Category: Random

Share a story about the furthest you’ve ever traveled from home

~ Veselin ~ 7 Comments
Daily writing prompt
Share a story about the furthest you’ve ever traveled from home.
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By distance, it has to be Kauai. It was a company meetup, one of the most epic I’ve attended. 12.9K km, 24+ hours of travel one-way. Our lead wanted to organize the best meetup ever and did one that’s very difficult to beat. It remained a good lifetime memory.

The sign says that if you swim, you'll be carried away by the currents and there will be nobody to help.

Imagine you have a group of 20 to gather together for a week from all over the world. Where would you go? Turns out that if you optimize for travel time, travel cost, opportunity cost, hotel, food, and convenience, you’ll get a very small list of cities next to the biggest airports on the planet. The group of 20 is likely skewed one way or another. Have more Americans? The top 10 choices will be continental USA or Canada, you end up visiting Montreal or Portland every year. Have more people from the EU? Lisbon, Barcelona, Amsterdam. You’ve got to have some Australians in the group to make Kauai even remotely possible 🙂

However, if we don’t count physical distance but the time and effort it takes to come back home, it has to be the military service.

It’s cool to care

~ Veselin ~ 6 Comments

I walked today alone with my thoughts. I was upset about something and was thinking about ways to resolve the problem. After 30-ish minutes of walking, I saw this reassuring sign. It says “It’s cool to care”.

It is indeed cool to care, but it is not cool to act under the influence of a strong emotion. When a person is in the red, the most productive thing they can do is usually to cool down and get out of the red.

I’m sure the poster wasn’t there to reassure people who care but nevertheless, it helped me get out of the red and move to the orange.

Here’s this generated with an AI duck who doesn’t care.

In case you’ve missed it, the image block now has AI. This duck is the first time I have used it.

Bansko

~ Veselin ~ 2 Comments

Bansko was full of life this weekend. I’ve never seen more people there in the summer in over 20 years of frequent visits.

Prices were adjusted accordingly.

It was nice and rained, unlike everywhere else. Sofia is like a hot brick in comparison.