I'm flying to SF atm. I am giving a talk about longevity at what is mostly a cryptocurrency conference. I'm sure that it'll be a good time, but I'm just not feeling the travel today. I'd like some more days at home. I get home on Saturday and leave for NYC the next day for a couple more. Do you remember the short-lived show That's My Bush? It was a goofy sitcom based on a president that seemed out of his depth. I have this terrible feeling that Mueller isn't going to deliver what so many people are hoping for, and that this new normal is not going to be easily undone. I wonder if we should make the sharing of user information with advertisers illegal. It's not a business model that benefits users. I lived in a world before it existed, and it was better. I'm going to try to improve the new user experience on Hubski in a significant way. Also, I think I'll make it that you can't link in comments until you've been promoted. That should kill the last avenue the spammers have.
I remember That's My Bush and I remember the commercials that gave all the time for it but I don't remember watching it. I was probably watching more South Park on Comedy Central as I was about 12 or so when it came on. Will that Cryptocurrency conference be exciting?
That's My Bush was set for a second season, then 9/11 happened and it was cancelled. Correction: cancelled in August 2001, then they wrote a movie plot that was going to be filmed in 2002 which was cancelled. Not sure why I remember this one, it was by the South Park guys at a time when I was not watching TV at all. Looking at the episode list, I don't have a recollection of any of those. One of the old roommates was a massive South Park Fanatic, so I must have picked it up from her.
I've really had a bit of a kick-ass week so far when it comes to personal goals and whatnot. I don't mean to brag but one accomplishment honestly...I think is worth bragging about. I haven't had a single cigarette since Sunday I didn't breathe a single hint that I was quitting (note: again) until today. I think that instinct was right; to be honest, I'm proud of myself and think I should be and should share this accomplishment, but on the other hand I think as a result I'm thinking about cigarettes/smoking way more than I would have been. In other words today has been the most trying day out of the 3. I thought about picking up a pack at the drugstore earlier. I didn't. I also haven't had a single drop of alcohol since Sunday (while the goals to "quit smoking" and "drink less" are separate, I've done both enough to realize that quitting smoking was only going to be infinitely harder with each unit of alcohol I drank, especially at the beginning - alcohol tends to tempt cigarette smoking out of even the dilettantes, I find), I've worked at the office every day this week (and done real work while there), I've stuck to my meal plan, I've hit my step goal every single day, and basically have just been really soberly On Top Of My Shit! with clappy hands emojis in between each word. It is great to see that I can streak achieving all these goals for 3 days. Now - just to keep on keepin' on -- here is to happiness, and here is to health, hubski. cheers.
I’m flying to Miami atm. I have a two day stint there. Bringing on new doctors and interviewing a potential new hire. I get back Friday and then leave Sunday for NYC. In NYC I’ll be puting together a client testimonial video, having dinner with a doc/investor and interviewing a potential new hire. Forever Labs abounds. I had a call yesterday with our PR company and an exec at the largest talent agency about which celebrities to choose as “influencers.” It’s a really interesting process. I’m learning so much, it’s unbelievable. I think I’m very well suited to this type of work. I enjoy leading ththe team and I’m very excited for the growth in front of us. By this time next month we will have gone from 8 to 12 full time employees. That’s nuts. We are ahead of our goals. We set our KPI as client signups and at the end of Q1 we are currently trending at 117% to goal. Not too shabby. It’s a hard line to toggle, being friends with your team and leading them. I have pretty high expectations and an unwavering compass pointed squarely at our KPI. My family is doing well. My infant is now a baby. My 7 year old is a bonafide violinist. My 4 year old is my best friend :) My wife is being as patient with me as she can be. This is a lot for anyone to tolerate. The travel and constant work is insane. Anyways. Life is good. I miss ya Hubski.
Yo, so, you're doing a million amazing things and it's amazingly impressive to me. How do you maintain any semblance of work-life-family balance?
How do you maintain any semblance of work-life-family balance?
I don’t. Work/life balance is for people with jobs.
