I am hereby refusing to participate in any pubski that only serves half-drunk beer. occupypubski is my new spirit animal. Am spending the day playing video games. No Man's Sky has been rewritten to the point where it's worth playing again, and the escapism is necessary. Amusing parallel: my first world was some ugly so-cal lookin' terrible place I renamed "Desert shithole" and then Sony was all "no profanity" so I renamed it "desert craphole" and sony was all "okay buddy whatever" and then I found a goddamn tropical rainforest and FUCK THE DESERT Am also busy figuring out how much insurance for my family will cost if I retire. Looks like about $1200/mo for absolute shit insurance. Am currently paying $600/year for insurance that COBRAs out at $4k/mo. Made limoncello. Roommate left for croatia before he could use the neighbor's lemons. So I used the neighbor's lemons. Made it the exact opposite of how he does it (ie, incorrectly). Roommate came back from croatia and strained the peels out but dumped it unfiltered into bottles and promptly froze it in the freezer. The other roommate is sneaking my eggs. As in, "well there's only one egg left in this carton so I'll leave it and eat two out of this unopened one that's underneath it." fucking toddlers do this. Especially when they have their own goddamn eggs. Test Dept, Severed Heads and Pop Will Eat Itself day after tomorrow. Flight back to Seattle two weeks from now, potentially to never fucking return.
I got NMS on sale for $20 last year sometime, just after that first of the big updates began to turn it into something decent. First planet I came across I named "Iwi Katea" after my hometown, it also had a "barren" moon that I named "My Hopes and Dreams" before finding a radioactive planet I called "Ze Goggles, zey do Nothing". But now? Everything I encounter just has it's in-game name cause man it's tiring coming up with shit nobody will ever read. My brother and I account share so we take turns buying new games, Borderlands 3 has now dropped and we'll be getting acquainted tonight I think; sometimes you just need to shoot shit and zone out.
Here's hoping that some PNW air can clear your head. It's beautiful up there, you could certainly pick worse places to settle. Although...I mean, I'm not sure who's got the worse housing situation, but Seattle's is certainly a fucking mess. Either way, have fun :)Potentially to never fucking return.
Seattle has its issues. The house my wife bought for $175k in 2000 is now a $500k house and the commute that took me 45 minutes in 2006 now takes 90, or so I'm told. But LA is on a whole 'nuther level. The equivalent to my Seattle house in LA would be $1.4m. I once drove from north of Seattle to south of Mount Rainier in the time it took to get from LAX to Pasadena. Seattle has inflated prices because of the three trillion dollar companies in the world, two of them are in Seattle. LA has inflated prices because Los Angeles has been primarily financed by endless property scams going back to before William Mulholland.
Things are going well for my daughter in gifted nerd school. She had a great deal of anxiety about changing schools, to the extent that she was transferring her anxiety to other issues like burglars coming in the house and killing us all or the Earth burning up due to global warming. Shit got real dark for her. Most the anxiety was over not making new friends. She's usually pretty good at making friends but whatever. She made friends with some kids who like to play the Pokemon card game, so I bought her starter packs. Is Pokemon a cool card game? It came after I was a kid, and really have no idea. I've got a spare flat screen TV sitting around so I'm thinking about turning it into a virtual pinball cabinet. Virtual pinball is pretty amazing, check out some YouTube of it. I hope to get the software working by next week and if I can get that working I'll buy some hardware (buttons and a plunger plugged into a makeshift box with a USB control hub). Hopefully the week after that I can start building a cabinet. I'm going to have to find a few monitors at Goodwill for the back display. I hope to get solenoids to simulate the bumpers and some kind of head tracker to make it do 3d as i move around, I should probably buy a tilt sensor as well. I project 3 months so I guess it will take me 5 months to get it all up and running. If you buy coffee, do this for me, know what size you want and wether you would like room or not when you order. If you want an alternative milk, tell the poor soul before they start your drink. Have your money ready (you know you have to pay, so stop acting like this phase is such a fucking surprise). I hear many people bitch about how slow service is at coffee shops but I'm guessing many people should be complaining to a mirror. I'm four strong Belgium's in and have cracked open a bottle of white port wine. I haven't been able to get a proper drunk on for weeks but tonight the spirit has over taken me. Huzzah!
Outside of her gifted nerd school? No, not really. Inside? Tough to tell! If there are people she wants to spend time with, and those people play it...Then I guess it's a cool card game for her! If you can find an old Kinect (Microsoft's retort to the Wii), they actually have pretty good body movement tracking software. Might be your best commercial option without spending thousands. Enjoy the libations, keep us updated on that cabinet :)Is Pokemon a cool card game?
some kind of head tracker
A web cam with head tracking will get you most of the way there. The web cam method only give perspective in a plane while a kinetic will add a z axis to the perspective change. I'm a long way from implementing head tracking so it isn't much of a worry. I suppose I'll keep my eye out for web cams and kinetic's while I check Good Will for a back plate and for matrix monitor.
