One take, with a loop pedal. Sorry to have taken 6:21 of your life...
Okay, so what are you excited for in 2017?
Me?
1. Full time at our startup! I'm amazed by how much we have accomplished in a short time and I fully expect that by the end of 2017 I'll be equally shocked by what we have achieved and where we are at.
2. I'm excited to make music!
3. I'm excited for home renovations that are upcoming
4. I'm excited to travel. Planning a trip to Iceland in August
5. I'm excited for business travel
6. I'm excited to collaborate with people on Hubski
7. I'm excited to spend more time in Michigan
8. I'm excited to meditate, run and continue my healthy diet. Feeling pretty good these days
9. I'm excited to cook more
10. I'm excited to hear more #meethubski's
11. I am excited to hang out with StJohn, kleinbl00, lil, flagamuffin, steve, ButterflyEffect, flac, cgod and others in 2017. Those are people I fully expect to see in person this year, among others.
12. I'm excited to continue this crazy journey with ecib, b_b and mk this year. What a ride!
13. I'm excited for Hubski to continue to grow
14. I'm excited to have rob05c complete the transition away from arc and to give us all a bad ass API
15. I'm excited to see what ya'll bring to Hubski in 2017. Let's make it a great year. We will need a "thoughtful web," in these uncertain times.
Be excellent!
-TNG
Iceland is on my short list. Easy flight from the East coast, and I've never seen the northern lights. But you are in easy driving distance of the 2017 eclipse on August 21; don't miss it!Planning a trip to Iceland in August
rezzeJ did we set up resolutions this year? Fwiw, I just did 65 push-ups at once. A few months ago I had a hard time doing 25. Edit: a few weeks ago I told my dad I could do 50 and he said, "that's great, now try them with your knees off of the ground." -funny guy.
ButterflyEffect made a post for people to share their 2017 goals: That's closest to anything 'official'. I don't think I'll do the spreadsheet again this year; people's motivation to fill it in seemed to diminish significantly throughout the year. Not that I can blame them, it was a bit clunky and didn't really add that much to anything. I did enjoy making it though. Props to those of you who filled out the majority of your months though. I believe francopoli ended up with the most points for 2016.
thenewgreen You, your new enterprise, and hubski are all on my mind often. I wish all three the most bountiful of new years. A song for the old year: and a song for the new: That one ^^^ is my alarm sound for tomorrow. I am hoping that i will be able to will some positivity into my own uncertain times. Also I have to work at 6:30 so I need all the help I can get.
There is every reason to expect that the birth center will actually open some time in 2017. At this point I feel like a Jew and the Messiah. Yeah, the Torah says he's showing up some day but we've been saying that since Cyrus the Great so we live our life as if it'll never happen. If all goes according to plan my daughter will enroll at a nonprofit IB school some time in September. This will have the distinct advantage of curtailing her McDonald's runs and Pixar videos at daycare. The additional benefits remain fully theoretical, although I hear they are substantial. Perhaps if the birth center opens I can get the excess furniture out of the garage, thereby allowing me to access my tools again. Accessing my tools again may allow me to fix the motorcycle, which I have ridden once since September 2015. At some point this year I'll have to spend too much on a car I don't drive very often. Maybe it will be nice. Perhaps I'll get a chance to get the novel out the door. I haven't had time to work on it in nine months. Really, I've got like six chapters I need to polish. You wouldn't think that would be rough. But then you spend 14 hours door-to-door for six months. And when you want to visit your family you kill 16 hours for 36. There's a feature and two short films I need to mix. The feature is supposedly "locked cut" 18 months after the fact. It was "locked cut" 18 months ago, too. Really? I'm at "I have slightly more expectation for the beatings to relent this year than I did last year" but I thought the beatings would be over in 2014 so I'm pretty much assured that the sack of nickels is going to become a pipe. About this time in 2015 we were assured that getting through the City would be a cakewalk and we'd be open in March or April. I didn't even know who "Bob" was. He's taken us for all he can get but that just means it's time for someone else to take their pound of flesh. When I abandon my family for six months next year, I'll be flying first class a lot more often. And I'll be TSA precheck. That's about what I've got, Hubski. "In 2017 I'll hopefully have to take my shoes off at airports less." It will also be the year that if we don't make our payments they take everything away from us.
