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Thoughts that came to mind.
He had a dream — ... he'd hoped for a modicum of attention to his latest post, thinking there ought to be at least one more like-minded individual out there who happened to read in places where he might write, who would recognize his style and leanings as though they were more than merely roughly their own... and soon enough both would spend weeks expressing back and forth to each other how relieved they were to have finally found each other, and thus could *finally* exchange text with another...
A wee bit ambivalent — Last night we were out for dinner with my sister, brother, and sister-in-law. It was okay in ways, but for the most part yet another case of experiential cost overwhelming experiential value. Even merely trying to describe it feels a waste of time given how well communication between separate instances of individuality tends to go. What "I" keep coming back to is that time is a waste of time, by which I really mean "seeing <ineffable> as though it were confined to a...
💬 View post · Nov 12 · 2 days ago
Now you be me, now you don't — [preformatted]
💬 View post · Nov 11 · 3 days ago
Today has UHaul written all over it — There's been a slight uptick in the discovery of my kind of gemlog article. But, gosh dang, when you arrive too late to a word party: [gemini link] 2023-09-17 - Kvetching - Tech - The Machine Stops Specifically: So should I just finally dump it completely? I don’t even get the endorphin high extroverted allistics do from the crowd, the mob mentality. I’ve told myself I keep it for talking with techies. Decent folk with the discipline to use infotech...
💬 View post · Nov 10 · 4 days ago
Meatspace got busy — [preformatted]
💬 View post · Nov 10 · 4 days ago
Another week nearly over — Today is looking like a road trip between home and former home, where presence at the latter will entail corralling property not staying with the place (most of it already in bins and boxes) into the garage to get a better feel for necessary moving truck size, as it appears buyer has secured financing, making a closing likely in roughly a week. We'll likely bring a carload back with us, although limited to lighter stuff as we performed enough physical labor yesterday...
💬 View post · Nov 09 · 5 days ago
More words hungering for a decoding — David Foster Wallace came to mind a couple days ago, eventually leading to inner blushing for not being able to remember a thing about "Infinite Jest". And in this sentence do I jump shift from a word master to having recently been reminded of the near utter uselessness of words. An now the intensification of irony for declaring having chanced upon what is currently some seriously resonant verbiage from: [https link] Inquiry-Abidance: How to Practice...
💬 2 comments · 1 like · Nov 08 · 6 days ago
You better you better you bet — [preformatted] Fun night. We stayed the night at a casino hotel located in our former home town (at most a mile from the house in which we used to live, as a matter of fact), meeting up with a couple of my wife's cousins, who were definitely in party mode. I wound up sitting at a machine with my wife because the automated craps machine (the dice-rolling aspect) was seemingly down, a couple techs hovering over it, the screen normally showing a literal pair of...
💬 View post · Nov 07 · 7 days ago
Sweet dreams are made of cheese — Given the title, take a wild guess which state of the United States I grew up in. I suck at waiting. I don't like starting things I suspect I won't get the chance to properly finish. Waiting on someone else to be ready to do something - especially when it's something important to them, but you couldn't give a shit about - makes me wonder if bamboo shoots pounded under finger and/or toe nails is really as bad as it's said to be. Suddenly I feel as though I've...
💬 View post · Nov 06 · 8 days ago
Emptiness, meet emptiness — Hmmm. A little while ago I injected this into Gemini space: [gemini link] Re: Stop Norway’s drills! which included: Grasping for things is rooted in insisting upon a modeling of reality wherein a subject self exists in contrast to all else, which in the context of said subject self is (which as fast as the speed of thinking-it-so quickly becomes "are") necessarily seen/modeled as objects - aka objectified - to be grasped/possessed/owned by said subject self. The...
💬 4 comments · 1 like · Nov 06 · 8 days ago
Re: Stop Norway’s drills! — [gemini link] Stop Norway’s drills! "Business is gonna keep pumping as long as consumers are buying, and consumers are gonna keep buying as long as business is pumping." Policy-makers need to step in and regulate. Leave it in the ground. Stop the drilling. Unfortunately, doing that doesn't drill down <coughs> sufficiently deeply to root cause. Grasping for things is rooted in insisting upon a modeling of reality wherein a subject self exists in contrast to all...
💬 View post · Nov 06 · 8 days ago
Getting droopy-eyed — The following was one of the few record albums my parents had when I was a kid: [https link] "South of the Border" by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass And it's kind of funny, because I didn't find out until well into adulthood that the parents of several of my friends also had that album. I remain intensely fond of it. 'Tis playing even as I type. My garsh, the home internet has been for shit today.... Probably the most difficult aspects of smolnet for me is waiting:...
💬 View post · Nov 06 · 8 days ago
The joy of proximity to a comfortable number of others — Walked to a "dollar store" varietal and back. Minor satisfaction in acquiring things my wife hoped I could. I'll hit a few more such places en route to tonight's overnight destination. I'm not too thrilled that the checker at the store licked her fingers before digging for my change, prompting an update to: [gemini link] On getting tired of *seemingly* being the only one... by adding the following to its list: knows better than to...
💬 View post · Nov 05 · 9 days ago
Just another rad post song — I experienced a wonderful evening performing with a high school friend at a local bar last night. Not a whole lot of patrons, although we started with a table of nine in a blanket-knitting class seated before us, who seemed to enjoy our vibe. After that there might have been 20 additional patrons coming and going. We performed for about four hours: basically to the point of exhaustion for guys our age. We'd warmed up a bit before we arrived to set up, but there was...
💬 View post · Nov 05 · 9 days ago
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...
💬 View post · Nov 04 · 10 days ago
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 · Nov 03 · 11 days 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 · Nov 03 · 11 days 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 · Nov 02 · 12 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 · Nov 02 · 12 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 · Nov 02 · 12 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 · Nov 02 · 12 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 · Nov 02 · 12 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 · Nov 01 · 13 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 · Nov 01 · 13 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 · Nov 01 · 13 days ago
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