Fun with strings! Ukulele, knitting, physics!

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Cake day: June 3rd, 2023

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  • I did a deep-dive reading and watching videos learning about sturdy and long-lasting fabrics and materials. Learned a bit about tailoring for durability, too. (For example, Duluth Trading shifted the inseams on their Firehose pants forward. The forward seams don’t rub on each other when you walk, and so the inner thighs don’t self-destruct as quickly.)

    There are also a ton of excellent resources on how to mend clothing and properly care for it. And it doesn’t take much effort, really.

    So now I have a bunch of older clothes, with subtle repairs, still in good shape. Sure, I’d like some sexy new trendy disposable stuff so I can be one of the cool kids - but that’s how fast fashion gets its claws into you. Preying on our magpie-like desires for shiny new things makes somebody big bucks. (And creates huge waste and exploits desperate workers.)

    Buy sturdy “classic” clothes. Keep them in good repair. Fight the system.





  • This reminds me of an article about journalism and the internet, from ages ago. A class was asked how they would research for a topic (it was some recent political event, I don’t remember). The class confidently answered “the internet.” The professor struggled to get them to understand that wasn’t enough. Yes, there is all kinds of stuff about this event on the internet, but how did it get there?. And more importantly, what is missing?

    Sure, all the sexy AI stuff gives us goosebumps and sounds great. But how did it get there, and what is missing? Someone somewhere has to do the actual original work first, or it’s just making collages from the same library over and over and over again.



  • I’ve been wanting to do this ever since someone gave me one that said “You make a difference.” I treasured that card for years.

    I don’t even remember what I did to help her at this point, it was something that seemed minor at the time, but she thanked me and gave me the card.

    Do it! It can have quite an impact!