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OM: Advaitic Songs

Part of my deep dive on metal has taken me into the stoner subgenre (think Kyuss, Red Fang, Sleep, The Sword, or Black Mountain). Though...

Overnight in Eugene

Ben's ride back down to Eugene decided to wait a bit longer before returning, so we took him down last night.   I'm still getting...

Internet Connection Sharing with macOS and a Monitor

I get bored. The day before the CenturyLink connection keeled over and died I got a Raspberry Pi for messing around. I hadn't even formed...

A few thoughts as I wind down an AI governance group

It's not that we've decided not to govern AI, it's that we spent a solid six or eight months asking people to please run their...

Our High on Fire Trip

High on Fire played in Bremerton, WA over the weekend as part of a little tour of the PNW. We drove up the day before...

The trouble with the Oregonian

I used to be in web publishing, did it for a while, and know a thing or two about the kind of pressure website producers...

Wired iPad mini hotspot

We're having our first major CenturyLink outage in a few years of service. I blamed the EdgerouterX for it until sitting through a troubleshoot with...

Your friends on Substack are not okay

By bolting on an algorithmic feed, Substack is trying to make a vertical.  There was a brief window where the Notes feed felt sort of...

Ocasta, Bremerton

#metal #bremerton #ocasta

Bremerton Alley

#bremerton #photography #omsystem #om3

High on Fire, Bremerton

#metal #highonfire #music

High on Fire - Bremerton

hiatus

We're in the unplugging season. It occurred to be briefly to just turn this off alongside a bunch of services billed monthly, but I bought...

Conflagrations leap out of every poor furnace

I came across someone on a site I follow who's very much just themselves in the face of a lot of potential blowback. Some people...

Eugene Weekend

Atlas Pizza

Scribbles YT embeds?

Oh, hey. Scribbles is testing embeds, so let's test with this awesome Mutoid Man show.  [YouTube Video] Highlights:  • "Date with the Devil" at 9:00...

Software suffering

I have had an Evernote account for a very long time. It was my everything box for a number of years, and even though I...

Several weeks on a 6-speed Brompton C-Line

I bought a six-speed Brompton C-Line several weeks ago, replacing a Zizzo Forté. I like having a non-electric "get around" bike, and I like having...

The imposter director revisits the cradle

It isn't something I really emphasize on my résumé or in interviews, but for a spell (more than a year? Less than two?) I was...