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Another pleasant gemlog almost Sunday — Somewhat of an unusual weekend on tap. My wife will be having a "girls' weekend" with high school friends in roughly the locale in which we lived until January of this year. As for me, a high school friend will be visiting with the primary goal of our performing in a bar tonight, which should be a blast. Tomorrow, I'll meander to roughly where the wife will be, where we'll eventually wind up together for a gathering or two with friends still living in...
Re: I'm here and little lost. — [gemini link] I'm here and little lost. setting up client certificates (and everything associated with it) seemed, and still does seem, like quantum physics to me Same here. I think I've learned QCP (Quantum Certificate Physics) thrice, now. But the fact I so rarely need to understand it to the point of being able to traverse useful mechanics thereof means it's once again fading fast. And I wouldn't be surprised to learn I've some kickass notes on it -...
💬 1 comment · 1 like · 2023-11-03 · 1 day ago
On getting tired of *seemingly* being the only one... — I occasionally enjoy morphing frustration with others into statements that begin with "I still can't believe I'm apparently the only person who's ever lived who...". It's almost always only for my wife's benefit. And she's almost always not impressed. :-) A few of the more common ways I end that preface: can tell the difference between a trash bin and a recyclable bin. can tell when it's time for someone else in a conversation to speak....
💬 View post · 2023-11-03 · 1 day ago
Thursday afternoon — So it's Thursday? Got it. Had to blow a bunch of today going through old receipts and other evidences of purchases of materials and labor to demonstrate why a property should be appraised higher than "market value" relative to neighboring properties. Then we received a disappointing inspection report of a property we were interested in. BZZZT! Discussed the kind of dwelling we really want next time around, hit a grocery store, interacted with a daughter and granddaughter...
💬 View post · 1 like · 2023-11-02 · 2 days ago
Esteemed Bubble residents — I'd like some thoughts on a specific Bubble use case, namely wanting to update a past post that's mostly a list of things. For example, I recently added this line: - The Zeroeth Commandment: Thou shalt not inconvenience. to: [gemini link] Favorite quotes because that's where it belonged from an information point of view. But then I started thinking I'd like others here to actually see it, but starting feeling that devoting a gemlog post to content like this: [...
💬 7 comments · 2023-11-02 · 2 days ago
It's going so much better this time around — I've been having such a fabulous time finding gemlog's via aggregators and links in subsequently found gemlog posts. I thought I'd attempted to do that in the past, but either just didn't really get what was going on, or there's somehow so much more to find now than then. But then it occurs to me the difference is likely an illusion due to mental morphs in areas like: content expectation interaction expectations the degree of mattering of my and...
💬 1 comment · 1 like · 2023-11-02 · 2 days ago
Peek-a-boo, where/who are you? — We refer to now as "the present" because I AM always present. But not as the ego/clown/monster, which is merely an "I" thought plus nested attribute thoughts. Rather: behind the within. Always here. Always now. All ways.
💬 View post · 2023-11-02 · 2 days ago
This, that, the other What is the draw of empty promises of the world that we sacrifice perfectly peaceful tranquility for them? Try hard to ignore what you think religions have told you about "sin" in what follows: "Sin" is merely willfully embracing - by believing in - being bound to so much less than you are. Carefully back away from mind, i.e. the appearance of you as though bound to/in a specific individuality (container), one level of containment (aka bondage) nesting down from a not-...
💬 View post · 2023-11-02 · 2 days ago
My first post written typing one or more sentences without being able to immediately see those that came before it/them — Okay, here I am in tab 2 of a tmux window. For a second there I was tempted to subdivide it into several vertical panes so I could see more of what I'm typing at once, i.e. without having to scan all the way across the screen. But I soon realized that would completely undermine the purpose of using this script of mine that takes input up to an <enter> and appends it to a...
💬 View post · 2023-11-01 · 3 days ago
Gosh, how I love coincidence — Fun! Last (originally typed 'Lost'.. heh..) night I chanced upon this: [gemini link] We need more of Richard Stallman, not less and I'll be gosh danged if the following wasn't staring me in the face upon visiting: [gemini link] Cosmos: Recent Posts a few minutes ago: [preformatted]
💬 View post · 2023-11-01 · 3 days ago
Re: Reinventing How We Use Computers — Wow wow wow, I really enjoyed this one: [gemini link] Reinventing How We Use Computers especially this: All those points made me realise that a true Forever Computer should be built "keyboard first". The keyboard should be the most important part, with a housing for travel. The same housing could host a small screen, possibly an e-ink one. While travelling, that would allow you to read deeply (with the screen in your hand, like an e-reader) or to attach...
💬 View post · 2023-11-01 · 3 days ago
Boo! (see also: "Re: What Dystopia?") — [gemini link] Re: What Dystopia? Why is it that billions of humans act in a way that is so clearly against their own interests? Although they use different terminology/lingo to describe it, a preponderance of religions/philosophies I've encountered identify The Problem as mis-identification of <ineffable> with the purely conceptual notion of a free-willed, individual self - which identification devolves into the conviction of literally being said...
💬 View post · 2023-11-01 · 3 days ago
If I could save time in a gemlog — Much madness working through a healthcare.org insurance change due to a "qualifying event". See, once upon a time I set up an account there. And acquired insurance. And it was good. Then, a job or two later, my wife found someone that could "help" us make another change after another qualifying event. Well... I'm not sure if I ever mentioned this before, but for the most part I almost always see/hear the word 'help' in double quotes, i.e. "help", and to me...
