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Cake day: June 21st, 2023

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  • Latest hobby is photography, I had a camera for Christmas after not having a camera with interchangeable lenses in decades. I like that it gets me out the house as like nature/landscape/train photography.

    Long standing hobbies are mechanical keyboards and coffee, espresso and pour over.

    Keyboards I have really slowed down my purchases to just two or three new keyboards each year.

    Coffee I have not purchased anything other than beans in a long time, but I still want to upgrade my espresso machine (marax) at some point.



  • Most amateurs have signifcantly more time they can cut by training better and harder than spending thousands or tens of thousands on better components.

    Its a very small list of amateurs who train to the same level as a pro who has a good chance of winning any of the big competitions.

    Stick that under 30s pro on a cheap bike geared the same as a midlife crisis amater 45 year old gear head on an ultra expensive bike and guess who wins?

    If you want to buy wins enter an amateur car racing event, those are mostly reflective of money spent given a base level of talent and training (which costs far more money per hour than training for cycling).





  • I was diagnosed as dyslexic as a young child, I spent a lot of my childhood reading, and it definitely helped my ability to read. So much so I was ahead of my reading age by the time I hit secondary school.

    However it did next to nothing for my auditory processing or my ability to phonetically spell out words. I did have significant coaching around this during school age but nothing ever really stuck with it.

    I still cannot reliably phonetically spell out words today, many decades later. Pretty much every word I can spell I have had to brute force learn the hard way, letter by letter with a lot of repetition.

    I have had the same problem with handwriting, its completely illegible unless I take my time and draw my letters the same way that people draw pictures, fine for forms but way too slow for notes. Thankfully I can type everything like that now.