Jim Menard
@jimmenard.com
Gray-haired coder. Musician. Husband and father. Liberal. That about sums it up.
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Jim Menard
@jimmenard.com
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Spring 2024 Demo Reel
YouTube video by Ellis Island
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As an introduction, this is me doing what I love (I'm the keyboard player): www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uf8Q...
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One thing I don’t like about Star Wars is how every Yoda is on the Jedi council or connected to a prophecy or a beloved cultural icon, it’s time for a Yoda who works at Buffalo Wild Wings and has a 2014 Ford Focus
November 25, 2025 at 12:18 PM
One thing I don’t like about Star Wars is how every Yoda is on the Jedi council or connected to a prophecy or a beloved cultural icon, it’s time for a Yoda who works at Buffalo Wild Wings and has a 2014 Ford Focus
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The rich are probably gamy and stringy and like any such meats would benefit from slow, low cooking. Thus, the new slogan: "Sous vide the rich"
This is propaganda meant to deter us from eating the rich.
November 21, 2025 at 2:24 PM
The rich are probably gamy and stringy and like any such meats would benefit from slow, low cooking. Thus, the new slogan: "Sous vide the rich"
If you're in the area (SW Connecticut, USA, Earth) this Friday night, come see my band Ellis Island at Park City Music Hall! www.instagram.com/reel/DQzdEY_...
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November 8, 2025 at 7:10 PM
If you're in the area (SW Connecticut, USA, Earth) this Friday night, come see my band Ellis Island at Park City Music Hall! www.instagram.com/reel/DQzdEY_...
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This morning my ChatGPT quota was inexplicably exhausted.
It took a while but I pieced it together. Voice mode somehow got activated when I went to bed.
The bot then engaged in a 10 hour conversation with my snoring dog, answering questions the pup wasn’t asking and praising him for his insight.
It took a while but I pieced it together. Voice mode somehow got activated when I went to bed.
The bot then engaged in a 10 hour conversation with my snoring dog, answering questions the pup wasn’t asking and praising him for his insight.
October 18, 2025 at 9:04 AM
This morning my ChatGPT quota was inexplicably exhausted.
It took a while but I pieced it together. Voice mode somehow got activated when I went to bed.
The bot then engaged in a 10 hour conversation with my snoring dog, answering questions the pup wasn’t asking and praising him for his insight.
It took a while but I pieced it together. Voice mode somehow got activated when I went to bed.
The bot then engaged in a 10 hour conversation with my snoring dog, answering questions the pup wasn’t asking and praising him for his insight.
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one of the most memorable experiences I had in college was asking my organic chemistry professor a question and him saying "I don't know - let's find out!" and then talking me through a lab experiment.
If you think that professors exist as repositories of knowledge that students ask for answers, you’re missing the entire point of a college education.
We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.
We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.
Wow. Just wow.
"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."
"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."
October 16, 2025 at 3:18 PM
one of the most memorable experiences I had in college was asking my organic chemistry professor a question and him saying "I don't know - let's find out!" and then talking me through a lab experiment.
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My friend Matt Inman made a great comic about AI…
A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal
This is a comic about AI art.
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October 8, 2025 at 12:47 AM
My friend Matt Inman made a great comic about AI…
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In the last 15 years, QA teams have vanished.
Developers took over testing, mostly with automation.
But here’s the problem: we’ve lost test design.
Writing more tests ≠ writing the right tests.
That’s why I built Good Enough Testing.
Developers took over testing, mostly with automation.
But here’s the problem: we’ve lost test design.
Writing more tests ≠ writing the right tests.
That’s why I built Good Enough Testing.
October 2, 2025 at 8:51 AM
In the last 15 years, QA teams have vanished.
Developers took over testing, mostly with automation.
But here’s the problem: we’ve lost test design.
Writing more tests ≠ writing the right tests.
That’s why I built Good Enough Testing.
Developers took over testing, mostly with automation.
But here’s the problem: we’ve lost test design.
Writing more tests ≠ writing the right tests.
That’s why I built Good Enough Testing.
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Saw someone say, “Stop hoarding books, we don’t need paper books anyway” and I can’t express how misguided this is. Online libraries disappear, digital books can be altered, and with Big Tech seeking to destroy history and literacy, print media has never been more essential.
October 1, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Saw someone say, “Stop hoarding books, we don’t need paper books anyway” and I can’t express how misguided this is. Online libraries disappear, digital books can be altered, and with Big Tech seeking to destroy history and literacy, print media has never been more essential.
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Thys emayle koude have been a sonnet
September 6, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Thys emayle koude have been a sonnet
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Someone asked me to "please stop" with my posts about the Oxford comma.
