Finally found it back. Akira Jimbo, Casiopea’s drummer having a blast.
He triggers electronic sounds on the black pads that you see on his drum set.
Yes, he keeps that cowbell groove with his left foot while making coffee and stuff. Yes at the end he quadruple kicks nonchalantly. His dexterity, precision and independence with his four limbs are pretty unbelievable.
Alexandra Souverneva, who is suspected of starting the highly destructive Fawn Fire in Shasta County last week, was trying to boil bear urine so she could drink it. The 30-year-old Palo Alto resident’s bear-urine-boiling fire is what allegedly ignited the blaze that scorched more than 7,000 acres and forced hundreds of people to evacuate. [BB]
I very much agree with the assertion that our economy is getting less dynamic, in the sense that everywhere you go in the US it seems like everything, and i mean everything, is being steamrolled by bigger and bigger corps and morphed into a bland, dumbed down, mass appealing corporate monoculture, designed (probably by MBAs) exclusively with profits in mind and no actual interest in developing any sort of soul or true differentiation. Random example, walk into a hardware store (everywhere you go its either lowes, home depot, or maybe ace, cross country) and tell me if there’s a real difference between any of the tool manufacturers. On the one hand, the convenience of cheap and fairly durable goods is great. On the other, it seems like everyone is afraid to stray too far from what works to really innovate or compete. Most cars look pretty similar. The same restaurants exist literally from coast to coast, everywhere you go the US is starting to look more and more generic.
Mostly it probably has to do with economies of scale, but at this point I’d rather spend an extra 10%+ on goods and services if it meant a return to true differentiation and a wider variety of consumer culture.
You guys are not getting it. Capitalism is done. There’s pretty much zero innovation because there’s no need for it. There’s zero new market, there are no new needs. The past twenty years have already been about recycling capitalistic ideas. We went through it all and back in the past forty years. We have too much of everything, and when I say too much I just mean it is grotesque at this point. 30 different cereal, sure. Do we need a new one? Absolutely not. Lately we even created artificial scarcity with tech! The best proof of our collective capitalistic insanity here.
Capitalism is done because capitalism won. It’s not a perpetual cycle and wasn’t meant to be. There was to be an end, and we reached it. Now, let’s freaking redistribute wealth properly, shall we?
The best part about having to go outside for a smoke is you end up standing next to people outside of your normal work hierarchy. You get to have 1v1 conversations with OTHER managers, and people higher than you – whoever at a very casual level. The benefits of this are enormous. I certainly talked more to our director of IT by smoking than I ever did with my own boss.
HN comment. It’s true. The day I stopped having smoke breaks with other folks at companies, is the day my opportunity rate tanked badly.
I chose health over socialization but didn’t know that it would mess with work like that.
I see a lot of conversations about social media, blogs, SEO, ads, RSS, etc.
My take is that a blog is meant to be consumed: read the post, gather your thoughts, digest it and make it your own to share with your people around you (or write a comment to the author). That’s what a blog post is for. It’s not about being at the top of search engines lists or being share 1.5K times, blogging is about to make you think, smile, see. Then you share that on your own, with your own friends and coworkers and whatnot. Whenever.
Say I write something about game audio. I don’t need the post to be shared on social media. I’m not trying to get attention, I’m trying to share my experience and reasoning. Take it and maybe in six months a conversation shows up and you think “that dude had a thoughtful post about this, let me paraphrase what he said to those folks here”. That’s being consumed.
And that’s what blogs are for.
Oh, and another thing: you are a grown person. You’re supposed to curate your own stuff. Losing your mind because you’re not getting an automatic, biased and convenient river of links and videos shows that you need to detox from Big Tech.
Yes, so pretty cool. (but as you can see on the link, it’s rather dangerous, and limited)
Now hear me out because I’ve been thinking about this for years now: 3D printed houses with indoor/outdoor skateboarding, hello!
Banks from the couch to outside patio. Quarters from outside patio to concrete benches, aka ledges.
Basically an habitable tiny skate park. When not used to skate those elements become chilling, reading, lazy areas.
The future of cities and communities lays in 3D-printing factories that we would deploy like we do in a RTS game.
Imagine that you’re eleven right now in 2021.
You’re sent to school. No vaccine for you, everyone says “it’s fine!”
You get COVID-19, get a little sick and recover.
You now have lost your sense of smell and taste. At eleven.
Would you trust any adult ever again?
The future we’re building right now? There won’t be enough therapists for sure.
There is no shortage of housing in Los Angeles. If there’s one, it is artificially created by landlords.
All the talks about killing single family housing to build more is real estate talk about profiting more, and nothing else.
BlackRock, a powerful hedge fund, is also buying buildings in Paris. They’re buying everything, everywhere, not to house people —this is what housing is for, mostly— but to make a giant profit or reap the benefits of streams of income. They can buy entire neighborhoods, cash, immediately. That’s unprecedented.
Affordable housing is a red flag at this point. When Ballmer announces $80M dedicated to affordable housing, it’s complete bullshit: developers get the money, build a 50-apartment building with 2 of them being studios and being affordable. Technically, they offer affordable housing.
Parking permits are pure extortion. Etc.
Greed is the most despicable thing on earth. We’ve got to fight this.
(and f the Olympics)
We’re losing so much humanity wearing masks. 50% of our faces’ cues are gone. I prefer to be on a video call than in person with masks on, by far. Yet physical proximity is nice too. After eight months in isolation, it certainly feels great at first. But then half your face is gone and I can’t really “read” you at all.
Also masks make our faces all wrinkly and stuff. Kids are really going to look like this soon.
Growing up in this paradigm, oh my god. I’m sorry y’all.
Apparently the world still loves 1970s detective show Columbo. It’s good! And like the article says, “Whereas series on streaming services often stretch out story arcs over as many episodes as is profitable, with a string of mini-cliff hangers, Columbo shoots its shot immediately: you see the killer, their backstory, motive and the deed itself within 20 minutes, before Columbo even arrives on screen.”
Grandma absolutely loved that show and I got into it with her, back in the days when the reruns were rerunning.
Another thing I hadn’t realized before reading that article is that Columbo happens in Los Angeles! I was watching this from the floor of a French countryside home usually during fall and winter, aka Grey Weather.
And now I remember that actually, sometimes exteriors with the very large, sunny Californian blue sky in the back and our detective in a trench coat sniffing around looked definitely off.
I kind of want to watch many episodes, giggling at murders.