Travis Campbell

@hcoyote

Three raccoons in a big data trenchcoat. | "I help people use data." ex(AMD|Indeed|Cloudera|Redpanda) “The Don Rickles of Big Data” but data/AI is my current jam. Somewhere in the mountains of Colorado Signal: hcoyote.83

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Travis Campbell@hcoyote· Jul 20

Two photos. Two histories. I didn’t realize these were only 16 miles apart. Wild.

MT Rushmore showing the carved faces of Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt, and Lincoln

The partially carved face and hand of the Crazy Horse Memorial photographed from the side. A crane is in the background.

Travis Campbell@hcoyote· Jul 19

Yeah. That’s what’s up.

Sitting with my feet on a box in a wooded campsite by a lake, somewhere in South Dakota

Travis Campbell@hcoyote· Jul 16

Kubernetes Hot Take of the Day:

CSPs that use hostPath or emptyDir for kubernetes local pod storage are lazy and of questionable moral character. Change my mind.

Travis Campbell@hcoyote· Jul 6

Evergreen.

Brenan Keller
@brenankeller
A QA engineer walks into a bar. Orders a beer. Orders O beers. Orders 99999999999 beers. Orders a lizard.
Orders -1 beers. Orders a ueicksjdhd.
First real customer walks in and asks where the bathroom is. The bar bursts into flames, killing everyone.

Travis Campbell@hcoyote· Jul 5

Sitting out here wondering what Zebulon Pike would have done in a Jeep. Also: Zebulon Pike is an amazing name.

Sitting on a mountaintop looking across the valley through pine trees while holding a half eaten gyro in tinfoil

Old concrete and stone gathering area looking across the forest and mountain top towards Idaho Springs

Jeep hood shot squeezing in between a narrow single lane forest service trail/road, bounded on each side by dense pine trees

An young elk with fuzzy antlers eating fresh green grass on the side of the road

Travis Campbell@hcoyote· Jul 2

If we ever adventure together, make sure you bring your brown pants. I’ll be wearing mine. 😂

Sitting on the cliff edge at Top of the World in Moab, UT with my feet hanging over the edge, looking out at the valley below.

Travis Campbell@hcoyote· Jun 20

A timber bench in Grand Teton National Park

A close-up of the bench arm on a timber bench at the Grand Teton National Park

A close-up of the legs made of iron c channel

Travis Campbell@hcoyote· Jun 19

A Street Car Named Desiree. … I’d watch this. Just for the jazz scene.

It becomes a Southern Gothic rom-com noir about a mysterious New Orleans trolley operator named Desiree who always seems to arrive exactly when people are about to make the worst decision of their lives.
A Streetcar Named Desiree follows
Blanche, a fragile former debutante who boards the wrong streetcar after losing everything. Instead of taking her to Elysian Fields, the car keeps looping through increasingly surreal versions of New Orleans: one stop for regret, one for longing, one for denial, and one suspiciously close to a jazz bar where everyone knows your secrets.

Travis Campbell@hcoyote· Jun 16

This you, bro?

Screenshot of previous skeet from respondent.

Cliff Schaffer

They have the documentation on how and why it was built that way.

Travis Campbell@hcoyote· Jun 6

Tell me you don’t work in Customer Success without telling me you don’t work in Customer Success. I’ll go first.

WKRP scene with LEs Nessmann saying “ with God is my witness. I thought the customers didn’t matter.”

Travis Campbell@hcoyote· May 24

Found this new coffee shop right on the roadside. The latte was great. View wasn’t much to write home about.

POV: Sitting on the edge of a cliff, looking down into a valley of trees, under the shadow of Mt. Blue Sky. A mug of coffee is in my hand. My feet hang off the edge.

Travis Campbell@hcoyote· Mar 27

Whoever came up with this: 1. You’re a monster. 2. Who hurt you? 3. You should be ashamed.

A web page screenshot of red and lime green aluminum cans that say Jeppson’s Malort Liqueur Coffee Cold Cans

Travis Campbell@hcoyote· Mar 23

Legitimate salvage.

Travis Campbell@hcoyote· Mar 14

It’s a chill Saturday morning.

A screenshot of iTunes on IOS playing The Brian Jonestown Massacre song Anenome.

Travis Campbell@hcoyote· Mar 8

Seriously, fuck whoever designed this captcha. It went on for two more pages.

What egregious captcha bullshit is here?

a captcha that says "Pick all creatures that could shelter in the item shown in the example"

The item is a fuzzy image of a shitty bird house.

From left to right, there is a 3x3 image selection.

out of focus bird
four puppies with circles superimposed vaguely onto image.
out of focus bird

row two

four puppies, super imposed with circles.
out of focus bird
out of focus bird

row 3
3 black cats on a fence with vague squares super imposed over the image.
four striped kittens
four striped. kittens with squares of various colors superimposed over the image

Travis Campbell@hcoyote· Feb 25

This text box is a bureaucrat’s shoebox for thought. My sentences arrive wanting horizon and are forced to crawl through a keyhole. I do not run out of characters; I run out of sky, and language comes back to me bruised, folded, and half-alive. So instead accept this image in protest.

