Brian's Corner

#digitalgarden #obsidian #cybersecurity #privacy #project #coding #miniproject Anytime I make a new public appearance (like making a new social media account, or this blog) I ask myself: am I revealing too much about myself to the Internet?

Poses hosting cocktail parties (or similar) as an approach for strengthening existing connections AND forming new relationships.

https://shsdavisapes.pbworks.com/f/Omelas.pdf Someone I met at a party recommended this to me after I mentioned I liked Ursula K.

One of my favorite authors.

Four-part series I liked.

I've always been a big reader of fiction.

(Not exactly sure what the "anti-toothpaste violence" cause is about, but it's there.

I've been using Reaper, which is a DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) for music production.

The road to songwriting It started with poetry: The road to poetry.

#veganism "What made you go vegan?"

A four-part series I really liked.

I was searching for files on my computer related to Toothpaste Burger and I came across this college assignment which was to write a blog post about values related to my career.

Made in October 2020.

Creation: Appa.

Summary This was a lovely movie. 5/5 stars.

Sometimes I chance upon music on Spotify that catches my attention.

One of my favorites!

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Watched in preparation for seeing the sequel.

Writer/director: Randall Sharp Axis Theatre Company (Off-off broadway)[1] 75 minutes Running May 6 - June 6, 2026 This was a high-energy, chaotic, weird play.

#theater Some facts Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book (script and dialogue) by George Furth.

Doing any writing makes me a better writer by developing the skill Expressing my ideas and sharing them with people, which can lead to connection (with people), collaboration, insight Writing things out provides a means of developing ideas, possibly leadi…

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After watching a video [1]of a guy living 21 years off-grid and building a bunch of structures, dance studio, sustaining a life (with outside purchases too.

Yes, this is a major interest.

#veganism (I've been vegan since ~2020.)

#veganism I'm vegan.

#obsidian Most of the setup for this blog is handled by the Obsidian Digital Garden plugin (specifically I used this fork of it which made it easy to publish via Github Pages).

The idea: An AI-driven Discord bot that would prompt me once on the weekend to ask me what kind of recipes I wanted to make during the week, and then prompt me each weekday morning if I wanted to work on preparing one of the recipes that day.

Short story / concept.

“Editing Humanity: The CRISPR Revolution and the New Era of Genome Editing” by Kevin Davies (published in April 2020) I wrote the below essay/summary/review for an assignment for a genetics college course I took in 2021.

Ways to discover new music Spotify recommendations (what I mostly rely on, for better or for worse) Friend recommendations (occasionally I get recs from this) Look at genres on Rate Your Music and look at the top albums I've heard advice to do this but ha…

Off-Broadway play Written by: David J.

This movie took me by surprise.

Notes on "The Web Revival Breakdown" https://myrrh.city/museum/library/Thewebrevivalbreakdown Reading on: 3/29/2026 "The web revival rejects algorithmic content, in favor of intentional and thoughtful expression."

1 In the movie A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945) [1] - the main character young girl walks into a library and selects a book called "Anatomy of Melancholy".

Used to have night skies, No stars.

The road to poetry My first real go at poetry was in eighth grade English class when I was forced to write a couple poems for assignments.

These are the book series I have consumed in audiobook form: The Divergent series (by Veronica Roth) The Gentlemen Bastards series (first book is "Lies of Locke Lamora") (by Scott Lynch) The Realm of the Elderlings (series) (the Farseer Triology x 3, plus…

This musical, created by Dave Malloy and put on in 2012, is based on a 70-page slice of Leo Tolstoy's novel War and Peace I found out about this musical after seeing one of Dave Malloy's latest works (a musical called Octet) and then exploring what other…

Some songs instantly bring me back to a different time in my life, often a specific moment when I was listening to them.

Listened to as audiobooks.

Ideas.

One of my favorite albums ever.

I visited the Met Cloisters museum a couple days ago, and (perhaps surprisingly) one of the most engaging exhibits to me was about how dyes were made in medieval times.