German chocolate is like a whole other food than the wax that Hershey’s pretends is the real thing.

His hands are freaking me out.

What kind of music are you into and what do you play?

IMSLP has a ton of stuff.

L’homme Arme is such a cool composition. I’d love to hear a more period-accurate version, but this one is pretty great anyway.

Princigul Dukat

Wish I’d bought a bunch when they were on clearance.

I’m not an expert, but I’ve read that if you’re fermenting foods properly it’s very hard to make yourself sick because the lactobacillus culture grows quickly enough to overpower any botulism that could try to colonize it. Just make sure there’s not mold growing on top.

I don’t believe that applies to food stored in oil, but I’m not sure.

Edit: I looked it up and miso is fermented by aspergillus oryzae, but the same principle would apply.

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I just tried my garlic miso that I started four months ago, and it’s amazing. Highly recommend.

I didn’t make the miso, but I packed some garlic cloves into a jar of the miso and let it ferment. The garlic bits are so good in a miso soup, and the flavor gets infused to the paste too.

There’s another user who replied to me who answered much better than I could.

Loading a program from disk on the Commodore 64

LOAD"*",8,1

I haven’t loaded a game on that system since I was probably 10 or so, but I’ll never forget the command.

I memorized it as L-O-A-D shift-2 star shift-2 comma eight comma one.

I live in Texas, and we focused on the glories of “free-market” “laissez faire” capitalism in our American history class.

Not a word about things like the Triangle Shirtwaist fire or the Homestead Strike or the Great Railroad Strike of 1922. I’m frankly shocked that we talked about the civil rights movement at all.

Yeah, I’d have left a misogyny warning if I’d remembered that part. Thanks for the note.

Yeah, that’s pretty bad.

I still think it’s an interesting read.

How about HG Wells talking about mini wargaming in 1912? I think it’s fascinating to see proto-nerds inventing the geek stuff that we take for granted a hundred years later.

Little Wars via Project Gutenberg

My favorite is probably Aurora, in which a generation ship makes a voyage to Tau Ceti to set up a colony.

After that, I really enjoyed Galeleo’s Dream, a time-travel story about the famous polymath and a plot to reshape the history of scientific thought.

And Shaman is also great: it’s about the paleolithic people who painted the chauvet cave and their struggle to thrive in an impossibly harsh time.

And finally I also just finished The Years of Rice and Salt recently, and it’s one that I know I’ll have to re-read sometime. It’s an alternate history about how the world would shake out if the population of Europe was wiped out by a plague in the 1400s and follows a set of characters reincarnating over the centuries.

KSR is probably my favorite living author.

I think the book is supposed to be more “this is what is possible” than an actual roadmap.

His optimism is what I really like about his work; anyone can throw up their hands and give up, but that’s a dereliction of duty. Believing that a better world is possible and worth fighting for is the point, in my opinion.

Go to a thrift store like a real punk and find something cool & unique.

“A team of hitmen” LMAO!

If you want to get better, you have to practice every single day.

You’re going to suck at first, but then you’re going to suck less. You have to learn enjoy the process, which it sounds like you do, so great! I like to break up my play time into practicing something new and having fun; they’re both important.

One thing I’ve found is that keeping my guitar out and on the wall makes it a lot easier to get started playing, even if I don’t feel like it at the time. Once I’m about five minutes into playing, I’m into it.

Oh, and practice with a metronome. Most guitarists suck at rhythm (myself included). Using a metronome beats it into your head.