Month: December 2024
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The Royal Vista PDA
Just saving an interesting early PDA I found on ebay. #retrotech, #handheld, #cyberdeck
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What is a heterotopia?
These posts led to the question: A heterotopia is a concept introduced by the French philosopher Michel Foucault to describe real-world places that function as “other spaces,” existing simultaneously within and outside of the usual norms and structures of society. These spaces are characterized by their ability to juxtapose or connect several different spaces, times,…
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Video
One of my goals going forward is to take more video of our lives. When I spent a whole days going through photo books from my mom’s flooded house, I was surprised to see how much the photos shifted in quality. The older photos were actually better. Brownie photos from the fifties and sixties had…
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Project Posts
All these weird posts showing up in the feed are part of a project I’m working on to organize all my various projects into a single part of the site. It’s also incorporating updates to Mastodon, Bluesky and Threads. I would include Facebook but it’s not as easy to auto-post to a personal Facebook page…
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Health
A placeholder page to track weight loss and exercise. Going to write more about this in the future.
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Workflows
I realized recently that I spend a lot of time futzing with gadgets and making aspirational purchases with the idea that I’m going to get to something in the future. My gadget inventory is proof that I probably also enjoy owning retro tech that was out of reach in the past. Still, I would like…
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Reading
Tracking my recent reading/listening (post 2020), most recent first I’m Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom – Jason Pargin Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years – Diarmaid MacCulloch Akira – Katsuhiro Otomo Kaiju: Battlefield Surgeon – Matt Dinniman Remina – Junji Ito How to ADHD: An Insider’s Guide to Working with Your…
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Mom’s Cottage
From March to May of 2024, I built my mom a cottage with bathroom in our backyard, added a patio, and still need to finish the detail work. This page documents the project.