Updates from Brady T.
The next few months of my life are going to be pretty busy. I have Christmas and then a few days in Montreal for the CCO Rise Up conference just around the corner. Come January I'm moving across the country, and will be busy with that. And! By the time I'm settled out there, a difficult crunch time at work will have started and I won't have very much time then. So you can understand my desire to…
The Murder of Peace On the way back from work yesterday, I had one of my best friends and my uncle text at about the same time that Charlie Kirk had been shot. I mostly laughed it off, joking about what the manifesto is going to look like. Shortly thereafter, I learned he had died. I got home quite late after being out with friends and finally watched the video where it was clear he had no chance…
I'm writing this on my way back from a trip to Rome. I mention this not to brag, but as a segue towards the point I wish to make. The interesting thing about Rome (other than it's age) is that there are churches literally everywhere. Everywhere else I've visited there's a church for a different denomination no matter where you look. In the downtown of Rome, every church appears to be a 15th to…
Growing up Catholic, something I was taught was to pray for your future spouse. I don't think I really understood why at the time. Now that I'm older I think I'm beginning to understand the main reasons why I was taught this. All in all, praying for a future spouse comes down to trust in the Lord, and—particularly for men—chivalry. Chivalry My initial thoughts on this subject had to do with how it…
Lofty Goals On New Year's Eve of 2023 , I shared that my new years resolution for 2023 was to read the Bible. I had read a blog post by Ray Patrick showing a simple plan for it , and I was excited to do so. I was crossing off the passages of the plan , and I was hoping to send photocopies of it to Ray once I'd finished to thank him. However, by the summer a combination of summer vacation and…
Growing Potatoes from T rue P otato S eed In the 2022 growing season, I grew potatoes with spuds from a local gardening centre. I think that an unusually hot early spring tricked some of these potatoes into flowering. This was surely part of what inspired me to buy a pack of genetically diverse true potato seeds for 2023. Modern potatoes are grown from existing potatoes, [making them] genetic…
Tonight on Brady's Blog: I try Linux - Summary of a Sojourn with Linux 🐧 , Complain about GPS - Why am I a Luddite for GPS? 🛰️ , Grow corn - Growing Colourful Sweet Corn 🌽 , And talk about pokemon - Deciding between Pokemon and Prayer Time 🛏 .
On how I'm harder on myself than others when it comes to writing. How I came to terms with having a pocket journal, and the descision to start a bible in a year plan for 2023.
Writing about my motivation for switching to GrapheneOS on my cellphone. How that works to help combat tech addiction. Like the cellphone jupiter post, I also use the terms "new old phone" and "old new phone" confusingly.
The goal here was to combine a bunch of two paragraph mini-articles into one. Explaining the pointlesness of Needless Negativity . An extension to my minecraft power process post explaining how I think the internet provides Vicarious Achievenents . A (failed) attmept at a craft Sewing with Hawthorn . Talking about the Importance of Authenticity with fun anecdotes. The Importance of Calling People…
Using Dunbar's Number (a suggested cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships) and using that as a reason to swear off instagram.
Talking about how placing yourself in Creative Mode in Minecraft sucks the fun right out of your world. As related reading: Industrial Society and Its Future (The Unabomber Manifesto).
A summary of the volume of Marvel Movie content that exists (as of June 2022). You will be surprised at how much there is. Honestly, If you've never seen Marvel movies, I wouldn't recommend you start.
A story about how and why I drastically limited the capabilites of my cellphone for a period of nearly six months. I use the terms "new old phone" and "old new phone" and I promise it doesn't get confusing at all.
Especially as someone with a green thumb, I think plastic plants are dumb. This article continues to raise the point that plastic plants are a sign of cognitive dissonance.
About how I have a website because I'm sick of "being the product" and want to take a little bit of control back. Also web design is a pretty useful skill. There's also a section where I dunk on major tech companies.
One of my least favourite posts. Here I talk about how (like with plants), a lack of growth (personal, mental of physical) is as much a sign of sickness as actually being sick. I go on a slight tangent on boredom that could probably be flushed out into a blog post of it's own.
Describing the time that I heavily reworded my favourite bible verse for inclusion in my Instagram Bio, and my realization that I was nitpicking the bible.
Me complaining about the McIntosh apple. In a roundabout way, I make the bold claim that the same downfall of the Red Delicious apple is beginning to affect the McIntosh.
A poem about the seasons originally written for a middle school lunchtime creative writing club, and recreated as my first blog post.