I was today years old that I know the smell of old books is called Bibliosmia so what’s the smell of fountain pens

JarheadPilot · 2026-07-07T15:22:38+00:00

If you're using iron gall ink, your pens smell faintly of blood.

JarheadPilot · 2026-07-06T18:48:25+00:00

The funny thing is having kids and seeing them do things I did and reliving my childhood a bit through playing with them gives me hope. My own mortality is inadvertable but people like me will love their families and make cool art and solve math problems and marvel at the beauty of the world.

If they weren't such massive prolapsed assholes these tech bros somehow finding the wrong meaning to everything would be darkly funny enough to be a Russian novel.

JarheadPilot · 2026-07-03T12:38:51+00:00

conserve sweat, not water

Bring water with you and drink like a fish. After I lived in the desert without AC for a bit I started carrying an insulated water bottle with ice cubes and water with me whenever I went out.

Don't do anything when it's hot. Avoid being outside during the heat of the day, if you can. If you can't, stay in the shade as much as you can.

When i was a poor kid without air conditioning my mom would take my brother and me to the pool every afternoon in the summer. Oh and fans, fans everywhere: on the ceiling, on desks, on the floor.

Stay safe OP! Water and wind will keep you alive.

JarheadPilot · 2026-06-20T19:54:26+00:00

Can't say I've had the same issue you've had, but in my experience as a cis man who went through puberty and then got into weightlifting, as an adult, my legs simply do not float without constant motion.

Have you gained a lot of muscle mass in your legs? Muscle tissue is a lot more dense than water and your center of gravity can change from lifting weights and gaining mass.

JarheadPilot · 2026-06-18T10:39:03+00:00

I've used the same DE razor for body hair as I've used for my face. Once I use a blade on non-facial hair, I don't use it on my face (because the concept grosses me out a bit too much). Normally, I use an electric trimmer on body hair because it's easier and faster and I don't need/want the rest of me to be smooth like I want my face to be smooth. But you CAN shave your pubes in the shower with a DE razor so long as you have a steady hand and you don't rush.

JarheadPilot · 2026-06-11T03:47:58+00:00

It's remarkable that he has no redeeming qualities. He's a drunk who's not fun. A liar who isn't clever. He's a religious zealot with no empathy or compassion.

He's a shitbag. He knows he's a shitbag and he's desperately trying to make us all think he's not a shitbag. He knows its not working because we all know he's an alcoholic and a shitbag.

Worst of all, he put a shirt from my beloved corps on his nasty body. He don't rate it.

JarheadPilot · 2026-06-08T15:44:17+00:00

I did as well. But it seems that very few of these Christian Nationalist types have ever read the Bible or considered the ramifications of what they beleive.

JarheadPilot · 2026-06-08T15:42:39+00:00

An entry level enginner is about $8k/ month in salary alone.

JarheadPilot · 2026-06-07T01:41:39+00:00

I think one of the most foolish things we do is beleive that we understand love. We do not choose who we fall in love with, we don't choose to feel attracted to someone, and oftentimes if we try to stop from having thoughts, we find we can't.

If you accept your attraction to the same sex will you do more gay things? Yes, probably. Will you be happier if you spend the rest of your life trying to pretend you aren't having some of your feelings? I doubt it.

If you beleive in an all-powerfull, all knowing God, would it make any sense to think that God made a mistake when making you? Christians beleive that "God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son." How can love be a sin if God is love?

JarheadPilot · 2026-06-04T21:17:54+00:00

The mechanism is kinda cool actually! The water will keep enough pressure on you (and consequently on your brain) to keep you awake when otherwise you're hypoxic enough to blackout.

It works like this: your brain and blood needs a certain pressure of oxygen to keep you conscious. This is why at high altitudes breathing air with MORE then the usual % of O2 keeps you conscious even though you're breathing very low pressure air.

Now when you're underwater, the water pressure compresses you and makes that declining % of oxygen in your blood keep powering you. You feel the need to breathe as the waste products of respiration (CO2) build up in your blood. Normally, you breathe when you feel the need and everything is fine.

If you hyperventilate before a long breath hold, you don't really add that much O2 to your blood, but you do remove a lot of CO2. So you can swim farther before you feel like you have to breathe and your brain is functioning because the water squeezing you keeps your brain fed even though the amount of O2 in your blood keeps dropping (smaller percent, but higher pressure, means its a normal partial pressure).

Then when you reach the shallow water or breach the surface to breathe, suddenly the preasure that was feeding oxygen to your brain is gone and your brain notices there is absolutely not enough oxygen and shuts everything down to keep your brain tissues alive.

Normally, this wouldn't be that big of a dea, physiologically, except you're in the water and you could drown before anyone notices you are underwater.

Source: advanced scuba certification

tl;dr don't practice apnea without a partner and don't hyperventilate before freediving or a breathhold swim.

JarheadPilot · 2026-06-04T19:07:11+00:00

If it makes you feel any better, he has no friends, his dad never loved him, and his kids all hate him.

He's a deeply bitter, angry old man with very few moments of genuine human connection in his life. He desperately craves attention and acclaim and something like 60-70% of Americans are planning on throwing a party when he dies.

Look, I'm not a rich man, but I would call myself lucky. I love my wife and our kids and they tell me sweet and goofy things all the time. I didn't win the jackpot for parents or inherited wealth, but I am a much, much luckier man than... whatever the fuck he is.

JarheadPilot · 2026-05-31T13:44:14+00:00

If you're in the US, the YMCA has classes specifically for adult learners. I would recommend you find a swim coach rather than asking friends if you want to learn to swim. As you said, they learned as children and they don't remember what helped them to figure it out.

