Fri 11 October 2024

I wrote six months ago about the process of mourning and also my struggle to find another cat to adopt. There were a couple times that I had visited with a cat at a shelter and slowly warmed up to the possibility of adopting them, only to find that the …

Category: Life Tagged: Beauty Life Loss Non-religious post Non-technical post

Thu 18 January 2024

Content Warning: this is all coming from a fairly Christian worldview, and so may seem a bit like proselyting to those from other traditions and beliefs. I'm just putting out what I'm mulling over, so as always, you're welcome to read it, or wait for another nerdy UNIXy post a …

Category: Philosophy Tagged: Beauty Bible Christianity Content Warning Ethics Life Non-technical post Philosophy Prose

Wed 13 December 2023

As anyone who knows me on the Fediverse can tell you, I've been a bit of a light-theme snob. (If you're not sure what I'm referring to, I'm talking about whether text on a screen (computer or otherwise) is chiefly light colors on dark colors (dark theme) or dark colors …

Category: Tech Tagged: Beauty Computing FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) Linux Music Non-religious post Productivity UNIX

Tue 14 February 2023

Six years ago, I found myself sitting in a classroom in one of the most beautiful, über-modern buildings on campus. I was in a graduate course surrounded with incredibly intelligent and kind classmates (a rarity in grad school in my experience, sadly), and two very experienced, passionate, and sophisticated professors …

Category: Philosophy Tagged: Beauty Philosophy Non-technical post