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JustBrogrammer

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Just some dude who likes running, programming, boardgames, D&D, snowboarding, kayaking exclusively in that order.
Former video game dev, now your regular platform engineer. I like to build things that build things. I am a father of 3, pain in my wife's ass, runner, programmer, possibly crazy guy living the dream.

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RickiTarr, to random
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Y'all want to hear a fact that really changed the way I thought about homelessness?

Half of all homeless people were in the foster system at some point. Social Workers often call the foster system The Highway to Homelessness. If you ever had a point in your life where you had to live with friends or family to for a short time to get back on your feet, remember that is a privilege that not everyone had.

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@RickiTarr
I was in the foster system and while I was pretty young it definitely had an impact on me. The hand off to new families was weird and you never knew what you were going to get. I was very lucky to have my sister, the strongest person I know, so we pulled out of it

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Type "Women are..." and/or "Men are..." and let predictive text finish the sentence.

JustBrogrammer,
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@RickiTarr
Women are you doing that to me
Men and women are you doing that to me

RickiTarr, to random
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Hello! I want to do a Spooky Picture Prompt! So, find a picture in your camera roll that would represent the phrase:

Last Picture on the Camera Roll

This should be spooky, but completely up to your own interpretation. Here's one from me, with weird eclipse light.

JustBrogrammer,
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@RickiTarr
This is the last picture we found on the picture roll. Not sure what it means but it must have some clue as to what happened to them.

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Politicians before every war:

JustBrogrammer,
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@RickiTarr
That is the programmers credo and I can vouch for it. It is how I got into this line of work.

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What kind of high-school experience did you have? Were you in a clique? Were you popular, unpopular, the coolest kid in your Homeschool? Did you have a sweet jean jacket with patches, or maybe a leather vest? Were you an evil villain or a Mary Sue?

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@RickiTarr
Wow, I have been thinking about what I would respond with and I'm like holy shit.

Poor kid moved all around up to the 10th grade. My high school's highest grade when I got there was 10th, new school. My class were the seniors at the school for 3 years. My father died when I was 17 so I was the adult from then. I was smart, at least in math. I had charisma but was a class clown of sorts to cover my awkward, I missed social cues. I was a kind of a pity case so people were nice to me

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Are you the person you always thought you would be?

JustBrogrammer,
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@RickiTarr
Been sitting here trying to think of who I thought I would be when I was younger and I got nothing.
It dawned on me the other day though that as a father to teenage boys, I became the responsible one which I didn't even know was possible.

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If you could have one new skill starting right now, what would it be?

JustBrogrammer,
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@RickiTarr
I wanna be able to do something with my mind only observing and not reacting.

Something, probably athletic, that is better with flow. A better snowboarder, skateboarding, parkour possibly.

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Where do you live and how do you feel about it?

Obviously, don't tell me exactly where you live, no actual addresses please! You can be as vague as you like.

I live in Central Missouri in the U.S.

Pros:

This is an absolutely beautiful place, green rolling hills, lots of rivers, lakes, ponds, and natural springs, cool caves to explore.

Lots of farming here, so great access to quality fruits, vegetables, meat, eggs, and dairy.

It's relatively inexpensive to live here compared with other states, because it's a "flyover".

I'm close enough to three major cities, that it's an easy day trip, and I'm about halfway to anywhere in the U.S.

We have one of the best Conservation departments in the U.S. and this is one of the few things that is a bipartisan issue. Lots of awesome nature programs that are free or cheap, state parks, conservation areas, bird watching, hunting, boating, foraging available to everyone.

Cons:

Yeah, it's a big one, it is a RED STATE, while a lot of the cities are blue, there is a large rural population, that votes red. Abortion is not legal here. People often vote against their own self interest.

While I'm not against responsible gun ownership, lots of people aren't responsible, and people have access to guns that definitely should not.

We have very few employee protections here, while the cost of living is relatively low compared with other places, it's taken years to get to a $12 minimum wage, and it's still not enough.

JustBrogrammer,
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@RickiTarr
I live in E WA state from Long Beach CA
Pros:
Absolutely beautiful place. The mountains, lakes, trails are everywhere.

There is no state income tax.

