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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • I was as awkward as it gets. I thought I was ugly because I was told that all day every day by around me. Not my family z my family is awesome, but class mates, coworkers, etc. I was always heavily bullied.

    I figured it out twice: first time when I started practicing full contact karate. Within two weeks everyone in school knew and the daily bullying just dead stopped in its tracks. I figured then that bullying has a lot to do with perception. If people perceive you as weak, some will pick on you. If you display strength, at least that part will stop.

    However, the damage was done, I was socially awkward as hell, no idea how to talk to girls.

    I figured it out for a second time when I married the most beautiful woman in existence.

    I know, I know, I’m biased, but my wife is holy shit pretty and at our slightly advanced age, still has a bettery body than the average 18 year old. At first glance, anyone would guess she’s 30. Add to that an amazing personality and a serious great and dark sense of humor, we laugh all day everyday about everything.

    I would never ever in my life have thought I could get a woman like her and she actually WANTS to be around me. We are together pretty much 24/7 and even 6 years in we’re still all day hand in hand, even when we’re eating. We are nauseatingly close, and we love every second of our lives.

    Still got a lot of other shit going on, a lot of stresses in our lives, but us together? We’re golden.

    I figured out that everything is perception. Be self confident because you trust yourself. Know yourself and stop being afraid of things that can’t hurt you .


  • “I think it comes down to either incompetence or laziness … it just seems like the engineers who developed this were either ignorant or incompetent,” he said"

    Nah, I’m sure the engineers knew, or were too incompetent

    As per usual, it’s management who pushed for such tight development schedules that they didn’t have the time to do it right while at the same time offering so little money they could only attract idiots who only know half of what they should.

    I fucking guarantee you that is the core of the problem

















  • I used to go to a computer club

    I was one of “those” kids. This was during the height of the Commodore Amiga, the most beautiful piece of hardware I’ve ever owned. It was magical

    Those computer clubs were on paper all about teaching, exchanging ideas, showing off hardware, etc

    In reality, when you’d enter the room, there would be hundreds of Amiga computers running xcopy, copying one floppy disk after another. Everyone had their floppy boxes open, I had a few hundred 3.5" disks, in a Feib boxes. People would just walk by, rummage through my collection, take what they wanted to copy, and bring it all back later.

    Everything was super respectful and so so so much fun. It was every last (or first?) Saturday of the month, and if look forward to it for weeks

    Piracy was life at that time. I had no idea where to buy games, I barely realized that people would pay for software. I had zero money anyway, I would never buy anything because I didn’t have the money

    It was a magical time and I yearn for it

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