Meadow - Blog Posts

You may already be familiar with the mythical Library of Babel, but if you're not then allow me the honor of introducing it to you!

There was once a potato who could not go without eating chips.

This is not really a wordvomit, but an old post from an old blog of mine that is no more.

As I mentioned at the end of my last post, I recently found a cache of quotes and poems in my old Google Keep.

To one with a troubled mind, even the sweetest apple will taste rotten. ~ Not sure I've always struggled with multitasking, especially at work.

It's been around five years since I've been working 100% remotely.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. ~ Kurt Vonnegut (Mother Night) Recently, I've come to realize how easily we humans tend to stagnate as we get older.

I've been thinking about playing cards lately.

“The good writers touch life often.

Life began in the deepest recesses of the earth.

I always feel weird when I'm about to do a "technical post", because it's so different from the sort of thing I usually write about.

Si quieres cambio verdadero, pues camina distinto. ~ Calle 13 (La Vuelta al Mundo) This is an idea that has been going around in my mind a lot lately.

Despite my best efforts, I sometimes (always) worry about what others think of my writing.

The rain has stopped, the clouds have drifted away, and the weather is clear again.

I'm sitting at my local airport as I write this.

Content warning: thinking about death, how things don't outlast us, the futility of legacy, and what is truly important Yesterday before bed I was thinking about this series, and my mind started playing with the question of "what's the use of it".

When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st, "Beauty is truth, truth beauty,"—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness. ~ Zhuangzi I've been reflecting a bit on my last post, and especially how I had to keep talking myself into working on it, but my mind just refused to "latch on to the task".

As I sit down to write today, I find my mind is just not in it.

The more I write in this series the more I ask myself why is it that I'm doing it.

Beer dulls a memory, brand sets it burning, but wine is the best for a sore heart's yearning. ~ Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind For a long while now, ever since my first child was born ~4 years ago, I've struggled with the "morning slump".

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run. ~ Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods As some of you may know, a while ago I made my own (pretty minimal and…

Some days ago I was playing the excellent "Good Coffee, Great Coffee" on my phone (so wholesome; I sometimes just open it up to have the soundtrack playing in the background), and I eventually found myself in the "sponsors section," where the game allows…

After writing yesterday's post, I kept thinking about how I've actually managed to pull fifty posts out of thin air.

Ahh, post #50.

Whenever I want to remind myself of the awesomeness of the universe, I try to remember that trees are pretty much made of air solidified by light.

Woah, I'm already at post 48.

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The dragon roars and thrashes and sleeps and does nothing.

During my last trip to the beach I noticed something that I've always known but never consciously realized: whenever I'm walking around with my youngest (1 y/o), almost everyone I pass smiles at him, and by extension smiles at me.

Soundtrack for today (I couldn't resist the cheesy title 😅) Well, today finally marks the end of my struggle with Azure support to get my account re-enabled.

I really need to get better at properly planning these posts.

Recently I was partaking in one of my favorite pastimes, chilling on Wikipedia, and I came across a really interesting article about bone pointing.

It's not a surprise to anyone that lately the internet is being flooded with AI-generated stuff, colloquially called AI slop.

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Enjoy the show; there's only going to be one function.

Only one man in a thousand is boring, and he's interesting because he's a man in a thousand. ~ Harold Nicolson ...

Today we'll talk about a lightweight topic: the meaning of life.

Recently I went out camping, and one thing I kept thinking of is "your pee carries something of yourself with it, so what happens with that something when you pee outdoors"?

Today I was lucky enough to stumble on a beautiful poem by Hafez (translated by Daniel Ladinsky) called "With That Moon Language". ...

I don't know why, but it feels like ages since I last wrote my post!

The dark lady stands as gatekeeper and guide to the dark pool.

The tree, the moon, all here, and yet gone so soon.

Earlier today I was going through one of my notebooks and, to my surprise, it's full of interesting stuff!

Whoop!

Like many (most?)

Well, yesterday I skipped posting; it's the first day I’ve skipped since starting this new challenge, but I do have a good reason: We had a party for my mother-in-law's 70th birthday!

How interesting it is that we humans tend to anthropomorphize1 everything!

Writing daily is fun.

Today I'm halfway to my interim goal of 50 wordvomits (with the actual goal being a hundred), and as I write more of these I realize that something that kept me back from posting in the past was the fear of spamming people, the fear that writing anything…