James Felix Black

James Felix Black @tft.io [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 02:13 UTC

That’s quitter talk

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James Felix Black @tft.io [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 02:13 UTC

Absolutely!

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James Felix Black @tft.io [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 02:10 UTC

This was in 93

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James Felix Black @tft.io [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 02:10 UTC

Mmmm Alpha

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James Felix Black @tft.io [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 02:08 UTC

If I could just go back in time …

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James Felix Black @tft.io [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 02:08 UTC

It’s the future

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James Felix Black @tft.io [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 02:07 UTC

Oh yeah I remember this one.

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James Felix Black @tft.io [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 02:07 UTC

My first software job was at the Department of High Energy Physics at Chicago where all the experiments were colocated with CERN so I saw the www very early. That I thought it was a flash in the pan probably explains why I’m still doing wage labour thirty two years later.

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James Felix Black @tft.io [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 02:04 UTC

The shit on Irix or Solaris was so straightforward too it would make any hacker today fall out of their chair

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James Felix Black @tft.io [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 02:00 UTC

“Share punk” sounds like some kind of wretched, damp sort of ersatz Food Not Bombs thing

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James Felix Black @tft.io [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 01:59 UTC

I was neck deep in writing Unix systems software and was deeply contemptuous of anything Microsoft until much later

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James Felix Black @tft.io [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 01:52 UTC

I was more of a Mac or SGI dude then so I could easily be wrong

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James Felix Black @tft.io [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 01:50 UTC

It didn’t. I think WfWG was the first release that had a TCP stack.

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James Felix Black @tft.io [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 01:48 UTC

I unironically love this

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jh_J...

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James Felix Black @tft.io [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 01:39 UTC

I have such good memories of having loaded The Hold Steady’s SEPARATION SUNDAY on it and playing some driving game to “Chicago Seemed Tired Last Noght” for hours and hours

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James Felix Black @tft.io [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 01:36 UTC

I miss my 360.

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James Felix Black @tft.io [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 01:35 UTC

“Share”? SKATE GODDAMNIT

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James Felix Black @tft.io [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 01:34 UTC

MORE PICK SLIDES!

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James Felix Black @tft.io [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 01:33 UTC

I sort of want to start a band that plays this sort of unreconstructed share punk

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James Felix Black @tft.io [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 01:30 UTC

I am a simple man but this still gets me up out of my arthritic crouch

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYeZ...

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James Felix Black @tft.io [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 01:29 UTC

You say this like either side of the equation is a bad thing

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James Felix Black @tft.io [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 01:23 UTC

Very neurotic smoker with a funny little moustache IOW what your looking for in your Latin teacher

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James Felix Black @tft.io [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 01:22 UTC

Eerily familiar

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James Felix Black @tft.io [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 01:21 UTC

I mean I was going to say the Hermitage, but yeah

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James Felix Black @tft.io [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 01:21 UTC

Small fucking world lol

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James Felix Black @tft.io [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 01:20 UTC

Either of you have Garry Sipe for Latin?

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James Felix Black @tft.io [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 01:18 UTC

We had the same math teacher?!?

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James Felix Black @tft.io [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 01:17 UTC

Cmon St Petersburg is known for a lot more than being Putin’s hometown

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James Felix Black @tft.io [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 01:15 UTC

I applied in the first cohort (85). Christ I’m old.

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James Felix Black @tft.io [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 01:12 UTC

We don’t know yet the debt that we owe the furries

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James Felix Black @tft.io [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 01:11 UTC

Fair enough

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James Felix Black @tft.io [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 01:10 UTC

Most of my friends went to Jefferson! I was Left Behind

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James Felix Black @tft.io [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 01:06 UTC

I get the boredom holy wow

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James Felix Black @tft.io [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 01:06 UTC

He was so illserved by the Chicoms.

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James Felix Black @tft.io [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 01:05 UTC

I was a classmate of Hubert Davis and Mia Hamm!

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James Felix Black @tft.io [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 01:05 UTC

I am only adjacent to this shit but even so, what I saw my wife deal with is just so baffling to me. Why are we making this a competition?

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James Felix Black @tft.io [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 01:02 UTC

Jesus I hope not

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James Felix Black @tft.io [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 01:01 UTC

Same! I moved to Belmont MA after 10th grade but I went to Keene Mill and then Braddock.

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James Felix Black @tft.io [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 00:59 UTC

Good luck we are here for ya

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James Felix Black @tft.io [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 00:58 UTC

I did four years at Braddock before decamping for Massachusetts. It is wild to me.

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James Felix Black @tft.io [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 00:57 UTC

I hate that this is true, but, he is the platonic ideal of a New York City mayor.

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James Felix Black @tft.io [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 00:55 UTC

I mean Fairfax County is not Roanoke but there was a Sambo’s near where I went to elementary school.

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James Felix Black @tft.io [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 00:53 UTC

FUCK CAVENDISH

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James Felix Black @tft.io [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 00:50 UTC

Same! Even with the lost cause framing that was still a thing in Fairfax County in the ‘80s it never fucking stuck!

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James Felix Black @tft.io [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 00:48 UTC

Someone much smarter than me (Bess Warren?) can probably supply the details but there has to be a modification to the tax system that makes these kinds of debt fueled tear downs less profitable, right?

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James Felix Black @tft.io [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 00:47 UTC

Do you think he has persuaded himself that this is true?

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James Felix Black @tft.io [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 00:46 UTC

www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKJH...

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James Felix Black @tft.io [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 00:45 UTC

Great goddamned record if nothing else

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James Felix Black @tft.io [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 00:43 UTC

So many firms cut their own throats with this cargo cult bullshit

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James Felix Black @tft.io [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 00:42 UTC

My 2014 Jetta laughs

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