Pfft. I curate tumblr.

We're closing on our house in Athens on Thursday! But! A tree fell in our yard today! But! It looks like (from the tiny cell phone pics) 1) it might be our neighbor's tree 2) it fell into the street, missing our tenant's car and our house, so the only things to do are A) get someone with a chain saw to remove the tree and B) get an electrician to re-attach the connection to the house so the power company can turn the power back on. Fingers crossed this is simple and straightforward and does not mess up the closing.

My neighbor posted bigger pics on Facebook. It is a big-ass tree. I think we were really lucky.

Yikes! But may the tree falling be a sign of things going well, as was the case of the first tree fall!

I should pay more attention to the weather forecast -- we're supposed to get 1-to-2.5 inches of rain by 6 PM tomorrow. Time to batten down the hatches and attach flotation devices to the smaller animals....

I curate tumblr.

Do people send you asks or otherwise reach out to the person behind the Good Stuff?

This week's coursera art topic is "mail art", which today encompasses stuff like posting your art on tumblr. Ergo 90% of the art I do technically qualifies as the real deal and I should be able to submit it for the assignment, no?

Except a decent %age of the art I do qualified for last week's topic of "fantastic" because of the guy with the wings, but I know they mean stuff with aspirations to deepness like Chagall or Man Ray. Not "a part of my head accepts winged people as mundane and valid topics for pictures".

And, shit! The quizzes are hard! How the fuck am I supposed to know what style Jackson Pollock uses if he's not in the week's material??? Yes, I can now recognise some Chagalls I've never seen before, but still...

The course also asks you to not submit digitally created art for assignments which I think is very hidebound. Luckily irrelevant to me, but still.

The guy whose job includes pulling reports out of this one database couldn't fulfill either of my requests--one because the rows weren't there (so I cc'ed the screenshot of the rows to his manager, because he was cc'ing his demurrals to my former manager), and one because the info wasn't in the column. I found him the column, and then he complained about the report length because user ID was appended to the URL, so I sent him the SQL to trim the comma and everything after.

...and then I asked one of our developers the best way to do that, and he found a faster one, but still! If your job is write SQL to generate reports from this table, YOUR CUSTOMERS SHOULD NOT BE DOING THIS FOR YOU.

You know what style Jackson Pollack uses by watching the movie Pollack!

What do you call Pollack style, though? Splatter?

abstract

I assumed there were pictures or line drawings and you had to choose which one was Pollack. But you are right-- I have no idea! I guess I would call it spatter.

Abstract Expressionism. Or spatter works, too.