There is a group of seven taxi drivers that all but control the parking hotspot here in Lviv. They all have good cars. All are over 50, and are always a joy. I call them the taxi mafia. Which they absolutely love.
Source date (UTC): 2016-05-12 05:14:00 UTC
Here in Ukraine I bought and drive this 1992 Toyota MR2. In the states it’s worth 4-5k maybe. Here it cost me 8k. And honestly It is one of my favorite cars. Why? I don’t worry about it. Unlike the Jaguars, Porsches and Ferrari, it costs nothing to repair. It’s fun as hell to drive. There are only three in Ukraine. The air conditioning doesn’t work. It leaks oil. It leaks ps fluid. A total engine rebuild is 2k. P
Source date (UTC): 2016-05-11 08:20:00 UTC
Curt Doolittle shared a photo.
Source date (UTC): 2016-05-10 13:59:00 UTC
WHY IS CURT SO QUIET? HE’S WORKING ON A BOOK. THAT’S WHY.
Well, really, it’s a couple of things.
(1) As you might know I kind of burned out there, and was sick for a bit because of it. So I’ve been trying to repay my sleep debt. Takes a month or so to do it. Some people say three or four. I dunno. When I’ve had to go to the hospital for exhaustion before it takes me about six weeks of down time. Then another month or so to fully recover. I don’t think I”m in quite that bad a shape this time. I feel pretty good now.
(2) I got very tired of the negativity when I was sick. Which is why I pushed back on some of the alt-right folks. I’m about solutions not complaints and when my emotional and physical batteries were drained I just found the internet an extremely painful place. Libertarians may be idealistic whackos but they’re largely positive. That’s the libertarian job: to seek ideals. To cooperate. The alt right might be pessimistic but they’re also largely negative. That’s the right’s job in the division of reproductive labor: to worry. To defend. but they’re just so negative that I couldn’t bear it. Well all know the left is just a bunch of opportunistic hyper-consuming kleptocrats so I just ignore them as a bunch of gossips. But when you’re burned out it’s too much to bear any of it.
(3) I have switched over to working on the book. That means I”m mostly done sketching ideas here unless it helps me think things through. For those that don’t know, the purpose of my work for the past DECADE has been what we’ve been calling ‘propertarianism’ but is really the unwritten philosophy (culture/cult) of the west. What was called Heroic, Teutonic, Monarchic, or Aryanism in the last century. But that know we know is the culture of the Yamnaya (nobility, horse riders, bronze users).
(4) Oversing needs me to write a mini-spec for one of the features that isn’t quite complete. And then I”ll work on Tutorial documentation now and then. But working on it for four months straight is part of what burned me out. So I’ll work on philosophy until I hit a block and toggle back and forth.
Source date (UTC): 2016-05-10 06:41:00 UTC
HBD Princess!!!!
Source date (UTC): 2016-05-10 03:31:00 UTC
—“It’s what I do. I drink and I know things.”—
Great line.
Source date (UTC): 2016-05-09 14:42:00 UTC
ROBUSTO
Robusto’s are one of the more common cigar types around, and are typically known as the shortest members of the cigar family. Your average Robusto measures about five inches long, and has a fairly high ring gauge, generally between 40 to 50. This means they take roughly 45 minutes to an hour to smoke. Ring gauge, by the way, is a measurement that refers to the diameter of a cigar, measured in 64ths of an inch. To help you picture these measurements more effectively, a cigar with a ring gague of 32 would be half an inch in diameter.
BELICOSO
The Belicoso (Spanish for “warlike”) is the most beefy of the bunch. They boast a ring gauge somewhere between 54 and 50, and are usually about five and a half inches long. With their conical shape, Bellicosos are the quintessential mobster cigar – which is fitting since they tend to smoke fast and hard. For this reason they’re not recommended for novice smokers, and you’ll want to commit about an hour to smoking one.
CORONA
Corona cigars are popular because of the wide range of flavors they come in. They typically measure about five and a half or six inches long, and have a 42 ring gauge. In addition to their great flavor, Coronas tend to have a very light smoke, making them preferable for anyone who finds other cigars too harsh.
