Retired unix geek. FlightAware, ActiveState, nuclear tacos, https://xitter.cf/t.co/cjyxcDoj8F. Now ultramarathons and race cars. Also at @nugget@mas.to
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David "Nugget" McNett retweeted
Talked to Signal president @mer__edith about competing with iMessage, RCS, and facing down government pressure to break encryption. Oh, and what it's like to hire a new CEO. A really good episode of Decoder -> theverge.com/23409716/signal…
David "Nugget" McNett retweeted
After watching the lovely Clerks III, I kind of want to see Kevin Smith and Richard Linklater each keep making Clerks and Before films decade after decade, following these characters for a long long time.
David "Nugget" McNett retweeted
One of Silicon Valley’s most outspoken critics just took the top job at one of the most important emerging platforms in the world. Meredith Whittaker is now president of Signal - a fully encrypted messaging app.
@byjacobward has the exclusive.
David "Nugget" McNett retweeted
I wasn’t there.
I didn’t know anyone who was killed, and I didn’t know anyone who knows anyone who was killed.
I was 14 and a high school freshman in Central Texas and over 1,700 miles away when it happened.
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David "Nugget" McNett retweeted
Did you know that in the original Gregorian Calendar the months had different names?
January was Greg
February was Ian
March was Greg
April was Ian
May was Greg
June was also Greg
July was Ian
August was Greg
September was Ian
October was Ian
November was Ian
December was Greg
David "Nugget" McNett retweeted
Made a playlist for your weekend hike
ALT A screenshot of an empty Spotify playlist titled “Songs people on the trail want to hear from your Bluetooth speaker.” In the space where music usually populates is a sentence: “There doesn’t seem to be anything here.
David "Nugget" McNett retweeted
June 2, 2002, THE WIRE premiered on HBO. A visual novel. A reflection on our American dysfunction. A powerful piece of art. My life and career changed forever. Gratitude.
David "Nugget" McNett retweeted
Sad to report that Mavis Hutchison, South African ultrarunning legend, the Galloping Granny, passed away today at the age of 97. She was one of the earliest women ultrarunners of her era and a world record holder.
📖🎧📺ultrarunninghistory.com/mavi…
@UltraRunningMag @iRunFar
David "Nugget" McNett retweeted
1960 Austin-Healey Mk1 Sprite Texas Roadtrip youtu.be/E0oKN3X91jA
David "Nugget" McNett retweeted
With @equiraptor and Nugget. Texas is dry. I can’t drink enough water. The Sprite ran weirdly richer as the day went on. No disasters though, it kept-on like the Stiff Brit it is!
David "Nugget" McNett retweeted
I'd missed that it is the 50th anniversary of Houston's shire themed gastropub, the Hobbit Cafe. It's everything you would wish for in a place called the Hobbit Cafe.
texasmonthly.com/food/housto…
David "Nugget" McNett retweeted
“Apollo 10 1/2,” Richard Linklater’s new film, set in 1969, is a fanatical catalogue of mass culture. Re-runs, test patterns, Saturday-morning cartoons, and Dick Cavett’s Janis Joplin interview all figure in the action.
nyer.cm/sqI6iMn
David "Nugget" McNett retweeted
My best/worst idea is that instead of speed limits we should have momentum limits. “Hey congrats on your new F-950, your max speed in the city is 4mph”
David "Nugget" McNett retweeted
The YouTube channel Regular Car Reviews delights in cultural critiques of boring automobiles: the 1995 Mazda Miata MX-5, the 1999 Toyota Corolla CE, the 1999 Chevy Blazer, and more. nyer.cm/fVPebSR
