The Nervecast Show – Johnny vs Rango & Pete as UFO Skeptics
Thoughts can be sensed with brainscanner 😀 \m/~!
the ~8,563 of you who heard today’s broadcast of The Nervecast Radio Show know i’m weary of encountering this type of vacuous thinking in the preponderance of blinking-light UFO videos found on youtube and correspondingly passionate testimonies.
a) there’s no terrestrial/earthly explanation for the movements of what i saw / wasn’t flown by a human
a variation of
b) even modern military hardware can’t move that way
and/or
c) what i saw defied the laws of physics.
some answers from #rangothedog on the show today (paraphrasing):
Rango Virus
a) you can now, today, on the web, buy a drone the size of a kite that can hover, fit it with tiny lights and fly it over your neighborhood at night. this will easily get you on youtube, where people can take a crap on camera and get millions of hits and $$ (but not #rangothedog, banned for life from compensation with no further appeal by Google AdSense).
b) what if there was a concentrated effort, with the full focus of the most powerful military in the world, to understand how insects fly, and scale it up into very small ( <1 meter) survellience and weapons delivery systems <=== if they didn’t do this they would be remiss, but then again they couldn’t reach concensus on a balanced budget, so maybe not. presumably those machines would be flown and tested at night and the cheapest way to measure and improve them would be to light them up with led’s and track them with commodity camera arrays, then translate the video to pixel streams for optimization analysis, looking for lift functions.
c) what if what you saw was a hologram projected on the mist from water balloons that were burst remotely using lasers on the ground, or other balloons highter up, or scaled up to project images onto clouds from satellites. had you thought of that? that’s not even original, i saw it at disney .
bonus answer:
code wars: emergent
what if what you saw was projected into your brain remotely by a government or company that’s extended the thought-translation and memory-construction research done by private-sector organizations like Microsoft Research, delivered publicly to the research/educational community, and turned it into near-field memory-induction mind control weapons delivery systems. that kind of machine can be built, so you should assume it has been, and deployed.
also possible: the camera was “somewhat shaky”, you were “somewhat high/dreaming/drunk”, or experiencing a convincing hallucination predicated on extreme fatigue or one of many, many psychiatric disorders that are so common, there’s a huge bible-sized book called the dsm[iv++] that’s constantly revised by armies of psychiatrists, neurologists, psychologists, biologists, chemists, businessmen and publishers that are trying to apply a compression function to human behaviors and squeeze out a little margin $$ (can’t blame them, everybody needs bread and i believe they’re trying to help, just not succeeding in alignment with their pay).
“i think my boyfriend has been abducted by aliens” – the tango, on today’s show
“no tango for rango” – rango, all the time \m/~
some of you think i’m paranoid, and i have been, but not now. i’m emotionally stable and on top of my game, all systems go. i simply find the critical mass of uncritcal thinking worthy of an all-caps moment, but not going there, see previous point with back references for understanding reverse polish notation.
“all green lights” – Jonny Smokes
“feeling very programmery” – #rangothedog giving the nod to internationally acknowledged polymath Alexander Miller
join me for more public critical thinking exercises on sunday’s episode of Rangounmuzzled, an extension of today’s episode brought to you by TheAudio Burger and our creepy uncle Pete RingMaster \m/~
Sunday, October 20th 2013
12:00 PM LA 3:00 PM NYC 8:00 PM BST
you all know where, but if i include the link #facebook will bury & extort.
(now on wordpress, it’s ok)
ps: Zucchero Craig you should catch a show, i think you’ll like it, and if you do i’d love to skype you in for an interview and surging indie viral lift. Rocky Milone please punch him in the shoulder and tell him to do it, i share his reel and he doesn’t even know it. the little guys, we stick together around here, it’s like the gang of misfit toys.
\m/~
Rango Unmuzzled: Episode 34 – The Show with the Flow
Rango the Dog and JCFlow
Today’s show is dedicated to my daughter.
Happy Birthday, Claire. So very proud of you ❤ \m/~
Broadcast LIVE 10/13/2013 on Audioburger.com
Seattle musician JC Flow joins Rango the Dog on the console to spin tracks from his latest remixes, talk about his MTV video, and premiere 3 new songs. Also featuring music from unmuzzled artists Joe Sabatini, Janey Neal, Savage Henry, Spank, Starving Artists, Ben Badenhorst, Tim Hearn, Joe Gande, Sweet Davis, and the international Audioburger darlings the Hentai Babies.
