A Geek History of Time - Bonus Episode - Damian Got a Tattoo

Episode Date: July 15, 2023

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And... Yeah, okay. Right, so... The R And. Joe, okay. Yeah. All right. So the Rilling. Yeah. The Riviting stuff. Quite so. Yeah. Oh, also, also, I did something that I've never done before in my life.

Apparently, this is what a midlife crisis looks like. I got a tattoo. Wait. What? Really? Yeah. So you see the design behind me? Yes, yes, our golden rod and kind of sort of teal, but not really logo. The geek history of time. That is now on my arm. Holy shit, boi ain't it. That's actually very colorful. I think so.

That's a nice piece of work there. I like it too. The only downside is I can't look right at it because it's facing downward. Yeah. Yeah. So why exactly did you decide to get our logo tattooed on your forearm? Well, there's a couple of reasons.

No. No particular order or maybe an ascending order of important. No. No. No. No. No. No.

No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. 551 days since we started this podcast. And that means that we had lasted one day more than the Confederate States of America. And I thought that was worthy of celebration. That's, I would say so. Really anything outlasting the existence of the Confederate States of America is worthy of celebration because anything that outlasts

it just puts another footnote. I mean, that's not the right word I'm looking for, but adds another asterisk to the list of this is actually how short lived that fucker was. I like to think it's another layer of ash. There you go. There you go. I like that. All the people who died angry. layer of ash. There you go. Put over. There you go. I like that. All the people who died angry. Yeah.

Yeah. There we go. Okay. That's one reason. Another was I actually this is a while. While this is a really cool tattoo and I really, really like it. Like I'm not a tattooed person. This is the very first tattoo I've ever gotten.

Yeah. There's another one that I really, really want. And I needed proof of success, proof of concept that colors would work on my body. Okay. So I figured go with this one, because this is meaningful. Okay. And that way I'll know if I'm ready for the prime time for another one, which will be kept in America's shield on my left wrist, because'm left handed with the quote about no you move.

Okay. Below that. Yeah, here we go. So far not bad. You ever tested the tip of a knife? Yeah. It's about like that. Like when you like poke your finger on the knife to see if it's

sharp. That's about it. So yeah. That's an awesome idea. I am 110% on board with that. What I find interesting is you mentioned you wanted very pale. I am of the two of us of the two of us you are you are the you are the the Witer in the end of us you know, yeah, I mean I would say I'm very pink Okay, yeah, well, yeah, there's there's a page of three steps up. Yeah, there is a ready undertone Yeah, well, yeah, there's there's a page of three steps up. Yeah, there is a ready undertone. Yeah, certainly. But, you know, um, but you're right. So, so I know in like in miniature painting, the brighter the primer coat is the more you're going to be able to make bright colors pop. So, if you're working, say, for example, with yellow space marines, like the Imperial Fists, you always start with a white undercoat

because of the reflectivity, the transparency of the yellow pigment means that light will pass through it onto the white undercoat and then back through it again, giving you a brighter yellow, rather than if you try, if you try to put yellow, for example, over a gray or a black undercoat, you're going to have to put a whole lot more coats on it or it to work. So since you are as, as pale as you are, melanin challenged. Yes.

What, what was the concern about color working on your bodies? That's specifically a tattoo thing that you'd heard? Yeah, it's not so much a tattoo thing that I'd heard because I didn't do that much research on it because there's so much tattooing is apparently a relatively has changed type has changed in hyphens type of art in that it's gotten big enough that now manufacturers are manufacturing the pigments and things like that. And the practices and the regulations and stuff. There's a lot that's shifted in the last even seven years. Which means a lot of my friends who have tattoos, a lot of their experiences.

It would be like if somebody asked me how to get into college. I don't know. I have no fucking clue because I did it. I did it 20 years ago or more. Um, and so, you know, so, so there's a bit of that. I took everybody and what they said with with assault, like, um, and then on top of that, while I recognize that, uh, in fact, my paleness should advantage me toward that coloration. I didn't know what it would look like. And so I wanted proof of concept as well. Okay.

