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Busting out the good 'ole .5mm Pentel — [https link] 3x5-2023-12-27-01 It was fun creating a 3x5 card post. Handwriting and degrees of rudimentary drawing felt truer to the moment than pure text. Also, there seemed to be more value to it for having felt the expenditure of energy over time. Too bad Gemini isn't into images. [gopher link] Programming-related rants, some hilarious, some depressing Yes, gum and shoelace scraps and metal clothing hangers bent just right.... While ego of course...
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Thin and to the point — [preformatted]
💬 7 comments · 1 like · 23 hours ago
No doubt about the flout spouts — [gemini link] Electric cars: reprise and I hate self-promoting psychopaths spouting bullshit [preformatted] [gemini link] Contents of a drawer Glorious! I've been enjoying retrieving boxes from storage, whose contents were somewhat thrown together in the heat of the needing-to-move moment. It's fun/interesting to encounter varieties of things amongst unlikely boxfellows. [gemini link] Happy thoughts about holiday, worries about 2024 Worries are plenty...
💬 View post · 1 like · Dec 27 · 1 day ago
Mickey not the Apple of mine eye — [gemini link] The meaning of a property to "belong" to an entertainment conglomerate Having said all that, moving away from Disney is not a new phenomenon. People "move on" from Disney and other large franchises all the time, even people who don't wish to or lack the ability to create. I couldn't grasp what I might have called "Disney people" back when I grew up feasting on cartoons in the late 1960s and early 1970s. To me the animation seemed second rate...
💬 View post · 1 like · Dec 26 · 2 days ago
I've long been less than thrilled about what a holiday does to online treats — It's so par for this world's course that an alleged celebration of a person could have so little to do with what that person espoused. And it's under par sadly hilarious when said person favored the non-attachment to personhood. Oh, for the love of murmur and truth conflated! [gemini link] A bad definition of identity Identity is a conceptual personhood/individuality model believed to be no mere model but,...
💬 2 comments · 1 like · Dec 25 · 3 days ago
I'm digging a hole where less brain gets in — [gopher link] Kashif's Gopherspace led to: [https link] a ’text is beautiful’ personal website: [preformatted] which is from: [https link] 36. Flower Shower which is from: [https link] Zen Koans Said "emptiness" seems in the region of the "behind the within" mentioned in previous posts. And, oh, how it sucks that referring to it - i.e. verbally reaching for it - somehow puts it that much more out of reach. And I don't know how it hadn't...
💬 1 comment · 1 like · Dec 24 · 4 days ago
As December races by — Our bar performance was a blast last night. It wasn't an easy crowd to read, but the owner assured us she'd heard from many patrons that they hoped she brings us back. I'm quite happy about that, as it's a beautiful venue, and less than a mile from home. We've our third performance in three days this afternoon, then off to the family Christmas gathering. Of course, that's just a thought, as is the thought that it's just a thought, as is the thought of there being a...
💬 1 comment · Dec 23 · 5 days ago
Anyone else with me on "The Family Man"? — Things are calming down a bit after a grandchild invasion for the sake of cookie making. Looks like someone will be joining us during the Christmas songs portion of tonight's performance. [gemini link] This wonderful post got me thinking about what my absolute favorite movie - i.e. "The Family Man" (Nicolas Cage) - "is" in a narratives sense... and I suddenly realized I don't care. Knowing such doesn't add to the joy/hilarity. If anything, it risks...
💬 View post · 1 like · Dec 22 · 6 days ago
Side effects in unforeseen contexts — The title refers to how intentions can't compensate for not being able to guess how wording implying/meaning something(s) in ones own conceptual context can imply/mean All Kinds Of Other Thing(s) in others' conceptual contexts. It also serves as a wink of sorts. Our assisted living venue performance last night went well. There was the usual confusion along the lines of staff not knowing what to tell us about where to set up due to their management not...
