“They got no war to name us.”
That line hurts so bad. We let our kids down. None of them can say that. So many have grown up all over the world since then completely defined by war.
I was listening to this reading of De Profundis by Oscar Wilde, a very moving piece of work. I’d like to have it as an audio file because then I can add it to my audiobook app and I’m able to break it up into sections and skip back using my steering wheel as I drive. I can’t do this with YouTube while driving and using my GPS navigation simultaneously. But it won’t let me due to the video’s length.
For years, I always admired the album version, praising what I thought was its beautiful use of a melodic banjo accompaniment, like something straight out of Neil Young’s Harvest. So, was it or wasn’t it banjo after all? And if not, why not?
What songs come to mind? Please don’t suggest songs where the singer is merely considering leaving the lover or where they are up in the middle of the thinking about a past romance that ended.
I want songs that specifically set the scene of a person getting up in the middle of the night while their lover sleeps, packing up their shit and disappearing forever without saying goodbye. Incidentally, does anyone have a story where this actually happened to someone they know? I can’t.
Wife’s Ultimatum questions
We both live in California and separated in May of this year. I made less than $30k a year last year and for the last decade have barely made more than that. We have no children. My wife currently makes $95k, although last year it was closer to $85k so she could easily argue that the larger number doesn’t apply to our marriage.
It was my wife who initiated the separation. She moved out.
I’m out of town this week and received an urgent text yesterday. I call her and she tells me that she will pay me $5k to disappear from her life. Alternatively, she offers me her car, a decent, reliable vehicle compared to mine. Not worth more than $7k, but worth a lot more to me as a commuter vehicle.
The call was a threat. She is angry that I am dating successfully again and I’ve found someone else. My girlfriend and I have been inseparable for three weeks while I was on vacation and... there are major feelings though neither of us sees it as more than dating (and long distance at that, so we’re not even thinking about a future together at this point). It’s all rather chaste at the moment, although that’s really nobody’s business. I ONLY mention this to demonstrate that I’ve moved on. Apparently spying on my cloud photos and finding a photo of me smiling and glassy eyed with a new woman was enough to call in the cavalry. My wife told me in no uncertain terms that she holds all the cards, knows I cannot afford a lawyer because I’m broke, and since the divorce I’ve only accrued more debt. She says she will not pay for a lawyer for me and that I will get nothing if we go to court.
What can I do?
But also, wouldn’t it be great if some of the WKUK did something on Nebula?
As you can see, I was never offered the opportunity to purchase them, which is fine. I wouldn’t pay for them anyway. But I did notice that on some days I managed to get two in a day. I would do one early in the morning and then log in changing my time zone to one after mine, sometimes doing this on a separate machine, and I would tap on the World Cup icon and receive a second one. Maybe if I’d done this more often I could have collected them all. Has anyone come close to earning all of them through learning alone? I now have 32 with two days left.
A great influence on this series.
Change the color of a famously monochromatic album cover. Blue? Did they just have an excess of blue PVC down at the factory and couldn’t find a blue-colored album so they went with this one because it’s already monochrome?
Bonus question: How blue should the Tigermilk cover art be? I’ve seen photos of some that look gray or silver.
I don’t want a pink or blue record. I want a black one. How long has it been out of print?
Here’s a question I’ve never asked, why did Stuart name it Tigermilk? He says it was based on a short story he had written. Why was that short story titled Tigermilk?
I finished the course a long time ago, but never really got around to gilding the whole thing. I mean, I tried, but it felt like I was basically doing the entire course again. And of course I’d finished the course before, but they added new material and it took me years to finish the course again after all the new additions.
I wouldn’t mind if it were newer, harder material. Still, I’m not going to complain. It’s great to review. Use it or lose it, right?
My question, since the updates have left empty non-Legendary patches throughout my completed course, if I complete the daily every day at a legendary level, will this be reflected in my path? For instance, if I look at today’s Daily Rewind story, it’s called « les travaux annulés », but I can’t find that story anywhere in my course simply because there are hundreds of stories. I tried searching it up on Duo.me but those aren’t up to date. and things seem to have been moved around.
TLDR; I guess ultimately what I’m asking, is if I complete the Daily Rewind every day for the next 100 days, will my Legendary path be that much closer to completion, or is all this “Extra Credit”? Are the Daily Rewind stories in the course or brand new?
I purchased a RØDE for use with my iphone because I don’t have a state of the art computer (2012 iMac in excellent shape I refuse to part with for financial reasons), but I do have new iOS gadgets. What will I use this microphone for? I dunno. Both audio and video, I suppose. But I want my voice to sound great when I do record it.
I really like what I’m hearing coming out of it, so I want to keep it. My only question is, since the mic needs to be plugged into the phone, should I get a wireless transmitter for it or some kind of split cable so that I can also have the phone plugged into a power source at the same time. Or both?
Probably both depending on the situation.
Should I stick with the RØDE line of products for compatibility? But which one? They have many. Anyone here have experience using this mic with an iPhone, and what is your advice.
I’m a Latino man with a Type IV skin tone.
I can definitely sun burn, but I can also very easily tan without burning.
l’m looking for an extra wide sunhat because I hate the sun beating down on me and I started developing a sun spot below one eye which I’m treating with tretinoin. I wear SpF 50 mineral on my face which gives me a pale blue tint (blah!)
The thing is I’m drawn to the idea of a really wide brim like those Chinese conical hats or garden hats because they offer a lot of coverage and are also really cool in temperature . My ADHD medication makes me sweat a lot and I’m naturally a sweater which is partly why I’m so thin (thankfully not a smelly sweater). But I’ve read that those straw hats don’t really offer good UV protection. Because my body runs warm, I want the hat to keep me cool.
What’s a good balance? Is it really a tradeoff, or is there another way? A darker color blocks out more rays, but a lighter color is cooler.
I do have long black hair, and I wear my SPF though I sweat a lot. Any advice?
I’m a Latino man with a Type IV skin tone.
I can definitely sun burn, but I can also very easily tan without burning.
l’m looking for an extra wide sunhat because I hate the sun beating down on me and I started developing a sun spot below one eye which I’m treating with tretinoin. I wear SpF 50 mineral on my face which gives me a pale blue tint (blah!)
The thing is I’m drawn to the idea of a really wide brim like those Chinese conical hats or garden hats because they offer a lot of coverage and are also really cool in temperature . My ADHD medication makes me sweat a lot and I’m naturally a sweater which is partly why I’m so thin (thankfully not a smelly sweater). But I’ve read that those straw hats don’t really offer good UV protection. Because my body runs warm, I want the hat to keep me cool.
What’s a good balance? Is it really a tradeoff, or is there another way? A darker color blocks out more rays, but a lighter color is cooler.
I do have long black hair, and I wear my SPF though I sweat a lot. Any advice?
I read on IMDB that WKUK crossed over with Collegehumor on their Hardly Working series. Does anyone know which episodes/videos these were?
This all began because for the longest time I thought I had seen Timmy before I was familiar with WKUK. Turns out I was wrong. He just looks a lot like the TechnologyConnections guy.
I imagined a 90 minute one-shot or a campaign with three one hour adventures. You get to wear costumes, there’s theatrical lighting, video screens with actors and cut scenes of terrifying moments like when that trap door falls or the wall turns into a monster or gold rains down upon you. The board would be extra large and have moving parts. If you’re doing the campaign, naturally your data all gets saved. You could even take home a weapon that stores your data plus a bonus for you.
How much would people pay for this? And would it be a feasible business? It’s like an escape room but all RPG.