing. /cc @yo_stellar #warsoftheinternets

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Steve Ivy

having the feature-branch model pounded into me by doing support fixes #gitintherealworld

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Steve Ivy

Coding, watching for the start of the Steve-note, and rocking out to @weirdal #wheniwasyourage

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Steve Ivy

we hang out in an irc channel named after lunch and an actor with six degrees, and have a pet bot named stabbers #wearetheexaparters

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Steve Ivy

“worked in the coal mine 22 hours a day for just half a cent” #wheniwasyourage

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Steve Ivy

Apple should name their next OS “System XI” #backtothefuture

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Steve Ivy

“a greater level of clarity and control” – new @twitter oauth perms give clarity, not control. http://t.co/n4CDmjo #oauthcheckboxes

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Steve Ivy

a rogue twitter subscription for “obama” may have killed our @twitter API rate limit. #missionaccomplished

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Steve Ivy

that endorphin drop when code works? I HAZ IT. #feeltherush

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Steve Ivy

@zeldman @anildash Great discussion… Get a blog post! #savetheinanityoftwitter

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Steve Ivy

“I’m being really clever up here and there’s no one standing around looking all impressed. What the point of having you all?” #thedoctor

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Steve Ivy

Will Doctor Who (BBC America) be on iTunes (oh god PLEASE SAY YES) #thedoctor #amypond

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Steve Ivy

I can’t find the browser tab this video is playing in #icanhearyou

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Steve Ivy

@chaddickerson @rands please tell me that’s going to be on http://t.co/AJSaPpr #savethedate

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Steve Ivy

my sick wife, having gone through seasons 1 -3 of Doctor Who, now turns her attention to season 1 of 24. #ivelosther

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Steve Ivy

RT @amazonmp3: Today only, get Eponymous by @remhq for $3.99 http://amzn.to/ffL6xw #itstheendoftheworldasweknowit #andifeelfine

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Steve Ivy

@ethank I await the advent of the blipvert #maxheadroom

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Steve Ivy

Also daughter came in at 4 am saying she was ready for school. Sent her back bed. Now I see she already made her lunch. #yesshesready

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Steve Ivy

the cure for all morning blahs. Fast European goa trance. #nerdfromthenineties

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Steve Ivy

Ques. for web freelancers: do you accept Paypal, and if so, how do you handle Paypal’s surcharge? #thelifeindie

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@wilshipley my first real hospitalization of adult life involved a nailgun, 12d nail, and a doc with channel locks. #heylooksears

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Steve Ivy

attempting to install Adobe CS4. If I’m not back in 6 hours, send help. #installerhell

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Steve Ivy

Anyone else catch the “Gru-ray Disc” logo in Despicable Me? #harharthefunny

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Steve Ivy

implemented a feature using #gargoyle for #django today. Seriously cool stuff. #featureswitches

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Steve Ivy

oh, and I’m back in front of my computer. #themoreyoukknow

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Steve Ivy

Clad in trash bags and rain ponchos, the kids are playing penguin on the hill outside. #wheeeeeeeeee

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Steve Ivy

2.5 years of projects takes approx. 3 hours to delete (securely, that is) #thethingsyoulearn

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Steve Ivy

Day 2 with Daft Punk’s Tron score as the only thing in rotation. #tronlegacy #theusersarereal #flynnlives

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Steve Ivy

Listening to “Arena” by Daft Punk ♫ #theusersarereal

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Steve Ivy

Daft Punk’s score for TRON:Legacy is kicking my ass. I have to see this film. Now. #theusersarereal http://amzn.to/fnnmcw

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Steve Ivy

Fact: the theme song from Transformers G1 will always take me to my happy place. #themoreyouknow

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Steve Ivy

@grantimahara Kari installing burst discs? the area will shortly be a DANGER ZONE. #highwaytothemythbusters

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Steve Ivy

2nd cup of coffee after 2 days without. GOD I love caffeine. #howimissedthejitters

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Steve Ivy

Ping’s killer feature is the iPhone/iPod integration, not iTunes. Simpler UI, doesn’t feel like bloat, feels social on mobile. #heyarhyme

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Watching a film classic with the wife (So I Married An Axe Murderer) #the90s

