Seattle in the 90’s. Wow. Just to think of it. We knew it was great. It was soooo good. But in retrospect it was one of the great experiences in history. The SF run-up is bigger but that’s what makes it ‘less so’. We were just a little city on the edge of nowhere, in the midst of the northern wilderness and so provincial. And everything just exploded. The arts were awesome. Architecture. Business. Everything.
Source date (UTC): 2016-07-07 14:41:00 UTC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mav2kkvakGYHOW IT’S DONE
Source date (UTC): 2016-07-07 02:52:00 UTC
Camaro. Turbo diesel. All wheel drive. Long suspension. 22-inch wheels. All weather tires. I want a Toyota Tacoma terrain capacity in a car. The only cars close are Subarus and they are cheap Spartan and unpretty.
Source date (UTC): 2016-07-06 04:06:00 UTC
Nordstrom shirts. Pull the shirt out of the suitcase. Dampen a washcloth. Brush it over the surface of the shirt, esp the wrinkles. Wait 1 minute. Put it on.
Amazing. And only about $60 each.
The White Oxford shirt is the must useful piece of clothing you can own.
And women love to wear them when you aren’t around.
Source date (UTC): 2016-07-06 03:36:00 UTC
Watching videos of myself and realising once again the similarity of speech and thought patterns between David Gordon and I. I’ve probably listed to every recorded talk he’s made a dozen times. And it still surprises me when I hear myself talk how similar it is that we both struggle with distillation and speaking while straddling the external world while describing our mind’s eye.
I have more commercial social experience and so it’s not really so obvious that the inner process is that similar. David’s memory is the stuff of legend – it’s almost supernatural, and so his use of over the top humor and wit are something you have to experience.
I don’t claim to have those talents. But it is still interesting that on-the-spectrum minds evidence themselves in such similar thought and speech patterns.
Source date (UTC): 2016-07-06 03:28:00 UTC
Apparently I wrote 21000 words on fb last week.
Why does that knowledge bother me?
Source date (UTC): 2016-07-05 15:45:00 UTC
GAME OF THRONES IS OVER? IF YOU AREN”T WATCHING PREACHER ON AMC NOW YOU SHOULD BE.
(good stuff)
Source date (UTC): 2016-07-05 14:06:00 UTC
Typical Ukrainian man:
“I have two children and three jobs. But I am happier with three jobs than with one”
There are good men here but it’s hard to find them.
He says American women are more “practical and cunning” with honest respect.
I have been in an anti feminism bent for a long time but you know one of the reasons for American excellence is our ability to compete in the middle of the distribution with our women.
At the cost to genes and civilisation, true. But if the measure of the men of any civilisation is the privileges with which we can enable our women is a measure of our other excellences.
Source date (UTC): 2016-07-05 03:51:00 UTC
I know that it’s just because I am tired, but tonight I miss the civilized world.
Where things are clean. Where people are clean. Where you can drink the water. Where things work. Where I can speak to someone of reasonable intelligence about something reasonably intelligent. Where our self effacing American humor is appreciated.
Btw. I forgot how much fun it is to write code every day instead of solve people sales and money problems. lol
Source date (UTC): 2016-07-04 15:00:00 UTC
Sometimes, with some people, you just gotta admit defeat: it just isn’t gonna work no matter what you do.
You just realize that you’ve crossed that line between ease, effort, work, and futility. And that any chance of reward is beyond the investment and maintenance cost.
Amazing thing about this planet. There are a lot of other people on it.
Options everywhere. 😉
Source date (UTC): 2016-07-04 09:25:00 UTC