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Tell me about yourself! (self.Blind)
submitted by lawnmowerparades
Hi guys! I'm both sighted and new here, so, in short, I know less than Jon Snow. I was wondering if I could get to know some of the people on this sub. Please, I'm interested in anything you want to say, and I only want to hear what you want to tell me. We don't have to talk about blindness and sightedness if you don't want. Who are you? What are your hobbies? Having a good day? What's your favorite memory?
I'm all ears!
Edit: I'll start! I'm 19, sighted, and living in Michigan with my fiancée. I'm between jobs right now, but I'm in the interview process for a drug and alcohol testing facility. I haven't had a good hobby in years, but I'm rediscovering reading and I've recently discovered worldbuilding and conlanging. I'm having a lovely day with my father at the farmers' market, and I can't help but smile any time I think about the night before my 8th grade graduation. That was the first time I played Pit.
I'm all ears!
Edit: I'll start! I'm 19, sighted, and living in Michigan with my fiancée. I'm between jobs right now, but I'm in the interview process for a drug and alcohol testing facility. I haven't had a good hobby in years, but I'm rediscovering reading and I've recently discovered worldbuilding and conlanging. I'm having a lovely day with my father at the farmers' market, and I can't help but smile any time I think about the night before my 8th grade graduation. That was the first time I played Pit.
Elystriel 5 points 6y ago
Hi there. I'm new here as well. I am 40, and am a sighted doctoral student, researching the public school mathematics experiences of students who are blind and visually impaired. (Coincidentally, if you have a story to share regarding your experience with math in public schools, I'd love to chat with you.) I'm also in the process of working on my braille transcription certification.
My hobbies are tabletop gaming, making all sorts of music, and crocheting stuffed animals. My day today has been very busy. Many of the math and statistics courses I tutor are having tests next week, so my appointment calendar is very full. My favorite memory is the moment I realized that I had solved a 20-year open problem in graph theory. I can't even begin to describe the feeling of being the first person to understand something like that.
My hobbies are tabletop gaming, making all sorts of music, and crocheting stuffed animals. My day today has been very busy. Many of the math and statistics courses I tutor are having tests next week, so my appointment calendar is very full. My favorite memory is the moment I realized that I had solved a 20-year open problem in graph theory. I can't even begin to describe the feeling of being the first person to understand something like that.
lawnmowerparades [OP] 2 points 6y ago
I'd love to tell you about my math education! Also, I have a lot of questions about Braille.
Which games do you play? What music do you find yourself working on most? How do you like crochet? I got into knitting a few years back, but when my first project got stollen while I was halfway through, I just kinda stopped and didn't pick it back up again. I'd like to try my hand at something like that in the future.
Could you summarize the nature of your problem? Im intrigued.
Which games do you play? What music do you find yourself working on most? How do you like crochet? I got into knitting a few years back, but when my first project got stollen while I was halfway through, I just kinda stopped and didn't pick it back up again. I'd like to try my hand at something like that in the future.
Could you summarize the nature of your problem? Im intrigued.
fastfinge 4 points 6y ago
Conlanging impresses and baffles me in equal measure. As someone who is absolutely crap at learning languages, the idea that over 200 world languages isn't enough for some people is rather odd to me. I mean, I'll never be fluent in anything but English, and if 200 world languages I'll never speak doesn't make me feel outclassed already, people are busy creating more languages! Can't we all just pick one?
What types of reading have you discovered? Growing up, I was a huge science fiction and fantasy fan. These days, though, I've mostly moved to reading nonfiction books. I think it's because I read so much SF growing up that I can smell the tropes in many books from miles away, and reading just isn't any fun when you've predicted the ending in chapter 2. Also, when I do read fiction, it tends to be fanfiction. Largely as an escape from reality, though; these days the world is crappy enough that I want happy, non-challenging stories. It's pretty much a given that Harry Potter fanfic isn't going to contain nuclear war, zombies, or any of the other downers published science fiction is so prone to these days. I know the world is going to hell...I don't want to read/listen to/consume media about just how bad it's going to get.