After careful consideration, I’ve determined that I’m unable to abide by such an unreasonable, discourteous, and ill-mannered request.
After careful consideration, I’ve determined that I’m unable to abide by such an unreasonable, discourteous, and ill-mannered request.
August 31, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Someone asked me to "please stop" with my posts about the Oxford comma.
After careful consideration, I’ve determined that I’m unable to abide by such an unreasonable, discourteous, and ill-mannered request.
After careful consideration, I’ve determined that I’m unable to abide by such an unreasonable, discourteous, and ill-mannered request.
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The first podcast dates to roughly 5000 BCE, in the Mesopotamian city of Uruk. As they had neither recording equipment nor writing, we don't know who hosted, or what it was about. We only know it was sponsored by Squarespace, as reflected in their Neolithic architecture.
August 25, 2025 at 3:00 AM
The first podcast dates to roughly 5000 BCE, in the Mesopotamian city of Uruk. As they had neither recording equipment nor writing, we don't know who hosted, or what it was about. We only know it was sponsored by Squarespace, as reflected in their Neolithic architecture.
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My latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books
August 24, 2025 at 4:46 PM
My latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books
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Yn the court of Kynge Arthoure a verye effectyve insult was knowne as an Excaliburn
August 20, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Yn the court of Kynge Arthoure a verye effectyve insult was knowne as an Excaliburn
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Oh not everyone knows: information about anti-ICE and anti-Trump protests is being so algorithmically suppressed that everyone has begun calling them “music festivals” to get around the suppression. Right now “music festival” is what to search for current protest updates. That’s why I use it here
These music festivals have been ongoing in LA, Portland, Phoenix, Denver and now DC for days
August 15, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Oh not everyone knows: information about anti-ICE and anti-Trump protests is being so algorithmically suppressed that everyone has begun calling them “music festivals” to get around the suppression. Right now “music festival” is what to search for current protest updates. That’s why I use it here
9 CC
Slightly diminish a band: Huey Lewis and the Social Media
Slightly diminish a band: The Only Mostly Dead Kennedys
August 13, 2025 at 4:09 AM
9 CC
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My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com
August 11, 2025 at 9:42 AM
My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com
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All of the penicillin in use worldwide comes from a strain of mold that was growing on a cantaloupe bought at a grocery store in Peoria, Illinois in 1942.
What’s your favorite food fact that is true but sounds totally made up?
I’ll start: about half of the mushrooms produced across the United States of America each year (more than 300 million pounds of mushrooms in recent years) are produced in *one county* in Pennsylvania.
I’ll start: about half of the mushrooms produced across the United States of America each year (more than 300 million pounds of mushrooms in recent years) are produced in *one county* in Pennsylvania.
August 10, 2025 at 2:13 AM
All of the penicillin in use worldwide comes from a strain of mold that was growing on a cantaloupe bought at a grocery store in Peoria, Illinois in 1942.
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THE GUITAR NECK IS HIS ATOMIC BREATH!!
August 7, 2025 at 3:02 PM
THE GUITAR NECK IS HIS ATOMIC BREATH!!
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August 7, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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all I ask is an easy way to burn fat while gaining muscle mass and not having to spend unpleasant amounts of time on a cardio apparatus
surely human ingenuity has come up with one by now
surely human ingenuity has come up with one by now
July 29, 2025 at 5:20 PM
all I ask is an easy way to burn fat while gaining muscle mass and not having to spend unpleasant amounts of time on a cardio apparatus
surely human ingenuity has come up with one by now
surely human ingenuity has come up with one by now
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Wearing a big rosetta stone outfit and goddamned strutting it for halloween this year and calling myself a large language model.
July 28, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Wearing a big rosetta stone outfit and goddamned strutting it for halloween this year and calling myself a large language model.
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I hope Ozzy and the bat are reunited and have a good laugh about what happened
July 22, 2025 at 11:17 PM
I hope Ozzy and the bat are reunited and have a good laugh about what happened
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Every once in awhile, I think of my favorite “…the fuck did you just say?” phraseology, which is from Homer’s Iliad, proving we have never, ever changed as a species, only less fancily inclined.
“What nonsense has escaped the barrier of your teeth now?”
“What nonsense has escaped the barrier of your teeth now?”
July 16, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Every once in awhile, I think of my favorite “…the fuck did you just say?” phraseology, which is from Homer’s Iliad, proving we have never, ever changed as a species, only less fancily inclined.
“What nonsense has escaped the barrier of your teeth now?”
“What nonsense has escaped the barrier of your teeth now?”