space • time • tech
- 25 years without JoeyJoey Ramone passed away today (April 15) in 2001. Joey no longer walks Earth (and Dee Dee and Johnny are no longer with us either), but the unreal music he and they left behind is immortal, and it will fucking blast and rip forever. It still blows my mind I was briefly on Earth at […]
- Progress-basedMy happiness and moods are often progress-based. And by this, I mean that when I complete tasks, my brain rewards me with a sense of accomplishment (I have to assume it’s dopamine or whatever), and I feel (even just slightly) better than I did before. The relief of it being done is a lot of […]
Hails and Ales
- Wrestlemania thoughtsThere’s not going to be a lot of posting about Wrestling on here. As I said on a previous post it’s a hobby that I share with my wife and...
- Weekly Update 19/04/2026Aha! Just as I suspected. Another week has passed without me having too much to update. Last week I said that everything was revolving around the baby which is still...
1001 Other Albums
- Ironic Hill – (no subject) (2024, UK)A spotlight on a DIY release from an anonymous lo-fi folk/field recording project, Ironic Hill
- Humpback Whale – Songs of the Humpback Whale (1970, inside the ocean)A spotlight on the best-selling nature recording of all time, Songs of the Humpback Whale.
der thomas
- Albums of my life: 1989This is the fifth part of my Albums of my life series and this time we are in 1989. In this series I am ranking albums that are most important to me for each year since I was born. I won't rank them by how good I think they are and neither will I include […]
- Albums of my life: 1988This is the fifth part of my Albums of my life series and this time we are in 1988. In this series I am ranking albums that are most important to me for each year since I was born. I won't rank them by how good I think they are and neither will I include […]
The Reed and Pickup
- The unlikely upside to age-gating social mediaIn an attempt to address the harms caused by algorithmic social media platforms like Facebook, governments around the world are scrambling to put barriers up to stop youngsters from being led astray, instead of, you know, regulating the companies peddling these harms. What seems laudable on the surface, the idea behind age gating certain parts […]
- Reclaiming Email for OurselvesWhilst I was browsing the Kagi Small Web, which has become a bit of an escape of late, I came across a blog post which got me thinking. It talked about sending emails to each other, out of the blue, like we did in the old days. Where did we go wrong? The post sums […]