Good morning fellow Hubskiers and welcome to the ersatz pubski! It has been a long week for me. I spoke with my parents for a while on Friday and now I am writing a letter to them. I'm not sure what I want the conclusion to be yet or if it's one of those letters you write and never send. I served on a jury (as a back-up juror) Monday and Tuesday. It was a he-said-she-said statutory (and actual) rape case. The testimony was harrowing even just to listen to. This morning I called and discovered that it was declared a mistrial, which I assume means the jury hung. And people wonder why sexual assault victims don't bring suit against their abusers. In positive news, a conference paper I wrote this summer got accepted and the revisions look minor! Hope you all are well.
d00d you brought the bourbon Fuckin' mk's pubski can fuck off forever now with his half-drunk IPA. Congrats on the letter, congrats on choosing not to send it, and only the sociopaths wonder why sexual assault victims don't bring suit against their abusers. I don't mean to denigrate your gaze into the abyss. I've only ever had to deal with competency and penalty-setting in jury duty.
I'm sure you'll find the answers damn near simultaneously. I'm glad that you're writing it, at least, as I'm sure it's giving you some catharsis. Props on the paper, by the way! That sounds huge :) Hope everything is well with you, too!I'm not sure what I want the conclusion to be yet or if it's one of those letters you write and never send.
Good witching hour. It is Friday the 13th. The next full moon will be 2049 at this occurence. I am reminiscing of my grandfather. My grandfather passed away 4 years ago. I had spent the last 2 years before he passed, not by his side, and the last I saw his face was on his death bed with tears of joy seeing me. My grandfather was a strong ww2 veteran who is buried at the top of the hill with his wife, dead of cancer, who died a year before I was born. He contributed to the community he moved to and called home. He set up in the farmlands outside of Los Angeles, at the time, only for me to see it become the 3rd biggest city in California. I do not know my grandfather's stories from him. I do not remember talking to him or when I was younger. What I remember is summers at the beach in the warm sunlight- for he retired north by Santa Barbara. I remember the chess games in Marie Callender's, watching Pinocchio and The Little Mermaid and Aladdin, and growing up solemn with the only happiness being to see what my grandfather wanted to show through paintings and books. I loved that man more deeply than I love my father, I regret to admit. I do not understand how to explain how I believe in the reincarnation of souls and living memory, but this wells up in me as I think to go into new territory, hopefully, just like he did. I lost my grandfather to dementia, I thought, but he still cried the last time he saw me. I want to carry his spirit into my elder years. I feel like, after about 4 years of serious alcoholic abuse, I am finally starting to realize the depth of his kindness and glory and service. I also got sick while I was gone. Thank you for not logging me out and getting rid of my account. This place has been a harbour for me and I truly yearn for deep connections on here, but I am very afraid and not as brazen as I was in my youth. I find out more results on Tuesday. I hope your 13th is filled with horrow-shows and exploration of the supernatural.
Made myself a rope dart, super exited to learn some tricks. That thing feels like a weapon in my hands, unlike most flow art props and I love it. Maybe by next summer I’ll be good enough to light it on fire? It’s also my sisters wedding this weekend. And most my weekend until beginning of November are spoken for already! Loving my life right now. My only issue is that tourist season is coming to a close and consequently so are my tours. Gotta figure out something to do (and hopefully earn money?) until next spring. I don’t know how realistic it is for me to get a real job at this point. I’ve done enough weird things that I just have a collection of weird skills and no idea how to behave in an office. Not that I really want to be in an office. I have this strange idea of getting government money to build some stuff in our local maker space... don’t know how realistic it actually is.
My 9/11 connection, other than running from toxins in the air This was when I was living in Queens and first tech job working for an Indian / American tech entity (developing WAP software, I was the marketing kid and they taught me some WAP cards development) called Zy Technologies. We were on 6th Avenue (AKA Avenue of the Americas) and 26th Street when the towers fell. So, yeah major plumes of smoke gushing up 6th. We just thought it was it was an explosion or an accident, there was no way to tell, cops were directing everyone north (subway was closed), as there were no real alert systems (sounds funny right?) on mobile phones then. We actually ended up walking across the GW Bridge from The Bronx into Jersey to stay at a colleague's house, which was only around a marathon = 26 miles. All of our clients were on Wall Street more or less, they were buying into WAP technologies at the time. Needless to say, we went under entirely and I ended up leaving NYC for Helsinki (for two years). Two years later, when I got back to (my native) Pittsburgh and this is the weirdest part, I dated one of the pilot's daughter from Flight 77 (as you would imagine a nutcase because of it, granted loaded from the settlement). She wasn't too hard on the eyes, and we didn't stay together. I felt for her, but she was in deep pain and it was only cured by booze. She ended up dying a few years later, dating some big wig from NBC programming or the like. *sigh... Can all be searched, I can't post links yet.
