What did that dude say?

You ever sit on your porch and have some meaningful conversation, only to figure out if your should internalize it? Let's review the data...

there was a local (to the block) concentration of people at the block party
you should travel
if you have your own world then people will flock to it
know more than the person across the table from you
europe is cool, but it depends on where you go and what you want to get out of it

yeah. go beer.

Still Humid

If you sit on your porch at night, you kinda expect nothing to be going on. So maybe you could have a quiet moment of reflection. But shit don't lie still. You know, you can't go to a crowded place to be alone. The fat neighbor, the traffic, some dude sneezing, all that shit keeps you together. For what's supposed to be an empty place, its way the fuck better than an empty place. I can't stand being alone, but relish it unrealistically. In many ways, I should just spend my time here - although there is so much shit you've got to handle on your own. Someone asked me an interesting question today, which is part of the reason I dragged my chair out to the porch. The answer is this ev is the sum over probabilities weighted by expected outcomes. The problem is that this isn't a discrete problem, so the outcomes kinda logarithmically decrease for one solution at point a, and logarithmically decrease for the second solution at point b. b>a and is a better solution, but the chance of trading a for 0 vs trading a for b is not so good. Get me?

Drunk people can't park

You ever just sit there and watch people try to park? How bout when someone tries to back into a spot that is way too fucking big for their car, but still manages to play some serious bumper tag with the person behind them? Yeah, porch sitting.

Neighborhood

So like back in the day there was this concept of a neighborhood. In the "good old days" everybody just hung outside because they didn't have shit and were all in the same situation. the reality of the situation is that people were pretty segregated based on race and social status and where they immigrated from and formed tight knit communities based upon some social identity and necessity. Fact is that that nostalgic time is gone in the gentrified areas of the city, and sense of identity is based upon whatever the fuck you feel like (e.g. taste in music) as opposed to immediate geographic locality. Seems like a damn shame to me that I can't have a sense of community. There maybe needs to be a new social definition of neighborhood that transcends the traditional immigrant based groups and the new i only hang out with people who are the same as me community. Fuck it I'm drunk and sitting on my porch. Bitches.