Fri 03 January 2025

I was perusing Annie's Love letters 1-5 (from 82MHz' blog post) today, and I was struck with the subject of happiness:

Most of all, do not bear the burden of your own happiness.

It made me think of an odd thing that happened when I was playing cards with near …

Category: Humor
Tags: 100DaysToOffload   Content Warning   Entertainment   Humor   Non-religious post   Non-technical post  

Mon 02 December 2024

Content warning: This post deals with religion and politics

This is in response to my fedifriend's toot:

Sit down next to the fireplace my friend, as I spin my yarn...

In January 2016, after over two years of searching, I finally found a church home. I loved where I …

Category: Life
Tags: Christianity   Content Warning   Ethics   Life   Non-technical post   Philosophy  

Sun 24 November 2024

Note: This article was originally written last December, and was sidelined because I didn't feel it was finished. Reading through it this morning, I realized reason that I never "finished" it is because the next step would've been to write a 1280-word chapter, which is no small feat. But honestly …

Category: Tech
Tags: BSD   Computing   Content Warning   Ethics   FOSS (Free and Open Source Software)   FreeBSD   Linux   Non-religious post   Philosophy   UNIX   WritingMonth  

Thu 11 April 2024

Content Warning: This post deals with the loss of a pet. Also, Christian themes.

This will probably be my last post on this subject for a while. I do not wish to labor the point, but today marks the sixth month of my cat passing, and I felt that I …

Category: Life
Tags: Content Warning   Life   Loss   Non-technical post  

Tue 02 April 2024

Content Warning: This post deals with the issue of toxic masculinity. If that (or the discussion thereof) is upsetting to you, please skip this one. Also, a minor bible reference is included.

I thought I had a pretty fair grasp on the idea and archetypes of toxic masculinity. I am …

Category: Ethics
Tags: Content Warning   Ethics   Life   Non-technical post   Philosophy  

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

Mon 11 December 2023

Content Warning: This post deals with loss

As I have alluded to before, there is a certain process of effacing that time does to loss and grief, as well as the memory of the departed.

I'm staring at the two month mark, and while I've had some truly dark moments …

Category: Life
Tags: Content Warning   Life   Loss   Non-religious post   Non-technical post   Prose   WritingMonth  

Sun 26 November 2023

Content Warning: This post involves illness and extremely stressful situations

Have you ever had a lucid dream? One where you could just bend reality to your will — fly freely by thinking, become POTUS, rule a banana republic (two things that are becoming tragically similar), or propose marriage the famous person …

Category: Life
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Thu 23 November 2023

Content Warning: religious themes

I got into a humorous discussion with a good "FediFriend" today about cloning and necromancy. The result of our rather bizarre conversation was that I would write an article on necromancy if he would write an article on cloning.

His resultant article was not at all …

Category: Life
Tags: Bible   Christianity   Content Warning   Life   Non-technical post   Philosophy   WritingMonth  

Wed 15 November 2023

Content Warning: This post deals with grief

Yet again, I had planned to write about healthy mourning, and yet again, what's on my mind being hijacked by what's rattling around in my heart.

There is this innocent, necessary, and healthy stage of mourning that is also so terribly cruel: the …

Category: Life
Tags: Content Warning   Life   Loss   Non-religious post   Non-technical post   Philosophy   Prose   WritingMonth