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Say what you mean; mean what you say.

No idea where I heard or read it, but preteen me internalized it and it’s become part of my creed to this day

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/

Just another Tuesday day ending in “day”

FTFY

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’d love to be cautiously optimistic, but the sources on this are “sources with knowledge of diplomatic discussions between the two allies”

Nothing official, or even semi-official. I genuinely wonder if this even happened or if it’s a bit of manufactured consent

I call bullshit. Israel won’t end the war and US financial support is certainly not going to dry up. Bunch of hearsay to stoke a bit of “we’re trying to do the right thing”…