Would you be mine, could you be mine, won't you be my reader?
I get the feeling it's less about us doing something (“work”) than to not see what isn't as though it were.
I'm in favor so long as it facilitates your posting here.
> Today I am 71 years old, plus one day.
Now that I'd never have guessed!
I'm under the impression pretty much anything goes but violations of write.as principles.
Oh my God, “Oats & Blueberries” is one of the most beautiful things I've ever read here.
> (except inquiry, who I consider to be a decent fella)
Oh, wow. That's very nice to know. Thank you!
I can't remember the last time I actually typed directly into the write.as posting buffer.
I run a command from a bash shell within a tmux window within the Chromebook Linux “terminal” application that opens a file in the vi(m) editor, then prompts for a URL after I quit the editor.
After that, I open write.as in one browser tab, then an empty tab in which I press Ctrl-o, which opens an “open file” dialog. Double clicking on the file I edited puts a copy of it in the now no-longer-empty tab, where I Ctrl-a/Ctrl-c to copy it, Ctrl-w to kill that tab, then Ctrl-v the text into the write.as post buffer, after that I click on that right-arrow-ish symbol that results in the post.
Then I Ctrl-a/Ctrl-c in the browser URL/search bar, then Ctrl-v that in the aforementioned URL prompt, which appends the post to a file intended to accumulate my posts, complete with their URL and a timestamp.
I suppose it sounds like a lot of work, but it seems to be the most efficient way given copying an entire file's worth of text from a vi(m) session is a hassle when there's more than a page worth (unless there's a magic command/keystroke that can put the entire content into the copy/paste buffer..?). I tend to despise struggling/fumbling with the trackpad when definitive keystrokes work far better for me.
> Marriage is born of pure sex, never made by deadly hex.
Oh yeah? Then how do you explain 0xdeadbeef?
Life is a craps table whose house – you know, the only one that wins – is entropy.
Stay healthy, keep your mind as empty of drama (i.e. stories of selves) as possible, learn, enjoy your minimalism, find mentors with the power to make things possible for others, i.e. those in the “who” class of the phrase “it's not what you know, it's who you know”.
And, most importantly (I'm somewhat joking while somewhat not), listen to nothing but Beatles songs for the next two years....
The darker stuff reference has me remembering days of borderline worshipping Depeche Mode's “Ultra” and “Exciter” albums.
I could be wrong, but to me it's seemed a special case of how the dumber of the species tend to want to mock – if not persecute/bully – those they (somehow) perceive as more intelligent than themselves.
Huh. I'd somehow not heard of that before.
Three maybe's is some pretty impressive generosity given what we probably can guess.
> We street-proof our kids. Why aren't we data-proofing them?
Perhaps because it became politically incorrect to actually parent much at all at least 40 years ago?