Blog: Expanded Universe

Bear Ghost quickly became my favorite band after the YouTube algorithm randomly led me to them in late 2023, so I was excited for this release.

The last time I owned a personal MacBook was in 2018.

Yeah, so a philosophical zombie is somebody who behaves like a normal human, they can walk around and have a conversation and react normally to stuff, but they're not conscious.

I believe in preparing for things, which manifests in ways like making a 150-row spreadsheet of songs I have done or might like to do at karaoke, each notated with their highest note, subjective difficulty, and availability in common karaoke systems.

Laptop companies report the capacity of their laptop batteries, and also like advertising that their laptops have however many hours of battery life.

A nugget of wisdom I received early in my research career that I found myself repeating to a mentee recently.

Before we get to that, here are some things I already knew about credit cards but feel it would be kind of irresponsible not to mention I'm not your financial advisor I only know about U.S. credit cards, sorry.

Each person has a single number representing how they respond to conflict: their response is the size of the conflict multiplied by their number.

I did the 2026 MIT Mystery Hunt with ✈✈✈ Galactic Trendsetters ✈✈✈ again.

The only puzzlehunt I ever write about publicly is Mystery Hunt, basically as a force of habit and for no other reason, which I've realized is silly.