Brian Gawalt

#ReaderBot: Brian is a quarter through Solomon Northup's "Twelve Years a Slave" and should finish in around 14 days. [Brian's Reading List]

Since I moved to LA, it seemed like every career milestone I had, Bauza was there to cheer and celebrate alongside me. My first union job, my first professional record session where we shared the booth together, all the premieres and wrap parties and gatherings, he was like the MC of our lives...

Eric Bauza did like 70% of the dialogue in "The Day The Earth Blew Up" and it's the world's longest platonic Looney Tune

Unbelievable loss. An amazing talent, and just a really, really good person. www.instagram.com/p/De8RFy4pyov/

your butt smells like a butt

So, you're at a railing, big drop. Could be the mall's 2nd floor, could be your first few minutes in a hotel room, empire state building sky deck, whatever. You have walked up to the rail. What is "an intrusive thought" in this situation?

I do get stumped by this sometimes -- like the fish asking "what's water" -- and the cheat code is to pick the things your kids would be thrilled to hear you describe them as

My secret credentials are now stored as a JSON

The second test post after calling bgsky.PostBuilder.reset

The first test post from this bgsky.PostBuilder

Here is another test of the bgsky library's hashtag adder. Except this time I am playing around with the number of octothorpes on display:bgawalt

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Remember that script I was talking about? Well, here it is.Enjoy.

I am posting from a new python script that looks an awful lot like my existing bot scripts. I can link to websites just like always

People with ChatGPT or similar apps installed on your phone: what is the upside of allowing notifications from it. What do you do with it where it would need your attention when you don't have the app open

Kendrick Lamar, "Swimming Pools (Drank)"

California should choose the sun. @xavierbecerra.bsky.social has proposed Power Hour, providing two free hours of electricity to households in the middle of the day. Wrote about how this would benefit California families and our grid for @latimes.com. ☀️⬇️

and per cohen + delong's "concrete economics," this pays off twice, first for the pollution benefits of zero-carbon power, and second just for giving us all something to do other than "more financializing"

Important component of the John Leguizamossance; is informed by JOHN WICK (2014)

i ran `sudo apt upgrade` and got Processing triggers for ca-certificates (20260816ubuntu0.22.04.1) ... Updating certificates in /etc/ssl/certs... 0 added, 0 removed; done. in the output. probably fine

#ReaderBot: Brian has 11 books left on his reading list. He should finish them all by Jun 13, 2027. [Brian's Reading List]

Our Alamo has a 12:30 matinee showing tomorrow, which is 3 hrs after I get my flurona boosters. I'm gonna!

this article points to this study that affirms that homebuyers work backwards from the monthly payment they can afford. reducing property taxes means that slice of payment can go to a bigger mortgage, which increases price bids (and down payment required) www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

I was reffing a game and a kid gave up and said "I have accepted my fate" bc his team was down 0-7 and I told him "never accept your fate." But what I meant is that you must both accept your fate and continue to rebel against it, like in the work of Albert Camus. Wish I could have that one back.

Just popping in here to link to something I blogged (after a 4 year hiatus) How to effectively debug with agents when you no longer read or understand the code A debugging framework that doesn’t rely on human knowledge of code to get to the “root cause” copyconstruct.medium.com/how-to-effec...

it's true: s2geometry.io

don't know how to word with without the tone of competitiveness, but you can absolutely buy cali pols, too. i haven't price shopped it but they're available.