Fri May 16
I’m happy to say that a piece of mine—Ritual, Part I, from my England’s Dark Dreaming series—is being exhibited in the Hastings Arts Forum Spring Show from now until May 25th (11am – 5pm from Wednesday to Sunday). Entrance is free and the gallery can be found at 20 Marine Court, St Leonards on Sea TN38 0DX. You can...
I had my Chinese writing final today. The prompt made full sense to me. Elaborate responses formed in my head. But I knew it was hopeless. I couldn't transfer them to the paper. My thinking redirected towards circumvention. I needed to dilute, cut up, and simplify my thoughts, so that I could express them with the...
I don't consider myself materialistic. I drive 2005 Toyota Camry. I've lived in the same house for 30 years. I wear one kind of pants and just about all my shirts are the same color. In the past six months I've upgraded all my tech except my Apple Watch, but before that I had an iPhone 11, an Intel MacBook and a...
I know many people swear by their calendar. Keeping what you’re doing listed out in a timely fashion makes sense for plenty of people. For me, I want to be that type of person. Some would say, I aspire to be a calendar professional. I’ve tried for many years to be the type of person who could keep a calendar filled...
How very true We took Uncle J to Silverton today. First off was a visit to the Mad Max Museum. A busy little place crammed with oddments and props from the two Mad Max movies that were filmed hereabouts. My next car? After poking around that stuff we headed down to the pub. Amongst all the bric-a-brac there were...
For the last year I’ve been following dozens of people on various socials and RSS feeds for artificial intelligence ideas and news. When someone shares a cool story using tools and techniques under the AI umbrella, I attempt to recreate it myself. I want to see how they work. I want to personally explore and...
TitleTales from Earthsea CreatorUrsula Le Guin Year2001 Kindbook Read2025-05-17
Over the past few years, Google has done a surprisingly great job of making YouTube less interesting and engaging — and in turn, less addictive. Maybe they've got some ethical guidelines in the top management now? If so, well done, Google. Back in the day, when YouTube was mostly about your subscriptions, it was...
this year is about opening myself up to new experiences. i can’t believe it’s nearly half-over. what started out as a chaotic and challenging year has become one of the best of my life.
As a preamble to this post, let me start off by saying, I agree. Yes, this is first-world problem. I realize how lucky I am, for this to even be a thing in my life. So generally there are two things that motivate my choices in life. Time and interest. The former is the finite resource of our existence. I’m 37, and...
Maudlin Scottish indie, metalcore, darkfolkcore, and whatever the heck you'd class Suzanne Vega's album as
Finally, after spending 8 hours in average per day studying hard in 42 the computer science school's 26-day bootcamp, named the Piscine, and two weeks after finishing the Piscine, I succeed in passing the bootcamp, and is qualified for 42's core curriculum! 🎉 This was another major milestone for me as a developer,...
Forgive the topicality, I do like not just commenting on rumors, but also they’re fun and I like the hype for WWDC, so I wanted these thoughts written down before the day cometh.Either way, I really want to quibble about the rumors of the possible upcoming redesigns of Apple’s OS’s to “look more like visionOS”. For...
Update 19-06-2025: since the publication of this blog post, I have adapted it for the Dutch-language philosophy webzine Bij Nader Inzien, and it was published there today! It uses largely the same sources, but it's shorter and perhaps a bit more conventionally readable. It's still very angry! Link Update 24-07-2025:...
I enjoy doing escape rooms and was planning to do a couple of them with a group of friends this weekend. The very minor and not-very-important challenge, however, was that I couldn't figure out how to assign friends to rooms. I want to do at least one room with each person, different people are arriving and leaving...
Drumming as therapy. When I was 17, I was asked to sing covers for a friend that had a makeshift band put together for their friend’s birthday pool party at a hotel in downtown Kuala Lumpur. My connection was a person I’d recently befriended in college[1] and was in a local band. The songs were “Today” by the...