Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • The Forest of Jünger and the Buddhist Awakening

    An analysis of the thought of Ernst Jünger in his *The Forest Passage* and Buddhism reveals fascinating intersections, particularly through the evocative images of the 'forest' and 'awakening'. Both represent inner spaces of freedom and authenticity, but with different approaches that offer profound reflections on the human condition and the relationship with the world.

  • Thoughts on Petscop

    Random thoughts dump, not particularly organized or trying to make a specific point. No spoilers for anything other than themes that get revealed in like episode 2, and the general concept of the videos containing hidden secrets.

  • 🔤SpellBinding: CEILOTV Wordo: WIVES

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    If you woke up in the middle of the night, which would you rather find at the foot of your bed: a clown, a doll, a small child, or an old person?

  • Saturday-3

    The house we've inhabited since July of 2024 is unbelievably peaceful. I've never heard so much potential to hear pins dropping.

    It's not at all free from entropy, though. My gosh, what it takes to maintain an orderly life.

    Is it worth the effort?

    Well, obviously in areas where otherwise food poisoning or other environmental factors antithetical to biological life might gain the upper hand.

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    I used to work at a company where we would parity prod db on our local sometimes. and one day I discovered I had 50,000 peoples social security numbers on my laptop

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    i dressed up as a emacs power user ESC ESC ESC C-x C-w

• Technology and Free Software

  • RetroChallenge 2024 entry: Days XXVII - XXXI

  • Internet/Gemini

    • Crostic Nine

      Crostic Nines, the daily acrostic word-guessing puzzle I've been working on, is now live for its alpha release. Check it out, and please let me know of any bugs you might find!

    • Crostic Nines ⑨

      Crostic Nines is a daily acrostic word-guessing puzzle. Given nine clues numbered 0 through 8, you must guess all the words in the puzzle to win, including the "crostic nine"—an additional nine-letter word formed along a vertical line down the middle of the board. The word list contains more than 5,000 entries, all of which are sourced from Bahá'í texts.