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Julian Day
@juliancday@writing.exchange
mastodon 4.7.3Poet, roguelike developer, pixel artist (ish), composer. Chapbooks: Late Summer Flowers (Anstruther Press), Orbits (Model Press). Editor/publisher, null pointer press. he/him
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Joined November 09, 2022
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Between LinkedIn flagging my account and demanding I give them scans of government documents to prove my identity, and reddit blocking my IP on some range for anonymous browsing (and asking I log in, when I don't have an account), they're doing the work my willpower won't.
Tonight @ Papiiro. Last performance of the summer. Love this group so much.
Remembering, for absolutely no reason at all, when one poet grumbled to me that another was incredibly insufferable.
A couple weeks ago I bought a treble booster pedal. They're a very primitive circuit, basically a transistor and a high-pass filter. Mine was very noisy after my tuner (buffer), so I tried it before. Absolutely rips. Great. So today I'm practicing before work, and turn my Strat's volume down to 0.
Made banh mi bowls for supper - spiced pork meatballs, rice, pickled vegetables, cucumber, sriracha mayo. Honestly - pretty easy and tasty. Add that to the rotation.
Time to slightly update my #introduction as it's now four years later.
I'm Julian (he/him), a software developer and writer who's spent most of his life on the Canadian prairies (SK & MB).
Twenty years ago I dropped out of my PhD & now work as a software developer. In the evenings I play guitar, viola, and horn, and neglect my poor flute. I play horn in the Winnipeg Video Game Orchestra. I write poetry and code games. I'm hoping to start running again soon. Pleased to meet you!
You know you're getting old when you read a feature on the CS department that one of your old profs shared, and you see that the current department head is now the younger brother of one of your fellow undergrad/grad students.
Have to admit, the "dumb little videos" era of the internet is my least favourite so far.
It's spring, so I'm reading Stilt Jack again.
One of my earlier poems (and one I've always loved), published in the Pi Review back in 2020. I remember writing this and having in mind the notion of two people who worked together, felt something, said nothing.
But I was going through some old files last night, and came across a journal entry from twenty-six years ago where I'd dreamed about someone who had helped me through some very difficult times back in 1996; how in that dream we were driving on the highway at night...
Have a group chat with a few friends from my last company. One just had a baby, so there were congratulations, then checking in on how people were. Asking how I was. And I answered honestly, "happiest I've been since I started as a dev in 06." Nothing's perfect but this is good. I'm grateful for it.
During the pandemic, we started playing Yahtzee with my in-laws over zoom (now over meet). Around the same time, I started sshing into a telnet BBS - kind of a nostalgia thing, I'd done that a few times over the decades, including in the early 00s where a sysop from Montreal phoned me (!) to verify my account. I think he was lonely. ANYWAY, once a month or so I play Yahtzee on a BBS. My high score came from having 2 Yahtzees. The person above me would've had 3. The score seems almost unbeatable.
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@_elena@mastodon.social It feels durable in a way that other platforms aren't - individual instances might go down, but the wider, federated whole continues without a blip.
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@turgon@dosgame.club I'm hoping this is all a bubble, but it also feels like there's way more capital sloshing around the system than there was in 1999
Winnipeg folk: next Sunday (the 24th) is the Winnipeg Video Game Orchestra's spring concert, featuring Samantha Ballard on harp! We'll be playing music from Majora's Mask, Journey, Skyrim, and more. Concert is at the Desautels Concert Hall, 3-4:30 pm. If you're interested in tickets -
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/heroes-featuring-samantha-ballard-tickets-1987180749114
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@turgon@dosgame.club If you pour too much, your tummy hurts, but if you pour too little, you don't feel any less hungry.
Throwing this out into the void of the internet: someone I've known since the late 90s has suffered a horrifying tragedy in his family, and is now helping to raise four young kids. Would appreciate boosts <3.
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@Brian@shakedown.social been here four years now, just updating the intro post every couple of years :)
@sethlombardy@saturation.social When I browse your profile I see something boosted from a day ago, and then it's stuff from 2023.