It’s currently the posted show at audioburger, also where the live streams went out:
But that only lasts a day or so, and there was a problem with my mic today. I somewhat compensated for it after the show so the permarnent archives have better audio quality. really the better listening experience are here, i normalized the mic levels best I could and pumped up the signal ~4.5db::
https://soundcloud.com/matthewmeadowsmusic/episode-34-the-show-with-the
and
http://www.fandalism.com/rangothedog/ctwD
#audioburger, #comedy, #currentevents, #hentaibabies, #hiphop, #indie, #jcflow, #pop, #prog, #progressiverock, #rango, #rangothedog, #rants, #rock
Liberteria World Premiere
Poster art for the world premiere of Liberteria.
premiering <<< right now >>> in south florida,
very privileged to have taken part in this cutting edge piece of mashup art,
what a great cast and amazing creativity, storyline and execution.
a feature length, animated science fiction opera
from composer Sabrina Pena Young
Libertaria: The Virtual Opera
“one girl to save the world”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQqnHt3a-Oo
quoting the article:
Peña Young, a bubbly, intensely energetic native of South Florida, has created an animated “virtual opera” called Libertaria, a self-scripted sci-fi dystopia she cast entirely online, finding her singers through websites, Facebook and other Internet forums and having them send in vocal recordings of their parts. She’s never met most of the volunteer cast.
In addition to playing the music herself on an electronic keyboard, Peña Young also created about 75 percent of the animation for her hourlong work. Libertaria is probably the very first machinima opera, and its world premiere screening is set for Saturday afternoon at Calvary United Methodist Church in Lake Worth.
“If ‘Star Wars’ had taken place 100 years ago, it would have been an opera,” Peña Young said last month from her home in Buffalo, N.Y. “That’s what I’ve been trying to bring to people, that you can listen to this music, that you can enjoy this music, and it doesn’t have to be something where you’re sitting there saying, ‘This isn’t for me,’ or ‘This has no place today’ …
“It’s a way to bring opera to a wider audience, a younger audience, and then also a way to bring it online,” she said.
Libertaria is set in a post-apocalyptic United States in 2139, which has been devastated by a nuclear war that has ruined the environment and transformed the polity into warring factions. A castoff girl named Libertaria, abandoned in the Lady Liberty Souvenir Shop as an infant, has escaped the Factory (an evil place of test-tube human manufacture) and made her way to the territory of New Miami.
There she meets Simeon, an underground guardian of children who are being victimized by the masters of the Factory, an alliance known as the Collective. The seeds are sown for rebellion, which Libertaria is soon to lead.
Peña Young, who is currently finishing on a novel based on her script, said she could see something along these lines happening.
“Part of the reason I wrote the opera was to be a prophet: This is what could happen, but if we change things now, it probably won’t happen … It’s taken to the extreme-extreme-extreme, but on the other hand, the threads that run through it are threads of what’s going on now,” she said. “For instance, our government is supposed to be representative of the people, but if you ask anybody, they say, ‘What are they doing up there?’”
[ from here ]
what a beautiful day!!! thank you so much, sabrina!!! brilliant!!!
-rango
Matthew Meadows – Software Engineer
Software engineer in the Seattle area. Over a career spanning from 1995 to present I have worked for both startups and enterprise customers, developing backend services and frontend UI. Currently active skill set includes Javascript, Typescript, Angular, React, Asp.NET, .NET Core, C#, Node, MS-SQL & Postgres, AWS and Azure cloud services.
Boeing – TCS
5/2024 – Present
Seattle, WA
Role: Software Engineer
Software Engineer employed by TCS on contract with Boeing. Performing application modernization porting legacy .Net applications to run on AWS. Using C#, MS-SQL, Postgres and Angular.
Microsoft
5/2023 – 12/2023
Redmond, WA
Role: Software Engineer
Software Engineer employed by Microsoft on contract with the AI Translation team. Roles include build engineering CI/CD using Azure Devops as well as software engineering tasks updating the Azure Cognitive Services Text Translation SDK in C#, Java, Python and Typescript. Implementing SDK samples required utilizing Azure Key Vault, Azure Storage and Azure Active Directory with corresponding toolsets across all four languages.
