maybeamonster

I can’t seem to figure out how to edit my comment on kbin. I thought of one newer than Rush fom a band I’ve come to enjoy highly and hasn’t been posted yet:

LCD Soundsystem - You Wanted A Hit

But glittering prizes and endless compromises shatter the illusion of integrity…

Syberia!

There’s a beauty and peacefulness to it that’s hard to describe. The music will stick with you, too.

Information, not criticism. It’s written “en masse”

I’d like to suggest a different reason for the likely judgement: You didn’t see the obvious (in his view) sign for the fitting rooms.

Neither of you has to be 100% wrong in the situation. Just because he spends up 40 hours a week seeing that sign and 100% thinks it is GLARINGLY obvious doesn’t mean you 100% didn’t even try looking for the sign and possibly distracted him from a (perceived) important task to make up for your laziness.

It’s a balance. You can both be 50% objectively correct or any variation of levels. The sign could have been higher or lower or a different look than you were used to AND you only glanced around and didn’t really stop to look.

I know for a fact that I’ve been on both sides of this kind of scenario. Would bet most could find one of each in their lives, too. So it’s a learning experience, remember that what is obvious/simple for one person (you/someone else) isn’t obvious to another person (someone else/you) and try to act accordingly.

But the fart comment is very insightful, you know?

Trickle down? It was called VOODOO fucking economics in its day. Plenty of analysts and other people with half a brain understood what a travesty it was and is. BUT too many people at the bottom of the food chain keep getting convinced that it works. :/

What is that retro-looking thing on the right?

Hurst “Lightning Rods” from the 80s. Basically a flashy way to manually shift an automatic transmission.

Good write up and explanation here: https://www.macsmotorcitygarage.com/a-cool-idea-at-the-time-the-hurst-lightning-rods-shifter/

You like Stephenson? What about William Gibson? Seems like you woud have already read most of it, but just in case…

Most Cyberpunk, classic even, his first: The Sprawl Trilogy
Great move from the farther future, hard cyberpunk to day-after-tomorrow (maybe my favourite): The Bridge Trilogy
Even more to the today/tomorrow feel, but maybe a steep hill to climb without following his previous “evolution” : Blue Ant Trilogy

Connie Willis’s Oxford Time Travel books!! Lighter in tone than what you are referring to, but often compelling. There is an order to the stories, but it’s not vital, really. With Three free books I would suggest “To Say Nothing About the Dog”, then “Blackout” and it’s continuation “All Clear”.

“Lovecraft Country” and “Destroyer of Worlds” are a pair that focus on a black family’s experience of late 50s/early 60s (can’t remember) Sorcery in the U.S.

Stand alones? Have you read “Project Hail Mary”? Great bit of non-sequential storytelling as the narrator regains his memory and figures out where he is and why. Avoid spoilers, even synopses for this one for maximum effect. A.G. Riddle’s “Lost in Time” was a balance of whodoneit and time travel that I found enjoyable.

Happy Birthday!

Rough times come and rough times go. Sometimes it seems all times are rough and in hindsight, some weren’t. Sometimes, everything sucks in hindsight.

Go to the gym every time you are able and congratulate yourself for pulling it off. Don’t go when you are not able and congratulate yourself for being good to you. It’s not always easy, but if both outcomes can eventually feel like a win, then you get some wins in the list, make sense?

Racing a sailboat from San Francisco to Half Moon Bay, spending the night there and motoring back on Sunday. We’ve been doing well in the ocean races so far this year, so I’m hoping for a good result tomorrow.

Enjoy the book! I’ve not read it yet either, though I plan to some day. :)