That makes sense. Yeah. Yeah. And so, yeah, it's pretty cool. It's our logo. So if you are listening to us on pretty much any service, although I have trouble on my Apple podcast app Do I show the picture of us? Yeah, which but anyway the our logo is now on my right arm And it is in the colors that the logo was originally designed in

Which is pretty cool. Yeah, and now I have a concept. So eventually I will get the other tattoo, which that tattoo was a specific reward to myself for climbing out of debt. Yeah. The thing is like the pain's not there. It's just an irritant, but like the knowledge that it's a permanence is especially, yeah, it is. It's especially a weird thing to me. But I do think There's a certain point in which You just become accustomed to it being there right regardless of your feelings about it. Sure So it just becomes like any other part. Okay That you might like or dislike, but it's just there. Okay, so like my gut

So far the line work has not been more or less than the numbers. Yeah. This is going to sound terrible and I don't think I'm going to let this on the air, but like when I was young I was a bit of a cutter and this feels like that. So yeah, now that's something we're getting close to the Close to closest to the armpit. Yeah, or yet to the elbow pit Say again, so I Promise myself meaningful once I'd gotten out of debt that I would then Do something I would then do something, I would say meaningful and frivolous all at once for myself as a reward. Yeah, that makes sense.

Yeah, very cool. Yeah, so it's cool. It's got 2019 and then a hyphen and then a blank space because this podcast is continuing to go. Yes. If and when the podcast eventually ends, you decide you're gonna go out and write the great book and get published and you don't need me anymore, then I'll put the date that the podcast ended.

But, yeah, that's fair. No time soon. But I don't know if you noticed the colors on it. So, do you read recognize the yellow and blue? Well, the yellow is right there with the first thing that comes to mind. But the blue is a few shades too light for it to be University of California colors. True. Which I shouldn't have gotten into the schools anyway.

Yeah. I couldn't get into mine anymore. What I got into mine, it was solidly a second-tier school. It's not anymore. Oh, yeah, no. No, back when I got into it, Davis was like, if you were, if you were shooting for UCLA, and Berkeley, you, you, you, you'd apply to Davis would be one of your second-year safe schools. Yeah, not anymore. I couldn't even do that. Not anymore. I went to Sac State and largely because one

of the recruiters came to Diablo Valley College, my junior college, of choice, my safe school. And they said, oh yeah, you've got good enough grades to come on in. And when I went, it was considered a teacher's school, like this, but it was original charter was, since then, like, and when I got there, the professors that I got were they had learned at the elbows of the original professors of that school. Oh, shit. Yeah. Oh, well. And but they were all 30 years in. So everybody was kind of getting ready to turn. Starting to cycle out. Yeah. So most of the people who taught me are no longer there. Vast majority are still alive. I've looked. There's very few who have actually passed on. So says something about 10 year and what it does to your stress levels.

Must be nice. No kidding. But yeah, so my my college went into becoming a, well, we have to be competitive kind of mode. And now there's a lot of people like the professors there did not have the the pressure to publish when and and some of my props had published, but not many. And now to even get hired on as a proff at that school, you have to. You have to. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So. So. Okay. So it's so it's not not University, California. Ukraine, probably not because that wasn't the big deal at the time that we started this podcast. Correct. I'll give you a hint. It's from a podcast subject that I've covered without you. All right, so we're doing the blue first. I don't know if anybody noticed but the color of the logo is the exact same coloring as one of my favorite superheroes.

Oh, speedball? Speedball. Yeah. I should not. You got feelings on that, Ed? I just, you know, coming to find this out. How long after it got established? Yeah, the pattern on the wallpaper. Yeah, pretty much. Yeah.

Well, you can be familiar with that. Maybe here. Looking up? Are you Marvel? Yeah, Marvel Speedball. Oh, well, that's easy. Speedball. Speedball.

There you go. Talk about the pattern in the wallpaper. Yeah. Manages need speedball in there. Yeah. Nice. He is actually so there are. Do you have tattoos? Not yet. No. However, witnessing you with yours has lowered the apprehension level for me. You're going to get USS Agamemnon on your penis because you have the room for it now. Well, there's that.

Um, but I don't think I'd be able to get that past the past the past the wife, but I don't think she'd want any, any, any marking of that. No, that's not so much. No, not so much. Call it a sub pen when you guys are anyway. any, any, any marking of that. No, that's not so much. No, not so much. Call it a sub pen when you guys are anyway. No, um, yeah, I don't know how your partners react to that kind of thing, but that's a, that's a solid, you know, before we get back to that's a you were about to get lucky.

Right. Yeah. So I actually was talking to my partner about it yesterday after I got it. And by the way, as of this recording, it's it's early July. Yeah. So by the time this drops, I think it'll be just mid July because this is a bonus episode. Yeah. But I was talking to a partner sitting there on her porch and she's, you know, she has a tattoo.

