Hawaii: 11/10 Denalis. It’s been an incredible trip, all around. I woke up this morning excited to go home (and, honestly, mostly excited to see Denali again), but not tired of being here or wishing I was already home. This tells me that I calibrated this trip right–long enough to really get to enjoy the…

This is just a place to throw down some thoughts on the places I visit on my month-long stay on the Big Island. Some notes on my scale: 10/10 Denalis: among the best I’ve ever had. I will plan entire days (or entire trips) around going to this place and doing the thing there. [very…

($150/year billed annually, $14.99/month billed monthly, $829 lifetime, plus costs of a server, controllers, and endpoints) [Tl;dr: This system is not without its flaws, and there are certainly cheaper/free options in the market that accomplish at least some of the same functionality, but for someone like me that values the ability to quickly and easily…

When I was 19 or 20, Subaru brought its rally team to the Gorge Games. This meant that there were a number of the new 2002 “bug-eye” Impreza WRXs running around Hood River, all in the World Rally Classic Blue (what I think of as Subaru blue): I … fell in love. This was the…

Introduction A couple of years ago, towards the end of 2021, I started seeing a new phenomenon popping up all across my social media feeds: Spotify Wrapped. It was a really cool, social media-friendly analysis of my friends’ listening habits across the last year. I don’t, and probably won’t ever, use Spotify in any regular…

 [Editor’s note: this is something I drafted in 2023, reflecting on my 2022 listening habits after seeing a bunch of my friends uploading their Spotify Wrapped packages. I built my own. I’m not sure I ever posted it anywhere, particularly based on the missing information re: Roon which I can’t really access after the fact…

  [Editor’s note: this is something I wrote in 2022, reflecting on my 2021 listening habits after seeing a bunch of my friends uploading their Spotify Wrapped packages. I built my own. I’m uploading these here as part of my effort to get the things I occasionally have to spend time scouring FB for in…

 M2 Macbook Air 13” Review [$1100 MSRP, always $1049.99 at Costco, occasionally on sale around $900 or $950] [Tl;dr: This laptop is nuts. It’s the first computer I’ve ever owned where I have essentially no notes other than a slight complaint about USB-C ports and reliance on Bluetooth. And the fact that it’s surprisingly affordable,…