#rich smith

[luxorgossip]

Word on the street is that Rich is not that shy in the bedroom, surprised?

I’m more surprised that he makes it into bed as often as he does.

[colleenlouisebarry]

[mauricecherry]

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Netflix is a major player in the entertainment industry, and their streaming video service is available nearly worldwide on smart TVs, game consoles, mobile phones, and more. But how do they provide such a consistent visual experience to millions of customers? It's thanks to people like Netflix's senior UI engineer, Rich Smith. As a member of the marketing tech team, he focuses on the web app experience.

Rich explained his process behind designing at Netflix, and talked about what drew him to work there after moving out to the Bay Area. Rich also shared a tale about his journey from design to software engineering, mentioned what first got him interested in tech, and talked about his mentoring and volunteer work with /dev/color. Rich's story is proof that even when you're stuck, something as simple as a change in perspective can help empower you to move forward.

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[snowgall]

[A] "Republican" belief is whatever the guy at the top says it is. Democrats elect Presidents; Republicans crown kings. These numbers provide some support for what may seem obvious to even casual observers of the news: The people who purport to be the guardians of morality are actually mindless lemmings with daddy issues who are leashed and led by the rich.

Rich Smth “White Evangelicals Believe in Nothing”, The Stranger, September 14, 2017

[snitnation]

Is this Twitter feed racist? Is it racist but good art? Is it racist but bad art? Under what circumstances can a white writer use racist language and imagery to denounce racism? Who gets to decide? Why? These are the questions that have been banging around in the heads of writers around the world for the past week. (These are also questions Place has provoked before.) In case you haven't been paying attention: For several years, conceptual poet and defense attorney Vanessa Place has been retyping, word for word, Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind. She uses as her Twitter profile pic a photo of Academy Award-winner Hattie McDaniel, who played “Mammy” in Victor Fleming’s film adaptation of the novel. For Place’s background image, she uses a cropped illustration of a black woman from the cover of a piece of sheet music called “Jemima’s Wedding Day”—an image widely regarded as offensive. Even Place would agree that it's offensive.

Vanessa Place Is in a Fight Over Gone with the Wind's Racism, But It’s Not the Fight She Says She Wants: An Interview - Slog - The Stranger

[therumpus]

Till Residency at Smoke Farm, an annual four-day stay in Arlington, serves as the organization's centerpiece. Then there's the Till chapbook, which is a collection of work from each year's resident writers. And every month, they host Till Tonight, a gathering open to writers of all genres, which like the residency, accepts everyone from slam poets to fiction writers, people just starting out to established folks. The residency at Smoke Farm is situated on a 365-acre piece of land abutting the Stillaguamish River. There are five buildings on the premises and a small print studio called the Abdactors' Hideout, where artist Kate Fernandez designs the chapbooks each year. For $140, writers get dinner in the evenings, leftovers for lunch, rustic accommodations, four workshops led by good local writers such as Karen Finneyfrock and Anastacia Tolbert, miles of river beach, bonfires at night, and an amazing sounding semi-outdoor shower.

For The Stranger, Rich Smith writes about Till Residency, one of the more affordable residency programs for writers.

[catapultbooks]

The Joys and Challenges of Translating One of Brazil's Most Brilliant and Beguiling Fiction Writers

Clarice Lispector's sentences often begin in a colloquial mode before taking a left turn into profundity. Here's an example from "A Chicken," a story about a hen that had escaped the Sunday dinner table, "Until one day they killed her, ate her and years went by." That move, the sudden expansion of significance contained in the phrase "and years went by," was Lispector's calling card, and it either reaches your heart or gets caught reaching....

[celloface]

It’s one of those things / language allows you to say, and math allows you to prove, / but the brain prevents you from picturing / because it’s not related to food.

Rich Smith, “A Puppy of Routine”