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 May 30, 2013 at 10:24:49 PM
this is it, I have to go to bed. Momokomotion, "Punk in a Coma", complete with lyrics translated into Japanese: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sFf_dT3C-A
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 30, 2013 at 10:17:12 PM
Okay, I lied, one more, Masha Qrella's "Destination Vertical": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OE19dUBcj3E descending from the mountain peak….
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 30, 2013 at 10:12:34 PM
starting to sober up already, so here's the last one, Lali Puna's "50 Faces Of": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwkb4CFAVSw
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 30, 2013 at 10:09:17 PM
Krista "Lederhosen Lucil" Muir gets all scientific and physical (as in physics" in "Between Atoms" dance remix: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYFYkNIOUwc
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 30, 2013 at 9:58:06 PM
Kathleen Edwards, starring John Doe (except he doesn't sing, he's just in the video) in "Back to Me": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zo7HvUlrGe4
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 30, 2013 at 9:54:28 PM
Kathy McCarty did a hell of a job covering Daniel Johnston's "Walking the Cow": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laVXBHQsh5U
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 30, 2013 at 9:50:59 PM
People Insisted on telling you over and over and over again: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qd1lQIdhjQs (Julie Doiron, "Consolation Prize")
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 30, 2013 at 9:45:25 PM
"Chit Chat" by Hannah Georgas blows me away too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjf4GzGQaRs
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 30, 2013 at 9:38:49 PM
More Tiny Ruins: http://vimeo.com/36764548 Hollie's voice is gorgeous, and songs bowl me over.
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 30, 2013 at 9:34:18 PM
recently fell in love with the music of Tiny Ruins from NZ, like "Death of a Russian": http://tinyruins.bandcamp.com/track/death-of-a-russian
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 30, 2013 at 9:30:26 PM
@maupuia I will! Wish I could make it to Philly while you're in town. So close, and yet so far….
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 30, 2013 at 9:29:54 PM
I don't just listen to songs in English; here's Die Lassie Singers singing Hamburg, a tribute to die Hamburger Schüle http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQYwtnewEiI
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 30, 2013 at 9:20:02 PM
Maybe I should take a page from @maupuia's book and just post songs I love, like "Summer Special" by Land of Talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0GP-r8NXQ4
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 30, 2013 at 9:15:01 PM
if you'd like to join me, you can hear "To The East" by Electrelane at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlSfPmqiplY
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 30, 2013 at 9:13:12 PM
is drunkenly singing along to Electrelane's "To The East", one of the besets songs ever of all times. And you're not.
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 29, 2013 at 8:42:42 PM
@dylanw @epersonae @cssquirrel oh great; I can buy that 2011 Toyota Corolla for the next three or four years.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 29, 2013 at 8:39:30 PM
@epersonae @dylanw @cssquirrel the point is that I can buy or lease the same car; I can't do the same with Creative Suite or Creative Cloud
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 29, 2013 at 8:35:57 PM
@epersonae @dylanw @cssquirrel actually, I thought the car analogy was wrong. I'm not limited to buying a 2011 model and only leasing a 2013
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 28, 2013 at 9:34:40 PM
Got a catalog from @Fab packaged as a pack of Polaroid film made up of prints of Instagram photos of their stuff. I think I'm a cliche.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 27, 2013 at 3:44:25 PM
This is the night the insects appear after 17 years on this side of town ♫ http://t.thisismyjam.com/thereisnocat/_5u1eny7
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 26, 2013 at 7:32:46 PM
Is it a nap when you sleep from 2-7 pm or something else?
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 24, 2013 at 3:51:14 PM
@surlyshirley I hear you. I'll be working all weekend. :-p
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 24, 2013 at 2:37:57 PM
@kingkool68 heh, me too. And I'm home today. I love being able to change the thermostat from bed. :-)
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 24, 2013 at 2:24:50 PM
Jebus, the temperature outside has dropped 18 degrees F I the past six hours. Switching from AC to heat....
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 21, 2013 at 9:51:32 PM
@katolivy isn't that the only suitable use for them?
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 21, 2013 at 4:19:51 PM
did something heinous in a previous life to deserve the last two days trying (& failing) to figure out why an ActiveX component is crashing.
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 21, 2013 at 2:23:00 PM
@mollydotcom QLink, later known as AOL? :-)
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 21, 2013 at 2:17:23 PM
@timothyrmills @mollydotcom sorry, not optical, audio coupler. You put the phone receiver in a cradle.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 21, 2013 at 2:16:47 PM
@mollydotcom how about PC-Pursuit, which gave you flat rate long distance data calls during evenings and weekend to connect to BBSes.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 21, 2013 at 2:10:27 PM
@mollydotcom wish I had pictures. We had a Teletype with a paper tape punch; we'd type program out and run the tape once we were dialed in.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 21, 2013 at 2:05:37 PM
@mollydotcom does it have to be "the web"? 2400 baud, but I was connecting to a mainframe at Wayne State with an optical coupler modem age 9
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 21, 2013 at 7:54:47 AM
@maupuia heading back to NZ then, or going to see any more of the US?
