Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸
@thereisnocat
Advocating Semantic Markup since 1987. Not posting here any more. Married to @JerseyGrrrl. On Mastodon: @thereisnocat@toot.cafe
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 30, 2013 at 3:52:14 PM
Dyeing eggs with The Cutest Nephew On Earth.
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 30, 2013 at 9:38:18 AM
“Einstein's Day” by Mission of Burma is my new jam. ♫ http://t.thisismyjam.com/thereisnocat/_58dp008
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 29, 2013 at 2:05:00 PM
I am so screwed. @ Razorfish NYC http://instagram.com/p/Xc2gvqJ4p5/
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 28, 2013 at 11:10:30 PM
Male objectification in action: http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2013/03/28/jon_hamm_s_penis_mad_men_actor_is_sick_of_being_singled_out.html
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 28, 2013 at 9:44:37 PM
@surlyshirley this is true.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 28, 2013 at 9:37:52 PM
@surlyshirley No I don't. I have the originals. :-)
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 28, 2013 at 5:45:56 PM
@dylanw I'm pretty sure the only way is via Flash.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 28, 2013 at 4:46:42 PM
@jfc3 @goodwitch @Robin2go there is absolutely no question that you're more than generous, John. :-)
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 28, 2013 at 2:50:25 PM
@goodwitch not going to AEA; went two years ago, was turned off by the atmosphere. Learned a lot, but had enough.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 28, 2013 at 2:34:41 PM
@jfc3 @goodwitch @Robin2go I've been to John's Clown College. He's got more than a bit of wine. Like Scrooge McDuck has a bit of money.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 26, 2013 at 7:14:41 PM
got tired of deleting spam comments from my blog, so I updated it to no longer accept comments. #thisiswhywecanthavenicethings
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 23, 2013 at 11:54:38 PM
And with that, the work day comes to an end. Shoot me now.
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 23, 2013 at 8:01:58 PM
@danrubin I had the same thing going on a couple of weeks ago. Not sure why it stopped; I have even more stress now. Go figure.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 22, 2013 at 1:46:40 PM
Note to @dylanw and @cssquirrel; you want to print in something other than ABS? Google "Desktop CNC". Cheaper than a MakerBot, makes metal.
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 21, 2013 at 7:10:06 PM
@danrubin they're a new client of ours; want me to check if I can get the employee discount? ;-)
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 21, 2013 at 5:45:37 PM
A typical brogrammer and his approach to women ♫ http://t.thisismyjam.com/thereisnocat/_55dhvqy
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 21, 2013 at 4:16:15 PM
@inkpixelspaper @nkennedy @OneBeeKeeper @pauloelias @jc Developers without empathy are what's giving our business a bad name…. #brogrammers
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 21, 2013 at 4:04:31 PM
@inkpixelspaper @ashedryden @denisejacobs Look forward to that talk. Designers without empathy are more useless than a chocolate teapot.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 21, 2013 at 2:05:52 PM
worked from home today to avoid distractions. Distractions were not amused and followed me home.
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 21, 2013 at 1:46:20 PM
@dylanw encourage her to learn the skills she needs, including deflecting sexism. We need more women in this field.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 21, 2013 at 1:14:29 PM
@denisejacobs unlocking allows you to use on carriers other than original; jailbreaking allows you to install software not from App Store
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 20, 2013 at 7:17:11 AM
yay! It's Spring! No more winter! (in the Northern hemisphere, anyway)
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 19, 2013 at 6:18:55 AM
@lachlanhardy @adactio @johnallsopp preprocessors would apply to at least some of them
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 16, 2013 at 8:15:08 PM
Beer gave us civilization. Thank you, beer! http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/17/opinion/sunday/how-beer-gave-us-civilization.html
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 16, 2013 at 9:01:06 AM
“Golden Boy” by @mountain_goats is my new jam. ♫ http://t.thisismyjam.com/thereisnocat/_53djwdl
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 15, 2013 at 6:50:18 PM
The kind of day where every bug you look at is fixed the first time? That. I should work for Terminex.
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 15, 2013 at 4:19:10 PM
@mgirouard only on Fridays? Jeez, we're having a bar installed.... ;-)
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 15, 2013 at 3:48:14 PM
RT @WFMU Welsh URL Shortener: Make Long URLs More Welsh & Easier to Share: http://llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogo.ch/ << immediately thought of @Suw
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 14, 2013 at 9:13:41 PM
Worst thing about late trains is how loud people are. Rush hour trains are nice and quiet. We do this every day. No reason to shout.
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 14, 2013 at 7:28:41 PM
@KuraFire that's actually MHz; Hz is for Heinrich Hertz, and the H is always capitalized. Same with GHz.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 14, 2013 at 6:09:00 PM
oh great. John Peel is playing a song where the refrain goes "Lord, I feel like going home". At 6pm. With God knows how long until I can.
