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lil in Toronto, sunny right now and around 40 degrees F. no snow, leaves falling, one gorgeous Tom Tomson pine
out my urban window. It's not that one, but if the wind were blowing, it would come close. And I'm marking essays as much as possible today and making cholint (a stew with short ribs, lima beans, barley, potatos, and love.) The essays are my students' personal examples of looking at both sides in a conflict.
I'd love to hear from everyone, but if I don't, I'll add some shoutouts. Out there on the west coast, you'll be waking up soon: forwardslash, insomniasexx and up in the arctic: mknod. Over in Boston - who is it? humanodon? or flagamuffin and further east _refugee_ and BLOB_CASTLE in Chicago or somewhere? and out in the midwest rezzeJ, and jayfixkleenit working away on your novel and the mighty eightbitsamurai omg, so many real people: b_b and on and on... theadvancedapes
Have you ever read a book and just wasn't feeling it? I'm reading Pride and Prejudice, and I'm 30 pages in, and I just want to tear the book in half. Some pages my eyes just glazed over and yet I feel as though I've lost nothing of importance. And yet I also can't be bothered to even describe the story so far. Apparently some single rich dude came to town and now people are throwing their daughters at him. Some hintings at people hating the social norms are mentioned. I was expecting it to be better, and I'm going to complete it because I'm a stubborn idiot that can't put down a book once started, and I liked Jane Eyre and everyone hated that, and it seems nearly everyone hates this and expected to like it, but I'm reading it and am starting to wonder why I'm reading this when there are so many other good books and if I have to read more pages of pointless banter oh my gooooooooooooooooooood. Aside from that I'm fine! The weather is chilly here in New York and rain has been coming and going. I could certainly use some sunny days. I'm trying my best to do the whole NaNoWriMo, but I can't really come up with any substantial story, so I'm just writing short stories, but I want to do the novel!
Given humanodon's comment, I should chime in. Give P&P another chance. Thirty pages isn't enough. Stuff happens. My suggestion would be to skim descriptive paragraphs. You don't need them. They don't advance plot. Better still, find the Classics Illustrated comic if you can.
Sure, why not. Once I start reading something I finish it. It can't be any worse than Robert A. Heinlein's I Will Fear No Evil (I liked a few of his other stuff, but that novel...) or Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead. I'm in for the longhaul, and I'm always open to have my mind changed. People hated Jane Eyre and I liked that.
Nah; Just picked up a couple of paperbacks in a yard sale for a quarter a pop. None of his more renown works, unfortunately. I read Puppet Masters and Farmer in the Sky and figured they were decent enough. They weren't anything amazing, but for pulpy sci-fi they were quick reads that threw concepts at you for further thought. Then I decided between Glory Road, Space Cadet and I Will Fear No Evil, and choose Evil because it seemed hefty and the name sounded cool. Now I don't wanna touch the rest for a while. I'll read them since I bought them, but they'll be sitting there until maybe next year.
Can't stand P&P. I have noticed that I haven't been a fan of people I've met who love it. As for the writing thing, it's a long writing exercise. Don't expect stuff to come out well instantly. Besides, it can be shaped, cleaned up and reconfigured later. I feel bad for grunts at publishing houses who wade through the slush piles post-nanawhatever.
I didn't know publishers actually went through those NaNoWriMo novels. I guess you have to publish them on the site? I wonder if anything good ever came out of that. I do like the feeling of writing stuff. I don't know why, but it's cathartic. There's nothing I wrote that I'd consider publishable, but it's fun.
I had a friend who had a novel that originally staretd off as a NaNo project get accepted somewhere, but she was also one of those writers who wrote every day regardless - and would rise as early as 4 to do so if need be. So the circumstances aren't typical.
This I do not know, and it is a college friend I have fallen out of touch with so I cannot ask. I will say I think she substantially edited and revisited it before sending it out, it wasn't just a "let me spawn this onto a screen and get it published." Finishing work was involved.
Frustrating when this happens. War and Peace was my favorite book, but I've tried Anna Karina three times to no avail. I loved Eco's Foucault's Pendulum and The Name of the Rose, but I think I actually tried The Island of the Day Before like, 5 times, and I actually threw it against a wall once. It was so boring and bad. I know cgod had an issue with that one too. As far as Karina goes, I'm blaming it on the tranlsation for now. I read War and Peace via three different translations, and the character and feel of the book definitely moved between them.
