Sucuk Ekmek

Old man throwing epistemology, going ham.

He's not too nice, this is not how it works.

But let's not forget that a better question beats the best answer available. Therefore, you'll get better results with better questions.

By all means marry: if you get a good wife or husband , you'll become happy; if you get a bad wife or husband, you'll become a philosopher. Socrates 300 BC.

How to think when answering questions? You can try to approach this way: The one who asks the question becomes a question themselves. Every question turns the questioner into the questioned. So you can try to meet them there. If a dialogue is what you looking for. My current progress is writing it down and publishing it for public. What I found is It's hard to describe something without a well laid foundation and terms. I tried social media to describe my history inquiries but my platform choice was wrong, people left confused. Now I am in touch with a journal hope they can understand me better, so I can publish wider and literate audience. Also pretty nice topic. From the get-go, you see how each of us describes things in our posts.

How do you reach kangaroo nipple? They're tucked deep in the pouch.

When I wake up I drink a cup of lemon water, I don't crave for sugar but I am addicted to filter coffee.

Casual.

Thanks!

So, this topic is dedicated to my guitar playing touché — the French term feels more fitting. I upload my takes on Rumble mainly for aesthetic reasons, but to be honest, it's worse than YouTube. I might switch platforms later on... This red guitar of mine is kind of special — well, not really. I built it on my balcony. Some unknown Chinese manufacturers supplied the neck, body, and hardware. It took me about 30 days to finish. It doesn't exactly play like a dream. You can understand most of the physics, but it's those little things you discover along the way that remind you: size does matter. So far, we're doing just fine. This take was completely spontaneous. YouTube was playing random music, and I just started playing over it. I like playing loud outdoors whenever I can. I enjoy moving air — you can actually feel it moving! https://rumble.com/v6sye11-krmz.html?e9s=src_v1_upp Looks like Rumble is not embed..

My experience Sketchers are comfortable but not durable. Currently I wear Asics' gel based shoes. They are okay but not durable as Nike Air Zoom Structure.

I think ChatGPT saves energy by using em dashes — lol. Out of curiosity, I asked it how Thomas Pynchon utilizes them. ''Thomas Pynchon’s use of em dashes is subtle but deliberate — they serve a rhythmic, interruptive, or emphatic function in his otherwise dense and stylistically varied prose. He does not overuse them, but when they appear, they tend to serve very specific roles. Let’s break down his em dash usage in more detail: 🔍 1. Interruptive Function Pynchon often uses em dashes to interrupt a sentence mid-flow with a sudden insertion — usually for emphasis or to signal a kind of mental leap. Example (from The Crying of Lot 49): “It was now like walking among matrices of a great digital computer, the zeroes and ones twinned above—hanging like balanced mobiles—symmetric about some axis or equator...” Here, the em dashes break the flow to insert an image/metaphor, then return to the original clause. The dashes let him float an idea mid-sentence, often with vivid imagery or tone shifts. 🌀 2. Parenthetical/Qualifying Thought Pynchon will sometimes use em dashes instead of parentheses to insert side comments that feel more immediate or urgent. "It was a mailman—blown off course, or perhaps stoned—delivering nothing but confusion." The em dash here gives the sentence a spoken, almost conspiratorial tone, like the narrator’s thought is catching up with itself. This kind of em dash gives his narration an organic, stream-of-consciousness quality. 🎭 3. Character Voice & Inner Monologue Pynchon uses em dashes in dialogue or free indirect speech to mirror the sudden shifts of thought, uncertainty, or layered irony in his characters' minds. “She would have said something—anything—to stop him—but the moment passed.” This use builds tension and reflects the subjective nature of perception — a theme across Pynchon’s works. 🧩 4. Stylistic Modulation Pynchon’s punctuation evolves across his novels. For instance: V. and The Crying of Lot 49 use more traditional punctuation, em dashes included. Gravity’s Rainbow and Against the Day have longer sentences, with punctuation (including em dashes) used more as rhythmic tools. Bleeding Edge and Inherent Vice, being more contemporary and noir-influenced, lean into punchier em-dash usage, reflecting casual dialogue and internal commentary. 🧠 Why He Uses Em Dashes (Thematically) Pynchon writes about: Entropy Conspiracy Uncertainty The collapse of structure The em dash — which opens but does not resolve, interrupts without closing — mirrors these themes. It's a perfect punctuation mark for his vision of the world: fragmented, recursive, always shifting. Summary Thomas Pynchon uses em dashes: Sparingly, but intentionally For interruption, emphasis, or insertion of unstable meaning To shape rhythm and breath, especially in dense prose As a way to reflect mental fragmentation or ontological instability He doesn’t rely on them like some stylists do — but when they show up, they’re doing important work.''

