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why am i here
Today was the last day of school for my school district, and now that summer's started in earnest there's only one feeling that goes through my mind. Well, I've been feeling this way since a few months ago, but only moreso now. I'm fucked....
read →Reflections on the consumer tech market
I built my computer around February of 2023, with some major upgrades having taken place since then, especially with a CPU upgrade in March 2024. This build had a budget of about ~$800 and I think that what I got was a pretty decent bit of computer...
read →Sky COTL review
Recently I've started playing Sky: Children of the Light, and I have to say it's a pretty fun game, especially with friends. I was introduced by one particular friend of mine who's very close to me and who is a veteran from since the game first...
read →DRM
I'm a big proponent of physical media, especially when it comes to the music world. I think that buying something directly is the best way to support your favorite artists, rather than streaming it on a service like Spotify or Apple Music and them...
read →National parks pt. 2
So unfortunately I wasn't able to write as much as I hoped seeing as the trip itinerary was so physically demanding and I was just tired every day... so here's the retrospective of the whole trip, as I'm writing it on the final day. I will write a...
read →National parks pt.1
For the next week or so I'm going on a trip to some of the various national parks in the Western US. This is the first part of what will hopefully be a few blog posts about the whole thing. Mostly it'll be hiking and stuff though, so not much I can...
read →The snakes poisoning our species
Ultimately when we associate ourselves with people it is since we have a goal in mind. We talk to people in our class who are good at a subject for help on hard coursework, ask strangers experienced in a field to troubleshoot things, et cetera....
read →Ado concert experience
Yesterday (22 July 2025) I saw Ado live in Ft. Worth. Holy fucking shit, I'm never gonna forget it no matter what happens, even if I get Alzheimer's and don't remember my name or anything I'll remember that concert. I've always loved her voice, the...
read →An easier way
I can't believe how stupidly I was using this thing. The previous workflow was: Write the post in LibreOffice Paste it into the Neocities HTML editor (the web-based one) Manually format it No wonder I was never consistent making these things! It took...
read →The Russian Dream
1 In the late night, workers at a lumber mill near Smolensk shared stories, drank, and celebrated their newfound freedom. Constructed during the German occupation, the lumber mill was typically a quiet, cold place until the first Russian troops swept...
read →Laws
What makes a law unjust? How can people deal with laws they believe to be unjust? These sorts of questions have been present in certain circles since laws themselves have existed, even if the exact wording may have changed. Throughout history, we can...
read →Rage
As was usual, the Blessed Regent of Russia was finding it hard to sleep. He needed to serve as a bulwark of Russia, to defeat the disgusting Jewish filth and Teuton barbarians who dared to soil Holy Russia's honor. His chest hurt suddenly, as it...
read →On Spotify
Well, I haven’t done this for a while, haven’t I? I think I’ll start doing some sort of more opinion-based blog from now on. I feel like I need something that won’t immediately bore me. Of course, it has to be on topics that I’m comfortable with my...
read →md
Well, it’s Christmas Eve, and we’re about to take off on vacation soon enough, so I felt obligated to make an extra long entry. Most of what I thought necessary to implement in the setup has been added and accounted for — I have a nice keyboard and...
read →The perfect FIA Level One track
Haven’t exactly been the most consistent with updates as of late, but I feel that now is the opportunity to reflect on something that’s been bugging me for a while. That thing is — what would the perfect Level One racing circuit/complex look like?...
read →On meat-eating
Well, WordPress decided to hand me a prompt right before I started writing, so I’ll answer the following question: What is your opinion on eating meat? Well, I think that meat is perfectly fine if one consumes it within reason. Of course there is a...
read →Working as an unpaid intern
Today I worked with my dad as an unpaid intern to help him do some stuff with his colleagues at a field test of a product that I shall not name. There were many factors that made this quite an agonizing experience, namely: The biting cold...
read →Mechanical keyboards
This is the first post I’ve made with the Keychron K8 Pro instead of the G.SKILL KM360, and it will likely be that way for a while. Here are my thoughts! Mechanical keyboards in general are superior to membrane keyboards, anyone who’s used one...
read →md
I was thinking I should start writing some fanfic or something — I’ve got quite a few ideas laying around and the means to execute them but I’ve never thought of actually revealing them to the outside world, out of some blind fear that I might be...
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I did quite a lot of work for IRP, with regards to my personal logbook. I think that I was able to get about 2 months’ work of missing work done in a matter of hours with my new strategy of listening to music from HOI4 to get my brain working fully....
read →By Blood Alone DLC review
I believe that now is the time when the weather’s going to actually start becoming cold, which is exciting as the heat has been quite unbearable for this time of year. Enough of that, though, as today I’m going to talk a bit about the...
read →Where in the US has the best geography
Prompt: If you could pick any area of the country to live in because of the geography, where would it be and why? If I were limited to areas in the United States, I would either choose to live in Cascadia or New England. Here is my reasoning....
read →A little song about de Vaca
Cabeza de Vaca sailed across the sea, From royal Spain to Florida he came. But little food de Vaca could see With much effort and pain, saws and axes their wood became. de Vaca sailed across the sea, For King and Country they set out to be The...
read →Ravenfield review
I recently bought the game Ravenfield, and I must say that it’s pretty good. It is exactly the kind of game that I’ve been looking for for years — its simple visuals run well on my Intel Iris Xe Max GPU, which usually barely chugs along when...
read →On Scienteer
Recently I had the oppportunity to finish up my Scienteer information for my IRP project. Here is my honest opinion on the software, from a student point of view. The sentiment of transitioning away from paper is a respectable one, and a view that I...
read →Superhot review
Recently I played SUPERHOT, a highly innovative shooter that I’m disappointed I didn’t find earlier. I just completed the standard game – here are my thoughts. I found that the game was a decent challenge – a welcome sight thanks to me getting decent...
read →md
Hear ye, hear ye! The CEA militias have been dethroned! I’ve dug up my 3rd Grade speech of 2700 words. Today we will talk about Brazil’s greatest sports idol. But it isn’t Pelé. It isn’t Neymar. It’s someone you’ve likely never heard of. Born in the...
read →A resolution to impose sanctions on Ethiopia
Starting back up on Debate Camp rewrites – not much to say apart from that. A Resolution to Impose Sanctions on Ethiopia On November 19, 2020, the Ethiopian military orchestrated a mass killing of refugees at Hitsats. Though the killing was...
read →Sending aid to Ukraine
Got chewed out by Mom for not writing today – I probably deserved it. Here’s another debate-rewrite. (important to note that this was written in 2020, before that whole invasion thing.) Sending Aid to Ukraine On November 21, 2013, riots broke out in...
read →New START
First day of school – settling in nicely. All my classes are really far away from reach other though, so it’s a hassle to get from here to there I’m starting on the rewrites of my 2020 Debate Camp speeches – here’s the first one. New Start On July...
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