Neocities.org
a website should be a junkyard of personal memorabilia. visitors will be oriented to wonder what the hell any of this is
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Thanks for the follow! Neocities & Green Day, what a throwback. So chuffed to hear Neocities is recovering.
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Thanks for the follow! I really enjoyed your taxi analogy (and could have never understood the ideas without the analogy). Imho a dishonest rhetorical trick does not discredit, it just distorts. I hope Kant and Burke will notice the car is heading for a wall, and swap this kind of swordplay for productive interrogation of ideas, because a complex system needs all hands on deck.
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impracticalethics
6 months ago
Thanks! Glad you liked it :)) Btw "and the gardens where dogs buried bones and people buried dogs" is a really good line.
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Thank you for the follow! I hope that you will get some respite from the heat soon. Two years ago I experienced extreme heat for the first time and I feel for you, it's horrendous : (
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akgb
7 months ago
Hi nice to meet you. Thanks for following back. By the way you are my first follower. :)
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brennholz
8 months ago
I have a (kind of crappy) way to record mixtapes and a bunch of blank tapes and I massively feel the "waste of time" thing. Like this is just so much extra work to listen to the same music I already listen to in much worse quality, but it's sooooo cool...
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pikemalarkey
8 months ago
@brennholz> I guess if it's just about it being cool, it's probably not worth it since you could instead play with other stuff like...vintage synths or 8tracks (whatever they are), etc. Some of it is bound to be cool and useful at the same time.
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nohappynonsense
8 months ago
pike out here slanderin my manderin ol' cormac! i love it, honest takes are rare to find.
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readingproject
8 months ago
I like Cormac but I always thought The Road was one of his weaker books. For me, I thought he wrote himself into a corner, and the ending therefore felt contrived. Hope you're enjoying Dombey and Son. I think it's Dickens's most mature work up to that point in his career
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pikemalarkey
8 months ago
@irony-machine: thankee! It's just a sucky little cold so can't complain too much but it is annoying.
pikemalarkey
8 months ago
@nohappynonsense: most of my book club people loved The Road but it's because I was ill and couldn't attend the meeting to talk them out of it. To each his own and all that! I get surprisingly wounded when people diss my favourites.
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pikemalarkey
8 months ago
@readingproject: I am enjoying Dombey and Son, I find Dickens so relaxing and the language so enjoyable. However, I wish his good characters where a touch less angelic, but I saw the same thing in Shelley's Frankenstein so it might just be a XIXc. thing? However, it's still full of amazing types like Cuttle, Toots, etc. and the Edith-Mother-Dombey-Carker dymanic is very interesting.
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I did try to complete your reading challenge this year but, being a slow and inconsistent reader, I failed. Also joined a book club and that kinda put a spanner in the works. Got 6/12 and still reading Gravity's Rainbow.
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moheb-rofail
10 months ago
I acheived my goal in goodreads and read 15 books out of 15. I hope the best for you in this new year <3
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readingproject
10 months ago
@pikemalarkey: wow! First that someone took notice of it. Good for you. Second, reading slow is a pleasure so that’s great. And Gravity’s Rainbow is a monster of a book. I know I’m going to have to read it again. And maybe even again!
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readingproject
10 months ago
@moheb-rofail: congratulations on your reading challenge. Hope it gave you good books to read
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pikemalarkey
10 months ago
@moheb-rofail: thank you, and well done! @readingproject: it was actually really fun, despite not succeeding. I take it you liked Gravity's Rainbow! I haven't read your review yet in case of spoilers but I'll compare our notes once I'm done : )
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letslearntogether
10 months ago
Aw, I didn't even see the reading challenge page. I seemed to have inadvertently reached several of the goals though. Haha! Hope y'all have a Happy New Year. Cheers! To more reading!
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pikemalarkey
1 year ago
terribly, the place I had earmarked as cheap and suitable fell through as the landlord decided to run his own thing there in the end -_- I'm taking to mid-Nov to see how some chips fall and then will decide how to proceed
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stealing the phrase "a junkyard of personal memorabilia"
that was my starting point! but nowadays I do think that accessibility matters, there's a golden middle somewhere there...