Yet another ADHD meme that has me wondering if I have ADHD.
Damnit Stamets!
…this is how I learned how many species of squirrel my state has.
I mean, those are just a series of squirrels distracting you from the last squirrel.
You lost me at squirrel
Very accurate. The other day my partner walks in.
her - What are you doing?
me - reading about how to prepare acorns for cooking
her - huh, ok *walks away *
I think it went something like : See tree > acorns! > can you eat acorns? > look up acorns > spend 30 minutes reading about preparing and cooking acorns > Forget original thing I was going to do
The answer is yes they can be eaten but you have to soak them to remove the tannins. Then grind into a flour. Use for various recipes.
Acorn and nutmeg cookies fucking slap.
nice, gonna have to try that
thank you for sharing your research findings! the only thing left is personal review! how are they?
My friend has done this, and says “not remotely worth the effort, unless you want survival skills”.
now I know!
thank you and your friend for sharing the feedback!
I just know you can eat them because my grandparent showed me them done on the fireplace instead of just doing the normal chestnuts. I just didn’t like that specific taste. And it’s used to feed sheep and stuff lime that too.
My horse learned from other horses in the pasture that he could eat acorns. The horses loved them apparently
Lime stuffed mutton fed on acorn meal, mmm
Ohhh that reminds me of eating pine cones in honey. I still have it somewhere, never finished the entire bottle. But it was good.
Doesn’t help that I often get fascinated by the most basic things, and then they just occupy my mind.
Recent example: Internet
When I say I get distracted by the internet, you’d probably think I go to TikTok or YouTube shorts. No, I mean internet itself.I set up Tailscale, and it’s running on my headless home computer. And oh my god, I for some reason find it fascinating. I might not even have anything to do, but I just SSH in, or even run VNC, and it’s just awesome.
I am accessing a computer in a different city, using it as if it was here.
Then I run sshfs, and it looks like local storage. How awesome is that?
And it’s mobile data on both sides. So much data going through the air, through walls, to a distant tower, on both sides.
Plus it’s so quick! Just milliseconds, and the bits are here.Literally what web is too. Using computers from not just different cities, but even different continents.
I’ve used it for a few months now, but I still sometimes just log in just because. It still fascinates me that I can access my computer from so far away.
Oh and oh god, I almost forgot about when I ran SDR++/RTL-TCP server on it, and used SDR from a different city. Sampled RF signal live, right over the internet, how cool is that?Welp anyway, right now I tried to watch some video, but got distracted by random thought of RAMdisk. So, now I am listening to music from tmpfs for no good reason.
The first time i realized i could use netcat to send and receive data between two of my computers on a LAN I was giggling like a child. You don’t need fancy programs, email, webbrowsers or whatever. Just a single line in the command line and there appears text on my other computer…
Erlang has entered the chat
The first thing I do when I get to work is VPN home and check if my server containers need any updates. I have so many services running but hardly use, just because I want my server to do more. I even had a headless steam container so I could game from my phone like a steam deck while pooping at work
Headless Steam? I didn’t know this was a thing. Gonna look into that!
edit: Does playing games put a significant load on the server? Wondering if my N100 may not be up to the task.
Yeah its basically like gaming directly on it, I mostly played like 2d platformers and stuff like stardew or graveyard keeper that could run off the igpu
Are you me? I SSH into a VM on my home server from my phone via tailscale while I’m out and about. Just because I can. I love the internet! The stuff it enables not always, but the thing itself is amazing and so fun to play with.
You start looking up the tree and remember climbing a particular tree as a kid, you wonder if that tree is still there, you feel sad that your body is falling apart and you could never climb trees like that again, why do many cities remove all their trees, why isn’t there a less verbose version of JSON, there is it’s YAML, why don’t more things support YAML
“5 MINUTES” LATER
But why does nature love crabs, what was that word called again, you go to look it up but your phone has a notification about a new item at Taco Bell, you hope the brought the enchirito back, the sun has set and you’ve missed all the buses and they are no longer running and how long has it been?
YAML should have never been. So many problems I’ve dealt with over my career were directly from Ingy’s infuriating invention and the myriad of parser quirks and version differences that exist across multiple languages.
Car rides when I’m not driving are super hit or miss for me for this one.
Mid-conversation I’ll start drifting off in random thoughts starting from who knows where, and by the time I snap out of it it’s been so long it’s awkward to resume a conversation.
How do you explain that you spent the last 45 minutes planning out exactly how to repurpose parking garages across the country as hydroponics farms (because of the slope, strong building support that can handle a lot of water, and wiring for lights) when public transit or ride share takes over, when the prior conversation was about beer/breweries? While driving through the plains of Kansas.
It’s barely in the realm of possible to explain, because you start to explain and then the other person goes “how on Earth did you get to that from there, while here” and then you stop and think about it and entirely forget why you were retracing your steps in the first place…
Edit to add pic and re-word for clarity.
Should study about trees at the bus stop.
Is… Is that not normal??
It’s exhausting tbh
