What’s on your mind?

[VulchR]

Thinking I've been nowhere in my life and how happy I could be if I made other choices. Feel a little depressed and looking at the **** I see in the news or feed, just sucks the joy of life I had prior.

Only things that still makes me smile and move on is my family and riding my motorcyle.

IMO humans are cursed in that we often engage in 'if I had only done x' counterfactual thinking. I do think it is important to how we learn, but sometimes it just seems a little harsh and self-punishing.

I hope you feel better soon. I understand about the news being bad all the time. It seems to me we are going backwards and possibly recapitulating much of the 1930's and 1940's, but I think news goes in cycles. Hopefully things will get better soon. FWIW when I get down, I listen to the Blues and wait it out.

 

[ThunderSkunk]

I‘m on the verge of walking away from all the physical things of the previous 47 years of my life. Coming from two families of architects, designers & product people, and in an amped up consumer culture, I realize how materialistic my entire unhappy adult life has been, and how much of my energy has been devoted to *things*. Trying out & selecting the finest things, configuring, modifying, improving them, servicing them & finding ways to hold on to & leverage their qualities into blah blah blah. My home and office are like a curated museum archive of the last half century.

and now, two generations above me just passed on their curated archives of stuff to me, and my house & garage are full of boxes on it. If this entire place burned down in a fire, I’d never replace any of it and just go without any of these things. I’d have so much more time on my hands I’d just take up walking and looking at the leaves waving on the trees, no camera, just with my eyeballs and fuzzy analog internal memory, happy to have all my time & freedom back instead.

 

[Expos of 1969]

I‘m on the verge of walking away from all the physical things of the previous 47 years of my life. Coming from two families of architects, designers & product people, and in an amped up consumer culture, I realize how materialistic my entire unhappy adult life has been, and how much of my energy has been devoted to *things*. Trying out & selecting the finest things, configuring, modifying, improving them, servicing them & finding ways to hold on to & leverage their qualities into blah blah blah. My home and office are like a curated museum archive of the last half century.

and now, two generations above me just passed on their curated archives of stuff to me, and my house & garage are full of boxes on it. If this entire place burned down in a fire, I’d never replace any of it and just go without any of these things. I’d have so much more time on my hands I’d just take up walking and looking at the leaves waving on the trees, no camera, just with my eyeballs and internal memory, happy to have all my time & freedom back instead.

Think carefully but I appreciate what you are saying. Perhaps take the time to review all the items and select a few which really appeal to you and retain those. Sell the rest if you come to the conclusion that this urge to rid yourself of these things is not just a fleeting feeling caused by a short term mood.

 

[JetBlack7]

IMO humans are cursed in that we often engage in 'if I had only done x' counterfactual thinking. I do think it is important to how we learn, but sometimes it just seems a little harsh and self-punishing.

I hope you feel better soon. I understand about the news being bad all the time. It seems to me we are going backwards and possibly recapitulating much of the 1930's and 1940's, but I think news goes in cycles. Hopefully things will get better soon. FWIW when I get down, I listen to the Blues and wait it out.

Appreciate the input. I try to keep my head busy with a lot of stuff if something really stresses me out. Video games really help me out zoning out and relax.

 

[mtbdudex]

I’m a cord cutter now 5 years.
OTA TV plus streaming …
Saved $$’s earlier … now scope creep and too many streaming services

 

[Crowbot]

I’m a cord cutter now 5 years.
OTA TV plus streaming …
Saved $$’s earlier … now scope creep and too many streaming services

It was inevitable. I'm old enough to remember (I'm saying that a lot these days) when cable TV first became ubiquitous. At very first it was supposed to be commercial free (or limited). Boy was I disappointed. So now it's the same with streaming. If we want the content we have to pay, and then pay more. The delivery mechanism is unimportant.

 

[soulreaver99]

That whole thing that GamersNexus brought up on Linus Tech Tips... YIKES

 

[rm5]

That whole thing that GamersNexus brought up on Linus Tech Tips... YIKES

Not surprising tbh, I was expecting this to come up at some point.

 

[mtbdudex]

It was inevitable. I'm old enough to remember (I'm saying that a lot these days) when cable TV first became ubiquitous. At very first it was supposed to be commercial free (or limited). Boy was I disappointed. So now it's the same with streaming. If we want the content we have to pay, and then pay more. The delivery mechanism is unimportant.