Heh, I've long finished P&P and can conclude that it is a decent enough work. I can't say I'm a fan, but it wasn't terrible either. I don't even know how I feel about it, truthfully. I'd personally like to hear Lydia and Wickam's story more than Elizabeth's. Maybe I felt a bit... something. It ended happily ever after for everyone IIRC, and it seemed like a fairy tale like Cinderella, except much longer. I loved War and Peace (So much so that most of the time my computer usernames are usually bolkonsky, from Andrei Bolkonsky, my favorite character), and plan to read Anna Karenina and all of his other works one day... What you say doesn't bode well, but I'll give it a shot. It can't be worse than other stuff I read. As for the translation of War and Peace that I read... I read it from Project Gutenberg, which apparently has the translation from Louise and Aylmer Maude. I have no idea if that's any good or not, but translations don't bother me that much as long as they aren't completely unreadable. I think the only time I stopped reading something from a bad Translation was Dante's Inferno by a person named Melville Best Anderson. When not even Google can give you any useful information on whether his translation was praised or dismissed, when you go to the amazon page and their talking about other reviewers in their reviews for his translation, and not even the 1-star reviews mention his review, you know you're in for some wild times. I tried reading it, and it just... No. I tried looking again and found this from 2012: http://eclectic-indulgence.blogspot.com/2012/05/review-infer... There you go; Someone else having issues with it. Personally I think it was just terrible. I get lost just a few lines in. An example: Deplorable of them, the kindred twain, Pity for whome had overwhelmed me quite, New souls in torment and new modes of pain Wherever I am moving I behold, Wherever I turn and look about again. That was Canto VI of the Inferno, Third Circle: The Intemperate. It's like that for the entirety of the book. Now for the Noton Critical Edition of that very same text, which I was lucky enough to snag at a yard sale for 50 cents: at the pitiful condition of that pair of kinsfolk, stunned by their sad history, I start to see new torments everywhere and new tormented souls, wherever I range or turn myself, wherever I may stare. What's worse is my edition has so many errors. Even worse is that they know it has errors and have the corrected version to the side! But halted other vain laments to mark [went, It's exactly like that. They added the word "went" on the next line with a bracket [ exactly like that.... Why didn't they just, you know, added the word where it should be? Why put it on the other line? Why? I don't know... Anyway... I did read the Constance Garnett translation of Crime and Punishment, which is usually regarded as a bad one from what I see people say online, and let me tell you, I was going through those pages like lightning wanting to see what happens next. If it was bad, then I didn't notice it. I gotta try reading another translation to see if I really was missing out on some good stuff. I actually also plan to read Name of the Rose as well, although right now I'm going through the motions of reading Jude the Obscure. I think that'll be a good work. I hope it will be, in any case.The translation by Melville Best Anderson was not the greatest - it had a very pleasurably sounding meter and rhyme to it, but it was very difficult to digest. Despite the interesting subject, I did not really have the ravenous desire to read it as I assumed I would. I could only really read 10 pages or so at a time before I became somewhat exhausted. The illustrations by William Blake are famous, but I did not find them as beautiful as the ones in Paradise Lost. I have a tendency to prefer Gustave Dore, so I am excited to start with a different edition and hopefully enjoy the more modern translation by John Ciardi, for Purgatory.
On coming to my sense, closed at sight
With my sense restored, which had deserted me
Holding the height, from bridge to bridge we
For the most part I'm the same way. It actually never occurred to me to bother with different translations until I was on the floor of the bookstore with three different versions of War and Peace. If I had just picked one, I would have enjoyed the hell out of it, but as it was I was there, looking down at three different versions and found I had a preference. Then I lost my first copy part way through and picked up with another, then found an additional copy and moved between those two a bit, lol. I didn't need to have the best translation, but I did end up with it, and that wasn't a bad thing at all. In the future, I don't think I'll ever sweat translations beyond comparing versions on a bookstore shelf in front of me. That first Dante above is damn near impenetrable though...oof.I have no idea if that's any good or not, but translations don't bother me that much as long as they aren't completely unreadable.
http://www.youtube.com/user/LizzieBennet?feature=watch These videos got me into P&P
It's a modern adaptation in vlog form, I love it!
