The dishwasher has been on the fritz at my townhouse. I rent, the landlord is pretty good. She got her repairman Johnny in touch with us.
— argc (@tookalito) February 1, 2024
We went through his checklist. Check the spinner arm works and isn't clogged. Run hot water before and during. Fill the rinse aide. Tried…
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miscellaneous stuff
Thursday, February 01, 2024
Working on Sunday
Friday, January 12, 2024
survivors bias and nervous breakdown
I grew up believing that nervous breakdown was very rare, and being on the verge of a nervous breakdown was somewhat common. Years later I wonder if nervous breakdown was more frequent than I believed.
When I was young going to church they sometimes did this thing called testimony. In testimony people in the congregation could stand up and talk for a short time about their experience with God in their lives.
— argc (@tookalito) January 12, 2024
A theme I noticed back then was some would describe some difficult…
Tuesday, January 02, 2024
The Russian front
There was an interview on CTV News a couple of days ago. The talking head felt that if Russia won in Ukraine, then this was just the first phase in an eventual Russian invasion of Western Europe. The Ukrainian supporter theory was that the West should thus bring greatest effort to the Ukraine conflict. I thought about this a bit and what the West perhaps should do at this point at the end of 2023 and into the beginning of 2024
if the West is to fight Russia, as Ukraine supporters claim it will have to. if Russia indeed plans to conquer Ukraine and then continue into Western Europe. what is the best strategy. if this is inevitable
— argc (@tookalito) January 1, 2024
it seems logical to figure out where and when the fight should be in…
Thursday, December 28, 2023
themes for 2024
I didn't set out to write an end of 2023, New Year resolutions for 2024 post. It just kind of came to me early on Christmas morning.
I awoke at 4:26 on Christmas morning. I’m older now, was in bed before 10 on Christmas Eve.
— argc (@tookalito) December 27, 2023
Too early to be up. Nothing to do but lay there. During that time between awake and asleep some thoughts crossed my mind. Eventually I drifted back to sleep. When I awoke Christmas Day… pic.twitter.com/ZY3PM02oXD
Saturday, December 23, 2023
returning to work after being retired
Lately out and about I've noticed older workers in the stores and restaurants. I wonder if they are previously retired and now have to return to the workforce in their sixties for financial reasons
in the last few months I’ve noticed more older people, well into their sixties, working at retail and restaurants.
— argc (@tookalito) December 22, 2023
mostly older women and some older men. perhaps sign of these times people having to come out of retirement to make ends meet
Friday, December 15, 2023
decomposing a cube into a tetrahedron
starting with a close to square kleenex box I created a tetrahedron by successively removing corners, vertices in geometry terms, to come to a tetrahedron
I made a tetrahedron by removing corners from a cube pic.twitter.com/IEcmfL1WsP
— argc (@tookalito) November 23, 2023
I'm experimenting with posting content on Twitter, with a link from here. Will see how it goes.