Theresa O’Connor
Theresa O’Connor
Theresa O’Connor
I’m a queer lady, Erin Jr.’s mama, and Eryn’s partner. The three of us live in San Francisco, though Eryn and I both work in Cupertino. I love to travel, I enjoy watching sports, I have the unfortunate habits of collecting keyboards and watches, and I’m illegal in over 60 countries.
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In the loo at @realeustontap #craftbeer #london #fuckfarage
In reply to a post, I said:Please don’t ever change!
This post contains custom CSS that your feed reader may ignore. If you’re reading this in such a program, maybe click through to the post itself? When I webbed my Goodreads library last month, I used URLs like /books/${ISBN} for each...
Share your website at events, by James. Some Thoughts on the Open Web, by Mark. The Suicide Pact: What Happens the Moment We Touch Greenland, by Brent Molnar, via Faisal. Le pouvoir des moins puissants commence par l’honnêteté. — Premier...
As far as I can tell*, Justin Faircloth (just.not.fair) was the first person to refer to vomitous slime mold Donald Trump as Il Duce Arancione. #america #authoritarianism #fascism #il-duce-arancione #politics #trump ∎
Wikipedia was first edited twenty five years ago today, on 15 January 2001. Happy 25th birthday! The site was started by some folk at a company called Bomis, where I worked in 2000 and 2001. I blogged a bunch of stories from back then a...
Neil Armstrong was 38 years old when he became the first person to walk on the Moon. He used his NASA-issued Omega Speedmaster as a backup timer onboard the Eagle, because he lacked confidence in the on-board computer. Nine months later,...
The killing in Minnesota, by Philip Bump. They Murdered Her, by Nico. Let’s Call a Murder a Murder, by Gruber. fuck these fascist fucking fucks, by Jeff Tiedrich. Renee Macklin Good’s wife says she nurtured kindness, by Cari Spencer and...
When I link to other sites, especially in big link roundup posts like yesterday’s, I try to cite the author of the post by name. Not just by name, but with a link. This is the Web, after all. Here’s a not-at-all-random example, drawn...
Congress gave Trump a free pass for bombing Iran – his attack on Venezuela is the logical consequence, by Alex Rikleen. A new, old type of lawlessness as Trump attacks Venezuela — and an opening for a better America , by Chris Geidner....
In Christian churches that follow the Gregorian calendar, today is the Epiphany, which commemorates the Magi visiting the baby Jesus. It also marks the end of the Twelve Days of Christmas (though it is not one of the twelve days itself)....
The Chinese pronoun 他 (tā) (U+4ED6) was originally a gender-neutral, third-person pronoun. Over a century ago, Chinese linguist 劉 (ㄌㄧㄡˊ)半 (ㄅㄢˋ)農 (ㄋㄨㄥˊ)／刘半农 (Liú Bànnóng) created a female third-person pronoun, the character 她 (tā)...
In reply to this post:@timcappalli go Bruins!
Say you’ve got a CSV file with many rows, and what you want is a directory of JSON files, one per row. I’ve found myself needing to do this a couple times lately, and this sort of thing is super easy to do using the csv and json modules...
Happy New Year! 🎆