You know what I like about your YouTube videos? As I'm sitting and watching and I think "But what about ... ?" it's only a few moments before you raise the same question. Nuance, nuance, all is nuance.
I follow some really cool people on Bluesky and Mastodon — people whose opinions I greatly respect. But I find that, like every social media platform, so much of what's posted (especially by good people) is about Things I Should Be Angry About. It starts to wear me down. 😢
I realize this will probably get buried, but I'm going to ask it anyway. Having just watched your latest video, I wonder about the quality of those limit switches in space heaters. Is it possible that, over time, the metal could corrode enough that they stop functioning, especially if it's humid?
In a strange way, it's like asking someone how many C's there are in the word "vacuum". Nine out of ten will ignore your question and say, "There are two U's."
And then there's #mississippi with a state senator who has a very different view of #contraception: www.wlbt.com/2025/01/22/m...
"[T]he bill would make it 'unlawful for a person to discharge genetic material without the intent to fertilize an embryo'."
Probably just someone playing the odds. If it's a great quote, it's probably Voltaire, Churchill, or Wilde.
What I hate about myself sometimes is that it makes me think, "Oh, you're gonna be a dick to California? Just wait till it's [red state]. Then you'll get your comeuppance."
Because, you know, everyone in those states deserves it. /s
A 1924 news article about communicable diseases in a town
Good thing times have changed — we've made such progress in the last 100 years. Imagine reading about people getting measles, chicken pox, mumps, diphtheria, or whooping cough today. #vaccines
Oh, wait.
(sigh) It didn't take long for BlueSky to become yet another place for people to tell me what I should be outraged about. 😢
Not sure what's sadder: Living someplace where jars of peanuts have to be labeled "Contains Peanuts," or living someplace where people would be angry if they weren't.
Neato: I was ripping a bunch of old 78 RPM when I came across a song called "Look for the Silver Lining" by Irene Audry & Sam Ash. It's the basis for "Look for the Union Label" — the song of the Int'l Ladies Garment Workers Union!
MP3 here: fllw.me/3Pi1x3G
#oldies #78RPM #IreneAudry #SamAsh #ILGWU
Don't ever get any kind of binding machine. Just don't. Then you'll find yourself buying paper, designing pages (lines or dots? hexagons? how far apart?), and filling shelves with personalized notebooks....
So. Many. Hours. And when, a few years later, I got the updated version ... (sigh).
To be That Guy: Only the Chanukah menorah has nine candles. The 'standard' one has seven. ;-)
Not enough people will get that reference....
Maybe it's just good metallurgy these days, but I've found that even cheap Chinese pens are usually excellent writers. (I'm a *comfort writing* snob, but not a pen snob, so that's great for me!)
Small things that have made an unexpected and outsized difference in my quality of life:
Instant hot water thingy for the kitchen (coffee, cocoa, oatmeal...). A #bidet (came in handy during early Covid).
A high-end #mechanicalkeyboard and comfy mouse. Good pens to write with.
Yours?
I feel like a lightweight: About 20 pens (plus a few that don't work) and 6 inks (not counting a ton of cartridges that come with pens). Plus 4 billion different kinds and sizes of notebooks — thank you, ADHD. :)
Just for fun, I asked my electric friend for some advice on your issue. Her answer is here: chatgpt.com/share/67715e.... (Basically, it's a selection of pens, papers, and ink that are more suited to lefties.)
All right, I'm going to say it. I don't understand the over-the-top enthusiasm for the Lamy 2000 #fountainpen. I mean, it's a fine pen, but it certainly not exceptional. It doesn't write as well as my Pilot Metropolitan, for example, nor some other of my pens. Someone explain the love to me!
I can accept that there are certain people, notably in the media, who need to have an account there in order to follow various people and companies. But it irks me when those people *advertise* that they have a Twitter account. They can use it without admitting it as far as I'm concerned.
I'm a rightie, but my handwriting tilts to the left — I have the same problem as lefties. The solution: fast-drying ink! It makes a big difference. And as @inkrasands.bsky.social says, changing how you write can also help. Heck, just writing from below instead of the side might be enough.
Ah, the age-old excuse: "I vas just following Otis."
Pilot Metropolitan, fine point, with Noodler's ink of some sort (green, always).
Pier. We yell at them to get off our *pier*.
Exactly — it's an emulsifier. There are others you can use, but this was the simplest. Another one to try is polysorbate 80, which is available on Amazon real cheap. But the tiniest, and I mean tiniest, drop of Dawn did the trick for me.
So I thought, "How hard can it be to add scent to my fountain pen ink?" The answer is that it's super-easy. Barely an inconvenience.
I put a teeny drop of Dawn into a 1-oz bottle of water-based ink — Noodler's in my case — then added 5 drops of essential oil. It works perfectly! #fountainpens
Inbox zero, baby! (No cheating — everything's deleted or filed. W00t!)
If I said that Donald Trump was going to appoint Joe Rogan to head the FCC, we both know you would hesitate before concluding I was joking.
