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I seem to be a Komodo Dragon.

You're a komodo dragon!You have an appetite for life – as well as the ability to swallow an entire goat.

I have eaten goat before. Not in one bite :shifty:
 
Spacethingy said:
Giant squid. Great. At least my eyes are bigger than any of yours!
Apparently, I can achieve anything to which I put my mind and/or my massive tentacles.

I think I'm slightly worried about myself. :shifty:
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That's what I got on my second attempt. Massive tentacles do sound pretty useful... :)
 
Fisherman's Wife and Fisherman's Wife 2: The Retentacle-ing!
 
For me it's squid also

"You're a giant squid!You can achieve anything to which you put your mind and/or your massive tentacles."
 
I've recently added a "random thoughts" section to my site, and one thing that wrote itself rather quickly is about the discrepancy between what you feel and what you are being told.

I call it The Nobody Bias.
Wonder if anyone would find that familiar, particularly if you are running a blog:
http://orbides.org/page.php?id=1001
 
Artlav said:
I've recently added a "random thoughts" section to my site, and one thing that wrote itself rather quickly is about the discrepancy between what you feel and what you are being told.

I call it The Nobody Bias.
Wonder if anyone would find that familiar, particularly if you are running a blog:
http://orbides.org/page.php?id=1001
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I get that completely. I've made music and photos and I am pretty sure some of it is of high quality, but in the end I am expecting little recognition, because I am neither a professional musician nor a professional photographer, and I have no real contacts in either business. I'm also very good at my techie day job, which is where I am "Somebody", and as a result I continue to succeed.

I think it's a form of self-confidence. You have to have the audacity to make yourself successful. It takes energy and desire.

My youtube channel is a minor success. I have a few subscribers and it's been a while since I got any down-thumbs. But some of the guys in my electronic music circle seem to magically conjure up 50 up-votes simply by posting audio clips of them blowing their noses.

I haven't made an Orbiter addon in a long time, because my computer is outdated, and I haven't had time to keep up with Orbiter and development anyway. But at least I can gloat over the download counter on Orbit Hangar. Since I steadfastly refuse to use Facebook, it's the closest thing I have to a friend count I guess.

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BTW, "The Nobody Bias" is a great name for an electronic music tune...I'll keep that in mind.
 
50 shades of grey

#4e4e4e, #272727, #282828, #292929, #2b2b2b, #2c2c2c,
#2e2e2e, #313131, #323232, #343434, #353535, #373737,
#393939, #3a3a3a, #3a3a3a, #3c3c3c, #3f3f3f, #404040,
#424242, #444444, #454545, #474747, #484848, #4a4a4a,
#4b4b4b, #3d3d3d, #3e3e3e, #505050, #515151, #535353,
#565656, #575757, #585858, #595959, #5b5b5b, #5c5c5c,
#5e5e5e, #616161, #626262, #646464, #656565, #676767,
#6a6a6a, #6b6b6b, #6c6c6c, #6d6d6d, #6f6f6f, #727272,
#737373, #757575
 
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one thing that wrote itself rather quickly is about the discrepancy between what you feel and what you are being told.
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Very observant. especially this sentence here:

For some archaic reason, the desire for recognition tend to outweigh the utility obtained, in the calculations of one's feeling of well being.
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You start doing something for fun, but over time you get frustrated because nothing is always fun, and you're lacking the moral support and demand that would give you a reason to commit through the not-so-fun stages. But you pull through them anyways, because you think that somewhere down the line you'll get rewarded for it. And then that reward never comes.

It loops back a bit to an earlier discussion we had, where I mentioned that basically every public appearance is a form of marketing (this holds true not only on the internet, but also in real life as well). I.E. the marketing of yourself as some kind of brand.
There's people who are very good at this, and then there's people like you and me that are rather bad at this.
At the end of the day, I think it comes down to this: Expert recognition comes from quality. Public recognition comes from how good a salesman you are, which many times is a skill entirely unrelated to what you are actually doing. The most important thing is to create an interesting public persona, not unlike the stage personas of successful musicians. And there's people that can't do or don't want to do that.

In my past work in development aid, I had an iron rule to prevent me from emotional burnout: Don't ever expect people to be greatful. If I reach a stage where I feel I can't do my work anymore without getting recognised by the people that benefit from it, then I've reached a stage where I can't do my work adequately anymore because I'm doing it for the wrong reasons (in case anybody's wondering, no, that's not the reason why I'm talking about it as past work). I have a similar policy to my free-time code projects, and while at times it can bug me that there's no recognition from that, it never really becomes much of an issue. Because Not only do I not conciously expect there to be recognition, but I conciously expect there to be no recognition, because that's not the reason I'm doing it for. If recognition was part of the actual goal, I would go about the whole thing in a different way from the get-go.
 
I am totally unsure if "tire rusts onto drum brake and axle" is either sounding worse than it actually is or sounding better than it actually is.

Regardless, I just had to kick a car tire because it wouldn't come off to change it. I'm also unsure if that was a cruel act against my car being really attached to something or if it was a kind gesture of ridding my car of an attached parasite.

Nah, actually changing tires is a mentally boring task so I was bored for the last couple of hours and am thinking of :censored: like this.:lol:
 
Random news: Steam introduced paid workshop mods today. You can now create your own "DLCs" for games (for now only for Skyrim).
 
Urwumpe said:
WD40!
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All you ever really need in a workshop is WD40, and duct tape.

WD40 - For when it should move, but doesn't

Duct Tape - For when it moves, but shouldn't

Remember folks, if women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy.
 
Just signed up for an AHA BCLS Healthcare Provider course. Anyone else taken anything similar?
 
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