Okay. Well, that's very significant to her. And I was like, yeah, it's good. She's like, do you want to get another one? I'm like, yeah, I actually already kind of have, you know, I told her to cap America one. I said, that's the, that's the main one. And I said, but I honestly, I kind of want speedball on my left shin.

Um, and I want, and, and I've got the perfect image for it and it wrapping around it's cool and then a rebel anchor on my back on on my cap. Okay. And then a couple quotes in Latin as well that are meaningful to me. Okay. And she's like, wow, you never thought to do this before. I said, no, I really, I'm a, I wanted a Honda Odyssey when I was 18 and I waited until I was 34. I wanted a pug when I was eight and I waited until I was 27. Like, my thing is to wait 20 years before actually doing the thing. Okay. And so I also told her I said, it's probably good too that I wait this long because I got all these impulses when it comes to tattoos now. And she's like, what do you mean? I said, I's probably good too, that I wait this long because I got all these impulses when it comes to tattoos now.

And she's like, what do you mean? And I said, I want tattoos that are like, have to be explained visual puns. So, because of course you do. Right. So like, I want to get like a lit match and then a hyphen and then ING. And I wanted that on like the outside of my left ankle

and another one on the outside of my right ankle. So I would have matching ankle tattoos. Oh, fucking a god old. I was like, I want to get like a picture of hell seeping into the water and like you see them the bubbling up and the steam and the fishers and then Underneath that comma Finland like over my my heart, and it'll be Helsinki You know and just

All kinds of really fun visual I want to I want to get a balloon on the side of my gut Visual point where I want to get a balloon on the side of my gut Big old inflated balloon and then we'll be like why'd you do? I said oh well when I first got it I was a lot thinner and it was just a deflated balloon like Yeah, you know, I see I see where you're going with that. Yeah So I want to do all those things and it's a good thing that I'm patient and she's like yeah because and she's like and I said I kind of I kind of think that if I done that when I was younger, I wouldn't have gotten laid nearly as much as I did.

And I wasn't really out there on the town either. So, and she's like, what do you mean? I'm like, well, could you imagine, like, I take off my clothes, we have our first time together, and you're like, what's out on your chest? I'm like, oh, well, okay, let me explain. Here is the, and like, you could just like picture someone just pulling their pants back up, going, all right, see you later. You know, night. Thank you. Bye now. Yeah. Bye now. Yeah. But, right. Playing. Yeah. Or like, you know, like on my collarbone, like, have like a golden, looks like a golden ring has been like mounted on it.

Because that's a ring around the collar. Wow. Yeah, so I'm not doing that. Yeah, yeah, probably for the best. Oh, this is a very different vibe. This is a constant burning instead of just like a mild burning. I noticed that there's like 300 more needles going into me at once. So that's fun. I've had nine before I was type five, so. Okay. With four extra. The irritation, the burn, is more like he's burning me with a circle than with a point. Okay, that makes sense. Yeah, it's like less concentrated. Yeah.

We're like wet fire. So that really sensitive area from before. Definitely feeling it more. Yeah. Definitely feeling it. You want to have the full experience or you want some numbing spray? No, no, it's not to the point where I'm asking for numbing yet. I do reserve the right to be a baby. Did you change penis test. Yeah. No. No. No. No. No.

No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No.

No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. Okay, you know for my for my fifth when I'm 50 because I'm 48 now so two years two years out when I'm when I'm 50

I I will be Old enough to say you know what I can get a tattoo and and you know nobody can say nothing to me I'm right, you know and What I have in mind right now is the the Kind of a not work design version of a head of a wolf on my left shoulder. Okay. And something I actually wanted to talk to you earlier today because I was thinking

about this. I want to try to figure out how to say the Emperor protects in Latin, in peritour, something. Yeah, there's a couple. There's there's several on two a or is usually the verb that you'd use. So two a tour, no, two a tour, but that looks passive. It's what we call a semi deponent for it's deponent verb pardon me. Okay. And yeah, it's a it's a deponent verb. And so it's a deponent verb. And so it's a verb that is kind of what we would kind of, the closest thing to it in English would be what we would call a state of being verb. Okay.

Okay. Yeah. Not an action verb, but yeah. Yeah. And so that doesn't sound active enough. Yeah. So, so maybe custodate in piratura. There you go.

