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I own a lot of books. And yet I continue to browse the stacks at used bookstores and swaps. I often find myself wondering if I have already picked up a given John McPhee or DK Eyewitness volume. I also love distracting myself from actually reading those b

Movie film is a challenging form of media to preserve and share digitally. This is might be somewhat surprising. Unlike the ephemeral tape media standards of the 90s (looking at you Video8 and DAT), film enjoyed a long run as the de-facto format for captu

Enough has been said about Tolkien's works that I won't much discuss the work here. Safe to say I now understand why the Hobbit holds the place it does in the canon of fantasy literature. Despite consuming much Tolkien-inspired media, I'd never read any o

Cassettes are my favorite form of audio media. They cheap and plentiful in the thrift stores of my youth. Both mass produced and local DIY tapes wound up sunbaked in my hand-me-down minivan's tape deck. Endlessly 1 recordable and five screws away from exp

I've loved gardening since before I had space for it. I tried growing succulent clippings, abandoned house plants, and even some redwood saplings on my smog-choked 3rd floor patio in Oakland. When I moved out to the Sierra Nevada foothills, I definitely w

This post, assembled and composed in the Obsidian client is intended to be a brief (or as possible as I can while still geeking out) overview of the workflow I've developed since mid-2025. Feel free to skip straight to my setup.

As a perfect gift to some RV-enjoyers on winter break, RV There Yet? creators Nuggets released a winter map with additional options for chaos. The added challenges of snow, ice, and frisky goats can be overcome with new tools. I can't say that the winch h

Warning: this post is positively dripping with of media. Please pardon the larger-than-usual webpage size as I geek out, reminisce, and stand on a little soapbox in my little corner of the Internet. Anyone browsing the stacks of a public librarypy around

Warning! Spoilery! For fans of tile-laying games, atmospheric mansions, and walking simulators, Blue Prince is a killer game. I don't usually find myself so enthralled with a game that I need to take physical notes. I think the only other time I've broken

Northern California autumn has arrived punctually on the first few days of October. Its entrance has provided me time to take a look at some of the photos I've had developed from the first half of the year.