Category: Me Myself&I

I’ve seen 3 costumes all day and a dude and his kid almost bumped into me getting in front of me to my crib, to trick or treat. Like, so rude and no, there was no candy. Chomp and suck on some manners mfs, how about that.

Goddamn.

Not obsessed, just always will be in awe looking at it:

Built in 1954. Imagine folks looking at it. This is the year Elvis Presley is STARTING to become famous nationally. So advanced for its time.

With my quest of living in something that is not a cube, this is probably of of the best shape in a sense. A glass cube under a hyperbolic paraboloid shape.

It’s not that square is bad, it’s that it’s opaque with traditional walls. With glass walls as above, it’s not longer an issue. You keep the simplicity and efficiency of 90° furniture and layout with 360° view. Brilliant.

You can read more about it on Wikipedia and USmodernist, but it’s unreal that it’s the only one ever built. And it was destroyed in 2001.

The architect, Eduardo Catalano, lived in it for five years, when everything was working properly. The last owner had to deal with leaks in the massive roof and everything was in bad shape. 1950s technology VS hot, humid and cold weather was too much for it. Asbestos insulation!! Tragic, man.

With today’s technology? It would be a breeze. First, I would build it in California where the weather is much more easier to deal with. Out of the woods too. Leaves were an issue because a massive roof held only by two points is quite fragile.

Structurally, I don’t know. Precast UHPC (Ultra High Performance Concrete) frame? Fiber Reinforce Concrete to keep the shell light? Bamboo with solar panels? I don’t think I would be able to eliminate the tension cable above the roof. That seems to at the very least be important just in case. The only way would be to basically loop a steel cable underneath linking larger buttresses and roof corners with the tension cable under the house.

I would sink the living spaces by 1.5 meter I think. To make it a tiny bit more private without relaying on curtains. It would improve its insulation for free, too.

Anyway, I have a future post about why we’re still stuck in very traditionally shaped houses.

There are three things that have impacted the world negatively lately:

• Doing everything on a phone.
• Developing homogeneous environments.
• Following rules and laws to a T.

There are three things that Asian and South Asian communities like to do zealously:

• Doing everything on a phone.
• Developing homogeneous environments.
• Following rules and laws to a T.

Those three things align with control and conservative movements. Which are on the rise all over the world.

Hmmm.

I am the product of diversity, pluralism and globalization. I don’t like what I’m seeing.

Work is relentless and constant at the moment. So much to write about, not enough time and too much writing all day already.

I hope you have all the essentials you need and that you’re enjoying life a bit too. Shit is so wild rn.

Skating every weekend has made me so happy. Just a bit over an hour, sometimes two each day.

It’s therapy for my body. It beats my ass. I progress.

Always a bit of a battle. Lots of focus involved. Some good sun on my thirsty bones.

Good vibes with the homies. That slow back foot, always, ugh.

I keep thinking of Rodney Mullen creating all those moves from his concrete pad in Florida back in the 80s. Skateboarding is a solo activity in a lots of ways.

Trying to make my kickflip more automatic and cleaner. Heelflip in progress and I’m starting to understand a few things better. Nollie heel was close at some point, so I thought (landed one with a toe) but I rocket them in my butt now. Nollie shifty at the top of the bank is so fun! Still miserable with 50-50s and 5-0s due to horrendous board control but I landed a few clean this year. Frontside nollie to tailslide to fakie on a small ledge happened too, which is insane when I think about how shaky my body was on my board a couple years ago. Frontside nollie to switch backside crooked up the hubba is doable, I stuck it a few times.

So much to play with. The world is a mess but this brings me joy for days.

Instant, endless food.

Instant, endless shelter.

Instant, endless entertainment.

Instant, endless vibrations. Endless orgasms.

Our status-based society just isn’t relevant in a world of abundance.

The cards are so staked against most that trying to gain status is impossible or destructive anyway.

People like to say “we need to slow down” and I’m like, “let’s.”

“Dude, that’s one extremely depressing town square: Owned by a billionaire, complete corporate and government surveillance, full of ads, looks different to each participant, shows everyone a reality that gets you addicted to that square (by either showing you a reality you agree with or one you completely disagree with) and it makes you work for free just to be visible.”

From someone on the free, OG open internet out there.

Looking back,

• Horizontal emphasis to take the time to read pages instead of the vertical infinite scroll to death.
• Discrete notification system to not overwhelm.
• Words instead of icons so you don’t have to constantly decipher. If you can read, you can use.
• No JS per default, blocking all web tracking out of the box.
• No telemetry, no mandatory updates messing up everything.
• Stable, solid, ultra-fast-to-restart-if-they-crash apps.
• All the goodness of having access to most of all the software in the world from 1984 and on.
• Absolutely all software business allowed: shareware, freeware, open source, stores, email lists and keys. Whatever.
• Excellent performance, the best of any Windows I’ve used. Very consistent as well.

It just needed a bit more time and a few additional options like make the start menu a dock on big monitors, or allow the option to go vertical on scrolls instead of enforcing the horizontal one. For when it makes sense.

Today’s operating systems cannot shut the fuck up. A shame.

The past week demonstrates, again, that we should have stopped at laptop/blogging/rss. The phone/social media/algo has fucking killed society’s self-control.

Around 2005 I was thinking that if we were to stay on RSS without an ad-based business model ala Google, things would be online, but local.

RSS gives you all the content so you can’t monetize. If you can’t monetize, you can’t scale. Which would probably have been good at taming people’s thirst for grandeur.

The other good thing would have been local media being empowered by technology instead of becoming zombies for the ad money.

An active, local online scene using open protocols to make things better? Still dreaming of that, can’t deny.

(title is a quick 2025 meme)

Heavy WNBA season. Lots of team changes.

I’m always annoyed how much A’ja Wilson, Jackie Young and especially Chelsea Gray never ever make it into conversations about this league in the general news. As if they didn’t exist or were not absolutely killing it.

That trio is insane and the Aces after a rough start finished very strong (13 wins in a row I think). 2 units, Ms. Parker coming back for the playoffs. They thirsty.

The Lynx are amazing and scooping Dijonai was the move. She immediately slows down the other team it’s something.

The rookies are not rookies? Like Paige dropping 44 points on our Los Angeles Sparks (clinic is the word) but the most impressive to me are Kiki Iriafen and Sonia Citron. Already playing like vets and absorbing like sponges. They’re going to be sooo dangerous in the next few years.

New York seems a bit fragile and ATL a bit under-experienced, but those playoffs will be nice I think.