Welcome
to my little corner of the Internet.
Hi.
This is a mix of a blog and personal wiki. It's a place for me to:
- Comment on media I've consumed
- Share about my interests and personal projects
- Document viewpoints or aspects of my life that I want to share with the world
You can Subscribe For Email Updates if you'd like to stay tuned.
I recommend looking at the hierarchy of topics and seeing what catches your interest, or use the Random Note button below, or pick from the list of recently updated posts.
Suggested starting points:
- For more explanation: What Is This
- For monthly musings / what I've been up to: What's Up
Pages here come in different flavors:
- Some are more polished, traditional blog posts or reviews
- Some are smaller notes, lists, or quick thoughts
- Some are placeholder pages that I'll expand on later. Generally any page might be in-progress and subject to change or be added to.
Posts by category
Posts by date updated
- The Ministry for the Future (Kim Stanley Robinson) - Sep 16, 2026
- Mars trilogy (Kim Stanley Robinson) - Sep 14, 2026
- Bellingham, WA 2026 - Sep 13, 2026
- What's Up - Sep 13, 2026
- The Wheel of Time - Sep 3, 2026
- Skeptics Guide to the Universe - Sep 3, 2026
- Wildlife livestream kiosk - Window into another world - Sep 1, 2026
- Hyperion series - Sep 1, 2026
- August 2026 - Sep 1, 2026
- Will Wood and the Tapeworms - Sep 1, 2026
- Hadestown - Sep 1, 2026
- The Will Rogers Follies (1991) - Aug 26, 2026
- Theater - Aug 25, 2026
- Virtual Reality - Aug 25, 2026
- Piano - Aug 25, 2026
- Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud - Aug 24, 2026
- Creating Webcomics - Aug 24, 2026
- Idea - Social ebook annotation - Aug 23, 2026
- Interactive Narrative - Aug 23, 2026
- Greek - Aug 23, 2026
- Dream Goal: Build Civilization - Aug 18, 2026
- They Live (1988) - Aug 13, 2026
- AI Person Simulation - Aug 8, 2026
- The Decline of Lucid Dreaming Forums - Aug 3, 2026
- Idea - Dresser objects come to life - Aug 3, 2026
- Idea - House Doll House - Aug 3, 2026
- Drawing People From Imagination - Aug 3, 2026
- Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2020) - Aug 3, 2026
- July 2026 - Aug 3, 2026
- Would I eat a cow if it was treated like a dog? - Aug 1, 2026
- Grocery Receipt Tracker - Aug 1, 2026
- Bee Haven - Aug 1, 2026
- Daniel Vassallo - Indie Hackers Podcast - Aug 1, 2026
- "1 Second Everyday" - Indie Hackers Podcast - Aug 1, 2026
- Hank Green Tells Me To Fall Downhill - Aug 1, 2026
- Ender's Infinite Game - Aug 1, 2026
- Mini Projects - Aug 1, 2026
- Environment Generation - Aug 1, 2026
- Rick and Morty's Vegan Propaganda - Jul 24, 2026
- Unnecessary Upgrade - Jul 23, 2026
- Kim Stanley Robinson - Jul 22, 2026
- If an AI-art falls in a forest... - Jul 21, 2026
- On Lack of a Comments System - Jul 21, 2026
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy - Jul 17, 2026
- The Good Place - Jul 17, 2026
- Dostoevsky as Last Airbender - Jul 14, 2026
- 2026 Music Standouts - Jul 12, 2026
- Skills to work on - Jul 10, 2026
- "Looking for Alice" - Jul 9, 2026
- Garden Improvements - Jul 6, 2026
- May 2026 - Jul 3, 2026
- "Why your life feels fake" - Jul 3, 2026
- "Search query" (advice on blogging to attract conversation on niche interests) - Jul 3, 2026
- Why do I stay vegan enough though I miss certain foods? - Jul 3, 2026
- Veganism - Jul 3, 2026
- June 2026 - Jul 3, 2026
- Personal 3D/VR World Building - Jul 1, 2026
- Persistent Realms - Jun 30, 2026
- Solar Punk - Jun 29, 2026
- Time Travelers, Back Off - Jun 28, 2026
- Oh My Rockness Genre Enrichment - Jun 27, 2026
- The Tug of Television (Resisting Overconsumption) - Jun 27, 2026
- Completed paintings - Jun 23, 2026
- Scrappy Paintings - Jun 22, 2026
- April 2026 - Jun 22, 2026
- 6-6-2026 Foraging tour with Wildman Steve Brill - Jun 22, 2026
- AI-Assisted Meal Planning - Jun 21, 2026
- Thoughts on casual open social invites - Jun 20, 2026
- Idea - Spontaneous Plans - Jun 20, 2026
- Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2025) - Jun 20, 2026
- Hosting Gatherings - Jun 20, 2026
- Larry and His Flask - Jun 17, 2026
- 2025 Music Retrospective - Jun 17, 2026
- On Privacy - Jun 13, 2026
- Hadestown - Jun 10, 2026
- Wildman Steve Brill - Jun 9, 2026
- Foraging - Jun 9, 2026
- Random Snippets - Jun 9, 2026
- Having well-defined goals for skill of dreaming - Jun 9, 2026
- Record player - Jun 8, 2026
- Over the Edge (1979) - Jun 8, 2026
- Creators I Like - Jun 7, 2026
- Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer - Jun 7, 2026
- Mini Book Reviews - Jun 7, 2026
- The Left Hand of Darkness (Ursula K. Le Guin) - Jun 6, 2026
- Foraged Flavors - Jun 6, 2026
- On Dream Recall - Jun 5, 2026
- Makoism (blog) posts - Jun 4, 2026
- The instinct to lick the ground - Jun 2, 2026
- Into the Woods - Sondheim (1986) - Jun 1, 2026
- Animal Agriculture As An Atrocity - May 31, 2026
- Streetlight Manifesto - May 31, 2026
- Mini Theater Reviews - May 30, 2026
- The Drama (2026) - May 30, 2026
- The Right Way to Talk to People About Your Business - Indie Hackers Podcast - May 30, 2026
- Please Don't Spearphish Me (Creating an Obsidian Plugin) - May 30, 2026
- My Past Self Telling Me To Start a Blog - May 30, 2026
- Indie Hackers Podcast - May 30, 2026
- The Chef of South Polar (2009) - May 30, 2026
- The 2-Hour Cocktail Party by Nick Gray - May 24, 2026
- The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas (Ursula K. Le Guin short story) - May 21, 2026
- Ursula K. Le Guin - May 21, 2026
- Book of the New Sun - May 21, 2026
- Toothpaste Burger - May 20, 2026
- Creative Writing - May 20, 2026
- Songwriting - May 20, 2026
- Reaper DAW - May 20, 2026
- Asked: Why Am I Vegan - May 18, 2026
- Terra Ignotta - May 17, 2026
- Not all who are lost wander (pre-blog blog post) - May 16, 2026
- Appa - May 14, 2026
- 3D Modeling - May 14, 2026
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945) - May 14, 2026
- The Tragedy of Small Numbers - May 14, 2026
- Ghost Quartet - Dave Malloy (2014) - May 13, 2026
- Island by Aldous Huxley - May 13, 2026
- RSS Feed - May 13, 2026
- The Devil Wears Prada (2006) - May 10, 2026
- Specimen (2026) - May 10, 2026
- Company: A Musical Comedy - Sondheim 1970 - May 8, 2026
- Reasons to Write (Here) - May 7, 2026
- My Music Recommendations - May 6, 2026
- Subscribe For Email Updates - May 6, 2026
- My Most Amazing, Aspirational, Unrealistic, Impossible Self - May 6, 2026
- Dreams - May 5, 2026
- Why do vegans want imitation meat? - Apr 29, 2026
- On Cooking - Veganism and Whole-Food Plant-Based Diet - Apr 28, 2026
- Obsidian Setup - Apr 27, 2026
- GPT Meal Planner - Apr 21, 2026
- The Egg (Andy Weir) - Apr 16, 2026
- "Editing Humanity" by Kevin Davies (College Assignment Book Summary) - Apr 16, 2026
- Discovering new music - Apr 6, 2026
- Hypnosis - Apr 6, 2026
- Spare Parts (2026) - Apr 6, 2026
- Local Hero (1983) - Mar 31, 2026
- Indie Web - Mar 30, 2026
- Twelve Angry Men - Mar 30, 2026
- Inspiration - Mar 19, 2026
- Poetry - Mar 18, 2026
- Flicker - Mar 18, 2026
- Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 - Mar 17, 2026
- Audiobooks - Mar 17, 2026
- Music Associations - Mar 13, 2026
- The Realm of the Elderlings (series) - Feb 12, 2026
- In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust - Feb 12, 2026
- Weathervanes (Album) by Freelance Whales - Feb 4, 2026
- Ways to Engage More Deeply With Music - Feb 4, 2026
- DIY Dyes - Feb 4, 2026
- Writing - Jan 10, 2026
- Pools (2025) - Jan 3, 2026
- Pen Pals by Michael Griffo (2025) - Dec 27, 2025
- Eternity (2025) - Dec 26, 2025
- Attending an Industry Reading - Dec 23, 2025
- What is this? - Dec 16, 2025
- All nearness pauses while a star can grow (E.E. Cummings) - Dec 16, 2025
- Bugonia (2025) - Dec 13, 2025
- Game Dev Inspiration - Dec 10, 2025
- Blogging Inspiration - Dec 10, 2025
- brianiscool.tk - Dec 10, 2025
- Restaurant AI VR Simulation - Dec 9, 2025
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