Posts by smays@mastodon.technology
(DIR) Post #A62Tw5JmiAxit81SlM by smays@mastodon.technology
2021-04-08T14:08:24Z
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"Americans are strange people. They allow themselves to be bled white by gangsters for generation after generation and call it freedom. But that blissful ignorance may be in its endgame. The consumer economy is already dead — what we’re experiencing right now is its wake. What do you think governments are going to use to keep everyone docile when the shit finally hits the fan?”-- ibid
(DIR) Post #A8mPch3SZMo9tSf5Ci by smays@mastodon.technology
2021-06-23T22:03:19Z
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"One way to appreciate virtually any moment of your life is to pretend that the whole thing is already over.Your life came and went a long time ago, but for some reason you’ve just been sent back to this random moment, here in this office chair, or in line at Home Depot."Continued...https://www.raptitude.com/2021/06/how-to-remember-youre-alive/
(DIR) Post #AASAY1MjggWsqd2mvI by smays@mastodon.technology
2021-08-18T14:55:14Z
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I love New York
(DIR) Post #AAtvAPmpKx69IsTfiy by smays@mastodon.technology
2021-09-01T00:21:27Z
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Made a new shirt to remind myself what I am.
(DIR) Post #AAwRXqgP5YA8ENbwAa by smays@mastodon.technology
2021-09-01T03:37:50Z
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"5ives is a collection of lists of five things. It is written by a person called Merlin Mann — a stony recluse who probably lives in a tree somewhere in Northern California. Little is known about Merlin apart from what can be gleaned by the caregivers who collect his waste and deliver fresh boxes of Kleenex™ for him to wear on his feet."http://www.5ives.com
(DIR) Post #AB7ZVJKJzhJsd5zwEi by smays@mastodon.technology
2021-09-07T14:36:20Z
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@Gina Supercalifragili… ah, fuck it.
(DIR) Post #AB7w0bRsrguOnorULQ by smays@mastodon.technology
2021-09-07T15:44:06Z
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@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon I am one of your slower fans, WofB. Can you explain this one to me?
(DIR) Post #AElhv4JB61NcHqCuUS by smays@mastodon.technology
2021-12-25T16:55:43Z
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@grumpy Scan them and put them online where alien archeologists can find them.
(DIR) Post #AF2YblEmBIqPjkBZYG by smays@mastodon.technology
2022-01-02T19:50:22Z
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One month from today I will have been blogging for 20 years. 5,981 posts. About 25 posts a month, 299 posts a year.I've been diligent about categories (30) and tags (228). Only found half a dozen I missed, now fixed.Categories: Books (438), Family/Friends (583), Gadgets/apps (492), Internet (796), Media/Entertainment (1,185), Politics/gov (552), Sci/Tech (613), Stuff (689), Video (571)Images: 2,982Video: 191 (lots of links to YouTube)Audio: 86smays.com
(DIR) Post #AF2YwjexF6DovOQpqC by smays@mastodon.technology
2022-01-02T20:05:13Z
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@onan Ouch. I've been immune to such by never caring about audience or google rank or any of the rest. It started as a place to put stuff I wanted to find later. And it has served that purpose well.
(DIR) Post #AF2ZQ50ovtWxXxeTxo by smays@mastodon.technology
2022-01-02T20:10:31Z
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@onan Yes! Your situation was clearly a problem. Not sure why I was never considered spam.Early on I get a note that China had (for some reason) blocked access to my blog. :)
(DIR) Post #AF2ZjD8cweTYFcQSn2 by smays@mastodon.technology
2022-01-02T20:13:59Z
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@onan I never considered selling ads on the blog. Not enough views to make it worth fucking with. Had a few inquiries but always politely declined.
(DIR) Post #AF8z1z1zHZh3nr7zO4 by smays@mastodon.technology
2022-01-05T21:10:38Z
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I've been polishing my blog post marking 20 years and just realized it falls on 2/2/22
(DIR) Post #AH6ynJZeIHFldA3R2m by smays@mastodon.technology
2022-03-05T16:06:55Z
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“It's strange how little of the world you actually get to see. No matter where on Earth you happen to be standing, the horizon you see in the distance is only ever about three miles away from you, a bit less than five kilometers. Which means that at any given time, you're barely more than an hour's walk from a completely different world.”— The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows (John Koenig)
(DIR) Post #AIsj6CPZFaivv8rl5M by smays@mastodon.technology
2022-04-27T15:47:11Z
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Wish you were here.
(DIR) Post #AJBGKTrrXPEt8ig1aK by smays@mastodon.technology
2022-05-06T16:11:16Z
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“Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for – in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.”― Ellen Goodman
(DIR) Post #AJUrlWGK8CG4gz74ls by smays@mastodon.technology
2022-05-16T03:11:33Z
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"We are kind of a project that the universe is working on." -- The Other Side of Nothing (Brad Warner)
(DIR) Post #AMDoizjMVEStJKLpc8 by smays@mastodon.technology
2022-08-05T15:13:29Z
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(DIR) Post #AMIDeZIC8GArdsTB8C by smays@mastodon.technology
2022-08-07T17:23:41Z
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“I wonder what it would take to spark a revolution, or a coup. The thing with history is that nothing seems likely until after it happens. So if your first reaction is to dismiss this possibility because it’s unlikely, you haven’t studied history. Everything that happens is unlikely.”— Scott Adams (2007)
(DIR) Post #AN3hbWaTr8ZTl6wXOy by smays@mastodon.technology
2022-08-30T16:13:43Z
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@tek “The Otis Elevator Company estimates that its cars raise and lower the equivalent of the planet’s whole population every nine days.”“The fastest passenger elevators, mostly in Japan, travel at more than thirty feet per second. The record holder in the late 1990’s was a special Mitsubishi elevator in a sightseeing tower in Yokohama: more than forty feet per second, a good climb rate for an airplane.”— Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything, by James Gleick (1999)