The ‘common’ part of ‘common sense’

I feel this so deeply…

Still every week

Say what you mean, mean what you say.

Hands down, when someone is eating while using a handheld phone. No matter how hard you try, mics are designed to pick up audio from near your mouth, you WILL sound like a face hugger from Alien

https://youtu.be/YnVGB1VDc4c

Absolutely! You can also sync your notes folder/vault by placing them in a connected folder if you’ve already got another cloud sync service

100% Obsidian (https://obsidian.md/)

There is a ton of content out there demo’ing Obsidian, but this 10min video is the one that did the trick for me: https://youtu.be/DbsAQSIKQXk

I saw the post title and was like “no fuckin’ way…”

Love how Arnett called attention to it too. “anyone got the balls to follow up on the mushrooms?” hahahaha

Wonder if it would serve well as the brains of a smart mirror? And if you have the inclination to make one…

https://magicmirror.builders/

I watched this a handful of days ago. It’s pretty decent, and there was certainly info in there I didn’t know. Some added context to current world events

Love how they get ahead of naysayers right up front by showing that the info being presented is known by anyone that’s been through a mainstream seminary. Then differentiating between biblical scholars and pastors.

Not to take anything away from the gravity and impact of this speech, but this happened last week; not yesterday.

This brand of positivity you’re embodying is the most infectious one, and if I can feel it in your writing I imagine hearing it spoken from you would be some next level inspiration.

I’ve lost some people close to me over the years and what saddens me most is how I’ve forgotten so much about them beyond what they looked like. All of them except one…Gordon left behind audio recordings as his last messages to each of us in the group of friends.

Every time I hear his voice, it brings back so much about him that just can’t be said. His cadence, intonation, and overall manner of speaking have helped keep an entire person in my memory.

I wonder if that’s an option for you. I can say from experience that the lasting impact of audio is…powerful. Being able to actually hear my friend…i can imagine him speaking to me, and it’s in his voice because his voice is not forgotten.

Your family hearing your thoughts, in your voice…and being able to hear you speak long after your time…man, I can’t think of a better way to highlight your true personality and make it a lasting one.

Remember when just about every government employee was carrying around a BlackBerry device for official business?

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

He’s hosed next year if he said that

I honestly wish it was as hands down as that. What he said appeals to exactly the kind of people it was directed at…and there are so SO many of those people out there. Majority? I don’t know; and that in itself is a problem…it should be absolutely obvious that a significant majority of people aren’t aligned with him. But its not.

I’ll betcha this ends up working to his advantage somehow.

fucking depressed myself with my own comment. I’m going to go take an Ace Ventura style shower

My guy here is hotboxing the shower or having an aneurysm in it. You need help bro?

“LinkOpensChest_wave…you magnificent bastard…”

This has got to be where the idea for transparent wood came from…

What you’re holding there is Prototype-0

Google could have simply preserved my metadata OR sent the files in “artist/album”

Which they most certainly can do. My condolences to the time you’ll never get back.

I suppose the silver lining is familiarity with a new set of tools and mechanisms for working through arduous minutia of it all. Could be a pretty neat utility if it could all be packaged up.

This right here is the fail safe that all these SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, and other aaS offerings have inherently built into themselves. They make it so “easy” to get your data (as they put it) but so fucking mind-numbingly annoying to have it any kind of usable/archive-able format.

If I want to move my data from one platform to something else, it shouldn’t involve a Six Sigma certified consultant, a bag of bespoke tools, and a sacrificial offering. This isn’t a CRM migration at a multi-national conglomerate, I just want my files (you can have em!) in a usable format (they’ll work!) correctly named and structured (yeah, no…)

The average person isn’t going to go through the lengths you’ve gone through here; because they’ll try to and just go right back. I mean, the average person has a hard enough time getting affordable groceries…forget about a sacrificial blood letting.

Out of curiosity, how much time did you spend researching as you went through this process of hitting speedbump after speedbump?

I think it stands to reason that on particular levels you’re aligning yourself with “them”. But… that’s the whole point of empathy…its only when you see pieces of yourself in others that you can empathize with their existence or experience.

I guess its the human tragedy…we’re all so much alike in our struggles, it’s just the theatres that are different. But for some, that difference is enough to obscure the mirror and people see a monster where its just a reflection.