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mrcompletely

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He/him. Tyler IRL. If you've seen this handle elsewhere yeah that's probably me. Moderator at https://heads.social Mastodon instance, admin at https://Jerrybase.com

#PDX #oregon #PNW #software #dev #deadhead #gratefuldead #bluegrass #jazz #phish #psychedelic #artist #DigitalArt #painting #mandalas #nba #nature

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InstituteJerry, to random
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Certainly one of the biggest deadheads of all-time. RIP :stealie: :sadclown: ❤️

mrcompletely,
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@InstituteJerry hey-o

mrcompletely, to music
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In honor of Bill I should share not just a pinnacle jam, and not just one he attended on his home court of Pauley Pavilion at UCLA, but an uncompromisingly long ass jam, too long to embed, because that's what he would've dug the most. Cheers ya big freak

Playing In The Band > Uncle John's Band > Morning Dew > Uncle John's > Playing Reprise
(11.17.73)

DL & possibly stream lossless: https://drive.google.com/file/d/13RdrxulD1JrzbbC_l_rXogcgOxAgNPL_/view?usp=drive_link

Stream via Relisten: https://relisten.net/grateful-dead/1973/11/17/playin-in-the-band?source=336595

mrcompletely,
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@mangrovevalley fifty minutes of straight fire, or as bill probably would have called it, a nice warmup

mrcompletely, to nba
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I think the essence of Bill Walton was easy to understand: when you love something, love it with all your heart and passion, without reservation or worrying what anyone else thinks. I think he got everything out of his life that he could, left nothing on the table. To me that's a life well lived

mrcompletely,
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@drewphish in an age of cynicism and ironic distance he was an avatar of earnest enthusiasm

mrcompletely, (edited ) to nba
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Fare thee well Big Bill

🌹⚡🌹⚡🌹☠️🌹⚡🌹⚡🌹

I'm in his core demographic - a dedicated fan of the #nba and #GratefulDead & Portland guy - so he was a big part of the scene for me for decades. I never really knew what he was talking about, but I loved the vibes. And yes he blocked my view at a couple shows, but later through a one degree of separation thing I got to sit in his seats at a #TrailBlazers game, and they were the best seats I've ever had, so we'll call it even.
♥️🏀♥️🏀♥️🏀♥️
#oregon #Portland #pdx

exchgr, to random
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i need my meat eating friends to learn about tofu and seitan plz

mrcompletely,
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@exchgr seen years ago at a Portland food cart pod, a t shirt reading

GLUTEN
THE NEW AL QAIDA

mrcompletely, to nba
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There was a fucking LOT going on in that game 3 and I don't want to reduce it to this but it sure feels like Luka fully owns the heavyweight championship belt for Baddest Mfer in the League right now

What a backcourt. They really feel unstoppable once they each get a couple makes

lauren, to random
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Europeans who assume that Americans never use the metric system are 100% wrong.

mrcompletely,
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@lauren I work in metric units on art projects by default and have learned to think in celsius finally by following a local forecaster that uses that scale

aburtch, to random
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Not sure if anything can save the Republican Party, but this is a start. https://mastodon.social/@uspolitics/112510600240288749

mrcompletely,
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@aburtch @dave_heumann the American right wing coalition is held together by a sense of cultural belongingness or identity rooted largely in race and religion and communicated in emotional terms. Since the founding of the country this coalition has led to the white working and poor classes to align against their own economic interests consistently through changes that have shifted everything around them many times. It's in many ways the story of American politics imo.

Copperdomebodhi, to random
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I wrote off as, "Just the ," for a long time. Maybe I shouldn't have.

https://youtu.be/4yB1Pj2r5s4?feature=shared

mrcompletely,
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@Copperdomebodhi yeah, he always had a little more depth than that. And it's one of the great tragedies that - very much like Hendrix - the last year of his life was when he started to really learn theory. He had sobered up and was getting serious and then he was gone. His last album is his most sophisticated; check this out

https://youtu.be/3c_8VUL5jks?si=8On9ejKGySmk2YAA

mrcompletely,
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@2dogphish @tonymasiello @Copperdomebodhi I was a fan from pretty early on. For one thing my generation didn't have a lot of guitar heroes, and he was doing all the Hendrix stuff. But my dad was close friends with the owner of an Austin club called Antone's which is where the Vaughn brothers both spent a lot of time coming up. Antone's was one of few places still booking older blues greats in the late 70s/early 80s, so the Vaughn boys got to learn directly from the OGs. Heard about SRV that way

mrcompletely,
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@2dogphish @tonymasiello @Copperdomebodhi Antone's was a whole scene apparently. My dad told stories about going into the back office and Willie Dixon or someone would be sleeping on the office couch. Later the owner was busted in a ton-level cross border weed smuggling op.

tor_haxson, to random
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I am suffering from a tick borne infection of some sort,

Basically the protocol at least at urgent Care centers is.

Tick bite, + symptoms => A course of antibiotics.

I am cool with that, and glad I didn't go to my doctor who may have been less likely to prescribe.

So yeah, FYI, if it is more than just the usual itch, and your lymph nodes get in on the action, visit a doctor.

We need an AI agent that goes out and kills ticks, a hummingbird sized tick eater.

mrcompletely,
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@tor_haxson care care of yourself amigo

WilliamRobert, to random
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A deep dive into Ursula K. LeGuin's classic novels through the lens of her 'dangerous' philosophy.

