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 August 30, 2021 at 12:47:52 PM
@MerriMayhem I once developed six unexposed sheets of 4x5 (where “once” is about three months ago)….
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 30, 2021 at 10:37:24 AM
@MerriMayhem I think you mentioned having a room with no windows in a previous conversation. You don’t need a full darkroom, just a room you can make dark for a few minutes. I usually stuff a towel into the door jamb to close up the one possible route for light to get in and that works well.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 30, 2021 at 10:00:18 AM
@MerriMayhem I usually just go into a dark room with a pair of needle nose pliers and rip off the edge when the retriever doesn’t work, which is most of the time.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 27, 2021 at 8:18:00 PM
RT @GovMurphy: Dear Matt Putz, it seems like you have more important things to be worried about right now than me. http://usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/03/31/matt-gaetz-what-we-know-investigation-into-florida-congressman/4817868001/
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 26, 2021 at 8:15:48 PM
@katswansey As you can see, it worked!
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 26, 2021 at 6:11:01 PM
From box to wall. Love this photo by my friend @katswansey. Go buy some of her photos so she can publish a book of her amazing work. https://katswanseyphoto.square.site https://www.katswansey.com/all-photographs https://t.co/VafSvxAQnU
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 23, 2021 at 7:25:34 PM
@oliviamdh Not Jewish. Not only did I see it, I was in it (high school production around 1980)
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 22, 2021 at 4:25:57 PM
@tryglass First completely successful tintype I’ve made at home (meaning outside of a classroom setting) https://glass.photo/thereisnocat/7GxebtvYUYr3ePbN7EL7Qe
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 22, 2021 at 1:44:02 PM
Ice Cream. Seen on the way out of Wildwood. Shot with my #contaxiii on 60+ year old #agfa #kb14 #film. Shot at box speed (ISO 25) and perfectly exposed. #filmphotography https://glass.photo/thereisnocat/2MstPtS29gGPRhXs493oUT
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 21, 2021 at 8:25:11 AM
Belford Marine Railway A Polaroid shot from my last pack of #Polaroid 100 Chocolate, shot yesterday with my #polaroid195. #film #filmphotography #instantfilm https://glass.photo/thereisnocat/70ih8p5xhGFc4G2xDofws7
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 21, 2021 at 3:54:42 AM
@katswansey @tryglass Their discovery experience could definitely stand some improvement. I’ve found the best way to find other people to follow is to see who the people I follow are following. I’ve managed to increase the number of women I follow by doing that. It’s early days. Would love to cu there
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 19, 2021 at 9:35:52 PM
Bill Freehan, catcher for the Detroit Tigers when they won the World Series in 1968 and one of my favorite players on the team when I was a kid, dead at 79. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/bill-freehan-dead/2021/08/19/14a81536-0118-11ec-ba7e-2cf966e88e93_story.html
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 15, 2021 at 4:05:08 PM
I don’t blame Biden for the rapid fall of the government in Kabul after we announce we were leaving. I *do* blame him for announcing it before we had evacuated everyone who helped us over the past twenty years. What a shitshow.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 15, 2021 at 9:40:30 AM
@mholzschlag Exactly. I remember when the Nazis showed up in a shortwave radio newsgroup I wrote the FAQ for back around 1995. Little did I know that those same people would damned near overthrow the government 25 years later.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 15, 2021 at 9:29:32 AM
@mholzschlag Too true. There was a consensus in the early days that connecting everyone would make life and people better (see John Perry Barlow). What actually happened is that people brought their good AND bad instincts here and the increased visibility just magnified it all.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 15, 2021 at 9:02:34 AM
@mholzschlag I think maybe you’re reading too much into the “broadcasting” part. I think the publishing part of the convergence was more important and interesting. In any case, the web seems to have converged pretty much everything at this point (a.k.a “The net ruins everything”).
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 15, 2021 at 8:13:47 AM
@mholzschlag I was a broadcasting major in college, and long been interested in the history of broadcasting. It seemed to me that the web had the potential to be as big as radio and TV, even if those early pages in April, 1993, were so bare. It had so much potential compared to, say, Gopher.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 15, 2021 at 7:47:28 AM
1993 as well. It was immediately clear when I saw it that this was the convergence of publishing, broadcasting, and computers that my professors were talking about in the early 1980s. I always wished I was around when radio was new, and this was our generation’s radio opportunity https://twitter.com/mholzschlag/status/1426791177664163840
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 14, 2021 at 2:56:19 PM
The next day, my dad called the phone company and ordered a private line….
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 14, 2021 at 2:55:04 PM
When I was 11, we moved to Illinois. My parents bought a house, then found it was across the street from his boss. Our phone line was a party line, and the other party was my dad’s boss. When my dad added a couple of extensions to the line, calls to his boss rang in our house. https://twitter.com/jensimmons/status/1426595745101139968
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 12, 2021 at 9:33:38 PM
@epersonae Fuck cancer. I’m so sorry to hear this. Thinking of the two of you.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 12, 2021 at 4:25:56 PM
@jensimmons I always said my favorite framework to build the web was The Web. Model your data with this limited vocabulary taxonomy that was still adaptable, define the view separately, then use this scripting language to control it all. It always amazed me that devs into MVC didn’t get it.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 12, 2021 at 10:37:24 AM
@megansmolenyak One of the things that irritates me most about Geni, which I’ve otherwise found incredibly helpful, is that they insist on showing women with their husband’s surname, even in places like Italy where women kept their ownnnames.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 11, 2021 at 8:14:10 AM
I think I already posted this tintype here, but now I’ve posted it on Glass, a new photo app that solves the problem of Instagram. https://glass.photo/thereisnocat/7GxebtvYUYr3ePbN7EL7Qe
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 10, 2021 at 11:05:50 AM
@rafahari @tryglass Still waiting for my invitation. Looking forward to posting some of my tintypes. https://t.co/PfkXPIgCOk
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 9, 2021 at 8:12:36 AM
Post a picture of yourself as a leader of an underground organization without downloading anything new https://twitter.com/katswansey/status/1424596253720129536 https://t.co/Y9YnkZF3lP
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