Anyway...about me. I'm 28, born blind, and am involved with a bitcoin startup. My best memory is probably a night I spent in university with a best friend, where we stayed up all night, drank too much beer, talked about nothing important, and watched corner gas. That feeling of not having any responsibilities the next day, and just living with another person in the moment, and enjoying companionship and just chilling isn't one I manage to capture that often. There's always something that needs doing tomorrow, something else that I feel like I should be doing right now, and two or three other things that want the rest of my attention.
I lived in Toronto for 26 years, and then moved to Ottawa two years ago. I'm still getting used to it!
Good luck with the job! I really don't know anything about that field; is it an entry level thing, or something you trained for? What're your goals? Is this just a job to pay the bills, or are you hoping to work in testing/labs as a career?
Also, just wondering, what makes you interested in talking to blind people in particular? I mean, who wouldn't want to; we're all awesome, obviously! LOL.
What types of reading have you discovered? Growing up, I was a huge science fiction and fantasy fan. These days, though, I've mostly moved to reading nonfiction books. I think it's because I read so much SF growing up that I can smell the tropes in many books from miles away, and reading just isn't any fun when you've predicted the ending in chapter 2. Also, when I do read fiction, it tends to be fanfiction. Largely as an escape from reality, though; these days the world is crappy enough that I want happy, non-challenging stories. It's pretty much a given that Harry Potter fanfic isn't going to contain nuclear war, zombies, or any of the other downers published science fiction is so prone to these days. I know the world is going to hell...I don't want to read/listen to/consume media about just how bad it's going to get.
Anyway...about me. I'm 28, born blind, and am involved with a bitcoin startup. My best memory is probably a night I spent in university with a best friend, where we stayed up all night, drank too much beer, talked about nothing important, and watched corner gas. That feeling of not having any responsibilities the next day, and just living with another person in the moment, and enjoying companionship and just chilling isn't one I manage to capture that often. There's always something that needs doing tomorrow, something else that I feel like I should be doing right now, and two or three other things that want the rest of my attention.
I lived in Toronto for 26 years, and then moved to Ottawa two years ago. I'm still getting used to it!
Good luck with the job! I really don't know anything about that field; is it an entry level thing, or something you trained for? What're your goals? Is this just a job to pay the bills, or are you hoping to work in testing/labs as a career?
Also, just wondering, what makes you interested in talking to blind people in particular? I mean, who wouldn't want to; we're all awesome, obviously! LOL.
lawnmowerparades [OP] 2 points 6y ago
Conlanging is certainly impressive. I'm pretty bad at it, but I'm still working on my first project. I'm not really concerned with the number of natural languages, since it's not like I'd be learning any more of them if I wasn't making my own. I find it's more about finding novel ways of making the brain work, constructing great meaning out of little bits in ways that my English-speaking brain has to train and maybe break a little in order to do. Existing languages do this as well, and I like studying those, but not really learning to speak them. There's just so much investment. I don't even plan on becoming fluent in my own languages. Most of my interest in conlanging comes from a worldbuilding perspective. I use the structure of made up languages to learn about made up cultures and made up people. If I do it right, it's not only fun, but I also get to learn about real languages, cultures, and people. We'll see though. I'm just getting started.
When I was a kid, I basically read whatever was around. Naturally, I read a lot of paperbacks about white boys and their dogs, which I later realized is kind of annoying since it's pretty hard to find books for 8-12 year olds about literally anything else. I especially liked the Artemis Fowl series and The Supernaturalist, both by Eoin Colfer, and also A Dog Called Kitty, which is, of course, about a white boy and his dog. Lately I've been reading a lot of science fantasy and hard fantasy. The Terry Brooks books are awesome, and that's actually what got me into worldbuilding. I've only ever read intentionally shitty fanfic, so I'd be curious to see what you read.
