Reuben Surrender

Honestly folks, if my brokerage allow me to short stocks, I would so short TSLA (Tesla). It's almost like free money.

On another note - Xfer just released Serum 2 virtual instrument, a standard plugin used by almost all EDM producers. It has been 11 years since version 1 was released.

Had to drop off my car to the repair shop. For some reason the passenger side foot well is filled with water. I think the door is leaking from the rain, but regardless, I have a mobile swimming pool in my car now.

"we are focused on the real economy", yeah - we are in a recession...

shee.. even with best intentions, getting up at 6am, trying to get things started - all i did was clear my emails and work with Wix tech support on an issue in response to an email, and it's already 11am and I haven't achieve anything.

Personally speaking, the only win in this situation is that everyone continues to keep buying and going into debt, while you - the sane, self-aware person that you are - live within your means and start saving. It's the "greater fool" theory of economics.

YouTube video by How Money Works How America Got So Good At Buying Sh*t

I love this channel call "How Money Works". Here's something you might be interested in watching, it's only 15 mins. TLDR - Americans love buying shit they can't afford, but it would be scarier if they stop buying.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aw7a...

I'm at the "jet lag is hell" stage of the journey. Traveling east has always been horrendous to adjust to, esp as I get older.

Woke up this morning and smelled the BTC carnage.

One final image before I'm done with Taiwan - rare pix of me with cherry blossoms at Yang Ming Shan. The bloom isn't as full this year since we had a terrible cold snap that killed all the flowers. Cherry blossoms are pretty fragile like that.

And hopefully not getting run over by the train

At Dihua Street, one of the oldest streets in Taipei.

Watching people releasing their hopes and dreams into the sky @ Shihfen, Taiwan

A Studio Ghibli moment. At Nanzhuang Maioli Taiwan

Saw the Tau-yuan Lantern Festival. Here are since of the lanterns.

Farm to table is so overrated. You have to climb up the mountain, pull the vegetable out of the ground, strip it, clean it, cook it...

Adventuring in the middle of nowhere. Ximaopu Suspension Bridge.

Adventuring in the middle of nowhere. Beipu Citian Temple.

Adventures in the middle of nowhere. The Great Standing Maitreya Buddha is situated in Beipu, Taiwan. The pure bronze statue is the tallest bronze statue of a Buddha in the whole world.

'My So-Called Life' at 30: How a short-lived show became a ’90s pop culture touchstone Thirty years after its short but memorable run on ABC, it is widely regarded as a miraculous one-season wonder that captures the era’s competing strains of irony and earnestness.

Re-watching My So-Called Life because it's their 30th Anniversary. Yeah, I'm a sucker for that TV series.
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Non paywall version -
archive.is/X3dWY

Opinion | Welcome to the era of Trump Trad This president’s aesthetic combines classical architecture and cartoonish virility with WWE alternative reality.

Introducing - Trump Trad. In case you want the Trump aesthetic in your life
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/int...

In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.
- Camus

Not sure why I find this fascinating but they tag imprinted all the eggs for tracking purposes (I assume)

somewhere along the way, Ryan Gosling became the face of vaporware, which kinda surprised me really.

Visited my deceased relatives on the first day of the Chinese Lunar New Year. @ Kong Meng San Kark See Buddhist Monastery, Singapore

a penguin is blowing a horn next to a snake that says 2025 year of the snake on the bottom ALT: a penguin is blowing a horn next to a snake that says 2025 year of the snake on the bottom

Happy Lunar New Year Everyone!

It's insane how much effort I make to avoid political news. Every time I stumble upon political news, I get anxious, worried and is pessimistic about the future. So for my mental health, I avoid it as much as possible. Show me cat videos! Or in my case - guinea pig vids of them squeaking!

I'm so there! Oh wait...

As Another Logan Square Apartment Building Goes Luxury, Longtime Renters Fight To Stay New building owners plan to rehab each apartment and raise rents to bring them up to market value for the neighborhood, but tenants worry the common practice will displace more working-class families.

If this weren't so sad, the image in this article could have been from The Onion.
blockclubchicago.org/2025/01/23/a...