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Joined March 2008
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20 years of continuous sobriety today. The kindness of others is a hell of a drug.
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This is a first for me: Wordle 241 1/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 But the X factor is that people share their wordles and everyone knows the most common first words. As fun as it is to share these, seeing the positions of the boxes is truly a spoiler and a cheat.
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the right brain is actually the body
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persimmons taste like poison
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Since I have to deal with Adobe products (everyone else uses them), it'd be neat if I could install without all the malware Adobe ships with them. Is there anything that makes it at least _feel_ like Adobe hasn't installed its own operating system/emulation/Clippy terrorist?
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Replying to @dvargasfuertes
@dvargas92495 @beauhaan You guys know if anyone has made a (very scary, yes) universal find/replace for Roam where you can replace page refs with a block ref? Block references are just so much more useful in every way… I fear lots of people are creating massive debt with pages.
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I do realize that page references themselves are already so much more useful than the files/folders new users are used to, but they’re really just the gateway drug to block references. Once you go block, you never go back, and I have lots of stuff that needs to be blockified.
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Football and basketball teams mostly just make me feel sad. Why do I continue this relationship with them?
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After more than 18 months, I can confirm that @RoamResearch’s usefulness increases proportionally with how *literally* you interpret the words “tool for thought” and treat is as such.
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Every single decision requires saying no, and usually to an infinite number of things. It would be fair to say that the process of living is ~100% just saying no to things. It is the nature of creation and agency. Saying yes to one thing == Saying no to everything else.
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The actual practice of saying no, a settled and confident no, requires allowing the thing to be what it is.
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“Who’ve” is the rarest written contraction but people say it all the time.
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You guys I know I use “super excited” too much. Also “so excited.” There’s excitement inflation that may require countermeasures. Simple “excited” is the new 😐.
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Louisa, 4, to her pre-school teachers: “When Mommy goes to work she puts on her fancy shoes. When Daddy goes to work he puts on his pajama pants.” I believe it’s time to speak with Louisa about our sacred trust tree…
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Unsettling fact: Your toes are longer than you think they are. Perhaps significantly so.
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I feel like there's a lot of Letterman in Macdonald... Like not in the construction of things but in the delivery. Like the same energetic flow. Like the way he gets me laughing is similar to the way Letterman gets me laughing.
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Until I’m running through the actual woods, heart pumping, killing orcs coming out from behind trees, or quarterbacking for the Eagles myself on an actual field, dodging defensive linemen that I can feel and goddamn smell, don’t tell me about augmented reality. It is useless.
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The mustard-style bbq is a sleeper bbq.
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Me, 18 months ago, naive about the nature of being: “@RoamResearch is amazing! Just add square brackets to things and IT ORGANIZES ITSELF BETTER THAN YOU EVER COULD.” Me, today, wise: “A page is nothing more than a block with no sense of its own history or significance.”
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Pages are for snorks. It’s just block references all the way down now.
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Me, remembering that many people take things very seriously when it comes to tool choice: “Pages are great and it’s all just preference and what works for you 👍.”
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