Not sure about a-listers. Most of them try to look young. Basically because 1) if you ask someone on the street to describe what Forever Labs is, they can't, and 2) people in general require external validation before doing something new. From what I understand, that's why everyone is crazy about influencers, macro-influencers, micro-influencers, etc. We are all trying to sell you something. Well, I am not. Aside from storing your stem cells, and the Wayfarers Roleplaying Game, and Hubski I suppose. But that's me selling my stuff. Which I think is cool. That's why I do it.why do you need influencers?
Fundamentally: Advertising with old media was understood. Advertising with new media isn't. Getting Joe Namath to sell deodorant was obvious but now nobody knows who is equivalent to Joe Namath. Thus, everyone throws money at Instagram and Zuckerberg uses it to ruin elections.
I've been doing a ton of sewing - most excitingly, a jacket. EDIT: the material, for anyone interested, is canvas. It's based off this jacket pattern I had lying around, but once I started sewing I realized I didn't actually like the pattern much. Made a lot of changes, mostly to fit. Also, added a little military-style waistband in the back. Back: Closeup of the collar/dat sweet tag: I've also been trying to get rid of the four grocery bags that are currently filled with fabric scraps on top of my dryer. I've decided to make a fuck ton of stuffed animals, and find some place to give them away.
Friends of mine had an amazing clothing company called Lastwear. They had the steampunk ethos, but heavy experience in traditional Japanese design and pattern drafting experience. So their designs were amazing. Sadly, they closed down several years ago. But they released all their patterns into the wild so industrious types could make their own Lastwear clothing. You should check out the Pinkerton vest. It is AMAZING, and would look GREAT on you. They also did a YouTube tutorial for how to make their things.
All your crafty stuff is awesome. The jacket looks great. It also reminds me I waxed my previously water-absorbent rain jacket. It worked out pretty well but I need to make another pass at it to get it even. The wax coating also makes it feel so cold. Ever try waxing anything?
What are you thoughts on fashion school? Do you consider a future where you pursue fashion design professionally? I'm not saying this because I know that you're amazing, though I do think that. But my friend is finishing up her degree and she's talented. She's choosing between getting snatched up by Vans or Nike.
Of the few things I would go back to school for, fashion isn't one of them. I've met three people in Portland who went to fashion school - they were all working food service with me. There's a lot of stuff I'd still like to learn before I'm comfortable selling clothes (I'm hoping it will be this coming fall, have lots of free time this summer to make stock), but I feel like a classroom setting isn't necessarily the best place to do that for me. YouTube has been working wonders. As with many degrees, I know it works for some people, and opens up a lot of doors connection-wise, it's just not for me.
As someone with an actual degree in Fashion Design, the only reason for the degree is if you really want to run the production floor for a US brand like Tommy Bahama or Cutter & Buck. Oh, and by the way, there are thousands of people trying to get the 10 paying jobs in US fashion design. The real way to win is to make something great - no matter your skill level - and social media the shit out of it. Maybe some people will buy it bespoke from you, and maybe some company will buy your pattern from you (and bar you from ever making it again, in a non-compete agreement). But the only people making money in clothing are the middlemen that sell it.
Fair point. School is just one avenue. Best of luck. And let me know when I buy fly shirts from you.
In the happy news category, I've applied to $40,000 across 15 scholarships in the last two months. I would have NEVER EVER EVER done this when I enrolled at 18 years old. 1) I was not spending my own money, 2) the student loans I was taking out were so abstract, having never lived and saved on my own before, and 3) I was lazy and uninterested. All the essay writing and hard work this semester will hopefully pay off next year if I not only cover tuition, but have enough left over to pay off previous loans. 🤞 Also, I don't think I've ever been in as great a shape as I'm in now. Sleep hygiene is on fleek, working out, gymnastics and soccer, and considering a run at CrossFit this summer. I have so much more to get good at, but it's nice to acknowledge where I'm at. That said, I'm in a depressive bout, and it's confusing and upsetting. By lots of objective criteria I have a lot to feel happy about. The main negative factor seems to be that I'm surrounded by 19 & 20 year-olds when I'm 26. I feel a huge disconnect, which is a shame because I'm wired to thrive when I'm surrounded by people. I can't shake the thought that it's not external factors that afflict me, but my conception of those factors that's what's really bothering me. Yet this thought never rises above recurring observation to more persistent "firmware upgrade"/outlook. I care way too much about other people's approval.
