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Kelly Cordes
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Kelly Cordes's personal blog at kellycordes.com covers culture and writing. Since 2019, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Type II Fun – fun only in retrospect, hateful while it’s happening”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers mostly link his 2009 post 'The Fun Scale', which one commenter found laugh-out-loud funny. A commenter also recommends his blog intro to 'The Tower', his Cerro Torre book.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Climber, writer, and margarita specialist. Author of the book
Most-linked posts?
- Type II Fun – fun only in retrospect, hateful while it’s happening6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2019-08-29
What Hacker News says?
I can confidently say that burning man is fun. What type of fun it ends up being for you is the question - the fun scale: https://kellycordes.com/2009/11/02/the-fun-scale/
Comment linking /2009/11/02/the-fun-scale/
on “Playa Phone”Submitted Type II Fun – fun only in retrospect, hateful while it’s happening as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI definately enjoyed the article, but apologies. I enjoyed the referrenced article https://kellycordes.com/2009/11/02/the-fun-scale/ much more. Perhaps it's just my mood at the moment, but it had me laughing out loud. Regarding the Stainless Steel Rubik's Cube. What a work of art!
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on “Making a Stainless Steel Rubik's Cube”Submitted The Fun Scale (2009) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionbenign masochism sounds more like https://kellycordes.com/2009/11/02/the-fun-scale/ to me.
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on “The Strange Blissfulness of Storms”Submitted The Fun Scale as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIf you like this story, I highly recommend “The Tower”, a book on this topic by Kelly Cordes. This book, although history, reads like an outdoor adventure mystery thriller. Check out Kelly’s intro on his blog, where he also shares his famous Marg recipe: https://kellycordes.com/2014/11/26/my-cerro-torre-book-and-m... . I can personally attest, that Kelly makes the best Margs.
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on “A short history of Cerro Torre, the most controversial mountain”I rarely listen to audiobooks for similar reasons, I like to go back and reread lines that are worth rereading. Or I'll flip back and double check something, either a story point that might become relevant, or a fact I didn't grasp. But there are some advantage to audiobooks for example on road trips where several of us can get the same material and discuss it. I got a recording of 'Basin and Range' for a drive thro…
Comment linking /book/audio-book-sort-of/
on “The Work of the Audiobook”