this is a great endorsement... I'll check it out.
It's been a long time friends. FAMILY My son is getting married in December. FRIENDS I got to see mk, ecib, dccrux and mike a few weeks ago and it was glorious. WORK Work at the main job is great except for crappy macro-economic factors putting downward pressure on sales, making investors twitchy, and making executives panic... We'll see if I have a job in the next couple months. I am a tiny bit involved with ethosmobile.org and that is going well also. Lots to do, but feels very bootstrappy and exciting. ART My Own Private Idaho has been on my list to watch for YEARS and I finally got around to it. I will admit, I didn't love it... but I certainly didn't hate it... but the fact that I'm still thinking about it days later says something about its weight and effect. Above all else, it's amazing to me that a film that queer forward with such big names at the time was even made. I mean - it was a year before Murphy Brown enraged the GOP. Anyway... I'm still processing, and I think that's a great thing. Any time a film makes me think, that's a good thing. And more than that - When the credits rolled, I felt inspired like I needed to pick the camera back up - and that's a good thing.
Life is weird... we live in our own little overlapping circles... family, friends, work, hobbies, religion, clubs.... and normally, for me, those circles ebb and flow as far as time/energy commitments go. a given week might be a busy church week, but work is slow. Sometimes two areas might feel busy... this week ALL OF THE CIRCLES ARE DEMANDING ALL OF THE TIME. but it's ok... lots of good things happening... just lots right now.
yah - I've got a buddy who started a label around cassette releases... and I just nod and smile.
I mean... I'm all about nostalgia... but this has me scratching my head and feeling "boomer-y"
I disagree.
I am once again made giddy by the warning I am greeted with when going to your post:
I love you both.
hope you're ok!
I actually spent about a half hour writing a (sort of bitter and angry) response to this... but I just deleted it because the world doesn't need more negativity. I feel bad for this guy. He's not old, but thinks he is. He's resigned to complain about "the way things are" in a shallow reflection of "how things were". But I'll give him his nostalgia (which I find to be privileged, white, misogynistic, and sad).
I keep having to stop reading this and come back to it because it reads like every conspiracy theory coming true. All of the "evil rich men conspiring to rule the world" is just here in front of us in plain black and white... and probably nothing will change. frustration runs high
I love this.... my wife just looked up from what she was doing and said "that's awful steve"
see? you had a thoughtful response full of informed nuance across generations.... mine looked more or less like a line by line personal attack: Where the fuck did you live? oh yah... Connecti-fucking-cut. How did your rich, white, privileged Connecticut ass escape the conversation? I've been fretting about the environment since elementary school in the 80s. If you didn't know, shame on you. What in the cis-hetero-patriarchal bullshit is this? because of course you do. I had to go look you upGas was cheap, and we didn’t yet know that we should feel guilty for burning it.
Movies had tits in them. God, I miss tits in movies.
I live with my girlfriend and my cat Suavecito.
don't forget the posting of the 10 Commandments everywhere we can!
I miss you hubski! Family I just spent eleven days with my wife and two of the kids in Florida and on a cruise. Weather-wise, it couldn't have been better. We missed two massive snow dumps at home. Otherwise it was nice. It's never FULL vacation when you have kids with you - too much planning, negotiating, scheduling etc. - but it's still nice to get away and have some fun. Work Career is in a good spot. I'm still feeling challenged and pushing for some new things. When I took this role fifteen months ago, it was an individual contributor. A year ago when leadership shuffled, I found myself interim leader of a whole department but after hiring my boss six months ago, I'm down to managing a smaller team. I do think I miss being an IC... but I don't mind managing. People are kinda my thing. Life Health experiment is still going well. I was down about 30 pounds at the start of the holiday season. Yes, I'm back up a little bit (intentionally - I wanted to enjoy some food), but interestingly, I really didn't eat to total excess and this week I'm craving the low calorie foods. The snow is putting a damper on my cycling plans, but I'll still find a way to get active. The mental/psychological/emotional piece is still so strange to me... what a bizarre connection I've built to food over the years... still hacking at that. Miscellaneous I've operated vehicles on four continents, in a dozen countries, and at least 30 of the states.... I've never experienced anything like driving in Miami, Florida. That place is BONKERS.
Lasers but more specifically... the laserpecker2
do you ever get overwhelmed by a project at work or school and you just keep putting it off even though it's something you want to do, and it's something you can do, but for some reason you just allow it to intimidate you? that's about me, not you.
It's precisely this kind of shit that keeps me coming back for more updates. I don't even know what a 5-axis drag knife is... but hanging around you Ima bout to learn... I will be able to do obnoxious things like configure it as a 5-axis drag knife, which is a device that no one in the world has ever made.
Thanks for being here I don't come often enough but I love you all
not joking.... Imgur gave me the following warning when I clicked on your first link: "This post may contain erotic or adult imagery. By continuing, you acknowledge that you are 18+ years of age." I mean... these pictures are sexy and all but I don't think they're that kind of sexy... ha~
I don't think I've heard the term metamodernism before.... but I think no matter our circumstances we can choose to enjoy the ride. someone smarter than me said “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.” I'm not always a good practitioner... (I worry, fret, over-think, stress, depress, etc) but it's front of mind.
if I never hear "OKR" again I'll be a happy man.
I have officially been married longer than I wasn't.
This is the best thing I've read in a while.the payoff in terms of how many people I think I can help keeps me excited to do the work every day.
it's amazing how much photoshop and CGI people are willing to use to fake out the populace and make them think the world is round... #flatearth3eva
I went to a show a few weeks ago to see a favorite of mine: Top to Toe There was a woman working the merch table before the show - I bought a few things and she was nice. About 20 minutes later, she stepped up on the stage... The Question American Novella During her set she mentioned having to split with the tour and head back home to Portland... at no point did she mention SHE WAS ABOUT TO GO DO THE TINY DESK CONCERT! I am so excited for her. I see her play count on Spotify and wonder how the numbers are so low...maybe not for long? Tiny Desk
thank you... I just spit out my drink and need a new keyboard.Since then I think of bodybuilding as gender-affirming care for cis-males.
after touring the carillon at my alma matter I have been blown away by the whole instrument experience. Watching you play is mesmerizing. Thanks so much for sharing this.
pabs!!! I'm so glad you did this call out/check in. In the last five years: - Moved from one house to another... not a mansion, but a massive upgrade from the eternal project that was my last place - I've changed jobs three times and changed careers once - Two kids have launched, moved out, started their thing - Experienced the injustice of the justice system in the US through one of my kids (and being as privileged as I will admit that I am, I only got to see an ounce of how bad it is for so many others) - bought some crypto at the wrong time, sold some crypto at an ok time and mused about what could have been - traveled more than I deserve (Mexico, the Philippines, Cicely, Norway, UK) - wasted too much time scrolling memes And I guess there was the whole pandemic thing... I feel like I'm the only person I know who hasn't caught the bug... but I probably did and was strangely fortunate enough to be asymptomatic. I feel fortunate to have had a pretty safe, solid home environment to weather the storm. Typing this out is making me grateful, but also realizing in 5 years, a bunch of stuff has changed, but also - not enough of the things that I would have like to have done. Thanks again for this prompt. It's got me thinking about what's next. And thanks to everyone else who has posted... it feels really nice to feel connected (at least a bit).