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Swung by my company's IT desk today, because they offered me a laptop upgrade after I submitted a ticket complaining about a weird issue I was having (several times a day my taskbar would disappear, and, when it reappeared, my file explorer and MS Teams would close).
Anyway, I got to the IT guy's desk and he had fighter jets printed out on paper and hung up around his desk. He had miniature models of Star Wars fighter-craft that hadn't even appeared in the movies, only videogames (he had to tell me this). He had 1-foot-tall models of anime characters I didn't recognize, and he complained about how Intel refused to compete with AMD and Nvidia in some consumer market (I think GPU). He bragged about his several-terabyte storage system that would take 23 hours or something to back up. I heard something about how Nvidia's latest GPUs don't have the hardware to process quite everything and they fill the gaps with AI.
I was at this man's desk for about an hour, listening to the things that interest him, and halfway through I felt this...rush of affection towards him. It wasn't unlike being emotionally drunk. He was talking about all the things I read so much about online, that no one I know irl ever talks or cares about. He was here, before me! There's a nonzero chance he's on this website, reading this.
I noticed he had no wedding band on his left ringfinger. I'd bet his apartment is a bachelor pad with even more impressive models of stuff than what he brought to work. Idk man. I have a kid now, and all my social life comes through my church. I don't run into too many guys like this anymore, and I was very impressed by how unabashed he was in his interests, or how undaunted he was by the fact that I could barely keep up with what he was talking about.
I'll be back at his desk on Monday to get my BIOS updated.
Congrats on finding a member of your tribe! Rare that it happens for most people in life, including myself but it’s a great feeling when it happens.
Recently I had an epiphany about one of my younger cousin’s who recently came out of the hospital and is in recovery and awaiting an organ donation, and how close we were with each other growing up. I was reflecting on it today in fact when I was having breakfast this morning at McDonald’s by myself. He and I couldn’t be more different people. Politics-wise, interests (few things in common), attitudes; and I had the realization that if people like me got everything they wanted out of how I think the world should behave, people like him wouldn’t exist and the world would be all the worse of a place because of it. I think similar moments can happen to other people on occasion, but I can recall far too many examples of people in middle age who have had life-changing things happen to them, experienced profound loss and still haven’t learned a single thing about what’s actually important in life; and will continually vilify you for your own decency.
For all the enemies people think they have, it’s they themselves that tend to be their own worst enemies. Most people never succeed in getting over themselves and their own ego and expand their perception of the world beyond most of the bullshit they concern themselves with.
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