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Cake day: June 24th, 2023

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  • Honor means a lot of different things. And it has been used to commit so many different crimes against minorities.

    I think nowadays in the western culture it means individual honor. It means to be trustworthy and to stand by your word. By the classic saying: “A gentleman can settle the bill later”.

    The way late stage capitalism goes, honor culture will be left behind. Where every individual is reduced to a number, the concept is disappearing. You pay first before pumping gas. And the only time your wow matters is in the court when you say you won’t lie.



  • I have a beefcake laptop, that could fold into a tablet. But I still usually use it as a desktop computer: connected to all the periferials, speakers and a monitor, folded up to be a secondary monitor on the side.
    While I had some cooling issues with it (had to cough up couple hundreds for repairs) I am still happy with the setup.
    The phone is for during the day, some mobile only games and for reading books - tho I do like to listen to TTS when my eyes are busy.









  • I’m trying needle tatting, but my experience is to end up with exactly what I started with, namely a thread waiting to be used :) While it’s easy in theory, I still have problems of grasping the building blocks.
    My last big project was a “never again” cross-stitch from aliexpress. Totally understandable where you are :) And thank you for the links, I missed one of those from my subscriptions!


  • :) Right now I’m back to digital crafting = programming. So nothing to write home about. I did try to find some like-minded people over here, but it’s not easy here. I’m living in Las Vegas. And that means we are immigrants from dozens of different countries and basically 10% of born Americans were raised here. No history and virtually no community in this facade of a city. Probably I would have more luck in a small one gas station town :D
    What are you crafting these days?






  • I would bring all the different handicrafts I tried… From crocheting animals (amigurumi), needle felting, diamond painting, miniature building kits, tatting (tho I haven’t have much experience with this), cross stitching, polymer clay, bracelet making, braiding (Kumihimo), beading, “light” jewelry making - depends how much time I have :D

    BTW I am open for more craft ideas - I do try to find new ones I haven’t tried before. :)