Jan Rubæk 🇨🇦🇩🇰

He/him/his. Human, spouse, parent, citizen, data processing geek. Progressive left w some right leanings. Feminism, BLM, Indigenous & LGBTQ rights for equality.

[Jan Rubæk 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @JanRubak]

I’m looking for rock/metal opera albums that tell a narrative story (i.e. not just soundtrack albums from stage/screen).

So far I know (and love) two: Jeff Wayne’s “War of the Worlds” and Mike Dalager’s “Dreams in the Witch House”.

Any other recommendations out there?

[Jan Rubæk 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @JanRubak]

@castewar Heh. I sometimes use that when I want to surreptitiously imply that *I’m* the best. :)

I’m partial to “Kind Regards,” for formal correspondence and “Cheers,” or “Thanks,” for the others.

It feels very odd to ever leave the closing salutation off in any email.

[Jan Rubæk 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @JanRubak]

@shunn @MoviesReveal May I recommend “Marcel the Shell with Shoes On” as a gentle balm for your next viewing?

[Jan Rubæk 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @JanRubak]

@BLH_BLH @chloe_eevans @pastbriton @EmoPhilips Emo shows up in “The Book of Judyism” (title?).

I still regret not buying it when I saw it 15 years ago in a second-hand book store.

RIP @JudyTenuta

[Jan Rubæk 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @JanRubak]

@Cardiffs_Kids @blainecapatch Sang?

[Jan Rubæk 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @JanRubak]

@MargaretAtwood My partner is a musician (the groomsman at Ruth & Ralph’s wedding, btw), and gets very frustrated when actors portray virtuosi but do terrible air guitar on screen.

I think she’ll appreciate the effort the filmmakers and Blanchett made here.

https://t.co/FQX9PDtuES

[Jan Rubæk 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @JanRubak]

@korymath :)

https://t.co/kfSx55rWBs

[Jan Rubæk 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @JanRubak]

@KevBot_007 I enjoyed @geofftate96’s bit about that:

https://t.co/ELtZ0fecN4

(Track 8 on “People Are What People Make ‘Em”. Track 7 is also Jack Reacher related, and just beautifully performed.)

[Jan Rubæk 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @JanRubak]

@KSpeicher @David_Moscrop There’s something special about having a book with an overseas cover, acquired during travel.

Even more so if later shelved next to its local version back home.

[Alice R Fraser @aliterative]

Looking for a comedy podcast about things that are actually sad?

The Alice Fraser Trilogy delivers three stand up shows exploring the boundary between comedy and tragedy.

Tune in here: https://t.co/R0AiwYQkO8

[Jan Rubæk 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @JanRubak]

@SlowBarney @BDSixsmith (Track 7, if you want to skip ahead. But the whole show is great.)

[Jan Rubæk 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @JanRubak]

@SlowBarney @BDSixsmith Richard Herring can tell you that entire lineage from Abraham to Joseph, forwards and backwards. It’s my favourite bit on his “Christ on a Bike” album.

[Jan Rubæk 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @JanRubak]

It’s always a bit surprising to remember that the people we admire as heroes and leaders are also just humans.

No matter how driven in any particular discipline, they still have a human attention span and 24 hours in a day to fit it all in (alongside sleep, family & recreation).

[Chris Anderson @chr1sa]

@kevin2kelly @CharlesCMann I don't really follow any of those topics. I really only follow science, tech and business. I get my economics from podcasts (all by economists)

[Jan Rubæk 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @JanRubak]

@qikipedia Thanks to @DougBenson, I’ve thought of it as the “holiday taint” for years now. I don’t know if he made that up himself or got it from somewhere else.

With “merryneum” about half the audience will miss the joke, but maybe that’s the point?

[Jan Rubæk 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @JanRubak]

This is a great optical illusion. I’d love to know the original source.

The apparent motion is caused by the flashing and not the arrows in the middle (try covering them with your fingers).

[Jan Rubæk 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @JanRubak]

We could all use better cognitive immune systems to engage more effectively with social media and topical discussion shows.

Media literacy and awareness of cognitive biases is a pretty good place to start.

These forthcoming articles should be a great way to learn some of that.

[Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D @RVAwonk]

For the record, there is no “social media special sauce”. It’s a combination of platform manipulation, partisanship, social marketing, and preying on people’s cognitive & emotional vulnerabilities. It’s not magic, I promise you. And it’s not authentic engagement.

[Jan Rubæk 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @JanRubak]

Another microcosm of Twitter dysfunction.

The OP had a mildly trolling tone (to ⬆️ engagements), but in all the we vs. thee “arguments” that I saw in the comments, not one focused on the only salient fact: that both the US and European formats are ambiguous 11 days each month.

[History Defined @historydefined]

A map of every country in the world using a MM/DD/YYYY date format.

[Jan Rubæk 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @JanRubak]

@AshleyCsanady It’s too scary for younger kids, but “Rare Exports” is kind of a hidden gem.

But… I’m pretty sure it fails the Bechdel test, as I don’t recall there being even one woman in the cast. :-/

[Jan Rubæk 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @JanRubak]

@David_Moscrop Here’s a sampling of his short poems translated (by himself, masterfully) into English:

https://t.co/ruvz5L3HLj

And here’re the books collecting them all:

https://t.co/V8FYEUv17m

https://t.co/qf10Mzyqxf

[Jan Rubæk 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @JanRubak]

@David_Moscrop While I’m confessing. I should also say that I’m often tempted to put “(!)” at the end of statements that have even a hint of profoundity.

I blame Piet Hein:

Talking of successful rackets
modesty deserves a mention.
Exclamation marks in brackets
never fail to draw attention.