I only pirate music and books anymore. I do consume it all. Well, most of it. Sometimes I’ll download a series of books and not jive with the first one or something. The music always gets listened to. More than once, too! I’m easy to please. Or I have good taste.

I got a chance to watch it on a cross-Pacific flight. Which is just about the only time I watch movies anymore. I made the right choice! It was far more enjoyable than Meg 2 which I also managed to squeeze in unfortunately.

Ehh. What’s the average age around here? I’m guessing it wasn’t the youth that migrated from Reddit.

My hometown was in Canada’s top-ten communities in decline for years. These days, it’s got two-thirds the population it used to, the streets are full of deer, and quite a few farmers’ fields have turned into forests. Almost everyone my age that I knew moved away long ago. Going back is always shocking.

I feel like it’s a bit like terminally ill people suddenly finding religion. Parents with autistic children are desperate to find something to blame or believe in for their situation. So, they’ve latched onto this absolute fiction that vaccination can cause autism. Nevermind it was something like a single study done that has since been completely disproved. Notice Nicholas up there has an “older, vaccine injured sibling”.

Teaching is very rewarding, but I’d be lying if I didn’t say that some days I really want to never see a child again.

I’m an ESL instructor in South Korea. My situation did not happen overnight. I’d worked in quite a few different private and public schools before this opportunity presented itself.

Yes! Self-employed, four-day work weeks, 4-6 hours a day. Enough money to be comfortable and to put some away for later. I have to clean the place by myself on that weekday off, but that’s fine. Cathartic even.

Other Tragically Hip albums have some standout tracks, but the only album of theirs I really enjoy beginning-to-end is Fully Completely.

Hear hear. I’ve been using the same cheapo Mackie CR4 monitors for nearly a decade now. It’s not like a $1000 pair is going to sound much better in my room without a bunch of baffling or whatever.

The former. They weren’t that good.

Frankie! He’d stand on the street and clap at cars. He’d draw money and try to use it, too. Some places accepted the smaller bills because he was actually pretty good at it.

I have actually encountered this phenomenon, and it involves neither Americans nor Europeans. I live in Korea, and I’m from Canada. I’ve had to explain that no, I have never been to Vancouver because it’s something like 8000 km from where I lived on the opposite coast in Canada. At least a couple weeks of driving. In Korea, the furthest you can be from anywhere is about a four-hour drive.

We all get the GAS sometimes.

I just wish he’d gotten tired of his Moog Grandmother. Haha!

I hear you. A buddy gave me a $1000 headphone amp he’d replaced with a newer version. It’s the most expensive piece of gear I own and hilariously out of place in my set up. I still use it, though.

So many bedroom audio producers are all about having the latest and greatest gear, and then don’t make shit beyond a tech demo or two. There’s nothing wrong with that I suppose. It just seems a bit odd to me to collect a pile of expensive, useful tools, and then not even use them.

Or not even know how to use them. I remember one guy in particular. He had a $10000 Moog One, and used it to make a piece of music where he held an A minor chord for 20 minutes. There was almost no modulation or movement at all. Just the same chord for twenty minutes. I like outre music, but come on!

I think the best option for women is to get as far away from the creator of this post as possible.

Imma go blow some Chechnyan minds with my happy hardcore outfit that plays songs at 100bpm, but only plays 64th notes.

Star Trek. I’m in Deep Space 9. I’ve never seen anything (except for the Abrams’ travesties) that came after Voyager, so I’m pretty excited to eventually give the newer stuff a go.