The school covers from age 4 to 8th grade; pretty much perfect for siphoning her into Lakeside for high school. At least, that's the thinking right now. I keep coming back to a used CTS coupe. It was the most American-made car you could buy, I can get one in AWD, and it looks like a Fox-body Mustang as interpreted by a Soviet design bureau. (b_b - please tell me that the head designer for the CTS at least had a "vitch" or "ov" on their last name)
Looking at the alum list I can see why. Damn. The 2011-ish coupes are pretty special to be sure (I'd have the wagon though - it's gloriously ridiculous). Anecdotal evidence, but that was when they really had a fire under their butts to improve and it comes through. Unfortunately the Caddy design department seems to have lost its way since 2011 if the bland Escala concept is to be believed. I mean, look at it.
Wow, if you give the Genesis a Hofmeister kink and make the headlights on the Escala street-legal, they're basically the same car. That's disappointing. Of course, I'm not able to afford either. I like drooling over design though - or in this case, being put off by it.
Lexus aside, cause screw anyone else I think they look good, the oversized grill trend needs to DIE. The Genesis concept you keep posting? Looks like ass. The Yaris iA (formerly Scion iA), looks like a mutant fish. Even the Ford Focus and Fiesta, which are on the more conservative end of the spectrum, are still too large. On and on it goes.
My wife mistakenly referred to it as a Yarpus when we test drove one. It has been a Yarpus to me ever since. iA! iA! Yarpus Cthagn! I am firmly of the opinion that the best grille is no grille. Best BMW: Best Fiat: Best Lancia: Best Pontiac: Best Toyota: Ahhahahahapsych to every rule there is an exception.
Well, I can name more than a few European designers. American? Harley Earl. Japanese? I know that the guy who designed the Juke is the same one that designed the Vehicross. Even the AC Cobra is an overblown British design. Google Image Search "gandini" or "pininfarina" or "italdesign" or "giugiaro." Yeah, sure. Harley Earl. Whatevs.
Lexus current lineup is one of those where they don't look too good in photos, but in person, they look really good. Chevy's current lineup, especially the Impala, Malibu, and the 2nd gen Cruze look really good. In fact, the difference between the first and second gen Cruze are night and day.
Is that an Impala? I drove one of those a few weeks ago. I was favorably impressed. Fuck. Impalas. Cadillacs. I'm turning into an old person. The current crop of Lexus is not Cylon, it's cetacean. They look like that because their diet is mostly krill.
Drove a Mazda 3 for two weeks. It was a fine little car. it just wasn't "fuck yeah I'm spending twenty grand on a Mazda station wagon!" little car. I believe this is the problem the automakers are dealing with from millennials on all sides: "you want HOW MUCH? for THAT?" And if you don't need to drive that much, I mean, shit. $350/mo is a lot of Lyft.
Definitely looking forward to seeing you at some point soonish, thenewgreen! Excited to be in a city I like with people I love, excited to host house shows and make shitty art and finish an album Excited for my next two projects (a Flylo-like jazz project called "Hard Bop Telethon" and a lo-fi No-Wave project using only quotes from the Dr. Bronner's label as lyrics, called "Dilute! Dilute! OK!").
I've been seriously considering an Iceland trip in August or September!!! A professor from college now teaches over there and has offered up his apartment for sleeping and such. The day we meet will be a good day, that much is sure. 2017 will be a learning year. I'm intent on taking up "making" again, be it more welding, woodworking, or cooking courses to actually learn a bit more. I'm a decent cook, but would like to more formally learn how to put together a great meal. Most importantly, I want to learn more about myself and how I piece myself together. The health part is huge, I haven't felt fully healthy in quite some time now and it's a bit of a grind. I'm excited to continue tackling my personal and health issues issues, especially the emotional shortcomings...I think this will be the year I'm over the hump. Running my first half-marathon in 2017, and hopefully a crazy road relay race.
someone asked me this earlier, was trying to figure this out. not a whole lot. life is good, don't want it to change. would be great to get out to dc again wasoxygen, ditto toronto lil. in a few months it will be warm enough for me to ride my bike again daily. what.cd died but there are already some amazing replacements, it's an adventure being involved in that. at some point i'm going back to europe. just gotta stay open-minded and curious, life will find me.