The cute app lying to you about your carbon footprint
Paying to offset your carbon footprint probably won't work very well
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Trying vegan cheese as a non-vegan in Dairyland
I recorded myself trying a bunch of vegan cheeses and decided to put that on the Internet.
This—text?—really could've been an email
Why pay for SMS when email does all the things?
It won't be perfect. Do it anyway
I made a [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kp1GRdVspFo) that goes with this post! That spark is really an amazing thing to experience. When the right one hits the tinder in your mind, it swells into a little campfire. You stay up all night, huddled over it, feeding it idea after idea to keep it alive. But you never give it firewood - you don't nurture it enough to give it a life of its own.…
Oats and coffee
Hmm, another post about food. I was inspired to write this after reading [this post from Frills](https://frills.dev/blog/240325-breakfast/), who was in turn inspired by [this post from James](https://jamesg.blog/2024/03/21/eggs-and-coffee/)! I don't mind eating the same things every day. That's especially true for breakfasts — like lots of people, I don't really want to think about what to eat in…
Meema's toasted cheese
I grew up with Meema next door. I could walk through the woods, past the shed and fruit trees, and enter through the screen porch (I can hear the screen door opening and closing...). She'd often offer to make toasted cheese, the best grilled cheese sandwich known to any child. I'd sit up at her counter and watch while she worked. I haven't been able to make it exactly the way she makes it (in this…
A digital garden and a second brain
These ideas sometimes seem at odds. A [garden suggests curation](./garden-games), but brains aren't curated (at least, mine isn't!). But by building this space as [both a digital garden and a second brain](./digital-garden), I am (hopefully) reducing overhead and eliminating some of the difficulty of adoption. The end result treats meta-notes like these (and evergreen notes) the same way it treats…
The Kobo Glo
I bought my [Kobo Glo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobo_Glo) #eink e-reader from eBay on October 25, 2019 for $23.50 plus about $10 shipping (though it looks like costs have increased since), and I've been using it for about a year and a half. Despite a few issues, it's served me pretty well overall, and I see myself continuing to use it for at least a few more years.  lately. They're so visually and auditorily pleasing, and Emma does a masterful job with the feeling her channel creates. It…
Iceland's Thingvellir National Park
> ⚠️ This post is, uh, vintage. An antique? Anyway, it originally had images, but I can't find some of them now. Looks like I'd saved them to a CMS that no longer exists, and this post wasn't captured by the Web Archive. I'm sure I could track them down, but I'm lazy right now. There were also a few broken links. I've linked to the Web Archive and other current sources where possible. Enjoy! When…