Have you considered spicing it up with some Pride, Prejudice and Zombies? Link for the lazy: http://www.amazon.com/Pride-Prejudice-Zombies-Heirloom-Class...
I've seen a couple of these things, and the one that really interests me is The Meowmorphosis, since Kafka is one of my favorite authors and I'd like to see that odd take on his works. I'm sure he'd like the idea of it. I dunno if they're any good though.
I'm still in Seattle, and, well I don't know if anyone still cares, but I'm not quite where I thought I'd be, in life and otherwise. I'm sorry about the huge hiatus I've taken, but I never thought a year could make such a difference on me, but when you've only been alive for so many of them I guess it's a given. Well, I guess it's time to change my site bio eh? It's not bad, really it's just odd how much you think you might know yourself only to have it all turn upside down in a matter of months. You know, it really hasn't been raining all that much here though. Halloween is over so all that's left here are clouds and cold, but thankfully I think it's the perfect weather to walk alone and think in. You know what the worst part is? The thought that since I'm constantly reevaluating my personhood, I can't ever see myself finding a friend, let alone a partner, that I can relate with forever. I know it's a terrible thing to say, but sometimes I wish I'd just grow up.
it's just odd how much you think you might know yourself only to have it all turn upside down in a matter of months.
You raise an interesting question for another day - about personal growth and change and how your partner - if you have one - adjusts to constantly new you, or loves the something unchanging that is still and always you.
I never post as much as I would like to (mainly because I often don't have very much to say) and I didn't have the time to post when I saw this before going to work. I'm in Bellevue (eastern suburb of Seattle) and it's finally warm in my room. I bought myself a space heater and a winter jacket yesterday so I no longer have to see my breath while at home. Now I don't even care how cold it is outside (~50 F)! For the past few weeks I've been extremely anticipating Thanksgiving. I'll be spending it in Denver with friends from all over the country. It'll be my first time in Colorado and I'm excited for innumerable reasons. For right now I'm just looking forward to the weekend when I'll be helping out at my church's/community center's Christmas bazaar. Thanks, @lil, for the topic. I love feeling more connected to the Hubski community.
Yes, join the party. We're pretty harmless. My most recent memory of Pittsburgh is standing down at the Point State Park Fountain area on a cold winter day at the end of January a few years back. It was very icy and there was construction at the top of the hill. We somehow made our way down past some barriers and were trying to throw my mother-in-law's ashes into the spot where the Allegheny, Monongahela and Ohio Rivers meet without throwing ourselves in. It was windy and icy. Our fingers were frozen and we couldn't get the stupid box from the crematorium open, so we gave up and threw it all in: box, ashes, and all. My husband said it was his mother's final revenge. Otherwise, we love Pittsburgh.
Everyone on Hubski seems so far away from the East Coast. My birthday was on the 31st, also known as Halloween! The weekend before that I totaled my car, Fernando, by hitting a deer. I'm perfectly okay and didn't get harmed at all. The airbag deployed, but I didn't even make contact with it. (Airbags smell awful, by the way.) This is the first time I've totaled a car and I am sad to join the club of my siblings, who are known car-totalers. I'm now car-shopping for the first time. I don't like it (the car shopping)...but I think I'm going to get a Mazda. When my dad is home next weekend he's going to help me negotiate. I am taking a certification for work on Friday, as you may know if you've checked out this post. It's driving me a little kookoo if that didn't come clear. Frankly, I find the topic matter extremely boring in most cases, and I'm worried about how I'm going to do. (Don't shore me up with useless platitudes, guys, not my style. I guess I'll let you know if I pass after. Shouldn't find out til December.) I've been studying but it's a lot of knowledge and studying isn't something I'm necessarily good at. As for more general details - it is 57 degrees F in my fair city, Wilmington, fondly referred to as Killmington or Kilmo, today. It is alternating between sun and clouds, but no rain on the forecast. Today I'm studying and using Hubski to help me study a little bit. My back hurts and one of my best friends is getting married this weekend. I don't think he's ready to get married. Tomorrow night, I am going to go see Deer Tick in concert with my brother. I am also going on a first date with someone. I believe the first date may not go well but I'm interested in the adventure.
Let me know how the concert was. I've been on a Deer Tick run....