As far as the job, it's entry-level. I spent the last year working as a software engineer through my university, but I can't go back for financial reasons, so I lost the job. I need something to do for the next few years just to get on my feet. Mostly, it's just going into the bathroom with a bunch of dudes to make sure they don't cheat on their urine tests. There's some lab stuff and some data entry and database management involved too, but I'd mostly be doing monitoring, at least for the time being. I don't really know what I want to do after this. I don't expect to be doing it for much longer than 5 years or so. I had originally planned to assist a local mortician, but that fell through, however, I still find the death industry fascinating, so I might go into crime scene clean up. I know a guy who could help me get started.
And then, the last question, why am I here? Well, I'm interested in talking to interesting people, and, while most people are interesting enough, the blond community is especially cool. I haven't been here long, but it's been nice. I also feel like the blind community doesn't get the kind of outside attention that it deserves. The only other community I know of like this is the deaf community and, at least in my area, it's very well advertised and pretty well integrated. Maybe that's because our society is more sight-reliant than sound-reliant. Maybe the deaf community has had good advocacy in the past. Maybe that's just my perception and that's not true at all. Either way, I feel like the blind community is under appreciated. So yeah. There's that. Also, Daredevil is awesome and he's blind.
When I was a kid, I basically read whatever was around. Naturally, I read a lot of paperbacks about white boys and their dogs, which I later realized is kind of annoying since it's pretty hard to find books for 8-12 year olds about literally anything else. I especially liked the Artemis Fowl series and The Supernaturalist, both by Eoin Colfer, and also A Dog Called Kitty, which is, of course, about a white boy and his dog. Lately I've been reading a lot of science fantasy and hard fantasy. The Terry Brooks books are awesome, and that's actually what got me into worldbuilding. I've only ever read intentionally shitty fanfic, so I'd be curious to see what you read.
As far as the job, it's entry-level. I spent the last year working as a software engineer through my university, but I can't go back for financial reasons, so I lost the job. I need something to do for the next few years just to get on my feet. Mostly, it's just going into the bathroom with a bunch of dudes to make sure they don't cheat on their urine tests. There's some lab stuff and some data entry and database management involved too, but I'd mostly be doing monitoring, at least for the time being. I don't really know what I want to do after this. I don't expect to be doing it for much longer than 5 years or so. I had originally planned to assist a local mortician, but that fell through, however, I still find the death industry fascinating, so I might go into crime scene clean up. I know a guy who could help me get started.
And then, the last question, why am I here? Well, I'm interested in talking to interesting people, and, while most people are interesting enough, the blond community is especially cool. I haven't been here long, but it's been nice. I also feel like the blind community doesn't get the kind of outside attention that it deserves. The only other community I know of like this is the deaf community and, at least in my area, it's very well advertised and pretty well integrated. Maybe that's because our society is more sight-reliant than sound-reliant. Maybe the deaf community has had good advocacy in the past. Maybe that's just my perception and that's not true at all. Either way, I feel like the blind community is under appreciated. So yeah. There's that. Also, Daredevil is awesome and he's blind.
fastfinge 4 points 6y ago
> the blond community is especially cool.
There's a blond joke here, and I'm not going to make it. No need to thank me! :-)
> The only other community I know of like this is the deaf community and, at least in my area, it's very well advertised and pretty well integrated.
Well, I'm not sure that the two communities can be compared effectively. Deaf people have challenges communicating that blind people just don't experience. Sure, 80% of in-person communication is via body language. But never the less, blind people don't need an interpreter just to order fast food, for example. I don't know much about deaf people, admittedly. But I feel like the blind community exists, online at least, as a thing that blind people can choose to join or ignore. Whereas the deaf community is a thing that all deaf people are more or less forced into, just by the nature of the way they communicate. Braille is not a different language; it's just another way of representing the letters A through Z. But sign language is basically a community speaking another language, and thus it develops another culture. I don't think we really have a "blind culture" to that extent.
> I still find the death industry fascinating,
Yikes! Not me! If there are bodies, count me right out! I can't even deal with it when my cat brings me a dead mouse.
