A while back I heard a friend of mine flirting with a girl that I knew he was into. I could only overhear the conversation but he was going on and on about how he won't dance and he especially won't dance at a wedding because it’s awkward. He was a bit bigger of a guy and he even mentioned that as a factor for his awkwardness. I knew immediately that he had lost that girl's attention.
My friend Alia Arram died when I was seventeen. She died in a car accident. A mutual friend and her were in the car together. She just gotten the car for her sixteenth birthday. He was driving it out to show her a good fishing spot and flipped it on a gravel road. He walked away. She died on impact. I went to her house that night. One of her brothers had to be sedated. Her other brother said, “I’m glad she at least got the yard mowed today”. Their family was from Israel.
Vincent Di Fate is one of the most prolific Sci-Fi illustrators of all time. he has over five thousand works of art and a breath-taking portofolio that contains some of the top sci-fi authors of the genre. Vincent and I discuss art, life, and how to maintain such a high output.
Soul Eubanks is an Vegan activist that I first heard about when I saw his quote. "Some people are so skeptical of trying vegan food, they act like it's made out of dead animals" I found that hilarious so I reached out to him to have a discussion. As it turns out he is a musician as well. In this interview we discuss art, activism, music and veganism of course.
As of late I have been thinking a lot about just how bad the internet has gotten. Google search is almost useless as it’s full of ads and not real links for page after page. Content farms and bots have made actual human content hard to find. Social media is just a giant manipulative echo chamber and it’s all done in the name of business and extracting every last penny from the user of the site.
How I finally replaced my noise machine and nightstand clock with my iphone.
In my quest for minimalism i’m always looking at how a device can fill multiple rolls so I need less items.
With the new standby mode I can replace my bed side clock. I have also been playing with using my iPhone to replace my noise machine that I did have setup with HomeKit to turn on at 9pm and off at 11pm. Using my phone is a bit more manual but i like that it’s very intentional. It is nice when I travel that I have the same noise machine on the road as I do at home. So I got a mag safe stand and have that and one HomeKit light by my bed. It looks a lot cleaner and it’s simpler.
