Private maps that show you where you've been and what missions you need to complete there.
Right now, all I have is the thermal map of photos linked to a Google account, and that is way too creepy because the location-based data is housed with a transnational corporation and is dependent on photos I feed to the machine.
I curse in my sleep typing. And, I surely don't use the swears in my professional moments.
It takes curse words to get some people's attention or to confirm that I am not a robot. Whenever we get to the point that open, honest, civil conversation is once again the norm, I won't use them.
I finished reading them in December, and I'm still obsessed with the genius in The Passenger and Stella Maris. I've read the books and listened to the audiobooks. The audiobook for Stella Maris is exceptional.
Hahaha. I'm a teacher. It is better to err on the side of caution. Never know when I'm actually sleep-typing an email and forget to be cordial.
It's more about self-discipline and self-awareness rather than self-censorship. The self-censorship kicks in when I'm in the classroom, and some kid feels the need to act a damn fool.
I sh!t you not, we need this. Topsoil in many parts of the world is leached of nutrients, or packed with chemical by-products of insecticide, herbicide, and fertilizers, or the topsoil has eroded away. Or, it's buried under concrete, asphalt, glass, and steel.
Soil farming for vertical farms, indoor cultivation at home, and replacing some other food growth options just makes good sense.
3D-Printed Houses
Hear me out. Right now, they're small and ugly as f*ck; but that's a design issue. Getting the materials and designs right can encourage mass adoption of sustainable design, waste sequestration, and abundant housing.
Same episode, Loki skips ahead to the future. He knows that it is the future this time, instead of the past as was established previously in the episode, because of the writing in the dust.
Then, 20 yo me decided to split a 26er into two glasses, top up with tonic and a twist of lemon. Waited til my buddy showed, put on some music and drank them in under 45 minutes. 30 minutes after that, we are standing in a snowstorm, in t-shirts (because we dont want to pay for coat check), outside a bar (we walked from our place), waiting in line to get in. An hour after that, we say fuck it, walk home, and proceed to have the worst spins, come downs, and hangovers of our lives. Needless to say, G&Ts are off the books for me forevermore.
TL;DR 20 yo me destroyed G&T for all the mes to follow.
Last Donut of the Night by J Dilla; played on an hour-long loop. In my head canon, when he was in hospital, just before he died, this was the last track Dilla constructed.
Cellular respiration, the Krebs cycle, oxidative phosphorylation, citric acid cycle, glycolysis... I miss having these processes in my head. I was such a biology nerd once.
Guatemala's ruling class spent months trying to negate the democratic election of anti-corruption, centre-left, progressivist, social-democrat, now-President Bernardo Arévalo. Certainly, the ruling class will screw with the whole system, and, possibly, they will attempt to kill him.
Bernardo is the son of former president Juan José Arévalo, whose time in office immediately followed an uprising that deposed U.S. backed dictator Jorge Ubico in 1945. Hate runs deep.
Keep in mind that the tenuous peace in Guatemala is consistently marred by gang violence, institutional corruption, kidnappings, and murder. This ray of light for the campesinos, indigenous people, and impoverished majority is, hopefully, sustainable with a mandate to improve Guatemala into a place where people can live. It would behoove (United States of) Americans to support this president as he could move the needle on making life liveable in Guatemala and stemming the flow of refugees and migrant workers to the North.
In 2007, I, a non-white non-Korean, took a job in South Korea. Then, I took another. Then, at the third job, I was hired, but the owner's brother was amenable to some of the more racist thoughts that guided the approach to business in SK. He thought I would hurt the business. He resisted hiring another non-white, non-Korean.
The owner asked me to write a letter. Instead of saying, "that's not my job", I wrote the letter. I made the case. They hired another non-white, non-Korean after me.
Private maps that show you where you've been and what missions you need to complete there.
Right now, all I have is the thermal map of photos linked to a Google account, and that is way too creepy because the location-based data is housed with a transnational corporation and is dependent on photos I feed to the machine.