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Joel McCance @jmccance.dirigibly.ltd · 10h

…“Suburban Homeboy”

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Suburban Homeboy

YouTube video by Sparks - Topic

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Joel McCance @jmccance.dirigibly.ltd · 10h

Thinking about songs that rhyme with each other.

“Rockin‘ the Suburbs” and…

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Ben Folds - Rockin' The Suburbs

YouTube video by BenFoldsVEVO

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Joel McCance @jmccance.dirigibly.ltd · 16h

Guess he read that Jacobin article.

Pittsburgh Scanner @pgh-scanner.com · 20h

Overbrook. Bernard Street. Caller says that the banks are crazy. He would like to speak to PD to go over his options.

Joel McCance @jmccance.dirigibly.ltd · 21h

“Starbucks holds nearly $2 billion of customers’ money in its rewards program. That’s more than the total deposits managed by 85 percent of chartered banks, making the coffee chain one of the biggest financial institutions in the country.”

Everything Is Becoming a Bank

Most major corporations — from airlines to social media platforms — now aspire to become unregulated banks. Bankification today accounts for the highest profit margins in the US economy, crippling pro...

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Joel McCance @jmccance.dirigibly.ltd · 2d

That reminds me, I found Dionysus in Hades II last night.

On both counts I’m very happy for the people whose gaze these are meant for.

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Joel McCance @jmccance.dirigibly.ltd · 3d

Is that how you started? I’ve been thinking about trying it because my flexibility is shit, but I also get very into my head about doing things “correctly”. That’s put me off trying to learn from videos.

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Joel McCance @jmccance.dirigibly.ltd · 8d

I don’t know how much hearing the Franz Ferdinand show cost me, but it was totally worth it.

My only real regret is not being down in the pit for Take Me Out, because that looked like a blast.

Photo of the Roxian Theatre marquee at night showing Franz Ferdinand.

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Joel McCance @jmccance.dirigibly.ltd · 18d

Andy. Andrew. Anders. “MIS-ter Anderson” (in your best Agent Smith voice). Andross. Androshka. Fluffy Butt.

Buddy.

Andy, a long-haired orange cat, reclining on an ottoman.

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Joel McCance @jmccance.dirigibly.ltd · 28d

…I had not made the connection that Bugonia was a remake of STGP. This'll be interesting.

Joel McCance @jmccance.dirigibly.ltd · Sep 1

There’s a setting to make Safari automatically close tabs after a set period. I set it to one week, and I’ve been enjoying watching my tab count slowly decay.

It also means now I know that if I have a tab I truly care about, I need to DO something with it or it will disappear.

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Joel McCance @jmccance.dirigibly.ltd · Aug 30

It’s the modern version of sitcom couples sleeping in separate beds. We just can’t admit that sometimes two adults will have a conversation without stopping to put on pants or holding a sheet up to their chin.

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Joel McCance @jmccance.dirigibly.ltd · Aug 30

What’s Up, Doc?
Eraserhead
The Long Goodbye

Honorable mention to “The Shout” for being deeply weird and extremely 70s British.

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Joel McCance @jmccance.dirigibly.ltd · Aug 30

Yes, this is the one I came to recommend! So many lines from this movie live rent-free in my head.

Joel McCance @jmccance.dirigibly.ltd · Aug 24

I’m pretty sure I have, like, 2.2 nipples.

The extra nip is a small spot along the milk line with a couple stray hairs that doesn’t match the right side of my torso. It’s like my body started construction before the foreman ran in waving the blueprints and they just never cleaned up.

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Joel McCance @jmccance.dirigibly.ltd · Aug 19

It’s just so hard to get good bagels in some places.

Two slices of sandwich bread on a plate. Each slice has a giant hole in the middle from an air pocket during baking.

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Joel McCance @jmccance.dirigibly.ltd · Jul 27

“Who’s Next” has one of the most ominous piano riffs I’ve ever heard.

Tom Lehrer - Who's Next - with intro

YouTube video by The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel

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Joel McCance @jmccance.dirigibly.ltd · Jul 27

RIP. He may have stopped performing decades ago, but still a man for our time. youtu.be/iaHDBL7dVgs

Tom Lehrer - Smut - LIVE FILM From Copenhagen in 1967

YouTube video by The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel

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Joel McCance @jmccance.dirigibly.ltd · Jul 5

When I first saw (and smelled) that dish, I thought I was being hazed.

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Joel McCance @jmccance.dirigibly.ltd · May 19

Sexy fight in a bamboo forest?

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Joel McCance @jmccance.dirigibly.ltd · May 16

Nice to see this progress towards native! Hope you consider expanding this to iPad as well.

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Joel McCance @jmccance.dirigibly.ltd · May 8

I may have to have some after dinner, out of my respect for the new papa.

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Joel McCance @jmccance.dirigibly.ltd · May 7

Banks’ ability to react to change is somewhere between the Titanic and a tectonic plate.

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Joel McCance @jmccance.dirigibly.ltd · May 7

I had to implement ACH for work and every day was another round of “What… what? That can’t be right. WHAT?”

Half the spec is like “Field N is used to represent X, unless the originator doesn’t feel like it or they use Field M instead, or maybe they just scribble it in the notes.”

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Joel McCance @jmccance.dirigibly.ltd · May 5

I don’t think I knew there was a freeze. I definitely don’t know what happens with hiring afterwards.

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Joel McCance @jmccance.dirigibly.ltd · Apr 4

It’s more of a table than a shelf, but the principle applies.

Several books on a black table.

- “Braiding Sweetgrass”, Kimmerer
- “Collected Fictions”, Borges
- “Saving Time”, Odell
- “The disappearance of ritual”, Han
- “The Human Use of Human Beings”, Weiner
- “The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest”, Larsson
- “Absolution”, VanderMeer

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