Nanostring Technologies
1/2020 – 11/2022
Seattle, WA
Role: Senior Software Engineer
Senior Software Engineer employed by NanoString working on the GeoMX DSP R&D team. Duties included debugging existing code, extending the feature set with new code and servicing tickets in Azure DevOps. Toolset included Angular 7, Javascript, C#, Postgres, Docker, Typescript, Powershell. Project tracked in Azure Devops.
My primary involvement with GeoMX was focused on extending and debugging Angular code paired with Microsoft MVC to a Postgres backend. Duties spanned all three tiers of the MVC, including client code in Angular and Typescript. Additionally, a significant portion of my time was devoted to debugging low-level C# code in the Controller layer with a focus on parallelism and synchronization.
Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit
10/2018 – 10/2019
Redmond, WA
Role: Full Stack Engineer
Worked as an application architect developing privacy, security & data visualization software for lawyers and analysts investigating digital crimes. Developed an end-to-end privacy solution from inception to deployment including design, database architecture on SQL Server, all the stored procedures, a Node.js web API based on Express, Html layouts and styles and client code written in Javascript & JQuery using JSON as a transport. Deployed as a web app and maintained with Azure DevOps. Also developed a new front end for dataset visualization based on an existing Angular / ASP.Net Core. Also worked on a solution for capturing business email compromise information and inputting it into an Azure Data Warehouse.
Boston Consulting Group Digital Ventures
3/2018 – 07/2018
Redmond, WA
Role: Software Engineer
Contributed developing & debugging of software for commercial greenhouse control systems. Focus was around improving reliability & performance of a highly parallel Windows server application that reads sensor information from greenhouses & uploads it to the cloud to improve yields & forecasting for resource costs, including predictive analytics around labor, energy, temperature, water, nutrients & reclamation.
Microsoft OMS
11/2015 – 02/2018
Redmond, WA
Role: UI Engineer
Worked as a software design engineer embedded with the Microsoft Operations Management Suite (OMS). Scope of work includes a long-running overhaul of the portal UI to conform with Azure specifications delivered by the design team:
- Html5 & CSS3 styling of the Azure Log Analytics portal.
- Typescript & C# development & debugging for OMS
- Accessibility refactoring for 502 compliance
- Daily scrum participation
- Live site production support.
My focus was on restyling the portal using both CSS3 & Html5 and modifying behaviors in both Javascript and C#. The OMS team required actively participating in daily Scrum, deployment of incremental changes several times a week, live site responsibilities, and continuously ingesting tribal knowledge. I also managed a contractor & worked closely with two peers to land a major accessibility project.
Koverse
10/2013 to 9/2015
Seattle, WA
Role: UI Engineer
Worked as a UI developer, helped bring their 1.0 product to a servicable release level. Developed the first generation of their logo & icons. Developed a new version of their search application with a method for identifying fields of material interest in no-schema datastore, a key component of their pending patent grant. Worked on Red Disk, delivering core product code delivered to the US Army’s INSCOM. Performed extensive JQuery debugging & integration with the Java back-end, and helped push the product forward to 1.4 as the code was adopted by the US Air Force. Netbeans & Eclipse with Maven build environment built on top of Apache Accumulo, Cloudera Hadoop, Centos Linux & open source integration tools.
Microsoft
5/2013 to 10/2013
Redmond, WA
Role: UI Engineer
Developed features for the experimental Somex, a Microsoft Research Windows tray application built as a C# / .Net client using embedded Internet Explorer for UI features. Html5 / CSS3 / Javascript / JQuery communicating via WFC with SQL-2012 built using Entity Framework. Designed and built a journaling mechanism tracing JQuery events. Also contributed the public subscription UI and implementation. Contributed to data extraction and reporting for their published research paper.
Predixion Software
8/2011 to 7/2012
Redmond, WA
Role: UI Engineer
Most of my work at PredixionSoftware was focused on UI development for their client, primarily Silverlight but more recently Excel. Contributed to the core product data visualization features and helped built a set of Silverlight/Xaml controls used in development for their thin-client. Primarily ASP.Net, C#, and API development. Excel client port of Silverlight code and vice/versa.
