#pondering — Public Fediverse posts

If I don't like the current reality, is it a sign of aging or of sanity? #pondering

It’s apparenly that sometimes if it’s not modern high-end competetive multiplaying, it’s not gaming.

And here am I who played Gorf on a VIC-20 and that was gaming. And still is.

And all the stuff in between.

(Also modern releases of many games run on basically anything nowadays. Nethack just got a new relase!)

2/n

#gaming #pondering #funny

It’s funny how there is computer gaming and computer gaming.

I mean, I have multiple computers, one of which is a relatively beefy desktop machine, and I have played computer games since the early Eighties, and still play on most days. Even recent games, occasionally, and sometimes even multi-player online games.

But still I read occasional opinions that you can’t game on such-and-such systems.

1/n

#gaming #pondering #funny

Thinking this morning about why exactly it is that I adore spending so much of my time these days being with, talking with, and listening to women.

It's not just the inherent beauty of being accepted by you, though that brings my heart endless joy! It's not just the kindness that often defines you, though that touches me deeply as well.

I think it's more about how incredibly valuable your thoughts are...
the mountains of wisdom, perspective and experience, individually, collectively, generationally ~ an evolution of feminine philosophy, both deliberate and passive.

There is just so much under the surface, and it fills me with constant awe. 🌸

#pondering #MayRambles

If you have been PONDERING your ORB for a while, perhaps it is time to go on a JAUNT, lest SCRYING SICKNESS set in. Even a BRIEF JAUNT helps.

🎩✨ Oh, the riveting world of boolean options! It's like discovering the vast universe inside a binary star 🌌—spoiler alert: it's just two. Meanwhile, the article meanders like a lost tourist in a tech museum, leaving you #pondering if it too is merely an "experimental" concept. 🤔
https://herecomesthemoon.net/2025/11/how-many-options-fit-into-a-boolean/ #booleanoptions #techmuseum #binarystars #experimentalconcept #HackerNews #ngated

🎩✨ Oh, the riveting world of boolean options! It's like discovering the vast universe inside a binary star 🌌—spoiler alert: it's just two. Meanwhile, the article meanders like a lost tourist in a tech museum, leaving you #pondering if it too is merely an "experimental" concept. 🤔
https://herecomesthemoon.net/2025/11/how-many-options-fit-into-a-boolean/ #booleanoptions #techmuseum #binarystars #experimentalconcept #HackerNews #ngated

🎩✨ Oh, the riveting world of boolean options! It's like discovering the vast universe inside a binary star 🌌—spoiler alert: it's just two. Meanwhile, the article meanders like a lost tourist in a tech museum, leaving you #pondering if it too is merely an "experimental" concept. 🤔
https://herecomesthemoon.net/2025/11/how-many-options-fit-into-a-boolean/ #booleanoptions #techmuseum #binarystars #experimentalconcept #HackerNews #ngated

🎩✨ Oh, the riveting world of boolean options! It's like discovering the vast universe inside a binary star 🌌—spoiler alert: it's just two. Meanwhile, the article meanders like a lost tourist in a tech museum, leaving you #pondering if it too is merely an "experimental" concept. 🤔
https://herecomesthemoon.net/2025/11/how-many-options-fit-into-a-boolean/ #booleanoptions #techmuseum #binarystars #experimentalconcept #HackerNews #ngated

Protecting the Literary Zeitgeist of Hyde Park’s Indie Book Scene

“A good bookstore sells books, but its primary product, if you will, is the browsing experience…One of the great benefits of the act of browsing is the rumination it evokes.”Source: Jeff Deutsch, “In Praise of Good Bookstores“

If there is a neighborhood in Chicago that reaches for the pinnacle of a book lover’s nirvana, it has to be Hyde Park. Surrounding the University of Chicago and situated just south of the Loop, this epicenter of learning, education, and literature is a bibliophile’s wonderland of Indie bookstores. 

However, just when it felt like the dust had settled from years of fighting off the tentacles of Amazon’s loss-leading blitzkrieg on bookstores, a new threat has set up shop right in Hyde Park’s very midst. This time it’s not a digital menace, but instead a big-box goliath — Barnes & Noble.

Yes, in a free market, competition is supposed to benefit the consumer. But, and this is a big but, at what cost? Price is not and should never be the sole factor, especially in the book realm. What about the value of the experience? What about service? What about variety? What about the discovery of the unexpected? What about home-grown? What about locally owned and operated? What about sanctuary-like ambiance? What about a delicate mix of existing independent bookstores who live and operate as a cohesive draw to Hyde Park?

