Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • RUSH vs. LA Park

    There are lots of reviews of this match, right? What none of them mention is that this one does the best thing in wrestling that any wrestlers can do. They both go into this one for themselves.

    You see, though. I didn't know about this match before I rewatched this match for the project was that this match was probably very certainly a gentleman's agreement of sorts, not a typical wager, but one so dramatic and purposeful it just makes the match so much better.

    They obviously came in wanting to lose their damn jobs. They don't like it here, this is a damn statement. This isn't even a damn statement—this is a damn war. Hell, this match was even no disqualifications.

  • Raze vs. Dramacydal

    I'm pretty sure better people have (or will write) written about this at the Yard Subject To Change blog. Not to bury myself, but they're all better writers than me.

    My good friend M0ndo sent this to me, so this was actually one of the matches I was most excited to get to. What I do have to say, now, is that I do have to inevitably make the pilgrimage to the Little Flower Playground. Because there's something so stupid about this. Dramacydal, definitely a new favorite drunken wrestler to watch while I smoke a bit, and Raze, a man who needs no real introduction.

  • Ideal day

    What kind of day would you call perfect? When was the last time you experienced one?

    I don't know what you are answering (if you are answering) when you’re reading this (if anyone is). I suspect that many people would answer that it would be a day in which nothing unpleasant happened to them, maybe in which they were productive, maybe in extreme hedonistic attitudes it would be the kind of day in which they could only experience pleasure all day. Maybe it would be a day in which they would encounter something special that they dream of, but do not hope for. I think that if I had asked this question to myself years ago, my answer would have been some combination of those listed above. Of course, I realize that there are many other answers, I write about the ones that seem most popular to me.

    The reason I'm writing about this is that I realized that something had changed in my attitude, and when I asked myself this question, it turned out that, above all, my thoughts had turned to.... my attitude. Attitude towards the world. So I didn't think about what could happen to me, but what my reaction would be, what I would do when confronted with tasks, decisions to be made, situations that appeared before me.

• Politics and World Events

  • Leasehold Derangement Syndrome

    Anyone who's spent any time discussing the UK leasehold issue on Twitter will likely have encountered this parallel universe of wishful thinking and self-delusion that seems to afflict many leaseholder advocates, understandably so in some cases where the leaseholder has been seriously harmed. Combined with a firehose of half-truths and misdirections from the pro-sector voices, it leaves the whole space a toxic wasteland.

    I've documented at some length just *one* of the outrageous claims of the sector, namely the "Agency Canard" (effectively denying that ownership and management are separable, despite centuries of representative democracy and publicly traded companies). They use this to scare people into not obtaining control of the management of blocks of flats, on the theory that being able to appoint a new manager is somehow the obligation to actually do that manager's job. How do people have time to make this absurd claim, when they must be doing the jobs of everyone they can afford to employ?

  • Outing myself as a filthy lib (the Canadian party kind)

    I'm an NDPer provincially. But I FINALLY managed to vote in the federal Liberal's leadership race.

    Last week I verified myself on the Canada Post Identity+ App but I think my Custom ROM, Sandboxed Google Play Services phone didn't like it. I had to verify a few times before it took hold. The vote hadn't started yet so I thought I was gucci.

    Fastforward to the voting period. I go through all the steps and when I get to the voting dashboard?

    "No current ballots."

• Technology and Free Software

  • A new hardware project

    Earlier this week I put together a color e-ink picture frame powered by a Raspberry Pi.

    It was a pretty easy, fun little project. For the past few days I’ve been having it run a simple script I wrote that chooses a random photo of mine and overlays the current weather conditions every 30 minutes.

    I’ll share more about it including photos in a future post. In the meantime, I plan on making a new frame for it. The screen I chose is just barely too small for a standard 5x7 inch frame, so to get it in the frame I used I had to get a little hacky and the end result is a bit sloppier than I would like.

  • Internet/Gemini

    • My surface web experience

      It's been a few week now that I've been back on the surface. It's been an interesting experiment, but I feel like a change is needed again.

      What is the surface?

      I want to answer this as one friend mentioned that mastodon wasn't really the surface web. To be fair, mastodon is a really sweet place on the surface, but I still feel that it's being part of the surface web. Maybe even saying that mastodon is on the lower end of the surface (which is a good thing!)

      If it's on the http protocol, publicly accessible, searchable, I consider it surface. Not only that, but people on mastodon links to a lot of other surface web medias. The door is open to youtube, news sites and the rest of the surface web.

    • 2025-03-08

      I created this capsule almost 5 years ago. I can't remember why I never continued with it. But I do know why, even when I remembered its existence, that I didn't go back to it.

      Some time ago, I abandoned my real name moniker. Honestly, I am bewildered by people who use both their first and last name freely on the Internet. The main thing I'm worried about is anything making it back to my employer. I'd like to think I don't have anything to hide, but the threat of saying "the wrong thing" that could have real life consequences is not a risk I'm willing to take.

    • Working title: Substance & Shadow (space opera)

      Hullo, regulars! First post.

      I also tend to share rambling scribbles infrequently on my instagram, the account is the same as my username on here but with a dot in the middle.