Post #5 - Upsetting Thoughts
Bloglog
Too Close To Real
feeding the ducks at my feet
i keep going back to this one scene from home alone 2. kevin, after getting on the wrong flight and ending up in new york, finds himself wandering around cen...
Mass psychology
Just because a certain medication is useful, even revolutionary, in specific circumstances, doesn’t mean it should be used for everything. The obvious example is antibiotics, which will save your lif…
How Drummer and Micro.blog interop
Since I was playing around with the Drummer outliner, I …
Things I like, November 2023: The niche unbundling edition
The first thing I noticed when opening up Good Tape, a new print magazine for the audio industry put together by my friend Alana Levinson and crew, was how BIG it is. Broadsheet format. Newsprint. …
I love the movies, but I think I'm done with blockbusters
We saw the latest Mission Impossible last night - one of the most expensive movies ever made, with a leading man who famously still does
osaka, and thoughts on travel blogging
We were surprised to discover that Osaka has quite a number of outdoor dining options. Our first meal was okonomiyaki of course, and my partner found a okonomiyaki restaurant with outdoor seating:...
Beyond the Bounce
My oldest daughter was throwing around a bouncy ball with my wife the other day as I was watching from the other room. They started close u...
Nov 19, 2023
Writing, blogging, life, tech and mental health with a philosophical/psychological slant
The Post-Smartphone Era Is Not Upon Us
Sorry for talking about this so much
Hey! I find it funny I am apologizing to the void - this journal is meant to be a personal thing put on display, but I find it hard to wr...
tiny notebook musings
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Woah is that me being consistent?
Heyo! Second post today, wowzers! I threw up a little bit in my mouth typing that. The girl from the martial arts class texted back, and...
Autistic Social Hangovers
Since the pandemic I haven’t often felt disabled by the world in the same ways as I did before. I have routine and patterns and I work from home the vast majority of the time. But there will always…
On Ad Blockers
Every time I stumble on a discussion about blocking ads on the web I ask myself if there even is a compelling argument against it. I block ads on the …
Falling into the numbers game
I feel that lately I've been falling into the trap I always fall into when starting any kind of online activity: . I do my best not to, but it still happens,...
100. All of my sign-offs so far (100th post)
RSS was a glimpse of a future
Web Developer based in London
dining in the cold as a former comfort addict (& thanks for the comments)
The perks of searching for outdoor places to dine at is that we discover and experience places we normally wouldn't. Today we had coffee at a cafe with an amazing riverside view: We also stumbled...
Ubiquitous Therapy
My Give a Damn is Busted
Nov 20, 2023
Writing, blogging, life, tech and mental health with a philosophical/psychological slant
Small Communities
Chris Hannah: We’ve gone from having small local communities, to what can feel like at times, having the entire world in your living room. It’s probably why some people just make their online presence completely private. Because then they can control the scope of their interaction, and avoid an abundance of negativity in the case […]
How I managed to fit AI into my blogging habits
Short version: I use it mostly for editing.
I'd pay $10K up front
I'd buy 100 years of domain renewal, static storage, API so I can add to the archive as long as I'm writing.
More than you could know
I was thinking while biking about how I succeed in different aspects, which are all isolated from each other. My friends I game with don’...
Width and Height in CSS
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
Grocery Store Madness (Or, Is the Zombie Apocalypse Upon Us Already!?)
It’s Thanksgiving week and apparently not everyone got the memo because the grocery stores are hopping with folks making last minute purchases for their family meal. Now, I normally order groceries…
The stuff fractal