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Cake day: June 28th, 2023

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  • So, so many; I have spent far too long in hospitality.

    A relatively benign one: At a small coffeeshop. Found a quirky little hat behind the counter - a tweed fedora thing with a rakish orange feather in it. Full of youthful high spirits and caffeine, I proceeded to lark around the shop in the hat (yes I wish I still had that much energy), much to the amusement of my coworkers. A lady walks in, interrupting us. She’d left her hat.

    At a bar: A nonzero amount of customers buying a bottle of beer and then pouring it into the tip jar (edited to add: thinking it a glass for their beer). Some version of “how was I supposed to know?!”, repeatedly. I don’t know, maybe the fact it was covered in chalk pen, contained money, and was very, very ugly?

    At a pub: boomer getting very angry at me because he’d asked for a spiced rum and coke and I’d offered Sailor Jerry’s (cheapest). Apparently that was a wussy drink. No, he clarified, a girly drink. He chose some other rum with coke. Yeah drink your sugar water old man.








  • Honestly, the fact that engineering isn’t public facing was a big plus! But it’s the tech part. I’m a zoology/maths major that switched to engineering for a bit. I thought it’d be great! I love combat robotics, and I tinker with gameboys ffs.

    I actually love tech, but I also think a lot of modern tech is overkill and shouldn’t exist

    This resonates. I have boundless wonder for the amazing things in the universe that we get to witness (using said tech) from the molecular level up. I don’t know why this stops at human-created things, as I do like tech too - as a layman.

    It just feels like human development and expansion is a zero-sum game with nature, and my heart is with the biodiversity we are destroying. I was so excited for circuits class too.

    May I ask what you ended up doing? Did you become disillusioned with the field?



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    11 months ago

    I like the 90s Camries, they have character.

    Can I join in and cry loudly in 95 Honda Legend? And parts?! That’s a good one. There are so many dumb little components on this thing that are all taking their turns to die this year.