Jeff Keen

Ember/Rails/UX/Whatever consultant. Always working on side projects, loves the radio, proudly uses a tiny phone, burns in the shade, writes songs.

[Austin Kleon @austinkleon]

On the first day of fall I like to re-read my friend @mattthomas’s post, “Fall In,” on seasonal thinking and resisting the tyranny of the day:

https://t.co/a9HITjO01D

[Jeff Keen @realjeffkeen]

@OldTechAdverts Street Hawk, Knight Rider, Airwolf, the A-Team. People were hungry for vigilante street justice apparently, and six year old me ate that shit up

[Jeff Keen @realjeffkeen]

I'm super excited to share the results of a small study I did this morning!

[Jeff Keen @realjeffkeen]

My friend's dad laughed until he cried. At me, not with me.

And so with that in mind, I say RIP Bob Saget

🧵[3/3]

[Jeff Keen @realjeffkeen]

One night in 1989 I was watching my favorite show (America's Funniest Home Videos) and my Dad explained to me that before Bob Saget was on TV, he had an unsuccessful musical career. In an effort to escape his past, he had changed his name from "Bob Seger" to "Bob Saget"

🧵[1/3]

[Jeff Keen @realjeffkeen]

8 years later, I'm 15 and flipping through a box of records at my friend's house when I come across a Bob Seger album. Wouldn't ya know it, I had a super fun trivia fact about Bob Seger! So I proudly shared it with the room.

🧵[2/3]

[Jeff Keen @realjeffkeen]

@samselikoff I'm in this boat too, and as someone who lived through MobileMe and iDisk it feels good to have enough faith in Apple's web services to actually consider this now!

[Jeff Keen @realjeffkeen]

Also, pro tip: your local library may provide free, perpetually renewable 3 day passes to NY Times subscriber content, and library cards are free. For Austin the pass is here: https://t.co/pHppvJnPXG

[Jeff Keen @realjeffkeen]

FTC giving the finger to the @nytimes et al after years of them giving the finger to their customers! https://t.co/BXQ9kbwwvx

[Jeff Keen @realjeffkeen]

@TravisStalcup @stalcup_rachel It's the absolute worst and I don't know how it continues to be overlooked, so happy I know people who feel the same way about it

[Jeff Keen @realjeffkeen]

In reading about what went wrong on the Rust set, the question about "Why are there real guns on sets in the first place?" keeps coming up with the answer being "For realism. They look real when fired, allowing actors to react properly to the noise and recoil" 🧵 (1/4)

[Jeff Keen @realjeffkeen]

So I think we have bigger issues than a gunshot not looking hyper-realistic on screen. So bring out the fake guns, save the lives of crew, and maybe throw some water in those empty cups. (4/4)

https://t.co/yNa0xFPhgk

[Jeff Keen @realjeffkeen]

1. Drinking out of empty cups (!!!)
2. Ending phone calls without saying goodbye
3. Quiet conversations in loud places
4. “Two beers please” as an order
5. Huge NYC apts on a creative salary
6. Driving without looking at the road
7. Using people’s names c o n s t a n t l y

(3/4)

[Jeff Keen @realjeffkeen]

@barelyknown Thanks, I appreciate it!

[Jeff Keen @realjeffkeen]

@tylerhall I’d love to try out what you’re building! I’ve tried out all the bookmarking apps/tools and nothing really nailed it imo.

[Jeff Keen @realjeffkeen]

@austinenergy The wind blew and y’alls duct tape solution broke again; power out in my neighborhood for the second time this week.

[Jeff Keen @realjeffkeen]

@rachsyme The Saigon Grill strike was a tough time for everyone and a regular topic of conversation at Yelp Elite parties.

[Jeff Keen @realjeffkeen]

I didn’t check my pockets on laundry day and turned my last year’s worth of Field Notes into a mushy potato-like object. Therapy notes, things my dad said before he died, ideas, contact info, mostly all gone. But this survived, and yeah—it is.

[Jeff Keen @realjeffkeen]

While @tedcruz may resign, retire, or disappear, I assure you I will keep https://t.co/i8pwUwgXPs running until the end of time.