~eryn

I recently returned from a trip with a group of my high school friends.

One day when my group was in Grand Teton National Park, we climbed Signal Mountain because we heard it had a good view.

We took a hike around several lakes at the base of the Tetons on our trip there in 2024.

This past week Tess and I traveled to Chicago to attend the wedding of Bill, one of my oldest friends, and his partner Ashley.

Hawai‘i is a stunning place.

While working on a little home networking project, I found myself having to write a Makefile in a FreeBSD environment.

Tess and I watched the Celtics win the NBA Finals on TV on Monday.

A very busy week.

#Happy Pride!

#Doing I started working through Blender Guru’s Blender 4.0 Donut Tutorial.

#Meta Several people in my circles have been attemtping weekly-ish posts summarizing things they’ve been doing, thinking, reading, watching, etc over the previous week.

A hopeful message at the 22nd St Caltrain station.

On April 8, the earth experienced a total solar eclipse tracking over North America.

In 2024, we got a new NWSL expansion team: BayFC.

I recently rediscovered B612, a font comissioned by AirBus to serve as the font for their airplanes’ instrument panels.

I recently added a “uses” page to my site.

Yesterday, January 14, was my thirty-sixth birthday.

Another perspective from Tess’s and my stay at the Fairmont Hotel, this one of Coit Tower on Telegraph Hill.

For my birthday this year, Tess booked us a room in the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco for one-night staycation.

A video appeared in my YouTube recommendations a week or so ago claiming that “someone finally beat Tetris.”

I started playing a lot of chess recently.

I’ve been thinking the last few days about how to make use of my blog in 2024.

Every year since middle school, I’ve made cinnamon buns to share with my family.

Every year, Chandler, AZ puts up a giant Christmas tree made of tumbleweeds.

I came across this handy list of things to blog about when you don’t know what to blog about.

I thought this book was a lesbian romance – and it is – but it’s so much more too.

I’ve been playing a lot of chess lately.

I found this hat abandoned on a park bench in the San Diego Zoo Safari Park.

Two brilliant blue lotus flowers with pink centers, in a muddy pond, surrounded by a plethora of striped lily pads.

I really enjoyed looking through the images on Docubyte’s Guide to Computing.

I finally got around to replacing the Twitter icon in the site’s header with a link to my Mastodon page.

A kind reader pointed out to me that my Atom feed was incorrect.

Last week, I published a small blog post about trying to find the original Netscape “meteors” loading animation.

I went on a small journey the last couple days to find the original Netscape Navigator “meteors” animation.

Apple Park is a beautiful place to work.

Tess, EJ, and I took a weekend trip down the coast over Memorial Day weekend this year to stay in a beachside condo in Pajaro Dunes, just west of Watsonville.

Tess, EJ, and I took a little weekend trip over Memorial Day this year to Pajaro Dunes beach, just west of Watsonville, CA.

Tess, EJ, and I took a little weekend trip over Memorial Day this year to Pajaro Dunes beach, just west of Watsonville, CA.

長谷寺 (Hase-dera) is a temple in 鎌倉 (Kamakura).

These cute little stone statues of happy, smiling monks were all over 長谷寺 (Hase-dera).

ハチ公 (Hachikō) is an incredibly good boy.

新宿 (Shinjuku) at night is how I’ve imagined 東京 (Tōkyō) since I was a kid: futuristic, bright lights, rain, and lots of umbrellas.

At the beginning of April, Tess and I took a trip to Japan for two weeks.

This photo is a corner of the older part of the Imperial Palace in Kyōto.

The pagoda at Heian-Jingū

金閣寺 (Kinkaku-ji) was built as a private residence of a powerful lord.

清水寺 (Kiyomizu-Dera) is a Buddhist temple in the hills on the east side of Kyōto.

The challenge at 伏見稲荷大社 (Fushimi Inari-Taisha), is to capture both the manmade and natural elements of the shrine.

On our way into 大阪 (Ōsaka), we flew south over 東京 (Tōkyō), passing 富士山 (Fuji-san) on the port side of the plane.

Another gratuitous photo of cherry (or pear?)