When playing an RPG (Final Fantasy games), I aspire to move past "I need to do everything perfectly, and have just the right characters and jobs picked out for every situation." And just play the game as it comes - be creative and try different approaches - regardless of whether anyone online says they're the "best" approach.
“There would be no Beast Games if there hadn’t been Mr. Beast on YouTube.” -The CEO of YouTube
"If you've heard one Mozart symphony you've heard them all." This is not a true statement — but this also isn't me saying, "The slight gradations between Symphonies 1 and 40 illustrate all the possibilities of the medium. The early and late works show the profound progression of a master."
my favorite bit of Feldman's Triadic Memories comes at around 21 minutes, the clarity of the 2nds and 9ths.
"Sinuosity over angularity as a matter of consistency"
Watching the Rangers spring training game, and the abs challenge system is working as well as it has on the tennis tours for years.
there is a drive to find out today’s STORIES - to be in the know - and yet there is the total CRUSH and glut of info to be had at a glance. And we aren’t made for this.
The voices of older Americans are - fading and faltering?
My word Twin Peaks is still a scary show.
Xero shoes are like the paleo diet of shoes
Going to a local hockey match tonight. I think the last hockey game I went to might've been a Des Moines Buccaneers game.
Just when I was ready to move fully into spring, and set the fan on medium for the night, a cold front moved in and ruined it - and caused me to wake up cold - and add a base layer for standing at the corner all morning.
The pain of choosing the right word - of finding a way to Say the Thing on your Mind - is a mild form of suffering I constantly feel - the need to convey, to be understood as you intend. To get it right, and be accurate.
POV you see a dumb political ad, and you know you would never ever vote for the cludgy, cringey candidate - but you still need to google "comptroller" because you don't have a clue what that role is - and you realize you might be just as cludgy and weird as the candidate - because at least they know what a comptroller is and why they want to become it.
Doing some late night web work - and I am completely exhausted. You become aware that it the interaction with screens that keeps people awake and losing sleep.
Somehow I remain convinced that my own thoughts are unique and special and unlike those of any other person. Like a child. That I see things in a way nobody else does or can. That I think about things forgotten or unnoticed.
I don’t like the word “Please.” I don’t very actively teach my kids to use it at all costs. Have you noticed that “Please” has become something more command-like or a word indicating fake appeasement? Or bureaucratic malaise?
Discovering the Aphex Twin oddity “Drukqs” after it has been in my album collection for many years. Always had bounced HARD off of it; too abrasive. Now finding a path into its peculiar melodies and it’s a rewarding listen when you can meet it on its terms.
Open source projects - such as Drupal - have a built in advantage in the era of LLM bots scraping the entire web: namely, that the LLM's know just about everything there is to know about open source - enabling "Ambitious site builders" to get a lot done they otherwise couldn't have.
Testing a new approach.
The new site is officially UP and running - except for my Shortcut to make posts. But that should be the easiest part.
Let’s let go of the idea that we must squeeze every drop from life, maximize every spare 15 minutes. Embrace rest and non-action.