hanson hoYou can't simply take the votes for the Green Party and the Communist Party and add it to the NDP's total but you'd think at least 9 more in that lot wouldn't want the Cons in charge!
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Hanson Ho 鈿金煡屸毦
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Bird app diaspora. Lots of thoughts about perf and observability. Fuck tankies. 馃嚟馃嚢 + 馃嚚馃嚘.
Listened to Veruca Salt's American Thighs on vinyl tonight, an album I first bought on cassette about 30 years ago, and I noticed, for the first time ever, Nina (?) singing "happy new year" in the background. I'd always thought she was just vocalizing! It may be the format and setup that brought it out more, but I think it was mostly just me sitting there and paying attention. Found something new after 3 decades. Wow.
I'm seeing (The) Julian Hatfield (Three) play the whole of Become What You Are tonight in the Year of our Lord 2024. Is this real life?
I just came up with a punny blog post title and my giddiness is beyond reason
Blogged about revisting Frente's Marvin the Album, 30 some odd years later: https://hanson.wtf/2024/09/15/on-marvin-the-album/
On Marvin the Album
I came here bang out 2500 words on one of the best birthday presents I've ever received: the 30th Anniversary release of Frente's Marvin the Album on vinyl. I was going to talk about how it was the first album I ever bought myself, on cassette, from the long defunct Music World in Coquitlam Centre.
I wrote about my relationship with Oasis and why I'd fly all around the world to see a band whose music I didn't even like growing up: https://hanson.wtf/2024/09/01/on-oasis-nostalgia-and-monoculture/
On Oasis, Nostalgia, and Monoculture
Oasis was not a huge band in Canada. Wonderwall was a big hit, but they were largely just another Britpop band to all but the British people who moved here. Part of that is because they didn't really become a thing in America, where they were more known for the antics of the brothers Gallagher than
Normies complaining about the Ticketmaster website not working when there is high demand activates my "These People Are Wrong On the Internet" syndrome so hard
It's been 9 months, but I finally found the time to bang out a blog post https://hanson.wtf/2024/08/27/on-mobile-observability-the-niche-of-niches/
On Mobile Observability, the Niche of Niches
Hi. It's been like 9 months since I last posted. Two young kids, one with special needs, will do that to you. But thanks to recent bed time routine changes, I have some enforced time out of the apartment and in front of a computer every night for the foreseeable future. So what am I going to do with
I can keep doing this for another 10 years but I would never be able to map, in my head and in constant time, the numerical Android version, API level, and dessert name. It's always: "5.0 is 21 is L is Lollipop so 10 is 5 letters away but how many API versions oh screw it just let me google it"