Microsoft
9/2007 to 8/2011
Redmond, WA
Role: Software Engineer III
Worked as an Html, CSS & Javascript feature developer for Bing Local UI, including movie theater show times and restaurant reservations. ASP.Net, C# and WCF feature developer for Bing Local middle-tier. Write Silverlight/Xaml, Bing Maps API and WCF feature developer for Bing Maps Firstlight local events application. Significant experience with JSON, REST API’s & JQuery troubleshooting.
Provided production support duties for Bing Maps including deployment, troubleshooting & mitigation development. Front-line optimizer tasked with improving site performance and mitigating systematic attacks via parallelization and caching solutions. Developed WCF service to codify the DOM and allow developers to access Bing Maps user collections within Microsoft.
Microsoft
10/2006 to 09/2007
Redmond, WA
Role: Software Engineer II
HRIT Performance Management, Developer Division. ASP.Net/C# test harness developer for Visual Studio 2008 on Windows 2008. Html/CSS and Javascript feature developer for HR Performance application. Converted raw output from HR design team to CSS/ASP.Net component architecture. developed extensible Windows client shell in CSS & C# for use by application teams. Created and debugged manager feedback reports using SSRS on SQL Server 2005.
Microsoft
01/2006 to 06/2006
Redmond, WA
Role: Software Engineer III
Vista OS developer. Debugged Windows Vista UI Automation library Win32 control proxy interfaces. Corrected event propagation through mouse and keyboard handlers. Diagnosed marshalling and threading issues across Win32/COM/.Net boundaries. Extremely low-level work in a massive project with thousands of developers & millions of lines of source.
Catapult Systems
11/1995 to 11/2005
Austin, TX
Role: Application Architect
Architect of Inquisite. Participated in each phase of the software development life cycle, from inception to production support, across the entire application suite. Developed critical infrastructure elements including the common business kernel, native service applications, data collection and transformation components, and advanced statistical reports. Developed foundation technology stack including kernel serialization and versioning, internal event propagation, process communication protocols, and web service interface definitions. Composed and reviewed core product documentation with an emphasis on the software development kit, extensibility tools, and reports. Optimized each tier of the application suite to ensure product scalability in a wide range of deployment environments and stress scenarios, including multiprocessor machines and load balanced servers. Performed technical interviews to screen candidates for software development, technical sales, and network engineering positions. Accompanied technical sales personnel to improve my understanding of their business requirements in order to translate them directly into design specifications. Created reporting solutions that featured a wide range of data transformations and statistical operations, including t-tests, regression analysis, and analysis of variance (ANOVA). Developed strategies, design specifications, and extensibility mechanisms in order to incrementally port the product to C# and ASP.Net. Created an integrated development environment, a form builder client application used to produce and publish survey web pages of arbitrary complexity. Developed commonly understood and widely used features for the survey builder, including Cut/Cop/Paste and Undo/Redo.
Also worked as the lead developer for a source code documentation system written in MS-Visual C++ (MFC) and Delphi. Developed classes to convert opaque binary and text sources into a parse tree suitable for semantic analysis via native code. Developed classes to drive Microsoft Word with OLE Automation to emit report documents.
Rango Unmuzzled: Episode XXII 22/24 JQP
Rango Unmuzzled: Episode XXII – 22 24 JQP
Rango Unmuzzled: Episode XXII – LIVE from the Swamp Deck July 7th 2013
Exclusive World Premiere of 22 24 by Matt Young / John Q. Public
Rango brings spotlight focus on tracks from Matt Young / John Q. Public’s Greed, culminating in the world premiere of an Audioburger Radio Shows / Rangounmuzzled exclusive track: 22 24. Includes songs from Savage Henry, The People Now, JC Flow, Triage Revival Project, Joe Funktastic, Shade Law, Simon James White, Traffic Experiment, Matthew Martinek, Steve Gardner, Kara Johnstad, Patrick Kindy, Tim Hearn, Beth Hart, Volume Conflict, Janey Neal, Parker Bombshell, Civilized Tears, Jed McConkey, Dai Sharkey, Simon Collins, Ariel Eschar, MikeWhitePresents and other artists as Rango pays tribute to Franklin and finally brings an end to the 10 episode run of Season III: Agency.
