Thursday, July 15, 2021

If something matters enough for you...

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A recent subscription charge hike from Backblaze combined with the limitation of group calls in Google Meets to 60 min coupled with a few ...
Wednesday, July 14, 2021

Forever War

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The Forever War by Joe Haldeman, said to be complementary to Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers . Where one glorified war, the oth...
Tuesday, July 13, 2021

Spaaaaaaaaaaaaace

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After reading both Failure is Not an Option by Gene Kranz and An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Hadfield, a certain deep ...
Monday, July 12, 2021

SumatraPDF v3.3 Release

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I have not been more excited than having version 3.3 of SumatraPDF being made available. It's not because of the performance updates, ...
Sunday, July 11, 2021

Recorder & Range

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Things are heating up in Failure is Not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond by Gene Kranz as the narrative move...
Saturday, July 10, 2021

Big Storage Needs?

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I've completed Halo 2 of the Master Chief Collection on Steam. It's a different type of first-person shooter compared to say Doom...
Friday, July 09, 2021

Tintin and Blind Rule-Following

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Alright, I've finally finished up the Adventures of Tintin series by Hergé. I think I actually completed it once before back before 20...
Thursday, July 08, 2021

A Jumbled Thought

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Consent, transparency, and surveillance, the big trio of things to worry about with ubiquitous computing. In some aspects, it seems that we...
Wednesday, July 07, 2021

Traditional Ordinances?

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Traditional ordinances that got handed down over time are not always a wasted effort designed to make life difficult. Survivorship bias su...

Freewriting

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Today's a weird day. It feels good, but with a strange type of emptiness that I cannot easily describe because I don't feel like I ...
Tuesday, July 06, 2021

Fansa and Affirmation?

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I started reading Failure is Not An Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond by Gene Kranz today. It's an autobiog...
Monday, July 05, 2021

SGDQ 2021 Begins!

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I know much of my blog entries are some variant of doom and gloom, so let's do something a little more uplifting for a change. It has...
Sunday, July 04, 2021

TTRPG and CRPG

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Man, this weather is going to make me sick, literally. Yesterday was like a hell-hole. Today, the vast amounts of cloud cover has reduced...
Saturday, July 03, 2021

Animorphs and Beyond

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Can't keep writing things early, because there really isn't any intention of enforcing a schedule stricter than one post per day. ...
Friday, July 02, 2021

More Mumblings About Identity

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Identity. Identity. Identity. What does identity mean ? Is it what society has defined for one in terms of the myriad of roles existing...
Thursday, July 01, 2021

Weather Hackers☆

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After a rollercoaster month, this is it. Hololive's Kiryu Coco has done her final stream in this persona . Much of it was heartfelt sh...
Wednesday, June 30, 2021

A M3h Day?

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Today isn't a good day. I don't know if it qualifies as a bad day though---maybe it does? Who knows? It started off quite comfo...
Tuesday, June 29, 2021

Movement and Observation

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I'm at the point where my list of things to write about is shrinking ever so slightly, due to me generally staying at home, and also not...
Monday, June 28, 2021

Buzzing Thoughts

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Bear with me. I'm going to try and capture some rather fleeting thoughts before this buzz goes away. If things are incoherent, well, d...