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Jared “Indie Social Web” White

I feel pretty silly that I’m a grown man, in my 40s, living on the west coast of the U.S. of A., and I’ve *never* been to the Grand Canyon nor have I ever been to Yellowstone! I’ve also lived in Oregon for close to a decade now and I still haven’t been to Crater Lake!

One of the reasons I’m so thrilled to be on my #nomad #travel journey is I can *finally* start crossing off bucket items like this. 😍

#blog 🔗 jaredwhite.com/links/20250328/

Jared WhiteLink: Inspired by a Vlog of the Grand Canyon
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Pinky

Time for an #Introduction post. I’m a #liveaboard #sailor (www.svloka.com) and full time #nomad who is also a #creative #artist. I play #guitar, #crochet, paint (#watercolor & #acrylic), and draw #penandink. I love #yoga and use #meditation to manage my #anxiety. Got #sober in 2020.

I am a recovering #softwareengineer (#programmer) and #ITmanager. I focused a lot on #leadership & effective #communication, and I still enjoy #mentoring people on those topics. I still tinker with tech on occasion.

A curly haired woman wearing sunglasses and a red shirt is steering a sailboat with hands on the helm. The cockpit of the boat is visible, featuring a navigation screen and various controls. Clear blue water can be seen through the windows.
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Jared “Indie Social Web” White

I've always been a wanderer.

I don't like “planning” trips. Never have.

I've almost never “gone on vacation” in the typical sense.

I'm more of a “let's see what's around that next bend” kind of guy.

Sure, I've done the “sipping cocktails by a pool at a tropical resort” thing. It's cool. But I'm just as happy trudging through a dirt path in the middle of the woods in the middle of nowhere.

I guess that's why the #Nomad #Travel lifestyle works so well for me.

#blog 🔗 jaredwhite.com/20250321/wander

Jared WhiteI’ve always been a wanderer. I don’t like “planning” trips. Never have. I’ve almost never...
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Take A Bow

re- #introduction

I've been around the Fediverse for at least 7 years. I've left logins all over the place, which mostly now just follow this account. I settled on Sharkey for its features. And besides, how could software from a trans group be bad, eh?

I'm a very old techie. When I was a kid, we had to program the bootstrap code in binary by using switches on the front panel. Uphill, both ways. My favorite language was Pascal. It was so fucking safe and deterministic, you had to work really hard to create a bug.

Professionally, I was originally a biomedical engineer, then a marketing manager for a well-known, racist, and anti-Semitic company in Texas, then freelanced until I retired a few years ago. I've a few patents, including a software patent with probably the most claims of any software patent ever. Because I wrote it myself, and I was fucking with them because patents and copyrights have really lost sight of their original intention.

Unprofessionally, I was an actor and performance artist, poet, photographer, and a man of ridiculously poor life choices with gusto. How else do you learn anything?

What I post is usually photos, sometimes quotes, and maybe film reviews. Also, our blog if we ever get back to doing that. Currently, we're in Canada, and there's at least a 50-50 chance I'll be asking for perm residence. We're running a Bed & Breakfast in Toronto: 35acores.com
#Travel #Nomad #vanlife #rv #photography

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Take A Bow

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The Boss of It All: Lars von Trier's Comedic Deconstruction of Control

Who knew Lars von Trier could make us laugh? In "The Boss of It All", he doesn't just satirize corporate culture - he dismantles artistic pretension with surgical comedic precision.

The film opens with von Trier himself, reflected in a window, perched in a cherry picker camera dolly - a literal deus ex machina, playing God while simultaneously mocking the very concept of directorial omnipotence. Here, he's gleefully playing God and immediately undermining himself.

Using Automavision, a computer program that randomly determines camera angles, von Trier literally relinquishes directorial control. It's a brilliant mirror of the film's narrative: Ravn hiring an actor to be a fictional boss, thus avoiding personal responsibility. The director becomes just another actor in his own absurdist play.

Kristoffer, the hired "boss", embodies this perfectly. "I have to consult my character," he says - a line that skewers both corporate role-playing and Dogme 95's Rule 6, which demands that action must be motivated solely by character emotion. It's a delicious mockery of the very artistic constraints von Trier champions.

Ultimately, von Trier's message is disarmingly simple: Don't take life - or art - so seriously. It's only life, after all. It may even mirror the "senior six" throwing the beloved Teddy Bear over the cliff.

A comedy that's also a profound philosophical joke? This is vintage Lars von Trier!

stars 9/10 #Travel #Nomad #vanlife #rv

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