It is actually the third time I have seen Deer Tick in concert. I have one of their setlists. :) I'm a fan. John McCauley wore a fantastic rose-patterned suit and looked surprisingly healthy. They played heavily from the new album. I enjoyed it thoroughly but I didn't stay for the end, work and studying the next day you know. Here's a recap though.
In Binghamton Ny, going to college. Pretty windy out right now but other than that nothing much going on. Did some homework for a marketing class, probably should study, but won't. In the process of reading Game of Thrones book 3. Have to find out where my friends and I are living next year, we have this big old ex-frat house right now which is falling apart. Aaaaaand thats about it!
Binghamton! Whoo! Not from there but hey, it's still upstate (ish) New York. Might be there at some point over January.
People here I know are quick to remind me that we are on the 'Southern Tier' and aren't true northerners haha.
Yeah there's that whole "let's divide upstate as much as possible". I'm technically from Central New York, living in Western New York. Southern Tier is definitely looked down upon from most of these parts.
Where would that be abouts? Albany and Rochester? I'm from New Jersey anyway, so I'm used to people looking down on where I live
Everywhere in the state from Buffalo to Albany. I'm currently in Rochester and it's a thing here. Same goes for looking down upon the north country folks
Murray was my second guess, with west side's Beethoven my third. My senior year I lived a block from Floral & Burbank in JC. Class of '96.
Wow that's awesome finding an alum on Hubski, how'd you find this place?
There was a post on Reddit, so I checked it out and stayed. Unlike Reddit, I can read and post here from my work VPN.
Seattle. The grey weather is settling in and I'll be damned if I didn't miss it. Mark of a true Pac Northwesterner, I guess. Taking a quick break between shifts to have lunch with the fam and, self-evidently, to add to the conversation over hereabouts. Nothing that interesting to report, so I'll leave you with a joke that one of my clients with developmental delays told me. An oldie that he's managed to mangle in just the perfect way, gives it a kind of absurdist quality that the original joke lacks: KNOCK KNOCK (he speaks in caps, god bless him) (who's there?) ORANGE (orange who?) ORANGE YOU DIDN'T SAY BANANA??? He is the sweetest person in the world, and a blast to hang out with.
It's cool and rainy in Portland. My almost three year old is once again going through the package I received from my father yesterday (but waited to open till the whole family was around). My father sends odd packages. Contents of package from father: 1. 2 cans almonds 2. 1 can pecans. 3. 1 7ft extension cord, brown. 4. 1 wall map of the conquest of Genghis Khan. 5. 1 Lagre peanut butter container of assorted coins for his granddaughter. 6. 1 gold coin for grandaughters savings. 7. 3 letters, the letters are odd and I wouldn't care to transcribe them. 8. 1 novel that I'm probably not going to read, his book picks are about 50/50. We have an apple cut up on the table for snacking which wouldn't be worth remarking on but for the fact that the flesh of the apple is a deep vital looking pinkish red. I saw them in my local store and had to try them. I expected that they would be mediocre at best, some kind of genetic monstrosity bread for it's red heart, but it has a nice tart flavor with just enough sweet, very crisp and it doesn't brown very fast on the plate due to it's red hue. Some post on Hubski said that most Americans only see something like 6-7 varieties of apples a year, I bet I see more than 30. Lots of strange apples, pears and stone fruits out here if you know where to shop. Even the Safeway has a dozen different apples for most the year. Going to go to the Asian food mart to buy some pork and then to the produce store for vegetables, hominy and maybe garbanzos, use it all to make a stew for dinner. Just got "Caps for Sale" in the mail yesterday, worked all day yesterday, haven't had a chance to read it to the kid yet. It was a favorite of mine as a child and I hope that she enjoys it. Going to read it now as she is fighting for my attention.
I'm in Montreal. It's nice and sunny, around 10 degrees.
I spent the morning in school and just came back home.
Made some (late) breakfast. I'm probably going to spend the rest of the day working. Schoolwork and some personal projects. :) Have a nice day!
Montreal is one of those cities I've always wanted to go back to. Spent a weekend there back in high school and enjoyed it a lot - but I'm partial to just about all of Quebec. Are you from there or just going to school in Montreal?