"kb, you were an engineer. Do you have one of these erasing shields?" "kb's teacher, I have one of those erasing shields older than everyone in this room except you and me." I am currently taking 26 credits. I wear a jacket older than the overwhelming majority of my classmates. I have an instructor who is ready to retire who has been teaching since - wait for it - the year I graduated high school. There's also a guy in my CNC class who graduated college in '76. So. You'll never be the youngest, you'll never be the oldest. Just be.
If I can chime in without coming across as being superior (which I fear my first paragraph might a bit - I'm presuming on our established friendship - pls bear wit meh) -- I wouldn't worry too much about being surrounded by people a couple (5-8) years younger than you are! I wonder if there's an undertone of "It's harder to find people to date when I'm 26 and a lot of the people I hang out with aren't even old enough to drink" (because when I was that age and dating, being old enough to drink was kind of a hard line in perception to me) - but then - ignore me projecting. What I meant to say is that, at 26, and also now at 28, I've definitely accumulated a number of friends who are also that much older than me. I inherited (or upherited?) some friends from my sister, who's 5 years younger than me, which played a big part...but for the most part...I don't think there is anything negative or to be judged for that. The older you get, the more you can "stretch" the age range you hang out with and it matters less, I think. By your mid-twenties, I think everyone in the twenties decade should be considered "normal age range for standard friends." And that being said - I have several friends much older than that! Nodding at several among the hubski crew, yes -- but certainly not limited in any way to them, either. Also, mega huge congratulations on the scholarships - and have you explored the potential for employer reimbursement? I forget where you are working atm.
No, you were spot on. What ails me has pretty large dating component, I just left that out for some reason. For undergraduate? I'm still finishing my economics bachelors. I'll be interning at Morgan Stanley this summer.I wonder if there's an undertone of "It's harder to find people to date when I'm 26 and a lot of the people I hang out with aren't even old enough to drink" (because when I was that age and dating, being old enough to drink was kind of a hard line in perception to me) - but then - ignore me projecting.
Also, mega huge congratulations on the scholarships - and have you explored the potential for employer reimbursement? I forget where you are working atm.
Well, depending on your employer, but the short answer is yes, you might be able to get tuition reimbursement undergrad or grad. The long answer is that it's less likely the more indie your employer is (and I suspect yours is more indie than not) -- I also feel at this point you'd probably know if otherwise, so sorry for throwing you down a rabbithole =)
Can confirm. I'm pushing 50 and have close friends between about 23 and 75. I also can no longer tell the difference between someone who is 20, and someone who is 40. It honestly doesn't matter to me, and I don't care. Knowing and socializing with at least 3 generations of people is the key to Perspective. ... The older you get, the more you can "stretch" the age range you hang out with ...
Can confirm. I'm pushing 50 and have close friends between about 23 and 75. I also can no longer tell the difference between someone who is 20, and someone who is 40. It honestly doesn't matter to me, and I don't care. Knowing and socializing with at least 3 generations of people is the key to Perspective. ... The older you get, the more you can "stretch" the age range you hang out with ...
Can confirm. I'm pushing 50 and have close friends between about 23 and 75. I also can no longer tell the difference between someone who is 20, and someone who is 40. It honestly doesn't matter to me, and I don't care. Knowing and socializing with at least 3 generations of people is the key to Perspective. ... The older you get, the more you can "stretch" the age range you hang out with ...
I think i know how to interpret this. But I don’t know how to make it actionable. Anxiety borne of inexperience has no easy antidote, at least from my vantage point.
Playing mk oracle for a second, I believe what he means is that you have a very long runway in front of you, and it's still early to decide you want to do whatever it is you want to do. You don't need to be late teens/early 20s to decide that you're going to learn a whole new thing. mk himself is low 40s and just started a company after a 15ish year career as a scientist. Don't let yourself get trapped by the idea that you have a pick a thing a stick with it because you're getting older.
It's not so much the picking of a career or speciality that's frustrating or upsetting. My thinking on that domain is to do whatever is at the intersection of interesting, remunerative, and doesn't foreclose on too many future options. What ails me is how I tend to outsource my self-esteem to external factors, such as the attention of girls. I'm restive. I don't have the inner peace that I see lots of older people have. It's like that peace is inextricably bound up in age and experience.
