Now I’m in Charlotte north Carolina airport. Not having fun right now. My first return flight was late so I missed my connecting flight and no they did not give me a hotel room or a reimbursement or even an apology. I think that makes these situations worse when people keep telling you that you’re entitled to refunds or a hotel room, but the airline makes it clear you get nothing. They act like they’re doing you a favor getting you on a flight to the place you paid to…
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Airports, first world problems. Police brutality, an actual problem.
I’m sitting in Chicago–yeah, Chicago, I just checked my American Airlines app to make sure where I was. Been here all day, just chillin in this airport. Not my choice of course. My flight was originally supposed to leave around 9AM after just a 40 minute layover, but they changed it on me and gave me no choice in the matter. I shoulda paid for the flight insurance since my job is paying for it but I don’t feel right about charging the company for those kinds of luxuries.Airports are…
Read MoreThe Story of My Web Dev Career Part 1
I want to write about my web development career and the story of how everything started. In the past I think I’ve always wanted to tell stories from my past that had some sort of specific moral or political purpose, but now with this new format I feel like telling other types of side stories that might mean a lot to me personally but I guess… I’m not sure why I never told these types of positive stories–maybe that’s what it is–this story is almost all positive and joyful. Writing…
Read MoreTV, Video Games, Booze, and Brotato
Not sure what I’m here to talk about. It’s late. I try to go to bed at midnight but that’s a light try, a half-assed try. I have 23 minutes to.Roommate’s been playing Brotato all day long. The constant beat of that game is sinking into my soul, it’s right below me. She’s unlocked just about every item and still going. It’s on my account so I get all the achievements. Too bad I don’t care haha.I turned my XBox gamepass back on, saying it was just for one month.…
Read MoreI got a little bitter rambling about Elon Musk and my ex instead of reviewing A Liberated Mind
I came to do a free write about any topic that comes to mind, specifically the book I just finished A Liberated Mind by Steven C Hayes. This was one of the best self help books I think I’ve ever read–or at least in the top 10% — or listened to — I wonder if people will call me out for saying I’ve read something when I really just listened to it.But anyway just before coming here I happened to be on facebook and saw an ex of mine posted…
Read MoreMy Most Favoritest Song Ever: Flood by Tool
I was gonna talk about Tool’s Flood and the time I was sucked under a pile of logs on the Nooksack river–I guess that’s what I will talk about.Listening to Toadies Rubberneck. Suppose I should have Tool’s Undertow on right now but Toadies is cool too.Flood is about 4 minutes of a grinding, painful introduction followed by a moment of transition and revelation, continuing into an intense, increasingly complex and adrenaline fueled progressive rock masterpiece about a changing and twisting life perspective, surrounded in this metaphor where water is life,…
Read MoreMy Most Favoritest Song Ever: Driving the Last Spike by Genesis
I have so many things I want to talk about in this journal — writing in here is much like exercising for me. I never want to do it, but afterward I feel much better about myself and the universe around me. I guess one difference is that here once I start writing I never want to stop. It’s only the motivation to get started that’s an issue.But okay, let’s do the favorite song thing. I don’t know why but I just feel the need to write, like the universe…
Read Moreguess I’ll talk about this journal, get a little meta
Gonna ramble about whatever comes to my mind today. I was going to write about my two favorite songs, Driving the Last Spike by Genesis and Flood by Tool, or at least they are the two songs that have probably had the deepest impact on my life and because this journal I’m doing is like I want it to be as much about joy as about pain. So often with me, and probably most other people who keep a journal, you come to your journal to get out your negative…
Read MoreAlcohol, alternative to feeling like yourself
Oh alcohol. I still drink to your health. I came to my computer tonight to write about alcohol because boy do I have a complicated relationship with it. I hate alcohol now but want to write my first time getting drunk as it was one of the most amazing and positive experiences I had as a teenager.I’m currently worried about a friend who has gone far too far down the booze rabbit hole.When an alcoholic has gone this far for so many years and destroyed their liver kidneys family and…
Read MoreOn Setting Personal Boundaries (and my childhood obsession with violence)
Tonight I’m listening to an old cassette tape from my childhood that I haven’t listened to in at least 30 years. I must have been 8 or so I’m guessing. I can hear myself playing with one of the neighbors. I made him be the Soviet Union because I wanted to pretend war and wanted him to be the bad guy and wanted it to feel real even though I had no idea what the Soviet Union even was.so much joy I took from destruction. I can hear myself now…
Read MoreMore rambling about self help books like Hooked and A Liberated Mind and mentality/religion of self-improvement
Golly how time flies and it’s been almost a week since I wrote here. I wanted to do this maybe three times a week on average. I have told myself that I need to come back here and write whenever I finish another book. I want to talk about every book that I listen to on audible to maximize their retention and positive impact on my life.Anyway, finished Hooked by Michael Moss and it was a fantastic book but I don’t really know what i can say other than I’m…
Read MoreSelf help books: Getting To Yes, The Essential 55 and Hooked
Finished Getting To Yes today. This was a fantastic book. Prolly in the top 5% of the self help books I’ve listened to… at least for me. Maybe it’s cuz I always have had problems with emotions getting in the way of my personal negotiations and this instinct to think of my interactions with other people as being an us-vs-them kind of scenario, like even my romantic relationships in the past often felt like me vs her and I never knew how to steer the conversation back to a place…
Read MoreI chose to lead a happy life full of joy and wonder
I’m sitting out in a hammock in the woods of West Virginia right now listening to Keith Urban in the foreground and a beautiful stream in the background and wanted to babble on about how incredible everything is. I think about that movie Office Space from time to time and that guy who was like “every day is just a little worse than the day before so every day of my life is literally the worst day of my life” and I remember seeing that back in the day and…
