A quality backpack is a worthwhile investment. A good one will last for years, and well designed compartments really do make a difference in how much stuff you can carry. My experience with cheap ones is that they barely last a year before they start falling apart.
I might have to buy a backpack. I've been carrying a messenger bag and I think the unbalanced load is giving me issues.
The Backpack Council got to him.
I'm the pocket of Big Backpack.
4 is missing an "in".
Stupid keyboard.
For many years it seemed like it was weird that I carried a backpack -- actually like I was trying to pretend I was still a student. I ride the bus with many students of The University so this is especially salient. Along with my hair's stubborn refusal to fall out or change color, this seemed proof of some kind of latent Peter Pan syndrome.
I just keep getting older, but it no longer seems so weird to me. Has there been an actual change in fashion, or is this all in my head?
There's been an actual change in fashion. There's a thing now where fancy backpacks are marketed to upscale-ish adults.
Men's fashion hasn't changed since the 90s.
8: How exciting! I can add this to the list of times when I anticipated fashion trends. Not that I'm claiming to be the influencer that started the fashion, but it is a possibility.
You anticipated that time that no one wanted to be gray and bald, too!
I think that maybe a $90 piece of luggage doesn't count as hedonism.
Unless you use like a new one every week.
Dollars are not the SI unit for hedonism.
Don't worry about hedonism (heebonism?), Heebie. All the REI laptop backpacks (except ones on clearance sale) are as expensive or more expensive than yours!
14: Of course not, that's rat orgasms.
7: I was prepared to say there's been no change, it's just that academia is generally unfashionable, but 8 would know better than me.
I see adults with backpacks on the bus now and then, but (a) there are a lot of government jobs in this city and I kind of assume that they are generally unfashionable too, and (b) traveling by bus makes backpacks more practical than traveling by a personal car, which nudges people a bit further away from caring about fashion.
14: I guess not, if people are using their backpacks for sexual purposes.
I just made a similar purchase for a biking jacket. I had been riding with various swag fleeces or shells that I've acquired for free over the years, or using a compact raincoat I purchased in Ottawa in 1992, but I decided it was worth the money for a real one.
Backpack, though, I'm still using a $20 Costco model.
I look like a kid if I wear a back pack. I'm on team messenger bag and probably hopelessly out of date.
I just bought a used raincoat for hiking. It has Pitt zips.
Of course, now that I have a jacket with pit zips, I probably won't feel happy unless I get shirts with pit zips.
At least I'm not having to buy a convertible before I can feel the wind in my hair.
I don't even own a share of Amazon.
I switched back to a backpack from a messenger bag for back-related reasons, a few years ago. Kind of the definition of middle age, preferring health over fashion? Switching was also a good opportunity to stop carrying around so much cruft. Enough so that I should come up with an excuse to switch back for a while. To the OP's niceness point, or maybe just sturdiness, it is the same backpack I used in college, though I got the zippers repaired once.
On the actual hedonic treadmill, we invested in a nice new set of winter sheets. They're nice enough to make me actually want to climb into bed, which is different and weird.
"It has Pitt zips."
ZIP UP THAT FLY. IT WILL NOT BE WANTED THESE TEN YEARS.
28.
Unlike jam bands, emoji, or choosing just the right sneakers for your mood today.
I need a new satchel bag; I have an old canvas and leather one where the canvas has been coming apart for a few years, and it's horribly ratty looking. Any suggestions? Must be able to fit a Macbook.
I'm a briefcase guy myself. I also usually wear a jacket and tie to the office although almost no one else here does.. I'm into cosplay.
Assuming you do something at the office besides standing there.
Here's a bit of old person hedonism-- I look at siggraph talks occasionally, had considered that kind of work as a possible line of work many years back.
The resulting work is beautiful, interesting both visually and intellectually-- but they're rarely getting at interesting physics, just drawing pretty pictures or in some cases doing apalling defense/privacy eroding work. Maybe not the best minds of my generation, but good ones. A strange feeling to look at it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4zyZzCedj4&t=58s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc5P2bvfl44&t=59s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dg_73m4e_Js&list=PLHFiqDkNCp1jCfkT5pyTLGThEeK2Ld47v&index=30
31. I got my kid a timbuk2 bag, he likes it and it's well-made.
Re: reverse hedonic treadmill. I have been wanting to get a Vitamix but have a hard time justifying the cost. Does anyone have one? If yes, do you still enjoy it?
Re: reverse hedonic treadmill. I have been wanting to get a Vitamix but have a hard time justifying the cost. Does anyone have one? If yes, do you still enjoy it?
If that's something that sets your CV to music, I think it could be useful for job seekers.