I'm in New Hampshire, eating the first Kit-Kat bar I've had in who-knows-how long. It's sunny and about 48F. I just returned Blood Meridian to the library and picked up Kenneth Koch's Rose, Where Did You Get That Red? Teaching Great Poetry to Children. I'll probably take a practice GRE in a little bit, or end up watching Battlestar Galactica episodes, since I foolishly re-watched the miniseries last night. I just know I'm gonna get sucked back in.
Of course, this is coincidental, but at the library it took three librarians to find the book and in the end it was one shelf above the spot indicated by the Dewey decimal number. Your comment made me briefly imagine that all copies of the book are difficult to find today for some reason.I went to pull out my copy of KK's Rose... book, but couldn't find it.
I'm feeling well. I'm in Buffalo today, where it is sunny and in the mid 50's. Perfect sweater weather! Right now I'm working in the archives of my college's radio station sorting cds that we are digitizing. Afterwards I have a couple classes, on politics in the middle east and the history of immigration.
Just before 10am here in Auckland. I just got out of bed and showered, haven't bothered to get dressed yet. I had my last exam a few days ago and just got the news that the other exam I chose not to sit didn't lower my GPA too far after all, which I'm rather pleased about. Now that exams have finished, I have pretty much nothing to do, so I'm procrastinating on EVERYTHING. Things I SHOULD do ASAP: find a job over summer so I can pay rent. I have about 20 days to do so. Things I'm doing instead: writing another novel, planning gigs and practising music, assisting other artists, lazing about and browsing the web. It's a hard luck life.
Lovely New Zealand. I have an online friend who lives on the north island, who's doing school and ideally should be looking for a job as well. One of these days I hope to come and visit him and see how beautiful your country is. Photos really dont do it justice, do they? Good luck on finding a job that works for you!
Also in Auckland, just knocking off work. About 14 degrees now (57F), it's been a nice spring day with bouts of rain, and even a little lightning this arvo (quite rare here).
Been a boring day here in rural Illinois, not a whole lot going on. About 50 degrees out, been raining all day. Started drafting up plans for building a medium scale trebuchet today, it's gonna cost about $20 total, not counting dowel rods, paracord, and whatever the hell I'm making the sling out of. Looking forward to starting work on that in the next few days. Other than that, I've been looking into Diplomacy. Looks like a pretty fun time.
Maybe he meant Hubski's font? :P
Awesome. When you say "medium scale" what dimensions are we talking about? Also, what do you plan to sling? I'd love to see a video when you're done.Started drafting up plans for building a medium scale trebuchet today, it's gonna cost about $20 total, not counting dowel rods, paracord, and whatever the hell I'm making the sling out of.
3 foot tall, approximately. Was going to be six foot tall, but I decided that it'd be either ridiculously, unmovably heavy if I made it out of oak or prohibitively expensive if I made it out of mahogany. I have no idea what I'm slinging, but the possibilities are endless. And no promises on a video, but I'll probably do a video. Assuming it actually works.
mk, I seem to recall that you've built a trebuchet before. Any advice? Edit: like humanodon, I second the idea of videoing it. Also, resist the urge of slinging a snail in to space it seems like a good idea at first, but if unsuccessful the guilt is nearly unbearable.
Yeah, I'll try to dig up some photos. The pivot point was about 9' tall. Don't use old jeans for the sling, beefswitch. We got about three tosses before ours ripped.
It's 71F and sunny here in Los Angeles -- at least it is in Hollywood. West side is probably cooler, the Valley is probably warmer. I'm working my tuchas to pieces today. Later I'll take a nap, go to the gym, and help my wife pack for her flight tomorrow. This is normally when I would say "I don't have anything smart to report." That phrase is my defense mechanism when I have things on my mind but I don't think anyone really wants to hear about them. I miss my Boston friends, I'm scared about becoming a parent in the next year or so, I need to quit eating chocolate again, I don't feel creative anymore. I miss having a real-world community. I'm considering joining a local tech lab (Crash Space in Culver City) so I have a place to meet more people, maybe get my amateur radio license so I can play with remote homebrew objects. If I could, I'd go back to doing community radio. I miss that more than anything. I listened to the KMET reunion weekend on 100.3 The Sound this weekend and it just made me horribly home sick for WHRW Binghamton.
My buddy is part of WHRW and gave me a tour of the place last summer. Wonderful place, particularly the archives. It's what got me into working at my own college radio station's archives.
