Month: May 2025

  • obscurity by design

    obscurity by design

    Blogs tend to get looped in with a broader definition of “social media” –and that is fair, to a point–but there is a much more modern attitude around social media fatigue and frustration to which that inclusion I may be less inclined to agree. I am going to write something that may make your eyes

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  • pi day

    pi day

    May fifth is definitely not pi day, that annual nerdy celebration of a happy mathematical confluence between the calendar and one of the worlds favourite pastries, pie. Normally the geeky among us celebrate with an extra helping of dessert on March fourteenth: three fourteen. Three one four. May fifth is, however, something of an anniversary

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  • book reviews: may the forth

    book reviews: may the forth

    (…be with you!) It’s Star Wars day and I haven’t done much of anything intergalactic, but I have been doing a lot of reading lately. Worse than my neglect of Star Wars, I checked out a bunch of library books and in such a flurry that a couple have expired before I even got part

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  • derailed

    derailed

    I’ve been tiptoeing around the realities of my recent detour into part time work partly because I was trying to keep myself sane and partly because I was trying to avoid offending anyone there who may have stumbled upon this blog. But as I’ve written a couple times now, I recently quit that job. I

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  • patio season

    patio season

    It is only just the second day of May and I find myself sitting on the patio at the local Starbucks. Yeah, I know. There is a likely chance that you are reading this from somewhere in the world where (a) patio season in May is entirely normal and (b) eighteen degrees would not be

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