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35?- 40?-minute run, 13 pull-ups. A lot of yesterday’s massive area smoke cloud is gone.Comments
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13 pull-ups. I thought I had the day in hand back when I was chilling at the library, but now my song didn’t work out, and I barely got to the grocery store before rush hour.Comments
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Like everyone, the guy has some problems. But it is highly advantageous that you can take him to the air conditioned library, and he’ll just read stuff by himself for three hours.Comments
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I thought I could pitch shift a recording of birdsong and play it against the original to get some cool Slayer style harmonizing, but birds don't hold pitch quite as constantly as guitars, so it doesn't work. Which makes sense. If it did, people would have done this with birds ad nauseam.Comments
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Whoa, Buddhist black metal is really good! Well, this one band, whose name seem to be Gautam Buddha, is. It's a bit prog, too, which I subconsciously associate with Buddhism already.Comments
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U-God’s autobiography’s got some spicy parts in it.Comments
In other words, it basically was running just like his mansion, but he spun it to seem like it was our mansion to soften the blow that he was in charge.
Dirty used to say this shit all the fucking time. He was the first
Clan member to call RZA out; he boycotted shows until he found out who was getting what. “Where’s my money at, RZA?” His song “Got Your Money,” that song’s about fucking RZA.
But Dirty always used to be about, “I want my money. Gimme my money.” Dirty was always one step ahead of the rest of us. Hg was the first motherfucker to call us robots. He basically believed RZA was taking our money. That’s why the rest of us can’t leave RZA to tell the whole story, Dirty said, because he’s going to try and make out like, “No I didn’t.” If he had his way, he’d try to make out like he was some kind of savior. To which I say get the fuck out of here. I guess we’ll find out when the Court gives me the accounting I’m asking for.
If I’m wrong, I will apologize straight to RZA’s face. Iwill man
up and stand in front of him and say, “Yo, I didn’t know, and I’m sorry for coming at you like I did.”
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Bad luck on the Doing Things random encounter table today. The guy couldn’t figure out how to get out is spinning teacup thing at camp and threw up and was sent home.Comments
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I'm trying out Polywork, which seems to be a less terrible LinkedIn. (Low bar, I know.) It seems to be about selling your skills and tangible things you've done, rather than just what jobs you've worked at.Comments
The problem with the "what jobs you've worked at" model is that it's very hard to get jobs different from the ones you've already done. I've gotten recruiter emails from big tech companies as a result, and I get the impression that, at a glance, I seem like that's what I'm good for.
I'm skeptical that this one web site will change that (and even if they do, every VC-funded company's goal is to be bought), but I gotta try something. If you want to try it, here's a "VIP" (ugh) code: jimkang-pidgeot
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Oh, yeah, in case you didn't hear about it in my newsletter, my ambient album is out. Here's what I have to say about it.Comments
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I added some chopped onion to my tuna salad today. Highly effective!Comments
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Five-mile run, 12 pull-ups. Now it’s time for an 11 AM lunch!Comments
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10-4-4-4-4-12. The quality on those last few were not great.Comments
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68% of Massachusetts residents have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. Nationally, about 57% have received a dose. In Missouri, only 46% have gotten a dose.Comments
Researchers have found just 12 people are responsible for the bulk of the misleading claims and outright lies about COVID-19 vaccines that proliferate on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.
So, Facebook and Twitter could just ban these 12 people and save hundreds of thousands of lives and prevent potentially years of misery for everyone.
They also could have saved everyone from a lot of suffering (much of which is still to come) by just hiding Trump's posts five years ago. But then so many fewer users would be active on their platforms.
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I checked out a Nassim Nicholas Taleb book because I was impressed by his Wikipedia page. It turns out he’s an idiot who loves making assertions and saying “fuggedaboutit”? The book is like one giant tweetstorm. I guess I need to be more careful about Wikipedia.Comments
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Minutes later, the forty employees of Impossible Studios sat in a meeting, befuddled, as executives from Epic Games told them their studio was closing. Less than a year after forming the studio,
One nice thing about the ubiquity of smartphones is that this wouldn’t work today.
Epic had decided to shut it down. The internet was off so no one could leak anything.For the developers, who had now gone through two studio closures in less than a year, this was baffling and infuriating. Messaging from Epic had been that Impossible was doing just fine, even at the studio’s top levels. “The week before we were closed, Tim Sweeney told us on a call how important we were to the company and how valuable we were,” said one former high-level Impossible Studios staffer.
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20 burpees. My shoulders are sore, so I didn’t want to do pull-ups, and it’s too hot* to run.Comments
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I made the "portfolio" view in Observatory a little less chaotic. I tried to make it darker, which looked cool, but it was hard to read. I also made some attempts at making look physically like a triptych, but they were awkward.Comments
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Today, former employees of 38 Studios speak fondly of their time there, landing both the team and the game. Many say they still keep in touch With their old coworkers and speak fondly about What Could have been—~if only they’d gotten more time; if only Lincoln Chafee hadn’t made those awful comments; if only Curt Schilling hadn’t burned through so much money.
Maybe a certain amount of tendency toward delusion is necessary to land yourself in a situation like this in the first place?