First of all, I support the new era of Pubski spirits. Vive la révolution! Second of all, the healing of my leg goes well! I'm at my parents' right now, and they've been taking good care of me. My leg hurts (obviously), but the swelling has gone down and the pain is (mostly) pretty manageable. I've got hardcore cabin-fever already, sitting in the same room all day. I've been moving around the house to deal with it, but nothing will feel as good as finally going outside without feeling pain or exerting a ton of effort. Second-and-a-half of all, the doctor gave me a ton of hydrocodone. I'm trying to take it as sparingly as possible (and doing a good job), but it's an interesting coincidence with all the talk about the opioid epidemic and the Sackler family in the news. Not too worried about getting addicted, but it felt like a good segue into... Third of all, I promised you all I'd give you updates on quitting nicotine! It's been about a month since quitting cold turkey (I really should've written the date down, it's in my Hubski history somewhere), and I haven't had any cravings recently. Maybe it's the pain in my leg, or how eventful everything has been? Either way, I feel pretty comfortable with it now. There's not really a finish-line to cross but...I think I quit smoking! Neat!
My brother is flying in from Illinois to visit this week. I'm picking him up this afternoon from the airport. I took some days off, so we'll be bumming around LA and having some fun. Itll be nice to actually spend some time with him as I haven't really been able to since high school circa 2000.
Finally! A new drink. I am in the midst of putting together an "influencer campaign." This is new territory for us. What I think is cool is that we are considering all of our passionate clients to be "influencers," and we will put in to their hands the ability to proselytize on our behalf. October is stem cell month! I am going up north tomorrow (Michigan) with my wife. I was offered the ability to fly up on a private plane. I've never done that before. But, my wife wants me to drive up with her so we can "talk." Doh! It's one of those, "you can fly up if you want..." Test. Plane leaves tonight. She drives up tomorrow. I think I will drive with her, if nothing else because I don't want to miss any of the democratic debate. Go Yang!
Nice! We are headed to Torch Lake. Where you gonna be?
I don't know which Pubski I'm supposed to comment in. I guess I'll do it here, because it has more shares and comments. I think there is a cricket in the house. At least, it sounds like it's in the house. I guess I don't mind if no one else does. I'm addicted to iNaturalist. It's so much fun. I guess as far as addictions go, this is an okay one to have seeing as how it gets me outside to the parks and all. I'm having a hard time thinking cleary right now and I don't know what to say, so I guess I'll call it a night. Think beautiful thoughts, Hubski. You're all wonderful.
Hey Hubski. I am searching for full-time corporate employment as we speak. Still in school but I'm not sure if it's worth continuing at this point. I only paid tuition for one semester. I feel as if I've "buying time" in some sense, so it's time to stop doing that. I can feel the clock ticking boys. The circus awaits. Bourbon is sweet! I love you all!
That would be sweet. I have a b.a. in economics and like two second year level computer science courses. I have a general idea of what's out there, I've done a bit of searching. Analyst positions at banks, government jobs, software development? Somewhere in or near London, Ont. (Iglooland)
Calling all of our Canadian cousins here... lil, someguyfromcanada,coffeesp00ns, and everyone else I’ve forgotten... anyone know someone who knows someone who’s hiring in the London area of Ontario? (I know that apart from lil, you live thousands of km away from there... just worth asking) I used to administer a system made by OpenText of Waterloo. I attended a training there once and the environment was quite nice. The company I used to work for has offices in Missississississaugua and Markham... but I wouldn’t wish that company on my worst enemy. I have a non-hubski friend who lives out your way. I’ll ask her if she knows of anything.
Im in the midst of appliance meltdown. My oven failed and needed a control board, my freezer wont defrost which is causing me to defrost it with a blowdryer every week otherwise the fridge wont work and yesterday the dishwasher almost had catastrophic failure when the water inlet valve got stuck open. Now I need a new dishwasher, probably gonna get a Bosch 500 series, though I am considering a kitchen-aid. Other than that wife is starting up a practice in Everett, but gotta figure out the website. I could do one myself but it wont look as great if we had a pro do it, the problem is finding a pro that will actually do SEO and make a good website. Its not like she actually needs much but a lot of the services out there are scam-my and offer you a whole lot of meh for 2k. KB did you end up doing DIY website for your wife? You are a polymath after-all.
Yes that’s possible, if true that would mean scrapping the entire system. This weekend I’m going to install a new thermal relay on the defrost coil and see if that’s the issue as testing it is a bit too complicated (I need to get it to 22f). If that doesn’t fix the problem then I’m going to toss the fridge because compressor replacement isn’t cost effective and it’s a sealed system so I don’t think you can just top it off