Eric Meyer

From the moment I woke up this morning, I’ve had “The Friendly Faith Plate” stuck in my head. I don’t know why.

Somewhere in the middle of the 5th inning at Fenway, the PA played just about the entire theme song from “The Kids in the Hall”.

Phooey—it’s snowing in Cleveland and I’m not there to see it.

Me: Here are my essay proposals. Editor: Can you write this essay, and this other one if you feel it? Me: Sure. (a week later) Here’s three.

Reported a typo on a site’s home page to the parent company. Because that’s how I roll, Fr. Mücher.

I finally mistyped it as “GitHug”, as all GitHub users eventually must. Distributed affection repositories—someone should make that a thing.

Just a few days and I'm still not sure what I was.

If the conservative and liberal wings of the parties reject the establishment candidates, how small will be the winner’s plurality?

Adobe’s looking for a Senior Web Developer. Seems to be remote-friendly, based in New York: https://adobe.taleo.net/careersection/2/jobdetail.ftl?job=43277 …

That said, if there’s a beer named Wall, I have a photo suggestion.

There must be a lot of truly fantastic jokes to make about the Budweiser renaming, but I don’t drink beer so I’ll have to sit this one out.

Here's the thing: Facebook is clearly a hugely powerful media entity, so it needs to own up to its responsibilitieshttps://twitter.com/dankennedy_nu/status/729716488253251584 …

Many, many dudes in the public sphere try to promote the idea that being an obnoxious asshole is somehow brave, novel or useful. Alas, no.

“Small pieces, loosely joined” makes total sense to me—and yet every time I add a new piece, it feels like I’m just making things rickety.

Also @sara_ann_marie’s, but Janie knows that—I think she got bitten by the 140.https://twitter.com/janie/status/729378001025032192 …

(whispers to flight attendant): "I don't want to upset anyone, but I think the man in 15C is modeling credit default swaps".

Why wouldn’t that airline passenger think math was a sign of terrorism? Our government says the same about strong encryption; i.e., math.

I share that because it still, always, makes me laugh, every time. How could it not?

Proud to be the first follower of @markovmywords, which follows @schofeld but NOT ME. <sulk />

…we may have a winner, folks.https://twitter.com/schofeld/status/728688950559297537 …

There is an entire class of stews that smell to me the way I assume a cigar ashtray tastes.

Paging @rustysunshinehttps://twitter.com/i_zzzzzz/status/728342877093412864 …

That was a subtweet in the direction of web services and backend work, by the way. Front-end work feels titanium by comparison.

Dreaming of jobs where you work with more predictable outcomes, like hurricane forecasting or quantum-state sorting.

It just now occurs to me that this year, that may end up being as prescient as it is historical.

“Tin soldiers and Nixon coming, We're finally on our own. This summer I hear the drumming, Four dead in Ohio…” #MayThe4th

This morning I dropped my car keys three times for no real reason and nearly took off a fingertip with a bread knife. So, it’s a coding day!

We had a lot of fun with this one. Recorded in front of a live audience at AEA Nashville!https://twitter.com/jensimmons/status/727502056815230978 …

@meyerweb The difference may be related to the question of how to turn radius into Gaussian Std Deviation. Only recently got rules in spec.

Spent almost the entire back half of the new Call of Duty trailer muttering, “That’s not how this works. That’s not how ANY of this works.”

Experimenting with piled-up CSS text shadows. Has this general technique been written up already, and I missed it? http://meyerweb.com/eric/css/tests/text-shadow-piles.html …

'Design For Real Life' by @meyerweb & @sara_ann_marie on @abookapart is a wonderfully human, frank, sobering read. So much food for thought.

They just called again. Same number, same text-to-speech message.