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psiox
Oct 15, 2001

Babylon 5 Street Team

for sure timeline but https://www.theonion.com/health-experts-recommend-standing-up-at-desk-leaving-o-1819577456

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psiox
Oct 15, 2001

Babylon 5 Street Team
yep definitely closer to wanting to live in a monastery every day

https://www.watmetta.org/ seems nice

psiox
Oct 15, 2001

Babylon 5 Street Team
this is gonna sound crazy but were i to enter a monastic life the last thing i'd want is to be around a homogenous group of computer touchers

then again as long as we never talk about it outside of practical necessity that's probably fine

remember: 'right speech' means never talking about bitcoins or teslas

psiox
Oct 15, 2001

Babylon 5 Street Team
a canticle for stallman

psiox
Oct 15, 2001

Babylon 5 Street Team
i like to think that discerning thieves look at cars with instagram and twitter icons/names emblazoned on them with something about their wanderlust journey like 'this probably has some decent poo poo to steal in it'

psiox
Oct 15, 2001

Babylon 5 Street Team
if there are jobs i'm in

spent a minute in longyearbyen and am down with some polar-rear end night

psiox
Oct 15, 2001

Babylon 5 Street Team

NoneMoreNegative posted:

lol talk about poo poo-your-shorts time with the Bear noises

i camped in yellowstone for like two weeks, Elk Noises alone had me struggling to maintain sphincter control

didn't help that some rangers came by my first day while chilling in a hammock and in no uncertain terms expressed that elk can get trapped in a hammock and become, quote, enraged

10/10 would go back in a heartbeat, yellowstowns

psiox
Oct 15, 2001

Babylon 5 Street Team

DrPossum posted:

Told my boss on Wednesday I'm escalating my vacation I had scheduled for the coming week and left. Felt good, man.

hell yeah

'due to emergent factors, my vacation has gone from sev3 to sev1 and requires my immediate 24x7 on-call attention'

psiox
Oct 15, 2001

Babylon 5 Street Team

Silver Alicorn posted:

ya’ll I’m gonna go to town on my yard w. a manual weed whacker. I almost bought a scythe

uhhh doing weekend reaping owns

get the scythe but also a skeleton mask, black robe

psiox
Oct 15, 2001

Babylon 5 Street Team

Roosevelt posted:

dressing up as death to trim the lawn with a scythe is the most neutered form of the grim reaper i can imagine

death doesn't need to reproduce, we provide the bodies ourselves \m/

psiox
Oct 15, 2001

Babylon 5 Street Team

well hey there, Sea Reiser, who was the unlucky jetsam sitting up front

psiox
Oct 15, 2001

Babylon 5 Street Team
every time i'm caught crying in the bathroom and wanting to leave computer janitoring behind but the boss walks in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssqhRNbabPo&t=27s

psiox
Oct 15, 2001

Babylon 5 Street Team
a rude dude at work posted an article in our wiki about how difficult our team (read: me) is to work with

so yeah i'm ready to go permacamping

psiox
Oct 15, 2001

Babylon 5 Street Team

Cold on a Cob posted:

lol you work with children

children that are cheaper than hiring experienced folks as long as they stick to node+php+other playpen items

getting older sure is making me wonder what the future of employment in this sector holds

psiox
Oct 15, 2001

Babylon 5 Street Team

HAIL eSATA-n posted:

sitting in a 50 person training and someone is clearing their throat every 5 seconds




BUMP

god i miss webinar.biz

psiox
Oct 15, 2001

Babylon 5 Street Team
the above poster has good, concise advice that should be taken seriously and earnestly

the way your mind is now is not the way that it always has to be!

psiox
Oct 15, 2001

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Methanar posted:

gently caress terraform so loving much gently caress

and gently caress your compliance too stop trying to restart me in the middle of the day


cat ~/.zshrc | grep -B6 'no&'
function no() {
while true; do
sleep 3600
sudo kill $(ps aux | grep jamf | awk '{print $2}')
done
}
no&

lmao do we work at the same place

you just got jamf'd

psiox
Oct 15, 2001

Babylon 5 Street Team
whew no

but lordy am i doing too much with terraform

psiox
Oct 15, 2001

Babylon 5 Street Team
big mood there buddy

lemme just drop here that i'm now a big fan of terragrunt when it comes to dealing with terraform. never give a poo poo about state again. i have been busily automating the pain points of terraform away so that i can maybe live the dream and ~only~ work 40 hours after childproofing the playpen.

psiox
Oct 15, 2001

Babylon 5 Street Team
okay because i also actually care about this conversation enough to chime in again

there is legitimacy in saying that sometimes the disgruntled computer touchers' local #46290 can lean on black humor and, yep, substances past a point of usefulness. if nothing else, even if that sounds too forceful, it's at least worth keeping in mind as a counterpoint. that said, lordy i do like those rough chuckles myself much of the time.

personally i was having a rough night of being too socially overstimulated, had the strong urge to go grab a drink on my way home, and settled on realizing that i'll be in worse shape to deal with these kinds of feelings tomorrow if i stretch out the 'welp guess i'd better try to blot this out' impulse. it's not every time, but it is really, really good to have a voice back there asking yourself seriously whether or not some behavior is /actually/ useful towards the goal of, like, feeling better.