“The value is, and always has been, at least in the good and serious bookstores, in the experience of being among books–an experience afforded to anyone who enters the space with curiosity and time. And the yield is discovery, not of what we think we know we want, but of that which we have yet to encounter.” Source: Jeff Deutsch, “In Praise of Good Bookstores“

Typically, a big-box store will not draw people from far outside the local vicinity when it has dozens of locations spread all over Chicagoland (21 at last count).  Meanwhile, a unique and varied collection of Indie bookstores can and will do just that (draw customers from further afield) because of the collective experience they offer — and that sublimely satisfying pastime known as “browsing” where one can wander, wonder, discover, ponder, and partake without interruption. Such a unique labor of love [browsing] can never be truly replicated in a big box. Imitated maybe. Replicated, never.

“Big-name box bookstores have installed cafes and armchairs precisely because people like to hang out around books. Next time you’re in one of those cavernous megasellers, see for yourself how they’ve worked yo create ambiance. Look at the shelf placement, how they’ve been arranged to mark off cozy little reading nooks. Somebody’s tried very hard to make you forget you’re in a warehouse.” Source: Wendy Welch, “The Little Bookstore of Big Stone Gap”

Call & Response, 57th Street, Powell’s, Seminary Co-op, University of Chicago Bookstore, and Build Coffee & Books all combine to fulfill a literarian’s needs in this special corner of the Windy City.  Why, other than to disrupt the curated zeitgeist of Hyde Park, does B &N really need to be there?

Hopefully, over time B &N will find itself out of place in Hyde Park and move on to greener pastures elsewhere. And if they do hang around for longer, it’s as a cohort versus a predator.

My guess is the good people who shop the existing Indie bookstores in and around Hyde Park will continue their time-honored tradition of supporting the stores that germinated in and around Hyde Park and avoid the intruder. May it be so.

In the interim, either the individual store websites or bookshop.org offer easy access for all of us who cannot be physically in Chicago on a regular basis to assist the Indie bookstores in Hyde Park. All of them, except the campus bookstore have a presence on the bookshop.org site (57th Street through Seminary Co-op).

Peace, happy reading, and great browsing!

“Every great bookstore allows the reader to get lost in it.” – Source: Jeff Deutsch, I”n Praise of Good Bookstores“

#57thStreetBooks #books #bookstores #browsing #BuildCoffeeBooks #CallResponseBooks #Chicago #competition #history #HydePark #indie #literature #opinion #pondering #PowellSBooks #reading #retail #rumination #SeminaryCoOpBooks

Protecting the Literary Zeitgeist of Hyde Park’s Indie Book Scene

“A good bookstore sells books, but its primary product, if you will, is the browsing experience…One of the great benefits of the act of browsing is the rumination it evokes.”Source: Jeff Deutsch, “In Praise of Good Bookstores“

If there is a neighborhood in Chicago that reaches for the pinnacle of a book lover’s nirvana, it has to be Hyde Park. Surrounding the University of Chicago and situated just south of the Loop, this epicenter of learning, education, and literature is a bibliophile’s wonderland of Indie bookstores. 

However, just when it felt like the dust had settled from years of fighting off the tentacles of Amazon’s loss-leading blitzkrieg on bookstores, a new threat has set up shop right in Hyde Park’s very midst. This time it’s not a digital menace, but instead a big-box goliath — Barnes & Noble.

Yes, in a free market, competition is supposed to benefit the consumer. But, and this is a big but, at what cost? Price is not and should never be the sole factor, especially in the book realm. What about the value of the experience? What about service? What about variety? What about the discovery of the unexpected? What about home-grown? What about locally owned and operated? What about sanctuary-like ambiance? What about a delicate mix of existing independent bookstores who live and operate as a cohesive draw to Hyde Park?

“The value is, and always has been, at least in the good and serious bookstores, in the experience of being among books–an experience afforded to anyone who enters the space with curiosity and time. And the yield is discovery, not of what we think we know we want, but of that which we have yet to encounter.” Source: Jeff Deutsch, “In Praise of Good Bookstores“

Typically, a big-box store will not draw people from far outside the local vicinity when it has dozens of locations spread all over Chicagoland (21 at last count).  Meanwhile, a unique and varied collection of Indie bookstores can and will do just that (draw customers from further afield) because of the collective experience they offer — and that sublimely satisfying pastime known as “browsing” where one can wander, wonder, discover, ponder, and partake without interruption. Such a unique labor of love [browsing] can never be truly replicated in a big box. Imitated maybe. Replicated, never.

