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Elliot Shank
@clonezone@mastodon.social
mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Music-obsessed software geek. Wrote a good chunk of Perl::Critic. Banner image is “The Gift” by Richard Notkin.
See also @clonezone / https://microblog.galumph.com
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Joined August 11, 2018
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@pjf@cloudisland.nz There's the story that, when IBM and Microsoft were working on OS/2 together, the Microsoft developers would optimize code and the IBM developers would complain about negative productivity.
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@lzg@mastodon.social @lisamelton@mastodon.social What do you mean? Haven’t you heard of the depravity of novel readers?
https://pessimistsarchive.org/list/novels
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@liontowershield Hey, I've already got that one! 🙂
Also, “Airport 1975" is currently on sale for $5 in the iTunes Store.
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@wonderofscience@mastodon.social Wow… “Blister in the Sun”?! Given the subject of the song… maybe oddly appropriate for what denizens of the pole engage in during the endless night…
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@inconceivable@zeppelin.flights Thank you so, so much @dmoren@zeppelin.flights for all of this.
No, you fake off.
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Seriously, the alcohol consumption in “Airport 1975" is amazing.
Oh, and go listen to https://www.theincomparable.com/lts/105/
🎥 Peter Hujar's Day (2025)
I didn’t get it. The artificiality. The use of Mozart choral grandness.
Why does the conversation require the weird time confusion, visual glitches, and reminders that these are actors performing? It makes one long for “My Dinner with Andre”.
The music just made me want to watch “Amadeus” again.
Shriekback - Nemesis (Official Music Video)
ABC - “A to Z”
♫ My name is Martin Fry. F. R. Y.
Who needs the moon, when we’ve got the stars? ♫
Far from the most brilliant lyrics in the world, but being track 1 of side 2 of a solid pop album, and carrying it off with aplomb makes all the difference in the world.
ABC - A to Z - 1985
Is there a term of art for when a post-Code movie's story is running along and then hits a Hays Code wall?
The new Mediæval Bæbes album is nice.
https://mediaevalbaebes.bandcamp.com/album/the-spinning-wheel
KMFDM - "Sucks”
🎵Our music is sampled, totally fake🎵
🎵It's done by machines🎵
🎵’Cause they don't make mistakes🎵
Sucks
Delivery "robot" thinks that it is stuck due to wood chips?
I really detest commands that require no separation between their option names and the option values, e.g. «fubar --option=value». That's less readable than «fubar --option value».
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crouton.net memorial (IT'S ALREADY BACK UP LOL)
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@burak@gursoy.social Whitewashing operation. /And/ they're blocking showing of “Leaving Neverland”: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/why-cant-watch-michael-jackson-doc-leaving-neverland-1235553393/
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@CARROT@mastodon.social Turns out, one of the local forecasters uses “Doom" as a handle. 😮
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@agiletortoise@mastodon.social Ah. Someone from the "so bad it's good" contingent. 😉
(n.b. This is coming from someone living in a state that failed to replace its S.o.B. this year.)
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@liontowershield@zeppelin.flights @Shelly@zeppelin.flights At about 42:35 in the episode, is someone’s audio missing? Because there are gaps that people seem to be responding to…