That library is one of the largest in the Northeast. You probably saw Studio A, with the desk of boom mics? I paid for the microphone and preamp replacement back in... 2007, I think? It was a fun way to spend Christmas.
I couldn't tell you, we weren't there very long. I know the one studio I saw was off to the left when you walked in, and the library was more or less straight ahead. It didn't seem that large to me; or at least it's about the same size as my college's radio library. Maybe they're both considered large collections. My friend is in charge of the budget this year and is always rattling on about stuff I don't understand, mostly involving funding for various pieces of equipment. All I can say is he seems to enjoy it a lot.
We screwed up with the library's physical size when they moved the station from the 2nd floor of the old union to the basement of the new union. We needed more space as it was (we had about 35,000 recordings when I graduated in 1996, split between three rooms) and we wound up with about as much space as we already had. I would guess that there are 45-50k albums and CDs in that library, many of them impossible to replace.
I was hungry too. I called Jimmy Johns and fixed that. I really like Denver, I should come visit sometime. How's your couch? Oh... also, don't hang yourself.
You had me at whiskey. If I were to come, my wife would want to join me; she loves Denver. We'd get a hotel room, but your kids can still come over in the morning and kick me in the gnads.
Jimmy Johns is fantastic. Thought I'd throw that out there
Yes, I eat their food entirely too often. It's only Wednesday and I've had JJ for lunch twice this week. My go-to is the Country Club. -mmm. I had a work lunch today at the Carolina Duke Inn, my sandwich there cost $15 and wasn't nearly as good as JJ's.
Eating out a place you don't like is the worst. It's usually when I'm back home and my grandmother insists on going to Swiss Chalet, and it's like stepping to the year 1992. At least their chicken is good. Edit: It's not the worst. God damn if that's the epitome of a first world problem.
I'm in Eagan, Minnesota right now, sitting at work keeping my web farms healthy and my coffee cup full. It's a chilly 41 degrees, and weh have 2-6 inches of snow predicted to fall tonight here in the metro area. Things are good.
I'm doing well, I"m in Durham NC. It's a bit overcast and the temp is about 50 degrees F. All the leaves are at their peak color for fall right now, which is beautiful. Today, I have several presentations to put together because my boss is coming in town to work with me tomorrow and call on 3 of my biggest opportunities. These could really help solidify my 2014. Because he comes in tonight, I will definitely be going out to dinner. Likely sushi, as it seems to be the cuisine we always opt for. I'm looking forward to the next two days as they've been planned for some time now. Once they're behind me I can focus on new challenges. Right now I can hear hammering and construction happening several houses over. I just heard a leaf blower and looked out my bedroom window. Someone is blowing off the leaves from my deck? I didn't ask anyone to do that.... time to investigate.
just played a classical concert with my universit's symphony orchestra. Rimsky-Korsakov's cappricio espagnol, Ravel's Pavane for a Dead Princess, Milhaud's Scaramouche suite, and Shostakovich's 1st symphony. went okay. 1st mvt Shosty was shaky, everything else was pretty good.
Preparing for exams in Melbourne, Australia. Lovely weather; sunny with 28 C, or 82 F. I'm reading Game of Thrones and Batman comics. Trying to balance working out, studying and socialising. It's hard. Trying out geocaching, and loving it. I recommend it to everyone
I'm in Baltimore. It's 60 degrees on the nose, so perfect sweater weather. I just had a Jimmy John's sandwich so I'm actually feeling altogether above average. And I'm definitely visiting my best friend this weekend in Connecticut with a few of our mutual butt buddies.
Baltimore weather is some of my favorite weather. Dare I ask what a butt buddy is exactly?
lil is right, and the weather here is all over the place, what time of year did you stay in Baltimore for?
I live here so I get the crazy weather all the time. I spent some time out of state and I was a little shocked. What kind of place doesn't get freezing rain one day and 70 degree sun the next? It's insane.
I'm in Missouri. It's pretty drizzly here, with temperatures in the low fifties. Currently, the rain has subsided but it's still grey outside. Despite the colder weather, I recently purchased a mini-longboard and I'm looking forward to bombing some hills with it when it arrives tomorrow. My neighbor purchased one and I was hooked by the time I set foot on it. When I get home, I'll get a snack to eat and perhaps take a nap, then come back to school to practice improv with my team. It should be a pretty fun night.