Relative youth changes when you're talking teens into early 20's. I'm younger then blackbootz and have a difficult time connecting with 18-20 year olds, but generally no problems with anyone older. 21-22 feels like a solid dividing gap between maturity in America(with many exceptions of course). I'm guessing many of the people he interacts with are still transitioning into an adult mindset.
On Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, class starts 20 miles away at 7am and goes until noon. Then there's an hour to drive 25 miles in a different direction for class from 1pm until 4pm. Then it's half an hour home. On Tuesdays there's another three hours from 6:30pm to 9:30pm. Sunday night was about four hours of sleep between a birth and the kid acting up. Monday night was about five and a half, just buttoning stuff down. Last night was another birth so... three. Friday I'll get a nap. On Friday there's no afternoon class. The day only has a 50-mile commute instead of a 75. It's interesting being in not-engineering classes. I heard the phrase "triangle math" today (because nobody - including the instructor - has taken Trig) and Monday the art instructor took half an hour to explain the earth-shattering concept of "lefty-loosie righty-tighty" in order to get a bunch of benighted art students to successfully wrangle their easels in position. We were admonished to take a picture of the chalk board with the assignment on it, but not before writing it down - "because writing it down helps you remember which makes you a better student -that's the secret of 4.0 students" Bitch, if they can't remember 'self portrait and a 5-step charcoal gradation on Monday' fuckin' writing it down ain't gonna help. These fuckers be flippin' burgers by 2019. Meanwhile I walk past a classroom that uses drawings of a project I did drawings for as decoration, and the best manual lathe in the raggedyshit UW Machine Shop back when I was taking/teaching there is now the best manual lathe in the multi-million-dollar CNC shop I'm in now. Still has the "property of the University of Washington" sticker on it. It was 50 years old then; it's almost 70 now. I may have even said "hello old friend" to it. And every morning I walk through a building I helped design. It's really fuckin' easy. "triangle math." But when you unexpectedly need to take your kid 5 miles south before you can get on the road at 6am to get to class by 7 it throws off your whole goddamn day. Attendance is something like 25% of the grade in every class I'm taking. Which should be awesome, right? Except it means I'm effectively living out of my car for the next ten weeks. At least it's a Porsche.
Because it wasn't taught by the math/computer science department and because of academic politics, CS students had to take that class when I was an undergrad. They graded on attendance, so we had to show up, but we turned it into torment the poor TA hour. All his windows would run away from his mouse one day, all the text in powerpoints would get translated into pig latin the next, voice synthesizers on every machine in the classroom started shouting profanity at each other the next. I enjoyed that class very much. They made an exception for CS students a few semesters after I took it.
So much traveling in the pub today! Safe travels all. This morning I'm meeting with our new CTO who seems to be an all around good dude. I had to terminate an employee last week. That is never, ever fun. I drove the convertible this morning. It was 27 degrees. But it will be 65 this evening. I hope mk waves some kind of magic wand at that crypto-con that makes ETH come back from the dead.
Purchased a 2018 Toyota Prius over the weekend. It feels like I'm driving a spaceship, and the gas mileage is freaking crazy. I'm looking to get a promotion at work, but I am unsure of what the competition will be. Overall things are good. I'm looking forward to warmer weather, and with it drinking beers outside once again.
March 14 is some kind of party day in elementary school math class. The kid came home talking about it and was not terribly impressed that I was able to rattle off 15 digits from memory. He repeated a half-dozen back to me then added a few more while I watched. He still had them the next day and had soon caught up with me, so I looked up my old practice tool and we have been working on it over breakfast. I changed my phone lock screen to an image of the first 100 digits and have gotten up to 60 pretty reliably, but I think he's ahead. I said I would match him up to 100, then I'm going to change the image to some poetry or something useful. The year MDCLXVI was crazy. People were expecting the end of the world in 1666, and the world delivered. London burned, the Messiah converted to Islam, and the plague ragaved Europe; "citizens walked on the street with a mask shaped as a bird beak, filled with spices and aromatic herbs to alleviate the stench." Meanwhile Newton invented the calculus. Annus horribilis, annus mirabilis.
