The economy is in the shitter right now so I feel it’s a good time to write up some stuff about things I’ve been doing for a while to keep myself fed without it costing too much. | Continue reading
Wellp, the latest bathroom situation is something that could have been a lot less expensive, if I’d been a bit more willing to get some proper diagnosing this time around. I still think it’s a good thing that this work is getting done, but gosh, things didn’t have to go this way. | Continue reading
This video about cutting down on phone dependency has been making the rounds: | Continue reading
Some of my Tundra Trackers have been having an issue recently where they’ll get stuck in a flashing red light mode and refuse to connect or turn off. This is a known issue from Tundra and they have provided a sequence of steps to fix it. For some reason they opted to make it as a … | Continue reading
I’ve been accepted into Furality’s Dealer’s Den as a musician! I have a month to get my booth together and I’ve already got it like 90% done. It’s actually in an acceptable state already but there’s some more little things I want to do with the background video, and I’m learning … | Continue reading
Okay, it turns out that there was a lot of hidden magic on the SOMA Connect image that was infeasible to try to migrate/clone over myself, both due to dependencies on how the old-ass Raspbian image is setup in terms of networking, and a whole bunch of random/hidden scripts that d … | Continue reading
Last time I had a sorta-working shairport-sync configuration on my Raspberry Pi, but I didn’t have the SOMA Connect hardware actually working, and I had to make a bunch of compromises in order to get things to even try to start up without reimaging to the 32-bit Raspbian operatin … | Continue reading
I’ve got stuff going on, figured I’d ramble a bit for those who care. | Continue reading
I just watched this video about energy dependence and it got me thinking about some stuff. | Continue reading
Some folks wanted an update and didn’t see the webmention-based updates on the last entry. I discontinued the Effexor and the concerning symptoms subsided throughout the day, and I only had minimal withdrawal symptoms (basically just a few hours of extreme nausea and some really … | Continue reading
Wellp, as usual, saying anything vaguely optimistic about a new medication has angered the side effect gods, as over the course of yesterday I noticed over the course of the day I was having progressively more trouble breathing and swallowing and a feeling of swelling in my throa … | Continue reading
The only theory that anyone’s come up with for my vertigo issues that holds any weight is that they’re possibly vestibular migraines, so my neurologist put me on Effexor, which can help treat vestibular migraines. | Continue reading
Okay so back in 2021 I had my bathroom redone, and the contractor did an awful job of it, and in particular the plumbing for the shower itself failed a bit over a year ago because the person who did the plumbing was super fucking incompetent. | Continue reading
DuckDuckGo has been slowly rolling out AI “features,” and now they’ve decided to triple down on them. | Continue reading
No I will not be running it | Continue reading
People often talk about how bad AI is for the environment, but only focus on the operation of the LLMs themselves. They seem to ignore the much larger impact of what the AI scrapers are doing: not only do those take massive amounts of energy and bandwidth to run, but they’re impa … | Continue reading
Okay so a couple months ago I finally rearranged my bedroom, having spent four years here and finally realizing that the layout could be a lot better. It was a one-day project where I was just rearranging stuff and it’s made a huge difference to my quality of life, but it didn’t … | Continue reading
So, I was on meclizine for a couple days, and it is definitely not the right med for me. | Continue reading
My pain flareup is finally subsiding today, and also I had a followup appointment with my ENT and another CT scan on my sinuses, which found that I do not currently have sinus polyps, although I do have a mild deviated septum. The ENT thinks it’s not necessary to get surgery and … | Continue reading
Here’s some stuff about stuff. | Continue reading
The last few days I’ve been having yet another awful chronic pain flareup. So it’s been one of those time periods when I kind of wish I didn’t have a body, or at least didn’t have to exist so much. | Continue reading
For now I’m just going with Notion. Some aspects of its UI really piss me off and I especially wish I could turn off the AI bullshit and get it to stop trying to guess what I mean when I’m trying to FUCKING TELL IT WHAT I MEAN (especially since it always gets it wrong, but its gu … | Continue reading
The various responses I’ve gotten to yesterday’s post tell me that I need to be a bit more specific about what I mean by a “project,” because how it relates to my work is very different than how the various project-tracking tools do it. | Continue reading
Hey! As I’m trying to get more serious about my music contracting stuff, I’m looking for a better way of managing my projects and requests and so on. | Continue reading
Hey y'all, just a reminder that I have an upcoming show happening on Friday at around 2:30 PM Pacfic time (5:30 Eastern, 22:30 UTC, etc.). | Continue reading
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Hey y'all! February is here! Oh gosh! | Continue reading
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As I mentioned on Mastodon and Bluesky, my gaming PC got infected by malware/ransomware, particularly Azov and Expiro. I’m not sure how my computer got infected but this was the push I needed to switch it over to Linux, now that VRChat and SteamVR run pretty well on Linux anyway. | Continue reading
comments #IndieWeb #web 2.0 #enshittification | Continue reading
Today I finally had an appointment with an ENT and an audiologist, as part of trying to figure out what’s going on with my vertigo. | Continue reading
I knew things were going to be bad, but I wasn’t expecting just how out-loud bad they’ve been starting on day 1. | Continue reading
If you are actively hiring for positions in a company that is friendly to transgender people, in a country that is safe for transgender people, and you are willing to sponsor visas for people seeking to emigrate for these positions, I would like to hear from you. | Continue reading
Stuff on my plate right now, for the immediate future: | Continue reading
I’ve reorganized my bedroom and as part of it I decided to finally address the ongoing issues with my audio setup in there. I have an old AirPort Express which I was using as an AirPlay receiver so that I could play music and podcasts and such on the (rather nice) hi-fi speakers, … | Continue reading
The reports we received had enough information to evaluate your condition. | Continue reading
I forgot to post about it here but Tyler’s problem turned out to be much simpler: he had fleas. A really bad case of them, which should have been obvious to me, but I am apparently oblivious to the difference between “he is unable to clean himself” and “the crusty junk all over h … | Continue reading
As is tradition, I am not a fan of resolutions, just aspirations. | Continue reading
When I adopted Tyler, his tail had a couple of kinks in it, apparent signs of dislocations or other injuries. The vet said that they’re just a normal thing that happens to some cats, and that it’s generally not harmful to them and there isn’t really anything that can be done. | Continue reading
I guess this is something of another TODO list, to keep myself accountable. | Continue reading
You might have noticed that I’ve made a slight change to the comments on this site: the comment threads are only visible to those who are signed in. This is a temporary experiment just to see if it cuts out the spam I’ve been getting and also if it increases the quality of what c … | Continue reading
I got an M4 Pro mini for my office, so that I could put my M1 Studio in my studio. I’ve also changed web browsers. Let’s talk about both of those things, and one other thing! | Continue reading
I was just going through some old files while preparing some hardware migration stuff (ugh) and I came across a file entitled distributed social network.md, dated December 13, 2014. This was the start of my ideas about what would eventually result in Publ. | Continue reading
About a month ago I was turned on to the show Brilliant Minds by means of a Steve Shives video. My curiosity in it was piqued specifically because of his mention of two characters: the main character is faceblind, and one of the supporting cast has mirror-touch synaesthesia. | Continue reading
Just had a fascinating lunch with a 22-year-old Stanford grad. Smart kid. Perfect resume. Something felt off though. | Continue reading
Hi, I am once again writing to request a reconsideration of the state-wide Electric Vehicle Transportation Fee, the additional $75 line-item added to electric vehicles' car registrations in the state of Washington. | Continue reading
It’s car registration renewal time! Let’s see how much having an EV saved or cost me. | Continue reading