G Allen @vollink@wandering.shop

#reintroduction : I use this site wrong. I mostly use Twidere on Android, which hides CW pretty deep, so I sometimes forget. I generally read everything in my feed, in order, but am often up-to three days behind. I may inexplicably boost or reply to something you've forgotten about, and I'm sorry.

As an #introduction, I live in the Bronx, and I manage some programmers in the financial data space. I'm married to a YA librarian with NY Public Libraries. I read a lot of books, some of them are not out yet. I have wide interests and lots of hobbies. If I'm following you, I probably noticed you talk about something I thought was interesting.

I ordered a 3D printer today. I have wanted one for many years. Now, I'm getting one. But... Will I actually use it? This question is the reason I've waited so very long to order it.

Have ham steaks always been the shape of the Millennium Falcon, or is it just this one... Or just me?

This video on YouTube from Simone Giertz might be worth your time. #MantisShrimp

http://youtu.be/bmoPYnwPKKY

I want a keyboard that will autocorrect normally on swipe use, but if I tap keys individually, it should leave me the hell alone.

Anybody know of a droid keyboard that will do this?

This is a song that I keep hearing when shopping at places like a drug store or the grocery... It's stuck in my head... Again.

"Lovefool" is a song written by Peter Svensson and Nina Persson for The Cardigans' third studio album, First Band on the Moon (1996). -- Wikipedia

What gets stuck in yours?

I have begun to wonder how much of the Teamsters Union/mafia connection was created or helped by big businesses trying to kill the popularity of unions in general.

Did I review Treasure Island, that classic tale? Yes, I did. More classics to come... https://blog.vollink.com/2019/07/treasure-island-by-r-l-stevenson.html

School inequality is near and dear to my heart. Also I really wish Bree were here.

https://twitter.com/BreeNewsome/status/1150866930535993350

I support Elizabeth Warren. Kamala Harris is a bit too cop adjacent, but she's my runner-up. Nobody else has my attention... Yet.

I live in AOC's district, Bronx, and if she could run, she'd probably be my frontrunner.

It occurs to me that Trump just asked four Congress women to return to the USA, fix it, and being the how-to back to his country, which I can only assume is Russia.

Real email signature of someone working in the IT department of the New York Public Library includes this:

NYPLIT

Which reminds me, somehow, of something I'd read about in a slash-fic or erotica story.

I was touched by a single drop of rain.

You should write that as a poem.

That was the poem.

Oh, then you should write it down.

Linux/UNIX/Java FYI: Time zone database updated. Palestine and Brazil changes. 2019b

Posted a book review for a second in a series, Defy The Worlds by Claudia Gray. https://blog.vollink.com/2019/06/book-defy-worlds-by-claudia-gray.html

My US rep is AOC herself. I don't have anything to say that she hasn't already said better.

Phone interview with a big company in downtown Minneapolis next week. I'm excited about this, even though it's just a phone screen. 🎯 I would love to move back to the cities.

Book review posted (yesterday). The Good Neighbor, Fred Rogers Biography by Maxwell King https://blog.vollink.com/2019/06/fred-rogers-biography-by-king.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=rGu14fWM4dI. Microsoft Flight Simulator preview.