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user-inactivated  ·  518 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: October 26, 2022

Quick Updates:

- Re-did the floors with my S/O's father. Been giving me great practice on my Spanish. Even better, I'm a certified Cuban coffee maker now - certified by a Cuban chef, mind you! Haven't been able to find a half-way decent cafe con leche since leaving Miami (though Orlando does have it's bright spots).

- A soft job offer was rescinded due to me pushing my start date back for my parents anniversary.

- Cumol hmu on discord when you can, buddy.

- Meeting c_hawkthorne again this weekend. Very, very excited and grateful to him. Y'all gotta meet up more. People on here are super neat.

user-inactivated  ·  666 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: June 1, 2022

Small update: highly considering starting a conversation with my prior manager about going back to work at the former company.

Also, just thinking about taking a break from working altogether.

user-inactivated  ·  859 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: My Brain Tumour

Glad to hear this is a routine operation for your surgeon. The best ENT I know who’s done the exact operation is retired, and his students have found their niche in other areas. The great achievement of brain surgery through the nose on patients always brings a sparkle to the eye of the former. Everytime, it’s likened to the same thing: “The Egyptians did this! [But now we use the same technique to save lives.]”

As with all who’ve heard your recording, I’ll keep you in mind Thanksgiving… and look forward to the post-surgery update.

user-inactivated  ·  882 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: October 27, 2021  ·  

Cumol is the slickest ‘skian to ever grace this site.

Don’t @ me.

RIP the West.

user-inactivated  ·  1088 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: March 31, 2021

Vaccinated!

user-inactivated  ·  1183 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Happy New Year Hubski!!

You may be half a day ahead, but fireworks started two days ago here!

;-)

Happy New Year all. Cheers to a better 2021, folx.

user-inactivated  ·  1256 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Funski: A goofy bit of fun with movie descriptions

Hubski is on a collective, extended lunch break. :)

user-inactivated  ·  1463 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Meat-stuffed bread

10/10 instructions and pics. Thawing out my ground turkey for tomorrow instead of next week, lol.

Weird af question: you just bunched the dough up top to close it, right?

user-inactivated  ·  1465 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Now that we're all working from home...what does your setup look like?

Looks fairly similar. In a furnished place, so the chair is poop, but a pillow fixed that up. How long have you had/used the laptop mount?

user-inactivated  ·  1492 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: February 26, 2020

I have counter-examples, but your point stands - and that's part of my problem.

    People make time for what they truly want to make time for.

I need help. ._.

This is more rhetorical/me-shaking-my-fist-at-the-universe: When am I supposed to trust when people say yes? A simple, actual "no thank you" would be nice once in a while. Realizing I'm getting the round around is pretty maddening.

user-inactivated  ·  1530 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Michigan Hubski meetup!

Who’s the handsome mug holding a hubski sticker?

(EDIT: Faces and usernames galore, thanks mk! I was 3 for 7)

I’ll get the Florida clan together for one of these before the year’s out or I’m not a ‘Florida Man.’

user-inactivated  ·  1533 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski Craft Fair v1.50 - January 16, 2020

Word to the wise:

Post when it feels right. #psbattle

I’ve got a project I’m working on using this dataset

https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/fireballs/

It’s for school, but also a passion project for getting better with Python dataviz. I will be sharing in the appropriate craft fair thread once it’s complete. My craft is 1’s and 0’s currently. 🤖

I’d pref not being tagged in the meantime. These show up for me ez since they got good traction.

user-inactivated  ·  1549 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski, How Has Your Decade Been?

This decade follows a nice narrative for my CV academia-wise, but my personal life doesn't have much of a resume until the last couple years. That's where I'd like to focus my next decade.

First half of this decade had a lot of firsts.

- First jobs

- First (real) relationship (and some bad ones)

- First notable leadership roles

- First valley in life

- First extended trip outside of the U.S.

Second half of the decade built on most of these:

- First full-time job

- Sparse dating (back loaded in 2018 and 2019)

- Too much therapy (seriously, why)

- Another extended trip outside of U.S.

