Reminds me of this YouTube video (below) on how difficult it is (nearly impossible) to re-learn how to ride a bicycle when you have the handles are reversed (i.e. pulling left handle bar towards you, the wheel goes to the right)
Thanks for sharing the link. Had no clue. Funny how things came about to be; who would've known that salmon wasn't part of the foundational sushi dishes until this occurred.
> Had he been American, I could have conveyed the depth, breadth and velocity of my sugar consumption with a single concept: Cookie Monster, but less particular. Did they have “Sesame Street” in Austria? I feared confusing him if I asked. To play it safe, I said something even more bewildering: “Picture a monster that just ate candy all day long. That’s me.”
> Whether because of jet lag or a shortfall of resuscitative sugar compounds careering through my bloodstream, by lunchtime the first day I was so leadenly tired — even though the only other tasks I had accomplished so far were stripping off my spandex workout clothes to have my body rubbed with salt like a chicken carcass and stripping them off a second time to have my body rubbed with oil like a potato carcass
Stunning writing that had me laughing out loud throughout the entire article.
Thank you for sharing this. Presumably the item spacing with too large (by default) and as such, many of the icons would not display. This fixed it! Appreciate the suggestion
Okay. not knowing anything about this film, not ever hearing or seeing it, I just clicked on that diner scene and holy f*ck, that was terrifying. and thank you :)
I dropped all the "branding" (what for me, I consider) non sense and when I killed off expectations and how I wanted to be perceived (online), I felt more liberated, my perfectionism quieted down (it's still lingering there), experienced less procrastination, and just starting writing again and more motivated to write for an audience of one: me.
Though I used to predominately write about tech, these days I write about my dance journey and that in itself has connected me with people all over the world, many people saying they found (house) dance classes in London via a Google Search and my tiny little blog sits at ranking #1. Totally unanticipated. Every time I have 1 person (IRL) come up to me at some event or class or workshop, I'm reminded that maintaining my blog is worth it.
* (Continue) Dancing - Beginning of 2023, I got into street style dance and movement (including stretching which I've done now for the past 223 days) helped me get through one of the most challenging periods of my life (i.e. divorced with a child, moved from U.S. to London to single raise my daughter). Dance has now taken its life of its own and I'm finding myself competing in dance "battles" as a way to test and grow my mental fortitude.
Technical skills
* UI Design - as a low level (i.e. C developer), I currently lack the skills to make my own little toy web apps more aesthetically pleasing for not just me, but to share with others
* Photography and videography - want to increase my current level(s) since I started a YouTube channel documenting my dance journey and also create little reels for community events
I would advise to learn couple dancing as:
* Zouk (and if you are already doing street style dance, you will love black zouk)
* Bachata (there are so many Bachata dancers around the world, that any country or trip you do, you can go into Bachata socials and make local friends all over the world)
* Tango (it is the hardest dance to learn, but it has the best connection of all)
And definetly go into dance congresses. There are multiple dance congresses on Europe, but if you can go to some of the best dance congresses like zoukmx or into brazilian zouk congresses during January in Rio de Janeiro, it will be a life experience.
Never thought I would see zoukMX mentioned on Hacker News. Funny, because I've signed up for next year for 1st time!
Definitely recommend couple dancing in general as well and dance congresses. I've met so many people and shared so many experiences ever since I started dancing and going to congresses.
Cool to see more dancers on HN! I'm gettin into it more myself, I was wondering if you could share the software you used in some of your shorts to practice dance?
> as a low level (i.e. C developer), I currently lack the skills to make my own little toy web apps more aesthetically pleasing for not just me, but to share with others
How did you get interested in opposite ends of the tech stack?
My career (over the span of 15 years) has been non-linear. I started with web development initially and slowly worked my way down the stack, writing C while at was at AWS (virtual private cloud).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFzDaBzBlL0