I don’t read DMs.

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Cake day: February 26th, 2025

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  • My solution was one of these on a swing arm lamp clamped to my headboard. I habitually turn off the overhead light before I get in bed and turn on the reading lamp. I’ve had the same lamp for almost 50 years. My high school girlfriend wrote her name on the inside of the shade, so, I’d see it at night. It’s still there. I’ve used it to read in bed all that time.

    I don’t need a remote or a phone app to handle this.






  • Written by hand. Not just once, if you wanted a good grade. You needed at least one draft to correct mistakes. And, some teachers required the paper to be written in ink.

    But, I read the book, too.

    We taught my son to read, we knew we couldn’t trust the schools to do it well. He read above grade level all through school. Being able to read well means you’ll always be able to learn. Schools don’t want us to be knowledgeable, they want us to be useful to the billionaires.


  • Doesn’t matter, the worm is in your brain, and you know or are reminded the product exists. That’s all they’re aiming for.

    Also, a lot of people think they’re immune to advertising. No one is. The only protection is never seeing them.

    On the very rare occasion I choose to watch some media with an ad I can’t skip, I mute the volume and put my hand over my eyes, so I can just see a corner of the screen and know when it’s over.






  • I don’t think I’d want to be a billionaire. A hundred million? Yeah. But, any more than that I think fucks too hard with the head. It’s an impossible amount to understand, and the power that comes with it corrupts.

    You might say, “then, just give most of it away”, and yeah, that makes sense, but I don’t know how fast it happens. I don’t know if I’d be able to. I think once I realized it was really mine, it might be hard to “just give it away”. I don’t know what that corruption feels like.

    And, I’m not sure I want to.

    No. I’ll take the $19 and I’ll leave being a billionaire to the people who handle it so well.