.horizontal { display: flex; gap:10px; } .horizontal img { max-width: 50%; min-width: 0; height: auto; } I keep forgetting to write a post. Instead what happens is I leave myself little bread-crumb trails of notes (“chitaru shiota exhibit; can’t relate”, “birdhouse craft”), like a woman fleeing a cr...

An article from 2015 is making the rounds again because the internet has no new ideas and neither do we, that says Shakespeare (yes that Shakespeare) was quite possibly absolutely baked out of his mind the entire time. Pipes found in his garden. Cannabis residue. And honestly this explains so much. ...

A Ritz-Carlton hotel in California closed an entrance after a hummingbird made a nest on a door handle and, amidst all the daily ambient horror of simply being a person with a phone in 2026, it is nice to be reminded of the kinds of small lives we still agree to make room for. Have you noticed that ...

There’s something good going on with music these days. Romance by Fontaines D.C. is a perfect album. I have listened to it almost every single day for weeks and have not gotten sick of it once, which is – and I mean this clinically – a medical miracle. Jack White is on SNL. The Strokes are touring. ...

Thinking about resuscitating regular written updates. Reasons, in order of honesty: vanity it might pressure me into actually doing something worth reporting on writing is a part of my brain that has been gathering dust and I am becoming increasingly concerned this is turning me into a bore. Found a...

I have 4 (rounded up) beefs with language-y AI bots that have resulted in me sort of avoiding them altogether: They have the personality of a middle manager who writes Google Docs all day that nobody wants to read They’re reallllly good at guessing but not actually that smart, which leads to very co...

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(This is a post mostly about art but I swear there’s a moral in here for all you tech readers, or at least a discounted therapy lesson.) As you may have noticed from these latest posts, at the beginning of this year I decided to “do more art”. This went really well for a couple of months: I was maki...

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It’s been one week since you looked at me 8 months since I’ve been writing these weekly notes, and I think I’m going to take a small break from it. It’s been a good experiment, but I’ve been getting sloppy with remembering they’re due, and it’s starting to feel a bit self-indulgent. Because I don’t ...

On Monday Frances took me to the teamLab exhibition at the Asian Art museum. It was really wonderful! I hadn’t seen the one in Japan so I was new to it, but the interactive art nerd in me was all over the concept and trying to figure out what was static and what was interactive, and where the sensor...

First off: I think I’ve done a bad numbering in some of these recent weeks, because I wanted to write about what I actually did on July 13/14, but apparently I’ve already counted that week? Counting, man, a hell of a thing. My good friend Maeghan who aside from being a top drawer human being and tsw...

So here’s what happened: I went on vacation and because I’m leaning so hard into this funemployment life I didn’t open my laptop once. Every year Zach and I go to his parents’ (now my in-laws! hah!) lake in Minnesota for the 4th of July. Normally we fly there, but last year we drove (because of the ...

The last time I changed something big on my site was 3+ years ago. I was really into gradient rainbow text and IBM Plex Mono. It was a mild increment over whatever I had before, which was just a cleaned up and colourful version of Left from like 6 years prior. Anyway, what I’m saying is: this websit...

It’s true, I did. I also wrote a blog post about it because tbh I did a good job on it, and it’s a good read. As two ladies of leisure, Frances and I went to the MOMA on a weekday to see the new Nam June Paik exhibition. I didn’t love all of it, but the bits I really enjoyed were all about putting T...

Weird flex: been making cheese fondue for lunch because I make the rules here. One of the (many) amazing things about being a Canadian living in California is that this state (unlike, say, no-rules-nevada) doesn’t recognize non-US driving licenses. This means that after almost 20 years of getting my...

Trying out titles because I have enough weeks that even I can’t tell them apart and I lived through them. Sports!!! We went to the Nations League ⚽️ semis and finals in Denver. If you don’t know this about me, I am a bit of a football (soccer) hooligan. Zach and I go to games, we sit in suporter sec...

Chopped off 10 inches of my hair and I feel unstoppable. I always think I can deal with mermaid hair when the reality is I cba to brush it and it keeps getting longer and drier until I’m ready to take the kitchen scissors to it. I resisted that impulse and got a professional to cut it. Am I finally ...

normalcy resumes chez nous. I know this isn’t true everywhere, so if you’re in a place of lockdown: I am sorry for how annoying these updates will be. I was a good girl and bunkered down for over a year, and now I’ve got antibodies in spades and taking advantage of it. first trip of the after times:...

Ya look at that? It’s May already. My dog’s is turning 2 on the 14th, does anyone have any good dog cake recipes or should I just give her an almost-empty jar of peanut butter with the same success rate? I got my second fouchie outchie! (#teampfizer). I wouldn’t say it bodied me the next day, but I ...

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I’ve been skipping weeks because a) literally nothing happens and b) I don’t have a good system to update these notes. They’re a markdown file on a GitHub repo, and I kind of need a computer to edit it, but I also kind of don’t open my computer that much these days? I also keep forgetting which day ...

First week of being funemployed! It was very weird. By Wednesday I had lost track of what day it was, and I kept thinking it was a Saturday. By Friday I was overwhelmed with capitalism guilt and thinking that I HAD to do something to “stay productive”. What a fake idea y’all; it hadn’t even been a f...

Let’s not bury the lede: I quit my job. After 8 years of working there, Google feels like a very different company than the one I joined, one that aligns less and less with my values, and it was time to move on. It sucks, because my immediate team was a group of wonderful people who do great work; I...

Calico came out and I finished it in 2 days! It’s an adorably cute game about running a pet cafe in a fantastical little world. It’s honestly the kind of game I would make. It has an incredible cooking activity interaction, which I can only describe as “shit, this game engine has physics and collisi...

Trying something really revolutionary this week which is “doing nothing”. Bear with me here. I mean: listening to an audio book and NOT also cleaning the house. Just sitting, listening to that book and doing nothing. WASTING THAT TIME. In this economy??? Yes. Do I dislike the idea? Also yes. Related...

It’s been another week of people being shit, innit? I know I should be used to this by now, but it never ceases to amaze me the capability people have for violence and evil, and the capability the patriarchy has to excuse it. “Dude had a bad day”? For real real? If that excuse has legs then you’d ex...

I took the whole week off because I was very tired of life. It’s the year anniversary of the last time the world was normal and it’s bringing me down. Between covid and immigration delays it’s looking very 50/50 on whether I can attend my closest cousin’s wedding this fall in Romania, and I’m beyond...

This week was entirely consumed by the fact that I opened an online store to sell generative “art” prints. Art is in quotations here because I have a deeply unhealthy relationship with calling anything I do art, or myself an artist, but we don’t have time to for a therapy session right now. It went ...

I got deep into geocaching, friends. I found 3 caches in Arizona! I didn’t sign any of them because I kept forgetting to bring a pen, so now nobody will know I was there. Geocaching is mad in the US. We drove back from Arizona (flying? in this economy??), and there were HUNDREDS along the highway. F...