There you go. And custodate in piratura. There you go. There you go. That would be in custodate in piratura. And we could Absolutely decide flip and flop and Lyrically because Latin is not a word or the language, okay, and we could Talk about like what are you emphasizing there? Are we? Emphasizing the emperor? Are we is the emperor protecting a surprising thing? Is it a commonly known thing? Is it a, is the verb like really? Cause Latin sentences, and with the verb really strongly. Yeah.

It's a statement of within, within the context of the 40K universe. It is, it is an exhortation to any imperial citizen, whether it's Star T's or mortal. It is a reminder, you go out and do your duty, the emperor protects. And depending upon circumstances, it can be a reminder to have faith. It can be a no, no, go out and go out and do your job. Okay. Kind of kind of thing. And I don't know which, which waiting I would be more, we have to ask me again, like when I'm 50,

which kind of, you know, exhortation I'd be looking for. But in an event, it's because I'm a, I'm a fucking nerd. And I'm specifically a war him or 40 K nerd. I can do a guy who wants speedball on his. I know. Well, I know. But like, name another person with a speedball tattoo. Yeah. Good point.

But so yeah, and the, and the adeptusistartis, the space marines all have there when they, when they have their armor on, it's a chapter badge is on the left shoulder. Okay, cool. And then their squad markings are usually on the right shoulder. Okay. And so I'll have to wait until I get the first one before I decide whether I want to have another one.

You know, just a thought, the map mix it up after that. Like do the chapter marking where it belongs and where people would normally find the squad marking, maybe find something that has a different or deeper meaning to you. Well, the other icon, the other nerd image, that I've thought about, well, there's that

and see that would have to be a chest piece. Naturally. That would, you know. Actually, you know our podcast logo on your ass. Just I'd have an easier time getting wife to agree to the buddy Christ on my chest, I think. Wow. Good things you won't listen to. So, but, but the other, the other, the other nerd thing that I've thought about would be the sword, the King Fischer and the Rose, which are the symbols for the Knights of Selenia.

The Order of the Crown, the Order of the Sword, the Order of the Rose. Ram Dragonland. And the... I heard the name Selimnia, I was like, hey, wait a minute. And the motto there is, really, the Estes-Celara, so with meithus, I heard the name Selimnia, I was like, hey, we're in it. And the motto there is, really, the Estes, Elora, Sothmethus, I wouldn't even have to change anything. It's totally, you know, bullshit fantasy fake Latin, but it's my honor is my life. Yeah, absolutely. You know, so yeah, but for, yeah, seeing you doing this, has lowered the level of apprehension on my part to

getting it done. So it did not hurt much at all. Yeah, that was well, yeah. Burn sensation. Yeah. It was almost as though how to put. I feel like I'm a 20 year old white woman at a bar talking about an eye at wask of retreat right now.

Like most people listening have had tattoos. But to me, for me, my experience, it was that same burn that you feel when you're giving blood and they put the needle in and so you got that pinch that sting and then it comes the anti-coagulant and I don't remember what it's called. I know it's not light-acane. But it's something and that burn and it's just perpetually that. And most part, it was pretty constant and kind of could fade to the background

until they got up toward... Close to your elbow pit. Yeah, close to the elbow pit on the... Yeah. ...on the, um, God, if you're looking at my forearm, front on the inner... ...collet the inner side. Yeah, the inner part of my forearm,

uh, pretty much, yeah, there all the way up to the elbow pit. And then it was fine until you get down to the outer side on the opposite, on the opposite. Okay. And then it was just more intense. And it was like, my face is going to blanche for a second. And then, you know, carry on.

Within colors, it felt like something was being dragged a little harder, but that was about okay So it was fascinating to watch you were there very cool. Yeah, I didn't I didn't want to you know ruin the the artifice of the writing and talking about it up to that point But now that you have yeah what what I what I didn't say at the time, but what I was wondering about was you know being Flame-haired as you are. I am. I wondered if it would be a more uncomfortable experience

for you than for somebody not similarly complex. A normal person? Yeah, because of everything you hear about redheads requiring more anesthesia for surgery and that kind of stuff. Feeling everything a little deeper. Yeah, you know. And so I was I was I was curious about how that was going to go, but you were a kind of nonplust. Yeah, I was saying about it.

