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Re: Rivers Cuomo is an active developer on GitHub

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Post by jszymborski » Fri, Feb 02, 2024, 5:50 AM UTC

dang wrote: post #55

happytiger wrote: post #47

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It’s so great that musicians can have a backup plan that works lol. :)

My parents-in-law had an old friend who with her folk-singer husband ran a club in Montreal in the early 60s. Bob Dylan came through town before he changed his name. They were sitting around after the show and Annette said to him: "Kid. You better go back to college. You need something to fall back on." Dylan told her: "If I don't, you'll eat my hat." She had other great stories. Lenny Cohen played "Suzanne" for her…

Annette sounds like a straight shooter.

Cheers from Montréal!

Re: Rivers Cuomo is an active developer on GitHub

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Post by jedberg » Fri, Feb 02, 2024, 5:55 AM UTC

Not entirely surprised. This is the same guy who took time off from being a famous rock star to finish his undergrad at Harvard "just for fun". He probably codes for fun too.

Re: Rivers Cuomo is an active developer on GitHub

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Post by thekevan » Fri, Feb 02, 2024, 5:57 AM UTC

I like the way he comments on what he repos are. He types them as if he is standing over your shoulder, pointing at the screen and explaining them to you excitedly.

Re: Rivers Cuomo is an active developer on GitHub

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Post by bemusedthrow75 » Fri, Feb 02, 2024, 6:08 AM UTC

balls187 wrote: post #36

kjellsbells wrote: post #4

I like the symmetry of Weezer's "Buddy Holly" being one of the first PC videos people ever saw by virtue of it being included on the Windows 95 installation CD, and 30 years later, Cuomo quietly carving out a little piece of the coding universe for themselves. Rock on!

Oh man I forgot that video was on the Win95 CD!

Along with one of the low-key greatest white folk-soul ballads ever written -- "Good Times" by Edie Brickell.

And some amazing Bill Plympton animations!

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/?p=32853

Re: Rivers Cuomo is an active developer on GitHub

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Post by vitiral » Fri, Feb 02, 2024, 6:10 AM UTC

thr0waway001 wrote: post #65

Who dat?

Let me Google that for you?

Re: Rivers Cuomo is an active developer on GitHub

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Post by jmmcd » Fri, Feb 02, 2024, 6:27 AM UTC

gonzo wrote: post #57

dang wrote: post #55

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My parents-in-law had an old friend who with her folk-singer husband ran a club in Montreal in the early 60s. Bob Dylan came through town before he changed his name. They were sitting around after the show and Annette said to him: "Kid. You better go back to college. You need something to fall back on." Dylan told her: "If I don't, you'll eat my hat." She had other great stories. Lenny Cohen played "Suzanne" for her…

She’s not wrong

Later on, Michael Stipe of REM wrote a song that shamelessly ripped off Suzanne, except it was about merging a human's DNA with a crocodile. He asked Peter Buck what he thought, and Buck said "it's great, but it was great when it was Suzanne too".

Re: Rivers Cuomo is an active developer on GitHub

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Post by geoelectric » Fri, Feb 02, 2024, 6:32 AM UTC

bemusedthrow75 wrote: post #74

balls187 wrote: post #36

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Oh man I forgot that video was on the Win95 CD!

Along with one of the low-key greatest white folk-soul ballads ever written -- "Good Times" by Edie Brickell. And some amazing Bill Plympton animations! https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/?p=32853

I remember the Buddy Holly video but I think I may never have found the Plympton videos. I missed out—was a huge Plymptoons fan back then.

I do remember discovering the video for GWAR’s Saddam A-Go-Go inside the Beavis & Butthead adventure game that came out that same year. Weird what sticks in our heads. Good times.

Re: Rivers Cuomo is an active developer on GitHub

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Post by bemusedthrow75 » Fri, Feb 02, 2024, 6:37 AM UTC

geoelectric wrote: post #77

bemusedthrow75 wrote: post #74

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Along with one of the low-key greatest white folk-soul ballads ever written -- "Good Times" by Edie Brickell. And some amazing Bill Plympton animations! https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/?p=32853

I remember the Buddy Holly video but I think I may never have found the Plympton videos. I missed out—was a huge Plymptoons fan back then. I do remember discovering the video for GWAR’s Saddam A-Go-Go inside the Beavis & Butthead adventure game that came out that same year. Weird what sticks in our heads. Good times.

I was sure I remembered there was more than one, but likely I misremembered:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ob7EEr3t8k

It's very short, too. I'm surprised by that. But it definitely stuck in my head.

Re: Rivers Cuomo is an active developer on GitHub

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Post by syndicatedjelly » Fri, Feb 02, 2024, 6:44 AM UTC

slashink wrote: post #29

jader201 wrote: post #24

According to his `new-albums` repo [1]: > I've been learning programming since 2015 So something he’s picked up fairly recently. [1] https://github.com/riverscuomo/new-albums

I know time is relative but I realized 2015 is 9 years ago ? Made me feel old.

It only gets worse. Soon a “recent” year will have been decades ago

Re: Rivers Cuomo is an active developer on GitHub

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Post by syndicatedjelly » Fri, Feb 02, 2024, 6:46 AM UTC

dabber wrote: post #70

mp05 wrote: post #63

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Sure: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/how-weezer...

Wow, that read made me feel a little sad. It works for them obviously, but sounds a bit like everyone besides Rivers may as well be a session musician that he happen to be predictable enough for him to work with.

Brave New World