> going into the bathroom with a bunch of dudes
And I thought my 3 years in freelance web development and tech support were bad. Sure, I got called by angry people at midnight who yelled at me, but at least I never had to watch anyone pissing.
Seriously though, good luck with your career. I did the university thing, and it didn't help me at all. If it encourages you, I'm happily building a career in something that has nothing to do with what I went to uni for.
> The Terry Brooks books are awesome,
We're going to have to disagree there. Terry Brooks is one of those fantasy authors who writes the same book over and over and over again, just changes the names of things and sometimes the order of events. Nothing wrong with that, but it's definitely hack fantasy.
> I've only ever read intentionally shitty fanfic, so I'd be curious to see what you read.
Oh, I love shitty fanfic, too! My immortal can make me laugh to this day.
What are your primary fandoms? The thing about fanfic is a fanfic based on something you've never read/watched will usually make absolutely no sense. I'll recommend you some of the fics I liked best, but I have really strange taste. The bit in the sidebar that calls me a "fanfic fanatic" is telling the absolute truth! Odds are you won't enjoy any of these:
* $1: You need to be familiar with either Dan Vs. or My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic to enjoy this. You also need enough time to read something that's almost a million words of thinly justified cartoonish violence. It manages to make me laugh out loud at least once per chapter though, so it's earned it's place on my list of most loved fics.
* $1: this was the fanfic that got me interested in Firefly. If you're familiar with Harry Potter, you might enjoy this; knowing things about Firefly isn't a requirement.
* $1: It's a Discworld and Johnny Maxwell trilogy crossover. If neither of those names mean anything to you, neither will this.
* $1: It's a Twilight fanfic. NO, COME BACK! It's also a good story. It's almost good enough that I can forgive the Twilight novels for existing. But...not quite. Even if you haven't read Twilight, you can still enjoy this.
* $1: A Dead Like Me and Buffy The Vampire Slayer crossover. You need to love Dead Like Me, Buffy is optional. It's also the best Dead Like Me fic ever written; it's the only one where I can hear the main characters voice in my head as I'm reading.
OK, that's probably enough to start. My entire list of favourite fics actually contains 79 stories. But the sample above represents every fandom I read.
There's a blond joke here, and I'm not going to make it. No need to thank me! :-)
> The only other community I know of like this is the deaf community and, at least in my area, it's very well advertised and pretty well integrated.
Well, I'm not sure that the two communities can be compared effectively. Deaf people have challenges communicating that blind people just don't experience. Sure, 80% of in-person communication is via body language. But never the less, blind people don't need an interpreter just to order fast food, for example. I don't know much about deaf people, admittedly. But I feel like the blind community exists, online at least, as a thing that blind people can choose to join or ignore. Whereas the deaf community is a thing that all deaf people are more or less forced into, just by the nature of the way they communicate. Braille is not a different language; it's just another way of representing the letters A through Z. But sign language is basically a community speaking another language, and thus it develops another culture. I don't think we really have a "blind culture" to that extent.
> I still find the death industry fascinating,
Yikes! Not me! If there are bodies, count me right out! I can't even deal with it when my cat brings me a dead mouse.
> going into the bathroom with a bunch of dudes
And I thought my 3 years in freelance web development and tech support were bad. Sure, I got called by angry people at midnight who yelled at me, but at least I never had to watch anyone pissing.
Seriously though, good luck with your career. I did the university thing, and it didn't help me at all. If it encourages you, I'm happily building a career in something that has nothing to do with what I went to uni for.
> The Terry Brooks books are awesome,
We're going to have to disagree there. Terry Brooks is one of those fantasy authors who writes the same book over and over and over again, just changes the names of things and sometimes the order of events. Nothing wrong with that, but it's definitely hack fantasy.
> I've only ever read intentionally shitty fanfic, so I'd be curious to see what you read.
Oh, I love shitty fanfic, too! My immortal can make me laugh to this day.