\m/~(-.-)~\m/ooooooooooooo!!!
#rango #rangothedog #rangounmuzzled #audioburger #indie #metal#hardrock #plagus #franklin #johnqpublic #mattyoung #hero
original broadcast:
http://www.spreaker.com/user/reputationmedia/rango_unmuzzled_episode_xxii_22_24_jqp
post-processed and rebalanced for downloads:
https://soundcloud.com/matthewmeadowsmusic/rango-unmuzzled-episode-xxii
best link
for sharing & feedback:
http://www.fandalism.com/rangothedog/ce7z
Audioburger
Rango Unmuzzled: Episode XXI – 21 Gun Salute ( LIVE )
Rango the Dog
Rango continues the hunt for the world’s most wanted man, Edward Snowden, while taking the time to stop and skewer the roses along the way. Featuring tracks from Steve Gardner, Ben Badenhorst, John Q. Public, JC Flow, The People Now, Devoutcast, New Killer Shoes, Mike Hartman, Triage Revival Project, Budd Zunga, Scott Jones, Janey Neal, Joe Funktastic, Parker Bombshell, Jed McConkey & Tony Floyd Kenna, Don Sinyo, Savage Henry, Patrick Kindy, Tim Hearn, Simon James White, Bang Data, Sabrina Pena Young, Simon Collins, Ariel Eschar, Jed McConkey, Sean McGrath, Matthew Martinek, Shaun Peace and other artists from the most conspicuous top-shelf primo roster ever to litter the highways of the world wide webbiness~
#rango #rangothedog #audioburger #indie #indieradio #radioshow #hardrock #funk #metal #progressive #lovesongs #comedy #plagus #edwardsnowden #metalink #liberteria — with TheAudio Burger.
https://soundcloud.com/matthewmeadowsmusic/rango-unmuzzled-episode-xxi-21
Audioburger
Rango Unmuzzled: Allies
Rango Unmuzzled: Allies
This weeks’ episode for one more day:
Season III – Episode 6 LIVE
#rango casts the spotlight around the room and hits some favorites from prior episodes going all the way back to the first shots fired by Simon James White on Season I – Episode 1, Riot in the UK. We hear from Joe Funktastic, Southern Experience, Six String Woody, guitar heros Katsumi Yoshihara and Rick Rousseau. Amidst random jabs at the sore spots in the UFO community’s most recent disclosure we also hear from John Q. Public, newcomers Janey Neal and Kara Johnstad, as well as staples Savage Henry and The People Now. Includes tracks from Jed McConkey & Tony Floyd Kenna, Simon Collins, Don Sinyo, Shade Law, Shaun Peace, Budd Zunga, Civilized Tears, Anchorage, Alaska, Kevin Byrne & Parker Bombshell along with plenty of messages to the NSA and opaque duck humor for Mike Hartman since we forgot to play his track after a shakey start. Tim Hearn contributes his lead guitar mastery to one of my tracks, as he tends to do \m/
http://www.spreaker.com/user/reputationmedia/rango_unmuzzled_axis_2
Tomorrow’s Episode:
by popular demand, Sunday June 16th ~ LIVE
Rango Unmuzzled: Who’s Your Daddy? (Unscheduled Father’s Day Show)
12:00 PM Left Coast – 3:00 PM Right Coast – 8:00 PM Old Mother Hubbard (UK)
Rango Virus
we couldn’t fit everybody into the Season III, Episode 6: Allies, our scheduled season finale. so we’re going back on the air to hear from folks like Mike Hartman, Patrick Kindy and Bullofa Cristix, along with Rangounmuzzled regulars Simon James White, Savage Henry, John Q. Public and The People Now. expect to hear from JC Flow, Joe Funktastic and Janey Neal, as well as more blather on UFO’s, the NSA and other topics of various degrees of irrelevance as we unmuzzle the old black dog and let him roam around the 19th episode without a leash.
also expect: better narrative audio, an angel has given us a new microphone .
“don’t pee there. please? ok fine, that’s your spot now” – rangothedog to rango the <actual><dog>
\m/~(-.-)~\m/oooooooo!
and
Rango Unmuzzled: Roger, That ( AudioBurger Retweet )
Rango the Dog
Ok so with the growing amount of people asking why we are not conversing over Facebook we (well I) feel maybe to give facebook another try but this time just post stuff that we find interesting instead of Spamalot city lol (GUILTY) and as I am serving my 60 day sentence I have now as said before decided to go shouting over at twitter…..and loving the vibe there too
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Ok well a few things have happened since I last splurted my mouth off to you and it goes a little something like this..
