Parker Benchley 🇨🇦
@parkebench.bsky.social
Catcher Block in my own imagination, somewhat less impressive in reality. 🇨🇦🏳️🌈☘️⚜️ West Coast slacker in BC. Perpetual Student: ⚖️📈📰💻. Software Developer with awesome estimating skills.
She’s Brian O’Banyon from Auntie Mame
December 9, 2025 at 5:40 AM
She’s Brian O’Banyon from Auntie Mame
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
December 8, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
Makes me a Xoomer. So I designed these – and for each year, I tried to use a font that was created or released in the same calendar year.
December 2, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Makes me a Xoomer. So I designed these – and for each year, I tried to use a font that was created or released in the same calendar year.
Team Oxford Comma. Seriously considered having it added like a gang tattoo.
October 24, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Team Oxford Comma. Seriously considered having it added like a gang tattoo.
This blurb really hits the target
October 24, 2025 at 10:42 PM
This blurb really hits the target
A suggestion for my brother and sister reply guys and gals. 😉
October 13, 2025 at 12:47 AM
A suggestion for my brother and sister reply guys and gals. 😉
“Civility” with respect to tone cannot be divorced from incivility of content.
If you opine to me, in pleasant, measured tones, that stoning homosexuals like myself is an example “affirming God’s perfect law when it comes to sexual matters,” I’m unlikely to treat that as civil discourse.
If you opine to me, in pleasant, measured tones, that stoning homosexuals like myself is an example “affirming God’s perfect law when it comes to sexual matters,” I’m unlikely to treat that as civil discourse.
![During Pride Month, children's show host Ms.
Rachel, aka Rachel Griffin-Accurso, wished followers a happy Pride and responded to subsequent backlash by quoting the Bible and expressing the importance of "[loving] every neighbor."
In response, Kirk attempted to cite the Bible to prove a point about his anti-gay views, but he ultimately misquoted a mixture of passages from Leviticus 18:22 and Leviticus 20:13. He said, "Thou shall lay with another man, shall be stoned to death. Just saying... The chapter...affirms God's perfect law when it comes to sexual matter."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ijssvcaeg2q5jki5iqgbnhin/bafkreibpw5gnwvl5bimet2uymequbgx3vfhyegtd7jtlxkllolhbndnldy@jpeg)
September 13, 2025 at 7:50 PM
“Civility” with respect to tone cannot be divorced from incivility of content.
If you opine to me, in pleasant, measured tones, that stoning homosexuals like myself is an example “affirming God’s perfect law when it comes to sexual matters,” I’m unlikely to treat that as civil discourse.
If you opine to me, in pleasant, measured tones, that stoning homosexuals like myself is an example “affirming God’s perfect law when it comes to sexual matters,” I’m unlikely to treat that as civil discourse.
Not to mention mastering the finger snaps.
September 2, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Not to mention mastering the finger snaps.
Agreed, but I have often gotten into a pedantic argument with a friend about this. I believe “respect” is an earned acknowledgement of expertise, authority, or goodwill, but that “courtesy” is owed to all, unless they have proven they don’t deserve it by their deplorable actions or behaviour.
August 31, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Agreed, but I have often gotten into a pedantic argument with a friend about this. I believe “respect” is an earned acknowledgement of expertise, authority, or goodwill, but that “courtesy” is owed to all, unless they have proven they don’t deserve it by their deplorable actions or behaviour.
Together as one pic - it’s pretty astonishing how much he looks like her now.
August 30, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Together as one pic - it’s pretty astonishing how much he looks like her now.
I have clients who call me the TARDIS of software developers: I don’t always take you where you WANT to go, but I always take you where you NEED to go.
August 29, 2025 at 9:18 PM
I have clients who call me the TARDIS of software developers: I don’t always take you where you WANT to go, but I always take you where you NEED to go.
Here’s a slightly longer version of those who need a full 144 seconds of joy.
The full Coldplay Tiny Desk Concert is on YouTube at youtu.be/j82L3pLjb_0?...
