hell yeah brother

"yeah you seem to have done some kind of DIY liberal arts degree as an adult while living/working in different places and gaining a lot of life experience, trying a lot of hobbies and picking up skills... yeah we actually think you should have stayed in your dead-end hometown and worked at the bank"

when i was growing up, if you were a weirdo jack of all trades you could get a job at the grocery store stocking shelves and it was fine. now if you're 35 and got like 60% good at 10 different skills but not 100% at any of them people talk about you like you're an elderly dog that's been really sick

baby's first under the car quick fix repair (heat shield broke off here and was rattling loudly) nice and snug for now but if it vibrates loose after a while i'll go back under. for now: got it!

naptime over though, i have to go pb blast the nut that my heat shield fell off of and start fighting it to see if i can get a washer under it.

the only antidote for my hatred of naps: warm-ish weather and my mom having a screen porch with a big patio sofa on it. like hmm me AND all the birds out here? ohh i could rest my eyes....

it's so funny to come back to this zip code, and see that real estate prices for retail are so bad that the mall is just rotting, and none of the stores can stay in business, so everything's just getting worse and worse while the houses are $400,000 like bro for what? theres nothing HERE

I'm really going to have to come into the shop one of these days in a custom t-shirt and the only image on it is the jpeg of that guy holding up the paper sign that says "don't call them 'bitches' bro!!"

the other anecdote-haver who sits next to him had a great one too. attention applebees manager who violated state AND federal law last week: it's called the FLSA and i'm going to roll it up and hit you with it

a.m. activities: writing down the section of delaware code my classmate's employer is violating by not providing pay stubs, after hearing about it yesterday. like bro you are CALLING dept of labor

i used to think that i was really high-anxiety, and then it turned out i was just getting pulled down into the bucket by the other crabs constantly, so now that my social circle is mostly more chill, im also more chill, which is pretty cool

strong case study in my general temperament: clumsily upended an entire large bowl of instant noodles+broth into my car cupholders, without getting to eat any of them for breakfast; my immediate reaction was to smile serenely down at it and go "well, you hate to see that happen"

i hope they build that port up in Edgemoor that everyone's complaining about and housing prices around where i grew up just. crater. i want all of these people to suffer

you know it's been another normal and fun day back in my home state of Delaware when I find myself saying out loud in a parking lot somewhere that I wish I had just moved to Omaha and gotten a job with the fucking railroad

Prego Pivots From Budget-Tier Pasta Sauce to Small Microphones That Listen to Your Family's Intimate Conversations Prego, the pasta sauce brand, announced a new lid-shaped device designed to record and preserve family dinner conversations.

Every day I read a news story that makes me feel like I need to apologize to at least one insane person in a John 3:16 van and today it’s this one

ADULT ED TEACHER: when you get up over 5 horse they DO re-wind those motors. kind of a lost art
ME: (sitting up straighter)
HIM: companies can't find people to train
ME: (sitting up even straighter)
HIM: takes patience
ME: (raising hand)
HIM: yeah i'll have career services make some phone calls :)

ok as it turns out André-Marie Ampère figured out how to think to do that. they named amps after an autodidact. im never going to be ashamed of my lack of a 4yr degree again baybee academic purists btfo

like "oh just wrap metal 1 wire around metal 2 core and magic happens. bro just rotate it. don't worry about it." what do you MEAN

every day in class we learn something new about electricity and turn to each other like "how the fuck did they even think to do that" like no professor we dont have a formal question we just want to have it on record that that shit's crazy

it's so cool that the more you learn about magnets the more you're like "what the fuck"

idiot baby finally got under his car alone for the first time to attempt to handle a problem (loose heat shield) and managed to jack it up + find the problem, and now is about to complete the final step of getting under the car: going to Home Depot

like, no problem, happy to help, but also your letter carrier deserves time and a half

evening sidequest: we got mail misdelivered to us based on USPS's system not being able to read cursive letters properly, and it got redelivered to us again, so I just drove it across town to the person it was meant for... in the hippie village with unlabeled mailboxes. man,

Podcaster brain kicks in as I am talking to my barista and I ask if they have any plugs and “where can people find you?”

im familiar with the concept of self care

there is only one hope for humanity- the synthesizer

peter is currently in pod boys chat reinventing the plot of metal gear solid 4 from first principles and for liability reasons i will not elaborate

our pod listenership stalled a few months ago so i'm just assuming i don't need this account to be respectable. if you couldn't tell i've decided to just have fun lately

okay Age vs. Techno Was Never A Fair Fight guy? so... hey can i say somth(giant comedy vaudeville cane grabs me trying to pull me offstage while i claw at the surface frantically) look i'm just (several men are pulling me away but i wriggle free like a cartoon worm and grab the mic again) I NEED HIM

Age vs Techno Was Never a Fair Fight… This Brutal Set Proves Why YouTube video by The Last DJ Nick Hayes

@themountaingoats.bsky.social dude. www.youtube.com/watch?v=STh7... dude get over here