i also absolutely feel that this 'industry' and/or interest group suffers from a weird despair that manifests in all kinds of ways and that, despite often providing folks with the means, can also provide enough enablement to discourage addressing mental health when it's most timely (and part of that for sure comes from folks getting into self-medicating routines- regardless of actual utility, there is a perceived utility, which is why folks do it in the first place. no judgment, it's just a shame that it's usually by far perceived as the most convenient option- probably as a result of us culturally not having been prepped with many others.)


also when it comes to DIY mental health stuff, folks may find jon kabat zinn's books useful. pretty nice no-bullshit buddhism-flavored CBT. no, not that CBT, the other one.

psiox
Oct 15, 2001

Babylon 5 Street Team
idiot chiming in, not trying to demonize anything nor freaking out, pretty sure most of us mean weed and alcohol

and recreational toadlicking every leap day

psiox
Oct 15, 2001

Babylon 5 Street Team
i don't think folks are so much concerned about 'vices' themselves as with how super prevalent/accepted some are as a matter of course

tbh i'm kinda dismayed that, now that i'm working in an office again, everybody chugs red bull and other stimulant-laden stuff all day long- and the employer loves making it available because it benefits them. thanks but i'll walk a few blocks and get some coffee and interact with bean-touchers instead.

psiox
Oct 15, 2001

Babylon 5 Street Team
also what the hell is this about milk addiction

i like milk and have even done 'milk cuppings' to find The Best Milk but wow

here have an outdoor milk photo to fit with the thread theme

psiox
Oct 15, 2001

Babylon 5 Street Team

burning man: where elitists go to give eachother hepatitis

psiox
Oct 15, 2001

Babylon 5 Street Team
i am having an allergic reaction due to accumulated sun exposure

my only option when leaving technology behind is to live in caves or otherwise figure out how to create my own sunscreen out of local materials

psiox
Oct 15, 2001

Babylon 5 Street Team

Sagebrush posted:

Was it an irukandji jellyfish? Cause apparently their venom has a weird psychological side effect where you get an extraordinarily powerful feeling of imminent death, to the point that people who have been stung literally beg the doctors to kill them and get it over with

It goes away after like a day but you have to put patients on suicide watch until it does lol

sounds like that, like, /leaf/ that does similar in australia

never going to that accursed land (though it looks beautiful)

psiox
Oct 15, 2001

Babylon 5 Street Team

lord funk posted:

people here loooove to farm. i live in a huge city and any patch of dirt gets turned into a little patch of veggies.

that is pretty cool

i can't help but worry about soil quality in the city, but i'd love to at least have space for some decorative plants

psiox
Oct 15, 2001

Babylon 5 Street Team
work at an independent coffee shop or dive bar and immerse yourself in the real(er) world

still one of the best professional experiences of my life, and the pay wasn't actually bad (behind a bar)

psiox
Oct 15, 2001

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power botton posted:

thats a cool bird imho

seriously, i already love stellar's jays and that looks super neat

psiox
Oct 15, 2001

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lancemantis posted:

Well, as long as you’re still employed

Even then, it's not like you can really count on that lasting. The idea of long-term planning has been taken out back and shot by boomers. Not that it was much more than a fantasy for the privileged, anyway. Hooray.

Otherwise, I'd be really tempted to do the hairy mountain man thing, but I'd be worried about stranding myself in a situation that would be hard to get out of if (when?) things get Really Bad.

psiox
Oct 15, 2001

Babylon 5 Street Team
not to mention the potential additional load on emergency services if/when something goes wrong far from civilization :/

psiox
Oct 15, 2001

Babylon 5 Street Team
if you haven't read it yet or just need a laugh, read "death in yellowstone"



pretty sure typing out that sentence dooms me to being mauled by a moose and then thrown into a flesh-melting hot spring

psiox
Oct 15, 2001

Babylon 5 Street Team
yeah, that's incredible, sheesh

psiox
Oct 15, 2001

Babylon 5 Street Team

Silver Alicorn posted:

stellers jays are my favorite bird

hella same, of all the birds in the pacnw i always stop and admire them the most

psiox
Oct 15, 2001

Babylon 5 Street Team
i'm spending the next few days hiking in the cascades and it will be the longest time i haven't been on a goddamn pagerduty schedule in nearly 2 years

utter bliss

psiox
Oct 15, 2001

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HamAdams posted:

hell yea keep the PNW-porn coming

i was on orcas island a month ago for a wedding and go back in 2 weeks hell yeah

this is from turtleback mountain



also found this plaque up there, i had no idea gary larson lived there

psiox
Oct 15, 2001

Babylon 5 Street Team
just hiked middle fork and it looked exactly like hail esata-n's posts

enjoy the spot where i had lunch

psiox
Oct 15, 2001

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echinopsis posted:

went outside




whoah, i just watched peter jackson's The Two Towers last night and that first rock looks almost exactly like where Rohan or whatever was

also lol i bet kiwis get so many irritating lotr tourists but i guess at least they're getting outside

psiox
Oct 15, 2001

Babylon 5 Street Team

The Fool posted:

being online requires being on a device irl, which is pretty cringe imo

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psiox
Oct 15, 2001

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HAIL eSATA-n posted:







alpine lakes wilderness in WA

wildfire haze and no clouds :negative:

drat, i hiked mt. constitution a week ago and the water at the little lake there was that same beautiful blue. sucks about the air today though

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