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One week in July, and here I am just finding the brain cells to write about the roller coaster that is June. Yet, I wasn’t able to find any words to write the intro for this entry so let’s end it here. # I got banned from a hotel I...
Over the last few years, I've put quite a bit of work into our solar generation stats, tracking generated electricity value and calculating when the install will break even. The calculations marry each kWh generated with the Octopus...
Ana’s post about re-devoting herself to journaling made me want to take a look at my practice this year. This year I have been using three primary journals: For my daily planner, I use the Effin’ Birds planner. This is my third year...
In 2025, researchers studied a quasicrystal forged in a hypervelocity asteroid collision 600 million years ago—and found that it contains ‘phasons’! It’s not a perfect icosahedral quasicrystal: it’s slightly distorted. 6 gentle ‘phason...
Life on Earth has a peculiar property – many biological molecules have a handedness, or a “chirality.” DNA twists one way and not the other, and all the rest of life must fit to this reality. In a new paper, researchers say they know...
A digital corkboard with string appears in the lead illustration by the Wired Staff (drawn from Getty Images) for David Gilbert’s “MAGA Is Increasingly Convinced the Trump Assassination Attempt Was Staged,” article for Wired (17 April...
I carry a concealed handgun, legally. I’ve thought pretty carefully about what I’m willing to do with it and under what circumstances. Last week I realized it would be completely useless against a new threat I’m really worried about. Let...
Odd title perhaps but Clarivate’s report “Pulse of the Library” draws on responses from over 2,000 libraries from 103 countries. You can download the report at that link. They report that 67% of the libraries responding are exploring or...
Last Saturday was Valentine’s day, and like always, the fiancé and I hung out in Discord while still far from each other. It was a great day. He was playing his game, I was crocheting. We were watching Papa Meat videos talking about our...
I recently wrote about digital journaling. Recently, I’ve had a different role in our company, that required me to type more, and now, I suddenly missed my pen and journals. Maybe digital journaling worked for me before because my...
Highlights: 1. I forced my parents to travel to Batangas to have dinner 2. This is in support of my good friend, EJ, and her team 3. This is a dinner buffet hosted by Holiday Inn and Suites in Limapark 4. We enjoyed a variety of food,...
*Highlights** 1. Videoke 2. It rained heavily so we stayed the entire evening 3. A frog went in the house and we all got scared and panic. Mark was the only one who pushed the frog away. 4. We dug through Mark’s high school memorabilia...
# Highlights ## Personal Life – I had lunch at the construction site of our new house with the people helping us build it. – I met my dad’s newly adopted kitten, Tally. – I spent the new year with my parents and our zoo of animals. We...
# 2025 Jul 20 When we arrived in Chiang Mai, we were greeted by our transfer driver. My friend Em wowed him with his Thai. Those lessons and all the fanboying have really paid off! The driver said we had arrived at the perfect time...