TotherAlistair @totheralistair@qoto.org
Chaotic-good Lawful-neutral project witchdoctor. Bard. Dancer. Poet. He/him. Own massage technique ("initial response technique'). Playful, wreaks havoc on the unsuspecting. Sits underwater. Current occupation: Becoming more me while making me a meme (it's a tricky, two-oared rowing activity)
Joined Oct 2022
trying to learn to put random thoughts on here, as I do on twitter.
e.g. the tweet stream by two people on the question of are the original Design Patterns still useful 30 yrs later - one said Yes, one said No.
the arg for No was all of them are superceded by simple functional programming lines these days.
the arg for Yes is.... ?
(I'm for Yes, but won't share my reasons quite yet).
[attempt 1 to start a convo here instead of on Tw]
interesting, this site doesn't seem to do a pre-fetch of a link, so there is no peek-ahead what the link gets you to - I might post some screen pic of the link in the future to serve that purpose
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bB340S0tGf8
i'm dying laughing. I can't look and I can't look away ! 🙂 die-ying
... i had to stop watching it was hurting too much.
Absolutely brilliantly done
and for a little bit of awesome today, this really pumped me up - take a look if you have a moment:
https://twitter.com/nathanbaugh27/status/1594698101981429760
with two weeks to go, making some progress on the kickstarter for my 1st poetry book --- if it speaks to you, take a look and see if you care to add your support, and with many thanks from me: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/alistaircockburn/love-trio-trio-del-amor
TotherAlistair
boosted
Jerks "mark the point beyond which we no longer know how to understand and where we can no longer love".
With 10 days gone and 3 weeks to go, my Kickstarter for the poetry book is over 1/3 funded! Please do pass this word to any poetry lovers you know. Hoping to get it funded by early December, with book on Amazon in time for Christmas presents.
Link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/alistaircockburn/love-trio-trio-del-amor
and with many thanks
the distraction we need for a few moments. It's also beautiful :
https://twitter.com/Alex_Parker/status/1590946207949783041
old post became relevant and useful again last night:
https://web.archive.org/web/20140329201828/http://alistair.cockburn.us/Using+APEs+to+clear+ANTs+from+your+mind
this animated cartoon w my big hair avatar, if you haven't seen it already:
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6993844411654623232/
Am delighted to say that after 4 days I'm almost 1/3 of the way to the Kickstarter target! is amazing - Thank you to all of my friends ... Now I'm wondering if there really are enough people to get the project to the goal - is a bit scary ... who actually wants a book of poems about love and sex (nothing R-rated)??
Love you if this speaks to you.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/alistaircockburn/love-trio-trio-del-amor
In the US, Daylight Savings Time ended today.
I got up at 8:15 as usual, groping around, a half hour later sitting with my coffee found it wasn't even 8am yet.
I finally pulled the trigger! Kickstarter for a book of poems! Kickstarter & book both bilingual, English and Spanish.
¡Por fin apreté el gatillo! ¡Kickstarter para un libro de poemas!
Kickstarter y libro ambos bilingües, inglés y español.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/alistaircockburn/love-trio-trio-del-amor
Another one is out! :) I really like the way René Schröder is doing this.
Animated version (more fun) is on linkedin:
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A6993844411654623232/
just watching this and thinking what a beautiful metaphor of life: when you get into those trees, you can't be answering questions about "How's it going?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCSfhOTI_YQ&t=226s
Rereading Borges. The impossibility of describing an impossibly different experience
Love this man's writing.
with luck Nov 5 kickstarter launch, poems draft layout eo Nov, pub Dec 7-10 in time for christmas
Friends been chasing me around for at least 15 yrs to get this poetry book out. Finally running on it. Kickstarter built, waiting for approval. I'm more nervous about this than my first tech book.
This Flight of the Bumblebee played by a brass band is at the top end of human performance, afaics
Chaotic-good Lawful-neutral project witchdoctor. Bard. Dancer. Poet. He/him. Own massage technique ("initial response technique'). Playful, wreaks havoc on the unsuspecting. Sits underwater. Current occupation: Becoming more me while making me a meme (it's a tricky, two-oared rowing activity)
Joined Oct 2022
