Kevin Archie

Escaped Yooper, neurobiology PhD, software tinkerer, medical imaging nerd, Luddite, skier, crotchety old man

Pronouns: he/him

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2026-07-21 18:39:14 UTC

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nice. GURPS strikes me as the game most likely to never happen because the GM wants to buy and read three more sourcebooks before planning the next session

2026-07-21 16:50:48 UTC

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oh that's cool. I never played GURPS but have for decades had in mind that someday I'd GM again and it would be either GURPS or Rolemaster. strikes me as the sort of system where some significant fraction of the player base would get excited about biological details. I do still have an ancient copy of GURPS Illuminati on a shelf somewhere

2026-07-21 16:18:45 UTC

One product of spending most of my late teens through mid-30s in LA: I was a technical advisor for Crusade, the sequel series to Babylon 5. That's some title inflation, and you won't find my name in the credits: I'd be included in the thanks-to JPL, though I wasn't myself at JPL. JMS came to JPL looking for science help, my JPL housemates got attached to the project, and I got pulled in as a "sure, we could use a biologist." (1/n) #Babylon5 #SciFi

2025-10-20 15:56:59 UTC

My contrarian, probably incorrect take, one that I've been carrying around and getting into arguments over for a long time: sure deploy to a public cloud, but don't get too attached to particular vendor APIs nor managed services because every platform is an unreliable partner at best. The easier it is to pick up and move, the less stuck you'll be when it all goes to shit. I'm still probably wrong in the long run but allow me my little told-you-so dance, just today

2025-01-26 15:01:11 UTC

still early in the job hunt so I need to keep putting one foot in front of the other but here I am never exactly having intended to make a career of tech and now I have clearly stayed at the party too long

2025-01-06 18:07:18 UTC

welp don’t have to agonize anymore about the ethics of working for a company with “AI” in the name

2024-11-27 03:42:37 UTC

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you misspelled “perfect”

2024-11-12 15:05:27 UTC

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is there any extra information you’d be carrying in the new exception? I lean KeyError unless you have more to tell

2022-11-21 03:07:46 UTC

Overdue #introduction - PhD in computational #neuroscience , turned to medical imaging informatics and analysis. works in #java and #javascript but dreams in #lisp . #yooper by birth, now in #colorado but lived enough in #stl ( #wustl ) and #losangeles ( #caltech #usc ) for each to feel like home. plays #music on various instruments with more enthusiasm than skill. proud husband and father to smarter, more talented people. aspiring antiracist, feminist, and cis and straight ally