space • time • tech
- 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 […]
- One album from every year I’ve been aliveDamn, but I don’t think I’ve ever been so glad to be done with a project. 😂 Recently, Tom over on Mastodon published his list for an album every year he’s been alive over on his record.club account. And then Thomas began doing his #AOML (‘albums of my life’) with multiple albums per year on […]
Hails and Ales
- Positive bloggingA few days ago The Reed and Pickup posted this short blog which stated that going forward they are looking to focus their energy blogging about good stuff, stuff that...
- BuddhismAlthough I was raised Catholic and went to Catholic school for all of my childhood it is not something I ever embraced. For most of my life I would have...
1001 Other Albums
- Anna Thorvaldsdottir – Aerial / In the Light of Air / Aequa (2014-18, Iceland)A spotlight on three albums featuring the music of modern classical composer Anna Thorvaldsdottir.
- Vinnum Sabbathi – of Dimensions & Theories (2020, Mexico)A spotlight on the 2nd LP from instrumental space/doom metal/rock band out of Mexico, Vinnum Sabbathi.
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
- Thoughts on bloggingIt is far too easy to contribute to the noise and the anger in the world. It certainly pleases the algorithms, but it doesn’t please me. I suspect you’re not much of a fan of it, either. I’ve been thinking about how I want to approach this blog from now on and, I’m going to […]
- Blogrolls and Web RingsBefore big tech commandeered the internet from the people and pushed us to the margins, we had our own social network of sorts. Not an algorithm, or a predatory data sponge to follow us around, but a simple hyperlink to another human’s homepage. Rebuilding This morning I had a feeling. A feeling of excitement as […]