[NPC] Tony on Nostr: #strytime topic: snail-mail I've been working a lot, machine learning is kinda ...

#strytime topic: snail-mail

I've been working a lot, machine learning is kinda stupid/fun, minus the low grade professors trying to steal my gig - go find your own hustle! it's not my fault you we're busy bullying each other in school while other people worked and learned. I delivered a vlog before week-end - client calls me back today, the experiment is still running. Nice

Anywhoo a few days ago, I woke up late in the afternoon. And a peculiar postcard was lying in the box. The cover shows a cheerful woman in vintage clothing, happily holding a sign saying "depression"..
Oh wait I know who this is...

Some half a lifetime ago I went through a rough patch. It's ok. I traveled, searched, developed comfort-allergy 'ya know - standard issue.

I met a girl at a festival, she wore goofy Harry Potter glasses and an alcohol tolerance that i do not possess. But what really caught my eye, she was using a Nokia, not a Samsung nor eyephone but a Nokia. Impressive.

So I walked up to her and asked "How the heck do you survive without a smartphone?"

"Easy! No notification-stress, no advertisement, no constant search for dopamine and no screaming ego"

I was a little bit dumbstruck, I knew what she was talking about.. I had just finished my own voluntary offline year. But this chick right in front of me, she was the first individual I had met IRL who described that calm and peace - no way i'm telling her that.

Instead I said "So wait, monochrome screen, no internet.. how do you share pictures with friends? Printouts through snail-mail??"

"I have a laptop :)"

We hung out, she's fun, more easy going than me, but that joke turned into reality..
We've been exchanging letters for a couple of years now..

Don't get me wrong, not 💌 really, but something else - I don't think figuring that out is important to either of us.
The latency is horrible and the throughput abyssmal. I think our combined yearly efforts yield two dispatches each.
Oh yeah poststamps are about $4 a mark now. Wierd.

Anywhoo I let the postcard sit on the table for a few days - and just finished writing a reply.

I should be able to seal and send within a month and I hope I give it one last read before I do.

But the point is, snail mail and particularly attachments are really fun:
You can post random things you pick up during travels.
You can draw a qr-code by hand and pray it'll translate, write your reply on the back of a receipt.
You can even draw a picture of ... you have artistic freedom.

The important part is to take your time and do everything as slowly as you possibly can.

This time i'm attaching a mixtape. haha.