Robert Bryan

April 2018 PhillyJUG Door Prize Winner

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A Quick Bio Robert Bryan 8/30 '15

The Arden Museum is doing an exhibit on authors from Arden.

They asked me for a bio.

http://www.rmbryan.com/about-rm-bryan

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8/30 '15 10 Comments
I loved your bio. To be fair, part of my enjoyment was in learning things about you, my friend, that I didn't know, and that isn't going to be a universal experience for bio readers ... But then again, when I really like a book, the author feels like someone I know and I want to know more about them.
Shelle Klein Houser
Thank you!
Robert Bryan
I'm glad they didn't limit you to 150 words. You have a good style.
Lindsay Harris Friel
Writing this, I kept hearing Louis C.K. screaming, "Nobody cares about you, they only want to talk about themselves!"

That didn't help.
Robert Bryan
Those inner editor/censor voices are EEEEVIIIIL.
Lindsay Harris Friel
Absolutely beautiful.

I selfishly was hoping to see a comment about your writing project "The Weekly Ping," which I thoroughly enjoyed and very much looked forward to. I'm sure I still have some saved, assuming they're not on the hard drive that died.

Jill "xtingu" Knapp
I've had 4 different people write to me today to say, "Where is the Weekly Ping in your bio?"
You are all so dear.
I think I only sent that to, like 9 people.
Robert Bryan
Welp, we nine people were very lucky people. :)
Jill "xtingu" Knapp
A fine story which happens to be your own. Thank you for sharing it.
Thomas Boutell
My pleasure!
Robert Bryan
 
 

The Push Robert Bryan 8/23 '15

I've overhauled www.rmbryan.com. I have an email list you can join, some social media links, including goodreads, and a fledgling podcast where i read from the books.Next up, finalizing the DRM-free ebooks.
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8/23 '15
 

110 Words to Hook You on Arden House Robert Bryan 8/16 '15

After the collapse and reduction, there were not enough people left to rebuild the way things were before.

What we could rebuild was… different.


It wasn’t all bad:

Without a power grid to light up the night sky, the stars were easier to see.

The obesity epidemic wasn’t a problem anymore.

There were no more traffic jams, and pollution wasn’t really a concern.


Life was ghastly and bleak in every way.

Scattered families scratching out lives, hiding from thugs and roving bands of Skullers.


One night, Autumn, a resilient girl in an impossible situation, made a simple choice that drastically altered the course of many lives.

She decided to run. 

The Arden House Series, available now.

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8/16 '15 3 Comments
Revised:
After the collapse and reduction, there were not enough people left to rebuild the way things were before.
What we could rebuild was... different.
There were some small improvements:
Without a power grid to light up the night sky, the stars were easier to see.
The obesity epidemic wasn't a problem anymore.
There were no more traffic jams, and pollution wasn't really a concern.
Other than that, life was ghastly and bleak in almost every way.
Scattered families scratched out lives, hid from thugs and roving bands of Skullers.
One night, Autumn, a resilient girl in an impossible situation, made a simple choice that drastically altered the course of many lives.
She decided to run.
Robert Bryan
Lindsay Harris Friel
Lindsay Harris Friel
 

OPW FTW Robert Bryan 8/15 '15

reason # n+1 why I heart OPW... just watched my first episode of BoJack Horseman because I heard about it here.
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8/15 '15 5 Comments
Oh, if you liked episode one, you're going to love the rest. It improves rapidly.
Thomas Boutell
Just watched Ep 1. Okay. I'm on board.
Lindsay Harris Friel
Oh yeh, it is perfect for anybody who has a critique of Hollywood already.
Thomas Boutell
It reminds me a lot of Theresa Rebeck's book Free Fire Zone, which is her book about her time in LA writing for TV.
Lindsay Harris Friel
Okay, I loved Archer, but couldn't get halfway through Ep 1 of this. What am I doing wrong?
Karen Kuhl
 
 

Postgres Robert Bryan 7/31 '15

Today, I wrote SQL queries all day.I had help when I needed it, good tools to work with and well organized reference material.It was a joy. 
I learned a great deal and got some things to work.
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7/31 '15 3 Comments
Really?
Lindsay Harris Friel
SQL is actually pretty neat on its own terms. It's not a "think like the computer" thing. It's more of a "think about your information, which you care about" thing. Unless you don't care about the information, in which case it's dull of course.
Thomas Boutell
It fascinates me.
I have this massive, priceless data set that's just sitting there, waiting for me to mine the living daylights out of it.
Just scratching the surface so far and I am amazed.
I also have Splunk, which is extremely helpful as well, and another fun thing to learn.
Robert Bryan
 

Math Facts Robert Bryan 7/29 '15

Tonight we made index cards of the multiplication facts up to 9x9=81.We skipped the easy ones like 0, 1, 2 and all the 5s.
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7/29 '15 4 Comments
The zero cards exist, they just are what they mean.
Lindsay Harris Friel
Does she like the cool thing about the multiples of nine, how all the numbers reverse?
Shelle Klein Houser
No!
She knows fuck-all.
It's an outrage.
I'm on it, though.


should go well.
Robert Bryan
My Dad taught me all of the Presidents' names in order of term. He let me stay up late while I was memorizing them and being quizzed. I got to stay up past my bedtime a few times and I learned all the Presidents and absorbed a bunch of goofy trivia like the three reporters in Taft's bathtub. Silly Dad, he must not have noticed it was after my bedtime. I sure fooled him!

Also, you're a great Dad.
Shelle Klein Houser
 
 

Shifts Robert Bryan 7/26 '15

Out with:

  • facebook
  • reddit
  • imgur
  • twitter
  • instgram
  • netflix
  • amazon instant video
  • fark

Not that there's anything wrong with any of that, except to clear space for...

In with:

oh, and more of https://goo.gl/photos/2nUud7Rg8HePe4gq7
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7/26 '15 6 Comments
Right now it's SQL. I'm looking forward to doing all the maths next.
Robert Bryan
Cool. I call it "Squeal" here at work.
Shelle Klein Houser
SQUEAL has been an internally reserved keyword for my BIOS since 1994.
Robert Bryan
I like the idea of Khan. I'll have to give it a closer look.
Lindsay Harris Friel
Honored to make the cut!
Thomas Boutell
What are you studying on Khan?
Khaaaaaaaaan!
Shelle Klein Houser
 
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