I found my old TomTom GPS in a box last year. I struggled to find a reason it might be worth keeping. In the end it got recycled.

Messy Joe’s

Blockbuster gift card.

I woke up in a bathtub once. The specifics are missing, but I remember someone suggested playing beer pong with tequila instead.

I used to go to a coffee shop near where I worked fairly regularly. I deliberately tried to mix up what I ordered every time because I enjoy trying new things. One day, one of the baristas acknowledged me as a “regular” and made a note of what I had ordered, and from that day forward, that is what they started making me when they saw me walk in. If she wasn’t working, I would still mix it up, but I never had the heart to tell her that the random drink I ordered one arbitrary day wasn’t really my favorite. I think at some point I appreciated being remembered more than I cared about the coffee.

After 30+ years, I finally bought myself a nice pair of left handed scissors.

If I’m being honest, I’m so used to right handed ones, that the lefty ones feel wrong anyway.

Back when automated toll booths had baskets to throw coins in, I could easily pay tolls at around 45 mph.

EZ pass eventually became a thing, probably saved me from my own young stupidity.

No microwave, but my hot air popper gets it perfect every time.

A fun next lesson is the benefit of apparent wind. In addition to the wind relative to the water, you have added wind generated by the movement of the boat. Since the lift generated is related to the speed of the wind relative to the boat, the faster the boat goes, the more lift you get. As a result, it is possible to actually sail faster than the wind speed of the wind relative to the water.

I’m pretty sure I did a bad job explaining that. Google can explain it better for sure.

Personally, as with a lot of the comments, I’m in the food-prep and make it yourself crowd.

I found a book that dives into the details of when it is and isn’t worth making things from scratch.

It’s called Make the Bread, Buy the Butter.

Honestly, I haven’t read it yet. I bought it and let my mom borrow it immediately, but when I get it back I think it will an interesting read.

As someone who has watched less than an hour of anything on twitch, I guess I’m going to change my avoidance of the site from passive to active.

Fairly consistently: 3D printing, wood working, amateur radio, RC cars, and cooking.

Also playing with: sewing, tablet weaving, lifting weights, and guitar.

I was with you up until big thighs. …though I will say I don’t mind them, I wouldn’t call it a hobby.

Toats down with brewing, baking and 3d printing fo sho though.

I think the “This is Water” speech from David Foster Wallace gives a great perspective that feels relevant to this situation. There was a month or two where I listened to it every day on my way to work. It helped me through some shit.

Link for convenience: https://fs.blog/david-foster-wallace-this-is-water/

The article does admit the official in question is still actively doing their job, just hasn’t been to their office. To me this seems like “After COVID lockdown an Elected Official realized they don’t need to be in the office, so they continued working from home”. I feel like it is just trying to fuel anger over something trivial.

As a subset of this, the fact that carburators worked as well as they did, until we had the technology to invent the simpler fuel injector, I think is pretty cool.

I expect he is a slow reader. He may not have gotten to that part of the book yet.

“previously owned”

Geoff?

I wonder if this is his response to having his events called boring. Is he just thinking “people won’t leave if I start playing groovy music”.