Tim Burbank @robotfriend@squid.cafe

idk, everything's been a lot lately but that was a small moment that felt like I had it under control

Today was: wearing a white shirt for the protest rally, while getting a text saying "can you wear white for the folk dancers we're playing for this evening" and being able to reply "YUP, GOT IT COVERED"

Rhode Island contingent of #FamiliesBelongTogetherMarch

Mood

@robotfriend update:

That......wasn't intended as a metaphor

I couldn't sleep so I'm on eBay looking for emergency stop buttons

This video had a big impact on how we communicate space exploration, and it's still great https://twitter.com/MissionArtist/status/1008447698226171904?s=17

This song has been stuck in my head since I saw Tessa perform it six months ago

Now that I actually hear the lyrics again I feel so called out
https://youtu.be/SiAuAJBZuGs

I need to be working on a project that's due asap, but instead I'm on eBay trying to find the coolest looking foot switch

(This happens more often than I care to admit)

WELL IT LOOKS LIKE I'M GONNA SPEND TONIGHT CRYNG ABOUT A GODDAMN ROBOT 53.2 MILLION MILES AWAY

Made it home after three weeks working next to an ocean robot to find @elakdawalla's awesome Mars robot book in my mailbox 😍

The Python datetime manual is too relatable sometimes

"Naive objects are easy to understand and to work with, at the cost of ignoring some aspects of reality." https://docs.python.org/2/library/datetime.html

I keep being surprised by what size things are

This is so weird. I work with video footage of the ship on a daily basis so I've seen many areas a hundred times and then it will be like WAIT THERE'S A DOOR THERE??!!

I've worked remotely for a research ship, on and off for five years and full time for a year and a half, and HERE SHE IS

What I've been trying to learn recently is that step of bridging the concerns of archivists (preserve as is) with the needs of the people using the data (where is the thing I'm looking for?)

Good point, and I'm lucky that I work with digital data that's easy to copy (some of the people I work with not so much, a coworker recently spent some weeks shipping preserved samples back to the country that owned them after the permit ran out)