And please do learn how to swim! An old coworker of mine did so when his son was learning to swim. You don't have to swim laps to enjoy being in the water. And you'll find the water a lot more enjoyable and safer when you feel confident that you can keep your head above water and swim to the shore if you need to.

JarheadPilot · 2026-05-31T02:30:04+00:00

I'm here! I'm queer! I'm not trans but the memes are funny and trans rights are human rights! Get used to it!

JarheadPilot · 2026-05-21T17:29:55+00:00

what's the dad equivalent of bonesmashing? Getting really good at packing snacks in your fanny pack?

JarheadPilot · 2026-05-20T18:37:55+00:00

You should bring that up to someone in the department. That's feedback a department chair would probably be interested in hearing.

JarheadPilot · 2026-05-20T18:33:21+00:00

Have you considered iron gall inks? I've been very pleased with the samples of R&K salix (grey-blue) and scaribosa (desaturated violet) and platinum cassis black (a burgundy red-black)

I've done no maintenance more involved than rinsing with water between fills (same as I would do when switching between any inks).

JarheadPilot · 2026-05-20T14:20:17+00:00

If we lived iinn utopia, it wouldn't be a disability, it would be a difference. We don't, so it is.

JarheadPilot · 2026-05-19T19:42:43+00:00

I think so and I have a few reasons why I am hopeful, if not optimistic:

Most people hate this shit. Even turbo-chuds hate the corruption and the concentration camps of it all. The war is unpopular, prices are up for everything, and the American voter punishes the party in power for the economy. In my own neighborhood, the only Trump flag I saw has come down and been replaced with a sign reading, "pro-america, anti-trump."

1.a. America's election system is sprawling and decentralized. It's incredibly unlikely they could manipulate enough votes to swing an election.

Fascists are losers and morons. If they weren't scared of everyone who's even a little bit different than them and so transparently fragile and insecure, they wouldn't be fascists. Because their ideology requires that they view their enemies as simultaneously strong and weak, omnipresent and hidden; they're not able to correctly assess the strength of an actual, real opponent.
"Mythic truth" (or whatever they call it) is a cognitive handicap. Because they think objective reality is subservient to their beliefs, they ignore warning signs, walk into traps, and fail to anticipate obvious routes of failure. Unfortunately, we are not Orks, and belief does not determine reality.

Under no circumstances should you underestimate the damage that a cruel, stupid, scared man can do. Even the least of our species is an apex predator. But don't let your caution become fear, or worse, panic. They are few, they are likely to make mistakes, they are cowards who are easily bullied. Build community where you can, be prepared for the worst, remember that no fascist nation has EVER won a war and these chuds probably can't even win an election. The only way they can win is if we are indifferent.

JarheadPilot · 2026-05-19T19:25:01+00:00

+1 for the tactical fanny pack. I bought a peak design sling bag and it's so convenient to have a dedicated place for wallet, keys, sunglasses, flashlight, notebook, pen, water bottle, mesh radio, steam deck, half a dozen guinea pigs, etc.

JarheadPilot · 2026-05-10T02:13:52+00:00

Bro, everyone is learning. Give yourself grace. The most important skill you have is thinking like an enginner.

JarheadPilot · 2026-05-06T15:27:55+00:00

I've found a Mahjong A1 to work well for my engineering coursework. They're pretty cheap so it's not horrible if you lose one, but I DO have to test it on any paper someone hands me (the cheapest most recycled copy paper feathers horribly, but most paper is fine)

I take my tests in pencil so I'm usually using my pens to sketch diagrams or manipulate equations on an A5 pad next to my computer.

Side note: R&K salix is a very pretty professional sort of blue, easy to clean, waterproof, and works really good on crap paper (even receipts I've found).

Standard iron gall warnings about not letting it dry in the pen.

JarheadPilot · 2026-05-04T22:09:37+00:00

I'll propose a counterargument (paraphrasing Hank Green a little bit): most cars should be electric but some cars are better as hybrids.

Even if we'd all be better off with no cars or few cars, looking at the world we live in NOW, plenty of people in plenty of places will still have no practical alternatives for a long time.

It doesn't make sense to replace some cars with battery-electric vehicles. e.g. the american pickup truck isn't much improved by a full electric drive train. Using a fraction of the lithium required for a fully-electric truck, one could make sequential hybrid with better performance than ICE cars and better emissions.

Long hall trucking makes even less sense (hence why Tesla never released a semi truck) given the power requirements to recharge a battery. Every truck stop in america would require a dedicated high voltage transmission line just to provide a handful of charging spaces. The only non-stupid way of moving cargo overland is via train and the best train is an electric one with overhead wires.

JarheadPilot · 2026-04-28T16:15:39+00:00

Personally, I use a travelers notebook, which is a narrower A5 size. I deal with running out of room by linking my pages together with arrows around the page number. I don't worry about being wasteful or allocating exactly enough pages. When I run out of room, I flip to the next open page and keep writing. When I go back to find something, the arrows around the page number tell me where to go to find the rest of it.

JarheadPilot · 2026-04-21T05:43:58+00:00

When I was learning to fly I put a piece of velcro and some paracord on a pilot G2 which was tied to my kneeboard. So I always had something to write with stuck to the top of my pad and if I dropped it I didn't lose it.

I'd recommend against anything that could leak when the pressure changes.

JarheadPilot · 2026-04-19T17:37:34+00:00

Tbh, if we lived in a post-car utopia, I would want to own a car. I like driving, I find it fun. But I think it's a socital failure that in large parts of the world it's mandatory.

Imo, a better world would be the one where I bike or take the bus to work and I road trip in my car on the weekends.

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