queerlilhayseed

I love critics who love the things they’re critiquing.

I had a job for a while where my main task for about a year was reviewing / editing configs on servers, in which I learned the basic functions of vim (opening, closing, seeking, copy / paste, find / replace, etc.) and used them enough to get them embedded in my memory.

I use vim less now, as I still prefer graphical editors with a visual file tree for most development tasks, but I still have the simple stuff ready at hand when I have to jump on a server and change a config file. I’ve “learned” new tricks with vim since then, but I have a harder time remembering them when I don’t use them every day, and I periodically come across vim functionality that I’ve encountered before but then forgot.

So, maybe six months isn’t so far off, but it’s not that I dedicated myself to studying and learning the full length and breadth of vim’s capabilities for that whole period. It’s more that I picked up the basics pretty quickly, maybe after a few days of getting settled, then repeated the basics in slightly varying contexts until they became rote, which took longer.

In no particular order:

Dr. Becky (astronomy)

Josh Johnson (comedy)

New Venture Games (old man boardgaming)

Cornell Lab of Ornithology (ornithology)

Ant Lab (entomology)

Practical Engineering (engineering, mostly civil)

Numberphile (maths, as they say across the pond)

The Octopus Lady (marine biology)

Juniper Dev (young gun making games)

suckerpinch (software stuff)

Jenny Nicholson (media critic)

engineerguy (engineering)

Steve Mould (physics)

Dang, I gotta clean up my subscriptions. I tend to add people when I find one good video, then ignore them when I find they aren’t to my taste

Make making friends a priority. Join clubs, go to parties, ask classmates if they want to study together. If you don’t have a mealtime crew, ask people in the dining hall if you can sit with them.

Be careful with drugs, especially alcohol. I’m not saying don’t experiment, but be mindful of how much you’re using and the effects they have. I was not careful with alcohol in my youth and… I wish I had been.

Try things you’re interested in, and try things you aren’t interested in. It’s hard to know what’s interesting without giving it, as they say, the ol’ college try.

“That’ll be somewhere between $15 and $900, your insurance will let you know eventually.”

I really love this show. I’ll rewatch it every now and again. After my own mom died, “Free Churro” really hit differently. It’s a really beautiful dive into the thoughts and emotions that can come up when your mom is recently dead but your mom was also chronically an asshole.

The exploration of Beatrice’s and Bojack’s relationship thoughout the series, and the flashbacks to how Beatrice’s own trauma shaped her and her relationship with Bojack, and Bojack’s final acceptance that now, finally, he knows there’s no chance she’ll ever be the mother he wanted or the one he needed, really helped me come to grips with what I was going through, mentally and emotionally.

The rest of the show is also really good. I’m a big fan of Character Actress Margo Martindale.