What are your primary fandoms? The thing about fanfic is a fanfic based on something you've never read/watched will usually make absolutely no sense. I'll recommend you some of the fics I liked best, but I have really strange taste. The bit in the sidebar that calls me a "fanfic fanatic" is telling the absolute truth! Odds are you won't enjoy any of these:
* $1: You need to be familiar with either Dan Vs. or My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic to enjoy this. You also need enough time to read something that's almost a million words of thinly justified cartoonish violence. It manages to make me laugh out loud at least once per chapter though, so it's earned it's place on my list of most loved fics.
* $1: this was the fanfic that got me interested in Firefly. If you're familiar with Harry Potter, you might enjoy this; knowing things about Firefly isn't a requirement.
* $1: It's a Discworld and Johnny Maxwell trilogy crossover. If neither of those names mean anything to you, neither will this.
* $1: It's a Twilight fanfic. NO, COME BACK! It's also a good story. It's almost good enough that I can forgive the Twilight novels for existing. But...not quite. Even if you haven't read Twilight, you can still enjoy this.
* $1: A Dead Like Me and Buffy The Vampire Slayer crossover. You need to love Dead Like Me, Buffy is optional. It's also the best Dead Like Me fic ever written; it's the only one where I can hear the main characters voice in my head as I'm reading.
OK, that's probably enough to start. My entire list of favourite fics actually contains 79 stories. But the sample above represents every fandom I read.
claudettemonet 3 points 6y ago
I work in the death industry. It smells metallic, a little like decay, and a lot like a mix of hospital and a high school bio lab.
I was an English teacher abroad, then I was a high school teacher, then I was going to be a mortician, then I found out I am going blind. I am currently, in a holding pattern while trying to figure out the next step. However, in the mean time, while I figure all that out, I still work in the funeral home where I was thinking of becoming a mortician.
My job helps me put my life in perspective every day, but idk if I would want to do all the real morticianing blind. The smell would be so much more prominent if I was blind. So, I stopped going to mortician school. I'm focusing more on my art and having babies. That baby timeline has definitely moved up as a result of my diagnosis.. so there is a bright side :)
Apart from that, I speak 2 and a bit real languages :-) I speak English, Mandarin and a bit of Spanish.. This is a consequence of the whole teaching/living abroad thing, which my husband and I did for 4 years.
I agree with fastfinge on the community thing and the difference in disability creating differences in the formation or lack of formation of a community. Also, having an actual language does so much to create that sense of unique identity and community. The blind community is more like a community of hackers or something, primarily online, and based on participation and engagement.
Also, on world building... do you mean for games or novels? I like both. My brother and I spend our freetime building minecraft worlds complete with different civilizations, quests and an over arching storyline for my nephew and his friends. It is like taking table top d&d and making it in digital Lego format online, for 10 year olds. I think the truth is my brother and I just never stopped liking Legos and minecraft is virtual Lego.
Also on world building...ASOIAF is great! His world building is epic. I like the idea that it is actually misunderstood scifi... a post interegnum world. Do you ever listen to Preston Jacobs?
This is not in any coherent order... there were too many topics that had already been thrown out there in this discussion, and I am too tired to order my thoughts on them more coherently.
Peace!
I was an English teacher abroad, then I was a high school teacher, then I was going to be a mortician, then I found out I am going blind. I am currently, in a holding pattern while trying to figure out the next step. However, in the mean time, while I figure all that out, I still work in the funeral home where I was thinking of becoming a mortician.
My job helps me put my life in perspective every day, but idk if I would want to do all the real morticianing blind. The smell would be so much more prominent if I was blind. So, I stopped going to mortician school. I'm focusing more on my art and having babies. That baby timeline has definitely moved up as a result of my diagnosis.. so there is a bright side :)
Apart from that, I speak 2 and a bit real languages :-) I speak English, Mandarin and a bit of Spanish.. This is a consequence of the whole teaching/living abroad thing, which my husband and I did for 4 years.
I agree with fastfinge on the community thing and the difference in disability creating differences in the formation or lack of formation of a community. Also, having an actual language does so much to create that sense of unique identity and community. The blind community is more like a community of hackers or something, primarily online, and based on participation and engagement.