Guitar is happened, looking handsome, I managed preserve the wood while working with metal tools, however for action height I am off by half millimeter, which is okay as I don't have all the luthier tools, half or one mm is not a big deal. Two days ago I met an opera singer. His guitar's strings were floating, I tried to explain him that but he wasn't interested, said they are ok. I'll post finished guitar when sunlight is availble. I hate fluorescent light. Anyways by any chance if you read this blog you should read Shakespeare as well. Here is an introduction for tragedies:

Interesting points. I don't believe in the physical realm, atleast not in the sense of man is the measure of everything . For me our realm just looks very instantaneous but I do think that we should leave ontology to phisicists. I like your analogies — it's like water constantly going through solid and gas phases, then finding itself in a phase it has already been in, which should be impossible. Big or small, nothing in the physical realm would ever align in the same position twice; it would be like stepping into the same river twice, as Heraclitus says.

So I was sanding my guitars pickguard for better and sleeker fit. I have a delta sander, it's the only powertool I have. Suddenly I feel like; hey this machine can handle the wood no problem, how about denser surfaces. Typical male mindset which looking for trouble. I had this big axe rusting in my grandpa's cabinet, I said: Why not, this was a glorious axe, make it great again. I put 60grid on sander, stabilized axe on the counter, I give it a little grind and bam orange color started to turn brown then black and finally with more pressure I could scratch shiny metal underneath the rust. It wasn't easy, I had to push hard. Rust is not coming off easy, especially if there are multiple layers, but I done it ! felt good afterwards. Hear him singing:

I’m not sure whether I encounter things or things encounter me—maybe both. I see objects only in terms of my survival needs, but I would like to know the object itself. Maybe I do know, but perhaps I can’t remember when things encounter me. It’s hard to define the experience happening right now. It’s 5:30 a.m., and there’s a crow cawing outside. But if we look at the object itself, it’s just a meteor that has encountered our world, and now the crow is cawing like there’s no tomorrow. I hope this isn’t another story.

Okay, let's go. Here's what I think: From a survival perspective, experience is a witness to energy, it's a form of self-reflection and thus comes with knowledge or recognition. I don't think any knowledge is separate from the aesthetic aspect, because humans strive for excellence and that excellence is inseparable from what we perceive as beautiful. So, we can't just do whatever we like, because where there is recognition there is an aesthetic aspect, or shall we say, concern about our self-reflection. I have no idea about the fact of experiencing. Fact is something provable, and everything I write here is unprovable or perhaps you mean something different by fact of experiencing.

If you take experience out, you are not an individual anymore. On the other hand if you depend on your experience you are a fool. Do you see any other way? I would like to be free of aesthetical concerns.

I bet that in Shakespeare's time, men portrayed women on stage better than women themselves might have.

Are you living in 60's?, there is no national interests only cooperate interest.

Experience is your platonic love.

Sun is gone time for a break, most of the job done without a single tool mark on the rosewood. Somehow I can't upload the second photo, it states I can only upload 4mb... for floppy disk sake

I been with this guitar for 9 years. 9 years of active playing, now this girl or boy needs a fret leveling, which I will do it by myself, I am up for a challenge.

I switched to YouTube. Lo and behold, YouTube claimed copyright on my cover. I mean, I’m contributing to the artists, they should give me something for that. Fuck you YouTube. So I improvised the second video. Literally. That actually turned out well, because I could see where I tend to overdo things. I noticed my comfort zone from the first attempt. From now on, I’ll memorize new songs and try to keep things nice and tidy. That’s the only way to improve—within a set of limits. Just playing however I like isn’t going to do it justice. Atleast video is embed now.

It depends on your situation. I gambled on gold—I knew it would go up, so I took out a loan from the bank. I'm six months in, and I've already made a profit. Becoming a professional poker player is not something foreseeable for me. I believe some things have to happen biologically.