I made a mistake, and broke up with my girlfriend last week. Likely getting back together tonight, with a few changes on my end. 1. Be more open (all around) 2. Explore her needs more (all around) 3. Move some workouts and runs to the morning / during lunch breaks to free up evening time for us. Which, I've toyed with this idea relationship-or-not for a while now. It's a logistics nightmare right now, and I try to be good at logistics, so... We'll see what happens. What I do know is that this year is still chaotic good, and continually only getting worse. "The busy" trap is in full effect, but I like it.
Well, I also could have said something along the lines of wanting a few days worth of space to think instead of just breaking up.
I've always found Hubski's design harder to read on desktop than necessary. Why has everything got to be so small and wide? Then yesterday I remembered that I'd been learning front-end dev and I could now change it with my own user style. If you want check it out, you can find it here. It imports a new font, increases the font size, and changes the width and spacing of some elements. Here's some screenshots: Feed Post Page If you like it, you'll need the Stylish extension to use it. I commented all the rules I applied as well. So if you like the basis of it but want to change some things, then feel free. Apart from that, things have been going well. I've been taking piano lessons which have been increasingly beneficial to my compositions. I feel like I really have some sort of style starting to fall into place now, which is cool. I've got about an entire album's worth of tracks, so I look forward to hopefully being able to share them with you awesome folks sometime soon. My day job has been split between software testing and web development lately. The former is okay with some good background music, but it melts your brain after awhile. The latter is coming along great. I love the problem solving that it requires and can easily spent 2 hours working out a solution to even relatively minor issues. Also, with regards to the web dev, it's good to have an outlet that balances out my composition stuff. Because my music has always been somewhat self-indulgent, whereas the dev focuses more on creating functional experiences that are for everyone.
Friends Making new ones. We're currently trying to figure out dinner plans for this weekend (which, as I'm typing this out, plans are already starting to fall apart a bit. Shoot.). One of the most exciting things in life is meeting new people and sharing discussions, so I'm really stoked. Books I've finished The Earth Abides. I've started Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis and Eaarth by Bill McKibben. To follow up I have a translation of Wolfram Von Schenbach's medieval novel Parzival, Locking Up Our Own by James Forman Jr., No Future Without Forgiveness by Desmond Tutu, Language, Truth & Logic by Alfred Jules Ayer, and Tractatus, Logico, Theologicus by John Warwick Montgomery. To add to the list, at the insistance of my friend who bought the book for me, I'm reading a Star Trek dime novel called How Much For Just The Planet? No. I'm not joking. Yes, I'm really reading that because I promised I would. I'm pretty certain I've bitten off more than I can chew. I'm a slow, easily distracted, and unthorough reader. It took me about a month to get through The Earth Abides. I also made a bunch of space on the bookshelf and already it's filling back up. So on the one hand, yay books! On the other hand, next time I'll have to exercise a bit more discretion and moderation when making some book orders. At least I've had a few lovely chats with the ladies at the book store recently. Drawing Still haven't drawn anything. I've just been so busy. I'm starting to feel like I'm actually neglecting it.
Forty pounds of books and study guides. FORTY FUCKING POUNDS. Here is where the other college and school people laugh at me, so per-emptive "go fuck yourselves." I'm getting some certs for the first time, like, ever. I now realize what I hated most about school. Shit was so easy I never learned how to study. Then they made me do homework at home, and not in the 10 minutes before class and I checked out of education and coasted on a 1470 SAT score, no scholarships, not smart enough to really dig in and go to school and within 10 years I was lost and barely living. Now I an looking at a pile of IT cert books and then I look at the dude in the mirror and the fucker is laughing at my bitch ass. The goal is to have 3 of the 12(!) tests I want to take this year in the bag before the start of Summer, then work on the hard exams. And I get to pay for it to!
I've had a break from university, about a week in fact. I'm starting classes again today. I watched a show on the ABC, which is Australia's national broadcaster. It's called Employable Me, and features three people with neurological conditions attempting to obtain employment. It was pretty eye-opening in a lot of ways. Firstly, how people with neurological disorders (autism, Tourette's) find it difficult to even get jobs and stick to it. Secondly, what it's like to be a parent of a child with such a disorder. Most of the people on the show were in a single-parent family, which might say a lot how taxing it would be for the parents. Thirdly, employers need to see the abilities of their candidates, rather than their disability. Overall, I quite enjoyed it.