Also, on world building... do you mean for games or novels? I like both. My brother and I spend our freetime building minecraft worlds complete with different civilizations, quests and an over arching storyline for my nephew and his friends. It is like taking table top d&d and making it in digital Lego format online, for 10 year olds. I think the truth is my brother and I just never stopped liking Legos and minecraft is virtual Lego.
Also on world building...ASOIAF is great! His world building is epic. I like the idea that it is actually misunderstood scifi... a post interegnum world. Do you ever listen to Preston Jacobs?
This is not in any coherent order... there were too many topics that had already been thrown out there in this discussion, and I am too tired to order my thoughts on them more coherently.
Peace!
djquik1 2 points 6y ago
Im 16, love hiphop, pop, dance/edm/trap. Also a wanna be dj
gelema5 2 points 6y ago
This is an awesome idea for a post :) I'm also 19 and sighted. I'm a second year college student, and at some point last year I became interested in blind studies. This year, it's branched out into disability studies in general and I've been reading some books by people who write about about history or theories of disability. Congrats on the engagement and living together!
CatchTheseWords 2 points 6y ago
I'm Holly, 22 and a blind student living in the UK.
I study Spanish and am in my second year at university.
I love to travel, I am somewhat well-travelled but I still haven't visited every continent sadly.
I study Spanish and am in my second year at university.
I love to travel, I am somewhat well-travelled but I still haven't visited every continent sadly.
TempestheDragon 2 points 6y ago
Love reading the juicey commenta here. :)
Anyway, I'm 17, visually impaired, (blind left eye and legally blind right eye) and live with my mom in Canada, British Columbia. Nice plants and lots of fresh air here. No job yet because I'm in grade 11. I've been taking singing lessons for 2.5 years and drumming lessons for 1 year. I don't use sheet music. Even if
I had perfect sight, it's too boring to learn. Drummers don't really need sheet music, right? Right..? Improvement is shakey, but it's all a process anyway. I try to practice an hour a day for each but orocrastinate way too much then hate myself for it. In fact, procrastinating right now as I write this. *sigh*
I like to play Dungeons and Dragons on the weekends, too.
Anyway, I'm 17, visually impaired, (blind left eye and legally blind right eye) and live with my mom in Canada, British Columbia. Nice plants and lots of fresh air here. No job yet because I'm in grade 11. I've been taking singing lessons for 2.5 years and drumming lessons for 1 year. I don't use sheet music. Even if
I had perfect sight, it's too boring to learn. Drummers don't really need sheet music, right? Right..? Improvement is shakey, but it's all a process anyway. I try to practice an hour a day for each but orocrastinate way too much then hate myself for it. In fact, procrastinating right now as I write this. *sigh*
I like to play Dungeons and Dragons on the weekends, too.
Jsevrior 2 points 6y ago
Interesting post. Sure, I'll give it a go.
My name is Jonathon. I do… Well, even I don't really know that. I am completely blind with double prosthetics and have been since I was about two years old. I recently returned to my former home state of Texas after having spent three years backpacking across North and South America. That, and the advocacy work that I did with children regarding the ability to travel independently as a blind person in non-traditional fashions, has been my focus for quite some time. I am now taking a bit of time to pursue an interest in biochemistry, at which point I intend to resume my travels, most likely in Northern Africa, while interacting with the open source chemistry scenen. Not too sure on that time frame though; I imagine those plans will come to fruition within the next year or so.
Other than that… I'm not really sure. I read prolifically, performed stand-up comedy to make money while travelling, love gambling and worked as a brewer and distiller for awhile, so have a deep and probably unhealthy love of alcohol.
