Nathan Upchurch
Nathan Upchurch
I write about incense, life, music, tech, vegan cooking, and other things I find interesting.
August 2026
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You might seen my recent toot about the fancy new “How Much of a Linux Nerd are You?” quiz on my website. Some time ago, I realized that I missed taking fun internet quizzes and decided to implement a quiz system on my own site that would allow me to easily make fun quizzes to share. Here’s how I built it with...
The German neue deutsche härte group Rammstein is known for many things. From their controversial lyrics (NSFW) and legally dubious stage antics (NSFW), to their over the top live performances, one thing the group is certainly not known for is conventional merchandise. Far from the usual assortment of posters and...
Update 2025-06-24: You can buy the final extruder, replacement nozzles, and accessories from outside of China via SuperBuy. For a side by side comparison of some of the extruders, see this picture and this picture: the aluminum and stainless extruders are near identical in diameter, but the aluminum model is...
Trump has been inaugurated; Elon Musk is performing Nazi salutes in public, the U.S. is withdrawing from the Paris Agreement, the White House Spanish-language pages have been shut down, whitehouse.gov now features some sort of onanistic hyper-nationalist movie trailer, the federal government is officially hostile to...
Smoke was the first breath of early civilization, its rising plumes a synonym for human presence. This byproduct of life-sustaining flame has been constant companion to our evolution as a species, changing not only human lives, but human bodies. As the ubiquity of smoke rendered transparent to our ancestors’ noses...
Update 2025-10-01: See the /incense page for additional resources. While I like to post incense builds, I haven’t yet posted on exactly how to go about turning raw ingredients into Japanese style incense sticks. Here’s a 1,000 mile overview of the process to accompany a video I recently uploaded to my new PeerTube...
Plant resins come with varying amounts of water-soluble gum content. Beyond the temperature-reducing aspect innate to resins in combustible incense, these gums can further affect how much of a given resin you can include in a build. As anyone who has burned resins on charcoal can attest, with resins high in gum...
I’ve been meaning to add an image gallery feature to this website for ages, and I’m happy to finally announce that I’ve done it! If you’d like to see my very first image gallery in action, here’s a gallery of PopTart memes I’ve collected. If you’re a massive nerd and would like to read about how I implemented this...
For my younger readers: much new music is mixed in such a way that it sounds good on tinny (and tiny) smartphone speakers, often at the expense of sound quality on better audio systems. The songs below are not. If you can, please listen to these song snippets through a good pair of wired headphones, earphones, or...
Update 2025-11-21: I actually got rid of of all web components on this site because they were heavy, unnecessary, and didn’t render in folks’ RSS readers. Currently, I’m using plain old HTML for this, rendered by Eleventy from a convenient shortcode. Fresh from my text editor comes a neat little web component that...
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