Read MoreI’m gonna open the healthiest restaurant in America
Golly, been a week already since my “first” entry. I write this in VS code of all places because it’s easier than having separate apps for writing and coding and I don’t want to write JavaScript in MS word.But how I write is a boring topic and I want to keep this interesting and useful.I’m listening to Hooked by Michael Hoss on Audible right now “How the food industry exploits our addictions”.I’m struggling with a sugar addiction right now. I already cut out sodas and caffeine, most processed meats, most…
Read MoreBeen thinking of maybe going back to my age old idea of making a public journal
Been thinking of maybe going back to my age old idea of making a public journal. Just write as fast as possible like I normally do in my private journal and just post. The public one could have comments but I wouldn’t respond to them unless it was like a weird special occasion.I know I’ve tried the social media thing over and over and over and it’s never worked, but you know, I do it differently every time and this idea is a bit different than what I’ve done in…
Read MoreWhy do People Hate Technology? (Jixuan and Sebastion)
A couple weeks ago I posted about some threats I got from an old friend who hated me due to my support of technology. I sent the video to my favorite tech YouTubers, Jixuan and Sebastion which inspired them to prioritize a video they’d been planning. They didn’t mention my situation, but I found the video to be a really fascinating look at how technology affects our mental health and why emerging technologies can lead to such vicious hate. It also discusses the old argument of whether you inherently have…
Read MoreReview of The Wrong Missy on Netflix with Spoilers
I don’t normally do movie reviews but I finally watched The Wrong Missy on Netflix and was taken aback by the lack of social responsibility shown by the writers. Spoilers will follow: If you’ve seen the preview, you know it’s about a boring businessman named Tim who invites the wrong woman on a corporate retreat. The first thing she does is drug and rape him on the plane while other passengers watch and laugh. Tim is really upset about this and starts fantasizing about her death/murder. She then goes on…
Read MoreBe Sure to Get Good Sleep Before and After Your Vaccination
I was just listening to this Masterclass about sleep and they mentioned a study done with vaccinations that found when people get flu vaccines when they are not getting proper sleep, the vaccine elicited about half the immune response that it did in people who were getting healthy amounts of sleep. He recommended that whenever you get vaccinated for anything that you be careful to get really good night’s sleep every night for the week before and after you get the shot. I haven’t heard anyone else talking about this…
Read MoreThe Space Industry is a Beacon of Hope in Difficult Times
I really believe that space news does not get nearly enough mainstream attention. It has far more affect on our daily lives than most political news and just about all celebrity news, yet it seems to be only a niche subject. Is that because there is rarely any bad news coming out of the space industry? Because there’s nothing to get really angry about? Is it because the effects on our lives often take a few years to be felt? Or is it because it has a stigma that it’s…
Read MoreConservatives are Better at Emotional Distancing
I wrote this months ago and wanted to post it before the election. Then I forgot about it. I still think it’s relevant though. Years ago I spoke with a conservative who told me he couldn’t understand why anyone would get upset about politics. “If I order steak at a restaurant and I really like my steak and recommend it to you but you order chicken instead, I don’t get all mad about it. I don’t see why politics is any different.” My first instinct was to agree because it’s…
Read MoreBuilding a Problem-Solving Factory
I’ve been following closely the astounding progress in Boca Chica as SpaceX designs and builds their new Starship, all-purpose spacecraft. They’ve built 10 prototypes, 3 of which have already flown, constantly improving on the design and build process. Thanks to Gwynne Shotwell’s inspiring leadership and Elon Musk’s engineering genius, they’ve done this in a fraction of the time and cost that NASA takes for similar accomplishments. They have repeatedly said that they’re not building a Starship. They’re building a Starship factory. The focus is on the factory, not the ship.…
Read MoreMore about Starship Serial Number 8
This is a good, easily understandable overview of everything that happened with Starship Serial Number 8 the other day. Perfect for “amateurs” like myself. Turns out it did reach its goal of 12.5 kilometers and the engine failures during ascent were actually deliberate shutdowns so they could get more data about shutdown and restarts and how the other engines react to problems. There at the end something went wrong with the tank and the engines didn’t get the right mixture of fuel and propellant so it wasn’t able to slow…
Read MoreCongratulations Starship Serial Number 8!
This stuff unfortunately doesn’t hit the mainstream media nearly enough, but SpaceX performed an historic test launch today. Starship Serial Number 8 (the 8th prototype) attempted to fly to 12.5km. I believe there was an engine failure during ascent but it was able to continue on with just two engines. I’m not sure if it made it to 12.5km but it successfully did its “belly-flop” maneuver, which I think is the first time that’s ever been done with a rocket. Then it drifted down for a surprising amount of time,…
Read MoreCustom Data Organizer 0.7 (beta) Release, Themes and Icons
I made another release, 0.7 (beta), of my app. This release has mostly visual enhancements. Improved theming and icon selections. I’m kinda proud of my theme system since I rarely see apps that let users fine-tune the specific colors of the app they’re using the way this does… even though I would not use this feature as a user myself unless I had some brand colors I needed to match. I actually had this working before CSS variables became available, using brute-force javascript on every possible element I needed to…
Read MoreNew Custom Data Organizer Feature: Save to File
I just released the beta version 0.6 of my Custom Data Organizer app and I opted to make my own videos again about the new features instead of hiring someone on fiverr. It went a lot smoother than I expected. I made two demonstration videos tonight and did it without writing scripts, so I’m getting slowly better at this. If I haven’t told you about this, this is my crazy “spreadsheet-killer”, app that I’ve been working on since 2016 that I hope will change the way everyday people keep track…
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