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Cake day: April 4th, 2025

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  • I had a good friend who was a clown. I drove a car small enough to call a clown car so I drove for a lot of gigs after we met. He would “clown up” and go to public events(concerts, festivals, karaoke, any excuse really) and be silly and most importantly have fun. He networked and had a few yearly gigs. Some paid but he was in it for the clowning and the cash was just a bonus. Don’t quit your day job and all.

    As a person he was great company. Friends with everyone and woke up every day looking to have a good time. One yearly gig we did was a three hours away neighborhood wide garage sale. It was one of the few that paid. After a day of making balloon animals he stood in a chalk circle and I handed kids water balloons and kept the tip jar mostly empty. We made well over $100 each those days.

    His backstory is a little more fucked up than the average clown I would guess. His primary networking was AA meetings and back in the 80s he was an alcoholic crackhead living in Detroit sleeping in dumpsters. The dude knew how to hustle. He told me the story of how his daughter had to come up with some cash and the chalk circle and water balloons show(?) outside bars solved her money issues overnight.

    He had no formal training so don’t get hung up on some expensive day camp. If you have it in you you can be a clown. Getting a degree from a clown college is just a vanity project. A real clown, at least to me, hung out with Joe C watching wrestling and smoking weed while Kid Rock and the rest of the gang partied after shows. Be larger than life and you can be whatever you want to be.


  • Knowledge Fight

    Trailer Park Boys Park After Dark

    The Daily Zeitgeist

    Stuff They Don’t Want You To Know

    Last Podcast on the Left

    True Crime Garage

    Behind the Bastards

    It Could Happen Here

    The Best of Coast to Coast AM

    StarTalk Radio

    Really? no, Really?

    Stone Cold Steve Austin has one too if wrasslin’ is your thing. He did an amazing episode about a woodpecker I can’t seem to find anymore. Everything else is just talking shop about the biz.

    These are all still active podcasts as far as I can tell. The first four are probably my favorite of the bunch. I’ve listened to podcasts for close to 40 hours a week some weeks. Sometimes I get the urge to look up what the people I’ve listened to for hundreds of hours look like. Just to see how close my imagination is to reality. Never acted on it but it is an itch I want to scratch.







  • I’m fingerprint banned from reddit now. I worked tooth and nail making thousands of frivolous reports via browser after the API thing. If I’m not mistaken mods used 3rd party apps to help with moderation. I figured I’d make being king of shit mountain a little more of a headache since those tools were out too.

    I’ll peek in on reddit every once in a while. I clearly don’t have an account there so the front page garbage is what shows up. It feels like the internet version of walking down a coast with a beached whale carcass rotting on it. Once majestic, the bloated carrion now serves as a feeding ground for vultures and bottom feeders. The smell is awful. The beach volleyball area is clearly full of bots who have no sense of smell. The beachgoers there for a day at the beach either don’t realize or don’t care that their beach is littered with poop all over in the sand.





  • I appreciate your advice and will do that as soon as new job insurance kicks in but I am a sweat machine doing a physical job in increasing heat. Its a birth defect I was born with that had pediatricians warning my parents it could be a sign of cystic fibrosis. I am in OK condition currently and far past the CF terminal years. Back in gradeschool I would have salt on my cheeks after recess from dried sweat.

    If I step out of my fan zone at work I’ll be sweating in under half a minute and beads will roll off my face two minutes later. I’ve been wearing my winter coat at work in the heat to remain comfortable while in the fans. I am not always standing in my fans.

    I also started back on nicotine vapes. Everybody at work smokes cigarettes and I’d rather have firsthand smoke as opposed to secondhand smoke. When in Rome and all. It sucks and isn’t the wisest life choice but that’s the breaks.

    Thanks again for your concern. If I didn’t have a litany of ways to lose weight going on I’d be more worried. I’m not doing anything I don’t have to do to lose it. I was over 200lbs from being a couch potato for a year. Now I’m only a potato 2 days a week and I bought a new chair.


  • I drink as much water as I can handle at work so I can go take a leak and have my phone out and not risk getting in trouble with the boss. I don’t eat breakfast or lunch. Since starting work 3 months ago I lost 30lbs. I’ll eat anything for dinner and I haven’t been trying to lose any weight.

    I will add that moving to first shift after over a decade of second shift has been hard on my system and I’ve vomited in the mornings before work more often than not. It’s like clockwork. I have learned that I’ve got a window of about 4 hours after work during which I can eat. Sticking to that keeps morning nausea at bay thanks to an empty stomach in the morning.

    Anyways water is great. The other guy at work brings cases of bottled water which I try to understand. The water quality here is quite good and a majority of my water at work comes out of the tap. I have no complains and I wouldn’t spend a dime more than I am now for what I get in addition to microplastics.





  • I haven’t played with a switch very much but I think the joysticks are worse than what they made for GameCube. I am under the impression that switch has what amounts to a directional pad underneath a joystick. Like that Gameboy peripheral with the lights, magnifier, and joystick that clips over the D pad. The joystick is there on the switch but output is only an analog 8 directions.

    Pardon me if I’m wrong here but what I see with Nintendo is them making bad hardware. I know it’s made for kids but even they deserve better. The switch version of any big AAA game that got a switch port is generally really really dumbed down and looks and runs like garbage. I can’t wait to hear about Cyberpunk 2077 looking and running like garbage again. 5 years after it came out.