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Cake day: October 7th, 2024

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  • I will say that I tend to use quite a bit and the withdraw can sometimes be annoying. Nowhere near as tough as other addictions, I’m sure, but the one that always gets me is the loss of appetite and nausea with mild insomnia for a couple days. After I’m over that hump, though, it’s right back to normal. I don’t even get a ‘hankering’ for weed. I just sometimes wish I had some on the initial withdraw days just to help with sleeping and eating, not even because I want the high.

    It’s pretty incredible we have a drug that you can use that much and bounce back out so quickly (assuming you’re old enough).





  • Driving 10 over in most cases will make little to no difference in time, even on an hour-long commute (~6 minutes @ 10 MPH over 60, with diminishing returns at higher speed limits). The one time I got pulled over, I was doing 10 over which would have only saved about 4 or 5 minutes. The stop added another 20 minutes to the drive.

    Stay safe out there and only speed on sparsely patrolled roads for the occasional spirited drive. Otherwise just follow traffic and blend in.






  • I recently went to a live event at night and I noticed how many people didn’t take the time to wipe their lens to avoid giant streaks in the image.

    I have a theory that social media makes it hard to put time into just about anything that you might consider art. You get a constant feed of the best quality art that the internet has to offer, so when you do take the extra minute or two to figure out your settings, wipe their lens, and actually try and take a good picture, the chance of taking a good picture is still pretty low because phones still just aren’t that good at taking pictures.

    I brought my DSLR to the event and even with the much larger lens, getting enough light was pretty tough. The few pictures I did take on my phone just didn’t really have a good sense of scale due to the lens’s fixed focal length. Don’t even get me started on aspect ratio.

    If you spend those few extra minutes and it still doesn’t look like what your friends are posting to their social media because they’re loading it with filters, why not join the crowd and do exactly that. Put in zero effort and let the filter fill in the gap of making it look interesting, even if it doesn’t look good.

    What you did do is show all your friends that you did something interesting, which a few hundred to ten thousand or so people might see that for a couple of second before scrolling into the next 400 things they’ll see that day in their feed.