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I own a lot of books.

Movie film is a challenging form of media to preserve and share digitally.

Enough has been said about Tolkien's works that I won't much discuss the work here.

Cassettes are my favorite form of audio media.

I've loved gardening since before I had space for it.

This post, assembled and composed in the Obsidian client is intended to be a brief (or as possible as I can while still geeking out) overview of the workflow I've developed since mid-2025.

As a perfect gift to some RV-enjoyers on winter break, RV There Yet?

Warning: this post is positively dripping with of media.

I love a well-built game that doesn't take itself too seriously.

Warning!

Northern California autumn has arrived punctually on the first few days of October.

I've always been fascinated by the engraved art style (which explains why many of my tattoos being based on woodcuts).

I'd (at last) like to take some time to talk about my process for archiving 3.5" floppy disks.

In early 2025, I had over a dozen rolls of 35mm film to develop from the previous year.

While I neglect the floppy disk archiving blog post that has been cooking for six months, I'd like to take some time to talk about the long-haired calico cat that has been hanging around my house.

Drawing parallels with the mythical ring of King Solomon which grants the ability to converse with animals, Lorenz achieves the same feat by watching and cavorting with animals of all varieties with an mind boggling amount of patience and compassion.

In the idle mental moments in which my hands were occupied putting some toast into my mouth this morning I was wondering what I could write a blog post about.

Since the snow is finally melting in a warm rain shower, I want to take a little bit of time to appreciate a metal-and-plastic friend that has been with me through the past few strenuous, but fortunately not disasterous, weeks.

If I were to use a scorecard from when I was 25 to judge 2022, the year was pretty rough.

I love working from home and it has been a blessing for my mental health to be able to take breaks to be with my six-month-old son and walk around outside every now and then.

Earlier this year I came across a copy of the Travels of Sir John Mandeville (you can read it here or here).

Earlier this year (2022) I became a father for the first time.

I found a set of fantasy-themed stationary from the early 80s at a local craft reuse store.

This is a short retelling of a SIM swap attack against me in early 2022.

I feel that I have poor memory and retention skills.

I love a good informal history, but I also find watered down historical summaries to be pointless.

I woke up this [July] morning to find the little raised bed in my backyard that supports some tomato plants, pepper plants, beans, and corn had been raided.

On Saturday (that is, April 17th, 2021), I deployed my fairly-long-in-development rewrite of the .

Over the past few years, I've been seeking to find hints of what the people of the past thought the future might look like.

I've been using Honey Money, a clear-cut budgeting software built around manually entering transactions, to track my spending since 2017.

Despite the nearly 300 years that separate its authorship and my first reading of it, Gulliver's Tavels remains not only readable to the average reader, but fascinating.

The middle of a stay-at-home order feels like an appropriate time to reflect on a small pastime I picked up when I was in college.

I'd been keeping a list of projects I wanted to see/build some day in a Github repo but now I think a webpage is probably a better spot so here we are.

Tabletop RPGs have been on my list of hobbies to try out ever since I came to understand that being the classical geek is perfectly acceptable and fine.

This is going to be a long post and perhaps not particularly coherent.

Pico-8 is a fantasy console, essentially a virtual machine emulating a retro 8-bit gaming system that never existed.

I've found that I've developed a strong emotional attachment to the stuffed animals my wife and I have adopted since we started dating.

I got a stack of mid-century editions of (started in 1949) as a surprise from my mother for my birthday.

I'd spent years scouring used book stores for a copy of this work of mythological fiction.

My first run in with Stanislav Lem was through the Tarkovsky film Solaris (1972).

Oakland has been a whole lot quieter today as opposed to this weekend.

This post is just a quick overview of how I was able to set up a tiny ADS-B listening station during the civil unrest in late May 2020.

I don't think my fascination with dreaming is unique among humans, but I would like to use this page to share my experiences and more interesting dreams.

This post on Hacker News about Polarized, an online document and note manager, was the first time I read the term "personal knowledge repository."

For a time I was looking into getting a product from Thalmic, now known as North or maybe some other sort of body hack that would allow for me to extend my sensory perception.

PAX Dev is an annual gathering of video and board game developers before PAX Prime (short for Penny Arcade Expo) in Seattle.

It's Halloween-time as I compose this post, my favorite time of year.

O11ycon 2018 was a conference organized by the team at Honeycomb.io focused on exploring and developing the concept of observability in the context of distributed systems engineering.

Running your own email service seems to have the reputation of a Herculian effort, unnecessary in the era of free email services and social media.

Saying goodbye to a region I have called home my whole life has been full of mixed emotions and even if I'm not totally settled into this new state, I figured it would be worthwhile to collect a few thoughts here and reflect on the trip across the country.