Viva La Vida starts at about 2:55 in.
The full Coldplay Tiny Desk Concert is on YouTube at youtu.be/j82L3pLjb_0?...
Viva La Vida starts at about 2:55 in.
August 29, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Here’s a slightly longer version of those who need a full 144 seconds of joy.
The full Coldplay Tiny Desk Concert is on YouTube at youtu.be/j82L3pLjb_0?...
Viva La Vida starts at about 2:55 in.
The full Coldplay Tiny Desk Concert is on YouTube at youtu.be/j82L3pLjb_0?...
Viva La Vida starts at about 2:55 in.
That said, I did some years back, use a tool to animate animal photos, to humorous effect. This was pre “AI” craze, at least 8 or 10 years ago. The voice is one of mine - I did so many years developing, enhancing and implementing telephony gateways that my voice scripting accent range expanded.
August 17, 2025 at 11:36 PM
That said, I did some years back, use a tool to animate animal photos, to humorous effect. This was pre “AI” craze, at least 8 or 10 years ago. The voice is one of mine - I did so many years developing, enhancing and implementing telephony gateways that my voice scripting accent range expanded.
As an example: outside temperature (25°C), temperature in my non-air conditioned bedroom (35.5°C), and in my living room (25°C now, set to 19°C), where I move my office in the summer. The sun still shines directly in until about 2pm, after that the a/c will cool the living room down to 21-22°C.
August 12, 2025 at 9:03 PM
As an example: outside temperature (25°C), temperature in my non-air conditioned bedroom (35.5°C), and in my living room (25°C now, set to 19°C), where I move my office in the summer. The sun still shines directly in until about 2pm, after that the a/c will cool the living room down to 21-22°C.
Heck it was even referenced in Sex and the City!
June 15, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Heck it was even referenced in Sex and the City!
I had a “Kit” too - it was short for Christmas. His sister was Holly - and a hat tip to Dick Francis whose book characters inspired their names.
This was Kit.
This was Kit.
May 27, 2025 at 6:55 PM
I had a “Kit” too - it was short for Christmas. His sister was Holly - and a hat tip to Dick Francis whose book characters inspired their names.
This was Kit.
This was Kit.
“Only an amateur would bake anything Swiss in a 450° oven!”
May 24, 2025 at 7:27 PM
“Only an amateur would bake anything Swiss in a 450° oven!”
Computers replacing humans? Machine intelligences hallucinating? Mass layoffs by a computer program? No, this isn’t DOGE, Grok, or ChatGPT, this is Desk Set, a 1957 Tracey and Hepburn film.
“Peg, Tribune Index last 4 back copies, let’s show him what people can do. Sylvia, Corfu.”
“Peg, Tribune Index last 4 back copies, let’s show him what people can do. Sylvia, Corfu.”
May 9, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Computers replacing humans? Machine intelligences hallucinating? Mass layoffs by a computer program? No, this isn’t DOGE, Grok, or ChatGPT, this is Desk Set, a 1957 Tracey and Hepburn film.
“Peg, Tribune Index last 4 back copies, let’s show him what people can do. Sylvia, Corfu.”
“Peg, Tribune Index last 4 back copies, let’s show him what people can do. Sylvia, Corfu.”
I found the information about these direct to consumer (DTC) ads and rules behind them. The US allows “product claim,” “reminder,” and “help-seeking” ads (🇨🇦 allows only the last 2).
Reminder ads promote the product name not the benefits; help-seeking only highlight the condition being treated.
Reminder ads promote the product name not the benefits; help-seeking only highlight the condition being treated.
April 24, 2025 at 9:52 PM
I found the information about these direct to consumer (DTC) ads and rules behind them. The US allows “product claim,” “reminder,” and “help-seeking” ads (🇨🇦 allows only the last 2).
Reminder ads promote the product name not the benefits; help-seeking only highlight the condition being treated.
Reminder ads promote the product name not the benefits; help-seeking only highlight the condition being treated.