It's a start. All of it's sandwiched somewhere between academia, so the next decade will be more telling of my bearings in life. 2010s began in high school and ended mid-way through a masters - I definitely wasn't expecting to enter a masters so soon after undergrad.

I'd like a little less of 'working on my self,' and a little more of 'laughing with others.' Or crying, the whole shebang. The themes of my personal life this decade were 'Loneliness and Determination', 'Heartache and Joy', and 'Assurance and Independence'. The past years brought a sharper taste to each of these familiar flavors to the point of novelty.

I had a word doc for my year-in-review, but that's all it really boils down to. A bit of the same through-out the years thus far. Re-coupling and fine tuning some of those pairs is the goal for the next chapter.

user-inactivated  ·  1645 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: September 25, 2019

Thanks for coming in and sharing.

If you consider this post a mess, then I'm impressed with your messes.

The adage of 'seeing grief more like waves that come and go, rather than a hill to pass over.' has been useful for me looking back (and forward).

Congrats on becoming an uncle! Exciting times. I'll be joining you in November - unless its a surprise set of fraternal twins, we're in a similar all-boy trend. Good luck with the PhD program.

Smells like bad people in good jobs, not unlike

user-inactivated  ·  2122 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: June 6, 2018

So, my lady friend got back together with an ex. Before I knew, I came around to express my feelings to her in attempts to move forward romantically. Clearly, they weren't as mutual as I led myself to believe. So, I set a shitty boundary for myself of "I don't want to be providing emotional support for her, when that's what she's seeking from her boyfriend. So, I will exit this relationship save from spaces we both already coexist in."

Which, in and of itself isn't too shitty, imo. The part that bothered me is how this was more an excuse to effectively cut her out of my life despite enjoying the time we spend together. That is something I'd like to do to fully avoid the issue, but what this boils down to is:

1) Do I want to give myself both the space and time to grieve the reality of the situation before moving forward with our friendship.

Or

2) Do I want to give myself just time to grieve the reality of the situation while moving forward with our friendship.

And what that would mean is getting a bit clearer with how I'm willing to show up with her (e.g. reciprocative processing shit around families, working out, finding past times in the city) and not (e.g. not willing to be her go to if/when there are troubles in her current relationship, not third wheeling, etc.)

Tl;dr realizing I can choose to enjoy the friendship I have with her. Plus, I don't want to let the fact that I didn't get what I want to get in the way of having a dank friend - is what I'm sorta coming to terms with.

user-inactivated  ·  2143 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: May 16, 2018

School

Looking to Airbnb my last semester instead of subletting. Taking a martial arts course as a break to keep me in school over the summer while working part time. I get the impression adding another plate to spin would be nice. Give myself another week and we'll see.

Relationships

I've been substituting a lot of time reaching out to others with quailty time with the lady friend. Partly since my go-to's have not been available. Starting to reconnect with them now that they are available. Each I've spoken with have made it sound as though I should be advancing my relationship with her. Not something I haven't thought of. Just not something I've committed to despite getting concrete, positive feedback.

user-inactivated  ·  2160 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Can a Male Artist Still Paint a Female Nude?

Curious about who's been tagging posts with #bubblewrapundies, had to do a couple searches to understand what it meant... (current understanding is its a reference to GenY and political correctedness). I'd like to think the expansion from gun rights discussion to racism and now the me too topic means the trend is more about current events on the whole - its not as though these discussions are new or came about when GenY grew old enough to talk/contribute to public discourse.

If you see the trend in what's been tagged, then I guess its worth pointing out that it's serving its purpose to open the discussion - wrong formatting or otherwise.

Sidenote, sorta wondering who made the tag and their idea for its inception. Since the current posts under the tag have a scope that could have included loads of older posts of late, wondering if it was a newer user. If so, does the promotion system grant new users the ability to add/change tags even if they haven't earned a full hubwheel.

user-inactivated  ·  2164 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: PSA: Get thoughtful or GTFO

I just promote peeps who talk about their own experience when they first join. Bots and marketers don't talk about themselves except as a foil to their products. Statistically, some of them will stick around, right?

user-inactivated  ·  2277 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: A very old knife.