My favourite memory is probably finding myself deep within the Manitoba wilderness. Rather, I was at the 53rd latitude along one of the back roads, and there was absolutely nothing but Prairie and lakeland in every direction for miles and miles. It was turning to winter, and you could feel it in the wind and smell it in the grasses and trees. It was one of the most breathtaking natural experiences of my life. There are probably better memories, but a fair few of them did not make it to the end of that particular memory's night of partying. So who knows what they are. :-)
My name is Jonathon. I do… Well, even I don't really know that. I am completely blind with double prosthetics and have been since I was about two years old. I recently returned to my former home state of Texas after having spent three years backpacking across North and South America. That, and the advocacy work that I did with children regarding the ability to travel independently as a blind person in non-traditional fashions, has been my focus for quite some time. I am now taking a bit of time to pursue an interest in biochemistry, at which point I intend to resume my travels, most likely in Northern Africa, while interacting with the open source chemistry scenen. Not too sure on that time frame though; I imagine those plans will come to fruition within the next year or so.
Other than that… I'm not really sure. I read prolifically, performed stand-up comedy to make money while travelling, love gambling and worked as a brewer and distiller for awhile, so have a deep and probably unhealthy love of alcohol.
My favourite memory is probably finding myself deep within the Manitoba wilderness. Rather, I was at the 53rd latitude along one of the back roads, and there was absolutely nothing but Prairie and lakeland in every direction for miles and miles. It was turning to winter, and you could feel it in the wind and smell it in the grasses and trees. It was one of the most breathtaking natural experiences of my life. There are probably better memories, but a fair few of them did not make it to the end of that particular memory's night of partying. So who knows what they are. :-)
lawnmowerparades [OP] 1 points 6y ago
I love the travel work! That's certifiably bad ass. Also, biochem is no easy thing! How long have you wanted to do that and what do you want to use it for?
It seems like you just found yourself in a place where money was tight, so you just jumped on stage and started telling bits? I've known comics to struggle for years to get funny. How did you get started in comedy? Would you ever consider working the mic long term?
Thanks for telling your story. It's awesome how empowered and outdoorsy you are. I'm waiting for the HBO docudrama inspired by your life.
It seems like you just found yourself in a place where money was tight, so you just jumped on stage and started telling bits? I've known comics to struggle for years to get funny. How did you get started in comedy? Would you ever consider working the mic long term?
Thanks for telling your story. It's awesome how empowered and outdoorsy you are. I'm waiting for the HBO docudrama inspired by your life.
Jsevrior 2 points 6y ago
:) travelling is a passion to be sure.
I mostly want to work towards the biohacking Community, with an emphasis upon genetic modification and things like gene drives. We'll see though, that often requires lab work.
Yeah, I essentially just did it for fun while very drunk one night, and discovered I liked it. And definitely not good enough to do it long term. It basically just provided small bonuses to my income.
I hope not. That's a lot of things to tell kids not to do. :-)
I mostly want to work towards the biohacking Community, with an emphasis upon genetic modification and things like gene drives. We'll see though, that often requires lab work.
Yeah, I essentially just did it for fun while very drunk one night, and discovered I liked it. And definitely not good enough to do it long term. It basically just provided small bonuses to my income.
I hope not. That's a lot of things to tell kids not to do. :-)
Vaelian 1 points 6y ago
I'm 34, was born legally blind, and have gone completely blind two and a half years ago.
Before going blind my hobbies were coding and playing video-games. Looking in retrospective I'd rather have spent more time coding and learning and less time playing video-games, but for some reason I convinced myself that my vision was permanent. Nowadays I spend my time either sleeping or waiting until it's time to sleep again.
My favorite memories are from the three months that I spent at my sister's house learning computer graphics and writing little demo programs to show off my newly found knowledge. I had the dream of founding a video-games studio and was writing my own cross-platform game engine before going blind.
Before going blind my hobbies were coding and playing video-games. Looking in retrospective I'd rather have spent more time coding and learning and less time playing video-games, but for some reason I convinced myself that my vision was permanent. Nowadays I spend my time either sleeping or waiting until it's time to sleep again.
My favorite memories are from the three months that I spent at my sister's house learning computer graphics and writing little demo programs to show off my newly found knowledge. I had the dream of founding a video-games studio and was writing my own cross-platform game engine before going blind.
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