In Detroit. At desk. Slightly hungover from slumming it with a bottle of Christian Brothers VS. If you've not had it, Christian Brothers:brandy::Southern Comfort:whiskey. Not a good choice, but I've exhausted my stock of moderately priced liquor and haven't re-upped yet. So when it's all that's there, well, desperate times... :)
Boulder, it's cold. Just got out of a huge fight with a friend and also missed work, so now I'm not really in the mindset to write an eight page essay. So I'll probably run as far as I can, turn back around, have a cold shower, eat a sandwich, and see if things have changed.
Honestly, I think we're at a race to the bottom. With the influx of tube sites, and pay per clip sites, it's become apparent that volume (and more importantly, exploiting underused niches/kinks) trumps quality in terms of making money. It might turn around, but they don't quite make the full length porno films like they used to. I can't say there is really a golden standard, but usually for porn, if you notice the editing in the first place, it was probably done wrong.
Fair enough. I guess quality isn't the first thought when it comes to satisfying base urges. I do wonder though, if any sort of porn snobbery will yet emerge or has already. I know that some sites claim to try to cater to people looking for higher quality in terms of chemistry between actors and whatever, but what I'm imagining is more along the lines of how people consider themselves film buffs and appreciators of obscure directors.
Boston. 54F (Feels like 54F). Contemplating a Portland, ME trip to see the Arctic Monkeys(FEB)......I'm going.
A bit warmer than usual at about 50 degrees Fahrenheit in Erie, Pennsylvania. Living on the lake comes with great benefits, one being a beautiful sunrise and an even better sunset. Work is engaging. Doing a fall co-op is interesting, but missing school a bit. Picked up cigarettes again, probably won't buy another pack till I'm at school again though. Trying to find time for a good book, and excited for new work coming my way at the co-op.
Thanks for checking in. Do you have a good book and no time or are you looking for a good book? I drove through Erie on the way to Cleveland (R & R Museum) and on the way to Pittsburgh - Turn left at Erie (kinda). On a clear day, can you see Canada? Probably not.
I had been trying to reread a book I really enjoyed in the past but had too much trouble getting into it like I used to. I guess you could say it lost the spark it once had to me. So I could definitely use a suggestion or two, do you have any? It would be amazing to see Canada from here, but unfortunately not. Though that does have its benefits. Living on the lake is almost like living on the ocean, since you can't really see anything but water. It's weird though, because when you close your eyes you can hear the waves but you can't smell the salty air that you expect. Regardless I really enjoy it here.
It all, of course, depends on who you are. I've enjoyed a few good books recently: Of course there was the recent thread What are you reading now? Is it any good?
An hour and a half ago, I got home to my five-man-four-bedroom flat from work fixing tugboats at night in San Francisco. Slow day at the shop. Spent some time wire wheeling a shipping container that's going to leak when it starts raining, swept up, got one of our boats ready for a Coast Guard inspection tomorrow, and pulled a broken bench vise out of another boat. It has been amazingly calm weather recently, the bay is flat. Warm in the daytime, too; if you had a speedboat, today would have been a fun day to be out on the bay. Since I've been home, I spent some time listening to drum and bass, and cleaning a rifle I had been putting off for the last two weeks since I last went to the range. Now I'm getting horizontal. I've got a copy of Monster Hunter Vendetta (so, so fun) and a couple hours before lights out.
I'm in Bombay and have returned to work after a four-day-long weekend for Diwali, a major Indian festival. It's very humid here. We are reaching the end of what we call the second summer, a period of sultry weather between the monsoon and 'winter'. I hope to finish work early today, and plan to go for a long walk to shed the extra pounds I gained over Diwali. As for the novel, I took a break this weekend and intend on closing it soon (this weekend maybe). lil I will put out an excerpt from the first chapter as soon as possible. Hope everything's as sunny in the west as it is here. Cheers.
108 comments in a single thread. Is this a new record?
I don't think so -- I think I've seen up to 130 -- but a similar kind of topic. 31 are responses to the question, 70 plus are comments, discussion, interaction, 19 are from me. I confess, I was hoping it would get to 100. Continents: south-Asian peninsula, Australia, England, the Netherlands, Canada, and a handful of US states. Many time zones. Weather.