I bought a v expensive bag many years ago (north of a dozen) from Elvis & kresse and it looks fantastic after so so so much use, plus they repaired the zipper for v little money this past year & were lovely to deal with. Expensive but super recommend.
A dozen years ago or a dozen hundred dollars?
Years. Also was a v unusual design they made only briefly, & i love it so.
38: We have a blender from India that is derangedly effective, i don't know how it differs but it laughs at amer blenders. Thing is like a jet rocket.
40: Choosing John Cage to set your CV to music could derail your career. If I was ambitious I would hire Lin Manuel Miranda.
The best come from Chicago, the blendy city.
I'm now getting lots of ads on FB for backpacks.
I'm still getting the same ads as before, merino wool layers, REI, and pears.
First you get a vitamix, then you need a thermamix, and before you know it you're writing clueless opinion pieces for major media outlets.
For obvious reasons, these Canada trousers are following me around the internet. I'd buy them except that until they restock sizes, I'd need to either lose ten pounds or gain like fifty to fit them.
OT: Are they going to burn that poor dog on GHWB's pyre?
37: yes and yes. Dramatically better than its (much) cheaper predecessors.
52: Nah, it's Bush 43 who will have a service dog specially trained to be the first to piss on his grave.
(Too soon?)
53 Too late. They should have trained the dog to piss on his leg.
My extremely old person hedonism is drinking tea. I got about a hundred and fifty bucks worth for my birthday and I feel like that chick at the beginning of Trainspotting when I drink it. It is, in fact, better than any meat injection.
Somebody I know came back from China with some kind of very old and expensive tea that is like the anti-Lipton. I can't remember the name.
Probably make a really good Arnold Palmer.
50. Ha! They're following me too! As are pants from Filson, Woolrich, Bean , etc. My wool hunting-pants are getting too worn, so I'm looking at replacements.
But none are 4 pocket and charcoal gray.
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60: I TOLD YOU PEOPLE there was a societal double standard about nipple photos!
There's also a societal double standard about heeding warnings.
You fuck one knight, you're a queen. But just try for two....
And when the shit hits who gets locked up in a convent? You guessed it.
64: ...you have a great chance of controlling the center.
Actually I don't think King Arthur was a knight. (Not the Mallory version anyway.) He was in London as his foster-brother Sir Kay's squire when he drew the sword from the stone and became king immediately. He was never dubbed a knight.
He was knighted before he was crowned, I thought.
WHO CARES IF HE WAS A FUCKING KNIGHT! HE GETS THE GODDAMN ISLAND HOUSE AND I GET THE NUNS! FUCKING MEN.
Let me be the first to suggest situational homosexuality.
On checking the source 68 is correct - apologies.
Hardly worth it they're just dried up gristle.
I was hoping there would be more recommendations. I still use a Timbuk2 messenger bag with an SFbags sleeve for my laptop. I dont know any lawyers who still use briefcases,
72: I've never read the source, but I read John Steinbeck's reworking not so long ago.
tumblr: female-presenting nipples -- not hooray!
I don't even HAVE nipples.
You can borrow mine. I've never used them.
Sure, that'd be great. Do you have my address?
Yes. Now I just need a knife and a Ziploc bag.
I've got a butter knife and some dry ice I can mail you, if that would be helpful. Put some cheese cloth down so they don't stick to the dry ice.
Doesn't stuff stick to cheese cloth?
Maybe I won't mail mine to Heebie then.
44: what's the brand of this blender? Was it purchased in India or somewhere in North America?
Another bestseller in the works! Stuck and Useless: The Tragedy of Male Nipples
Had I given suck, and known
How tender 'twas to love the babe that milked me:
I mightn't, while proud Macduff was away,
Have pluck'd his children from his empty hall,
And dash'd their brains out.
I'm so bad at uptalking. You do have two, right?
Moby was very forthright, just on their own initiative.
Not only are my nipples noon-functional, but I've totally forgotten how make a bottle.
44: would be delighted to provide more recs if you could give an idea of desired functionality, examples of preferred aesthetics, and price range.
88: will check when home, purchased in u.s.
How can you mock my nipples as the stock market crashes?
The time has come
To say fair's fair
OT minor question: My son is practicing to deliver a speech to try out for his school's forensic team. The speech, picked a few weeks ago, is by Neil deGrasse Tyson. Should I do something?
There are a lot of parenting failures in that comment.
Not sure if 104 is a comment on parenting or NdeGT's alleged behavior.
"Forensics is about investigating. Like, is there a Pluto under your dress strap? Let me check, and by 'let me' I mean I'm going to check without asking for permission. Trust me, I'm an astrophysicist!"
You know who else gave really impressive speeches?
It could be worse.
Yes. If he does well and enjoys it, he'll likely go to law school someday.
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