#UrsulaKLeGuin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRC0cK_MSA0

mrcompletely,
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@EVDHmn @WilliamRobert fundamentally she was a Taoist, a view that clarified as she got older, but the kind of Taoist that creates their own poetic translation of the Tao Te Ching. In terms of social philosophy she was feminist, ecological, antiwar/pacifist in the general sense. She wrote stories in which violence was never glorified or seen as a viable solution. IMO she is the most important figure in the transition to modern SF from the culturally naive "Golden Age" of Heinlein, Asimov etc

mrcompletely,
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@EVDHmn @WilliamRobert what this quote refers to is likely the fact that she created plausible seeming societies in which structures like power hierarchies, capitalism and gender-role conformity don't exist or are seen as pathological. She wasn't the only one doing that in her era (Delany in particular) but she's had the greatest impact

trisweb, to random
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For all the talk of “maker schedule vs manager schedule,” I don’t think we appreciate just how much management and coaching benefits from focus time and deep work and open space to think and help others.

A back to back jam packed agenda is the problem for everyone.

Imagine the coaching that could be done if you had two solid hours to help someone? Imagine the career development if you had an hour to plan and think through someone’s growth before speaking with them on it?

Managers suffer from a “manager’s schedule” just as much as makers.

mrcompletely,
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@trisweb certainly. For me the start of each day is for responding to me or open task list items, the middle of the day is for meetings, and the end of the day is for thinking, planning, and other macroscale tasks. When mentoring junior and middle managers I say things like "schedule an hour of staring out the window time." And by schedule I mean schedule. Block it off in your calendar so it doesn't get filled. Treat it as real work, which it is.

FateMusic, to random
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I chuckled at Kreutzmann having an index entry for "horses, cocaine and" in his bio (p. 231 if you're wondering). I thought it was just a BK/Benjy Eisen thing.

But of course I am an infinitely ignorant fool. Because, of course:

cocaine's for horses not for men
doctor say it kill you but they don't say when
cocaine done killed my honey dead

Well played.

note to self: I see now this is the second time I have made that same connection, as if fresh and new, 3 years apart.

mrcompletely,
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@FateMusic it always seemed wild to me that this was a real old song, hearing Doc Watson do it and stuff...from a modern perspective it feels like cocaine was invented in 1968 and went big in its first decade but it's been fucking people up for well over a century

chooban, to random
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What is the correct setlist for 's Rockin' The Rhein? Wikipedia mentions a third set, the archive.org has the same ordering as the official release, and deadlists begs to differ. :/

mrcompletely,
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@chooban @bourgwick @InstituteJerry hm. Probably possible. Lot of priorities rn but that seems not crazy

bourgwick, to random
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50 years ago today, the & wall of sound in with maria muldaur & the great american string band. love to the compuserve tape tree, probably my 1st exposure to ’74 dead. with the new "mars hotel" reissue, now the 1st ’74 dead show without official release.
soundboard: https://archive.org/details/gd1974-05-25.sbd.jmiller.205.sbeok.shnf
vivid audience tape: https://archive.org/details/gd1974-05-25.aud.gems.111301.flac16
silent footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYt8RQQoMjA [1/10]

mrcompletely,
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@bourgwick Buell Neidlinger is a cool af little dude, we booked him at the first String Summit outside of Portland to play with someone or another (possibly Dawg? he was there) and I think do a workshop. He seemed to like that the kids running the hippie bluegrass festival knew he was a jazz guy too

digginjazz, to jazz
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I bought this album in 1970 while in high school, for no other reason than I was mezmorized by the cover art, and heard that Miles is hip and I should be listening to him. At the time, I didn't get it and shelved it for years. It took being exposed to much more music to understand what genius is contained on these disks. So much history and influences are amalgamated into this music.

mrcompletely,
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@digginjazz for me this was the album that opened up everything. A friend put it on late at a party when everyone was in a perceptive and receptive mindset and within minutes I realized I knew nothing about music at all

bourgwick, to bookstodon
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restarted a book i thought i maybe didn't like, but turns out i was just in an airport experiencing interminable delays when i tried before. @bookstodon

mrcompletely,
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@bourgwick @bookstodon nice!

grimalkina, to random
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The answer to "how can we make more technology work better and more for everyone" PROBABLY can't hinge on "individual software developers are responsible for knowing internalizing and perfectly executing every single thing in the world and perfectly understanding the needs of billions of people" eh?

mrcompletely,
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@grimalkina lacking in praxis or method of application?

exchgr, to random
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going to a party called “cornhub” today

mrcompletely,
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@exchgr thoughts and prayers

bsletten, to BillyStrings
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The people behind the Billy Strings fan site Billy Base know what the hell they are doing and understand information at a level I haven’t seen much in the world of popular culture.

Real-time set lists, metadata, authorship, when it entered the rotation, history of being played, lyrics, etc.

Really well done. 🙌🏼🫡

https://billybase.net

mrcompletely,
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@bsletten Billybase is an excellent example of a fan driven setlist site. Similar sites include https://kglw.net/ (King Gizzard), https://brownbase.org/ (Ween), Phish.net, https://jerrybase.com/ (Grateful Dead and Garcia, one I help admin) plus most if not all of the major jam bands like Widespread Panic. Basically any act that plays a different setlist every night and has fans that are also jam band fans or part of that culture is likely to have a similar site (of varying quality)

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