You know the feeling. You post something to Hubski and watch it slowly drop down your feed unshared.
Well, here is your second chance.
Find one of your favorite posts that hasn't been shared, and sell it.
BTW, searching with your username is a great way to search your posts.
Example: user:mk squid
Alternately: http://hubski.com/posts?id=mk&time=all&shares=0
My band, Tindervox, where I play bass - I love this track. Sports Writer Neil Atkinson Experiences the Liverpool Philharmonic - Frankly, i think the is the best thing I've ever posted, and I was happy with my personal commentary.
I apparently didn't know you were in a band. This is quite good stuff, I'm especially a fan of Memory of Fire. That's awesome that you're playing the Blues Fest! Definitely hear the Nina Simone in it.
It's the first band I've been in where I'm legitimately proud of the music we make. thanks for the kind words.
I'm the missing one lol. I get back to Ottawa in May to reunite. They've been doing gigs sans bass with Justin (far right) doing baritone guitar stuff to help compensate.
Also, I usually stand on the other side of Kara, so I still wouldn't be in this picture. Man that bar is weird. no real stage, so you kind of rock out on ground level.
I've certainly had my share of unshared posts. I know the feeling well. It led to this discussion of hubski loneliness. Here's one of my unshared posts: The Inexorable Sadness of Pencils. Admittedly, it was somewhat obscure. http://hubski.com/pub?id=140849 Even more sad is the only person who responded at all is named user-inactivated. Now how do I even hurl a shoutout to user-inactivated. Sigh.
He went batshit on me for advocating one read up on something before jumping out and protesting it.
He was a knee-jerk liberal. You know, not the kind that puts a lot of thought into his convictions, but finds a cosmology and zeals the shit out of it? "Sympathy for the Devil" is blasphemy and by attempting to rationalize the mentality of the monster I required him to confront its human face. Quoth David Wong:Think of Osama Bin Laden. Did you just picture a camouflaged man hiding in a cave, drawing up suicide missions? Or are you thinking of a man who gets hungry and has a favorite food and who had a childhood crush on a girl and who has athlete's foot and chronic headaches and wakes up in the morning with a boner and loves volleyball?
Something in you, just now, probably was offended by that. You think there's an effort to build sympathy for the murderous fuck. Isn't it strange how simply knowing random human facts about him immediately tugs at your sympathy strings? He comes closer to your Monkeysphere, he takes on dimension.
He was all over the place in that thread. He posted at least three top level comments that were inane madness, and then called this whole site "libertarian scum" for attempting to understand Cheney, which leads me to believe he never read anything he saw here because I doubt there are more than four libertarians on the whole of this site.
I often have to remind myself that you encounter far more children and mentally ill individuals on the Internet than you do in your daily life. And you never know who's drunk. He wasn't a child - he had a link to his blog in his profile. Drunk and/or mentally ill weren't off the table, though.
No evidence that he's a Vet, but might have been. He lived in Vermont or Maine in the woods, it seems. He was passionate about climate change and furious at climate change deniers. Came on intensely and left just as suddenly. I didn't get the impression that he was mentally ill, but now that I've read over his bits, I'd say yeah. It's okay to have strong opinions, but you can still act your age. He was wise to leave if this place made him so angry. Hubski isn't necessarily for everyone.
Only circumstantial. If I lived in Vermont in the woods I don't think I'd care what the internet thought. I'd go fishing and smoke a lot of weed, and eat maple syrup. And read. And write. Maybe dip a toe into Canada when I was feeling adventurous. Go to Acadia. Build a treehouse. Sleep outside in a hammock during summer.No evidence that he's a Vet
I call anybody that is older than me super-old.
I am not quite 25 and experiencing all the trite "quarter-life crises" that arise around that time, such as: "Should I buy a house? Is this the career I want? What should I do with my life?" but thankfully, I have also been engineering a lot of long-term plans. I believe insomniasexx and I are almost the same age. Edit: It will be my half-birthday sometime between April 30th and May 1st. So I am not really even not quite 25.
Should I buy a house? You can even ask that question? Wow. I'm impressed. I say definitely yes, then rent it out. You probably saw my various comments on the quarter-life crisis w/ commentary by apes and newgreen. If not, it's here, originally posted just after you signed up on the hub. by the way, "What should I do with my life?" is a great question. I'd love you to #askhubski.
http://hubski.com/pub?id=76452 The basement show culture, and the related fourth wave emo, is a personal passion of mine. This video does a great job of explaining the dynamics of the basement show culture in Philly and other relevant cities.