💬 View post · 1 like · 2023-10-31 · 4 days ago
Dear fellow residents of Babel On — Seeing the phrase "Tower of Babel" again earlier today had me remembering a favorite quote: "the words are mine; the meaning is you", which suggests - if not insists - our sum total of beliefs about reality and ourselves so utterly colors/filters/distorts the meaning of words that we essentially have little or no chance of understanding each other via the medium of words. That doesn't mean we can't *believe* such isn't the case, of course, because who doesn'...
💬 2 comments · 1 like · 2023-10-31 · 4 days ago
I'm looking at myself, reflections of my mind — My, how quickly identification with a separate self goes from theory to the isolation and requisite suffering of *being* a separate self. And the harder one kicks/screams to escape the binding prison-ry of separate selfhood, the tighter its clutches, as though each kick/scream reinforces the false belief in being such a thing - no matter how easy it is to demonstrate such couldn't possibly be more than a mental/conceptual phenomenon. As Curly...
💬 View post · 2 likes · 2023-10-31 · 4 days ago
Garage door apocalypse — Last night my wife woke me about three hours into sleep for hearing our garage door opener - located directly below our bedroom - operating. I tip-toed around naked (well.. wearing socks due to how cold its been of late - combined with the odds of feet escaping the thermal safety of covers), peeking out windows, listening carefully. We'd left the car in the driveway because we've a couple trailers temporarily in the driveway blocking car access to the garage, so maybe...
💬 1 comment · 2023-10-31 · 4 days ago
Curiosity purring this cat — I can't help but wonder what others here make of this: [https link] NOT ONLY IS “WHAT IS” EVERYTHING, EVERYTHING IS WHAT IS
💬 3 comments · 1 like · 2023-10-31 · 4 days ago
Post mania — Post mania Duck alignment As is my tendency, I spent a bunch of time yesterday agonizing over post format, which included matters like: Should there be a date in the title? (Seemingly unnecessary in Bubble, but possibly nice if/when mirroring post elsewhere.) Should there be a date in the post itself, e.g. on a level two header after a level one header title? Should it be 12-hour with AM/PM format, or 24-hour format? Do I really want to use a level one header (#) for the title...
💬 4 comments · 2023-10-30 · 5 days ago
Recovering from a heck of a day After so peaceful a beginning, yesterday turned into a couple (American) football games at a remote location (about a two hour drive) with other family, a lunch/dinner with the same between the games (food and service mediocre), a weary drive home in cold rain, delivering a crock pot of sloppy joe fixins to a granddaughter party, then finally home utterly exhausted. I technically got seven hours of sleep after dragging this aging ass to bed, but the dreams were...
💬 1 comment · 1 like · 2023-10-29 · 6 days ago
Favorite quotes In character length order: - I am that I am. - Life is but a dream. - Hell is other people. - All mental is illness. - Be still and know I Am God. - The words are mine; the meaning is you. - The Zeroeth Commandment: Thou shalt not inconvenience. - Abide in awareness, with no illusion of person: you will be instantly free and at peace.
💬 View post · 2023-10-29 · 6 days ago
Poof Well gosh dang if someone I replied to earlier today hasn't already disappeared. I don't remember their username, but they seemed above-average interested in Special Relativity. So when I came across the following I thought maybe they'd find it interesting: [http link] Wei Wu Wei -> Open Secret -> Geometrically regarded
💬 View post · 2023-10-28 · 7 days ago
Holy wow it's Saturday I so love naturally awakening early - where by "early" I guess I mean before my wife has a plan for my day. :-) Today that was 6:38am, which actually isn't nearly as early as I prefer, i.e. sometime between 4:30am and 5:30am. But I was still able to take necessary meds, put dry dishes away, wash the few dirties in/near the sink, prep the morning coffee, check for email, and - of late - take a peek at the Bubble enveloped sector of the Geminiverse. In the so-called real...
💬 View post · 2023-10-28 · 7 days ago
New phase of the day We accomplished much today, my wife and I: lawn mowed and weed-whacked, groceries acquired, papers delivered to a realtor (why doesn't the spell-checker leveraged by my vim like that word?), measured some potential storage spaces and items to occupy them, paid some folk that rehabbed the basement last week, rehearsed a few songs for a performance tonight. My wife's currently making herself what she consider performance presentable, which tends to be at least an order of...
💬 2 comments · 2 likes · 2023-10-27 · 8 days ago
Throwing a rock in the house of mirror [gemini link] Where Has Everybody Gone? And it's a balancing act because living my life every day like I'm about to die is one of those things that sounds good in movies and fiction, but falls apart under examination. So I should abandon long-term goals? So I should quit my job, move someplace warm, eat good food and drink liqueurs and coffee until my money runs out? And what then? Perhaps consider it all thought, thus equally irrelevant relative to the...
💬 View post · 2023-10-27 · 8 days ago
Lo *and* behold Something rather miraculous happened last night: my wife finally gave a favorite author of mine a fair try. A bit of context: while I've had my more strictly religious moments in life, she's far more traditional along those lines than I, so investigations outside of Christianity tend to seem sacrilegious to her, and she has no problem openly saying so when finding me pursuing such - which you might imagine having been closer to bone-of-contention-ville than in support of the...
💬 4 comments · 3 likes · 2023-10-27 · 8 days ago
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