A person in Valencia, Spain. Writing about:\\ Friendship, connection, third spaces D&D/OSR/Shadowdark Bike tech and culture Anarchism. Ecology. How...
Mr Rogers, my biggest hero perhaps. Deliberate, thoughtful, wonderful person who lived what he preached. His speech to save PBS from congressional cuts 40+ years ago on Youtube or his award acceptance speech show his humility and grace. Shared space and put feet in a kiddie pool with a black man on his show in the civil rights era to show children not to be scared or prejudiced, during a time when…
That sentence is a powerful and nostalgic sentiment, but in my honest opinion, and experience, a defeatist one. Especially if people say it about a time, that is a year, or even ten years or more in the past,.. Of course for people who suddenly experience real lasting tragedy or severe illness it can ring and be very true. Yet in the overwhelming majority of other cases, it seems to be a hankering…
I saw the above online and I thought i'd run a thought experiment, point by point, I totally understand that many people, in many parts of the world do not have all the alternatives I list below, but perhaps 1 or 2 of my ways to escape the grift/rat race may be open to even a few of those people. I don't own a N64, but I do have some other consoles and buying a fairly capable not much used gaming…
I once read this great book, "How to be Idle" and it's counterpart "How to be Free" they are about what it says on the tin, and about more, bigger picture things. I am in the middle of a few months phase when I am not doing a ton of "productive" things. Sure, some. Like looking into new housing, doing my job, planning for the future. Cooking and keeping my home reasonably clean. D&D sometimes.…
"1 Corinthians 13:11 -> When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me." This has it all wrong as far as I am concerned, seems like terrible advice. Plushies. You are never too old to have a plushy. Even animals like plushies. They look nice, likely will put a smile on someone's face when they see yours, and one might even help you sleep. These days there are all kinds of unusual and…
For the Gamers and hardware enthousiasts among us,.. I feel like it has been the worst news week in gaming for many years! To wit: New console prices (of exact same devices that came out yeeeears ago) up by 100 to 300! The three sole manufacturers of RAM in the world have done cartel style price fixing and to be in large degree responsible for the RAMpocalypse, they have had a class-action lawsuit…
Happy to say I only ever had Netflix for one winter, long ago, even then I noticed after two months that there was a looot of filler and slop. A way cheaper or even free alternative to Netflix -that is better in every way, and can be set up in under three minutes- is Stremio. This video explains all: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ysg3d_r6P04 I would suggest getting Torbox as well, it is slightly…
It is a type of phrase I have often told myself and my gf: "Nothing bad will happen if you do not do XYZ today but tomorrow, or in some cases,.. if you do not do it all." "Nothing bad will happen if you do not reply to that e-mail right now but in next few days." Etc. Whenever I feel overwhelmed, stressed, have a big to-do list, I realize that on any given day, besides work, there are perhaps 1 or…
I was hopping around various Bear blog posts by others today. Found some good tidbits and great advice. Things like: "Just start writing, don't think about writing or what you will write about or why, .. often the ideas and words will come, if you just start." "Do not go too 'niche' on your entire Blog, write about whatever & about everything that you like." By that was meant: do not go in for: "I…
My toilet has the piece of tape above on it, as well as this sticker at near eye-level: In our other space's toilet, in the social centre we also have a print out taped up. It solely says that it is a sitting only toilet, in both Spanish and English. The thing is, even with that sticker or tape, I still imagine there are a few men that will likely think "Yeah,.. but that doesn't apply to me ! I am…