💬 3 comments · 1 like · Dec 22 · 6 days ago
Just beneath the entropy-and-murphy's-law-infested imagination of individuality — I wish I could remember why I wound up preferring elinks to lynx in the terminal browser game, because I don't think I've ever come across a Mostly Text person mentioning it. 'Tis always lynx they're mentioning. [gemini link] New Yorkers Reject Electric Cars Do I really need to list the idiocies involved? Outrageous repair costs of EVs? Lack of infrastructure? Refueling times measured in hours? Ever-...
💬 3 comments · Dec 21 · 7 days ago
Hey hey gem[i]naut, say the way you post — The other day I chanced upon: [gemini link] Casey Richins Online and somewhere thereunder was challenged by the following: [preformatted] And that's it, really: making and wearing shoes instead of making and installing enough carpet for the whole world. On a case by case basis, i.e. who's making you do this and/or that instead of be-coming (aka defining oneself to be) what doesn't re-quire this and/or that? Q: So if/when online seems Same Old? A:...
💬 View post · 1 like · Dec 20 · 8 days ago
Taking it one sip of coffee at a time — Typical day, although awoke later than usual. A grandchild (the youngest) is coming to visit so I can sneak over to their house and assemble some toy gifts for him. I got me back into some gopher reading of late. Online text continues to mostly disappoint: not because people don't know how to write, but because Same Old. I'm not sure why or how I ever expected more. I'm hardly a newbie to this planet, this species. How could text be other than Same...
💬 View post · 1 like · Dec 20 · 8 days ago
Whole lotta nothing — Rough day paring down and then organizing some accumulated mail/paperwork, especially separating the likely/unlikely to ever be looked at again stuff. Did something similar with login/password info. Got that down to 19 mostly bill-payment related entries. I organized the latter in a way that a simple script can map relate keywords to single entries, e.g. 'health', 'market', 'healthcare', and 'marketplace' all map to the same healthcare.gov info. Or 'electric' and 'power'...
💬 1 comment · 1 like · Dec 20 · 9 days ago
It blinks, rotates, and morphs through color schemes, but doesn't respond to my clicks.... — Have you ever felt hesitant to mention a gemlog find for fear of what one imagines one's online reputation to be possibly undermining *theirs* in a guilt by association kind of way? Weird. Today I used gpg for the first time in ages. And in the good deed not going unpunished zone (i.e. using gpg per recipient request), it turns out that when I send others email containing encrypted and "armored" text,...
💬 2 comments · Dec 19 · 9 days ago
Ignorance is bliss until it isn't — So I've been posting in a few USENET newsgroups. Got some pleasant interaction sooner than I expected. So far I've stuck to simply throwing posts over the wall, i.e. not keeping copies thereof. I should probably do that in Gemini spaces as well. The mania of archiving writing has proven unnecessary/useless the vast majority of the last several decades. Never mind that becoming that way in general per "giving up attachment(s)" is long overdue. I'm seeing...
💬 View post · 2 likes · Dec 18 · 10 days ago
Hello USENET, well hello USENET — It's so nice to see me back where I belonged! Well, we'll see. A bit of browsing about the "place" revealed a pretty weak ratio of spamiliciousness to legitimate interaction (you know, via inline quoting). So I gots to cross the phalanges and hope there might be a few decent people up for textual fun in the several newsgroups where I can imagine participating. Looks like the locale we moved from received more snowfall overnight than I'm ready to get with, so...
💬 View post · Dec 18 · 10 days ago
I peeved six — So we have ourselves another Monday. Last night I seeming fixed an issue on my Chromebook that's been nagging away for something like half a year. I don't even know what lingo to use to describe it. But if you're familiar with a Chromebook, you might be familiar with its "crosh" shell (which surfaces a command line interface to do things one apparently can't do on the Chromebook graphically (NOTE: accessed via Ctrl-Alt-t)) and its "Terminal" app (which presents a Linux...
