Shawn K. Quinn @skquinn@octodon.social

Profanity and racism: an example of how not to lead https://www.rantroulette.com/2018/01/profanity-racism-example-not-lead/

Fifteen seconds before midnight https://www.rantroulette.com/2018/01/fifteen-seconds-midnight/

https://www.skqrecordquest.com -- I have not set up this blog to toot posts automatically just yet, but will shortly. In the meantime you can browse the archives including a post I made just now about a pinball tournament I played in on Sunday.

Net neutrality protests today at selected Verizon stores #stopthefcc https://www.rantroulette.com/2017/12/net-neutrality-protests-today-selected-verizon-stores-stopthefcc/

Is WordPress's new Gutenberg editor going to be its "new Coke"? https://www.rantroulette.com/2017/11/wordpresss-new-gutenberg-editor-going-new-coke/

How did Apple manage to screw up the iOS calculator app? https://www.rantroulette.com/2017/11/apple-manage-screw-ios-calculator-app/

In re Bob McNair's gaffe of 2017 October https://www.rantroulette.com/2017/10/re-bob-mcnairs-gaffe-2017-october/

On our nation's leadership and protests by professional athletes https://www.rantroulette.com/2017/10/nations-leadership-protests-professional-athletes/

@zacanger Concise, yes, but it could also be said to look more like Sanskrit or "code that went through a trash compactor." (The latter phrase being used more often to describe badly written Forth.)

@fobo It's a great tune. I didn't know until a few months back that he wrote Jacob's Ladder for Huey Lewis and the News. Bruce performed his own version live at some point and it's... interesting. Different, not at all like the Huey version.

@peroty Asteroids, Google software? #massivefail

@djsundog @viciousviscosity Shows what I (don't) know about modern audio equipment.

@noelle Ah. Someone told me he was high on some kind of illicit drug, possibly pot. Good to set the record straight after all these years.

@viciousviscosity Nice. How the heck did they do that, I wonder?

@noelle Drunk? I thought he was high on pot.

@jk I hope we still have non-microwave ovens in the future. I have quit eating microwaved food (or at least, made my best effort to avoid it completely) for a variety of reasons.

@craigmaloney @djsundog The "killer poke" wasn't ever intended to fry the monitor on a PET, its primary function as I understand it was to get text to display faster. Some PETs were vulnerable to it but Commodore did fix later versions of the hardware once they learned of the problem. http://www.6502.org/users/andre/petindex/poke/index.html

@Siphonay Say what you will about Hillary, but she wouldn't have made gaffes like this, or half the other big time screwups that DJT has made in his first year as president.

@Siphonay I'm still disappointed that MNG never took off. GIF is so 1990s it's not funny.

Leaving the announcer's booth: one analyst's unusual but justified reason for quitting https://www.rantroulette.com/2017/10/leaving-announcers-booth-one-analysts-unusual-justified-reason-quitting/