Sun 06 July 2025

Content warning: This post contains some minor spoilers for Severance seasons 1 & 2, as well as a discussion of some religious and cultic themes.

I had seen many fedifriends discussing the Apple-produced TV series Severance, and after completing my watch-through of The Good Place (blog post on that is in …

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Sat 24 May 2025

Lars looking on wistfully while ingesting his sister-in-law's retort to his rant
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Content warning: this post unavoidably and briefly touches on some "mature" topics

If you had told me six months ago that one of my favorite movies of all time would be a bout a man who …

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Mon 19 May 2025

Luke looking wistfully out at the dual sunset on Tatooine as The Force Theme plays hauntingly in the background, beckoning him to his grand adventure

Having grown up in the 1980s, one thing random friends would often ask me (actually what family friends would ask my mom) was: "Has he …

Category: Entertainment Tagged: 100DaysToOffload Beauty Entertainment Ethics Life Loss Non-religious post Non-technical post Philosophy Science Fiction Series: The Scenes that Made Me

Sat 17 May 2025

I'm starting a new series where I recount the TV show and movies that were formative in my life. Not only in my childhood (although that will be heavily emphasized), but even recent days.

As I mentioned in a recent post, there were some scenes in Star Trek that deeply …

Category: Entertainment Tagged: 100DaysToOffload Entertainment Ethics Life Non-religious post Non-technical post Philosophy Science Fiction Series: The Scenes that Made Me

Sun 11 May 2025

When I was in High School, I fell madly in love with Star Trek: The Next Generation. The fascinating characters, the (at the time) amazing special effects, the stories, the optimism, but most of all, the technology.

My eyes dazzled seeing huge touchscreens, digital tablets, and incredible spacefaring vessels every …

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Sat 10 May 2025

One of the things I hear people on the Fediverse celebrate is its incredible transience. There's no one big central network, so posts have nebulous reach throughout the network, depending on how well-"connected" your instance is, and many people set posts to auto-delete after a set period of time …

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Mon 05 May 2025

Thanks to my fedifriend Joel for nominating me for this challenge (after I had pestered him 😄).

Do you floss your teeth

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 …

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Sat 12 April 2025

I 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 …

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Fri 11 April 2025

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Because it's cool! But first, a brief history of writing in the digital age!

Some History, or: I have ADHD and we're all aboard the unnecessary detail traaaaaainnnn!......

The very first computer I had at home was an Apple ][+ that my mom rented for a computer class in university. The …

Category: Tech Tagged: 100DaysToOffload ADHD Computing FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) Hobbies Humor Linux Non-religious post Philosophy Productivity Retrocomputing UNIX

Mon 07 April 2025

About 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 …

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