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 20, 2013 at 9:55:49 PM
@maupuia how long are you going to be in Philadelphia?
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 20, 2013 at 9:35:04 PM
And so it was the lady, as the mirror drove his chair, and her face was burst just ghostly, turned a whiter sh… ♫ http://t.thisismyjam.com/thereisnocat/_5ro4e37
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 20, 2013 at 6:21:21 PM
@cindyli wish I'd seen this before I caught the train; my office is at 40th and Bway, and I can see the NYE ball from my desk....
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 20, 2013 at 5:18:04 PM
Not surprised to find that James Lankford, the rep for the town near OKC hit by a tornado, voted against Sandy relief. No aid for Shawnee.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 20, 2013 at 2:59:11 PM
What Chris said. RT @placenamehere: @danrubin i’d be happy to. just tell me where to line up!
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 19, 2013 at 8:52:11 PM
@jfc3 yo, @Fitbit measures steps and approximates distance; @MapMyRun uses GPS. For distance, trust the latter.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 18, 2013 at 4:37:18 AM
how a song was written, by Rennie Sparks of The Handsome Family, one of my favorite bands: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/17/what-the-woodpecker-told-me/
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 17, 2013 at 11:36:07 AM
@squoosepodcast which is kind of my point; moving to such things is a reactionary move against all the progress brought by the PC revolution
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 17, 2013 at 11:14:49 AM
@squoosepodcast and the Sun Ray thin client, and the 5620 Blit XWindows terminal, and....
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 17, 2013 at 8:12:15 AM
Congratulations, @squoosepodcast, you just reinvented the Chromebook. :-) #squoose
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 17, 2013 at 12:52:47 AM
@KuraFire @danrubin @lexfri I took an improv class in college. Most fun I've had with clothes on. I miss it.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 14, 2013 at 9:20:30 AM
Heard this on Don Letts' program on BBC 6 Music and was spellbound. Remember, life has surface noise! ♫ http://t.thisismyjam.com/thereisnocat/_5p9uxc3
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 13, 2013 at 3:39:41 PM
@Suw you probably have a 12pt baseline and "align to baseline" selected.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 11, 2013 at 4:31:45 PM
Had our own private concert. Unfortunately, it was on the train, and the guy couldn't sing. We moved to another car. #weekendsareforamateurs
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 11, 2013 at 12:48:18 PM
@markjfine I'll take your word for it. Looks like it's just the continent where AB is forced to call theirs Bud. Both use Budweiser in UK.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 11, 2013 at 12:36:56 PM
@markjfine Are they talking Bud or Budweiser? Because in the UK, if it's the latter, it's the fantastic Czech beer, not A-B's piss water.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 11, 2013 at 11:33:45 AM
@dylanw Dude, a pound a week is healthy; much more than that and you're overdoing it. Make sustainable changes that you'll stick with.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 10, 2013 at 8:56:24 PM
@dylanw you're in charge now?
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 9, 2013 at 8:07:57 AM
@markjfine because LinkedIn prompts them to so that everyone is tagged to death so recruiters can find you to pitch jobs you don't want.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 7, 2013 at 3:02:44 PM
it's always interesting interviewing someone you used to work with at another job for a job where you work now.
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 7, 2013 at 5:16:03 AM
I been thinking I should learn another language ♫ http://t.thisismyjam.com/thereisnocat/_5mlwf2z
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 6, 2013 at 8:36:08 PM
@inkpixelspaper @jkarls @dylanw hell, I'll be hanging on to the entire Master Collection. I won't be a digital sharecropper.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 6, 2013 at 8:29:37 PM
@dylanw I still use it. It's the only software with selective JPEG output. Also, 8-bit PNGs with alpha transparency. Photoshop can't do that
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 5, 2013 at 8:45:37 PM
NYTimes' @frankbruni on sexual shaming: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/05/opinion/sunday/bruni-sexismand-the-single-murderess.html
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 5, 2013 at 3:47:14 PM
@hansv have a safe trip! Was great seeing you.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 4, 2013 at 7:09:58 PM
@dylanw the next moment, when you realize the reason why you're overworked.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 3, 2013 at 11:16:56 PM
@dylanw and yet, somehow, comp time is never 1:1.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 3, 2013 at 11:29:55 AM
@inkpixelspaper @nkennedy photos from my sister in Minneapolis this A.M. showed new snow on the ground.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 2, 2013 at 7:37:40 PM
Waiting for @hansv (at @VeselkaNyc) http://4sq.com/YqbRtv
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 2, 2013 at 5:39:46 PM
@mollydotcom No. Dunbar number says you can't really know more than about 150 people. So I think that's the limit. ;-)
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 1, 2013 at 3:13:56 PM
Obama Derangement Syndrome in action: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/05/01/1206122/-Toomey-says-Republicans-opposed-expanding-background-checks-because-they-don-t-like-President-Obama