Music Software Developer/Trombonist/Composer
Sr. Software Engineer @ https://paceap.com.
Exec board @ MIDI Manufacturers Association http://midi.org.
he/him.

Brewerytown, Philadelphia, USA

Also @bgporter@hachyderm.io & https://bgporter.net

reminisce about Slimey's journey, and if you see where this is going once Tony Bennett pulls out a mic, you're more awake than I was that morning.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4cmRaHMLGM
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Of course it was all a long setup to blow the minds of unsuspecting parents. Eventually the mission was (of course) a success, and then the real payoff -- Big Bird and Tony Bennett go out on the roof to look at the moon and...
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That season, there was a long arc where Oscar's pet worm Slimey had been selected to be on the first worm mission to the moon. Over weeks they had segments about his training, doing worm pushups, getting flung from the little worm centrifuge, etc etc.
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The Artemis crew returning tomorrow made me remember the last successful moon landing. Not Apollo 17 in 1972, the mission in 1998. I remember it like it was yesterday. My son was 2, and every morning I'd get up early and doze while he watched (amongst other things) Sesame Street.
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I've only lived in Philadelphia for a year now, and that's long enough to know how long these would last on the streets here if they tried to deploy them.
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Don't bother to call this room
There's nobody here who can pick up
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By rocket to the moon
By airplane to the rocket
By taxi to the airport
By front door to the taxi
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Thanks again to my uncle who left Philip K Dick and Robert Sheckley books laying around my grandparents' house.
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Stop scrolling & post two characters who bring you happiness.
#filmsky #moviesky
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My top record of the last decade. It snuck up on me.
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In a Lyft home after seeing some music and I forgot how much I hate the radio. It’s been a solid 8 minutes of commercials straight out hollering.
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First we take art that is dead
And bring it to life with electric shocks
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This is very good
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I’ll be in my office.
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What a fucking ghoul.
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So: A year ago today, we bought this rowhouse in Philadelphia’s Brewerytown neighborhood.bgporter.net/posts/philly/annual-report/t/
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Forrest Gump filled me with seething rage. My favorite part of it was when lightning struck nearby and the power went out for 10 minutes.
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What's the John Barth novel that's layers and layers of frame stories and the different layers start talking to each other? Am I imagining that's a thing?
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This talk at XOXO last year is one of my favorite things ever, and the rest of the story only makes it better.
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“Twin Peaks” pilot on a huge screen at the Miami Film Festival a year before it aired on ABC.
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Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
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Embarrassed that I'd never heard of this band until yesterday and have seen a dozen links to them in the last 24 hours. Microtonal math rock is (to no one's surprise) 100% my thing.
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A quadrennial reminder that snowboarding tricks should be measured in radians and not degrees.
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it's like one of those small family-owned circuses we took the kids to when they were little. The tightrope walker would run backstage, change hats, and return as the lion tamer.
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A serious regret in my life: back in the 80s, the Arkestra was hired in Syracuse to play all night on New Year's Eve (a set every other hour from 8pm to 8am). I was home from college, but didn't want to go by myself. Dumb dumb dumb.
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What you need is someone who can dig your scene completely
Not another planless schmuck who's out to make bucks easily
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My mantra:
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I'm unable to watch this without hearing "Yakety Sax" and imagining it played at 1.5x
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