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"I remember when Prodigy had beef with Chumbawamba"

Tuesday night conversation (via dallas)

“I heard that Chumbawamba got together in 1982, so it’s taken them 15 years to come up with one piece of shit record. I’d like to point out that any one of my cymbal patterns is more radical than their entire recorded output.” — Liam Howlett of The Prodigy in 1997, responding to Chumbawamba’s criticism of “Smack My Bitch Up”, which in turn was actually just sampling Kool Keith.

Ah, the ’90s.

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Internships at VividCortex

baronschwartz:

We are hiring summer interns at VividCortex. These are paid positions. http://charlottesville.craigslist.org/sof/3795003285.html

Amazing internship opportunity alert! Y’know, if you’re monitoring for that kind of thing.

(My horrible tech jokes aside — these guys are really the best. If I was ten years younger, I’d jump on this in a heartbeat.)

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eli1ah:

Cable London has closed its doors for good today.

Bummed about this. The location is awesome — the venue is literally made out of space under a railway arch in an otherwise-sleepy part of Southwark.
I’ve been to electronic music events at some pretty weird places before, but Cable is probably the only one that involved lining up under a train viaduct. (the oldest railway in London, no less!)

eli1ah:

Cable London has closed its doors for good today.

Bummed about this. The location is awesome — the venue is literally made out of space under a railway arch in an otherwise-sleepy part of Southwark.

I’ve been to electronic music events at some pretty weird places before, but Cable is probably the only one that involved lining up under a train viaduct. (the oldest railway in London, no less!)

(Source: eli1ah)

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bobpattersonjr:

Evan presenting on jetpants at percona live

Huge thank you to everyone who came! I’m especially honored to see so many MySQL superstars in the first few rows :D
Slides are now available for my talk, along with many others on the Percona Live 2013 site. Hats off to Percona — this was easily the best technical conference I’ve ever attended.

bobpattersonjr:

Evan presenting on jetpants at percona live

Huge thank you to everyone who came! I’m especially honored to see so many MySQL superstars in the first few rows :D

Slides are now available for my talk, along with many others on the Percona Live 2013 site. Hats off to Percona — this was easily the best technical conference I’ve ever attended.

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If anyone misplaced their liquid nitrogen, it’s at the corner of 21st and Park.

If anyone misplaced their liquid nitrogen, it’s at the corner of 21st and Park.

The next event here is a steampunk exhibition. No further comment necessary.

The next event here is a steampunk exhibition. No further comment necessary.

Tech conference just got weird

Tech conference just got weird

Tumblr Engineering @ Percona Live MySQL Conference

engineering:

We’re pleased to announce that Tumblr’s Database Engineering team will be attending the Percona Live MySQL Conference next week in Santa Clara, CA!

We’ll be giving a talk on our open source automation software, Jetpants, which has helped us scale to over 175 billion distinct rows of relational data to date. We’re also looking forward to attending a number of amazing sessions from our friends at Percona, Facebook, Oracle, Palomino, Etsy, and more.

If you haven’t registered yet, use code SpeakMySQL to save 15%. Hope to see you there!

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Help, my cat is now person-sized and keeps taking my spot

Help, my cat is now person-sized and keeps taking my spot