Category: introspection
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Entropy and Consciousness
In this video, Veritasium mentions a statement about how at the heat death of the universe things will get so “boring” that it wont matter if time is going forwards or backwards, and I thought it was really neat because that is the same concept found in Isaac Asimov’s “The Last Question” wherein people ask…
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A Short Introspection on the nickname ‘Timber Tom’
This is extra short, but just a fun little explanation either way: I never really knew my dad as Timber Tom. That was a nickname he used as a forester and parks service worker, which he was never during my “memory years” (>10 years old). It was also his IRC name along with friends Tor…
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Forgetting the nuance of what I am thinking
I have put in my server setup description how I created this site and my workflow for uploading documents. The shorthand is that I use VSCode as a “FTPSSH” where I can text edit and automatically upload, then run a command to build the website. In order to keep track of what I want to…
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Tom Petty is really great (and other core memories)
I think it is really interesting how a single moment in your life can make such a profound impact, even when, at the time, it really didn’t seem very significant. I had just broken up with a long term girlfriend and found my rebound in a really nice girl that lived like 50mi from my…
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What makes work stressful (and why my job is more stressful than my father’s, despite being far easier)
The other day I got to thinking: why are jobs difficult, and, more importantly, what makes jobs stressful? Stress means different things for different people, with some being stressed about social interaction, some stressed about the moral or societal implications of their job, others with the amount of effort and time they need to spend,…
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A Timber Tom-n’t Christmas
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This is the second Christmas that I spent without my dad, and it was A LOT harder than the first. The first Christmas I was more “in shock” so to speak, like the whole concept of my dad not being there was so foreign that I literally half expected him to show up and say…
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I damaged my truck and now I can’t stop thinking about object impermanence
This post was a voice recording transcribed by my Pixel 8 Pro, then cleaned up, proofread, and formatted by ChatGPT. It has been carefully scrutinized to make sure that it still accurately conveys my original message, and is less than 2% different outside of grammatical changes I was driving home today and I started thinking…
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Kicking the can down the road
Dear readers, I ask you a question: do you know who controls you? Most will say the government, some of the funny ones will say a wife/girlfriend, others might say something like an addiction or money (an object or goal), but as far as the tech world is concerned, it really comes down to conglomerate…
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I don’t really understand journaling
Before and during taking care of my dad while he had cancer, I started to journal. I am not 100% sure why, though, and that fact has been bugging me lately. It didn’t really feel good or relieve any stress, I didn’t share it with anyone (not like that would have helped anyway), and I…
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This site isn’t as good as it’s inspiration
I made this site after I saw my dad’s old site because I already had the domain and thought it would be cool to try and recreate something that my dad did in my own way, as sort of an homage to him. However, I just had the realization that I didn’t really make any…