Blog
Notes on technology, faith, travel, and everyday life. Sometimes a useful fix, sometimes a life update, sometimes me thinking out loud.
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We have a (new) Pope!
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More than a year into the pandemic, and c***d is a political issue more than a public health one.
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No, that isn’t a metaphor.
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There are few things on the internet that are as universally guaranteed to draw ire as the infamous “edit: thanks for the gold, kind stranger” Reddit comment. And yet, it’s hard to go a single day without seeing multiple instances of the “mandatory edit”. The “hello world” post has got to be one of the…
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Prologue: This is a WhatsApp exchange with a friend from another SEA country. I felt like I should put it up here because it holds in suspended animation this unprecedented time in human history. Even though it’s hard to imagine, I know that things will return to normalcy and that we will look back at…
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I think this is a great little starting device for someone who wants to be more mindful of their activity patterns and/or who wants to get into a habit of walking/running.
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The 2020s is going to be the most defining decade of my life. Can I name one thing that will be different tomorrow that hasn’t changed between yesterday and today? No. But it still feels like the beginning of something. And that’s all that matters to me.
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I’ve noticed that my mind goes blank if I ever “stop to think”. I thought it had something to do with my concentration, but the other day, I had a revelation (while talking). I talk to think! It makes perfect sense. One of the benefits of being a talk-to-think kinda person is that I make…
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I’ve been using the Instagram Stories and it has taken the place of my old WhatsApp Stories contact list, only on steroids. Seriously, this is such a great feature. It’s ephemeral nature allows me to post without abandon, the tagging and re-sharing is great for pulling people into the conversation and the stickers/filters/text additions are…
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I’ve always had a love-hate relationship with traditional social media, but without the love. Probably something to do with the fact that I hate pretentiousness, selfishness, mediocrity (in others lol). I don’t use Facebook (or Messenger) to this day, and my account largely exists because of those once-in-a-while times I need to reach out to…