I was being silly.
I was being silly.
It leans a little more toward academic than some of the others here, and spans a broader time span, but History of The World p1 is pretty good.
You bastige. You fargin sneaky bastage. Why you miserable cork-soaker!
Watership Down.
Anything but grape. Apricot is a favorite.
I have those same clubs. Why isn’t there a Frankensteins Monster head there? It would make a sick planter too.
I’m in the building sciences. The biggest unanswered question we come up against almost daily is “what the fuck was the last guy thinking?”. And we avoid, daily, admitting we were the last guy somewhere else.
It’s this exactly. The minute you stop learning, or think you know it all, is the minute you start declining. There is always something new to learn, some new innovation, a new system or procedure. I believe this is true for absolutely everything. I think it’s why older generations get bitchy about “these kids today” too. Shit changes and people stagnate because they know it all already.
But just keep a clear head, know that life is dynamic and try to find the joy in the process of getting better, don’t get hung up on the goal of doing it perfect or being the best. Anyone of value will recognize your effort to simply improve.
I’ve been a carpenter since I was 18 and a finish carpenter since i was 30. I’ll be 52 this year. So I’ve been doing this for 34 years. By all regards, I’m an expert in my field. My work has been on magazine covers, my work has won awards for architects and designers. I’m known by name by top builders and firms in my area. I now run jobs as a superintendent and/or project manager. I get calls to come work for other companies on the regular.
I still have zero idea why. Like, I just tell people what to do in an order that makes sense. And before that, I beat nails into wood. It wasn’t till about 3 or 4 years ago when my wife took me aside and explained to my face that, yeah, I’m really good at my job that I started to realize that, yeah, I’m pretty good at my job. But everyday, driving in, I’m still just a kid that’s in over his head. I don’t feel confident at work. I know on one level I’m doing OK, I mean I must be, right? But I just come in and do my best and hope it’s good enough. Turns out, that it usualy is good enough.
And I can tell you this. Anyone that walks around super confident in their work, usually sucks at their job. I’ve seen dozens of people claim that they’re the best around, only to get axed or laid off as soon as possible. Don’t bother being confident in your work, be confident that you’re doing the best that you can do and be confident that you have the ability to keep learning.
That’s a fun one. You get to see the same movie twice but it’s different both times.
Yeah, I watch that about once a year. It’s, I think, the only time travel story that actually follows it’s own rules. Have you seen Upstream Color? Same guy, really interesting story. It can lead into Blade Runner 2049 elements about consciousness and memory.
I love the idea that’s there’s a vinyl geek out there right now reading this and having aneurysm over the idea that someone is using a stylus on this.
I was running a Mork Borg session once and the pc’s came across a fountain in the middle of a cave. It was a pretty dirty cave, as is all of MB, but this fountain was just a clean, fresh, cool water source. It was like 10 or 15 irl minutes of debate and thought. I had one roll a random die and that triggered one players dog to drink from it. It was fine. They refilled their waterskins and one even washed their feet. It gets mentioned everytime there’s an odd thing in a setting now.
When all else fails, Audiobookbay and and Anonamouse are my go-to sites.
The media has some responsibility for sure but ultimately it’s consumers that dictate what the media broadcasts. If people didn’t watch, they’d cover someone/something else. All media, npr included, needs an audience, and covering shitbags gets clicks and views. Journalism isn’t what it used to be. The standard isn’t telling truth or fact, it’s selling ads and making the broadcasters money. This is just another feature of the free market.
She’s getting what she wants from it though. Clicks and views. It’s all about posturing. It’s just virtue signaling with garbage for virtues.
No. I think Bobs_monkey is right. I haven’t read the whole thing yet but wiki makes it seem like a game console from Nintendo.
Check out Smart Audiobook Player in the Gplay store. The free version is fab and the paid ads some bells and whistles.
Same. Raised on neglect and hose water.