@ariadne "our job posting accepting (all genders) sure has folks asking about our position on genders 🤔"
re: food
@c0debabe drink some water too
I keep having this idea for a scifi story that I'll probably never get to: An alien species with a bunch of amazingly advanced and ancient medical technology, because they were the white mice for another species that went extinct tens of thousands of years ago.
Turned out all the discoveries worked for the mice but not for the experimenters. Maybe someone's already written about this?
@reinhilde yeah sure, might be as much as I ever write about this 😅
@c0debabe aw dang, this update might sucker me back in, since I was mostly only ever a galactic sightseer in that game anyway
@c0debabe Like, I almost hated the base-building stuff, because I just kept wanting to planet-hop and take pictures
@hotdogsladies Of course I always only think of them for "Starsign" but clearly I should listen to more of their stuff
@hotdogsladies Also made me wander to my basement to see if I could still find this 1991 mix CD "Earphoria" from Geffen that I still probably have somewhere. It's also possible I may have worn it out
Keep thinking I want to revive my creative writing exercises. Was really hard to manage it every day, though.
Even with just 300-500 words as a daily goal, it was always an uphill fight to intentionally carve out a hunk of time to get creative. Never stuck as a habit, not like mindless 30 minutes on an exercise bicycle in the morning that I've managed to make stick since January.
It's annoying that almost none of the advice I've ever read for establishing a creative practice seems to apply to my wandering-focus apparently ADHD brain
Also, I think I installed some unfortunate expectations a few decades ago.
I used to smoke, then I quit cold-turkey and never picked it up again. That convinced me I can just willpower my way through almost any arbitrary self-change.
That, in turn, set me up for repeated disappointments over the years as I discovered that that trick only works for a few things.
Granted, I was dating my wife at the time I quit smoking and I was a total asshole for about 4-6 weeks as I went through nicotine withdrawal, but somehow she stuck around and helped. So, maybe the effort wasn't pure willpower as I'd figured it, back then.
@gregtatum Yeah, I think that's my thing too... I'm best when I can drop into hyperfocus and flow, not so much in little convenient blocks that fit into a routine day
So anyway, I think that means I need to look for a writing group. But also I'm an anxious hermit.
@soypunk ah, there it is 🫠
I have eaten the pi that was in your toolbox and which you were probably saving for a project. Forgive me, it was delicious, so crunchy and micro
After a few hours listening to Spotify and then switching over to some FLAC albums on my own Plex server, I hate to be precious but it's like taking cotton out of my ears. Especially on cymbals and subtle little echoes in the mix. I forget this is a thing sometimes.
Like, ugh, even this version of the song on YouTube sounds better than Spotify, albeit not as nice as FLAC. I feel like whatever I'm getting from Spotify just murders the high end jingles (tambourine? I dunno) from the drummer at about 0:40
@robdaemon I miss that whenever I context switch from Rust back to TypeScript
I also vaguely annoy myself with the state of the music collection on my NAS:
Back in 2009, I methodically ripped all my CDs to MP3. Later, in 2018, I methodically ripped all my CDs to FLAC. I forgot to deleted the MP3s along the way, so most of my albums are duplicated 😞