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Cake day: April 10th, 2025

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  • I don’t mean that the physical aspect of logging was weird; ircII had per window logging even back then but it had to be manually set on.

    I mean the social aspect of hanging out with people for years in a private chat room and logging them without telling them. Everyone in the group was surprised and annoyed to find out he did this it was a close knit group and we shared a lot in there. The internet was much smaller 30 years ago and far less privacy focused, we learned due to people like that with no chill!


  • there was this weird guy who hung out in our irc channel, and apparently he was logging EVERYTHING, without telling any of us.

    Well one day he decides to prank me a little, he logs in as a new user and he starts pasting MY sentences out of a 2 year old log he had, one at a time.

    There had been construction happening at 7am and i had been ranting about it. Well hearing this guy ranting about the 7am construction reminded me of when that happened to me! So i start responding like OH MAN THAT’S BULLSHIT THAT HAPPENED TO ME TOO. He managed to keep me going for like 20 minutes just posting my own stuff until finally something gave up the ruse.

    Pretty funny in the end. Still think he was a weirdo for logging our chats but what can you do.


  • these mind formations last into adulthood and artists have to train to see and reproduce what’s actually there instead of what their brain is throwing up.

    There’s an easy way to test this with your own mind, you take a simple photograph of a face and do your best to reproduce it with whatever artistic talent you have. You have to give it a solid effort though.

    Then you rotate the photograph upside down repeat the process trying to reproduce exactly what you see.

    It’s like a parlor trick because for most people the upside down image, which doesn’t trigger the brain to draw it’s idea of a face, comes out looking passably good even if their right side up copy is shite.

    I learned this from a drawing book when i was learning to draw and it blew my mind!







  • I used to zone out in this regular multi hour weekly meeting by picking a random co-worker around the table that day and gaming out them snapping.

    Like okay today Sue had it and she snaps. Why? Well she found out her husband cheated on her and she’s red with rage towards men. First thing to check is if she between me and the door. Okay if it’s men who is the closest man to her she will probably be going for him. What weapons could sue have on her she’s got her purse so maybe she has pepper spray or a knife. etc. etc.

    entertaining enough to make a lot of time slip by, you look like you’re thinking and you are looking around at people. And girl if any of those mfers ever snapped I would have got out of there mark my words.