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 14, 2013 at 6:03:36 PM
there's not enough beer in the world to make debugging JS in IE8 less than intensely painful. Doesn't stop me from trying.
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 14, 2013 at 5:26:59 PM
@dylanw @cssquirrel pope jokes?
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 14, 2013 at 5:25:40 PM
@dylanw @cssquirrel skill limits of a designer?
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 14, 2013 at 11:52:47 AM
@khimscho saw your earlier tweet about BS and was amazed. :-) Sorry I only had a few minutes; got back here and found my meeting cancelled.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 14, 2013 at 9:48:21 AM
Best animated GIF ever is on this page: http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/49819
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 14, 2013 at 9:29:15 AM
Why, yes, that is four years in a row that Yo La Tengo has played our request on WFMU's fundraiser #wfmuthon. This year, "Not Given Lightly"
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 14, 2013 at 7:01:16 AM
proud to have adopted WFMU's Parabolic Echo Dome for another year with @JerseyGrrrl http://www.flickr.com/photos/wfmu/2248659311/ Go donate! http://wfmu.org/marathon/
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 13, 2013 at 2:27:52 PM
Great to see @khimscho, if only for the 20 minutes I had between meetings.
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 12, 2013 at 7:18:06 PM
@goodwitch (((((hug)))))
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 11, 2013 at 1:01:11 PM
wondering if #unicorninstitute will also re-educate existing designers; I'd like to send a few to re-education camp #webstalinist #unicorns
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 10, 2013 at 1:48:35 PM
I give up. This home page cannot be made responsive. There's a designer who's going to be ripped a new asshole tomorrow morning.
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 10, 2013 at 1:45:17 PM
wants to know what the panelists on the responsive session at #SXSW think about the desire to kill the fucking designer who don't know shit.
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 9, 2013 at 2:39:31 PM
remember, kids, you can't have responsive design without a responsive designer.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 9, 2013 at 2:38:52 PM
running into all kinds of problems making this design responsive. If the designer had listened months ago, this wouldn't have happened.
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 9, 2013 at 4:44:11 AM
Dear friends in Austin: Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams is at SouthBites, @ the corner of Rainey and Driskill, through next Sat. Trust me on this
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 8, 2013 at 8:17:55 PM
“Learn To Speak Hawaiian” by Unknown is my new jam. ♫ http://t.thisismyjam.com/thereisnocat/_50rlxh1
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 7, 2013 at 8:53:04 AM
The spammers have found me on @instagram :-(
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 6, 2013 at 5:39:55 PM
@epersonae @dylanw @cssquirrel I've been coding to old John Peel shows that I torrented. In other words, to every genre known to man.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 6, 2013 at 7:38:56 AM
RT @maupuia The Bats really are a national treasure! http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=10869529 >>incredible, moving video<<
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 4, 2013 at 6:47:33 PM
@placenamehere @obiwankimberly @mollydotcom there are those of us who don't want to be easy to find there. Check the tag line on my profile.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 4, 2013 at 6:36:48 PM
@obiwankimberly @mollydotcom @placenamehere the real reason for the feature isn't fun. It's to tag those who don't use tags. Findability.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 4, 2013 at 4:37:22 PM
@olivierthereaux sweet!
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 3, 2013 at 1:15:00 PM
“Tour De France” by Stereo Total & Das Original Oberkreuzberger Nasenflötenorchester is my new jam. ♫ http://t.thisismyjam.com/thereisnocat/_4yng1s6
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 2, 2013 at 3:16:08 PM
I swear to God, I'm going to take a fucking sledgehammer to fucking iTunes for forgetting that I don't want every fucking app on my iPhone.
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 1, 2013 at 10:42:09 PM
@markjfine more like UUCPnet. :-)
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 1, 2013 at 10:31:33 PM
Wondering how many of my friends here remember e-mail before the @ sign, when ! Was the important symbol and you had to know the whole route
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 1, 2013 at 9:39:01 PM
@mollydotcom @msjen I'll be 50 in July, and I've never encountered ageism. My 25 year old colleagues are amazed I've been doing this 20 yrs.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 1, 2013 at 1:11:53 PM
as a member of WASP's International Liaison Group, I'm grateful for the friends I've made and the opportunity to make my tiny contribution.
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 1, 2013 at 1:11:04 PM
as a working developer, I'm grateful for the work the Web Standards Project did. My life is easier because of it. http://webstandards.org
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 1, 2013 at 9:58:08 AM
@feather woo hoo! Congratulations!!!!
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat February 28, 2013 at 10:08:46 PM
If anyone ever suggests you buy a radio from @pure_insider, don't. My Sensia 200 is a piece of crap, and their support doesn't answer.