Jon Van Dalen

product design / research / philosophy / writing / gaming / soldering things

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@JoshBishop @malcolmguite Love Guite but being present for your son is far greater.

[Nix 🕊 @startingfromnix]

“If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”

EB White

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@historyinmemes @imPenny2x There’s a poem about that somewhere. Keats!

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@FrankAtHPP Bubble Dragon

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@HDRetrovision I can smell this! Even after years you can smell that fuzzy case smell.

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@TolkienWonder Oh man, Mary Stewart’s series, The Once and Future King… the Green Knight… so many greats to explore.

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@yuzokoshiro You can check swords in checked luggage.

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@Darren__O Feeds are toxic in general. Don’t read discovery feeds.

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@TSA can I bring an empty, refillable butane lighter on a flight? Check or carry on?

Can I bring butane separately?

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@SirBarefoot So good! Just completed a week myself. This is written from the afterlife btw.

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@YUDHO_XYZ @MisterAddons The nothing

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@TolkienWonder I can’t read much of Tolkien’s handwriting, generally, nor can I read that of his students, it turns out.

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The original Blade Runner soundtrack is beautiful and transcendent.

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Lynch moment: All thoughts are already existing as fields, just like sound or magnetic energy which come from outside of “you.” Your body catches them like a tuner, then claims them.

Catching a really big thought is tuning. Perfecting that reception is the work.

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@naval No one truly questions themselves. Least of all those worried about which party to get behind-left or right.

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@SmokeMonsterTWI Have you found it actually gets crackles out?

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@TolkienWonder The talks of Alan Watts and teachings/talks of Henry Shukman.

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@naval Does the universe really know any objective truth, other than “is”?

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@vaultground @SierraOnLineUni Finding a new Sierra game at EB was a slice of heaven and all that is good.

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https://t.co/rtKkhU158M

Back this now… a new Annihilation entry from John Mavor and team. If you grew up playing RTS games, this is the one to look forward to.