Notes. Random thoughts, ideas, links, musings, short and unstructured.
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George Washington, at 22, experiences combat for the first time and writes to his brother. He gained a bit of notoriety from this—the letter was published in the London Magazine later that August–such that King George II commented (possibly, it’s probably just gossip)
The right wing, where I stood, was exposed to and received all the enemy’s fire … I heard the bullets whistle, and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound.
― Letter to his brother, John A. Washington | Friday, May 31, 1754
He would not say so, if he had been used to hear many
― King George II
However, it seems that he was born to soldier and lead men. He was born for battle. This was not just talk.
Reminds me of the scene in the Godfather when Michael is standing guard outside the hospital where his father lie, with the poor baker Enzo pulled in to support. While the enemy arrives and leaves after seeing them guard, Enzo is shaking like a leaf and cannot light his cigarette, Michael lights it for him, hands calm, he is cool as can be.
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wow, American Gods HBO show was ass.
book is infinitely better.
The butchered it. They fucked the story up pretty good.
Casting was excellent though :chefs-kiss:
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American Gods is the only book of Neil Gaiman that I have read.
The book felt like experiencing a dream where you were not quite sure
that what is happening was real or not, or that the book exists
in some intangible surreal space. Just awesome really, loved it. Looking forward to reading more of his books.
It is a story about a man becoming his own person, with his own beliefs, and finding his purpose,
in a country where old gods and old ways change, or adapt, or die.
It is also a story that America, the land, is sacred, and is almost hostile towards, or simply not a fertile place, for the old or new gods to take root.
The fears the old gods face about no longer being relevant are shared even by the new gods, who come into power and existence so
quickly only to be replaced as fast as America changes.
“It’s perfectly simple,” said Wednesday. “In other countries, over the years, people recognized the places of power. Sometimes it would be a natural formation, sometimes it would just be a place that was, somehow, special. They knew that something important was happening there, that there was some focusing point, some channel, some window to the Immanent. And so they would build temples or cathedrals, or erect stone circles, or…well, you get the idea.”
“There are churches all across the States, though,” said Shadow.
“In every town. Sometimes on every block. And about as significant, in this context, as dentists’ offices. No, in the USA, people still get the call, or some of them, and they feel themselves being called to from the transcendent void, and they respond to it by building a model out of beer bottles of somewhere they’ve never visited, or by erecting a gigantic bat house in some part of the country that bats have traditionally declined to visit. Roadside attractions: people feel themselves pulled to places where, in other parts of the world, they would recognize that part of themselves that is truly transcendent, and buy a hot dog, and walk around, feeling satisfied on a level they cannot truly describe, and profoundly dissatisfied on a level beneath that.”
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Fuckin hell, being off adhd meds fucking sucks. The crash, or the come down, is a challenge, it is exhausting.
I lose an entire day a week.
My mood changes noticeably.
Doctor advice is to take a day or two off a week, to give my system a break,
which I totally understand, and to build a small buffer in case there are difficulties refilling, which is a smart idea,
neither are worth the cost of that one day a week where I fall apart.
I’d rather have 7 good days a week most of the time and maybe run the risk of having a few days when I am not good,
than guarantee that at least one day a week is going to fucking suck.
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It looks like my wife and I will be going to Burning Man this year.
We have not been since 2011. My first year was 2006.
Feels like a lifetime ago. We are not the same people we were then.
A lot of life has happened since then. That life got very real and serious. And we had no room
for Burning Man or other parts of our lives that were pure fun and play.
When we go back, it is going to be such a new experience. We are, effectively, newbies all over again.
Hope I don’t fucking die out there lmao!
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Picked up a burr coffee grinder and couldn’t be happier with the results! Excellent grind.
A burr coffee grinder differs from the common blade style in that it creates a more consistent grind and does
not fucking shred your beans into pulp. The blade grinder chops your beans with abandon and no control, creating
inconsistent chunks and dust in the same batch. Just an uneven mess.
A burr grinder, on the other hand, uses two abrassive surfaces (the burrs), either flat discs or a cone-and-ring setup,
with a fixed gap between them. Beans are fed through and crushed to a consistent size determined by the gap, which is
easy to adjust.
I swear, too, that the pot I brewed this morning even tasted better.
The Ruby community appears to have a right-wing techno-fascism problem.
It’s not just Ruby though.
Pulling back to get a wider view it seems
that our industry as a whole has a right-wing techno-fascism problem.
This is not isolated to the Ruby community.
Kinda looking at those turtle-neck wearing tech leaders in a much different light these days.
We are all the architects of our own demise.
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Found an excellent blog titled “How my images are dithered”
that is all about, dithering images. I ran the process on some of my artwork and they are just now infinitely better
and more interesting lmao. I LOVE screen printing, defects, repeatability, all the qualities of this effect.
