Ecotopia by Ernest Callenbach

HERETIC! The true salvation lies in Plan9! Trust the rabbit, renounce the penguin!

No one cried for Bin Laden being obliterated, no one would cry for a convicted hitman being killed.

Thats simply not true. I myself would very much rather have seen Bin Laden in Jail (and of course a due process beforehand), likewise Saddam or even Hitler…

Does anyone knows what has become of the guy? I mean, i can imagine having that floating around on the net could have some interesting effects on your mental health…

Living in Germany (so under normal circumstances not a very hot climate) i shower once a day except when going to the gym, doing hard manual labour and so on.

The interesting thing is: When i was a kid and young adult (so in the dark ages of the 80s to late 90s) i only showered once every 2 - 4 days and never smelled bad…

Oh welch eine Überraschung…

BMW := Bring Mich Werkstatt

What are “the poors” gonna eat then?

Well, there was a famous woman some years back who suggested cake as a viable alternative…

Die Stasi hat effektiv auch nicht JEDEN überwacht, es hat aber gereicht damit sich alle überwacht FÜHLEN und dementsprechend Selbstzensur betreiben

Oh, i am pretty sure we will see something like this soon…

In my last job we had a Hells Angels Supporter Clubhouse on our complex… well, we never had any problems with them, and our encounters mostly comprised of a “good morning” or something like that. Sometimes they held barbecues where i attended and, what can i say, just a bunch of more or less nice motorcycle riding greybeards.

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Only regarding RAM and a faulty hard drive… the thing was in its later years mostly a gloryfied typewriter which also ran a printserver.

The last time i did that was back in the really early 00s (2001 - 2003 maybe)… it took “a while” and multiple failed attempts due to my personal stupidity, but after that i ran the system for the better part of a decade, so i think its time well spend…

Hi,

its now 14 days since i decided to stop my decade old habit of drinking a glass of whisky every evening and to report back if i succeeded… well, kind off ;-)

So, the first two evenings i felt that something was missing to finally “close” the day, at day three i got the tumblers back from the attic and - i know it sounds totally childish - started to drink icetea out of them. Its nearly the same “ritual”, but without alcohol. So, the habit is still there, but i substituted the alcohol - at least for now - with something much more healthy. I personally count this as somewhat of a win.

If you think your consumption is detrimental to you but find that you can’t stop yourself from doing it, that’s the textbook definition of addiction

Yep, you are right and that is also the point that bothers me… to make a “break” from this…“habit” is my personal test if i am really addicted or if this is just some form of irritating trait. Can i stay away from alcohol over the next evenings? I hope so. It would be rather irritating if i would discover that i could not manage the “temptation” and my failure so far to break free of that habit was more than personal lazines… THIS would be a strong indicator to quit alcohol for good. But we will see… so far i am sitting at my workstation with a mug of hot chocolate, so far a worthy substitute.

Well, its not that i aspire to get completely “abstinent” (is there a more modern word? I am no native speaker), but to reduce the consumption to more healthy ways (like a glass once a month or two months or so). On the side of the “paraphenilia”… well, the tumblers and so on are family heirlooms and >100 years old, would be a shame to lose them.

What helped me early on was to make it harder to drink. What I might do in your place:

Thank you for the advice… i have moved everything into a cupboard in the attic, so while plunging on to the couch after the days work is done its not only four steps to the showcase in the living room, but two floors of stairs, perhaps enough to think about if i REALLY want to give into that “temptation”.

Hi,

well… my personal goal for this week is to break out of an annoying little habit that formed over the last couple of years decade: I finish every day with a glass of whisky. Its not that i cannot stop after this glass or that i am drunk after this… its just that one glass, but every single day. As i am turning 40 this year i wanted to break this habit and reduce my consumption, but there comes the little nagging thing that bothers me:

Even if i made the goal in the morning to skip this day, i somehow find myself in the evening sitting there with ice clicking in my tumbler.

So, why am i write this up here? Well, perhaps to just put a bit of personal pressure on me to stop this habit now for good ;-)