Tag: What I’m Watching
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I finally gave this album a proper listen. The whole thing is pretty good, although I only added “Tell Me When You’ve Had Enough” and “Who Will You Follow” to my regular rotation. I love this bit from Evanescence’s “How Do I Heal?” “No matter how we changeEchoes of us remainUntouched by timeIn my mind”…
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For many years, I’ve been chasing potential, and I’ve learned the hard way that sometimes you just have to meet people where they’re at. And unfortunately, I’ve never been particularly good at meeting people where they’re at because I am so consistently ensconced in the concept of what they could be or what I perceive…
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This is why I’m still here. Every single time I hear begged I break down sobbing. No song has ever touched me like this. Just like Katy Perry’s “Part of Me” saved my life back in 2009 after I got thrown out of college, and “E.T.” covered by Audra in 2020 opened my eyes to…
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The documentarian nature of my writing of the past few years, an intentional practice I started in order to reorganize my entire process around the mundane facts of my second, perhaps third, chance at life, has begun to bear fruit. I still don’t see the big picture but I was nudged yet again by the…
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“radicalized by the realization that in many Intellectual™ circles it’s higher status to know a lot about a domain than it is to actually do something in that domain” – charm https://www.x.com/charmcgi/status/2065952438734213396 Yup, that’s the college mentality. Absolutely correct, charm. … There was a whole PDF I needed to steal for my archive: https://www.bc.edu/content/dam/files/centers/boisi/pdf/s091/Welcome_address_to_freshman_at_Boston_Conservatory.pdf ……
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AWESOME STORY! This is one of my favorite Pokemon episodes BTW. Kinda makes more sense to me why that is now. Sad ending for an amazing voice actress… passed away from an untreated stomach virus (we all know why that was untreated…) … Beautiful stuff from the wife. “Sometimes the real purpose of returning home…
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Based interview… This Olivia girl’s music knowledge is incredible. I should learn more about her… Love these lines: “All blind mice resign / you gotta hood shine analyze / seats alive vinyl thighs” – “Sweet ‘69,” Babes in Toyland “You see the stars through eyes lit up with liesYou got your stories all twisted up…
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‘Religion is an Ever-Receding Pocket of Scientific Ignorance’ | Neil deGrasse Tyson I gave up on faith. I prefer having high, high hopes for a living. A few notes from this video: “The measure of whether you learn something is not whether it was obviously true to you upon first glance.” Neil Degrasse Tyson Eyewitness…
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This is from March 5, 2024, but deserved to be revisited today. RJ had an amazing video today about some of his favorite aphorisms. My Top Five – Personal Aphorisms (And Their Origins) by The Flourishing One of them is “Will X thank me for Y?” People tend to have many self-destructive habits and recognizing…
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Stuff I am viewing on a popular video sharing platform on the 11th June 2026. Exploring Hidden Gems At The Mall | Retail Archaeology by Retail Archeology. A positive video showing malls being repopulated by small businesses. I also learned he has a second channel. The Other Side of History by No More Fielders NMF…
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YouTube watchings for the tenth of June of the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand and Twenty Six… Madonna – “Confessions II – The Film” Somehow yesterday I missed the release of Madonna’s short film “Confessions II.” It’s very bizarre. Seriously, what’s with the crotch lasers? I do like what she says about the dance…
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While I’ve been sunsetting my interest in competitive Pokemon, the franchise still has that nostalgic pull on me, and Wolfe Glick has always made very interesting videos about strategy and how certain less popular Pokemon can be made to work in a high-competition setting. And yes, he’s talking about what the worst Dragon-type Pokemon is…
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In this video, RJ of The Flourishing YouTube Channel investigates how local large language models with four billion parameters or fewer [that is, local LLMs like Ollama] handle delusional patterns and hallucinations. He utilizes a series of “oblique strategies” to generate complex, philosophical follow-up questions that push these smaller models to their technical and creative…
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How the 2012 Red Sox Spent $200 Million On A Dumpster Fire – by Jolly Olive The 2012 Boston Red Sox season is widely regarded as the most embarrassing and toxic year in the franchise’s modern history. Following a massive late-season collapse in 2011, during which GM Theo Epstein also left the organization, the team…
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“No One Wants Albert Pujols’ Cards… Here’s Why!” – from Scottie B Cards I enjoy Scottie B’s videos because he dives into a lot of data that reveals some very interesting conclusions about the card market for certain baseball players. Albert Pujols is one of the greatest players of all time, with over 700 career…
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Anna is actually talking about making money as an artist, a topic she admits she’s avoided in the past. 9 out of 10 times, Anna says, how we’re conditioned to feel about our careers, the trajectory we’re expected to be on, leads us to working a job we hate, making it immensely difficult to maintain…
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In her August 2025 Wild Geese podcast episode, How to Manage Multiple Interests & Actually CREATE Something, Anna Howard of Wild Geese goes into her research process. I find it very interesting that, like me, she sees research as a leisure activity! Anyway, the Sublime app she’s talking about is very interesting. It’s a much…
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Anna of Wild Geese had a great video on the subject of creative impulsivity. One big thing Anna brought up is this toxic mindset of treating our ideas as scarce resources. We keep the ‘best’ for some other time. Thus, we don’t act on our ideas freely enough. Well, I definitely have zero reason to…