We read Ripley’s Believe It or Not and the Guinness Book of World Records instead of Wikipedia. Urban legends were rampant. Everyone lived in constant fear of “the gum disease gingivitis”.
I like American music. Do you like American music? I like American music, too, baby.
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90s kid introvert here.
I would hop on my bike of a Saturday morning, explore the town for an hour, hit the library, come home a few hours later with as many books as I could fit in my backpack.
I’d stay up late learning to code from paperback manuals, save my games to floppies and swap them with friends at school or make my brothers play them.
I ran a year-long pen-and-paper fantasy wargame with my friends from the Scouts, I’d spend an hour every week tabulating the results of everyone’s orders and updating the map.
5·11 days agoBullet Journal — the original method described by Carrol, not the fancy spread-and-decoration bullshit. Write everything down as it occurs to you, indicate whether it’s a note or a to-do with different bullet points, and at the end of the day decide which tasks to put in tomorrow’s notes and which to discard. Date each page and list the page number in the index of it contains long-term notes (eg. quite from a contractor, birthday present ideas).
It’s easy, it’s fast, and it doesn’t break if you forget to do it for a day or two or two hundred.
31·12 days agoWhat do you mean by “feigned happiness”? Cheerfulness?
Because I know unpleasant people that are happy that way, and depressed people who are very cheerful. Happiness is something you have, cheerfulness is something you do.
Though in my experience, being cheerful tends to help other people feel better and helping others makes me happy.
IIRC that is a synonym already; and Factor » Product isn’t a pun, just the what the words literally mean.
The challenge makes it all the sweeter a victory.
yisss I was also jamming on the C64, a hand-me-down from a cousin
Eventually I had read all the books I was interested in at the local library, and the second nearest library, and the downtown library, and I was riding eight miles each way to get to the far side of town. As long as I was back by dinnertime!