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Steve Ivy

the ceiling fan in my office is squeaking out the perfect rhythm for “the goatherd’s song” from the Sound of Music. #yodeleheehoo

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Steve Ivy

What they don’t tell you about having a root canal on a molar - it’s pretty much four root canals. #themoreyouknow

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Steve Ivy

Dur “All seats general admission”. #getthereearly

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Steve Ivy

I love that there are so many folks at @sixapart that get it #biasedbutawesome #disclaimergoeshere

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Steve Ivy

Evidently no way to avoid pulling down a large chunk of drywall in the bathroom ceiling. Above it is blown insulation. #theresgonnabeamess

~ # 00:12 ~

Steve Ivy

@tiffchow How can Facebook apps be considered for the Webbies? There’s not on the “web”. :-/ #thenewaol

~ # 21:04 ~

Steve Ivy

dangit, i meant: i swear @grantimahara doesn’t look old enough to have worked on R2D2 #therearenoprequels

~ # 20:11 ~

Steve Ivy

i swear @grntimahara doesn’t look old enough to have worked on R2D2 #therearenoprequels

~ # 20:08 ~

Steve Ivy

just inhaled a steaming bowl of last night’s palak kheema with naan and lime pickle. #themoreyouknow

~ # 19:27 ~

Steve Ivy

just powered through a quarter-bag of chocolate-covered peanut-butter-filled pretzels. OMNOMNOM #worththepain

~ # 01:38 ~

Steve Ivy

@kevinshay “This… is… FETAAAAAAAA!” #cheesemovielines

~ # 03:47 ~

Steve Ivy

back to work now, anticipating tonight’s plumbing adventure #adventureisoutthere

~ # 20:47 ~

Steve Ivy

getting back to my roots with TurboCAD. #hewasthesonofanarchitect

~ # 04:58 ~

Steve Ivy

re @gravity wow, I’m the cranky new guy, eh? #heykidsgetoffmylawn

~ # 23:07 ~

Steve Ivy

(cont’d) …but emacs has so many hooks. And I do love me some hooks. #emacs #mygoditsfullofparentheses

~ # 05:25 ~

Steve Ivy

@mark_a_morgan you’re joking, right? Mohinder got his name by being Mo’hindrance to the good guys. No spine whatsoever. #heroesfannomore

~ # 20:23 ~

Steve Ivy

Also, enjoying the fact that my Parmesan-containing sauce plus the salmon would make Scott Conant purple with rage. #cheesewithfish #chopped

~ # 20:16 ~

Steve Ivy

ugh. Monday. Morning. #twothingsthathategreattogether

~ # 15:10 ~

Steve Ivy

@chrismessina I feel like a victim in a #maxheadroom movie.

~ # 15:50 ~

Steve Ivy

OH: there are roughly three main characters in the book: Bilbo, Gandalf and The Dwarves (a hive mind of treasure hungry midgets). #thehobbit

~ # 14:30 ~

Steve Ivy

40 year olds (who did not ride as kids) should not ride skateboards #protip #themoreyouknow

~ # 21:28 ~

Steve Ivy

Item on a family friend’s Christmas todo list: “blow up the gingerbread house” #crowningmomentofawesome #betterwithexplosives /cc @seanmctex

~ # 15:14 ~

Steve Ivy

got a display replacement at genius bar last night for my crud-infested iPhone screen. Now the ear-level speaker doesn’t work. #heygenius

~ # 19:08 ~

BBEdit Shell Worksheets

I’d never used MPW, so when I (almost accidentally) opened up one of BBEdit’s new Shell Worksheets, I was a bit perplexed as to what I was looking at. It looked like a lot of text - a document - but there were commands in there as well - and the type of document I was looking at suggested that you could do something with them. Indeed, say the instructions - put the cursor at the end of one of the lines containing a shell command, and BBEdit AutoMagically behind the scenes runs the command in a shell, and dumps the output right into your document. OMG. This is… amazing. Hm. Combine this with a command-line xmlrpc client, and strange (and frightening?) things could happen… Muahahaha -)

#I can put anything in here, notes, comments, whatever,
#then put my cursor at the end of the next line and hit “enter”…

uptime
7:49PM up 2 days, 23:13, 5 users, load averages: 1.30, 1.17, 1.06

#then