A 50-something French dude that's old enough to think blogs are still cool, if not cooler than ever. I also like to write and to sketch.
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I have been journaling for 50 years or so (started as a little 7 year-old boy and I'm now nearing my 60s). My life is not remarkable, and I don't much tings out of the ordinary. I journal for various reasons:
- As a child, as a way to escape the... painful situation I was in
- Then, very quickly, after I realized the amazing power writing was giving me, to outsmart my mother and his need to control me.
- Then, journaling had already become a habit. I just do it (or don't do it, some times for very long period of time I will not care about journaling and I consider this fine too)
I now journal to put some order in my head and to keep a record of things and stuff around me. As a record, I feel no need to write long paragraphs. Heck, I even record the weather and... my mood, in a single word or two, sorry the pictures of my journals are in French (I write it mostly in French) but you can get the idea. As for putting order in my head, it depends: it will be long or short depending what I'm writing about, I don't care provided it helps me ;)
Btw, the link I shared goes to a journaling community I'm the admin of. Feel free to join and to participate: you're more than welcome. Even though it looks a bit too sleepy for teh time being, like I promised a few months ago, I should be able to start again investing some time in it soonish, The things that are still keeping me busy are just more demanding than expected ;)
Usually I don’t care about “correct” language at all, I’d even argue languages that change are alive and changes are often invisible to those with rigid or discriminatory thinking.
But then, without any... 'discriminatory thinking' (odd choice of words, to non-native English speaker-me at least), how would we realize there is a change happening in any language if no one cared about some kind of rule-based system in said language?
That being said, I do agree with you a living language is one that changes (but it's also one whose users remember its roots and its evolution, making them able to pick the ball, be it to play with it or to transform it as deeply as they fancy as one needs to understand a problem before trying to fix it). But being alive does not have to mean 'anarchy' or there quickly won't be much ability left to communicate (aka the agreement of the both of us on the meaning of the words we use) ... Like there would not be much people alive around us if there was not this things called 'the law': no law is immutable but all existing laws better be respected, and if it is a bad law it needs to be changed... by people who studied it first ;)
To answer your rather surprising question (it's a very... specific chose of words while there are many other and much... wider notions out there the younger generation seems to have lost track of), it probably has to do with the lower level of their education (not their fault, but they are the one paying dear price for it... I almost cried the first time I read this). There can be no 'nuances' where there is no education to it. And without much reading going on, well, there is even less of it. As a matter of fact, there is less of everything... even the ability to realize one may be lacking in something specific.
The one you feel at home with? I mean, beside technical considerations (how it's working) instances are made of and by people, so yeah: to what place would you rather go spend some time? ;)
Going out and meet cool people at the library? ;)
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None.
I mean, nearing my 60s, I've already trimmed down a lot of my hobbies. For example, since my childhood I have been on and off into plastic models (small plastic planes and vehicles to glue and to paint) but I let go of that hobby completely maybe 4 years ago. It still liked it, I just had to decide where I really wanted to spend that time, and I had other things to do.
What won't go away, for as long as I'm able to at least, is reading/writing, sketching and painting (watercolor), long walks, listening (playing too, but barely) to music, and making stuff with my hands.
I don’t foresee myself coming back to the comic universe any day soon.
I don't know your age but don't be surprised if that does not go as planned. I will stick to my plastic model hobby: I had been off for almost 20 years at one time, I was just too busy after College but then, one day, out of the blue, and certainly not thinking the slightest about plastic kits, I stumbled upon a shiny box in some shop, looked at it and felt a familiar thrill in my spine, thinking this, I would like to build and paint I put it back on the shelves, could not resit going back to look at it after I finished shopping, put it in the cart with some glue and paint and, well, I was back at it ;)
The elitism and cutthroat nature of math academia that is one conversation you could have, but who is arguing math isn’t a necessary part of education? That enrages me.
The same bunch that persuaded way too many of us that reading/writing were not required and useful skills to teach kids anymore?
Why would we deprive people of one of the most beautiful ways of thinking and seeing the world that humanity has ever discovered?
This is the question we should all be asking ourselves, at least all of us the adults that, supposedly, are expected to be educating those younger generations.
Just do it, because it’s wasting your time and effort, and possibly also material if it’s failing in ways that a better tool would not. It’s preventing you from doing better work.
