Notices by Downes 🍁 (downes@mastodon.social), page 20

When I was in grade 7, I was sent to the principle's office. Why? We all had to line up before going into class. I convinced everyone in the line to put their hands on their head and make clanking noises like chains. #smallstories

This is looking across the tracks from the road out front, toward the new subdivision. There are roads and streetlights but no houses yet, which produces this unusual arrangement of lights in the evening misty rain. https://mastodon.social/media/PChc9kAnRVIfCmRp2Jk

Spending the day coding gRSShopper and listening to a brand new Brandi Carlile album - http://bytheway.brandicarlile.com/ - lovely way to spend a February Sunday afternoon

Here are my photos from Winterlude yesterday. https://flic.kr/s/aHsmeq45HC https://mastodon.social/media/e_EKPwNsHgqye-xdcMc

Another gRSShopper update photo, showing course discovery and access. https://mastodon.social/media/AUf1EEvgF0hxxcYAyDE

@rockthrower Pandora is only available in the U.S. right now. Something to keep in mind if you like music when you're travelling.

I once had a teacher tell the class that Lake Huron is larger than Lake Superior. Being a geography nerd, I was quick to correct her. The next day I came in with proof in the form of the World Almanac (which I would read every day). She then told me that I had actually said that Lake Huron was the larger of the lakes, and that *she* had said Lake Superior was the largest. My first experience of gaslighting. #smallstories

Confirmed, inbox emails are gone. Now - what do I say to those people who "favourited" my status?

I think I've accidentally deleted all the emails in my personal email inbox. So, um, inbox zero? #smallstories

@theartguy I declare a new advance on STEAM, the next generation of education: HYDRO (Humanities, Yardwork, Drama, Russian, Oration).

When I was young I thought the lines on roads were for motorcycles. #smallstories

@zacts too late, that's already been done

@lauraritchie after this long I think they owe you a decision. Though that said I submitted an article in October and am still waiting (that's why I rarely publish).

@lauraritchie no stream. I think they videoed it. I recorded audio. Health just barely held out; lost my voice during questions.

I have my talk today. Feeling very under the weather.

Eating a pork chop at a cafe in Bayonne. https://mastodon.social/media/dE02XQw4FFUyx4exqbI

@nolan interesting article. Well worth the read. I don't think this is an issue unique to open source. Volunteer burn-out is a problem across domains. So I think the feelings you have will resonate outside the oss community.

@lauraritchie No news? No comedy? No science fiction?

What I listen to and watch:
- This Week in Technology (podcast)
- Anderson Cooper 360 (podcast)
- Titus Armageddon Update (podcast)
- PBS Newshour (podcast)
- All in a Day (radio)
- CBC Newsworld (morning TV)
- CTV News Ottawa (evening TV)
- Netflix (night)
- NHL/MLB game (night)
- Google Music (at work)
- Stephen Colbert (lunch)
- Canada Live (Fridays)
- Wheel of Fortune / Jeopardy (eve)
- KEXP Live Music (videos)
- YouTube (fail,music,games)
- No Man's Sky (video game)
- 88.5 Alt rock (radio)

What I like is that it's called Strawberry Field Theory... http://www.openculture.com/2018/01/western-music-moves-in-three-and-even-four-dimensional-spaces-how-the-pioneering-research-of-princeton-theorist-dmitri-tymoczko-helps-us-visualize-music-in-radical-new-ways.html