Agree, I’m 61, used a slide rule in 8th grade before calculators were here, programmed my Timex Sinclair in 1983 for my engineering material science class, grew up on 5 tv stations ..

Now I’m typing this on my iPhone 14 pro, with 5G UW service ..

 

[Crowbot]

Agree, I’m 61, used a slide rule in 8th grade before calculators were here, programmed my Timex Sinclair in 1983 for my engineering material science class, grew up on 5 tv stations ..

Now I’m typing this on my iPhone 14 pro, with 5G UW service ..

"We've come a long way, baby"

 

[Fat_Guy]

Thinking I've been nowhere in my life and how happy I could be if I made other choices. Feel a little depressed and looking at the **** I see in the news or feed, just sucks the joy of life I had prior.

Only things that still makes me smile and move on is my family and riding my motorcyle.

I’ve got news for you:


It is worse to have some successes in life and huge potential only to have it scuttled because of people of lesser ability and jealousy. To do this you usually forgo the family life. There is always this senario…



What’s on my mind? I was at this plant called Multimatic in Ontario, Canada - with a handful of employees at the prototype reveal of what would be the Ford GT (years ago). They drove this car up and down the back parking lot at 5km per hour. No doors or skins. Yup, no publicity event, I was just connected.


Supposedly on Thursday Ford will reveal a mid-engine super car Mustang made by Multimatic. I wondered if I should run the story and score this time. But I chickened out as I have more to lose than gain. Let’s just leave it at that…

 

[DaveFromCampbelltown]

Watching a doco on the island of Mull and their puffins.
I have never seen them fly. They are a ridiculous bird, basically penguins with wings, done badly.
Next time somebody spouts Intelligent Design at me, I am going to give them a puffin...

Mind you, evolution doesn't do too well either.
I'm sorry, Richard Dawkins, but The Blind Watchmaker must have also been drunk as well as blind when it came to doing puffins.

 

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

Watching a doco on the island of Mull and their puffins.

We did a boat trip out to the islands Staffa and Lunga, just West of Mull, primarily to see puffins, and that was just awesome. Fantastic little birds.

Only glitch: The battery on my Panasonic TZ-60 travel camera died on me, and I had forgotten the right cable and couldn't hook it up to my powerbank, so I had to take all the pictures on Lunga using my iPhone 7 plus

 

[Crowbot]

Watching a doco on the island of Mull and their puffins.
I have never seen them fly. They are a ridiculous bird, basically penguins with wings, done badly.
Next time somebody spouts Intelligent Design at me, I am going to give them a puffin...

Mind you, evolution doesn't do too well either.
I'm sorry, Richard Dawkins, but The Blind Watchmaker must have also been drunk as well as blind when it came to doing puffins.

But the "design" works. Their form is just right for how they live and feed.

 

[VulchR]

Watching a doco on the island of Mull and their puffins.
I have never seen them fly. They are a ridiculous bird, basically penguins with wings, done badly.
Next time somebody spouts Intelligent Design at me, I am going to give them a puffin...

Mind you, evolution doesn't do too well either.
I'm sorry, Richard Dawkins, but The Blind Watchmaker must have also been drunk as well as blind when it came to doing puffins.

LOL - I live near the Isle of May, another Puffin hotspot. Watching them trying to land is hilarious, but they are beautiful and industrious creatures.

As for the blind watchmaker, humans haven't escaped the watchmaker's drunken designs. You only have to look at the arrangement of our urinary and reproductive tracks (in both males and females) to know the watchmaker was in the advanced stages of alcoholism. The retina, with blood vessels on its surface interposed in the light path betwen the lens and the photoreceptors is another example. Drunken madness...

 

[Apple fanboy]

We did a boat trip out to the islands Staffa and Lunga, just West of Mull, primarily to see puffins, and that was just awesome. Fantastic little birds.

Only glitch: The battery on my Panasonic TZ-60 travel camera died on me, and I had forgotten the right cable and couldn't hook it up to my powerbank, so I had to take all the pictures on Lunga using my iPhone 7 plus

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Beautiful. I was due to go to Skomer island to photograph Puffins a few weeks back. Sadly it got cancelled at the last minute due to bad weather.
Maybe next year.

 

[fanboy-ish]

I’m a cord cutter now 5 years.
OTA TV plus streaming …
Saved $$’s earlier … now scope creep and too many streaming services

I hope record companies won't get any ideas from film and tv series companies, like exclusives and making their own streaming service.

