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Cake day: June 19th, 2023

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  • Hugging, definitely.

    Snuggling, maybe? Like maybe we both fell asleep in the back of a van and ended up snuggling a bit and when we woke up we’re not weirded out by it.

    Wrestling, maybe, but it would probably be with kids or pets around. I can’t remember doing it but I wouldn’t be weirded out by it.

    It wasn’t always this way though. I was raised southern Baptist. Becoming OK with male physical interactions and homosexuality was a journey, and I am much happier with how accepting I am now than when I said I was as a Christian who had this low-key hypocritical “I know the truth of god and accept everybody” while also looking down on sinners.

    I have a gay friend who came to visit me and we went around the city and to a house party and had a great time and then fell asleep in the beach. The next day he said “that was one of the best dates I’ve ever been on” and it caught me off guard because I was just “hanging out”, but if it had been a girl, it would have been a great date, and I thought “ok, sure, it was a ‘date’ with a guy friend and that’s ok.” It was a big step for me.






  • If you’re scared to do rm -rf, do something else that lets you inspect the entire batch of deletions first. Such as:

    find .git ! -type d -print0 | xargs -0 -n1 echo rm -fv

    This will print out all the rm -fv commands that would be run. It’s basically rm -rf --dry-run, but rm doesn’t have that common option. Once you’ve verified that that’s what you want to do, run it again without echo to do the actual deletion. If you’re scared of having that in your history, either use a full path for .git, or prepend a space to the non-echo version of the command to make it avoid showing up in your shell history (assuming you have ignorespace in your HISTCONTROL env var)

    I use this xargs echo pattern a lot when I’m crafting commands that are potentially destructive or change lots of things.





  • I bought a used gym quality treadmill for my home, though they are pretty big and not everybody can reasonably do that. Because it’s always there I also sometimes take meetings on the treadmill at a walking pace. It’s great during the winter where I live because I usually don’t want to go out in the snow, and having the treadmill helps me exercise, even by just walking, when I would otherwise be wasting away.



  • One thing that made me forget about the bad aspects of running is running on a treadmill while watching action movies. The increased heart rate works great for both of those, and having the treadmill to keep my pace steady allowed me to run farther than I had in other situations like running outside or running while listening to audiobooks.

    Also, running in nature is more enjoyable than running around the parking lot or whatever.

    Some people never enjoy running though, and just tolerate it for its benefits. Maybe that’s you?