💬 View post · 2 likes · Dec 18 · 10 days ago
The joy of several steps back — [gemini link] Madness 👂 Altogether I would have enjoyed it more if I'd been watching from home. Sadly. That's always the case for me. And the main reason is that to my way of thinking, much more work goes into a recorded version of a song: many "takes", much fiddling with EQ, mixing, effects. Furthermore, I've rarely preferred a live version of a song to its what-I-want-to-call canonical version. So I've been off and running in USENET land again. It was fun...
💬 View post · 1 like · Dec 17 · 11 days ago
Perhaps USENET is more my kind of smol? — I put a little time into registering with: [https link] Eternal September installing the "slrn" newsreader (I wanted 'trn', but building it quickly became more work than I could abide..), and messing with configuring it per my liking. And I'll be... it works - including posting! Next step is investigating newsgroups to see if any are "up my alley". The goal is to find a place where subject matters intersected with participants intersected with...
💬 4 comments · 2 likes · Dec 16 · 12 days ago
Servant, you know it ain't easy — [gemini link] Job Woes It’s like I accidentally stumbled onto some other species’ homeworld when I was a kid and never figured out how to fit in. Familiar. [gemini link] Isolation The day before one of my culture’s biggest celebrations, when family is supposed to be all together and shit, I realized I’m just... utterly alone. Familiar squared. But if I can’t convince the people who care about me, I don’t like my chances of convincing anyone else. Well,...
💬 2 comments · 1 like · Dec 16 · 12 days ago
More of the fun commentary you've come to... love :-) — [gemini link] 2023-12-15 01:30 UTC Although hate speech and disinformation with potentially dangerous consequences do not need to be encouraged in any way, the most zealous efforts to stop such speech also have negative consequences. The problem, of course, is that jokes, irony, parody, various forms of art, or legitimate critique may fall under the generous definition of hate speech or disinformation. Now there's a forbidden opinion! :-)...
💬 2 comments · Dec 15 · 13 days ago
You say you want a gemvolution, well you know — [gemini link] I'm Tired of These Stochastic Invocations What's been wild about the social media age has been seeing stratification between classes laid bare. To me the revelation was the prevalence - not to mention incurability - of crass selfish stupidity regardless the economic class. I'm way more wary/distrustful of others than I was pre "Eternal September". (Arguably funny mock product idea: "Instant Vile: Just Add Text!") It's exhausting,...
💬 1 comment · Dec 15 · 13 days ago
Text flow smorgasbord — Is it just me (ha), or is the nucleus of comedy typically in the general vicinity of the ridiculousness of individuality? Then again, so is sorrow. Is that why the pair of masks - one smiley, one frowney - associated with theater? Posts seem fits of ego, ego boiling over. I yam, therefore I yam.....mer. What's your ego specialty? Suspicion of other egos? Showing off? Wallowing in victimhood? Pick an ego card, any ego card! The root of "same old" seems to be *...
💬 View post · 1 like · Dec 14 · 2 weeks ago
The protocol seems wonderful, but the community result seems dubious - if not imaginary — [gemini link] Just Don't Buy It! Big oil is too powerful? Stop buying gas from them. Brilliant! Same with capitalism, peoples. It's not a thing. It's not like the sun. It seemingly exists because you keep patronizing it by buying shit, especially shit you really don't need. We've learned there's a fuckload of negative side-effects to that dynamic at society scale. Stop it - i.e. the unnecessary buying...
💬 View post · 1 like · Dec 13 · 2 weeks ago
RMS liked this tune (seriously) — [gemini link] The one thing those knuckle-scraping gas-guzzling troglodytes will never understand is… The number one reason I write my li’l essays is so that I can link to them in future discussions, building complex ideas as if I were composing functions. Wonderful simile! (Is 'simile' the right word? Dang... can't remember....) <later in the day> Home at last after five days away: got in some important friends 'n family socializing, accomplished an...
💬 View post · Dec 13 · 2 weeks ago
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