Thanks to my fedifriend Joel for nominating me for this challenge (after I had pestered him 😄).
Before I answer this, you must understand something about me: I strongly believe in truthfulness as a core virtue. Inasmuch as I am able, I never lie or purposefully …
Category: Humor Tagged: 100DaysToOffload Bible Christianity Entertainment Humor Life Non-technical post Philosophy
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I was on a Signal video chat with my siblings today, and when I mentioned something about RC flight as an analogy for a person's health (being "three mistakes high"), my brother looked confused and then amused when I explained what I was talking about.
Oh, quick explainer, I'm not …
Category: Life Tagged: 100DaysToOffload Hobbies Humor Life Non-religious post Non-technical post Social Media Video
Read MoreI keep finding more of these blog challenge questions, and I totally love them.
This one comes courtesy of Andreas' blog.
Like Andreas, I'm not a big TV watcher. I think I formally quit watching TV in 2003. I did watch a few things on Netflix and Amazon Prime over …
Category: Entertainment Tagged: 100DaysToOffload Beauty Bible Christianity Entertainment Life Non-technical post Philosophy Science Fiction Video
Read MoreAbout a week ago, I had the pleasure of answering some interview-style questions from Hyde that got posted to his blog series, Over/Under.
Give it a read, as I had a lot of fun writing my responses, such that I forgot to actually answer "Overrated/Underrated" to some of …
Category: Ethics Tagged: 100DaysToOffload Beauty Ethics Hobbies Life Non-religious post Non-technical post Philosophy Productivity
Read MoreI was an 80s kid. I grew up in a booming and optimistic time. The future held so much promise: all kinds of cures for disease, technology and automation would free humanity from the drudgery of labor (heh), and the Information Age would bring an acceleration to learning and innovation …
Category: Ethics Tagged: 100DaysToOffload Computing Ethics Life Non-religious post Non-technical post Philosophy Polemic Science Fiction
Read MoreI'm talking mostly about terminology, but of course, when in doubt, "I don't want your dumb app."
So, as I briefly alluded to in yesterdays blog post, most mobile apps are pretty terrible. They're generally chock full of spyware (trackers), and are inherently user-hostile.
But I want to talk about …
Category: Tech Tagged: 100DaysToOffload Computing Ethics Life Non-religious post Philosophy Polemic
Read MoreLast Sunday, I did something that I really don't like doing.
I left church early.
With a heavy and conflicted heart.
The Sunday prior, I walked into church and spoke briefly with the pastor. I told him I was shocked to …
Category: Ethics Tagged: 100DaysToOffload Bible Christianity Content Warning Ethics Life Non-technical post Philosophy Polemic
Read MoreLast night I had one of those "your loved one isn't actually dead!" dreams, but about my cat.
I used to have them a lot about my stepdad that passed away many years ago, and I had a handful about my boss that sadly ended his own life a decade …
Category: Life Tagged: 100DaysToOffload Beauty Life Loss Non-religious post Non-technical post Philosophy Prose
Read MoreBeing an armchair FOSS advocate, there are a lot of anti-FOSS arguments I've become quite used to seeing and answering. Some of them are honestly just pretty dumb:
eloquent_FOSS_apologia();Well, I just don't CARE about that!
Well …
Category: Ethics Tagged: 100DaysToOffload Computing Ethics FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) Life Linux Non-religious post Philosophy UNIX
Read MoreAfter the enjoyable success of Writing Month last November, I feel like I want to start a new challenge for 2025: "100 Days To Offload."
I'm going to aim for 10 blog posts per month (which is an average of one blog post every 3.04 days), finishing on October …
Category: Writing Tagged: 100DaysToOffload Hobbies Life Non-religious post Non-technical post Productivity Writing
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