Tag: diary
Worrying Signs of Getting Old
I've noticed these signs of getting old in the last few days: Weird technology mistakes: on Saturday I just wanted to add one of our family gatherings to my calendar on the iPhone. I typed "Family gathering" and the phone helpfully used all the information from an old family gathering, (2019!) copied them into the...
Bull by the horns
The essential business of trying not to crash, stall, or fall off.
Rolling thoughts
The village is perfect, but only if you can escape at will.
Pre-digital
My generation is unique in that we bridge two very different worlds.
Homesick for virtual places
The "Years Ago Today" plugin on my blog just reminded me that I linked to GTA V GeoGuesser four years ago. I clicked just for a laugh, oh, maybe I still remember, haha - and I wasn't really prepared what a deep feeling of nostalgia and (I guess?) homesickness this would trigger.A long time ago...
Four wheels good, two wheels bad
Throwing money at an old car is a bit like burning the hull on a steamship to feed the engine.
Make your Gmail more private
Proton, the Swiss encrypted and privacy-aware email service, now lets you read and reply to your Gmail emails from within Proton. If you're looking to wean yourself off Gmail, or just curious about trying an alternative, this could be a good place to start: anyone you reply to will still receive your messages as Gmail,...
Connected to the ATmosphere
My social media hangout of choice is Bluesky - now, this website talks to it. I think. WordPress have released an ATmosphere plugin allowing me to post directly to Bluesky from here, and maybe even suck comments back in, using the protocol Bluesky is built on. I, er, think that's good?
The window
'The Creative Process' and 'The Crow', featuring Hamish.
Stranger in a strange país
They say travel broadens the mind and loosens the bowels, and I can attest to both.
Painting rosebushes
My father, on seeing my painting, seemed slightly startled, “Did you do this”?
The Incredible Shrinking Man
The world starts seeing him as a freak, and eventually everyone thinks the cat ate him.
Birdbrains
The back yard was an explosion of black and white splatter. A Jackson Pollock hellscape.
Hello world - How a Vtuber Rat made me keep going forward
It's been a while since the last time i blogged! (i think it was 2008~ or something like that), no being a social person kinda had me at the time to make little scribbles to post and talk about mundane things that happened during my days, but as internet just become more and more about "being the popular one" instead of "being around what i'm interested" it just got way less comfortable in my own space, which sucks cause i love helping people out with things, and it got harder and harder to do i...