Tom Fisher

@davidclowery I downloaded that one on N@pst3r

Found this rare pressing on Discogs. Was only available in New Zealand.

@davidclowery 2 on 1?

Let’s settle this face to face. 5:00 PM Sunday outside the Kumon learning center, next to the Uniqlo in the Stonestown shopping center in San Francisco. Don’t chicken out.

@davidclowery @TheBandCracker I’ve got Bryan on my voicemail, how do I get him on my lips?

Anne Harris (Fiddle) and Bryan Howard (Bass) for @TheBandCracker have created the best band merch. Lip balm from Bryan’s bees.

Git’em @JeffJacksonNC

@davidclowery If you could drop that line at the Greenville show, it would be much obliged

@edtomfish fuck the oxford comma.

I rehearsed a bunch of Camper Van Beethoven songs today with Greg Lisher, Anne Harris, Carlton Owens, Megan Slankard and Bryan Howard. It was fun. Here's the same thing but on LinkedIn

The company hired me to lead their "Agile Transformation." I don't know what Agile means. Nobody does. That's why it works. I make $425,000 a year. To move sticky notes. From left to right. On a board. The board is digital now. The sticky notes cost $80,000 in Jira licenses. Progress. Day one, I said "we need to break down silos." Everyone nodded. Silos are bad. I don't know why. But destroying them is a career. My career. I introduced "squads." Squads are teams. But disrupted. We disrupted the teams into teams. Different names. Same people. Same problems. But Agile problems now. Agile problems are strategic. A senior engineer asked what we're actually changing. I said, "The mindset." He asked what that means. I said, "It's a journey." He asked where we're going. I said, "Toward agility." He asked what agility means. I pointed at the sticky notes. They were moving left to right. That's velocity. We have velocity now. The VP of Engineering said two-week sprints don't fit their work. I said, "That's waterfall thinking." Waterfall is bad. Like silos. I don't know what waterfall is. But I know it's bad. She stopped talking. Waterfall accusations end conversations. We had a retrospective. In the retro, we discussed what went wrong. Everything went wrong. We put it on sticky notes. Then we moved the sticky notes. Into a column called "Parking Lot." The Parking Lot is where problems go to die. It's full. We don't look at it. That's agile. Velocity is up 40%. I defined velocity. I also defined the points. I also defined the stories. We're crushing it. At the things I made up. To measure. Ourselves. The CEO asked for ROI. I showed a chart. The chart went up. Charts should go up. This one did. I didn't label the Y-axis. Nobody asked. Leadership is confidence. We do standups now. Every day. We stand. For 45 minutes. Standing is agile. Sitting is waterfall. My legs hurt. But we're transforming. The transformation is now "Phase 3." Phase 1 was assessment. Phase 2 was implementation. Phase 3 is "continuous improvement." Continuous means forever. Forever means job security. I'm very secure. My contract was extended. Three more years. For "cultural impact." The culture is confused. But impacted. Agile transformation isn't about being agile. It's about transforming. Continuously. Toward more transformation. The destination is the journey. The journey is billable.

@davidclowery Almost had a physical altercation with a frat guy when we referred to his fraternity as a ‘frat’ which he did not appreciate. His reasoning being, you would never call a country a cunt, would you?

As a musician coming of age in the 80s, the ideological legacy is anti frat and anti jock. But currently the greek-life students are way out performing all my other students. And they just seem like they are enjoying their lives. They have way more IRL interactions and I think that has something to do with it. So… I realize that the admission preference to legacies (among other things) excludes many students from this world. I think I need to start a music business fraternity for the freaks and geeks. Thinking of Sci-Fi-Mu. My wife has already established something similar for the women in the program. Although she’s a Tri-Delt so her effort is a little more like a traditional sorority in temperament.

@rchase Domain is on at least 2 spam blacklists

I bought a new domain handhistory-com and even though it's been registered since 2013 and I've configured SPF DMARC DKIM every email I send goes to Spam folder Any ideas? I don't remember this happening before even with brand new domains

How would you describe my 2025 listening habits? I can’t find the word.

@davidclowery Save me the trouble - tiny or huge?

Remember when this magazine used to do pretty good music journalism?

@davidclowery Classy 👊🏼

Had to upgrade my wardrobe a bit so I fit in the Galicians.

Heartbroken to hear about Todd Snider’s passing. A writer who made life feel lighter and heavier all at once, who could find truth, humor and humanity in every line. His songs stayed with you like an old friend. Sending love to everyone who loved him.

@davidclowery Is that the actual house?

In 1961 a Staff Sergeant in the US Air Force with a stay at home wife and 3 kids (one disabled) could afford to own this 600 Sq foot house in Schertz Texas. This is what we have lost.

@davidclowery Unsure but willing to find out.

What's the mood on MySpace?

@amberbraves @lastwarsurvival It just you

@lastwarsurvival tried shielding for tonight’s alliance assault but this is the message I keep getting 😭 rest in peace to all my troops, I guess

It goes to 11! Ok 62.. well actually 63 if you include the next notch up ‘max’.

@AmericanGwyn @prplmnkydw

Photo of me about to head to Staples to procure the amount of Blue Books I’ll need to keep my students safe from A.I. this semester.

@davidclowery Group Gaslight

There’s got to be a name for this. A long running group chat of male friends. Every once in a while someone feeds some believable and harmless lie into the group chat. If you catch on you don’t let on. You wait to see who is the last to figure it out. Currently my younger son is claiming to be at the headwaters of The James River in MT. This is to his group chat of male friends from high school in Richmond VA. It’s solid, cause the William and Clark expedition historical markers are adding additional plausibility. That is if you don’t really think about it. Solid prank.