I'm a long-time advocate of #open and sharing (in so many contexts) and have worked professionally in university libraries (UMich), at Creative Commons, and now (for a long time) at the Wikimedia Foundation.
I'm also co- #parenting two unique children and we're doing our best to meet their needs where they are.
I like to engage with fun topics #onhere and CW everything political and most things re parenting. I also #vaguetoot about work sometimes.
The first union in a AAA studio (by Vice's counting) has just won the NLRB vote to bring itself into existence, after announcing an intent to form back around January.
The union in question is not big— about 28 members, comprising the QA team of a sub-studio of Activision Blizzard that does overflow work on Call of Duty titles— but unionization is so rare in games it's still a milestone. Interestingly I guess this means it will also be a rare union within Microsoft?
medical, subtype surgery(minor)
I need a growth removed from my lip. Really simple small incision operation.
My primary physician recommended a couple plastic surgeons to do it.
Looking at their websites today and.... I am not the target patient. These websites are almost NSFW with their images representing breast augmentation and liposuction.
I kinda miss using the HMO plan vs this PPO plan.
vimwiki release proposal, input welcome
this may interest a few of you:
https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki/issues/1235
if this doesn't work, i think i'm forking it and doing violence to all the parts i have no desire or capacity to maintain.
covid, cont
And now the oldest tested positive after being super tired with a fever this morning. Almost two weeks since we were exposed at the high school play, and about 10 days since Carrie and I fell ill, and a week after his younger brother succumbed.
Mask up and boost. This crap ain't worth it.
Ugh.
A middle-aged (I can say that now) white cis dude from the midwest living in california doing the technology-as-a-job thing all the while wishing I lived back in the midwest with people who take life more slowly.
Parenting 2 kids that need a lot from me/us. Failing at it most times.
Toots are random. I use CWs for things like parenting. Feel free to point out failure to CW something I should.
My out of date homepage (and obviously failed blog restart) at: https://grossmeier.net/pages/about.html