Directrix Gazer 🧭
@DirectrixGazer
Military Operations Researcher, aspiring Eucatastrophist
8YO and 3YO found a can of whole sardines in the pantry and are now greedily crunching and slurping little fish, fins and all. Part of me is surprised. Another part isn't.
Everywhere I look it seems like people are eagerly hammering themselves into inhuman shapes to embody the terms of one or another false dichotomy.
Well-trod ground, I know, but the near total decay in mass appreciation for poetry among the English speaking peoples is a tragedy.
Me: if there’s anything you learn from this kitchen, son, it’s that you measure garlic with your heart. 16 yo: with my heart. Me: yes. Some recipes will tell you some nonsense of “1 clove of garlic minced” and that is a cold-hearted person. 16 yo: they do not understand the…
Our experience exactly.
young sir, age 1 is a very different creature than my 4yo very little interest in stories. no stuffed animals: he wants devices. he'll sit at a keyboard and experiment pushing buttons while he holds the mouse to his ear like a phone. loves objects with lids to remove.
i wake up. something’s wrong with the clock on the wall. the numbers are jumbled. my hands aren’t right. i tell my wife. she responds: “that’s not just an observation—it’s a powerful insight.” i scream.
How do you call a logician's cat? "PeircePeircePeircePeirce"
There are few things that irk me, tire me, leave me feeling hollower than purposely disingenuous argument, and my pain is proportional to the evident intelligence of the arguer. I probably shouldn't be on the Internet...