LONSDALE
Similar to Coronas, Lonsdale cigars are known for having a light, flavorful smoke. Depending on the brand you buy, they’re roughly the same diameter as Coronas, but also a bit longer. These badboys range from about six to six and a half inches long, and will therefore take about an hour to smoke in one sitting.
PANATELLA
These cigars are known for being a bit longer, but also much slimmer (~38 ring gague) than other varietals. Due to their length, they generally take longer to smoke (sometimes as long as two hours), and are said to have different “phases” of smoke, meaning the flavor, texture, and aroma may fluctuate as you burn it down.
CHURCHILL
Bet you can’t guess which UK prime minister these are named after! Churchills are serious cigars. They’re generally around seven inches long, have a ring gauge of 47, and give off a thick, heavy smoke.
Source date (UTC): 2016-05-09 11:51:00 UTC
Josh Jeppson (ALL)
I figured out how to do it. I knew I would. Thank you for your aggressive persuasion. You were right. I could do it. I can do it.
(Now I just have to live long enough to finish it. lol)
Source date (UTC): 2016-05-09 04:25:00 UTC
(I importing all the articles for 2015/2016 into Scrivener and organizing them by topic…. damn I write a LOT OF STUFF. About 100K words per quarter JUST on my website. I probably write half as much again … maybe more than that, that doesn’t end up there. And in Q1, on top of that 100K words, I wrote help for the product as well and that’s another 80K words. That’s insane. That’s like ‘an 80K word book a month’.)
Source date (UTC): 2016-05-07 10:00:00 UTC
( You know, when most of us see something well designed we ‘notice it’ and feel ‘pleasure’ in it. But we tend to ignore what is not well designed. We accommodate it. But some of us (aspies and ocd’s) don’t ever accommodate the imperfect. It’s more that we feel relaxation at the perfect, not pleasure. Instead we feel the absence of displeasure. I look at everything, and I see what’s ‘wrong’ with it – meaning asymmetric or atonal or disordered.
I look at the building next to me and I see that one of the windows is bricked in, and it ruins the aesthetic of an otherwise beautiful 19th century building. It bothers me that there are salmon curtains in the window of this other building. I notice that the lines of that car were a compromise not a solution. I notice that the brick joinery on the curb was done lazily. I notice facial asymmetries, walking, and body language patterns. And I notice all of it as constant unending stream. And worse I tend to see the whole history and future of these things at the same time as a rushing set of images. And yes it’s freaking annoying. But it’s also useful.
This ‘seeing the bad’ makes me ‘look for the good’. And I usually find some good to compliment in almost everyone. But, despite seeing a world of imperfect things, I don’t find it ‘dishonest’ to say ‘I like this person’, or ‘he is a good person’, and at the same time say ‘he’s terribly stupid in this way’ or ‘he has very bad taste in this context’. Any more than I notice my own facial asymmetries, my own ‘stiff’ body language, my own weakness in the left side, my own stupidities in one way or another. I can love my dog, my friends, my family, my mate and still know their failings. I don’t see a contradiction in any of that. It just is what it is.
What I have been told quite frequently here in Ukraine, is that it’s dishonest – lying – to seek the optimistic path even if I see all these negatives. And this is an interesting insight into the intuitionism and moralism of Ukrainians – and Russians – that we don’t experience in the west: we work with the good we have. We tolerate that which we can tolerate. We ignore what we can ignore. And we operate from an optimistic if not utopian set of judgements – or at least, some of us do. I certainly do. Because if I thought of or worried about the imperfections I would be incapable of action. Worse, if I was ‘honest’ in all that I SAW people would fucking hate me. lol. And neither they, nor I, would be better off. So, while germans are empirical, British are moral, and Americans are utopian, Ukrainians are intuitionistic, call themselves ‘honest’, and in fact, are not trustworthy whatsoever except to their closest friends. Russians are equally intuitionistic, but nihilistic, call themselves honest, and are only trustworthy if they have no other choice. And this is borne out in all the data on trustworthiness, language use in negotiations, and visible corruption.
Hence we must humor people from other cultures because as intuitionistic they cannot be reasoned with. )
Source date (UTC): 2016-05-05 08:22:00 UTC