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Things I’ve Learned While Riding an Electric Motorcycle

This morning, exactly two weeks after taking possession of my 2023 Zero FX, I’ve crossed the 1000km mark on the odometer. These are a few of the things I’ve learned in the saddle. Birds are Surprising Have you ever noticed birds will sometimes fly very close to you when you’re driving a car? Birds are […]

I am bad at blogging

No, no, it’s true. Obviously. quick, make up some excuses… Well, I’ve been really busy with work and stuff. That was terrible. I’ve had other interests? Honestly, these days posting about anything on the internet feels like a dumb idea. Why should I give free content away for the robots to steal? My social media […]

2022 in Music

Hey, it’s been a year, hasn’t it? Throughout, I was listening to music. Some really excellent stuff these past 12 months and this is in no way comprehensive. Just some of the cool stuff that graced my headphones and speakers. Music might not solve the great problems of the world, but it sure makes things […]

Twitpocalypse: The First Week of the Takeover

previously… Twitter is a disaster clown car company that is successful despite itself, and there is no possible way to grow users and revenue without making a series of enormous compromises that will ultimately destroy your reputation and possibly cause grievous damage to your other companies. Welcome to hell, Elon – Nilay Patel, the Verge […]

The Socials

the fail whale 2008

This week, the man with the most billions shuffled some bits around, grabbed a sink, and strolled into the headquarters of Twitter Inc after months of speculation, dodging and hijynx. This self-styled meme-lord and grad-A shit-poster kicked out the stewards of our pre-eminent online toilet to the enthusiastic cries and wailings of his army of […]

Pandemic Playlist: The Music of 2020-2021

a spinning plate

Certainly not *all* the music, of course, but this is a list of some of the music that made it onto my speakers and headphones during 2020 through this first half of 2021. 2020 In previous years, I’d been in the habit of writing down my favorite listens of the year in one of those […]

Windows 10 and remembering the reasons I switched to a Mac

a rando astro shot with the milky way and jupiter

sleep issues Searching the web for “why did my computer wake from sleep” is a fun pass time that I enjoy repeating every so often. Eventually, I get bored with the repeated thousands or so websites telling me to run powercfg /lastwake and powercfg /waketimers in an administrator command prompt and give up. It’s like […]

My Life During The Pandemic, Day 60

Hi! I hope you’re doing well. I’ve been chewing on writing something like this for over a month now. A small textual recording of what life has been like for me, living through the COVID-19 pandemic in rural New Brunswick while underemployed. I posted my initial reaction to the COVID-19 outbreak back in March. At […]

Ripping CDs with foobar2000 in Windows 10

(non-existent third party commentator) Hold up. Are you really going to spin 2000 words on ripping CD music? In 2020? In the middle of a global pandemic? me: yes. Yes I am. NETPC: Dude, just use iTunes/Windows Media Player/whatever. me: Those apps use dithering and error correction on the music you’re ripping. They’re not bit […]

Y2K but a coronavirus

New Years Eve, 1999-2000, Times Square, NYC

Humans are not very good at dealing with uncertainty. Who can blame them? One day, you’re living your life, shopping for groceries, paying the bills, meeting friends, picking up the kids, … whatever it is you do on any normal day during the year, then suddenly, something happens. A big event, that nobody* saw coming […]