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maxleibman

@maxleibman@mastodon.social

Solutions Architect. Recovering project manager. Maker of small-batch, artisanal bad jokes.

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maxleibman, to random
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I’m sure they mean for us to pronounce it “Try-R-X,” but every time I drive by our local TriRx facility, I say to myself, “trirx!”

Silly rabbit.

maxleibman, to infosec
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One of my computers is 100% secure. Totally unhackable. Beyond your reach, that of any hacker you’ve ever known, even any state actor.

It’s my childhood Commodore VIC-20.

Which has no permanent data storage, is broken, and is buried under 30 years of landfill.

mariyadelano, (edited ) to Polls
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Running a poll to make myself feel better:

At what age did your hair start turning gray?

maxleibman,
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@mariyadelano The thing I miss from before I started going gray was my beard—my hair was always brown, but my beard ran the gamut from blond through every brown and black, and even some scattered fiery reds here and there. All the colorful ones went white first, though.

maxleibman,
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@mariyadelano Maybe because they were lighter to begin with. 🤷‍♂️

In any case, it’s a bummer. I’m mostly at peace with my middle-aged appearance, but I do miss that.

maxleibman, to random
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This week is going to be crazy: huge backlog at work, a couple of major deadlines, and personal and family appointments every day.

But if I can just make it through this week, next week things will finally be almost exactly the same.

🤯 #busy

maxleibman, to random
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In 2021, after a long on-again, off-again college career, I ultimately graduated 20 years late and 1000% over budget.

My degree is a bachelor of science in project management.

The irony is not lost on me.

maxleibman, (edited ) to random
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“He’s really into classic rock.”

–Me, describing Franz’s career as an archeologist who studies the quarries and stonecutting techniques of the ancient Greeks

#IHaveAWayWithWords

maxleibman, to random
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Me: Is that a cool car?

Two-year-old: No, it’s a police car.

maxleibman, to random
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I fervently hope there’s an afterlife, just so Christians will have some continued existence during which they can be embarrassed about how thoroughly wrong they got all of the details about it.

maxleibman, to random
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Me, a tech enthusiast: Wow, this technology seems really interesting!

Them: Yeah, and the community is AMAZI—

Me, an introvert: Never mind.

maxleibman, to ai
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When I hear about #AI "augmenting" human labor rather than replacing it, I think about my local McDonald's experiment with an automated voice system taking drive-thru orders. Whenever it got something wrong, a human stepped in to take over.

But here's the thing: the human always took over INSTANTLY, with no need to get up to speed on what was happening. Meaning their job went from “talk to the customer" to “listen to the computer talk to the customer.”

"Augmented?” Sounds like hell to me.

maxleibman, to random
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Around the time I became a project manager, I started tagging my to do list items with emoji.

A 🛒 for grocery shopping, or ⛽ if I need to get gas, or 📅 if I'm scheduling a meeting.

Having been a project manager for most of the past 7 years, one of the most frequent emoji was the 📋.

Make a list? Write an agenda? Gather input? 📋!

But you know what? Seven years in project management, and I never once touched a clipboard.

It's my own personal version of the floppy-disk "Save" icon.

maxleibman, to random
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Dear journalists: we face zero (0) problems that can be helped by having increased empathy for billionaires.

maxleibman,
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Source: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careersandeducation/sam-altman-says-he-can-t-go-out-to-eat-in-public-anymore-in-san-francisco-it-s-a-strangely-isolating-way-to-live/ar-BB1myxKn?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=b65a105af8ad4ae281f7a267dd07a29f&ei=25

jilleduffy, to random
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Why is the plural
paper towels
but
toilet paper
?

I demand "toilet papers"

maxleibman,
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@jilleduffy “The Toilet Papers” is a leaked-document scandal I will take a hard pass on.

maxleibman, to random
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We all live in a yellow submarine.

This housing market is out of control.

maxleibman, to random
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I always felt like the term "Vacation Bible School" was a three-way contradiction. No two of those words belong together.

dmoren, to random
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Sugar, on Apple TV+, is one of the weirdest shows I have watched in a while. I think I really enjoyed it? I have no idea who to recommend it to, but if you like stuff that's kind of different, check it out.

maxleibman,
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@gruber @dmoren Yes! ‘Cobra Kai’ does this, as well, to great effect. I think it really helps the pacing.

And while I don’t want to say, “Quibi was right!” I do like being able to watch a whole chunk of something in a shorter sitting.

maxleibman, to random
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Do what you love and the money will follow

the inexorable pull of rent-seeking capitalists determined to extract every possible cent of profit from you as both a laborer and a consumer.

Skepticat, to random
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~ Currently weighing the pros and cons of being more spontaneous.

maxleibman,
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@Skepticat After due consideration, I have scheduled 90 minutes for spontaneity every second Tuesday for the duration of the summer.

maxleibman, to random
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She's a ten, but who isn’t?

maxleibman, to random
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Newly relevant in light of the welcome news that the administration is clamping down on coal mining on federal lands. https://mastodon.social/@maxleibman/109730085243840065

RickiTarr, to random
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Listen, the Victorians had their issues, but pussy and cunt are boring, give me Mossy Mound and Cave of Unimaginable Delights any day.

maxleibman,
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@RickiTarr I literally lol’d out loud (LLOLOL) at that one.

maxleibman, to random
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Me: [buys a single washing machine, expected to last for decades, for the first time ever]

The best minds in online marketing: Oh, hey—this guy is into washing machines! Quick, show him washing machine ads!

maxleibman, to random
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Somewhere, someone has a DYNAMITE banana bread recipe, that is clearly written, presented on a simple, elegant web site, with a couple of tasteful photos, and all of the ingredients listed above the fold. The page loads quickly because it's not bloated with trackers and other adtech.

The problem is, I can't have that recipe page. It isn't accessible. There's no way to find it. Google deliberately prioritizes recipe bloggers’ three-thousand-word personal essays and heavily-SEO'd garbage sites.

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