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I’ve been using Linux Mint on my new (used) laptop for the past week, and I have to say, I’m pretty happy with it. Desktop tooling and options have expanded dramatically over the past five to seven years, or maybe Mint was always this customizable and I didn’t know because I was using Ubuntu in […]

I’m trying to do my civic duty and fill out my ballot for this year’s Colorado election, but it’s a royal pain in the ass, even after dragging my feet for a solid week or so. Some elections only have one or two items, but this year it’s a laundry list of drugs, alcohol, and […]

Corporations are not your friends. You are a number to them, with potential dollar signs. And I don’t personally care that we no longer walk to the bakery and talk to Bertha and ask how the kids are doing – I often prefer the cold system of exchange we have, because I usually just want […]

Busyness is rarely just caused by our immediate necessary actions – busyness, I think, has an awful lot to do with the cognitive load that we place on ourselves. Having quit my job early this year, it’s never ceased to amaze me how I still feel busy on a regular basis, even though I have […]

As much as I love learning, I’ve had to accept that the vast majority of books have very little to offer, and this often won’t be clear until you’ve actually read some of them. Obviously, this is where libraries can save you a lot of money, but libraries increasingly focus on fiction books and very […]

I’ve found a few new YouTube channels to watch recently, mostly related to religion and mythology, and a few of these channels feature backdrops of shelves filled with books related to the subject matter. It feels slightly pretentious, but seems to be a common design choice. After all, if a channel is trying to be […]

I’ve spent the past week getting my arms shot full of Terminator juice, even one such to protect from a mysterious illness known as “typhoid”, because apparently where I’m planning to go next month, everything wants to kill you. Several years ago, I went moonlight snowshoeing in single digit temps with two of my friends. […]

Thus far, my late 20s and early 30s have been marred by quite a bit of instability. Getting established in a profession took awhile, building friendships and community took awhile, and developing a sense of self and purpose has taken awhile, too, all in the midst of mass scatterings of friends, comings and goings of […]

The ownership of history is contentious: while private collections of artifacts are sometimes scorned, and the taking of them from public lands is outlawed, much of history is kept behind glass cases, accessible only to a handful of credentialed elite, or otherwise left rotting in sterile cardboard boxes in storage facilities. Even more difficult is […]

January. Everything is a countdown to January. It still scares me to think of quitting my job, and it will certainly be expensive, but for all I know, this could be the only chance I have to take a year off while I’m still young. Yesterday I took my first hike of the season, with […]