Cons:
It's a blue state but Idaho is about 5 miles from me and this area is red like my neighbor. I see trump flags regularly and similar flags flying behind massive pickup trucks.

The closest city is Seattle 5 hours away. There are no pro sports I can go see. It's not the country but it has a lot less options than Long Beach CA

JustBrogrammer, to running
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Meant to put this with my run

Mrfunkedude, to random
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Do you think if mens testicles were as big as their fists that pants would be designed to enhance testicular cleavage?

JustBrogrammer,
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I think if testicles were that big, women would be in charge.
@Mrfunkedude

RickiTarr, to random
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Does anyone else have trouble doing one thing at a time? Like if I'm doing chores it helps to have a podcast or talk to someone, or watching TV, I need to do something with my hands, like a little handy craft, or a simple game. I love movies, but the movie has to be absolutely fascinating for me to want to go to a theater where I just need to sit there and watch. I have a large amount of tabs open on my phone all the time and I flit back and forth through a bunch of different things. Weed helps calm this down a bit.

JustBrogrammer,
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@RickiTarr
Usually more than one thing but typically only 1 is actively focused on. The rest is either background noise like an audio book or music while running or music while programming.
I do have little pauses in my normal programming journey to deploy or make coffee but those are really just comfortable context switching moments that help me get a different perspective. If I have those then I typically do not get stumped or blocked.

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Me: So, what do you call your penis?

Dude:

JustBrogrammer,
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@RickiTarr
Well now I am trembling so that part seems accurate

JustBrogrammer, to running
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Frost Beard achievement unlocked.

RickiTarr, to random
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Some pics from my day out, bonus points if you can tell me what the flowers are without looking it up! Feel free to share a picture or two from your day.

This is a gravel road lined with trees on one side and a hillside with grass and yellow flowers on the other, there are puffy white clouds in the sky
This is a very homemade looking wooden bridge with wide wooden planks, you could see the water underneath through the cracks. It was a bit scary to walk over, ahead is a railroad bridge and my brother is walking ahead of me in a red shirt and jeans
This is a little courtyard path where I had brunch, there is a wrought iron bench, a pink dogwood, several hydrangeas, and a Japanese maple, it's very charming

JustBrogrammer,
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The trail I was running on yesterday. Going down the deep creek trail. The creek that I think was rerouted so this is dry.

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Since I've talked a lot about change today, I'll ask a question about it:

If you've changed something in your life or about yourself, how did you do it, and why?

JustBrogrammer,
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@RickiTarr
The crazy thing is for the past 10 years I could not imagine not being a runner. It is who I am now and almost who I could never be.

JustBrogrammer,
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@RickiTarr
I remember sitting in a bathtub smoking a cigarette and thinking about all the things that would change if I could quit.
It was a ton of failed attempts that followed but that I wanted to quit and the memory of my thinking of all that change eventually got me to quit.
I now run ultra marathons and am so grateful for that moment.

JustBrogrammer, to ultrarunning
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Hell's Canyon by the numbers. My goal was to be out for at least 10 hours and be able to maintain energy throughout. This was a huge success and I'm so happy with it.
#HellsCanyon #UltraRunning #TrailRunning #Running

JustBrogrammer, to running
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I was going to say she must have a different training plan than I do but thinking about it, I think this is accurate.

JustBrogrammer, to running
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I like to think of it as setting the legs to auto pilot and cruising.

JustBrogrammer, to running
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Sometimes when you take in a breath, you take in more than air.

JustBrogrammer, to running
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Momo showed up on my photo widget so I'm sharing it with you.

JustBrogrammer, to running
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Started strong, got through the first half in just about 2:15 but I had a 1 km detour to a bathroom and some careful strides leading up to it.
All in all pretty happy with it even though it slipped away from me at the end.

JustBrogrammer, to animals
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Momo is actually going to run with me!

JustBrogrammer, to running
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Just following instructions again

JustBrogrammer, to ultrarunning
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I have about 9 hours of footage to go through and edit but I found a section of the raw footage that is not horrible.
The cliff edges look a lot scarier than they do in person but I might have just been focusiong on the beauty out there at the time.

https://youtu.be/rQAMnOq6lG8

#ClimbRunnerClimb #HellsCanyon #UltraRunning #Running

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