John Porter

I suppose they will all want dignity.

Good morning. Here's a song I really like: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeG3...

I get a lot of GOP fundraising emails in my spam folder. I delete most, but sometimes I open them up. They're fascinating. Is this the kind of thing that really works? How much of your soul do you forfeit when you take the job to write this kind of copy?

I read that piece in the NYT about Marissa Mayer's startup aiming to replace parenting w/ AI assistants. Yikes. There's plenty to pick at, but the big picture thing that bugs me about all this is that I don't think efficiency should be the measure of our lives. It's a bad metric, just like money.

Obrigado Louisa, VA

While I admire the simplicity, I can't help thinking some additional details would make this campaign sign more useful.

Huh.

I am tired of hearing that things are cooked. Unless it's a turkey or a pie, please refrain from speculating on the cooked nature of concepts or systems until the new year. Thank you.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAmF...

here's a question about that documentary and Nathan Fielder's broader work: Is it a profound and artistic statement about life and truth, or do I feel that it has a lot to say because I'm broken in a particular way?

Oh yeah, in case the internet breaks or the world ends tomorrow because of some PHP exploit, it's been fun hanging out with everybody on here.

Ok, so we saw the doc. yesterday and today started The Rehearsal. I sort of knew what I was in for; my wife went in 100% blind. It totally changed the framing of the documentary, adding at least a couple more levels. Just a mind blowing project. I'm reminded of Synecdoche New York, but real life.

Hey everybody, I just want you to know that I feel very strongly that if you want to make a geometallurgy model that your model should tell me something **important** about the relationship between geology and metallurgy. If the process plant doesn't care about the modeled differences, why should I?

I saw this youtube ad that said sleeping on your side is "ruining your shoulder and you don't even know it". Friends, I know what time and sleeping on my side are doing to my shoulder; I feel it every morning.

Folding iPhone? Not interested. Apple home dingus? Meh. I am basically never excited by new gadgets anymore. HOWEVER, I did recently get a travel cpap and it has rekindle my love of cool tech. This is probably a function of my age and overpowering dad-vibes. Happy birthday to me, I guess.

Looks like a thin section. Bunch of plag xtls with some finer grained minerals filling in the gaps. And a quartz vein up there at the top!

This is a very good bluesky tweet

I dig this song. That is all. www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-go...

For many years, this was my file card for "fancy chocolate".

The theme at therapy today was "it's ok to feel things". Seems obvious, but it was nice to have a reminder. I hope you are all feeling things today (it's ok) and are doing well, considering.

Here are a few Tioga pictures. Handsome dog.

Happy Thanksgiving to all my Canadian friends!

See, the thing is, I don't really care if Twitter is good again. I'm not going back. Part of it is because of the terrible person that runs the place, but mostly I just don't need that anymore. I need less of my life to be online. A bigger, better social platform isn't going to help with that.

A lot of people, most maybe, think of Vegas when you mention Nevada. I think of this kind of landscape. I prefer it over the lights and excess of the Strip.