kuepker.me
Seattleite since the 90s. Motorcyclist/Bicyclist. Site Reliability Engineer. Leadership by Anecdote. Owned by Cats. Proud Papa of a Washington State Coug.
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I love how it just gets more chaotic as the list progresses!
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Outstanding! My wife still rocks a bunch of vintage shades from the 50s to the 80s
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Sorry. We’re trying to figure out how to get it back here. It’s very bright right now and the shiny thing is burning off our protective mildew layer
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Must be good! Most of a year waitlist at the library for the ebook and two months for paperback.
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That's the important one for me. Saw a couple orgs that hyperscaled during the pandemic end up being a flock of team/division-sized micro-companies with different goals & values based on the PM/EM pairings managing them. In-person makes cohesion easier, but ignoring the effort required always fails
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*moves the can of Rainier behind the lawn chair leg*
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To give them some credit, it wasn’t until the 1950s that they even really agreed on Plate Tectonics in the first place. So 30 more years to figure that out isn’t that bad
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Truly. Anyone living within 150mi of the PacNW coast should have a bug-in plan. Anyone who thinks they’ll make it to a cabin in Idaho from an urban area here after a major subduction fault event is hilarious.
Per Murphy’s Law, it’ll be raining for days on end when it comes too
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My little orange dork occasionally engages the brain cell and climbs in his backpack and yowls to be taken outside. He’s terrified of the outside when the door opens though
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Blow Up the Outside World picks me up off the bottom, but it’s Pretty Noose that’s my go-to when i need to re-center.
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Saw them open for Modest Mouse a summer or two ago and I kinda felt bad for my early-GenX spouse who’s always been a huge fan. Bastille was first opener for that show and we could’ve just left after and had a great night.
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Oh there’s fiddling all right, fiddling with software and they’re even pathetic at that!
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And in the mid-2010s from the 1st Ave construction. Lost every single one of my favorite Square hangouts in the span of 18 months
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Most frustrating meeting of my career thus far was a full Eng all-hands and VP arguing perf issues & bug count were forcing moving from monthly to quarterly releases. Quarterly releases, in an org moving to k8s. Spoke up and somehow shot that down. In a better place now, thankfully.
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Getting the best Paul Whitehouse/Rowley Birkin QC vibes ❤️
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Let alone those of us who know quite well we were downwind from a major copper smelter for decades and that we and every other person within 10 miles would need a couple feet of new topsoil first
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That’s a better fit than most attempts! Half a point for effort.
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Achey Breaky Heart. But Tom Sawyer is right behind ABH, breathing in its ear.
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I remember juggling IRQs to get both the modem and the mouse and everything else to work together. Good times
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Yeah, that was our warning of what weirdness 2016 would be, but I still think the trigger must have been earlier
As an avid KEXP (actual music public-radio) listener, it seemed like it was nonstop artist memorial shows in 2016
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But Bowie and George Michael had passed much earlier in the year, and things were already getting weird then. We need to look at least to late 2015 or so
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It’s even better when they deny they listened to those bands back then, but you know they’ve still got the vinyl in their storage closet
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I mean, at what point does it become more reasonable to just shop Amazon as the lesser evil?
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Not when they’re a loud proud Blue Dog with a suspiciously short public service resume’ prior to being yoinked into a House race
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And indeed my bad, I’d just assumed it was Seattle with the oysters. Sometimes forget about our neighbors down there, even though Oregon’s prettier.
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Oh yeah.
On Seattle’s horizon it’s simply beautiful.
On the horizon from thirty miles closer it’s seriously impressive, and a suitably grand reminder that Tahoma merely slumbers. And that it’ll be a very very bad no good day next time that mountain wakes up.
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Living here does have its benefits. And the sun even decided to shine for once!
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This take is straight up like one of maybe three things my Ex and I still agree on
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missed alt on that one, 3 foot tall Simpsons figures atop the Dairy aisle
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Or the Blues Brothers atop the shelves of the packaged goods aisle
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Where else will you find a wicker motorcycle atop an endcap
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Ngl, scanned past the pic and thought the tag was “beobnoxious”, because yeah, get yelled at by the neighborhood Stellars all day every day.
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Is that a thing that normally happens? Seems absolutely wild to me, but our “train system” here is more like a model railroad in comparison
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I always wondered about the HR person at one of my jobs that crept through the halls with a Nerf gun, waiting for the perfect opportunity to pop me in the back of my head.
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Does your Subaru ever yearn to return to its homeland in the Pacific Northwest, to once again roam the hills and mountain valleys amongst its own kind like Kenji Kita intended from the beginning of days?
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Not even close. More like a .01% timeslice on an old Multics.
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Clark’s Corollary: Any sufficiently advanced ignorance is indistinguishable from malice and can be considered such as the intentional energy to maintain said ignorance when compared to the effort required to learn from experience exceeds any reasonable expectation.
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That's so awesome! I didn't know she'd started her own practice. She is the first vet that saw our little orange monster and was so great with him!
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The literary genre for this dork would be an instruction pamphlet on a vintage potato peeler. Inscrutable, chaotic, with occasional bleeding
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Siri: But it’s two blocks shorter!
Me: <laughs in Seattleite> Distance has no meaning here…