@mikesusz social feed.

@beep

remember swing music in the 90s?

@jerzone “but dad, isn’t that what a DMZ is for?”

this is an enormous city and it’s filled with so many people and if you witness them you see them experiencing joy and sadness and wonder and confusion. if you pay attention, you will see the spectrum of human experience and emotion.

and dogs sometimes. lots of different dogs.

my client engagement is wrapping up so this is my last work trip to NYC for a while. i celebrated it by doing something a bit different.

in every trip (including this one) i’ve stayed in or on the fringes of Midtown. the outliers being near the UN, or in the top fringe of Chelsea (where i am tonight - flower district. hello!) in the evenings i would go out and walk, to the rivers and back, to central park and back. the high line.

but tonight i took the subway to Battery Park and walked back.

@jayroh also sometimes if there’s nothing outward that you have to worry about, there’s something inward that you really have to worry about.

new york city really is magical when it’s 74 degrees in the evening.

the weather has cooled off enough that we can comfortably have the windows open and feel the breeze and hear the birds X-ing

@sarajw looks a bit like Edvard Munch to me

@hbuchel this is DJ.

@threetonesun @marcamos i know right? like hey, relax, go take a walk in the parc

@marcamos they’re all good texts maerc

@marcamos ducking autocorrect!

@jerzone wow this looks like a Sheeler painting

@jimmynotjim @irafcummings i have read that freezing stock in an ice cube tray and then dumping the cubes into a bag means you have portioned amounts of stock to throw in when you’re cooking and also try not to confuse them and put them in your cocktails

don’t judge a woodworker by the number of clamps they have. instead, judge them by whether they think they have enough clamps.

(the correct answer is no: you can never have enough clamps)

@threetonesun “do you enjoy your work?”
“meh.”

woodworking ABC’s:

Always
Be
Clamping

tonight my kids watched the Linkin Park concert from Madrid in 2010 with me. someday i’ll explain why dad was crying a little by the end of it but not tonight.

@rrriley glad it helped! if i did it over again i would have gone with a mixer that had a metal chassis. the wi-fi of the ipad makes for a bit of interference if they’re too close. but otherwise it’s been awesome.

@threetonesun @marcamos i still have one of their PC cases around here, haven’t built anything in it yet.

@marcamos

all y’all are excited about new CSS color spec but do you remember when we had to pick web216 so that colors looked the same across operating systems?

to anyone making techno music: if your track has any of the following, please reconsider:
- phone beeping noises
- talking. not singing, just talking
- alarm noises
- siren noises
- anything that sounds like a cat being sick in the next room

thank you.

@marcamos @threetonesun @collinsworth is this a chalupa or a gordita?

@marcamos i’ll build you a PC in it. or melt it down to make 4 or 5 new cars.

@threetonesun @marcamos but joe it’s a $400 loaf of bread that will last forever

@marcamos @irafcummings @arstechnica i built their wordpress-based publishing system for Announcements, one of my last big projects as a freelancer. RIP.

@marcamos hmm not sure, i got ours at our local hardware store, the big box ones didn’t have any. the important part is getting the right size; they make them with different spacing of wire to collect smaller things (e.g. acorns) and larger things (e.g. chestnuts)

@marcamos last season we used one of these to pull about 8 5-gallon pails full of acorns out of our yard. (then we cut down the oak tree that was dropping them)

@marcamos need nut rollers!

@threetonesun @marcamos i get the same nonsense on my bills. compared to my neighbors? we have 10x computers, two WFH people, central AC.

@threetonesun i don’t get why i would want my Facebook people on my Twitter. i don’t want to explain to my elderly relatives what React is or why i’m mad at HTML email.

@hbuchel

up your grilling game by using a prep bowl to cover over the plate when you pull the food off, to keep it hotter, longer.

been spending my evenings making sawdust.

a lot of the media i’ve been watching lately is based on books i’ve read, and the series/movie has taken such liberties that i don’t think it’s important to have read the source material at all really.

it has the cast of characters, the setting, the overall arc of the plot, but otherwise it’s wild in between. i’m trying to focus on enjoying it and not what deviates from the written version because … how does that promote enjoyment?

treat everyone on your team as well as you treat the intern.

@revmem oh! deep sustained sleeping sounds. around nine, nine-thirty.

@mescutia ah yeah that’s a good point. i should maybe try one of those suspended mesh-type beds for them.

there it is. my old stickerbombed laptop covers are officially “art”

re-organized my office a bit so i could put a bed next to my desk for the dogs.

@annika ahh i did deal with that for my VPS at linode. of course, i should have done 2 to 3 dist upgrades over the years … probably would have sorted out the sources problem

@annika dist upgrades are tense but in my experience they’ve gotten a lot better. with normal hardware i haven’t had a meltdown in a long time

“highfalutin” suggests the existence of “lowfalutin” and possibly “midfalutin”

once again impressed by technology.

today i got to spend all the time i wanted wandering around at home depot.

is there a psychological term for the condition where when you read anything you've ever written, no matter how recent or afar, you reflexively cringe and want to destroy it? even knowing, when you read what you replaced it with, you will reflexively cringe and want to destroy it…

Random: I made a 'Uses' page and it's fairly typical. I will be updating it as I think of new things to add and/or find all my typos. https://mikesusz.dev/uses/