1. chiefgeek Dec 25, 2025 parent

   Gave me a new appreciation for the scale of the investment /bet that is being made on transportation of the future.
2. chiefgeek Nov 29, 2025 parent

   I’ve sat with 5MeO-DMT over a dozen times, always in the form of Bufo flake from the toad. It has been one of the most transformational and healing modality I’ve encountered. I have a low dose Jaguar (synthetic) pen that I use occasionally.

   I’ve also used NN from a pen. It gave me a strange body load and intense kaleidoscopic visuals.

3. chiefgeek Sep 17, 2025 parent

   This. I work as a professional photographer. Nikon shooter. I only ever import directly from my camera in very rare cases. And when I have a problem importing directly from card to Lightroom, first step is to copy everything to the hard drive and import from there.
4. chiefgeek Jun 16, 2025 parent

   Yes. Came here to to say this has been done before. It was too much for the Establishment to stomach. Ram Dass, Tim Leary’s associate (Richard Alpert at the time) talks about it here - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ram-dass-here-and-now/...
5. chiefgeek May 26, 2025 parent

   Unless you are Brian “Hairlacher” formerly of the Chicago Bears and shilling hair replacement on Chicago area billboards for years now.
6. chiefgeek May 8, 2025 parent

   Sonus Fabers are amazing. Get a pair of Grand Pianos or even Concertos. They need some power though. 6 ohm
7. chiefgeek May 5, 2025 parent

   Totally agree! I started with the GIANT Legos in the mid 70's then we got the smaller ones. I used to spend hours with about eight different shapes trying to make something interesting. Sort of like the modern Froebel blocks.
8. chiefgeek May 5, 2025 parent

   I've been almost completely off social media (and candy - potentially a larger problem in the past for me) for a month other than to check once or twice a day to see if somebody has messaged me (rarely) and it really has been rather profound to experience life with the lack of regular hits of dopamine. It is such a subtle "drug". I've still been on a computer and surfing the web but not nearly the same amount of time as I was spending on my phone and social. I sat a ten day Vipassana course in 2016 - a profound experience that was at least an order of magnitude more impactful with regard to being off of "screens". There's definitely a cost that accompanies any perceived benefits of social media interaction. As in all things - balance!
9. chiefgeek Jun 4, 2024 parent

   Just curious if you've tried psychedelics?
10. chiefgeek Apr 27, 2024 parent

    Happened to me while on holiday in Costa Rica. Was able to reset PW this morning, thank goodness.
11. chiefgeek Apr 5, 2024 parent

    But it is nowhere near as profitable as the 35mm film system was.
12. chiefgeek Mar 8, 2024 parent

    I’ll leave this here.

    http://insanebraintrain.blogspot.com/2011/07/massive-dosing-...

13. chiefgeek Jan 16, 2024 parent

    Thank you! I've looked for these books on and off over the years but couldn't remember any titles, just some of the plots. Loved these as a boy in the late 70s!
14. chiefgeek Jan 10, 2024 parent

    This cracks me up. We're still looking for the "Magic Pill".
15. chiefgeek Jan 6, 2024 parent

    They are doing some interesting stuff over at https://scienceandnonduality.com
16. chiefgeek Jun 17, 2023 parent

    I find this utility very useful for working with windows on the Mac.

    https://www.lightpillar.com/mosaic.html

17. chiefgeek May 4, 2023 parent

    I have a bunch (15+) Hue bulbs and can't stand using them with HomeKit. I can't figure out how to get the color temp to be consistent. It seems to just do whatever it wants.
18. chiefgeek Jan 20, 2023 parent

    Interesting. This was mid 90's.
19. chiefgeek Jan 20, 2023 parent

    I've run my own successful database consulting business, been a sales rep, development engineer and product manager for a Fortune 50 company, ran a startup that I left, was VP ops for another startup, digital sales support rep, digital photo lab owner and photographer. I'm 53. Anything is possible. Agree with suggestions to hire a career coach. Mine was great when I went through a terrible patch in my early 40s. DM me for his contact.
20. chiefgeek Jan 19, 2023 parent

    Yes, I did not particularly enjoy the two and a half years with that division!
21. chiefgeek Jan 19, 2023 parent

    I filled out DoD form for TS clearance years ago and answered honestly that I had smoked weed and done coke in college. That's what my boss said to do. He said if they caught you in a lie you were finished because that meant you could be blackmailed.

    EDIT to add: Ironically he had gotten in trouble for phone phreaking as a teenager.

22. chiefgeek Jan 5, 2023 parent

    Yes! So many Estes "D" engines up in smoke. Loved the mini-mushroom clouds!
23. chiefgeek Oct 30, 2022 parent

    Sorry to hear about the suffering you endure with your condition. Have you investigated any somatic work? How about psychedelics? Over the past 10+ years, I've gotten myself off a 200mg dose of Zoloft, along with Wellbutrin and Adderall through a combination of the above. I've seen others heal similarly.
24. chiefgeek Sep 28, 2022 parent

    What do you call the person who came in last in the class in medical school? Doctor.
25. chiefgeek Aug 1, 2022 parent

    I do not. I had a psychiatrist years ago who insisted I was ADHD. I was also on heavy dose of Zoloft. He prescribed Adderall XR. Took it for months. Did nothing. Years later, I've done a ton of transformative work on myself. I realized it (the supposed condition) was mostly about me not wanting to do what was in front of me. I've tried taking both standard Adderall and XR in the recent past and it does absolutely zero.

    Possibly related - my PCP gave me a genetic test and it showed that I have some gene configuration that essentially makes me immune to the effects of caffeine. Which makes sense, because I have to drink a boatload to feel anything from it.

26. chiefgeek May 17, 2022 parent

    Use Camo and your iPhone FTW!
27. chiefgeek Apr 1, 2022 parent

    Great article. My first car was a 1966 MG Midget (with a '71 engine). Gas gauge never worked. Voltage regulator broke at some point so it had to be push started (no hills in Florida made this more fun) and the first winter I had it I kept waking up with a headache. Finally traced it to a cracked exhaust manifold. First time I had driven around with the top up and I was getting gassed by CO. When the transmission failed, my buddy and I pulled the engine with an aluminum extension ladder (you couldn't just drop the tranny due to a frame piece across the trans tunnel). Had the tranny rebuilt, put it back together (with an engine lift) and it turned out they hadn't done it correctly. Rinse repeat....
28. chiefgeek Feb 22, 2022 parent

    I was never a big news guy to begin with. Haven't had cable since 2009. For awhile I read the NYT and for a shorter while, Talking Points Memo. I've quit reading most world news and especially political news. His point that

    >“Being concerned” makes us feel like we’re doing something when we’re not<

    is what really drove it home for me. I can do more to improve the world if I am in a good mood and improving myself than I can if I walk around angry that X is happening somewhere.

    CNN and Fox are so far apart they practically touch.

29. chiefgeek Feb 2, 2022 parent

    I've been using Fastmail for years. Love it. Rarely a problem. Support always responds within 24 hrs if there is. Ended up having to move my calendars back to Google Workspace so they could sync with Acuity (SquareSpace) Scheduling. Really annoying that they can't provide hooks into other standard CalDAV services.

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