Jay Jackson

Maybe I need to socialize media more often.

Come on @espn.com please fix skycast so I can watch the Aggie game. The event certainly did not end

84 degrees in Colorado feels cooler than 80 degrees in Texas.

Thanks, Vonnegut. 💜

Spent 5+ hours today building a bed for my youngest and I get to repeat it for my oldest tomorrow. I am tired.

18 days before my very first international flight and I’m wondering why I’m not panicking yet.

It’s strange how time is ever so slow when your parent passes. Trying to clear up my father’s affairs this week before the funeral and all I really want to do is to sleep.

For about 15 years in my career, my company would shut down between Christmas and New Year's. I do miss that and my brain probably is still in that mode as I'm not as productive as I need to be this week.

Getting an oil change day before Thanksgiving isn’t recommended, I would say. Everyone wants to go home early.

I’m geeking out so hard on this and I don’t do that often.

I feel like I need some kind of guidance on how to effectively manage my time because it's 2:30 pm and I haven't really done any real work yet. My brain is just all over the place.

Older I get and look at Mac and Windows offerings, more likely I feel that I'll just go Linux based full-time.

So clearly, I'm not going to get any work done. I may as well spend rest of the day watching tech videos while my brain recovers.

It seems it's one of those "take it easy" Friday afternoon after my migraine session is starting to finally let up. Twice this week now. Fun. Now I need a nap.

Someone posted about a music video few days ago here. I thought I would share it to my work slack since the engineers have unique taste in music. Now I forget what it was. Ah...

I was wondering why my battery was draining so fast. Turns out it was due to sound recognition feature, which never works.

My iPhone battery is now at 39% and it’s only 10:30 in the morning. Coincidentally, I’ve been getting messages from Verizon about upgrading. 🤔

Interacted with Anthony Natale, who played the grown up son in Mr. Holland’s Opus when I was 14. He told me that Richard Dreyfuss has a sign name and I could be a good actor.

Should we get a dog? Kids want a cat but I’m allergic. And now I do miss having a dog after ours passed on couple years ago.

The National Association of the Deaf says the White House's failure to provide ASL interpreters during press briefings leaves some deaf and hard of hearing people without information.

Oh, and I killed a wasp in my wife’s home office. This week is starting off..balanced?

Just dropped off the car at shop. I suspect it will be expensive. 😞 But at least I got to submit talk proposals for KubeCon NA. Hope they get accepted so I have an excuse to actually learn something. 😝

Disability is not a moral failing. Everyone who lives long enough will become disabled eventually. You can’t “try harder” your way out of it. People can’t accept disability is a part of life, so they blame us for being sick as a way to convince themselves it’ll never happen to them. It will.

I wonder if this is a good time to state I have never seen Idiocracy and perhaps never will.

I think back to the time when I talked to a Deaf person about interpreter quality. He said that he once bluntly ousted an interpreter in middle of a speech and replaced them with a more qualified one. Didn’t beat around the bush. I wish for the same energy when it comes to representatives.

Drinking Recess in my chair while kids watch Johnny Test on a Sunday afternoon. Sometimes it’s the simple things.

On way home from visiting in-laws, my kids were excitedly chattering in the backseat. When we got home, they immediately went in and grabbed some papers and started writing and drawing. Turns out they wanted to write a story. I love this so much. Is this how writers actually get started?

Apple forcing 60 minute delay to reset password after failing attempts to login is ridiculous.

Finally took the armrests off my home office chair. I think it's already ingrained in me since my first QA job was spending 8-10 hours a day testing software in a room full of computers and armless chairs. It feels liberating.

TIL that, in Norway, apparently Texas is slang for wild or crazy. Is that true, @patigallardo.bsky.social?

It is ironic that, as a deaf person, I don’t like making phone calls and prefer to use online options if possible but I find this stupid. Because there ARE people out there that cannot use online resources for one reason or other and prefer to use phones. This is why we have DEI.

Finally getting the chance to use Ubuntu to see if I can recover my dead laptop. Hands down one of my favorite distros and I wish I had opportunity to use it more.

Don’t miss my keynote talk at #KubeConEU Day 1! 🗓️Wednesday morning GMT 📍ICC Auditorium 🎙️"Empowering Accessibility Through Kubernetes: The Future of Real-Time Sign Language Interpretation" My goal is to open your eyes to the future of accessible tech: sched.co/1txBg #DeafInTech #DHHWG #CloudNative

Honest question to those who are managers or work with them: if a manager does a code review, make comments on the code, is it necessary for the manager to tell the author their code is not good quality and it leaves a lot to be desired? Does it matter if the author is new or experienced?

I need to figure out how to get together in person and socialize with like minded people.

That was a nice week off. Now back to work tomorrow. I do hope I remember how code works…

Enjoying my vacation this week. I have absolutely no idea what day it is and loving every minute I spend with my wife and kids.

Started out this week with a drive through the Texas country (always my favorite thing as I grew up doing so) to a retreat where we can just go pet and feed goats and sleep in a tiny house. I’m definitely taking advantage of flex PTO to more time off often.

Had a midweek lunch with a friend then now working from a coffee shop. I love remote work. And, meeting with likeminded friends is always good for the soul, especially during a workweek.

My 7-year old just asked me to buy Pokémon cards for trading. Should I be worried?

It seems that the sickness cycle has been going on since the beginning of year. I want a refund on 2025 now. *gestures at today’s events*

“Fire and fear, good servants, bad lords.” -Ursula K. Le Guin

Just finished my second work out of the week. Here’s to building atomic habits.

Some days I do miss IRC and ASCII art. That was essentially peak internet.

Played pickleball for the first time. Also worked out for the first time this year. My knees disliked it today.

Merged a major piece of task this morning at work. Took a walk around the lake. Joined a video chat with deaf engineers. Pretty much completed rings on my Apple Watch but I'm feeling meh so I'll probably just sit here and stare at the screen for rest of the day before picking up kids from school.

It’s always a slow burn, and when you realize you’re in a hot pan, it’s essentially too late. And I hate that my state is leading the way here.

Section 504 and IDEA were essential in me and many deaf students having accommodations in K-12, and even university settings. Making an argument that they are unconstitutional is inhumane.

Nothing like getting 429 from the API I am working with for testing at the end of the day basically telling me, “it’s quitting time. Try again Monday.”

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO