https://youtu.be/ rDY9Hoo1s4w - Raw vs Nitro "Reliving The War": Episode 162 - November 30th 1998
Thursday, August 17, 2023
What to Do in St Louis?
As I click Publish, there are 77 days until my trip to St. Louis with Matthew to see Metallica. We are leaving on Thursday, 11-02, and will return home on Monday, 11-6. I recently found out that there's a great local band playing at Pop's in Sauget, IL, on Saturday, 11-4. I've never been to Pop's in Sauget, IL, but I know there are a lot of bands that I would like to see in concert that play there. For example, if I lived in the Saint Louis area, I would likely attend all three of these concerts:
However, I won't be going to any of them because I can't justify the 10+ hours in the car (roundtrip) to see any of those bands. Of the 5 bands listed, I've seen "The Devil Wears Prada" in concert. I also can say that Devildriver played at Chicago Open Air 2017. I could have seen them playing from a distance, but I have no specific memory of that. I remember Alex and I went to Mass on Sunday morning, but I don't recall what time we arrived at the concert. Here is the lineup from that day:
All of that is nice to reflect upon as I think about going to see New Lingo at Pop's in Sauget, IL. This is a map from our hotel to the venus - a short 8 minute drive:
And this is what the band sounds like.
And here's some more tunes by the band.
However, I won't be going to any of them because I can't justify the 10+ hours in the car (roundtrip) to see any of those bands. Of the 5 bands listed, I've seen "The Devil Wears Prada" in concert. I also can say that Devildriver played at Chicago Open Air 2017. I could have seen them playing from a distance, but I have no specific memory of that. I remember Alex and I went to Mass on Sunday morning, but I don't recall what time we arrived at the concert. Here is the lineup from that day:
Sunday (July 16) LIneup:
Monster Energy Main Stage
Source: 2017 Chicago Open Air Set Times Revealed
- 8:25PM Ozzy Osbourne
- 6:25PM Stone Sour
- 5:05PM Lamb of God
- 3:40PM Amon Amarth
- 2:30PM Hellyeah
- 1:30PM Demon Hunter
- 12:30PM DED
Blackcraft Stage
- 7:20PM Slayer
- 4:35PM Behemoth
- 3:10PM Kyng
- 2:00PM DevilDriver
- 1:00PM Norma Jean
- 12:05PM Whores
- 11:15AM Aversed
All of that is nice to reflect upon as I think about going to see New Lingo at Pop's in Sauget, IL. This is a map from our hotel to the venus - a short 8 minute drive:
And this is what the band sounds like.
And here's some more tunes by the band.
This is the Geeky Kind of Stuff I Love
I saw this information about Metallica's 2023 tour and instantly developed an admiration for the person who took the setlists from Metallica's 2003 tour and created this information.
Tuesday, August 15, 2023
Monday, August 14, 2023
Friday, August 4, 2023
Technical Writers: The Unsung Heroes of Customer Experience
Lately, I don't really think about "technical writing" as an industry nearly as much as in days past. I can cite the reality that, in 2023, I didn't create a post with the "Technical Writing" label until Tuesday, March 14, 2023, and that post was simply a link to elsewhere - https://prhmusic.blogspot.com/2023/03/blog-post.html - with zero words written by me. I'm unsure why this is the case as I still go to work and when I arrive, I am a Senior Technical Writer - that is still my title and that is still my role. Maybe that is why the article below made me revisit this idea that I have had in my head for quite a while, which is to explain that yes, my title and role is that of a Senior Technical Writer, but no, I do not do the work of a traditional Senior Technical Writer. I consider the traditional role of a Senior Technical Writer to be the role of learning a subject area to the degree that documentation about that subject area can be written. I don't do that. I consider myself to be more of a Documentation Assembler. For the 3 major projects with which I am involved, I rely on other co-workers to write documentation and then, in some instances, I may proofread the content, but in 90% of the work I do, I don't even proofread or edit the content. Literally, I assemble the work of others into a cohesive presentation of the content that is then distributed. That statement is true for
- The Disaster Recovery documentation project
- The Knowledge Management project
- The Operations Manual project
I'm not complaining as the way I do my work is aligned with what I like to do. I like to write DOS batch files in a folder with
81126 File(s) 43,575,880,874 bytes
7655 Dir(s) 349,230,120,960 bytes free
and eliminate a bunch of files until there are only 8379 files with only the following file types:
*.mp4, *.docx, *.doc, *.zip, *.xps, *.xml, *.xltx, *.xlsx, *.xlsm, *.xls, *.vss, *.vsdx, *.vsdm, *.vsd, *.vdx, *.txt, *.pub, *.pptx, *.ppt, *.png, *.pdf, *.onetoc2, *.one, *.msg, *.jpg, *.jpeg, *.csv
I doubt many Senior Technical Writers are like me.
In any case, read the following article about how Technical Writers are the unsung heroes of customer experience.
https://thecontentwrangler.substack.com/p/technical-writers-the-unsung-heroes-bae?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1587018&post_id=135611902&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email - Technical Writers: The Unsung Heroes of Customer Experience
Corner Office Trailer #1 2023
This looks like an item on my 8-15-2023 itinerary for seeing a movie at the Coral Ridge Mall Theater.
https://youtu.be/ kVHq4U9Hg0M - Corner Office Trailer #1 2023
Thursday, August 3, 2023
Some MP3 Stats on my EHDs
dir e:\music\*(1).mp3 *(2).mp3 *(3).mp3 *(4).mp3 *(5).mp3 *(6).mp3 *(7).mp3 *(8).mp3 *(9).mp3 *(10).mp3 /s
59857 File(s) 745,987,570,580 bytes
0 Dir(s) 3,521,551,814,656 bytes free
dir e:\music\*.mp3 /s /os
562519 File(s) 6,446,132,042,260 bytes
0 Dir(s) 3,521,551,814,656 bytes free
dir i:\music-shell\*.mp3 /s
252482 File(s) 2,367,933,787,331 bytes
0 Dir(s) 7,220,252,672,000 bytes free
Wednesday, August 2, 2023
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