“Big-name box bookstores have installed cafes and armchairs precisely because people like to hang out around books. Next time you’re in one of those cavernous megasellers, see for yourself how they’ve worked yo create ambiance. Look at the shelf placement, how they’ve been arranged to mark off cozy little reading nooks. Somebody’s tried very hard to make you forget you’re in a warehouse.” Source: Wendy Welch, “The Little Bookstore of Big Stone Gap”

Call & Response, 57th Street, Powell’s, Seminary Co-op, University of Chicago Bookstore, and Build Coffee & Books all combine to fulfill a literarian’s needs in this special corner of the Windy City.  Why, other than to disrupt the curated zeitgeist of Hyde Park, does B &N really need to be there?

Hopefully, over time B &N will find itself out of place in Hyde Park and move on to greener pastures elsewhere. And if they do hang around for longer, it’s as a cohort versus a predator.

My guess is the good people who shop the existing Indie bookstores in and around Hyde Park will continue their time-honored tradition of supporting the stores that germinated in and around Hyde Park and avoid the intruder. May it be so.

In the interim, either the individual store websites or bookshop.org offer easy access for all of us who cannot be physically in Chicago on a regular basis to assist the Indie bookstores in Hyde Park. All of them, except the campus bookstore have a presence on the bookshop.org site (57th Street through Seminary Co-op).

Peace, happy reading, and great browsing!

“Every great bookstore allows the reader to get lost in it.” – Source: Jeff Deutsch, I”n Praise of Good Bookstores“

#57thStreetBooks #books #bookstores #browsing #BuildCoffeeBooks #CallResponseBooks #Chicago #competition #history #HydePark #indie #literature #opinion #pondering #PowellSBooks #reading #retail #rumination #SeminaryCoOpBooks

#Pondering migration from services owned by the big technology companies.
Like all changes, some will be accomplished easily and others less so. At this stage, Google maps are less impressive than Open Streetmap in many places; Facebook is largely useless to anyone not buying ads, and using Outlook is like pounding one's penis with a large rock.
All that is easy to leave behind.
But some things work well with little to replace it.
Giving up something you do not use is nothing to discuss. Real choices are.

Just look up !
What do you see?
#clouds
#sky
#nature
#pondering

#Pondering how much of the alleged AI LLM use is simply platforms showing it without anyone asking for it.

Pondering how people toot memes or post about being an ass/mean/sarcastic, relate it to themselves, and think that's funny. I have a great sense of humour, but ngl, I look at those and think "Why would you say "I'm a selfish asshole and I'm not planning on stopping any time soon" and think that's going to make people want to connect with you and that it's an attractive quality, especially when you're saying you're not going to change?😂
#why #selfish #pondering #truthinadvertising

Ok, serious question - if you bring out a member of the original band to play the song your band is covering, is it still a cover? I mean you have at least 1 original band member there. And if that member is the lead singer, who is singing, aren't you just now the backup band? #pondering https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/my-chemical-romance-billy-corgan-bullet-with-butterfly-wings-1235419185/

Watching Midsomer Murders, and I've found a new career - actor!

Role: Male corpse. Past middle age. Slightly overweight. Scenes include laying face down in a field apparently dead, and later in the morgue. Naked.

Now I'm wondering if naked dead body actors have body doubles for the embarrassing scenes? Maybe I could do that, if not the principle (edit... *principal* 🤦) actor. 🤔

#pondering

#BloomScrolling
#gardening
#pond
#pondering

Take some time to live in the moment.

The tree on the left is a bald cypress I planted about 25 years ago.

(Update: decided to go for it, blue brake cables and blue shifter cables, hopefully similar blue LOL... ordered off eBay from random small businesses).

