Learned about the existence of hypersomnia and I have a new self diagnosis obsession
The best part with this kind of thing is suddenly having everything make sense, getting excited to learn how to fix it, and immediately discovering that the treatment is “lmao good luck”
The best part with this kind of thing is suddenly having everything make sense, getting excited to learn how to fix it, and immediately discovering that the treatment is “lmao good luck”
December 16, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Learned about the existence of hypersomnia and I have a new self diagnosis obsession
The best part with this kind of thing is suddenly having everything make sense, getting excited to learn how to fix it, and immediately discovering that the treatment is “lmao good luck”
The best part with this kind of thing is suddenly having everything make sense, getting excited to learn how to fix it, and immediately discovering that the treatment is “lmao good luck”
Baking bread is funny because it’s always pretty good but you’ll do the same thing the exact same way time and time again and then one time it comes out the most perfect loaf you’ve ever had and you will never know why
December 16, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Baking bread is funny because it’s always pretty good but you’ll do the same thing the exact same way time and time again and then one time it comes out the most perfect loaf you’ve ever had and you will never know why
Skiing the east is seeing one (1) inch of snow fall and immediately gearing up with an intensity of focus as though you’re about to storm Hoth
December 15, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Skiing the east is seeing one (1) inch of snow fall and immediately gearing up with an intensity of focus as though you’re about to storm Hoth
Prae feels more like metaphysical philosophy more than any kind of “novel”, I see why Northrop Frye called it an anatomy. So calling it “Hungary’s Ulysses” kind of misses the mark.
I don’t know what it SHOULD be called, but calling it a “novel” feels wrong
I don’t know what it SHOULD be called, but calling it a “novel” feels wrong
December 11, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Prae feels more like metaphysical philosophy more than any kind of “novel”, I see why Northrop Frye called it an anatomy. So calling it “Hungary’s Ulysses” kind of misses the mark.
I don’t know what it SHOULD be called, but calling it a “novel” feels wrong
I don’t know what it SHOULD be called, but calling it a “novel” feels wrong
“Idea, intellectual work compressed into matter, or even ‘substance’ itself, is radically shallow, Don Juan-like phenomena, which touch matter only occasionally, at unpredictable intervals, and thus do not induce a chemical change, only have a minimal superficial wrinkle, a fleeting
December 8, 2025 at 10:16 PM
“Idea, intellectual work compressed into matter, or even ‘substance’ itself, is radically shallow, Don Juan-like phenomena, which touch matter only occasionally, at unpredictable intervals, and thus do not induce a chemical change, only have a minimal superficial wrinkle, a fleeting
Oh no I have purchased vintage tubes
Oh no I’m reading about tube rolling
The audiophile slope is EXTREMELY slippery please please please lord don’t put me down this path
December 7, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Oh no I have purchased vintage tubes
The fact that my cat is obsessed with fire will never not be funny
The smallest fuzziest agent of chaos
The smallest fuzziest agent of chaos
December 7, 2025 at 7:24 PM
The fact that my cat is obsessed with fire will never not be funny
The smallest fuzziest agent of chaos
The smallest fuzziest agent of chaos
Prae will make you go cross eyed after awhile so I’m breaking it up with this, which is a perfect read in front of the fire
December 6, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Prae will make you go cross eyed after awhile so I’m breaking it up with this, which is a perfect read in front of the fire
Slow down and smell the breads
December 5, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Slow down and smell the breads
Most everything on my Apple Music 2025 Replay is definitely wrong but listing the hackers soundtrack twice tracks
December 3, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Most everything on my Apple Music 2025 Replay is definitely wrong but listing the hackers soundtrack twice tracks
Oh no I’m reading about tube rolling
The audiophile slope is EXTREMELY slippery please please please lord don’t put me down this path
November 30, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Oh no I’m reading about tube rolling
"It is a basic law of intellectual life, that one does not fix just one point and endeavor to build that into a reality with words, but a small irration, yet strong nucleus starts sporulating aimless ideas, and the main idea, that particular leading idea, is an unexpected gift...
November 29, 2025 at 5:48 PM
"It is a basic law of intellectual life, that one does not fix just one point and endeavor to build that into a reality with words, but a small irration, yet strong nucleus starts sporulating aimless ideas, and the main idea, that particular leading idea, is an unexpected gift...
Debating getting a lamp for seasonal affective disorder and holy shit this thing is massive (wire cutter’s favorite)
November 29, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Debating getting a lamp for seasonal affective disorder and holy shit this thing is massive (wire cutter’s favorite)
Schattenfroh inspired me to give this the good old college try again. “The Hungarian Ulysses”, so I’m told, “an eerie attack on realism” with “no traditional narration and no psychologically motivated characters”, it is ”a virtual novel that preempts every possibility for its realization”.
November 29, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Schattenfroh inspired me to give this the good old college try again. “The Hungarian Ulysses”, so I’m told, “an eerie attack on realism” with “no traditional narration and no psychologically motivated characters”, it is ”a virtual novel that preempts every possibility for its realization”.
Another Spark novella
November 25, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Another Spark novella
I thought I did a good job blocking the cat from my aquarium but at this point it’s pretty clear why two of my fish mysteriously disappeared
November 22, 2025 at 4:32 PM
I thought I did a good job blocking the cat from my aquarium but at this point it’s pretty clear why two of my fish mysteriously disappeared
The audiophile slope is EXTREMELY slippery please please please lord don’t put me down this path
November 22, 2025 at 2:30 AM
The audiophile slope is EXTREMELY slippery please please please lord don’t put me down this path
Can I just say that this thing has been a life changer
New plan: im going to turn this woofer all the way up and stick my head it in til it explodes
November 22, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Can I just say that this thing has been a life changer
Aging, childless digital nomads face the outcome of their life choices as friends move on to families or abandon the expat lifestyle and they find themselves growing bored. “Wherever they go, ‘the brand of oat milk in their flat whites was the same.’”
November 22, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Aging, childless digital nomads face the outcome of their life choices as friends move on to families or abandon the expat lifestyle and they find themselves growing bored. “Wherever they go, ‘the brand of oat milk in their flat whites was the same.’”
Muriel Spark to read, Coil to listen to, the makings of a perfect evening
November 21, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Muriel Spark to read, Coil to listen to, the makings of a perfect evening
Have had a string of so-sos, will this break the streak and blow my mind?
A man receives dozens of letters from his mother who lives in an isolated, deteriorating seaside villa, and soon their own psychological deterioration takes focus…
A man receives dozens of letters from his mother who lives in an isolated, deteriorating seaside villa, and soon their own psychological deterioration takes focus…
November 19, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Have had a string of so-sos, will this break the streak and blow my mind?
A man receives dozens of letters from his mother who lives in an isolated, deteriorating seaside villa, and soon their own psychological deterioration takes focus…
A man receives dozens of letters from his mother who lives in an isolated, deteriorating seaside villa, and soon their own psychological deterioration takes focus…
Well, I DID say I’d be crushing novellas post-Schattenfroh. Probably not getting through a third today, though starting this - “forecasts Bataille’s theories of ecstasy, death, and transgression”, his first novel under a pseudonym. Parallels to Sade and Nietzsche, apparently.
November 19, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Well, I DID say I’d be crushing novellas post-Schattenfroh. Probably not getting through a third today, though starting this - “forecasts Bataille’s theories of ecstasy, death, and transgression”, his first novel under a pseudonym. Parallels to Sade and Nietzsche, apparently.