Like a strange carnival

Being in darkness and confusion is interesting to me. But behind it you can rise out of that and see things the way they really are. That there is some sort of truth to the whole thing, if you could just get to that point where you could see it, and live it, and feel […]

Good things 2025 edition

I’m trying to get back into writing things, but no promises that I’ll manage to post regularly in 2026. Movies If you want my top 20 of 2025 with no commentary, it’s here on Letterboxd. Here’s a breakdown of my top ten: Books Here’s a summary of my year in books from Storygraph: Not ranking […]

2022, whew!

2022 was quite the year. Here’s a round-up of how it was for me. I’m still building mechanical keyboards I’ve now built 5 of them (and a numpad), here are some things I learned over time: Will that stop me from building more? Probably not, but I’d prefer to just build them for friends because […]

2022 in books

Apparently I read 68 books in 2022 (that’s a StoryGraph link because the stats are fun, my Goodreads list is here.) I started the year reading The Kingdom of the Blind by Louise Penny, and am ending it reading Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo (I’m only halfway through it as I type, so it’ll be the […]

A simple change in perspective

I’ve been spending a lot of time on Mastodon the past few months, and I’m pretty much done with Twitter (as I type, Semiphemeral is working away on deleting my tweets). Even if a certain billionaire hadn’t made the place into even more of an alt-right cesspit, I’d already started realizing how looking at Tweetdeck […]

It’s pretty grim out there right now, huh?

2022 is shaping up to be a grimdark dysphoric hellscape for the ages. So far this year we’ve had: I don’t know if I’m feeling this way because it’s a cold and dark November afternoon, but this year has been a lot. I’m sitting here reminding myself that when curious Pandora loosed all the ills […]

Ciao, Pablo.

I got a text message at work on Thursday letting me know that a guy I used to work with had passed away suddenly. The message came late, after the funeral, when it was too late for me to show up for him and say goodbye properly. This morning, I hauled my lazy ass out […]