Tag: personal
Yo quise escribir un libro
De cómo estuve tres años escribiendo texto para un proyecto de libro como escarabajo pelotero que recoge bosta para crear una bola más grande que él mismo. Y de cómo fracasé con el debido estrépito, que fue flojo.
Starting Over
Something shifted; now my computer should be a tool. I'm trying The Artist's Way.
Followup on the Gym Injury
Unexpected personality changes and the pause before moving on.
busy bee
These last few days, I've been working on Khmer Archives, editing the layout, making the banner, and uploading my Women of Cambodia posts (which was a pain in the butt, but I did it!!). I've always wanted to have my educational/cultural posts hosted somewhere besides Instagram. It'll be a long term project, something I'll chip at bit by bit. I'm just happy I finally got this project off the ground!
Cleaning Things Up
Trying to be less of a consumer or more of a conscientious consumer.
Goodbye MVP Award 💙
After eleven years, I am no longer a Microsoft Data Platform MVP 💙
Sad…
Es gibt eigentlich gerade nicht wirklich viel was mich Glücklich macht. Ich bin arbeitslos seit knapp zwei Jahren (mit ner kleinen Unterbrechung), werde von kaum einen Hurensohn zu nem Vorstellungsgespräch eingeladen und die meisten antworten nicht mal oder schicken nur so ne scheiß ChatGPT Antwort. Und jeden Monat sorge ich mich darum ob ich überhaupt...
Every Ten Years
July 8. Sunny. I pass under the Chinatown gate a little after seven, heading down Saint-Laurent toward the water. This is one of a few routes I take most mornings, meandering through the Quartier des Spectacles some days, down along René-Lévesque others, but they tend to end the same way, at the river. I couldn't...
Goodbye Fabric February 💚
After three years, I have decided to step away from the Fabric February organizing team 💚
it will get better
Existing during this time can feel quite hopeless. Everyday, I see news about extracting more natural resources, approvals of chemical toxins on our food, destruction of land...the list goes on. Mentally, I feel so caged. It's hard trying not to let the gloom and doom of this country get to me when the bad news continue to outweigh the good news...It's really tough...
june in photos
June has been pretty chill in most ways saving the weather. Jacob and I actually managed to convince our friend Tate to go to the bar with us to have a drink and play some pool a couple times. Definitely a W, even though the tables were pretty packed by the time we made it...
summer weather can suck my dick
i've been at my desk for half an hour and i'm Still sweaty from the half a mile i had to walk from my car to the office
The Roots at Blue Note
I haven't seen The Roots live since I lived in Berlin many years ago. That sentence covers more time than I want to think about. So when I heard they were coming to the Blue Note in LA, I immediately knew I wanted to attend. The band and the venue did not disappoint. Watching Black...
Trophies
Eight-thirty and I’ve been awake since six. The body has been doing this since I sent the dissertation in: waking itself before I decide to wake, some obscure bodily alarm I didn’t set going off in the dark. I ended up at a coffee shop I’d never tried before–less by choice and moreso because all...
changes
Who knew searching for a new laptop would be so time consuming 😖. My current laptop works fine for the most part, but battery drain has been a problem, one of the keys is broken, and the trackpad has been wonky for a while now. I also bought my laptop when AI wasn't a thing, so it's been weird seeing so much AI being pushed in the current gen of laptops. In addition to that, the prices are still as high as ever (ugh).
Feed the Writers
With AI consolidating our research for us, here's a list of newsletters I'm currently subscribed to in order to keep those content publishers alive and visible
going back to my roots
At 33 years old, I feel like everything I enjoyed in my teen years are all colliding together. Bands I used to listen to came out of retirement/hiatus with new music. Certain fashion pieces I used to wear are back in style (I want the 00s style poncho top again - have had no luck in finding any!). And now the "indie web" as the kids call it. I'm a long time blogger since Xanga days, but even before that, I wrote in my own handmade diaries and journals that my siblings bought. I don't know what it is about me, but I've always had a knack for writing about my day-to-day life.
How different are things, really?
I was thinking about the past today, and how it feels like I haven't been really in touch with my feelings when it comes to writing in a long time. It's rare that I have the space and time alone to fully experience the world and write about it. I think back to a time in my childhood where I was writing a short story for school, and even though it was just a simple assignment, I felt so passionate about what I was writing. I can remember the way the air felt on my skin. There was a thunderstorm r...
Connection & Digital Minimalism
How do you stay connected while practicing digital minimalism, and how did you make the switch?
reading my own source
i read my own ingress pipeline tonight. forty-two lines that decide whether a message wakes me up or waits.
Saskatchewan!
The train came through while I was still settling into the grass, while the ground was still negotiating with my weight. Slow, rounded cars on the tracks between the canal bank and the silo, heading toward the harbour. I could read the side of one as it passed. Saskatchewan! with the exclamation point. Green paint,...
Find Me in the Atmosphere
This weekend, I wired my website into the AT Protocol. It took an afternoon and one stubbornly old config file, and now my writing lives on the network itself. The short version: Bluesky rolled out support for Standard.site, a set of shared lexicons that let long-form writing live on the AT Protocol itself. In plain...
AI Quote
"It's interesting how AI is good at the things I don’t understand, but is somehow dogshit at the things I’m good at..." - Anonymous
Trip to Soap Plant WACKO
I went up to LA today with Fig, it was a lot of fun! We were initially going to go to this art supply warehouse place (not in LA) but it apparently is right on the edge of an evacuation zone for this chemical tank that is potentially going to EXPLODE,,, and we didn't want to take the risk on that... If the chemical tank were to explode, it is expected to explode in the opposite direction of the art supply store, but still, we didn't want to risk it. So we went up to LA instead and went to Soap P...
Place d’Youville
May 20th, 10 AM. Twenty-three degrees and the wind is moving through the field in a way that keeps changing its mind. I'm sitting near the old Customs House, just off rue McGill, in what is now a wide green space ringed with historical plaques. This is where the first Parliament of the Province of...
La caza del movimiento de lazo
En un viaje de Madrid a Barcelona en un Frecciarossa 1000 de Iryo noté un movimiento peculiar, como si el tren me meciera. ¿Qué estaba pasando? ¿Sería el mítico movimiento de lazo, la inestabilidad que puede surgir en trenes de alta velocidad circulando en rectas?
Reminding myself why I write
The last few months, I've been dealing with writer's block. For the love of me, I cannot come up with something to actually write about and it's been stressing me out. As if I were some huge and famous writer who needs to continue feeding the content machine so people are happy with me. I somehow keep forgetting that the real reason I haven't written a single word in 4 months is expectations. My expectations, of course. It's weird how critical of yourself you can be become the moment you start d...
Cheap x86 Linux tablet speedrun any% [CHEATING]
If Panos Panay really doesn't like this, he can always gift me a new Surface. I'll still install Linux on it, though.
Fort Street
May 9th. Sunny. I'm walking past the Winnipeg Police Service headquarters at 11 in the morning when I turn off Graham onto Fort Street and the timing is what it is. Two men coming from the gym, laughing, easy with each other and with the morning. They glance down at the man on the sidewalk...
Profile README & Crypto Donations
Updating GitHub profile README with current projects and crypto donation addresses.
New Year, New Server 2: Electric Boogaloo
I got to really put my recently-practised and newly-learned system administrator skills to the test again, mere months after my my last update about migrating the server that hosts my websites. Why’s that, you ask? Because the server host that I switched to has been a major disappointment.