When I was younger during the early 2000s, one of my biggest passions was collecting CDs that were recommended by all the major music magazines. I think this was perhaps not the wisest course of actio...

After spending most of May trying to find time to read it, Michelle Zauner's Crying in H Mart is a book I highly recommend reading/listening to. Initially I started with the audiobook but because of a...

Today was dedicated to the "Biff" Wellington and it was worth it. It felt like a roller-coaster emotionally but it turned out well in the end. Otherwise, it's been raining throughout the day and Sampa...

To celebrate both National Space Day today and International Astronomy Day tomorrow, I'm posting some of my favorite space-related things. No paragraphs for context or anything like that. All you need to know is that outer space is amazing and awesome."Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space." - Douglas AdamsCrash Course: Astronomy hosted by Phil Plai

Apparently, International Jazz Day is a whole thing! I was originally planning on making this just a micro-post, let's just go ahead and put a whole bunch of things up to celebrate. Jazz, like classic...

For someone who's been starting and abandoning blogs for over 20 years, 100 posts is really quite something (I'm not counting Tumblr, since you can get 100 posts easily there). It took about 3 years t...

When I work on projects for my office, I usually put on earphones and either play a podcast or a playlist of my favorite songs. Last Friday, I put on the playlist and one song in particular came on th...

I think the following description from The Design Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained is pretty apt for describing what Push Pin Style was (links provided by me):Push Pin Studios was founded in 1954 in N...

I've been sitting on this subject for a while as a possible Miscellany but a video from Tracklib (see below for more) led me down a rabbit-hole about sampling and synthesizers. So I figure this might ...

Esperanto has always fascinated me, even when it confused me as to why it exists to begin with. That seems to be the general nature of conlangs altogether, enough so that there are people out there th...

While in the process of building out a zine based on this blog and entries I've been putting in my commonplace book, I ended up transcribing a couple of recipes that could be of benefit for anyone out...

"Out of nothing comes everything." The subreddit for the general interest blog "Ars Nihil," focused on interesting and unique things found throughout life: https://arsnihil.wixsite.com/blog

So now we've enter 2024 and aside from the possible hangover you might have, New Year's Day brings another fun thing with it again: new works have entered the public domain for free use! There's alrea...

YouTube video by randomVHStat

I follow several independent animators on YouTube (favorite is Ian "Worthikids" Worthington, who's probably more famous than I realize at this point...) and one that keeps popping up every time I log ...

It's the end of 2024 and again time for giving some kind of an annual wrap-up and a preview of things to come for 2025. Here's what I got - it’s a bit of a ramble since wrote & edited it right before ...