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Svenllama P.

@svenllama.bsky.social

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"Are you there, God? It's me, Svenllama." The same Svenllama from the other site, still driving around Massachusetts apple orchard country in an old Honda, listening to the JAMC and rooting for SAFC.

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Svenllama P. @svenllama.bsky.social · Dec 7

ATTN NEW FOLLOWERS: My top dozen preoccupations...

1. Old Hondas
2. The Jesus & Mary Chain
3. The Counting Crows' plane crash
4. The unmade Ken Burns AIDS film
5. New Order
6. Sunderland AFC
7. Model trains
8. Supply chain mgmt
9. The Midwest
10. Frank Lloyd Wright
11. Massachusetts
12. #DADZ stuff

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Svenllama P. @svenllama.bsky.social · 5h

McCorkle Jones getting another start this week.

two men are sitting in a car talking to each other and the words `` it 's happening isn 't it ? ''

ALT: two men are sitting in a car talking to each other and the words `` it 's happening isn 't it ? ''

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Svenllama P. @svenllama.bsky.social · 5h

You know, in listening to this music you'd never guess in a million years Elvis spent all his time alone and depressed in his house, self-medicating with food and downers.

Elvis Presley - Dixieland - An American Trilogy ( On Tour 1972) [ CC ]

Dixieland - An American Trilogy.... On Tour 1972. Recorded: 1972/02/16, first released on single. Words & Music by Micky Newbury . Lyrics: Oh I wish I was in the land of cotton Old things they are not forgotten Look away, look away, look away Dixieland Oh I wish I was in Dixie, away, away In Dixie

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Svenllama P. @svenllama.bsky.social · 6h

Anyone who wants to become a software engineer should do a multi-year apprenticeship loading tape backups and programming mainframes with punch cards and teletype terminals, like sushi chefs spending years learning how to make rice before they're allowed to touch the fish.

Svenllama P. @svenllama.bsky.social · 6h

Do you want to watch an industrial training video from 1976 about computers, narrated by a very enthusiastic guy with an old school Brooklyn accent?

Yes. Yes you do.

Basic Computer Terms (1976)

The film features Harry, a business person overwhelmed by his back orders and unfamiliar with computers. Jane, a computer expert, explains basic computer concepts, including hardware, software, input, processing, memory, and output. She reassures Harry that computers are not to be feared, as they si

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Svenllama P. @svenllama.bsky.social · 13h

The Bloodhound Gang's "The Bad Touch" is my favorite Erasure song.

Svenllama P. @svenllama.bsky.social · 14h

"Oh, you're really into Japanese culture, huh? Tell me the names of the prefectures that have produced the winning teams from the last 3 Koshien high school baseball tournaments."

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Svenllama P. @svenllama.bsky.social · 1d

TIL that there there people who didn't immediately recognize that "You Get What You Give" was an all-time classic pop song when it was first released.

Roger (Perpetual Stu) @iamtherog.com · 1d

This song came on at the restaurant where my wife and I were eating tonight and k said “imagine going back to 1999 and telling people that THIS song would be the one that stuck from this era.”

The CryptKeifer @dannyvegito.bsky.social · 26d

You guys wish you were on the level of sincerity I’m on. I’m listening to You Get What You Give by New Radicals and feeling emotions. As a matter of fact I DO have the music in me. I DO have the dreamers’ disease.

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Svenllama P. @svenllama.bsky.social · 1d

Choose your own adventure!

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Svenllama P. @svenllama.bsky.social · 1d

Same

bagagwaa @bagagwaa.bsky.social · 1d

I miss making music with my friends

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Svenllama P. @svenllama.bsky.social · 1d

Lemme know how it goes

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