I not-so-recently (remember, I’m working on writing in a timely manner) finished a stint volunteering with the educational charity Citizen Schools, which matches volunteers with classrooms in low income communities to offer middle school students contact and training with professionals, hopefully changing their career trajectory. A choice framing quote by a student is “I didn’t […]

Well, it’s been a while. Hi. Again. I won’t bother trying to dump the quiet years into a single post, or a series. I’ve changed, but I don’t have a good handle on how, and certainly not good enough to explain to you, dear reader (or more likely, spambot). If you manage to infer the […]

In the previous installment, we saw our brave protagonist pre-commit to a regular release cycle, but then he dropped off the face of the Earth to wrestle with… well, something. I’m sure there was a good reason he stopped blogging after starting again after the longest break he had taken since the beginning of his […]

And so it ends. Hello, world.

And here I stand on a cusp, peering down into a squall . I myself, my core, will make it through: just as certainly, I won’t make it through unscathed, emerging a changed person. For the better? Let’s make it so.

I’ve re-blocked my list of procrastination sites. I’m starting to get back into the swing of making things, and these sites are preventing from getting my high. We’ll see if it helps: hopefully, I’ll release something small soon.

Sorry probably currently non-existent readers, I didn’t start writing early enough (since I don’t yet have a buffer), and now I’m too tired to put out a semi-okay post, or even a barely coherent post. I’ll put together two for tomorrow/today, especially since I’m done with the sometimes infuriating LIMBO, and I can resist the […]

Oh only one more week. Family Reunion! Wine-tasting and gun-shooting, not necessarily in that order. And eating. So much eating. Resolved to make up an Anki deck to keep my anti-religion rounds hot. The previous two entries might have something to do with each other, why do you ask? Cab vs. Uber: I got a […]

So, it turns out that I didn’t get into Columbia’s Comp Eng program, but the EE program. I must have chickened out at the very at minute when applying and changed my major. When I look at what EE’s do for a living, though, I’m more and more convinced that it’s not what I want […]

So, I’ve been doing some thinking (surprise!); while we as a society worry about an apocalypse that forces us back to the dark ages, there is precious little done about it. It’s mostly just something to entertain ourselves with (I’m guessing that it’s also easier to write for, because if 99% of the population is […]