This place has really exploded in the past couple of months. It wasn't that long ago that insomniasexx and I were the only Australians on Hubski. Edit: I forgot dombofix, who is the granddaddy of Australian hubskiers.
Rochester, NY. It's been surprisingly nice out today for being November. Sunny too! That's something that doesn't happen too often. Prepping to release an EP this week, and working on new material (two songs in the works! WOW!). Outside of that, the days are getting colder and that's a bummer. It's perfect Death Cab for Cutie and Brand New weather though. So there's that. I could keep going. I hope you're doing swell! I've also spent a lot of time working on fundraising for a big radio station related project, and today was another day of doing that. Tons of email correspondences and meetings.
Hmmmm. Just about ready to leave work in Shoreview, Minnesota. It hasn't started snowing yet. Honestly, I'm sort of looking forward to a bit of snow - I'm not ready for the cold yet, but I like it when a light snow is falling. After work I'm going to head over to a parrot shelter and play with some birds. In terms of my life, things are going pretty well I suppose. I've been reading a lot more lately than I had for a while (currently about 50 pages to completion of Cat's Cradle by Vonnegut). I'm still loving and being challenged by my new job. I do wish I had a bit more free time. I feel like I'm working too much to have the energy to do a whole lot outside of work. I'm still feeling pretty down from my girlfriend leaving me 3 months ago. I really thought I would be feeling better by now - and some days are better than others - but it almost feels like I'm getting worse emotionally. So that's a bit shitty. But overall things are going fairly well. Lovely thread :-) I'm enjoying reading through everyone's responses. These #askhubski threads really do get a lot more discussion than most other tags it seems.
Askhubski assumes personhood. I can see the hubbies like supasmasha basking in the warmth of Australia and you out there in Minnesota, a couple of degrees north of Toronto in latitude getting ready for snow. Even though you are down about the gf leaving, it sounds like some lights are coming on for you and you are grateful for the things you have.These #askhubski threads really do get a lot more discussion than most other tags it seems.
Sometimes they do. It comes back to the quotation from fuffle that started the thread.Interactions that assume personhood
Not only does it assume personhood, the community feels quite open and friendly. If it were a person, Hubski feels like the non-judgemental friend who is willing to help whenever you want, or just to talk to when bored. In contrast, Reddit seems like a friend in the schoolyard who tries hanging out with the cool kids, with whom you can be slightly open, but are subconsciously seeking approval from them. If I had a problem, I'd much sooner go to Hubski.
If it were a person, Hubski feels like the non-judgemental friend who is willing to help whenever you want, or just to talk to when bored.
There you have it, another slogan/metaphor for hubski to add to the other Hubski slogans. I think the team would be interested in your comment. I wonder if it was along the lines of what the founders were imagining. Do you like the schoolyard metaphor mk thenewgreen b_b?
In contrast, Reddit seems like a friend in the schoolyard who tries hanging out with the cool kids, with whom you can be slightly open, but are subconsciously seeking approval from them.
who might occasionally bully you. Of course, we have our occasional bullies too, but we ignore them.
I like it. I've used the school cafeteria lunch room metaphor before. You remember there was the "jock" table, the "nerds" the "goths" the "preps" etc. Hubski is the lunch table that all of them sit at and don't much care about which table they were previously sitting at, just so long as they're interesting. I don't know.. I guess I had a pretty segregated cafeteria as a kid :-) but I always liked to visit many different tables. Hubski lets me do this.
We have bullies? I've never seen a bully on Hubski. Do they get banned, or are they just that rare?
Hey lil, you've got me mixed with someone; I'm in the midwest for the moment. I move around a good bit. My life's kinda shitty right now but I knew it would be when I massively overextended myself a couple of months ago. I'm on the home stretch. hubski continues to be a fantastic diversion when I have the time.
Cold and cloudy in Chicago Il. I decided to whip out the heavy flannel. Right now I'm preparing for my music history and analysis class in a couple hours. After that I'll most likely come home, get some practicing in, and play counter strike. Not a whole lot of interesting things to report, unfortunately. Good luck with the essays =).
It's 50 where i am right now (North side) but where i'm heading (downtown) is usually a lot cooler because its on the lake and it always feels freezing because its insanely windy. My main instrument is bass and i really don't practice as much as i should. If i can get at least 2 hours in tonight i'll be satisfied.