Insane to see 'tech' from then that's so old be so recent in it's iterations.

Hell, the tool culture even further back (to our eyes) was shaping out similarly.

Nice she was able to pick it out. I remember camping at an old site in TX and we were lucky enough to spot some. Always boggles my mind that another human - perhaps ancestor - was the one to shape the same stones we're holding thousands of years later.

user-inactivated  ·  2352 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski, today has gone off to a bad start for me. Help turn it around. Share happy, awesome, nifty stuff here.

I was saving this for Happy Saturday.

Some emergency cuteness is in order, though.

user-inactivated  ·  2408 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hey Hubski, do you use any alternatives to caffeine?

IIRC Freud was a cool guy. Gotta try it out. Here's to role models.

user-inactivated  ·  2469 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 3rd Weekly Bakers' Thread

Had some left over bananas I need to get rid of before my trip. This was my 4th banana bread. For the first time, I think it was relatively sweet AND moist. Woot!

Ingredients brought to you by Publix: where shopping is a pleasure.

It's surprisingly simple to make.

Came together smoothly as well. Used significantly less proportions of butter, baking soda, and sugar.

Used a fork to level the batter... it showed up in the final product:

Not bad, though! The honey drizzled on top from the previous pic didn't quite make a difference.

Final presentation (feat. my arm)

user-inactivated  ·  2542 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: April 12, 2017

Sitting on my ass with my grades. I've made the semi-solid plan of taking both summer and fall semesters off. I want this break from school bad. Applying to local places after exams so I can pay rent.

user-inactivated  ·  2556 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: March 29, 2017

Last night my immediate family in town went out to NPR's live recording of Science Friday. If you listen closely to the airing on Friday, you may be able to distinguish my clap from the rest of the crowd. /s

The topic was a mix of robotics and space. Boy do I wish I had gone up and gotten my questions heard. Overall, it was a reminder of why I don't tune into that section. On the topic of human exploration of space, there was a question about why we should be looking to space for human preservation and the two answers given back from the NASA employees boiled down to:

(I) Humans are explorers by nature.

(II) Resources are easier/cost efficient to extract from the Asteroid belt rather than middle earth for the reasons of safety and quality of life.

What.

Anyways. I'd be happy to discuss what you guys think once you hear the segment aired. The final speaker was interesting, and talked about exercise in space by using machines with springs to increase the work astronauts do during a workout in rather than sustain the work done over time. In theory, the machine(s) will reduce the amount of equipment and time spent for exercise in space.

Onto my own life, (hot off the press) I'm spending a month under the wing of a geothermal company's founder where the intention is to learn all I can about the industry and how it works, then apply it in the field during my remaining time there. Planning on taking a local engineer out in May (closer to the date, when I'm free from school) for lunch and getting good information to read up on as well so I'm more prepared. (Thanks to kleinbl00 for the suggestion)

A peer of mine from grade-school died by suicide this week. While I wasn't close with him, it's someone I saw everyday for a few years. Hard to think looking back now how short a time he had here. This in combination of my surviving grandparent's recent illness has really been provoking existential thoughts. My brain keeps reference an older discussion when goobster had lost his friend Mark:

As cliche as it is, I say a glimpse of what this means after re-reading Siddhartha for a go-around. There was a deeper appreciation for the life and general place around where I stood. This, most recently was compounded with a discussion shared with my uncle along similar lines, since he, too believed death is absolute. His reason being his experience as a doctor. He said

    "Whatever happens after death (if at all), it's nothing like what you'd experience in this life because your brain stops."

