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AlmostLive.

A podcast from before podcasting was invented, where real life is stranger than fiction. The stories are as factual as they can be and as truthful as they need to be. First incarnation of the show ran from March 2002-October 2003. Back after a 19 year hiatus. Restarting the episode count because sometimes in life you just have to start over. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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5:08

5 June 2023: What Is A Hacker?

AlmostLive. ·

2023/06/06

Piece originally published in 2600: The Hacker Quarterly's Spring 2023 issue. Please buy a copy. Transcript via Medium.Transcript via Cohost.It took me a long time to come up with the answer to that question that I have to admit I wondered about most of my life. My answer's a little odd, but it's doubtful you expected anything less. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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2:47

2 June 2023: TeamFAFO.

AlmostLive. ·

2023/06/03

So, who or what is #TeamFAFO?A little insight. Transcript via Medium.Transcript via Cohost. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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2:56

1 June 2023: Verbing the Noun

AlmostLive. ·

2023/06/02

A simple mindfulness exercise that can help ground you in the moment. Transcript via Medium.Transcript via Cohost. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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5:23

31 May 2023: Restarting again

AlmostLive. ·

2023/06/01

Transcript on MediumTranscript on CohostThe last six months have been various flavours of unexpected. Here's an update on what I've been doing, what I'm doing next, and where things will go from here.CW: Mentions of abuse and body issues. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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3:17

Breaking patterns

AlmostLive. ·

2023/01/01

transcript linkCW: Mention of addiction without referencing any specific addictionsA short ep for the end of the year.We all have patterns in our lives. Some of them can cause harm. This is a short bit of support for anyone trying to break any of the patterns in their lives that don't help them anymore. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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16:54

A Wake-Up Call.

AlmostLive. ·

2022/12/25

GoFundMe link to help me separate from my abusersTranscript on Cohost Instagram post Mastodon postWell, this is why i haven’t released an episode for a couple weeks. Thanks for your patience.The generic warning here would be that this episode contains content which, while not explicit or offensive, may distress some listeners. Discretion is advised.More formally, this is your content warning regarding domestic violence, domestic abuse, childhood trauma, and PTSD. Fortunately none of the discussed

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7:09

Fact Vs Truth

AlmostLive. ·

2022/12/13

Transcript on cohost.org/Support the show via ko-fi.org/almostlive. Help me pay the cat and feed the bills. There is a very good reason why I sometimes say, "truthful and factual." This show is a factual as it can be and as truthful as it needs to be. Here's a little insight why I say this, and why I am very precise with the language I use. Every word I choose to communicate is, at least to my imperfect undersanding, true. Cover art: Stable Diffusion, prompt: "the cake is a lie" Hosted on Acast

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8:02

The Three Word Exercise

AlmostLive. ·

2022/12/05

Full transcript is at cohost.com/graphickal.Support via ko-fi.com/almostlive. Help me feed the bills and pay the cat. This is a little different from a normal episode. After mentioning this mindfulness exercise on Mastodon, I thought it might be nice to share it and see if it helps anyone else.This was shared by a friend of mine that’s training to be a therapist. I don’t know the provenance of this exercise or if she came up with it herself, but she’s a friend, she offered me this idea in a time of

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13:24

The Hundo.

AlmostLive. ·

2022/11/30

The Hundo is an outgrowth of #BadIdeaSaturday. My original plan was for this to be an intimate, private, offline experience in Alameda last week. Just about everything about this project changed far beyond that plan. And this is the first time I'm mentioning an upcoming Kickstarter in connection with this project which I only started considering about 24 hours before recording this podcast. Please excuse some stumbles in words; the perfect in this case would almost certainly be the enemy of the

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4:32

An Angry Moment

AlmostLive. ·

2022/11/29

There's a tool that I never used to have at my disposal that is helping me get things done, even if I still run out of hours in the day.But like any tool, it's the user that determines its uses.This episode discusses why I didn't have this for a long time, how I intend to use it in the near future, and why I take great care to not abuse this tool.Image from Stable Diffusion. Prompt: "Anger makes the air shake, rage makes the earth quake." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more

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6:48

Shaking Death's Hand

AlmostLive. ·

2022/11/26

I've managed to have a few close calls with death, and this was an incident that happened 16 years ago that haunted me for a long time until someone I didn't expect let me in on a secret. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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5:15

A Letter To Those Who Need It.

AlmostLive. ·

2022/11/23

I've had people reach out to me across social media. (It's one of the reasons I always keep my DMs open.) They come to me with questions and anxieties about issues of identity. I've responded with some version of this letter to them, and I'm sharing it in case anyone needs it.If you know someone who does need this, share this with whomever could use this reassurance. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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7:48

A Coming Out Story.

AlmostLive. ·

2022/11/20

I thought I would share my coming out story here. It's the story of how I came out.. as Canadian. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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4:19

Driving to an island.

AlmostLive. ·

2022/11/17

I remembered a short story about that same trip to SeaTac that I wanted to share. I spoke to a couple Japanese businessmen for a minute, and made them grin when I mentioned I drove to and from Japan a couple days prior. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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4:43

Driver's Licenses

AlmostLive. ·

2022/11/17

At least in North America, driver's licenses are a seeming rite of passage and something one simply has. Consider the default ask for identification in North America is, "Can I see your driver's license?" despite passports, identification cards that don't permit driving, and other such credentials are perfectly valid and legal for those places (eg. age-restricted locations and purchases).Some thoughts about getting one from a perspective not many people have experienced. Hosted on Acast. See

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13:33

#BadIdeaSaturday

AlmostLive. ·

2022/11/14

One of the projects that I'm attempting under the aegis of the return of AlmostLive. is #BadIdeaSaturday.Some of them are silly.Some are audacious.All of them have a reason behind them.Attempted so far, by publish date, are Clam-o-naise™ grilled cheese (successful), #43yr43km (not successful), #50kStories (in progress at release time).Future #BadIdeaSaturday challenges:November 19: #6Games1Deck - an effort to play six different video games I've never played before on my Steam deck (100 minutes play,

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15:42

Goodbye, 1c75a.

AlmostLive. ·

2022/11/11

For a long time on social media I used "1c75a" as a handle or account name. As a hacker, that series of characters looks like hexadecimal, maybe some secret that unlocked part of system or a magic number for a file. Nope. Real reason was much more banal and more astonishing than any successful hack of a computer. Learn why I used that odd string, and why I'm leaving it behind. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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14:55

Sharing a beer

AlmostLive. ·

2022/11/08

Content warning: Discussion of alcohol, including subjective experience of sensory and mental status effectsI cracked open a twelve year old bottle of beer last week to share with a friend. I want to share that magic with others, maybe even learn why the magic happened. My story on how that went. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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5:45

#LibertyDeniers

AlmostLive. ·

2022/11/08

Impromptu episodes are me reading a post I’ve made online to bring life to those words.Original post: https://chaos.social/@Aphrodite/109303855943058256This was inspired by stories of vile acts and the cries by those that did them for immunity from consequence, as well as what’s going on.. on that site. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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6:26

Mistakes

AlmostLive. ·

2022/11/06

I goofed tonight. Miscalculated my range in my EV. As I wait for a tow in I-5, some thoughts on mistakes, why I used to be horrified of them, and why now.. they are learning experiences, even if uncomfortable. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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