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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
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
Not to mention mastering the finger snaps.
September 2, 2025 at 10:32 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.
August 29, 2025 at 9:18 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.
August 29, 2025 at 8:50 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.
August 17, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Heck it was even referenced in Sex and the City!
June 15, 2025 at 8:33 PM
“Only an amateur would bake anything Swiss in a 450° oven!”
May 24, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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.”
May 9, 2025 at 12:14 AM