For now, luckily for me, music streaming still makes sense financially, it's a good investment for me, Amazon has just raised Amazon Music Unlimited prices, but, I believe, they're still below Apple Music and Spotify, Apple raised Apple Music price but it's still ok for me.

I want to play the Devil's advocate here for a minute regarding TV networks, film and series streaming, companies shouldn't act too surprised when they see piracy keeps going up. Yes, I do know it's wrong and piracy, ultimately, hurts the little guys, but it's a consequence of a market that actively works against consumers.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

LOL - I live near the Isle of May, another Puffin hotspot. Watching them trying to land is hilarious, but they are beautiful and industrious creatures.

I love puffins, and agree with @Crowbot.

As for the blind watchmaker, humans haven't escaped the watchmaker's drunken designs. You only have to look at the arrangement of our urinary and reproductive tracks (in both males and females) to know the watchmaker was in the advanced stages of alcoholism. The retina, with blood vessels on its surface interposed in the light path betwen the lens and the photoreceptors is another example. Drunken madness...

Oh, yes, amen to this.

As a woman, there have been many many occasions when I have had exactly this thought, or several versions and variants thereof.

Blind, intoxicated not to mention incredibly incompetent.......that deranged watch keeper.

Those blueprints,.....suffice to say, had I done the design, it would have been somewhat (nay, dramatically) different.

 

[Lioness~]

Horrible, just horrible.

Disgusting and creepy.

I simply do not understand why some people choose to behave in such a manner.

The truth is that those people are not even aware enough to make conscious choices, they just act out build up emotions, tension and unconscious patterns.

Awareness is not so common for our species that we want to believe. We have to learn it through education and serious study of our world, ourselves and others in various contexts.

Consciousness is not a characteristic of the human race, but a capacity we learn and which is acquired by witnessing ourselves and others and thereby seeing life in a broader perspective.

 

[Crowbot]

I love puffins, and agree with @Crowbot.


Oh, yes, amen to this.

As a woman, there have been many many occasions when I have had exactly this thought, or several versions and variants thereof.

Blind, intoxicated not to mention incredibly incompetent.......that deranged watch keeper.

Those blueprints,.....suffice to say, had I done the design, it would have been somewhat (nay, dramatically) different.

Adaptation is amazing. One of my favorites is the electric eel. The organs that produce the juice are modified muscles. The basic structure of a muscle is very similar to the structure of a battery. But the eel had to sacrifice some spped because it had less muscle.

OK, lesson's over.

 

[rm5]

I had quite a busy day! Played a gig at a coffee shop with a singer, guitarist, and drummer this afternoon, then a couple hours later, I went over to the brewery for my regular Wednesday night gig, both were a lot of fun! Very different energy levels, too

 

[HDFan]

I‘m on the verge of walking away from all the physical things of the previous 47 years of my life.

For me it isn't the physical objects but the memories that are associated with them. I have discarded tons of stuff but I take pictures of them so that the memories are still there. Digital records also help in case something is lost:



Intended to give this to the aviation museum at the airport but it seems to somehow have gotten lost. At least I have the picture which brings back the memories of the people who gave me this memento.

 

[VulchR]

For me it isn't the physical objects but the memories that are associated with them. I have discarded tons of stuff but I take pictures of them so that the memories are still there. Digital records also help in case something is lost:

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Intended to give this to the aviation museum at the airport but it seems to somehow have gotten lost. At least I have the picture which brings back the memories of the people who gave me this memento.

My lottery fantasy includes buying a float plane... just seems like a wonderful way to see the world. I live near an old RAF base and once saw a PBY Catalina on display at an air show. Impressive.

 

[Expos of 1969]

For me it isn't the physical objects but the memories that are associated with them. I have discarded tons of stuff but I take pictures of them so that the memories are still there. Digital records also help in case something is lost:

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Intended to give this to the aviation museum at the airport but it seems to somehow have gotten lost. At least I have the picture which brings back the memories of the people who gave me this memento.

I assume you lost the document and not the plane?

 

[Scepticalscribe]

My lottery fantasy includes buying a float plane... just seems like a wonderful way to see the world. I live near an old RAF base and once saw a PBY Catalina on display at an air show. Impressive.

I'd love to take a flight (well, be taken for a flight) in a biplane.

Must say that I love the photograph you have shared with us.