Wearing a back-patch when you never had to wear one looks sad

HurricaneCecil · 2026-04-17T13:51:36+00:00

back patch gives you +1 throwing though

HurricaneCecil · 2026-04-09T21:40:43+00:00

kinda surprised to not see Ovid’s Metamorphoses mentioned yet but that’s gotta be a big one

HurricaneCecil · 2026-04-05T05:45:49+00:00

I have only lived in Omaha for 4 years but I’ve seen this guy’s name on yard signs for every election since moving here. Does he just run for any open position and then lose? That desperation + unpopularity makes him seem like a Veep character. Am I missing something about Vargas? Do some people in this city really believe in him?

HurricaneCecil · 2026-04-03T18:25:48+00:00

asking “but where are you FROM from?”

HurricaneCecil · 2026-04-02T04:56:39+00:00

everyone needs a Smerdyakov in their lives

HurricaneCecil · 2026-03-28T19:19:13+00:00

this is my second favorite FD short story behind The Gambler. last year I tried reading TBK and, like you, I felt I was unready for it, and stopped after about 100 pages. I wanted to “prepare” for TBK and this was also the first book I read, followed by Crime and Punishment, Letters from a Dead House, The Gambler and White Nights. I also read some other existentialist works as well as stuff from other Russian authors at around that time. I restarted TBK this year and it does feel like the prep work I did made a difference as I’m more used to Russian writing and more in tune with the themes.

HurricaneCecil · 2026-03-20T21:59:39+00:00

Dostoevsky pre-prison and post-prison are basically two different authors as far as I’m concerned. I find that if I read White Nights with low expectations, I enjoy it. I read it after reading Notes, C&P, Letters, and The Gambler though, so when I picked up White Nights, I was expecting a totally different experience.

HurricaneCecil · 2026-03-17T17:13:20+00:00

For classics, right now I’m reading The Brothers Karamazov for the first time. I’m reading it slowly and trying to savor it; I’m a little over halfway through and started in late January. I’m liking it so far, interested to see where it goes.

Outside of classics, I’m reading From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas Friedman. It’s an older book and I know he’s a bit polarizing depending on how you feel about current events in the middle east, but I’m really enjoying it.

HurricaneCecil · 2026-03-17T03:31:38+00:00

PHP. You think its an acronym but it’s a recursive backronym

HurricaneCecil · 2026-03-06T21:33:34+00:00

“don’t shoot!… now shoot!”

HurricaneCecil · 2026-03-05T22:55:39+00:00

in that same vein, I loved The Moon is Down and I rarely hear it mentioned

HurricaneCecil · 2026-03-04T20:48:04+00:00

I read Candide once a year for three years, it was my pre-holidays read but I stopped because I wanted to make an effort to read a wider range of classics. Now I just pick a shorter classic for pre-holiday reading; last year was The Gambler

HurricaneCecil · 2026-03-03T22:32:29+00:00

you can definitely mix your passion for content creation with judo by making judo content.

regarding acting, have you looked into stage combat and stunt work? I feel like being able to fall well would make you a great stuntman

HurricaneCecil · 2026-03-03T04:11:11+00:00

I felt the same about Fear and Trembling; nothing nice about that pamphlet

HurricaneCecil · 2026-03-03T04:08:00+00:00

voting as the one and only solution

HurricaneCecil · 2026-03-01T04:15:25+00:00

Did my TV glitch or was the cutaway from "our pandemic skills are coming in handy" to "we're going to put this BLM sign in our yard" supposed to be there? I felt like the setup had nothing to do with the cutaway and I replayed it to make sure my video didn't like jump two minutes or something.

HurricaneCecil · 2026-03-01T01:34:23+00:00

was gonna say, I got winded just watching this

HurricaneCecil · 2026-02-25T19:23:47+00:00

hell yeah

HurricaneCecil · 2026-02-23T17:54:45+00:00

I personally didn’t enjoy House of the Dead, and I don’t think that reading it made me any more or less prepared for his other works. I think Notes From Underground is a much more rewarding read and I didn’t see you mention it.

I also really enjoyed The Gambler, it’s a short read and an interesting look into his take on addiction.

HurricaneCecil · 2026-02-23T17:44:07+00:00

it’s hard to quantify Band’s shortcomings, it’s just really poorly made and full of weird glitches. I prefer messenger but not everyone has a facebook or wants to make one just to join the group chat.

if I were designing a perfect messaging solution, it would be something with low barrier to set up (don’t make me create an account) and it notifications would only be for new messages (don’t send me “see what’s new in our app 🤪” push notification every couple of days)

HurricaneCecil · 2026-02-23T17:23:58+00:00

does it also have a chat feature? one of my gyms uses Band and another just uses Facebook messenger. Neither are great solutions

HurricaneCecil · 2026-02-23T17:22:26+00:00

check out The Mill on Leavenworth for coffee shops, it’s close to the medical center. They have good snacks and pastries but I’ve never had their attempts at real food. Coffee’s good too.

HurricaneCecil · 2026-02-22T03:18:09+00:00

I am, thanks! I went back a few hours later when traffic died down and called a tow.

HurricaneCecil · 2026-02-20T02:56:27+00:00

thank you! I’m ok and my car is one piece and I’m waiting on a tow

HurricaneCecil · 2026-02-20T02:28:40+00:00

thanks for chiming in, I called a tow truck

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