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- Tue Apr 16, 2024 6:26 pm
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: Just Gravy
- Replies: 298
- Views: 86422
Re: All The Feels
Fuck I need to go back to therapy. Reading The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles A Frozen Hell by William Trotter I haven’t been reading much. Instead, I watched HBO’s Band of Brothers and The Pacific. I dunno, I’m on a war kick. For fuck's sake, that reading list ma...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 11:42 am
- Forum: Transportation Questions
- Topic: What is a good learner car? (as in learning to fix and maintain yourself)
- Replies: 35
- Views: 1539
Re: What is a good learner car? (as in learning to fix and maintain yourself)
Maybe a weird take, but a 2nd gen Toyota Prius is a pretty decent compromise, Around these parts, that gen Prius is a magnet for catalytic converter theft. Unfortunate because many of them would likely still be on the road otherwise. For a while, the cost to replace the cc was more than the value o...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 11:15 am
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: The Education of Axel Heyst
- Replies: 2007
- Views: 343610
Re: The Education of Axel Heyst
$50/ month is boring. Is a dedicated space the most interesting and fun way to solve this problem? Is a network of garages? Is it a club or an entire way of life? What is the problem? I am an member of two garage type clubs. Both groups have very politically connected members as well as prominent a...
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 7:39 am
- Forum: Health and Food Questions
- Topic: ADHD meds
- Replies: 74
- Views: 4164
Re: ADHD meds
@AE, Excellent post. The one thing I will add, which is my point above, is that the last acceptable subject for the ruminator to ruminate is introspection itself. Ones own mental health can become the ultimate, unending game occupying the ruminating mind.
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 7:15 am
- Forum: Transportation Questions
- Topic: What is a good learner car? (as in learning to fix and maintain yourself)
- Replies: 35
- Views: 1539
Re: What is a good learner car?
The situation is to pick a car that's more fun/cool for road trips than reliable for commuting or shopping since we don't need a car for that. May be fun to wander around and get an idea of what you are getting yourself into with an older "simple" vehicle. https://www.thesamba.com/vw/clas...
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 6:05 am
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: Slevin's journal
- Replies: 209
- Views: 28146
Re: Slevin's journal
I get cashews every so often. Mrs. Ego loves this vegan alfredo. Fifty pounds is a lot of alfredo.
https://thevegan8.com/vegan-garlic-alfredo-sauce/
https://thevegan8.com/vegan-garlic-alfredo-sauce/
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 8:07 pm
- Forum: Transportation Questions
- Topic: What is a good learner car? (as in learning to fix and maintain yourself)
- Replies: 35
- Views: 1539
Re: What is a good learner car?
It may be hard to get parts for that old Honda.
Maybe this one
https://chicago.craigslist.org/chc/ctd/ ... 20988.html
Maybe this one
https://chicago.craigslist.org/chc/ctd/ ... 20988.html
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 7:38 pm
- Forum: Transportation Questions
- Topic: What is a good learner car? (as in learning to fix and maintain yourself)
- Replies: 35
- Views: 1539
Re: What is a good learner car?
You've got the perfect car for this already. It doesn't get much better than the Honda Fit. If you want something to learn on, buy something cheap that isn't running, park it in your driveway and see if you can figure out the problems. Carbureted is easier than fuel injected. Fewer electronic brains...
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 7:22 pm
- Forum: Health and Food Questions
- Topic: ADHD meds
- Replies: 74
- Views: 4164
Re: ADHD meds
Introspection is essentially the mind using its CPU cycles to reflect back on itself for extra insight. This is a positive (here meaning "more of the same"... like compound interest) feedback loop. Two ways this could go. If done well, this will lead to additional insight and more insight...
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 5:51 am
- Forum: Health and Food Questions
- Topic: ADHD meds
- Replies: 74
- Views: 4164
Re: ADHD meds
Only now that I've figured out my body expresses the emotions I can't feel, the results were significantly different. Then there was another 90 minutes of interviewing, to tease apart conflicting factors, account for how autism impacts answers, understand childhood experiences, etc. He'll peer revi...
