Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • creating our own reality

    We create our own reality.

    This is a very simple affirmation. It's often met with a "Ya, ya I get it" but we simply don't, and most of our life we probably just can't.

    We're in a dream, and until we wake up, we can't see it's a dream.

    With my ex, I was always under the impression she was sad and unsatisfied. Not only I would see and feel it, she would express it too. In a couple, you become 2 entity creating 2 colliding reality. There is always a thug of war between the 2 camps.

  • shaking the Summertime Sadness, yearning for Pale September

    This heat. ffs

    It's ~100F right now. I am inside, avoiding sweat. having coffee as AC is running beautifully.

    IRC here and there, slow at times, faster at others.

  • up and about

    Last week you couldn't stop me, I dug and I planted, I built and I cut weeds. This week, you couldn't get me to move, opting instead for reading yijing commentaries and pondering over what's worth learning. Well, the week is young, so hopefully I may get some momentum going soon. I want to think I am following the dao of my own bodily function. However, the chickens still need their house finished, the half-dug hole for the toilet compost sits there waiting to be finished so I can continue with my work. The canals I started digging also want to be finished soon, and the weeds keep growing with each passing rain.

  • the ego issue

    people think, assume, presume, that I have a semblance of DEPTH - a mind, full of ideas and philosophies and Thoughts That Matter(tm). No. I am shallow as a puddle of piss. I say that plainly, and get greeted with a chorus of "oh it oook, a yummy pup will wup your tummy" or some other consoling shit from so and so, wherever (generally of the depressive/pathetic varietal).

  • Move and OTR

    The last month or so was rough with the long-distance move, but we're slowly settling in to a new house in a new province, and are content to not move again for the foreseeable future. This was the longest move we've ever done - 13 hours by car - but not the most difficult, which would have been our move to Canada from the States. Moving to another country is one of those once-in-a-lifetime things, or at least it should be. If you're already a citizen of the country you are moving to and alone, it's not too bad, but throw a family of non-citizens into the mix, and it gets complicated quickly.

    For this move, I had to drive out a few days ahead of my wife. One of the things that kept me company on the 13-hour drive (aside from caffeine) was old-time radio. I had files downloaded and playlists setup on my phone so I could listen for hours without too much fuss. One of them was 'Adventures by Morse' [0], a 1940's vintage adventure show. Most of the old shows are available on archive.org, and the best recordings have been preserved and uploaded by the "Old Time Radio Researchers Group" [1].

• Politics and World Events

  • Subsidized gasoline

    In the EU we were mixing bio fuels into gasoline and diesel.

    Which was a li’l bit more expensive.

    So here in Sweden, the right-wing gov’t decided to lower those proportions, down to 6%.

    That led to increased emissions by 4 million metric tons per year, the equivalent of one Nord Stream explosion every four years (or every three and a half years, even).

    Now, they wanna raise it again to 10%, which, even though that is just a third of what we used to have, still would be a atep in the right direction. Except they’re also gonna subsidize the fuels to keep costs the same. That means free money for fossil corporations.

• Technology and Free Software

  • Internet/Gemini

    • Retrospring Shutting Down

      Saw when checking in on my small web things that Retrospring (a free Q&A site) is shutting down March of next year, after almost ten years. That doesn't feel like the longest amount of time, but if I were framing it in early-web years, it would be an eternity.

      I'm a little sad: as they said on their shutdown page, they were never a company, just a partnership of two people. And rather than selling, and not being able to guarantee what the new owners will do with the data, they're shutting down, and giving a solid eight months of notice, so people can find alternative solutions.