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Mocky: trinque, is there anything wrong with my pending withdrawals from a few days ago or do you just need to hand crank em?
Mocky: BingoBoingo, will do if needed
Mocky: he used to be my boss. secretary of defense when I was driving tank
Mocky: before leaving for qatar I sold your 2 coins and then my own coin.
Mocky: yes, those 2 turned to cash in person
Mocky: in fairness, absorbed 2 coins choked on third
Mocky: I can see quite clearly now that it was very stupid
Mocky: I went through all the people in person I could find
Mocky: extremely valuable object lesson
Mocky: i would have been ok too, I moved the money. wouldn't have cried over a burned bank acct. but after a month I thought I was good
Mocky: right. yeah was close to two months if not 2.
Mocky: it was "zelle", us bank cartel's answer to paypal/venmo
Mocky: I sold my coin for bank-transferolade and I thought I had mitigated the risk but 2 months later transfers got reversed
Mocky: so anyway, i would totally do burma. but I have such a mess here of my own making that I couldn't even afford to feed myself burmese rice while there, much less lodging. So what then, go completely on mircea_popescu's dime? is that really desirable?
Mocky: my opinion changed about asians. I chatted with a bunch of actually cute asians. and it wasn't even like, "weeks in this female wasteland and now asians are starting to look good." That was the africans.
Mocky: not really that often but I was expecting qataris to express a higher level of indignation at foreigners flouting their strict conduct rules. but in actuality not even possible to achieve eye contact
Mocky: one beautiful thing I notices was that old busy bodies can't even give you a dirty look when their face has to be covered.
Mocky: I, evidently, sat on a girl bench at a mall that had one girl 30 feet away. was asked to move by security guard who pointed me over to 30 foot bench full of dudes
Mocky: well I totally got used to it, except for on sub 5 foot chix... it looks like a halloween costume on a kid and there's no way around it
Mocky: like 65yo granny needs that level of 'modesty'
Mocky: a lot of the time i was thinking, "pretty sure you look better covered"
Mocky: but didn't realize that was serious
Mocky: but next time with driver's license and gold crown
Mocky: anyhow, a+ experience, would do again
Mocky: seems less like proof and more like testimony of "i looked hard but didn't find"
Mocky: I don't feel bad about it, or regret or anything like that. I'm happy with the whole thing. It just doesn't appear to me as success.
Mocky: well that's success for you! I was looking for something and turned out either not there or well hidden.
Mocky: over there, every day was like a new out-of-comfort-zone experience and all the work involved asking "wtf should I best be doing right now?" It was exciting even though I don't see success along any dimension except personal learning.
Mocky: but those who were draped in black, covering the eyes as well with some see-thru black cloth: i never got used to that, always felt disconcerting and I don't know why. not like its that much different
Mocky: i kind of got used to seeing what few chicks there were draped in black with only eyes showing
☟︎ Mocky: like, "holy shit, chix walking around in yoga pants and short shorts.. how could I have forgotten that these things exist?"
Mocky: being in qatar where so many things were different.. I never really missed home, but once I got back everything felt so familiar all of a sudden. I don't really know how to explain it.
Mocky: the cold season is a more difficult transition than normal. In a way I sort of do miss the heat.
Mocky: good morning asciilifeform
Mocky: my first born has regular side income selling old servers and hardware fished from his work dumpster, sometimes asks me for help loading when loot pile is especially big
Mocky: was kid asciilifeform hanging out in dumpsters or went in specifically for a chip puller?
Mocky: I'd appreciate it, I'm not in a position to turn it down as much as I'd like to
Mocky: anyway, I'm putting in 80hr/week interview prep as that's my bottleneck, plus as many more hours as I can cram in before it shuts down
Mocky: mircea_popescu, you were going to get a reminder from me tomorrow if it hadn't gone thru by then.
Mocky: most of my savings was lost to my own idiocy, and my other stream of income has been delayed
Mocky: it was good until all my plans went awry. Had planned 3 months of normal living off savings to find a new job. unexpectedly I'm in immediate need of income and acute rationing / mooching off family has already begun
Mocky: thx asciilifeform, been off grid a few days
Mocky: took the bike out for a spin. had to bundle up, bit of cold shock to my system
Mocky: another 9 hours of sleep. now I feel like I'm back to life
Mocky: good morning asciilifeform
Mocky: ok BingoBoingo sounds good, i'll keep you apprised
Mocky: slept another 7. not feeling fully normal, but at least not exhausted anymore
Mocky: asciilifeform, I was almost a III but my mom won that argument
Mocky: i think i'm going to fal backto sleep now
Mocky: no bloghack, lacks the normal actually useful things
Mocky: of course 'smart toasting' was the opposite of smart
☟︎ Mocky:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-11-08#1870186 >> I had a toaster with cancel button a few years ago was just this. Once you add the 'feature' of smart toasting whereby turning the knob after toasting has started has no effect and then once you further add the feature that the lift handle is mechanically locked down and can't be lifted during the cycle, then yes, once you accept those things you then 'need' the red button
☝︎ Mocky: just waking up now from 7 hour nap. it's mid morning back in qatar, where's the sun? :D
Mocky: my flight left at 1am local time and I wasn't able to sleep on either flight. was up for 42 hours
Mocky: I arrived back in usa
Mocky: mircea_popescu, dec 3rd atm, gotta I move it up
Mocky: i had myself all worked up to walk into the grand viziers office, lol. was expecting to get shown the door along with distinct sense of closure
Mocky: I don't know where else to go with this, mircea_popescu. I don't see anymore strings to pull on
Mocky: there goes the org chart I was working off.
Mocky: maybe I could talk to this guys boss? but no, complete cabinet reshuffle (announced yesterday?!) including not only new ministers all around, but different titles and responsibilities.
Mocky: who could have predicted a used "general cool" ac would prove unreliable
Mocky: aaaand... the air conditioner is out
Mocky: him and his underlings
Mocky:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-11-05#1869564 >> I'm glad I spent the half hour on the phone trying to find out where his desk actually is. His office says that he's out of the country and his calendar is full from the time he gets back until he leaves the country again at the end of November
☝︎ Mocky: it was half white dudes in suits with british accents who looked pretty straight laced
Mocky: but when I watch it back I see that I softened my criticisms a lot
Mocky: guy said blockchain was gonna fix fake news, it told him his interpretation of the "DAO hack and ether theft" was the fake news
Mocky: but jokes on me, nobody got ruffled feathers because they weren't advocating daos, just raising awareness! starting the conversation! they agreed with me!
Mocky: my poor self video skills yielded only my chin basically!
Mocky: just got back from blockchain event. I told them their ideas of humanity 3.0 governed by blockchain smart contracts was a delusion. And then critcized both the ethereum-roll-backers and the ethereum-continue-with-broken-shit
Mocky: anyway, i'm off to this DAO / blockchain meetup. couldnt' scare up a camera crew so I guess i'll have to film myself
Mocky: I expect to work the phones to find this guy