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To start it off I need to say that the whole point of this AudioBurger Radio / Promotions thing was to bring you an eclectic mix of radio programming and to some extent we provided this…
We always listen to our feedback and we value the comments emails and private messages about the shows…we might not agree with all of them…lol
but never the less we listen….
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It quickly came to our attention that some changes had to take place
Some people who we started out with are no longer with us and although we wish them all the very best for their future , it none the less meant we had to make those sacrifices to evolve..
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Rango Virus
The shows we have right now are strong and consistent with their ability to deliver the quality week after week….yeah so it’s Internet radio and some times technology can play its part disrupting the shows delivery from time to time but that is (i’m afraid) to be expected
The presenters we have each week pushing out quality and consistent material is in my view above the level !!!!
many thanks to Matthew Meadows to Tom McNeil and of course Pete RingMaster for their continued support and fantastic radio shows long may it continue
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The future is very bright with us as we continue to bring you the music from today’s independent music profiling and promoting the outstanding talent found out there..
On our twitter page we regularly profile such artists …when you can pop over to
http://twitter.com/audioburger
follow us and keep up in the loop
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Rango Unmuzzled: Big in Japan
Great news on the bands and artists can always be found on our main site at
audioburger.com and we are now about to venture into the promotion of Tours and events from today’s top independent
AUDIOBURGER SHOWCASE PRESENTS
will be kicking off with New Killer Shoes as they embark on their tour
promoting the Album ”I aint even lyin”
New Killer Shoes have just come off a very successful uk tour
supporting Adam Ant amassing an amazing yet well deserved
amount of respect for their LIVE stage work & we are very pleased to be supporting
future UK planned gigs and events concerning this band
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So moving on we are set to keep that Independent vibe going and
this is all down to your support thank you..
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See you out there
Johnny xx
Rango Unmuzzled: Axis (Live)
Rango Unmuzzled: Axis
Rango Unmuzzled: Axis (Live)
Recorded Live: Sunday, June 2nd 2013
Season III Episode 5 finds Rango flying solo at the console looking for choicest cuts from the Rangosphere. Featuring the music of Joe Funktastic, The People Now, JC Flow, Matt Young’s John Q. Public, Matthew Martinek, Gregory Boyce Halls, Ben Badenhorst, J@Jed McConkey & Tony Floyd Kenna, Savage Henry, Paul Taylor’s Anchorage Alaska, Budd Zunga, Shade Law, Kerry Kelley, Ariel Eshcar, Kyle Person’s Postmodern Troll, Steve Gardner’s The Condition, Sabrina Pena Young and one from an old, wet dog. Ranging from hard rock to neoclassical shred, from zulu inflected metal to the face-melting drama of a classical dubstep, it’s the range and breadth of artistry demonstrated on shows like this that set Rango Unmuzzled apart from your momma’s radio \m/. Produced for Audioburger.com, making this face:
\m/~(-.-)~\m/ooo~ ( divinely bovine )
http://www.spreaker.com/user/reputationmedia/rango_unmuzzled_axis
Return of the Post Man
Rango the Dog
Hello friends, it’s been weeks since I’ve posted through Rangothedog.com, the official mouthpiece of the beast. I’ve been on hiatus. Life served me up some great raw material for a screenplay,but it wasn’t conducive to writing at the time. Through the skillful work of realtor Amy Trout I was finally able to sell my house in Lynnwood after being stuck there as a single dad, underwater on the mortgage and spuriously unemployed, for more than 18 months. Very happy to see that place go, not only the 1/2 of a large U-Haul truck full of garbage that was hauled out of there (including 3 couches), but particularly the demon that lived in the refrigerator. That thing was nasty.
Big deal, I moved. Seems like fodder for some interesting posts. So why the quiet period?
