running the airfanta 3 pro on usb power
The Airfanta 3 pro is a corsi-rosenthal-style air purifier that is sold commercially and has an impressive CADR (clean air delivery rate). It is also relatively affordable compared to air purifiers with…
notes/ notes
small meaningful thingsplatforms, attention spans, paragraphs
I really like what Robin Sloan writes here about being on platforms like substack– it’s the stupid choices that are the important ones: “I’m conscious of the fact that it is, in…
Craig Mod on the potential of boredom
I guess reading this post is timely for me because I tend to go into bouts of frustrating boredom. But a state of extreme boredom is essential to creativity, according to Craig…
drinking coffee outside in the cold rain
being covid cautious means even though there is a very nice cafe with cosy interiors we are still drinking outside in the cold rain getting bitten by mosquitoes
social networks are like a blackhole for our content
I’ve been manually entering twitter and facebook statuses into obsidian for a long while now, because it is meaningful to review them and reflect on the chasm between my past selves and…
on the front page of hackernews
I don’t have fond feelings for hackernews, but since this blog never ever gets on hackernews due to its subject matter I thought it was objectively a novel phenomenon that it was…
at the library
Wasn’t in a good mood today so my partner brought us to the neighbourhood library. Chanced upon Matthieu Ricard’s “Notebooks of a Wandering Monk“, and didn’t realise it was such a thick…
why we should tell our stories
today while looking at my facebook memories I came across a quote I’ve posted in 2016: The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we…
i’m just as strange as you
came across this quote on twitter and it was attributed to Frida Kahlo: “I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so…
life is all about novelty
(cw: addiction, but not from me) Yesterday I chanced upon a reddit thread documenting a guy’s experience of using heroin and how it destroyed his life (but he did get clean later…