The Science Fiction braintrust advising the Department of Homeland Security. I know three of the people mentioned personally. You certainly know them by name. I can totally see Larry Niven saying that. An essay on flying pre-WWII cropdusters. I sorta wish I still had my subscription to Garden and Gun, but it's stupid expensive. This is some of the most evocative descriptions of flying I've read this side of Tom Wolfe. I have no recollection of posting this. I honestly have no recollection of this existing. Was this on Facebook? I was probably drunk. Nonetheless, Fabio throwing boomerang pizzas and severing the members of Spanish exhibitionists. The data you're giving up, more than a year before Snowden. Still a beautiful video. Still timely. Still unloved. * Older than that, I start getting broken links. This was a good article about Bang & Olufsen but apparently Wired can't be bothered to keep their content intact. Most of the stuff I think is cool tends to get shared a lot. The rest of it... eh.
http://hubski.com/pub?id=31893 The sexy way to learn Chinese. What is there not to like?
You she mi shi? "What's the matter?" -I learned something and I enjoyed it. What's not to like indeed! Good to see you lessismore, I hope life has been treating you well. In regards to "April fools day" which is mentioned in your post, this year on Hubski we made the entire site in the "Illuminated" style. -It was an awesome mess for a while. You can check out that "style" in your settings, I actually think it's pretty cool. All my best pal.
What font would you like, good master of the fonts?
Hey, you're the designer. I don't even play one on TV. As it exists right now, "Illuminated" does an excellent job of hearkening to a book that is painstakingly crafted by the cloistered elites for the occasional, ceremonial enjoyment of the cloistered elites. I certainly approve of the (decidedly bourgeois) intent, but readability could go up a titch. For one thing, quoted text is like 6 point right now - but only sometimes. Sometimes its in like 15-point Elvish. Oh, but wait. You already fucked with that. Now it's like 32-point courier new. You know, at this point I say up the contrast a little (pale out the background a bit, throw a bit more black into the text), up the standard font a point or two to make up for the fact that it's distressed, bring the quotes back down to earth and let it simmer. I'll run it for a while and see what I hate. How's that sound? EDIT: Hyperlinks should be more discernible as well. Maybe riff off the teal and gold in the side banners? Hey, you could even extend them to the wheels.
Yeah, we are on that. insomniasexx. forwardslash
Only one share for this bit of musical, comedic gold: http://hubski.com/pub?id=110874
http://hubski.com/pub?id=140035 Life in a North Dakotan oil/gas boom town. Or, one of many reasons why I'm completely opposed to ever working in that industry despite the absurd amount of money they pay Chemical Engineers.
http://hubski.com/pub?id=134655 Using randomly generated descriptions to create new art forms.
Gotta plug this again. I don't think you have to be too into videogames to find this fascinating from a design standpoint. That being saids, spoilers ahoy if you've never played CT. And if you haven't, the hell is wrong with you, close this tab and go finish that shit.
http://hubski.com/pub?id=129534 A statistical analysis of the quality of LEGO sets. Quick read, but I found it interesting. Also, remember to share mk's original post so people see all these cool unshared posts :P
http://www.hubski.com/pub?id=129063 It's the story of an illegal immigrant who fights violence with peace, and has made a pretty good impact on the people around him.
A recent one: http://hubski.com/pub?id=143352 And an oldie, but goody. http://hubski.com/pub?id=37303
Two songs from my friends' band Marrow. I'm not offended that no one ever shared it, i could imagine myself scrolling right past this kind of post. But the songs are seriously great. If you're familiar with the band Kids These Days, this is what half the members (minus Vic Mensa and horns) ended up doing after they broke up. Even if i didn't know them i'd say this is definitely worth the 8 minutes of your time. Watch the video too, if you can. It's awesome.
This one is what gave me the idea for this post:
http://hubski.com/pub?id=128256 KoL is seriously a great game. I have a ton of resources and I'll start a hubski clan, if you'll participate in chat. It only takes an hour or two per day, since adventures are limited. Great community and they even approve of botting (google KolMafia).
I loved this one, a comic about Obama ordering the forging of a trillion dollar platinum coin.
http://boingboing.net/2013/01/09/tom-the-dancing-bug-and-a-pla.html It's from a year ago, during the debt ceiling crisis(es). The idea is that the mint has the authority to make coins in any denomination, so long as they are platinum. Obama could then, without needing anyone's permission, get a trillion dollar coin minted and plunk it in a safe. Assets would then be more than debt and the debt ceiling would not be an issue. I thought it was brilliant idea, and the comic is brilliantly executed. "I've heard tell of a coin, forged in the fiery depths of the mint... worth a trillion dollars!" Expert disagree on the legality, but it sounds like it could work. Here's the wikipedia entry on it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trillion_dollar_coin Not a single share. Too esoteric?