Ultimately everything we do is stupid and pointless. If some stupid and pointless thing you do gives you satisfaction, that’s good enough.

Of course if you’re selfless enough to spend some of your time helping others, that’s next level and you should be proud of that.

Alright, I have a good one for this thread. 7 years ago, I got back into my huge vinyl collection (I’m an Old). I decided to spend nontrivial $$ on a decent phono preamp, so I found a Graham Slee “Gran Amp 2 SE” on Audiogon for $275. Bought that, and then I bought a $200 power supply to go with it (because we all buy stuff for our stuff, right?).

Well, last week I saw a review on YouTube that said that the Gran Amp 2 was crap, and what a I really needed was the $129 Shiit Mani preamp! So I ordered that Shiit and thought I was really smart, because I could probably get $400 for the Graham Slee on Audiogon. I put in the Mani, expecting it to sound about the same or better, and damned if it didn’t actually hurt - the midrange was harsh to my old ears. I sent it back, with a 15% restocking fee and $28 return shipping. So now I’m into phono preamps for $525. I think my teenage self would approve, but damn. My ears aren’t what they were 40 years ago. It’s all backwards. I should have had the good shit in 1980 and the crappy stuff now.

Televangelists are to religion what $500 power cables are to audiophiles

I love this, because I worked at Scientific-Atlanta in the late 90’s writing software for cable set top boxes. My first big project was our Pay Per View app. I’d get calls at 2am about problems, because back then PPV was a huge chunk of cable revenue. It was all porn and wrestling. One day we had a glitch and a whole city missed a PPV wrestling match. They hurled bricks through the windows of the cable headend. Later I did DVR and we had a whole other league of haters. Those were such good times. Man I miss those days.

Hell yeah. When my wife and I used to go to church I’d do anything for anyone. I remember an older woman outside our church came in asking for help, she was being evicted from her apartment. Me and 3 other guys gave up our Saturday to help her move, she had so much shit! Lol. And I used to drive expired stuff from the bakery at our Publix to downtown Atlanta. I kinda feel like an asshole for walking away from all of that.