I know you're right. It's just me being... me ;)
In France, we don't use craiglist but we have a similar thing called Leboncoin (for anyone wondering). Maybe that's jsut what I will do, taking this as the opportunity to also look for a good deal on a better model for my own use, using that same website ;)
- Tolkien, 'The Hobbit'. A re-read, started last night.
- If I can get my hands on an English edition at a reasonable price, next I would like to read Narnia (the full cycle). As a non-believer myself, I have a lot of respect for CS Lewis as an essayist (pieces like 'The Abolition of Man' is an almost perfect description of why/how most Western educative systems are indeed failing and, well, most of what I've read even when he focuses on spirituality was quite... rich and stimulating), and I would like to see how =I will appreciate his work as a novelist :)
- Just finished the first volume of the French edition of Cordwainer Smith 'Instrumentality of Mankind' which I started almost by accident and ended-up liking so much I ordered the next 3 volumes of that translation (I was not able to find an English edition). Fascinating work.
Does she? Had no idea, but that may not come has a surprise they both shared the same ability to create entire worlds that were so effing convincing :)
I just finished reading of Cordwainer Smith first volume of his Instrumentality of Mankind. I read it in a French translation I was given, not expecting much out of it, I was almost decided to just give to a friend of mine but then decided to give it a chance, just reading a few pages to see what it was all about and if it was any good... I could not put it down. Most of the time, I was very much impressed. It's smart, it's bright, deeply humane, and very imaginative too. It was subtle or not so subtle, depending the story. And most of the time it was very well crafted. I felt like a moron to never have read anything by this dude.
I liked the book so much I picked the next 3 volumes of that set... in their French translation, like the first volume I just read, as I was unable to get my hands on any English print edition.
This evening, not sleeping, and alone in our new but yet unfurnished apartment (save a few books, obviously), I started re-reading of The Hobbit, this one in its original English ;)
It is, indeed :)
I wish I had read your comment (and asked the op question) a few years ago when I purchased my own sewing machine (I decided to learn in my early 50s to mend my spouse and my clothe): it's a rather weak machine that can't handle denim that well, if at all... Looking very much like the first picture you shared. But since IO also don't want to create too much waste, I try to make do with it... up until I can find a used model that will work better and someone willing to use mine.
Mandible of death. That won't go away easily :)
What I always do: read and/or write.
Night is often much quieter than the rest of the day, which makes it perfect for quiet activities like reading and writing. And in the early morning I can even stop reading/writing in order to listen birds singing which is even better... before the roaring motorized traffic cover their tiny voice for the rest of the day (yes, I do live in a busy city).
I often think we have this strange notion, at least here in the West,that kids are some kind of nice innocent little creatures, almost angel-like. They're not. They're kids, for sure, they're smaller and more fragile and they need help with a lot of things but they're still full on human beings. Meaning they can be as cruel as we adults (suffice to observe kids fighting one other, or a bunch of kids bullying one of them they consider a weakling)... if not more than us, as most kids have yet to learn the skill of hypocrisy, aka the art of hiding their true feelings and emotions.
But I do agree with you, this strip is quite unsettling.
France: salaries are paid on a monthly basis in most situations.
how do you determine an album is one of your favorites?
- I listen a lot to it. Some of my favorites albums (or tunes) I've been listening to most of my life since I was a little boy (now nearing my 60s)
- I have favorite recordings of certain pieces. Even more so in regards to classical music, which happens to be the genre of music I listen the most to and have been listening to since I was a child, thx to my parents listening to it and quickly allowing kid-me me to use their LPs (that was back in the 70s, they were kinda high-tech back then ;)
- I can sing the song and, when there are, I know the lyrics from memory. That's one of the reasons I can safely say Jacques Brel and Georges Brassens are among my favorite French singers ever. The other reasons being that, for anyone able to understand French, they've written some of the most amazing songs ever... But there would be many more favorites of mine that have written master pieces, and not just in French ;)
I get what you're trying to share, which makes a lot of sense, but now reframe it in a different context (just an hypothesis, obviously not an affirmation) : you live surrounded by assholes (say, racists ones), should you mind what they think about you (not being a racist)?
I would say at least as much time as it takes to get an appointment with the real Santa Claus (not with one of those many actors, malls & shops everywhere are using to lie to kids) times the time it would take to tame and then to train the Easter Bunny, persuading it to lay actual eggs instead of chocolate ones.
But it could be done much faster provided one can somehow get Rumpelstiltskin to transform gold into straw. Which is rather difficult.
Ideals should remain just that: idea(l)s. Be fine with them not being... a reality.