Aside from the time and energy spent on the move, which ended with a 70 hour continuous test of endurance that bridged two overtime weeks at the office that included such highlights as losing my glasses/contacts for four days, conditions at Amazon became completely intolerable and I was looking for work even before my contract terminated. I continued to produce Audioburger Radio Shows during the interim, each of them a little late (with a nod to Tim Hearn), but decided that it was a good time to suspend the blogging in lieu of preparing for interviews, unpacking, and catching up on my recording obligations. I was moody and experiencing inflamatory circumstances at the house such that I decided a quiet period would be less likely to result in some regrettable comment archived for all eternity on Google complicating my job search.
So, one life reboot later, I’m back. I’ve moved into a rental in Kenmore, closer to my kids and my new job. It’s an older house overlooking an acre of wetland, with a compliment of neighborly chickens and ducks next door, which makes for some very animated and fun radio skits and photographs to use as honey pots on Facebook. It’s a definite upgrade, and playing out on the deck for Franklin with a backup chorus of frogs is pretty much my new favorite thing (and his too, judging by the amount of thumping and binkies he delivers with every set).
The Neighbors
As for the job, I managed to stop the countdown to eviction after only 8 days, my fastest time-to-contract ever in nearly 20 years of professional development. I actually landed multiple offers on the same day, so serious props Tek Systems and recruiter Brian Vivaldi for helping me put together the play. I’m working at Microsoft Research now as a contract research development engingeer, at least for the short term, and very happy about it. Between parking and drive time alone I expect to save $4,000 US and 400 hours per year compared to my previous location and job at Amazon. The work is also extremely interesting, will vary continuously, and they’ve given me a lot of autonomy to simply work the way I work best: closely with one person, with no designs or specifications, but rather immediate objectives and a concensus on the tasks needed to achieve them. I was checking in bug fixes on my second day and by the end of my second week had prepared a new feature with that touches the client, the middle-tier and the backend. To contrast, at the same two-week checkpoint at Amazon I was wading through the permissions and developing the proprietary systems knowledge needed to implement specifications down to the pixel on a new device that was extremely sketchy, while simultaneously deep-diving on wikis in a war room with six other people on a schedule with literally zero wiggle room.
Amazon’s an amazing machine and may very well rule the world some day, but it was just a terrible environment for me, somebody who can work extremely fast but is easily distracted, particularly by noise as it imprints upon my visual spectrum with growing acuity as I face sleep deprevation. This is due to chromesthetic synesthesia that emerges as an adjunct to my manic bipolar phases, and the extra time pressure from the commute and simply being expected to absorb overtime hours just made things all that much more unpleasant and less conducive to success. Indeed, by the two week checkpoint I was referring to it as my “soul-sucking” job, a clear indicator that things are trending more positive now.
Rangovirus
Finally. Hopefully. We must stay the course, because just like Amazon, there’s no wiggle room here. A few more days and I would not have been able to pay my rent, and I have slipped further into debt. Because this is not just My Life as a Musical, it’s actually my life.
So, quiet period’s over. We’ve got a new pace, a new rythmn, a new job with new projects and goals. Due to a burgeoning collaboration schedule and a rising arc of popularity it’s still a lot of time pressure here, enough to keep me busy every minute of the day for the next year. But with some minor discretion of my time I was able to find a few minutes to go out and play for Franklin tonight. That’s critical, because as I bring my guitar hiatus to a close and look forward into the next year, I need to find some time to play music every day and get my chops up again. Because this is My Life as a Musicial, and this is the Year of the Dogg.
-rdogg
This week’s radio show was recorded and broadcast directly from our new studio in Kenmore, live with my brother Patrick Kindy.
Season III Episode 4 – Recorded Live 05/26/2013
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Rango & Rivera (aka Patrick Kindy) take inventory of their assets on the first live show of Rango Unmuzzled. Featuring the music of Simon Collins, The Condition, John Q. Public, Mark Robinson, JCFlow, Matthew Martinek, MikeWhitePresents, Jenni French, Jed McConkey, Tony Floyd Kenna, Ben Badenhorst, Mike Hartman, Shaun Peace, Budd Zunga, Simon James White and Savage Henry.
“Gratuitous production failures at the beginning of the live broadcast have been averted from history’s eyes forever, but can never be erased from our memories” – rango, sobbing into his tequila
http://www.spreaker.com/user/reputationmedia/rango_unmuzzled_assets_live_v1_1
Rango's Dog House 