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For a while, after I deleted my Twitter account and before I started using my Bluesky account instead, I was keeping my bits and pieces on my Tumblr, which I also no longer use. These are those bits and pieces.
12 - I wonder which piece of cutlery is used most - fork, knife, or spoon.
12 - "The best way to spot an idiot: Look for the person who is cruel." - J. B. Pritzker
12 - Sometimes I just want to eat a whole cake.
16 - I dream of a future where laundry does itself.
16 - I refuse to feel any guilt whatever about eating an entire box of Cheez-Its. (zesty cheddar ranch flavour)
16 - Well, good or not, my written iaido exam is submitted. I know who's grading them. I hope they give me some grace. I hate these written exams. I don't much care for the actual performance part either. I wouldn't do them at all if I didn't feel guilted into it.
16 - I was watching a thing about the usual detractions Westerners make about China's product output. She said that the West needs to stop crapping on China for making cheap products. They don't make cheap products because they're cheap. They make cheap products because that's what the West asks for.
22 - Every once in a while I still get nostalgic for LiveJournal. If I had stupid money, I'd buy it off the Russians and clean it up.
22 - I think the federal Liberal party might be the very poster children for a new definition of maladapted ... which I was going to define, but then realised we have the term enshitification. If anyone could fuck up a free lunch, they could.
22 - Because we all love a bit of harmless (potential datamining) fun, with musical interludes! Four albums from the year you turned 16.
22 - I have just the one gummy left. It is berry-flavoured. I want those root beer ones again, but no one has them whenever I go somewhere.
23 - One of the somewhat frustrating issues with certain kinds of gig-work or task-work is the dependence on PayPal. So many companies use that and nothing else, with no options to use a different service, or even your bank. I would deeply love to give them the boot, as would many of my compatriots.
23 - "Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral." - Paulo Freire
23 - I was so naive and innocent in my early/mid-teens that I didn't know what Frankie meant when he said o/~ When you want to come o/~
23 - When XTC first released Dear God, I kept hearing the line o/~ Still believing that junk is true o/~ as o/~ Still believing that Chunky Soup o/~ I was confused.
24 - As I encounter yet another person "concerned" about the "impact" of a basic income, I wonder why this person's concerned about a basic income, and not about a society built such that it even requires we have one. Imagine thinking poverty and a chasm of wealth inequality were "normal".
24 - "you're rather odd and I'm okay with that." - can't recall. People say the nicest things about you sometimes. :)
24 - "May you always be as vivid as your hallucinations." Something I cooked up from something The Surrealist Compliment Generator said to me. I went to get the link to share it, and today's compliment was: Your eyes glow like naked livers burning in the sun.
24 - Every person should have at least one vice. Mine is art supplies - coloured pencils specifically. Is that too mundane?
24 - Flatware sets should contain twice as many forks as everything else in the set. The universality of the fork shortage requires it. They go where the socks go, you see. So whatever is going on, it's some kind of collusion.
24 - "The words of the tongue should have three gatekeepers: Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary?" - Arab proverb. I wish I could remember where I first heart this.
24 - "If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid." - Epictetus
24 - My imaginary friend when I was little was called Charlie Brokentoaster. He was not a toaster.
24 - I'm not sure what I thought it was before, but I was surprised the day I found out that the vagina was a tube. I was young. What can I say?
24 - I kept craving pickled ginger, for months. I finally got around to buying myself a jar of it - which has now been sitting there for at least two months utterly and completely unopened.
25 - Possibly, my most likely to be found offensive political take is that strategic voting is morally bankrupt. If you vote for one devil to keep another out, then all you've done is support the devil - not the person or party or baseline you actually care about.
25 - Remove one letter. Ruin a movie.
Petty in Pink
Due
It's A Wonderful Lie
Carface
Full Meal Jacket
Tax Driver
Unset Boulevard
Rear Widow
25 - I have this dream that one day I'm going to wake up and have, in my sleep, somehow managed to memorise all the fallacies and cognitive biases. I also dream about Joe Strummer baking chocolate chip cookies. Neither of these things is terribly likely, though one more probable than the other.
25 - I think my favourite musical expression is "swung note". I realised how that even comes into play with the sword sometimes, during noto.
28 - I passed the written portion of my Iaido challenge for nidan. That's the easy part. Sunday brings the in-person public performance part I hate. :)
29 - I swear, there are people on TikTok who must think I'm high-functioning insane ... because I sometimes fall asleep with my phone in my hand, drop it - usually on my face, and accidentally send videos to strangers that I don't even remember watching.
29 - Every man who says he doesn't know a woman who's been assaulted or harassed actually does. He just doesn't know he does. He doesn't know he does, probably because the women in his life don't think he's safe to tell.
30 - Thanks to the samples of Dayvigo my doctor gave me to try, I have now slept three whole nights straight with at least six hours sleep, and two nights were more than that. I can't tell if the low-grade headache is from oversleep or a side effect of the pill. Either way, normal sleep is delightful.
30 - Twere a long, hard day at the seminar. Did I learn something? I absolutely did. Do I feel like I'll pass my grading tomorrow? Of this we are unsure. Go in and give it my best is all I can do. Do the waza in order, don't drop your sword, and don't make a face. There's my advice for the day.