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Rocky was going to say "fans of PHM" but Grace panicked! 🏳️‍🌈

And there was this one guy I talked with who seemed super sharp, but had virtually zero experience writing software. When it came time to do the show-n-tell part of the interview he whips out his laptop, brings up a website, and spins it around to show me what he made.

A website of tiny ceramic frogs.

Not for sale. Just… all these ceramic frogs, organized into categories. Frogs on bicycles, frogs with hats, frogs sitting on lily pads. It was a virtual museum of ceramic frogs in web form.

I scrolled through his online collection of frogs, slightly baffled.

“This is your website?” I asked finally.

“Yep!”

“You coded this yourself?” I popped into view-source mode and poked around some incredibly well-formatted, well-commented html. I nodded slowly. This guy was meticulous.

“Yep!”

“So… where’d all the frogs come from?”

“I made those too,” he says, beaming. 

And while I’m processing this he rummages in his bag and pulls out a little ceramic frog working at a computer terminal. He places it on the table before us, next to the laptop.

“And THIS one,” he says, “I made for you! As a thank you for the interview.”

It was adorable. I hired him on the spot. I mean, why not? Worst case he’d wash out in 90 days and we’d hire somebody else. He turned out to be one of the best developers on our team. 

So this is where the shirtless comment came from! Apparently he has a trainer getting him ready for the "new look" whatever tf that means...

He said "Too-much-shit guy can get away with whatever, the next thing is gonna be a lot more physically...I don't know. Its gonna be a different look."

He also said he doesn't plan on being shirtless "per se".

like, oh you mean return to the planet that is going to be about 30 years into doomsday: ice age edition? that is probably a patchwork of famine, ware, pestilence, and death? an earth that might not even have a functional society left depending on how bad shit got?

maybe they added a nuclear winter on top, maybe the united states don't exist anymore, maybe there's nothing for him to come home to.

i would have asked rocky hey, how do the eridians feel about a one-human-aquarium? any chance you could build something nice and comfy for me? i'll let you experiment on me too, though i draw the line at vivisection; but outside of that, it's probably fair game.

i would love to meet adrian! and you won't have to be alone on the way back and i can probably give you access to even more earth thinking machines, maybe stratt left a modded play station or wii somewhere and illegally downloaded every game ever made.

At a time when being gay could cause you to be arrested, Bill and Angelo, fell in love and began their lives together by renting a home in Fire Island where they could escape on weekends.

They soon built a home and life together as part of a migration of gay men from NYC that was beginning to happen. It was a quieter time, decades before Stonewall or the heyday of the "gay 70's".

As time passed, they helped to build a growing gay community there, where men were free to be, share, and discuss life. They would reminisce about the days when sharply dressed gay men went to the Bon Soir to hear a 20-something Barbra Streisand.