BULLETIN BOARD:
BULLETIN BOARD:
NOVEMBER 14, 2023:
First, I'll begin by apologizing for my week-long absence. I was getting back into life after... well. I'll explain the past three weeks to you now.
- I went to Clemson, South Carolina and neighboring cities for a week. It was long and taxing for me. I was brewing a case of the flu.
- Then, I was dealing with that flu for about a week. In the meantime I did the code for my entire NEOCITIES site. Took a whopping three days. Was a wonderful journey.
- Then I partied for about two days straight, could've been four if I wasn't careful. Those who know me closely know I can get carried away partying. Got drunk. Crossfaded sometimes. Was quite nice! Then again I had just done that before in SC.
- Then I spent another two days recovering from that entire ordeal. It was wild. It was fun. I enjoyed indulging in being a reckless wreckful mess for a while!
I had a bit of a debate with someone close to me about the cultivation of corn vs the cultivation of wheat.
I had been advocating for corn, him for wheat. It all began when he said he could stand manning a boat with me and I then told him I could stand owning a farm or cabin + small farm with him. Both are very isolating and require a great deal of trust. It meant we could stand each other. We practically expressed our love for each other's company and our belief in that love. It was great.
Anyway, we asked an AI and the AI fucking shat on me. Talked about the efficiency of wheat in water use and hardiness helping with growth in a variety of soil types and climates. Those would help if resources are low at the cabin. Additionally, it has a shorter growing season and that means it could be harvested often. So it requires less time an resources basically.
I then asked about the efficiency of corn in preservation for feeding the potential livestock we would have. We would have chickens so we didn't have to rely on hunting for our protein intake, and we could totally waterglass (preservation technique) those eggs and it would be way easier than having to preserve meats we hunt. Anyway, corn would feed those chickens pretty well I believe. Here's a reminder that I actually haven't looked into this because it is only a hypothetical that I like to daydream about.
We then talked about the benefits of cultivating both and decided that both was good. Also decided both hunting and caring for chickens was good. (mmmmmm yummy tallow) We have yet to theorize on how we would live on the boat.
- Videos
During my entire morning I watched a bit of YouTube and sipped on a nice hot cuppa ofc.
I watched LGR and ANTI-CHEF which are my two favorite channels right now.
LGR is this dude who makes videos on old-tech like this video I watched about a PDA-like device for teens in the 2000's called the Cybiko. It had stuff such as wireless chatrooms, little wireless games, and weird teen meeting profiles. I love his videos.
ANTI-CHEF has been my favorite youtuber for about a year now. I can't remember. He makes videos about his home-chef experience of making recipes in books by famous chefs. My favorite series of his is the Jamie and Julia series where he (Jamie) makes recipes from Julia Child's most well-known books. He makes videos of recipes that nobody talks about and shows a wonderfully casual and novice-friendly cooking atmosphere.
Here's a good video. There really isn't a magnum opus video I could link and there isn't any single one that I watched today. I watch them constantly in the background of my morning while I do literally anything. I pause periodically when I need to pay attention to something someone is telling me or to write important things. ALL of the videos are good. The one I linked is one of them good ones. He makes me laugh. He is so silly.
- my birthday is in a week.
- i talked to a friend early in the morning about how Socrates views love. that shit was great. i can't put the entire discussion into this bulletin so here are now... the bits!
[ THEM: "he starts with like the idea that most people think love comes from finding the one person you love and making or raising a child with them to preserve your immortality through their relationship to u
and then he says that tends to be unsatisfactory though, and you learn quickly that humans individually are very temporary, cuz we all die, so u start looking for relationship with multiple people's bodies and try to have intimate romantic and sexual relationships with a lot of people and that also doesnt work"
(of which i replied "BASED")
ME: "i've resorted to.. instead just... trying real hard to deeply understand the individual person i want to be close to. understand the way they think, to the point where i know how they would feel about even small things. how they react to anything, as if i was them. it gives the idea of [socrates' idea of] realm a nod while also allowing room for miscalculations. wiggle room. adaptability."
THEM: "...and that furthermore, we can't stay in the area of ideas, let alone forms, because we'll always be brought down to earth by human desires like eating and sleeping, so reaching for ideas all the time is ALSO not great, because it would neglect the fundamental human experience we all have."
ME: "morals and values are meant to change to best fit living a good life and helping others live good lives or stand their ground if it best fits living a good life and helping others live good lives. they're how you perceive information and how you interact with the world. and if your morals and values make it so the information is badly perceived and you badly interact with those around you... then your morals and values suck! they're like little princes(ses) stuck in their towers but there is no knight to save them! they won't let the knight in!" ]
- another of my friends today said "the way you write just oozes with such pragmatic charm i adore it" and it made me very giddy and blush real hard.
- i want to make julia child's rum brioche strawberry shortcake for thanksgiving but i'm also battling with the idea of making banana bread, pumpkin pie, and deviled eggs too.
- i love talking in the discord server of WackyAlex (of FunHouse Radio)
oh and here's the wishlist i wrote today. not to ask for things but only so you can view into my mind and what material objects i find important enough to ask for but not important enough to buy for myself.
- Desktop Gaming PC from BestBuy
- Julia Child's "The Way To Cook" Cookbook
- Lev Grossman's "The Magicians" Book Trilogy
- John Darnielle's "Devil House" Book
- "The Pragmatic Programmer" First Edition Book
- Cory Althoff's "The Self-Taught Programmer" Book
- Jon Erickson's "Hacking: The Art of Exploitation" 2nd Edition
- Razer Blackshark V2 Headset
- Panasonic Lumix ZS80 Camera
- Macbook
- Fever-Tree Ginger Beer
NOVEMBER 06, 2023:
- neocities
nobody told me it would be this fun !!! say hello or link your own site in my chatbox on my home page!
i really wanna see them even if they're like.. barebones and you don't do anything with it. i am having a good time figuring out more html stuff. the hardest part is figuring out what things i would even THINK about making. i could seriously make anything on there and the hardest part is COMING UP WITH THE IDEAS???
- guitar
anyway, time to talk about shit that probably isn't gonna hit the target audience! today ive been listening to a bit of classic guitar stuff. like malmsteen and steve vai and jason becker. a little bit of buckethead and joe satriani. here's the playlist i'm running! i made it today of just the cheesy classic popular stuff, and a couple personal songs i just felt like listening to lately starting at the bush tracks. bush, ax7, and children of bodom. chatted with my uncle about guitar for like an hour! it was nice.
- sickness
i've been sick for what like.... a week and a half? sorta! i went through the terrible phase of body aches and headaches and constant sleeping, now i feel normal except my body is at the stage of expelling all of the waste. so i'm all snotty and there's phlegm in the back of my throat that i have to cough up like a hairball. i hate that feeling. it'll be over soon...
- culvers
i had culvers for lunch. the fast food burger. the. best. fast food chain burger. on the planet. i stand by that.
NOVEMBER 03, 2023:
I'm super sick right meow so my sinuses are making my ears feel so clogged that it feels like I'm isolated underwater except only in my right ear (I yawned a couple minutes ago and the left one popped).
Is anyone else like... being hit by the flu? It feels like it's been spreading.
I don't have anything particularly interesting to talk about, and my romantic life is becoming a super overdone topic so I will note nothing of it. I guess a fun thing is that I've been rereading Paradise Lost by John Milton because I went back to it and realized I remembered nothing from the first hundred pages. Now I'm annotating directly into the book which has honestly helped a lot. Don't worry, it's a Barnes and Noble print so there's probably a billion other copies of the same hardback.