Today's hard #BikeRepair #BikeRestoration decisions:

1. Switch out the 1974 shifter and brake cable housings? (from 1974, white, yellowing)

2. If so, go for blue (complementary to yellow and orange), or back to white?

(currently leaning towards blue, since I just custom painted this bike, might as well go 100% on the non-standard colors LOL)

#Random #pondering

This apparently is what a mint condition one of these looks like. These bikes are essentially worthless on the market, and of no special note, so I am thinking I will strip it down and repaint it a new color, so I can chalk up "repainted a bike" on the experience list. I imagine it's not far off from repainting a ham radio case. The main issue here is properly stripping 1970's paint (leaded) off... Probably will take everything apart, derust it, and then Citru-strip the paint... repaint the frame, and then reassemble while the rest is sitting in rust remover. The other question is what (free) spraypaint I have and what color it is. I am tempted (as usual) to paint it a bright color, but also have seen some neat two-tone painted bikes on YouTube. #pondering #BIkeProject #BikeRestoration

https://www.reddit.com/r/Vintage_bicycles/comments/132hg1z/1974_fuji_special_tourer/

The longer I live within, study, and watch the ecclesial scene, the more I have become convinced over the years that any real hope for a effective and fruitful #ecumenism (that really will issue forth reunification of Churches) is going to be found in the episcopal system (i.e. #catholic #orthodox #anglican traditions). It has been hard coming to that conclusion as a #Reformed #christian but it had become increasingly obvious to me. The question is, are Christians who are not part of a #denomination with an episcopate willing to make that shift for the sake of following our Lord’s prayer: “that they all may be one” (John 17:21)? That is a question I have been asking myself.

#theology #pondering

A quotation from Stevenson

To be over-wise is to ossify; and the scruple-monger ends by standing stock-still.

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1878-04), “Æs Triplex,” Cornhill Magazine, Vol. 37

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #care #carefulness #consideration #options #overthinking #paralysis #pondering #scruples #wisdom

Next time you are making a donation, consider doing it anonymously.
Not that it should stop you if you discover you are doing it just as much for yourself.
Doing good is doing good.
Just #pondering the motivation is good in your life.

#Pondering the movement away from the big technology companies.
Maybe this is the time for the open source movement; but in 2025 we need the movement from 2010.
Do activist youth go into a digital liberation movement?

Hmm, wonder what's going on with the kaiju today... most of the earthquakes in the last 6 hours all on the southwest side of the swarm. (all small quakes, biggest M4.1). #kaiju #pondering #earthquakes #santorini

Are we living in someone else's Sacred Timeline or enduring a Great Time War? These are the only questions worth pondering, if you insist on pondering upon anything at all :blobwizard:

#WizardThoughts #Pondering #DeepThoughts #Mysticism #Occult #Magick #MagickThought

Are we living in someone else's Sacred Timeline or enduring a Great Time War? These are the only questions worth pondering, if you insist on pondering upon anything at all :blobwizard:

#WizardThoughts #Pondering #DeepThoughts #Mysticism #Occult #Magick #MagickThought

Are we living in someone else's Sacred Timeline or enduring a Great Time War? These are the only questions worth pondering, if you insist on pondering upon anything at all :blobwizard:

#WizardThoughts #Pondering #DeepThoughts #Mysticism #Occult #Magick #MagickThought

Are we living in someone else's Sacred Timeline or enduring a Great Time War? These are the only questions worth pondering, if you insist on pondering upon anything at all :blobwizard:

#WizardThoughts #Pondering #DeepThoughts #Mysticism #Occult #Magick #MagickThought

"Imho" or "imo" isn't a mandatory suffix in every sentence and people should realize this.
If the source of the information or metrics aren't mentioned, you can safely assume it's just an opinion.

No need to mention "in my (honest) opinion" in every phrase you say...

If I say "here are the top10 games of 2023" but don't mention the source or any metrics to base that list on, it's just my opinion. It's not that difficult...

#FoodForThought #Pohdintaa #Pondering

@AutisticAdam @actuallyautistic To that, I add, “I will re-read that thing I sent 3-4 times, find and correct the #spelling errors and small #clarifications of stuff I thought but didn’t type.” And that’s on top of the 2-3 times I re-read it in my head before sending it and #pondering the various #interpretations and #responses.

Sometimes I force myself to send without looking, but I need to do #relaxing #breathing after. Hehe 🤢🤢🤮

#actuallyautistic

When not meowing or napping or trying to show off his domestic cirque de soleil skills, Asher does a lot of deep #mulling 😸

#CatsOfMastodon #MastoCats #CaturdayIsEveryday #CatsOfSDF #GrayTuxedoCat #MyCat #HandsomeCat #DeepThoughts #ToBeOrNotToBe #ToPeeOrNotToPee #DecisionMaking #Pondering #MondayMulling