I've been stuck home from work for the last two weeks with chest pain that doesn't seem to respond to anything we've done for it so far. Started a med for nerve pain that's supposed to be effective and basically side-effect free. I've been spending the time sending out job apps, tinkering with Python on codecademy and practicing french. Dinner tonight is arugula salad with balsamic dressing and delicious crumbly feta. I'm brining a few pork chops in pickle brine and spicy mustard for tomorrow. Supercook.com is awesome if you haven't heard of it. Enter the ingredients you have on hand and it spits out recipes. I use it more for inspiration than anything else but it's a really nice tool. kleinbl00 johnnyFive I'm making the first batch of bao this weekend after some dithering on recipes. I'll post pics. I'm going with steamed rather than baked for this first run.
I look forward to seeing how they turn out! Meanwhile, I hope the chest stuff resolves.
On a bus to Venice. Any suggestions on things to do outside of the normal tourism sphere are always welcome. I spent yesterday wandering the outskirts of Florence. Had several long conversations with various artisans. One directed me to the far reaches of the city, where I bought shoes from a pair of Chilean/Italian cobblers. They didn't speak a word of English, so we'll see what the hell arrives in a couple weeks.
cover as many miles on foot as you can, because every section is different. it takes about an hour to water bus pretty much all the way around venice, and it costs -- well just get a day bus pass so it doesn't cost anything extra. this is hyper-touristy but actually very cool: on murano you can watch expert glass-blowers make a couple little things for like two euros. don't buy anything afterward.
I typically explore cities solely by foot(I had to give up in Berlin), so I'm super excited to check out a city restricted to foot traffic. From first impression it's incredible how quiet Venice is. Outside of tourist areas you hear almost nothing. Thanks for the tip, I'll be sure to check out murano
This, I think was the place I went for pasta a few times when I was there. Shit was great. Uh, there's an abandoned hospital by the beaches of Lido that I stumbled upon, and was... memorable...
I went to that pasta place on my way into the city. It was perfect for what I needed at the time, thanks for the tip! So... story time?Uh, there's an abandoned hospital by the beaches of Lido that I stumbled upon, and was... memorable...
I decided when my hair started going grey (apparently actually white ) that I would just go for it when most of my hair changed and that I wouldn’t spend a sizeable chunk of my life worrying about roots. That day is quickly arriving significantly earlier than most people start loosing any colour and I’m actually pretty okay with it. Maybe if I was 20 years older I might try to push it a bit but if all goes according to plan I’ll have like at least 60 more years to go. 60 years of trying to hide white roots with dark brown ? Nah, fuck that, it looks so much worse than just going white and adding a little colour here and there. With white I’ve got a blank slate that realistically I could just dye brown any day. Which has me wondering what this all means, because clearly it’s about more than hair. Aside from that I realized I’m a perfectionist which is screwing up my life, and had a setback with the concussion recovery. It’s all okay though, I started meditating since it’s good for the brain, will get back into yoga once I’m able too, and saw four different doctors who all validated my concerns every time I went back. That now out numbers the crappy doctors I’ve seen and this concussion might just save my life one day when I go to a doctor instead of decide I hate them.
Fuck that indeed. I have a few new greys popping up, I am kinda hoping that I get a cool stripe in my part.60 years of trying to hide white roots with dark brown ? Nah, fuck that, it looks so much worse than just going white and adding a little colour here and there.
Got to ride along in a BMW i3 yesterday. Man, what a fun little futuristic car that is. It has made me much more excited for our electric future than that time I test drove a Tesla. I've also talked to my mom about going electric for her next business car. She uses it mostly for groceries and short trips, and we can easily put a charging station at their house, so if the financial side pencils out we can probably make the jump. It'll look neat next to the new solar panels they have invested in. :)
TALES FROM VACATION LAD So, my sister has a puppy. She is very sweet, 9 months old, and 85 fucking pounds. Monday was her first day being left uncrated while everyone was out of the house for the day. I'm on vacation, so I agreed to stop by half way through and check up on her. We get there, and discover that she's managed to lock herself in a room. Not just any room. The only room in the house with a keyed interior lock. The lock hasn't been used in yeaaaaaaaaaaaars, and it turns out no one actually knows where the key is. Burned a few hours learning how to pick a lock with flimsy paperclips. _________ Played some Overwatch with a coworker this morning. Apparently my immediate supervisor doesn't realize that I'm on vacation? __________ I kinda wanna buy a cheap Walmart fat bike. I have no use for it, my money would be better spent on new lights and racks, but I want it. sighs, goes off to look at light reviews
SUPER UNIMPORTANT UPDATE I pulled the trigger on this light - Replaceable, standardized batteries - Somewhat asymmetrical lens - Stupidly bright __________ Pup doesn't know it yet, but in 26 minutes he is getting shots at the vet. __________ Gonna spend the rest of the day wandering around taking pictures of all the weird shit in my community.
