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I have worked in #IT for a very long time, probably too long. I am convinced that when it comes to #technology I can work exactly one miracle per day, and no more. IDK if it's #luck or #mana or #dnd spell slots or what. But more often than not I need to tread lightly for the rest of the day because I'm out of juice.

#luck : an event, good or ill, affecting one's interests or happiness, and which is deemed casual

- French: chance

- German: das Glück

- Italian: fortuna

- Portuguese: sorte

- Spanish: suerte

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Camera Obscura 📸 ☀️

This just happened and I am pretty excited because this is the first time I've ever seen it naturally!!! Whatever way the skylight window was open it created a pinhole camera and the room just happened to be dark enough that it created a Camera Obscura! The video I took was horrific quality, so here are 24 photos that I *tried* to crop and edit equally to render the idea - bad quality but not as bad as the video. 😂
It may not look impressive now, but it was cool at the time - I promise! 😂✨

#photography #amateurphotography #cameraobscura #pinholecamera #pinhole #reflection #window #spooky #dark #moody #sun #sky #clouds #video #nature #coincidence #fun #luck #spookyvibes #italy #bologna #europe

I can finally make higher quality videos! Longer ones too as I have an SD card.

In typical poor person luck fashion I got it in a very strange way too.

I went to a garage sale, and they had a phone with a cracked screen they were gonna throw out, that they weren't even selling.

I asked if I could take it, and I popped open the SD slot and it had a 256 gig card that still worked!

I was working with 64 gigs of internal, which really was only 7 after apps/system stuff.

Once in a while the #CosmicJoker smiles on someone who needs it. I hope he gets his money soon and can live better.

> Homeless man wins $1M jackpot from California lottery scratch-off: ‘Man, I’m not homeless anymore!’ nypost.com/2025/04/16/us-news/

Blessed be the #DivineHumor.
#Lottery #luck #California

New York Post · Homeless man wins $1M jackpot from California lottery scratch-off: 'Man, I'm not homeless anymore!'By Isabel Keane

The 4 Types of Luck by Sahil Bloom [Shared]

The 4 Types of Luck
In 1978, a neurologist named Dr. James Austin published a book entitled Chase, Chance, & Creativity: The Lucky Art of Novelty.

In it, Dr. Austin proposed that there are four types of luck:

Blind Luck
Luck from Motion
Luck from Awareness
Luck from Uniqueness
Here's how to think about each type:

welchwrite.com/blog/2025/04/15

Now that I'm retired, I've had some time to think back on my whole career. With this perspective, it's become clear to me that a lot of things I thought were really important, just aren't in the big picture. Anyway, I wrote a short article about what made my career successful, and about the best thing I ever did.

You can read it on my no-ads, no-tracking, personal site.

schrag.ca/articles/the-secret.

(Another nice thing about retirement is not having to build an audience or hustle for work. I can just write openly and not worry if it's going to annoy anyone.)

schrag.caThe Secret to my Success

Salvation Army is good for the soul.

A place where they have endless amounts of clothing my size, because I am tall and skinny unlike most Americans so they pile up, because nobody buys them.

A place where pants don't cost 60-100 dollars for absolutely NO REASON.

I bought a pair of really nice skinny jeans today, and they cost 15 dollars, and actually cost 5 dollars, because someone left a 10 in the pocket.

I got tacos with the ten.

Good days!