I’ll read your work whenever you are able to grace us with your presence, lol. I can appreciate that paying the bills is kind of a priority. Many thanks!
If the frequency with which I receive your transmissions decreases, the only thing that will change on my end will be an increase in my level of excitement when your posts arrive.
My brother is a network systems engineer and my best friend is an accountant for a LARGE corporation. The occasions when we get time to talk or hang out are precious. Your posts are like that for me. You’re in my top three favorite internet creators, I don’t see that changing just because your day job gets busier.
So much to unpack in such a short post! First, I’m glad I’m retired from IT, though truth be told, my last gig was Scrum Master, which was much easier than my mainframe coding days with piles of paper dumps after an abend, or getting a call in the middle of the night because, well, no personal computers and no cell phones! Also, no direct reports in a “matrixed” org chart (yay, hate managing people). Second, I never miss the endless reorgs from work for a Fortune 100 company. Ugh. Third, proud to be one of your 832 subscribers! I get a varied and delightful education in music for free and entertaining “shitposting”! Finally, post when you can - we’re here for you! 😁
We used punch cards for fortran. You would hand the operator a deck, and the next day you would pick up your output and the cards. It was usually an ABEND with a core dump and about 4” of that green and white paper to sort through.
I think I am getting a migraine thinking about it…
I look forward to reading your brilliant/hilarious thoughts whenever we’re lucky enough to have them. Thanks for not giving up! Take your time, keep a healthy balance, enjoy the ride of nervous optimism ahead!
You rebel you! Do whatever you need to do-I feel like you’re a friend I’ve never met. Love the music, the vitriol, the insights. You believed in me when I was first getting going here-I’m super grateful. And a big fan.
I love your writing and I’m one of your 800 subscribers!
And yes, I’ve noticed an influx in the Magaverse trolls occupying Substack. It’s a pity, I left X and FB is becoming a current troll farm, Insta is not any better!
But I was prepared for this to happen when TFG has been cornered by the Harris campaign, and branded a piece lying of shit.
I’ll read your work whenever you are able to grace us with your presence, lol. I can appreciate that paying the bills is kind of a priority. Many thanks!
If the frequency with which I receive your transmissions decreases, the only thing that will change on my end will be an increase in my level of excitement when your posts arrive.
My brother is a network systems engineer and my best friend is an accountant for a LARGE corporation. The occasions when we get time to talk or hang out are precious. Your posts are like that for me. You’re in my top three favorite internet creators, I don’t see that changing just because your day job gets busier.
Oh! And check THIS out:
https://youtu.be/tN-I-cFsfCU?si=Pr6wMDKQIjgzRWg4
Sometimes the kids hit the nail right on the head🤘
So much to unpack in such a short post! First, I’m glad I’m retired from IT, though truth be told, my last gig was Scrum Master, which was much easier than my mainframe coding days with piles of paper dumps after an abend, or getting a call in the middle of the night because, well, no personal computers and no cell phones! Also, no direct reports in a “matrixed” org chart (yay, hate managing people). Second, I never miss the endless reorgs from work for a Fortune 100 company. Ugh. Third, proud to be one of your 832 subscribers! I get a varied and delightful education in music for free and entertaining “shitposting”! Finally, post when you can - we’re here for you! 😁
Oh. My. God. An AbEnd with the core dump, and countless hours of tracing back the stack.
I think I just got PTSD. Thanks!
Here’s some more TRIGGERS for me: PL/I, COBOL, IMS, JCL, DB2 (later), and even later: C, Mumps, FoxPro (I know I’m forgetting some, but I’m old)!
I learned assembly language on a PDP 11/70, Fortran on an octal Cyber 730, and did a LOT of basic programming on that same PDP.
Good times indeed.
Oh yeah, Fortran and Basic, but only in college (thankfully they had done away with punch cards) Haha!
We used punch cards for fortran. You would hand the operator a deck, and the next day you would pick up your output and the cards. It was usually an ABEND with a core dump and about 4” of that green and white paper to sort through.
I think I am getting a migraine thinking about it…
So sorry! Go listen to some good music! 💖
Ha! Fight the power!
You need to keep scratching that certain itch.
I look forward to reading your brilliant/hilarious thoughts whenever we’re lucky enough to have them. Thanks for not giving up! Take your time, keep a healthy balance, enjoy the ride of nervous optimism ahead!
You rebel you! Do whatever you need to do-I feel like you’re a friend I’ve never met. Love the music, the vitriol, the insights. You believed in me when I was first getting going here-I’m super grateful. And a big fan.
I love your writing and I’m one of your 800 subscribers!
And yes, I’ve noticed an influx in the Magaverse trolls occupying Substack. It’s a pity, I left X and FB is becoming a current troll farm, Insta is not any better!
But I was prepared for this to happen when TFG has been cornered by the Harris campaign, and branded a piece lying of shit.