Yeah, nice. Yeah. Yeah. You know, about it. Yeah. Nice. Yeah. Yeah. Um, so how is it? How is it healing up so far? How's that good? Um, so there's redness. Uh, it's a little bruised. Uh, I noticed today that there's certain parts that have arisen a little bit and those parts that I think are scabbing off. Um, I did all of the aftercare that he has told me to do and I continue to do so. And today I noticed some of the ink was leaking off as he said it was.

As he had mentioned it. So. All right. So you had mentioned that the thing that was that was messing with you the most, that you were having the hardest time kind of wrap in your head around was the permanence of it. Is that still like knocking it at the inside of your skull

or are you getting over that? Okay. No, it is like I'll look down big shit. That's never leaving. That's cool. And my kids came home today. And I showed them via FaceTime, and they were a little stunned yesterday. And then they came home today. And they were just like, kind of,

they're both a little weirded out by it. And I showed them, and they both admired the work. Like they're like, what's really, really tidy. I'd also, I had the seventh anniversary show of Capital Pun punishment last night. It was a banger. Yeah, I saw on Facebook, you were really shining. Stuffed to the rafters, it was lovely.

But well within FireCode, everybody, it's fine. But we had that show and a lot of people came to me and, they were like, hey, what's on your arm there? And I was like, yeah, yeah, yeah. And so, you know, again, people who have been tattooed, they're like, wow, that's really good line work. And you know, they speak like they know. Yeah, so just a shout out, since we're talking about how awesome it is, your artist and studio, do you want to

give props to the guy that put it on you? Yeah, absolutely. My artist was Guido Di Jeronimo, and you can find him on Instagram with with the tag, well, oldie world, olde, WRLD. He does fantastic work with color. Just excellent, excellent stuff. So you could find him there and you could reach out to him if you're in the local Sacramento area, or the greater Sacramento area,

and you could schedule an appointment with him. And if you find me on social media, you'll see, because I posted it and stuff. But it's nice. He's a really, really friendly fellow, very patient with me. He knows how to handle nubes, and he knows exactly what he's doing. Like he's really, really good.

I was really impressed with the deafness of his handwork. And I was not sure how long, like, we talked about, we have to make arrangements to get somebody to look after Robert while I was gonna be there with you and all that. I think this is that. And I was kind of thinking,

like, am I gonna be able to be there for the whole process, there's this gonna be something that's gonna take, you know, more than one session. I don't, because I haven't had any tattoos either, I don't know what the timeline is. And I was really amazed once the stencil got put down on your arm, how fast it went. Yeah. And like I was not expecting

something that happened to that fast to turn out as sharply and as well as it did. I was absolutely gobsmacked by his skill. He knew exactly right skill too. Like I was like, oh, that's interesting. He left like the middle part out and like he did that with the coloring too. And he was just spiraling inward in that way. It was, yeah. The place that I got it done, by the way, is Truecraft Tattoo House in Sacramento. It's on L Street. So yeah, I hardly recommend if you are in the mood to do something permanent and be at frivolous or meaningful or both, that you hit up those folks because I was very well taken care of and very reasonably priced. So yeah, but cool. Well,

I think that's kind of it as far as this goes. Yeah. I don't know when I'll be getting the next one. So one thing I did find out was that because I'm such a heavy sweater that I can't work out for like the next week, which sucks for, you know, the momentum that I was building. So I have to be a even good or boy, a decision. But that is the one thing. So, and of course, anytime you get a tattoo, I think they make you wait a year before you can give blood. Six months.

Oh, is it six months? Okay. Yeah, six months. So, keep those things in mind if those are goals. And also, if you want to travel, there might be just, you know, make sure you get your future taken care of first. Like, you don't want to be dealing with any kind of like,

maybe secondary infection because you screwed up your aftercare or something. Yeah. But, but yeah, it's, it's lovely. I like it a lot. I like it a lot. Yeah. Cool. Well. Alright, so Ed, what do you think? It's all done. What do you, you got a better view than I do? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I, I like I especially like the the level of kind of variation in the yellow Shading. Yeah, that's cool. Looks good. So now he's a spritzing me with some sort of foam. Okay. Yeah. Back teen. Yeah, that's acting. Oh, that's why I remember that. No, I was a methylade guy No, I was a mothylade guy throwing up like that really weird color orange shit with the the glass rod. Yeah So, oh here's the reveal

Nice Is it cool Yeah cool I am too again, I think you know you get one on the side of your head or Right right below your scrotum either way For a geek history of time. I'm Damien Harmony and I'm Ed Blaylock and until next time keep rolling 20s 20s.