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Follow up...oh yes, it's another learning experience

beanrua Feb 08, 2020 02:19

So, this is a follow up to the last post...and some observations...

1. That was a major league shame spiral. Totally triggered. While I was trying to make the crazy stop, and reach out, I just couldn't get there. It's like that old story about falling in a hole...I'm not to the point of seeing the hole, and walking around it yet. I see it, and in I ( Read more... )

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Unpleasant realizations

beanrua Feb 04, 2020 22:44

I'm writing this for me. Nobody else. I just want to get this down somewhere. I don't want to feel better about it right now. I want to acknowledge just where I am, and how much it sucks ass.

Brene Brown's work was a large chunk of what made me give a flying fuck again after Kelly quit speaking to me. She says things that I'd never heard before... ( Read more... )

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beanrua Sep 08, 2019 23:31

What holds my interest is depth. Depth provides the experiences necessary to foster trust and earn credibility with other people. Depth inevitably leads to intimacy through exposure. At some point, one reaches a juncture where sharing something with another will require a level of vulnerability that generates strong emotion. This falls into the ( Read more... )

For Karl

beanrua Aug 17, 2010 15:05

If programming languages were religions...

http://turoks.net//Cabana/IfProgrammingLanguagesWereReligions.php

funny

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A good geek tale...

beanrua Nov 10, 2009 16:22

Cory Doctorow's short story Epoch is available in 8 podcast segments. It's good fiction for the geek crowd. It's about the death of the first AI.

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/09/epoch-podcast-of-my.html

I really enjoyed it. Take a listen.

science fiction, podcasts

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A WTF from my past...

beanrua Nov 05, 2009 10:15

Most everyone knows I am originally from Philly. Grew up in NE Philly. Interestingly, while checking on the inevitable transit strikes that seem to have plagued the city for YEARS, I came across this little gem ( Read more... )

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