Bob Nystrom

@munificent
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Dad, husband, brother, son. Programming language developer at Google working on Dart, ex-game developer at EA, UI nerd, author of "Game Programming Patterns" and "Crafting Interpreters". Into electronic music, hardware synthesizers, cooking, procedural generation, fishing, knitting, and too many other things.
Bloghttp://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/
Musichttp://tinywir.es
Currently sitting in a dentist office waiting room while Shark Tank is on aTV blasting at full volume, feeling my soul wither away.
Central Washington is beautiful.
Definitely a rattlesnake!

Spent the long weekend in Central Washington wandering around in nature looking for critters. One of my goals was to find a rattlesnake, and we succeeded! I've wanted to see a rattlesnake in the wild since I was a kid.

Here is a northern Pacific rattlesnake hiding under some sagebrush.

#snake

Live your life with the unquenchable optimism of a FedEx delivery date estimate.
You're no fun, Washingon DOL.
When you sit on the floor with your legs criss-cross applesauce style, are you:
Right-handed, with right leg in front
61.2%
Right-handed, with left leg in front
28.1%
Left-handed, with left leg in front
5%
Left-handed, with right leg in front
5.8%
Poll ended at .
The little snare roll in "Sunday Love" by Bat for Lashes is one of (well, I guess several of) those tiny musical moments that brings me so much joy.

New plan: Be a completely selfish sociopath and when people call me out, respond like an LLM.

"You're absolutely right, I did slap your baby and steal groceries out of your cart. I should not have done that. I have apologized to the baby and put the items back." (I keep the groceries and slap the baby again.)