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 10:02 pm
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: Damn it Feels Good to be a Gangsta
- Replies: 642
- Views: 171794
Re: Damn it Feels Good to be a Gangsta
Gathering a group of people who all lack skills is not going to magically create skills out of the void. Basically, you can't form a group and get anything better out of it than you could from the top 1-2 members of the group alone. If there's serious weight to be pulled, the majority will not be a...
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 11:57 am
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: Rube's journal
- Replies: 487
- Views: 163722
Re: Rube's journal
Today I know that only part of the concerns, doubts and worries are taken away by money. If the stash would tenfold I guess some of the current concerns etc. would be taken away. But other doubts and concerns would still happen, these are regardless of money. Agreed. I was thinking of a stash large...
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 5:13 pm
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: Damn it Feels Good to be a Gangsta
- Replies: 642
- Views: 171794
Re: Damn it Feels Good to be a Gangsta
I'm beginning to wake up to the negative effects of my lack of attention to maintenance, storage and organization. It's bringing me discomfort and, as always, discomfort is the catalyst for change. My buy-low, sell-high lifestyle means that I need constant reminders of this and reach the discomfort...
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 9:04 am
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: Rube's journal
- Replies: 487
- Views: 163722
Re: Rube's journal
With work, we are programmed to always be busy with stuff that is brought to us by others, I think it is natural to need some adjustment to become fully “self-motivated”. Intrinsic motivation is hard to foster. Part of the reason it is so difficult is because we are bombarded with intrinsic-like th...
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 8:07 am
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: Rube's journal
- Replies: 487
- Views: 163722
Re: Rube's journal
I guess the above two paragraphs have in common that life became easy, comfortable, perhaps too? I remember Ego wrote that it's good to not have too much money because things would be too comfortable. Well, I guess he had a point. Serendipity and dumb luck have conspired to make us "too comfor...
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 7:41 am
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: A Journey of Mindfulness--the Remaking of Life in Midstream.
- Replies: 1383
- Views: 294799
Re: A Journey of Mindfulness--the Remaking of Life in Midstream.
HRV (and "HRV balance") is something Oura measures and frequently cites, but tbh I don't have a good intuitive understanding of what the significance of those are. Mike Lustgarten is working on a series on RHR and HRV. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiC3o6YXGB0 My HRV skyrocketed into th...
- Sat Apr 06, 2024 6:56 pm
- Forum: Technical Skills & Tools Questions
- Topic: Furniture & Art Repair and Restoration Log
- Replies: 50
- Views: 17571
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 10:01 pm
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: Damn it Feels Good to be a Gangsta
- Replies: 642
- Views: 171794
Re: Damn it Feels Good to be a Gangsta
Are these tall-ship enthusiasts actually on the lifestyle spectrum in the neighborhood of ERE, anarchists, or TAZ pirates? If they're not conducting nighttime raids on coastal village dumpsters while illegally downloading mp3s via a boosted wifi intercepting antennae with a solar-powered indoor gro...
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 3:28 pm
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: mountainFrugal Journal
- Replies: 482
- Views: 102483
Re: mountainFrugal Journal
Universities are businesses. WRT to postdoc pay I think you are right that it is mostly overhead. Many universities including the UCs, now have post-doc unions that have equal pay for postdocs across all disciplines. Grant overhead is 40-50% paid to the university to pay for bloated admin layers. I...
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 7:07 am
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: A Journey of Mindfulness--the Remaking of Life in Midstream.
- Replies: 1383
- Views: 294799
Re: A Journey of Mindfulness--the Remaking of Life in Midstream.
I think we'd have to have much different psychologies to remain sane for that length of time! A somewhat sci-fi answer: Assuming aging is truly solved, then many of the physical accumulation problems that cause psychological changes in the elderly will be solved. The plaques will be cleared. The bl...