Reposting old posts
If you go to the first page of this blog, you will notice something odd. There are some old posts (dating back to 2018) with a big gap leading back to 2022.
This is because I started pulling posts from my old blog. For the most part, I copied the old post as they appeared originally. This is despite the fact some of them make me cringe; some of them are terribly written.
Some posts won’t make it over here and will end up on the wiki, while others won’t make it at all. Who knows, maybe I’ll be able to find some older posts still (from before the days of TAONAW) and add them as well.
Took a picture 📷 of this insect about a year ago in the Brox.
Day 22 - #mbmar
Went to the #moma to see the making of Pinocchio. The movie was excellent! Here, on display, the tiny theater, one of many sets.
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This is Aloe. The only house plant I didn’t kill. His doing fine since 2019!
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analog. I’m told it works.b&w because of course. #mbmar day 19 📷
The supreme court, NYC. Portico #mbmar day 18 📷
Medicine for the mind
I’m on a train heading to Pennsylvania. We were stuck in New Jersey for an hour or so. Some complications with the power lines involving balloons, a parade, and people with too much alcohol in their blood in honor of St. Patrick. The ride takes 3.5 hours as is, so I’ve had more than enough time to contemplate what’s on my mind.
It’s been busy at work. Not just the actual labor; there was a lot of mental effort. We have a finite amount of energy each day, and we tend to underestimate how much of it we spend on things we don’t fully grasp. It’s one thing to evaluate a 3-hour project in terms of time and money, but how do you evaluate it in terms of mental energy? You can’t bullet-point energy units, and it can be difficult to know when you stopped autopiloting and wandered into brainstorming land. Comparing the mental “cost” of one project to another is hard as well; we don’t have a catalog explaining that “all projects in X category cost Y energy bottles.”
When we’re sick, we go see a doctor, get medicine, and take a day off of work. But when we’re mentally depleted we shrug it off and keep going. Why is a “mental day” considered a privilege still for most people?
I’m far from being the first one to ask such questions, but I realize I owe myself to ask them more often. I’m just tired. A bit of a rest, a walk in the sun, good music - and I’m recharged. Good to go. Medicine for the mind.
Two years ago, in New Mexico. Early morning flight with a hot air balloon 📷. The dogs were barking at us from below, and this single home was standing alone in front of the rest ahead. I loved it there. #mbmar day 17
This was once a road. Now it’s just a quiet path. #mbmar day 16 📷
That nice feeling you get when you look at your blog and see a stream of thoughts, ideas, and pictures. I’m happy I’m here on Micro.blog
A pigeon observing the street with patience before taking flight. #mbar day 15
Updated the Micro.blog guides on the wiki. Still have much more work to do… Pages, best practices, updates to the short articles…
Today was a snowy stormy day, so here’s a nice picture from a walk a few days back. Horizon from NYC. 📷 #mbmar
Games teach you hard life lessons
Today I beat the Fire Bellowback in the Sigma vault in Horizon Zero Dawn. The boss’s weapon: stressful mash-button panic that makes me rage-quit a game and not pick it up for months, if at all. This time, I emerged victorious.
Games 🎮 can teach you life lessons. Hades, a game you have to try right now if you haven’t, (seriously, stop reading, buy and download it, and come back after you’ve died several times) is a masterpiece lesson in never giving up. I don’t think I would beat the Fireback if it wasn’t for the daddy issues in Hades (If you play it you’ll understand).
Facing fears is a lesson no game taught me better than Subnautica (turns out I have a phobia of being under seawater). A game about accepting death? Try What Remains of Edith Finch. Regrets and leaving a better world behind you for those you learn to care about? Try RDR2. In my opinion, the game succeeded where many movies failed.
That’s not to say there aren’t some terrible games out there (actually, I’m not a big fan of HZD, I think it has many issues), but even the bad ones can have some gold nuggets with things to teach you to become a better version of yourself.
When I was a teenager, my parents told me I’ll “grow out” of playing games when I’m older. I’m glad that’s one of the items on the “you won’t do or be X when your older” list, for sure. I don’t think I’ll ever stop playing games or cherish what they have to offer.
The stuff that keeps me connected: my loyal Raspberry Pi file server and my router. #mbmar day 13
As I mentioned a few days ago, I want to start creating S3 videos. Without getting into too many details, S3 is the general name I gave to stuff I create on my blog, wiki, and also on PeerTube and YouTube. The idea is to ramble about the week that passed, mostly as a way of summarizing it to myself for now as a way of practicing editing videos.
Curious?
Shiny cocktails with good people at the bar #mbmar 📷
So, recorded my first S3 video. Now I need to sit down and edit it and fix the me-going-on-tangent issues here and there and upload. Hopefully, this works…
Gimcrack: A toy; a pretty thing; an ornamental object of no great value. I don’t think I have the meaning down 100%, but here’s something that comes to mind: my Fitbit. An Apple Watch wannabe bought by Google, which slowly sunsetting it in favor of their own Pixel watch. Photo 📷 for #mbmar
This is one NYC ritual that is going away… A photo 📷 to remember #mbmar
