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Time flew by so quickly in 2025! I haven’t been in my element for so long until now, and I think all the traveling, meeting people, and reconnecting with my loved ones absolutely helped. I would usually write about the best things that...
If it wasn’t for me cleaning my inbox, I would’ve never known. Oh, Georgi. It has been 6 months since the sad news, and as with most things, I’m just only learning it now. We’ve only worked with each other for 6 months, but really made...
What’s a “barbarian?” A simple Google search gave me the definition above: an uncultured or brutish man person. Barbarian is also the title of the 2022 movie we just watched last Friday. I have a lot of thoughts, so I decided to write...
The temperature in Buenos Aires has dropped significantly, and this is going to be my first winter ever! The past few days have been freezingly cold, and I was struggling to get up. A lot of people around me say that this going to get...
One week in July, and here I am just finding the brain cells to write about the roller coaster that is June. Yet, I wasn’t able to find any words to write the intro for this entry so let’s end it here. # I got banned from a hotel I...
Over the last few years, I've put quite a bit of work into our solar generation stats, tracking generated electricity value and calculating when the install will break even. The calculations marry each kWh generated with the Octopus...
Ana’s post about re-devoting herself to journaling made me want to take a look at my practice this year. This year I have been using three primary journals: For my daily planner, I use the Effin’ Birds planner. This is my third year...
In 2025, researchers studied a quasicrystal forged in a hypervelocity asteroid collision 600 million years ago—and found that it contains ‘phasons’! It’s not a perfect icosahedral quasicrystal: it’s slightly distorted. 6 gentle ‘phason...
Life on Earth has a peculiar property – many biological molecules have a handedness, or a “chirality.” DNA twists one way and not the other, and all the rest of life must fit to this reality. In a new paper, researchers say they know...
A digital corkboard with string appears in the lead illustration by the Wired Staff (drawn from Getty Images) for David Gilbert’s “MAGA Is Increasingly Convinced the Trump Assassination Attempt Was Staged,” article for Wired (17 April...
I carry a concealed handgun, legally. I’ve thought pretty carefully about what I’m willing to do with it and under what circumstances. Last week I realized it would be completely useless against a new threat I’m really worried about. Let...
Odd title perhaps but Clarivate’s report “Pulse of the Library” draws on responses from over 2,000 libraries from 103 countries. You can download the report at that link. They report that 67% of the libraries responding are exploring or...
# 2025 Jul 20 When we arrived in Chiang Mai, we were greeted by our transfer driver. My friend Em wowed him with his Thai. Those lessons and all the fanboying have really paid off! The driver said we had arrived at the perfect time...
# Highlights ## Personal Life – I had lunch at the construction site of our new house with the people helping us build it. – I met my dad’s newly adopted kitten, Tally. – I spent the new year with my parents and our zoo of animals. We...