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offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2020-04-03 23:55 [#02598763]
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watching midsommer murders and playing text adventures


 

offline mohamed from the turtle business on 2020-04-03 23:58 [#02598768]
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Searching for a job and do things slowly
Without weed is a pain in the ass


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2020-04-04 00:00 [#02598771]
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yeah i heard the price of weed is through the roof at the
moment, what sort of job are you looking for?


 

offline mohamed from the turtle business on 2020-04-04 00:04 [#02598772]
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Usual pile of shit jobs i apply for, not much of a choice at
40 years old
I dream to work in a supermarket..
Pushers are all scumbags where i live, another reason not to
buy other than lack of money
Wish i was in brixton


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2020-04-04 00:06 [#02598773]
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haven't done acid in years, but kind of want some now. do
you reckon the price would go up or down over this? on the
one hand, bored at home. on the other, people need cash and
some of it might come out of deep freeze

not that i even know where to ask anymore....


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2020-04-04 00:07 [#02598774]
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come back and marry a british woman


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2020-04-04 00:08 [#02598775]
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probably dark web, but i guess 10% or more are probably FBI
agents


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2020-04-04 00:09 [#02598776]
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honestly, my lockdown experience thus far has been boring
and responsible ~

- i'm not taking the train, i'm not in the office, it's time
to quit cigarettes
- since my commute isn't three hours let's go ahead and
--renew my car registration
--pay my excise tax
--research how to renew my passport

i figure, eventually, i'll run out of stuff to do, that i
should have already done, and from there i'll probably try
to get my modular going again


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2020-04-04 00:09 [#02598777]
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yeah not really searching or anything, just voicing an idea
that's been on my mind


 

offline mohamed from the turtle business on 2020-04-04 00:10 [#02598778]
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Gonna translate my resume in english and start searching
indeed uk



 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2020-04-04 00:12 [#02598779]
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ive always promised myself to do a little project that has a
bit of programming/music and hardware, ive probably got time
now



 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2020-04-04 00:13 [#02598780]
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yeah English women love Italians i reckon, plus tesco would
probably hire you straight away


 

offline belb from mmmmmmhhhhzzzz!!! on 2020-04-04 00:13 [#02598781]
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pretty much what i'd be doing anyway... sleeping at odd
hours, listening to audiobooks n podcasts n such
(this is great so far), reading, painting, playing
chess, listening to musix (radiooooo.com as per umbro's link
atm). trying not to stress about the plague but it's barely
impacted my routìne at all


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2020-04-04 00:15 [#02598782]
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looks like a weighty tome of a book, any insights yet?



 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2020-04-04 00:17 [#02598783]
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oh, yes, that's a good one. i've never been able to manage
naps before, but i've started to successfully nap a bit, and
it's really strange. i have NPR on and then suddenly it's
quiet and i think "where's NPR" and then it comes back and i
realize i'd briefly been asleep. also noticing any lights on
start to drift off like the sound. never actually caught
myself in the act of falling asleep before. intend to keep
researching this


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2020-04-04 00:17 [#02598784]
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just having a look at that site now


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2020-04-04 00:19 [#02598785]
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i have the sofa bed out by the tv gf is in big double bed
cos im snoring lots at the moment, i go to bed about half 2
and wake up about 9 then fall asleep again 11 to 1 in the
afternnon


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2020-04-04 00:20 [#02598788]
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I watched the birds in the hedge this afternoon, that was
nice, i wish i had some Acid yes, so i was unaware of the
passage of time for a bit


 

offline belb from mmmmmmhhhhzzzz!!! on 2020-04-04 00:23 [#02598789]
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i'm only a couple of chapters in but it's not too scientific
/ academic / jargon-y. mostly outlining his personal
experiences with mushrooms and acid so far, and how his
interest in psychedelics was rekindled in later life


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2020-04-04 00:25 [#02598791]
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yeah id say it was the most profound moment of my adult life
thats for sure, as you get that mindset of being a child,
when everything has that new feeling again


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2020-04-04 00:25 [#02598792]
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it makes you realise how ossified your brain becomes as you
ages, its so gradual you dont realise it


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2020-04-04 00:27 [#02598793]
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i think humour is all ive got left, i used to have very
elaborate brain images, you know when he gets his brain
scanned in the flight of the navigator, i saw images that
fast, great mathematical fractal shapes and all sorts, i
dont think i can generate that now, if its age or what i
dont know


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2020-04-04 00:33 [#02598798]
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you're just out of practice


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2020-04-04 00:36 [#02598801]
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what i always wondered about is how the hell is my own brain
doing that, does it have some built in mathematical formulas
to do that sort of stuff,


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2020-04-04 00:52 [#02598803]
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yes, there is some built-in math underlying it all, but you
can also make custom


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2020-04-04 00:53 [#02598804]
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my fave toy as a child was a kaleidoscope, i was always
looking through one so probably had a good effect on my
brain early on


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2020-04-04 01:02 [#02598805]
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recently, they've discovered grid cells. the idea being,
how does a critter know where it is? how does it map its
environment? the answer is: hexagons.

it makes sense. you are in a hexagon, and then you tile
hexagons all around and this is how the brain stores
location, plans moves on the rpg board, etc.

you know how, when you put a mic up to a speaker, it goes
wheeeee? feedback? i asked my dad about that, when i was
little, and he said: "it tries to amplify the same sound
over and over and over until what you're hearing is not a
real sound, but the sound of the amplifier itself"

put all that in the blender, boom, milkdrop, etc

my brain tends to favor a strobing, rotating cube as i'm
listening to leftfield's "phat planet" earlier today


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2020-04-04 01:03 [#02598806]
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also, yes, philosophers have argued for thousands of years
about it, but we've proven geometry is inherent to the way
the brain works and other related things and no one's
particularly noticed.