I hadn't understood what that meant until a week before my peer's successful suicide attempt: your experience of the world, in your conscious self is no longer. That sounds basic, but for some reason it sunk a bit deeper knowing that my mind as a sanctuary will be eradicated. Further, death won't mean just black absence since I won't even have the consciousness to perceive said absence... for the eternity of my passing from the blink on Earth. Holy shit. I think I'm starting to finally understand why people may fear death, and yet I find that doubly as sorrowful knowing that such a permanent solution to a (circumstantially) temporary problem is found in suicide. In other words, I've found yards of compassion for loss of life where I've previously procured inches. While I may not have known my peer deeply, I'm told just showing up and shedding light into my (positive) perception of them will be more than enough. Both of my roommates knew/knew of him. I'm attending the visitation tomorrow and offering them rides.

Finally, school. Sorta getting my groove on in class, but outside of it I'm still a work in progress... There's more to the story, but I really can't get over the thoughts on death and re-evaluating what's really worth living for in my life and my place here for the time I have.

user-inactivated  ·  2573 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why I think the tech interview process is broken – Medium

    Either way, I'm sorry about this whole exchange.

    Don't be. I appreciate the exchange and very glad you brought up the points you did. If my unnecessary thoughtless generalizations cause harm, they must be questioned

If I could badge a thread of comments as one, then I would, Devac (potential feature???). Going to throw an appreciation at both of you for being so open and respective, in kind. Thank you.

user-inactivated  ·  2586 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Sci-Fi club: Reset

Listened to Tank (Bebop intro) as I woke up this morning. Just thinking of rewatching it, too. I'm down for an excuse to rewatch. I don't think I've gotten to the latest season of Black Mirror, but it's quality for discussion content.

user-inactivated  ·  2599 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Student Research

So, mid-way through typing my reply I remembered this:

That should get most of your question, but I am also assuming you'd want more than one data point. So, I'll leave my reply below still.

    I was wondering if any of you could tell me what some of the contributions users can make and how they are incentivized to interact with/contribute to the community?

Thanks for the clarification. I don't know if you've ventured through the primer, but that's usually a great start to understand the fundamentals. The primer mentions how users follow users as well as tags. That's the basis I'd answer your question with. Whether as an outlet or otherwise, Hubski is used as a medium to share news, information, art, technology, life-updates, troubles and more - similar to other social aggregators. The structure and size of Hubski is what makes for a more intimate experience. That is, through following users as well as tags, usernames aren't just that. On the assumption you follow tags because of your interests, the same logic holds for following users; you have shared interests with users you follow and users following you. Building some sort of online relationship(s) on one-to-one levels a relatively small community makes for a comfortable place to share material... alongside the community being encouraging of original content and thoughtful input. I get the feeling it's a bit more civilized and/or composed than your everyday big internet forum.

Incentives? Keeping up with the people you follow, finding and discussing news or ideas of interest. Also, regular posts like #pubski (happening tomorrow, so stick around for it), or francopoli's Today in History, or bfv's weekly music thread, or zebra2's reading thread. They are communal 'events' put on by the community for meaningful discourse. I guess my point is the goal is the same: a place to commune on the Internet for a thoughtful web.

cheesy grin

user-inactivated  ·  2606 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Elon Musk stand with his choice to stay on Trump's Business advisory board

Thank goodness. His presence has an impact, according to his tweets. Of the people who speak out for climate change, he's doing the right thing on their behalf. The hope would be he can curb or reshape the thoughts on where the government should invest resources regarding oil/energy.

user-inactivated  ·  2766 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: August 31, 2016

First off, before the crowd rushes in, quick shameless plug:

Did you know that Hubski has it's very own photoshop battles?

One is underway right now which ends tomorrow. It's all for shits and giggles, and you're more than welcome to submit (quality, clear) photos for fellow Hubskiers to play around on the battlefield.

Ideally, we'll get enough interest to get those threads of changes among artists. :D There is no need for photo shop itself as the tool if you want to get in on the action as per resident awesomeness executive community coordinator jadedog:

Secondly, another round of whatever y'all are having CUZ IM 21 now! Woot woot. Planning a #dayinthelife for the bday. It wasn't anything terribly out of the ordinary, but been wanting to contribute for a while and figured I only turn 21 once, plus no one's done a birthday yet... I mean, aside from TNG's kid, but that's a different sort of birthday, yo.