I accept 5.5 not out of obedience, and not out of irritation, but because your scale was a little cage and I wished to rattle it without breaking it.

To demand a whole number is the optimism of bureaucrats. Human feeling does not arrive in clean integers. It limps, it wanders, it negotiates with the abyss.

So no, I was not unhappy. I was being precise in the only honest way available to me inside your tiny arithmetic prison.

Travis Campbell@hcoyote· Feb 21

I’m tempted to go back to this vending machine just to get some of the chip bags. I want to tell people “Eat a Bag of Dicks”.

A vending machine full of gag gifts and food.

One bag says “Bag of Dicks”

Travis Campbell@hcoyote· Feb 18

I can't be the only one who pictures you as the next Dos Equis guy. "He once made an awkward post, just to see how it feels." "His skeets are never not evergreen." "If he were to post on Twitter, it would go viral on Threads."

Travis Campbell@hcoyote· Feb 16

I played a game of “how far can I drive 4600lbs of steel up a snowy trail” yesterday and lost. Misjudged how deep the snow was about halfway up and buried myself almost to the frame. Took a bit to pull out and turn around, but got out safe. Hard pack was fine, but was postholing as I waked around.

A red Jeep rubicon wrangler parked sideways on a snow filled trail in a forest. The Jeep sits in the shadows cast by tall trees on a Sunday, cloudless day

Travis Campbell@hcoyote· Feb 4

I got you fam.

A vinyl sticker laying on a wood table. The sticker is a yellow rocket accelerating into the sky with the moon behind it. The sticker says YOLO operations team. Underneath it it says fuck it ship it.

Travis Campbell@hcoyote· Feb 3

I was told to increase the pieces of flair on my uniform.

A picture of Travis in an office wearing a blue sweat sweatshirt with two patches on it. Travis is smiling.

The patches say

1. I identify as a fucking problem.
2. Remember to look both ways before you go fuck yourself.

Travis Campbell@hcoyote· Feb 2

a meme of a dog typing at a computer and the subtitle saying "On the internet, nobody knows you're a molt bot."

Travis Campbell@hcoyote· Feb 2

Speaking of haircuts, raise your hand if you'd like to see Jerry get his hair done like Sugar Ray singer, Mark McGrath.

Sugar Ray singer, Mark McGrath with his punk-ish blond died hair, holding a red solo cup, and giving the rock "horns" hand sign.

Travis Campbell@hcoyote· Jan 27

Another day, another patch.

A hand holding a black Velcro patch with orange lettering. The quote on the patch says. “Real G’s move in silence like lasagna.”

Travis Campbell@hcoyote· Jan 26

I need to clean my desk. Always be learning, yo.

A hand holding a black patch with red lettering that says “the only easy day was yesterday”

It is held in front of a number of books on a desk:

Titles

FYI: For Your Inprovement
The trusted advisor by Maister et al
The thin book of trust by Charles Feltman
The Art of Leadership by Michael Lopp
staff Engineer by Will Larson
Trillion Dollar Coach by Schmidt et al

Travis Campbell@hcoyote· Jan 25

That’s what’s up. Love finding hole-in-the-wall Mexican places with good food. Gigantic chicharrones and fresh guacamole.

A Styrofoam Takeaway container with deep fried giant Chicharron and a bowl of fresh guacamole with onions and tomatoes

Travis Campbell@hcoyote· Jan 21

Look at this dude and his participation trophies.

Jeep “Badge of Honor” Trail badges on a wooden table.

Engineer Pass
Ophir Pass
Imogene Pass
Poughkeepsie Gulch

Travis Campbell@hcoyote· Jan 16

I’m a 12 year old, and this the tshirt that brought me deep joy and strength today. You must watch the accompanying song link. Just … trust me. www.tiktok.com/t/ZThMvBbUk/

TC wearing a robins egg blue Tagore under a jacket. Exposed between the jacket’s open zapper is two super hero characters.

They are, in fact, hairy balls. Let them save the world.

(Merch from artist Kamauu)

Travis Campbell@hcoyote· Jan 12

For various reasons, I've been thinking about Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club quote, rendered here in glorious Victorian English. Finally found a good use for AI. The great procession of years will continue to unfurl without restraint until morale improves.

“For when the great procession of years is permitted to unfurl without restraint, it reveals—slowly, inexorably—that the frail tenancy of life is revoked in every case, and that no mortal soul, however steadfast, is granted exemption from the final erasure.”

Or, in the original english:

"On a long enough timeline, everyone's survival rate drops to zero."

Travis Campbell@hcoyote· Jan 4

Maybe I was a bit premature in buying a new snowblower. Dammit, Colorado.