Pat Allen

Father | Husband | BBQ Guy at @theamateurpig | Writer/Creator at @hiddeninkpress | Manager, Network Engineering | Cisco Champion '22

[Pat Allen @layer8packet]

Fall ball all done. Tournament day. 4 games in a row, didn't reach finals but had a blast this season. Looking forward to spring!

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Watch Falcon 9 launch the USSF-432 mission from pad 4E in California https://t.co/mAKgbT1mxx

[Pat Allen @layer8packet]

Feels like ya hit the jackpot when you find @Combos in the back of the snack cupboard! Hell yeah!

[Pat Allen @layer8packet]

@NetSecWheezy guilty until proven innocent

[Pat Allen @layer8packet]

It's hilarious to me that no one cares about the network until it doesn't work...

[Pat Allen @layer8packet]

@Goik some people treat it as such....

[Pat Allen @layer8packet]

@planedrop it's a "what have you done for me lately" business, always has been.

[Pat Allen @layer8packet]

Legit died 3 months ago and it's the only appliance in our kitchen that hasn't been replaced yet......

[Texts From Last Night @TFLN]

30 Funniest Tweets Of The Day That Put All That Scrolling To Good Use https://t.co/6jUVUX517m

[NASA Goddard @NASAGoddard]

@NASAHubble Here is a zoomed in view of the gravitational lens. The background galaxy appears as two arcs: a small, distorted arc in the bottom right and a prominent arc in the top left. This specific configuration is called an arc-counterarc pair.

[NASA Goddard @NASAGoddard]

WAKE ME UP when you spot the strangest galaxy (galaxies?) in this image 🎸

Hidden among this @NASAHubble image of many galaxies lies an oddity in the bottom right. A foreground galaxy is acting as a gravitational lens, magnifying the light from a more distant galaxy behind it.

[NASA's Johnson Space Center @NASAJohnson]

Starting the day on a high note! ☀️📷 About 250 miles high, to be exact. Tune in live as astronauts step outside the International @Space_Station for a spacewalk! 👇 https://t.co/LrCxkNW9Zu

[Kai Lentit (e/xcel) @KaiLentit]

These are the people discussing your CVE-2026-98432

[Pat Allen @layer8packet]

@TheHappenVance @LinkedIn I think everyone has been in a similar situation. Totally sucks and I know for me, the way some of these jobs have ended have stuck with me and still make me shake my head...

[Pat Allen @layer8packet]

I love all these goodbye appreciation for company posts on @LinkedIn . This big swan song about "X incredible years, grateful for my time at X". Bro, they cut your access before your coffee got cold? I get it, leave on good terms but don't kiss ass on the way out.

[Pat Allen @layer8packet]

Imagine all the people who are important to history but whom you never hear about, and we'll never know what they looked like because no portraits exist.

[Phillies Nation @PhilliesNation]

Congrats to Cristopher Sánchez on a fantastic season 👏

[Philadelphia Phillies @Phillies]

🕷️🕷️🕷️

Congratulations to Jhoan Duran on being named a Reliever of the Year finalist!

[Pat Allen @layer8packet]

As someone who used to work for Rentokil (before the Terminix merge), they were always slow to adapt to new technology. We always took orders from our parent company (in the UK) and they had no idea of our size here in the States - their technology mindset didn't scale well here

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

The pest control industry is worth $29B. Largest 2 firms (Rollins, Rentokil Terminix) account for 50% of revenue among top 100 pest control firms in US.

Market cap for both are down between 20-40% this year. One reason: people using AI chatbots for pest control reccomendations, and are being offered local options (while these global brands get hammered with bad reviews on Reddit).

[Pat Allen @layer8packet]

@SkrzSecurity @X I'm pretty much open to anything. Tech, sports, hobbies, whatever

[Pat Allen @layer8packet]

Need some good @X accounts to follow. What ya got?!?!