We think she is a Black Mouth Cur? Not entirely sure, my sister ended up with her because someone dumped her as a puppy at her workplace. The only one I have is an ...err... action shot from months ago. She's full of action.
Safe travels to all who are wandering today. The weather here can't make its mind up and as a result I have spent the day sneezing and blowing my nose and feeling like crap. Can't wait for my workday to be over so I can hang out and read books with rd95.
I was not expecting them to both show up at the same time, so I got some work to do. The big difference between The Road to Reality and seven Pratchett novels is that novels are light reading... this is a guide to physics being read by someone who estimates her current mathematical capabilities at a 3rd grade level. Like when he talks about fractions at the beginning? I'm nodding and thinking, I know I learned fractions in school but I remember nothing about how to deal with them now. The good news is that I have been doing exercises on Khan Academy occasionally in an attempt to build my skills back up to something less pathetic.
It snowed here yesterday. I'm driving up to Saint Paul today for a kind of big, kind of intimidating meeting that will probably involve me for five nerve wracking minutes that will be a total non-event. I'm running a half marathon Saturday. The forecast at race start is 17°F. There will likely still be snow on the trail. I might want Yaktrax? I had a nice run yesterday, though. I like the people who come to the Tuesday run club. I live in fear that they'll decide to stop coming and I'll lose track of them. I could use a cup of coffee, but I'm not going out until the car rental agency comes to pick me up. For long drives, it's cheaper for the company if I rent a car, and it keeps miles off my car. I'm still not in love with my Subaru, but I don't see good alternatives. In the "small, practical AWD" category, the Impreza seems to be a class of one. I'm still collecting gear to take on winter camping next year. My -20°F bag arrived. I need to figure out better bear canister packing this summer. Freeze dried food is awesome but the packaging bulky. I want to do a backpacking trip of a couple days. It'll probably be the Ice Age Trail, but maybe I'll head east. That'll be more experience before winter hits. My brain is feeling a bit all over the place, and I still need coffee.
I live in fear that they'll decide to stop coming and I'll lose track of them.
couldn’t you alleviate these fears by getting their contact info?
Social anxiety limits that. From my perspective, there's no logical bridge from "we run together once a week and chat over a beer after" to anything else.
Sure there is! "Let's skip the run and grab a beer on <other night here>". Or "Let's skip the beer and go on a run on <other time here>". Edit: Also, looooooooooove my Impreza because of the AWD, thing's pretty fun to drive, and is a hatchback and fits way more gear than I expected.
I'll keep an eye out for that kind of opportunity. There were only four of us this week. The other three are totally awesome (but there are other awesome people, too). It turns out they all hike, but none of us are big hikers locally. I'd love to meet some hikers that hike like me. I think some others from the group are doing an upcoming 20K. I am, too, so maybe that's a chance to expand how I know them.
I just wanted to vent: why must so many major media and entertainment sites be such a fucking mess? I'm browsing at my work computer, where I don't have adblock, and trying to read this interesting article, but the page is a disaster. The loading wheel at the top won't spinning. An ad on the side constantly refreshes with new stupid shit. Ads in line with the text load as I scroll along, changing the format and pushing the text down making me lose my place. A full-screen video ad autoplays in the middle of the fucking text. It's unbearable to read like that. It's not just one site either, and it's not just ads. The BBC is just one example that uses slow, annoying parallax that makes the article title unreadable as soon as you scroll a tiny bit, while most of the screen space is wasted on stupid meaningless garbage. It's like this on practically every big-name article-driven site. Get your shit together.