Literally the same way with ham radio… We have three purposes, in order of importance: Emergency and disaster services, talking about our radio equipment, and talking about the weather (sometimes in great detail). See also: farmer Joe in Arkansas got his kidney removed, ed in Tennessee finally fixed his motorcycle, and the Smith Brothers went to Hawaii to make a Morse contact with Japan.
There’s a few people keeping the practice alive, like Global Penfriends and etc. I don’t know how many choose to use snail mail for it, but I know of people who for various reason enjoy physical correspondence. Probably most pen pals are using email these days – although that’s getting a little archaic now, too!
I have elderly relatives an ocean away from me and they absolutely refuse to text, so we talk via email. It’s kind of like having a pen pal, sort of.
Yeah mtg really burns your walletif you’re trying to keep up with any sort of competitive scene. But you’d be surprised how much money Chess-obsessed people can spend
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Gem faceting… I have boxes full of stones and equipment, have watched countless videos, built my own (very shitty machine) but never pulled the trigger on an actual faceting machine…
Also astrophotography…
Ffs I have caviar taste in hobbies and at best a cheap steak income…
I used to sell books back in the day in a super hippie crunchy counter culture town.
One day this guy came in we lovingly described as “a little bit fried”… Heavy drug use left him just a little crispy around the edges.
But he was making an effort, he had on a suit and tie that was maybe 20 years out of date. A GoodWill find probably.
“Hey man, is there a book that can help me fix a hole in my resume?”
“Well… it kinda depends on how big a hole you’re talking about and what you were doing…”
. . .
“I TOOK TEN YEARS OFF TO FOLLOW THE DEAD!!! 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘”
“You know, in any OTHER town that could work against you… in THIS town… you could put that ON your resume and have people go ‘DUDE! WHAT SHOWS DID YOU SEE???’”
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