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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • I was pretty shy when I started college and have always disliked social events. I skipped a few years in highschool so I was young when I started. Combined with working 30+ hours a week to pay for college and my social life was pretty dead.

    My junior/senior year I decided to sit next to the most beautiful woman in class on day one. I would then smile, say hello, and leave them alone. Then smile, say goodbye at the end of class and leave.

    A few weeks of this and most of them started talking to me a bit before or after class. By mid-terms I was friendly with a few beautiful women and had a couple dates. The last quarter of my senior year, I sat down next to my now wife.

    I did get called out by my wife on knowing so many beautiful women when we were dating. She was a bit annoyed but I did sit down next to her after all.





  • My HOA is goodish. It is only $175/year and the leadership is pretty laidback. What’s helped is a developer keeps wanting to build a massive apartment complex illegally next door (destroying a riparian zone, without adequate emergency vehicle access, etc…).

    It has kept all the busybodies in the neighborhood occupied for over 10 years. The developer just lost its 3rd lawsuit (with an appeal).

    It’s given the busybodies something to focus on and sucked up all the money they would use to cause mischief. Instead they have had to prioritized their enforcement on the worst offenders.

    They have also slowly gotten rid of the AirBnB and Corporate owners by fining the shit out of them. It’s stabilized the home prices and let a lot of younger families move into the neighborhood.






  • Personally theory…

    Many startups fail because people try to work 80+hrs per week. Biologically more than about 25-30 hours of work is usually a waste of time. You can occasionally pull a long week but then you need to rest and recover to get back to full productivity. If you push beyond it often, you’ll make a shit ton of stupid mistakes that completely nullify all your efforts.

    If you’ve ever been around someone “working” on hour 70+ during a week you’ll know what I mean. A five minute tasks takes them an hour and they generally fuck it up.


  • You are watering it way too much. Monsteras need to need be soaked then allowed to completely dry out between waterings.

    A larger pot allows for less frequent waterings. I only water mine monthly in the summer. Every 2-3 months in the winter.

    They need fertilizer especially when putting out leaves. Yours is showing nitrogen deficiency. It’s a bit of a weird expression but monsteras are unique.

    Light levels - they do best with 3-4 hours of direct sunlight every day. Generally it’s best to have those hours in the morning or evening.


  • They don’t fit on U.S. streets either. The crew cab, extra long bed vehicles are over 22’ long and over 8’ wide with mirrors.

    They can’t park in a regular parking spot of 9’ x 18’. They don’t fit in an minimum parking space size of 8’x16’

    Their turning radius with a wheelbase of over 14’ puts them on par with small box trucks. They are difficult to drive, heavy and rarely used for the purposes they are designed for.

    I drive one for work but it’s the smallest vehicle I could find that would fit my needs. I am one of the very small minority that actually use it for what it’s designed for, towing, off-road, hauling stuff in the back etc… Then I get home, park it and drive my wife’s small SUV around. It’s so much easier and nicer to drive.



  • Lol, reminds me of my old setup.

    It was all old W98 laptop that I got used. I installed xunbuntu on it back when it first came out in 2006. It sat on my desk, open like that with a bit of tape over to hold the power cord because it was loose. The battery was completely dead.

    It was the server I used to host all the modded maps I made for a silly little tank game. Thing ran seemlessly only going down when the power went out or somebody juggled the power cord for 5 years.