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I learned how to make coffee like a barista. I purchased an espresso machine with a milk steamer, and learned how to make rudimentary latte/cappucino art. My best result so far: https://www.dropbox.com/s/lob9lfjpqtgxkvj/IMG_1011.jpg?dl=0
straight out of a hipster coffee shop my dude, good work!
Life is hard without goals. Or more that it’s hard to have motivation or purpose without goals. Also I realize that this is a fairly simple topic that may be obvious to others, I’ve just started realizing that this may be the core of some personal issues that I’ve been dealing with for the whole of my life. For the longest time I’ve felt burned out or depressed and I thought it was from doing too much of my job (swe)…
Really good response. Thanks for sharing. I will add that Richard Hamming's first lecture is probably the thing that does this for me.
Is this the lecture you speak of?
There are dialects of Japanese where the moraic obstruent can occur rather freely, and where grammatical clitics cause complex resyllabification mutations in the stem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particles_of_the_Kagoshima_dia... It's probably not the most interesting thing per sē that I learned in the hole year, but simply what I remembered because I leanred it recently.
I've also gotten into woodcarving by making figurines of animals.
Making things is fun and relaxing.
Example of similar keyboard: https://github.com/abstracthat/dactyl-manuform
I learned how to make coffee like a barista. I purchased an espresso machine with a milk steamer, and learned how to make rudimentary latte/cappucino art. My best result so far: https://www.dropbox.com/s/lob9lfjpqtgxkvj/IMG_1011.jpg?dl=0
That nearing age 60, I am an animal lover. I don’t even have a dog, but I have just purchased a farm and plan to fill it with chickens, goats, pigs, alpacas, and perhaps emu.
It's why plenty of smart people don't make lots of money, why dumb people at times can strike it big, and an interesting mental fringe to find a way out of the rat race / salary man ladder.
Maybe culturing mushrooms at home. I set up a sort of glovebox/laminar flow hood with a HEPA filter, sterilized nutrified agar/plugs in canning jars, and cloned some shiitake and lions mane. I also made some 4"x4" glass slides for spore prints and inoculated some logs. There are a lot of interesting fungi out there. Many have interesting and surprising properties. And they're delicious.