Tom VanAntwerp 🤷‍♂️

Truckstop Vigilante @brenthor.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 15:25 UTC

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Tom VanAntwerp 🤷‍♂️ @tomvanantwerp.com [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 16:24 UTC

I attended my wife's naturalization ceremony. My wife is extremely practical and no-nonsense, which I love. We took a 5am train to Mananas for the ceremony. I'll never forget seeing all these happy families waving flags, and my wife sleepily griping "They could've just mailed me this shit!"

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Tom VanAntwerp 🤷‍♂️ @tomvanantwerp.com [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 14:00 UTC

I feel like these things don't need to be mutually exclusive.

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Tom VanAntwerp 🤷‍♂️ @tomvanantwerp.com [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 12:13 UTC

The upside is that I know who this message is *indirectly* from. I don't know the names of anybody's marketing director, and I'm much more likely to ignore or mark as spam an email from some stranger.

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Tom VanAntwerp 🤷‍♂️ @tomvanantwerp.com [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 12:06 UTC

Happy Bizarro July 4th, when we celebrate the divine right of American presidents and the British are holding elections!

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Tom VanAntwerp 🤷‍♂️ @tomvanantwerp.com [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 18:23 UTC

Nothing worse than surprise light mode.

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Tom VanAntwerp 🤷‍♂️ @tomvanantwerp.com [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 16:00 UTC

I don't know anybody who likes the new Outlook. I've got friends who work at Microsoft, and even they don't like it!

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Tom VanAntwerp 🤷‍♂️ @tomvanantwerp.com [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 15:57 UTC

The solution the absolutely nobody asked for:

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Tom VanAntwerp 🤷‍♂️ @tomvanantwerp.com [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 03:06 UTC

When I did exactly this once in college, I spent the rest of the night walking around with an ice cold beer in each hand. Worked wonders!

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Tom VanAntwerp 🤷‍♂️ @tomvanantwerp.com [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 21:29 UTC

My comments are all technical—is that fine for the Federal Register?

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Tom VanAntwerp 🤷‍♂️ @tomvanantwerp.com [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 20:27 UTC

Sometimes I add in a treadmill desk to take it up a notch.

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Tom VanAntwerp 🤷‍♂️ @tomvanantwerp.com [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 02:49 UTC

I ditched FiOS not long after I got it. It went down several times in the course of a few months, often for days at a time. Getting somebody to come out was excruciating—at least an hour on the phone per outage. Switched to Ting, no issues since.

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Tom VanAntwerp 🤷‍♂️ @tomvanantwerp.com [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 14:29 UTC

Next time I see a vacancy, I'm definitely applying to join. But as we've discussed before, it's hard to tell if any vacancy is real or not. And even if it is, there's as good a chance as not that it's restricted to a specific interest group that I'm not part of.

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Tom VanAntwerp 🤷‍♂️ @tomvanantwerp.com [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 14:26 UTC

I did call the non-emergency police line to report a guy parked on a sidewalk, but only because the Alex311 app explicitly said I should do that for any currently occurring offense. (Who would report an offense that already ended? "Hey, I took a photo of this violation two weeks ago.")

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Tom VanAntwerp 🤷‍♂️ @tomvanantwerp.com [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 13:56 UTC

Not nearly as big a grievance as this, but I miss the Hawaiian shirts. Employee t-shirts are so lame compared to those full-on floral patterned shirts of yesteryear. Although at least I'm less likely to be mistaken for an employee when I shop there now...

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Tom VanAntwerp 🤷‍♂️ @tomvanantwerp.com [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 13:53 UTC

While I found law interesting in school, I think this is why I ended up a programmer. Barring the occasional cosmic ray flipping a random bit on your PC, computers interpret code with much more consistency than humans interpret law. It's a lot easier to fix broken code, too.

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Tom VanAntwerp 🤷‍♂️ @tomvanantwerp.com [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 13:51 UTC

I am torn between the fact that a conversation with a knowledgeable person is always easier than trying to solve problems with forms on websites and my Millennial urge to never make any phone call ever.

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Tom VanAntwerp 🤷‍♂️ @tomvanantwerp.com [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 13:44 UTC

One legitimate use of AI would be if Alex311 could look at a picture I upload, and choose the category and fill out the descriptions based on the photo contents. Would be awesome if I could snap-tap-tap-done. If Alex311 had API access, I'd try building that myself.

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Tom VanAntwerp 🤷‍♂️ @tomvanantwerp.com [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 13:42 UTC

I agree. I tried a few options in the app before also settling on "pruning" as the closest thing to "please save this young tree if you can". I love Alex311, but it's often hard to figure out which request category to use. And always tedious to fill out. Still better UX than reporting a near miss.

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Tom VanAntwerp 🤷‍♂️ @tomvanantwerp.com [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 12:49 UTC

Reported two dead new trees on Alex311 just this morning... 😞

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Tom VanAntwerp 🤷‍♂️ @tomvanantwerp.com [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 19:20 UTC

You know, I was at M2M today and I saw this beer and it made me think of you.

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Tom VanAntwerp 🤷‍♂️ @tomvanantwerp.com [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 17:05 UTC

I like owning my house, but I *really* miss the ability to just inform the landlord whenever something breaks and it just gets fixed like magic

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