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2020-04-04 01:05 [#02598807]
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or, well, it wasn't a cube. and there was a lot more going
on with, like, sort of sweeping beams of light. particularly
towards the end


 

offline belb from mmmmmmhhhhzzzz!!! on 2020-04-04 01:08 [#02598808]
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read that as "when you put mice up to a speaker"


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2020-04-04 01:09 [#02598809]
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when you put mice up to a speaker,
they squeak up into the tweeter


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2020-04-04 01:13 [#02598810]
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cheers, i havent heard of them, thats genuinely fascinating


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2020-04-04 01:15 [#02598811]
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dyson sphere fragments of denser layers ahead scattered in
fibbonacci stages snowballing into the desired state of
mind.


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2020-04-04 01:17 [#02598812]
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this statement is time for lunch.


 

offline steve mcqueen from caerdydd (United Kingdom) on 2020-04-04 01:37 [#02598815]
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not going to supermarket, not going to pub. Been getting
loads less done cos Sean Ae mixlr stream/chat... not
complaining.


 

offline steve mcqueen from caerdydd (United Kingdom) on 2020-04-04 01:40 [#02598816]
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otherwise all systems normal
getting my parents to work the fucking telepresence shit has
been interesting, then shouting at them to staying the
fucking house and working out their deliveries ... thats
been fun. Dunno if it's exactly necessary but yeh...


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2020-04-04 01:43 [#02598817]
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I waved at my mum through her window the other day, i
suppose thats very old fashioned but it was quite funny


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2020-04-04 01:47 [#02598818]
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I went to tescos, i hate tescos but its convienet, i felt
like i was in a philip k dick novel for sure, i only went
into buy weetabix i felt like i was buying some uranium or
something


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2020-04-04 01:53 [#02598819]
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fortunately or unfortunately my mum is housebound, she cant
leave the house without a wheelchair, this lock down is
having a detrimental effect on her mental health as her main
preoccupation in life is riding around on the bus and
talking to random people about trivial matters


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2020-04-04 01:55 [#02598820]
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get her an IRC client


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2020-04-04 01:58 [#02598822]
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is there a channel for senile old duffers? (only kidding)


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2020-04-04 01:59 [#02598823]
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I think people on here would probably like her, shes quite
funny in a neurotic way


 

offline mohamed from the turtle business on 2020-04-04 14:18 [#02598864]
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i applied to tesco and iceland and briefly spoke with a
young chick with a baby desperately loooking for a park,
that helped with my afternoon depression


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2020-04-04 14:38 [#02598865]
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nice one, fingers crossed! i hear the death rate is
stabilising in italy and might be going down finally

going up steadly here


 

offline marlowe from Antarctica on 2020-04-04 14:55 [#02598866]
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reading, making music, watching films, pushing my japanese


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2020-04-04 14:55 [#02598867]
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what are you reading?


 

offline marlowe from Antarctica on 2020-04-04 15:43 [#02598870]
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At the moment I'm finishing off The Shaolin Grandmasters'
Text, I picked up a hardback copy from a local second-hand
book shop for about a fiver


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2020-04-04 15:49 [#02598871]
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any good?


 

offline DADONCK from here on 2020-04-04 15:55 [#02598872]
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was sick for a week, but supposedly it wasn't covid19 (got
tested, came back negative, bummer)

now i feel better, so this is what i do during quarantine:
- talking to friends on the phone a lot
- looking out of my window (i need to buy me some ocular)
- endlessly surfing the net…
- thinking about mom and dad
- having nightmares about mom and dad
- baking brownies
- making shakes
- writing lots of emails
- preparing for work that starts soon…
- noodling around with my eurorack
- playing alyx on oculus quest
- vrchatting with oculus quest
- cleaning my apartment
- building synth related stuff (just build a little pedal
holder, its cute)
- watching documentaries on kanopy (wild combination is
good)
- watching trash horror and old sci-fi (
- drinking lots of tea
- enjoying solitude
- having back and neck pain and doing nothing about it, even
though i have a friggin yoga mat. dude
- thinking about what to buy on amazon. i need a thermometer
and a water filter
- preparing my every-2-weeks-quarantine-food-shopping-list
- watching too many youtube videos
- lying in bed much too long. but enjoying it
- getting angry at people i see on the telly (net)
- telling corona to suck my balls
- waking up with a beating heart
- finally wading though the alien comic
- counting my coughs
- staying up late

what i don't do during quarantine:
- thinking about my job, which i should
- drinking alc. / smoking weed / sex / eating meat (i wanna
choose 2, as soon as i feel 100%)
- walking around outside, event though the weather is
brilliant
- call my mom
- clean my windows
- make a fucking plan, fuck
- really constructively think something through, damn
- reading a book. i should read a book



 

offline mohamed from the turtle business on 2020-04-04 16:18 [#02598873]
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not really caring much today

i chatted with a friend who lives in London and he said me i
wouldnt survive with a part time job (like i do here)

so i would have to turn down tesco or iceland IF they call


 


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