Engineer and photographer in Seattle. Also @Packetdancer - if you are looking for @Packethost or @Packet_tel, you took a wrong turn in Albuquerque.
Seattle, WA
Joined July 2007
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Apparently having your hand in a cast for 6 weeks is a great way to go stir-crazy. Can't write code, can't play my usual games, can't tinker with electronics, can't go do photography...
I just realized it’s been almost exactly a year since #CenturyLink disabled everyone’s internet for non-payment after their payment processor crashed.
Now I wonder if today’s Seattle outage is an impromptu anniversary celebration…
This is horrifying security... and horrifyingly common.
Even the bit about Internet connectivity doesn’t surprise me; you need to validate payments somehow, and people are lazy. Why come up with a secure solution when you can just put Windows on WiFi and call it a day?
Interesting mistake happened to me yesterday. I was checking out of an Airbnb(like) room and was going to hang around the city until 2pm but my check it was 10 am. The place had lockers similar to this one. Electronic access. Cost was $6 each time you used a locker. 1/
Home sick today, supposed to be resting. Instead, trying to track down what’s going on with the massive #CenturyLink outage and how to get it resolved; housemate telecommutes, but the account’s in my name.
Not how I planned to spend my morning…
I swear, my bullet journal has become my portable brain; I cannot describe the depth of panic I felt when I briefly thought I’d misplaced it the other day/left it on the bus.
Rachel Blackman retweeted
The Synapse mobile SW team has released BlueSee, a tool we've been using internally for client projects for some time, out to the world. Nice work, @packet @natetrue @junelson89 !! synapse.com/bluesee
VCA Veterinary Specialty Center of Seattle on #Yelp: VCA are not my regular vet, but I've had the misfortune to hav… yelp.com/biz/vca-veterinary-…
New engineering rule, which I really feel should go without saying: a bug/defect ticket should never be older than those commenting on it. – at Central Business District, Seattle
“Xcode has quit unexpectedly!”
This is clearly some use of the word “unexpectedly” with which I was unfamiliar. – at Central Business District, Seattle
At a panel about Apple’s new programming language, they’re playing Radioactive.
“Welcome to the new age, to the new age…”
#cleverPlaylists – at Union Square, San Francisco
For those who are working on hardware projects, my employer is hosting Hardware Workshop Seattle next week: hardwareworkshop.com/hardwar…
@cmxsupport I figured that deleting, reinstalling and redownloading was probably the only fix. I just didn’t want to over hotel WiFi. – at Oak Hills, OR
Sadness. My @comiXology install crashed (to the point the iPad rebooted) and now can’t see any of the comics I had downloaded previously. – at Oak Hills, OR
Ah, the barren desolation of the kitchen at an engineering firm, the day before the Costco deliveries. – at Seattle, WA
One of the other @synapse folks has his text message alert set to the Portal “I see you” noise. It's getting unnerving to hear! – at Seattle, WA
