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I recently came into possession of a book called España Mistica by José Ortiz-Echagüe as a Christmas gift from my good buddy Harley. Thanks man! José was a Spanish photographer born around the end of the 19th century, who saw the oncoming industrialization of his country as a young man. He understood this change to be unavoidable, and his desire was to capture different aspects of Spanish life…
Earlier this summer I brought home an old Nissan Pickup, also commonly known as the Nissan Hardbody or Nissan D21. I had been looking for one of these trucks for over two years before I found one in good shape, but that’s the Rust Belt for you. I picked her up from an older gentleman and retired mechanic in Southern Pennsylvania, who only put ~3,000 miles on the thing during the 15 years…
Last weekend, my wife and I spent two nights at a small cabin in a quiet place. It’s really not much, but I wanted to share these few photos from our stay. I hope you will enjoy them. This place is so warm. Deep in the holler. Impasse. October 10th, 2025. There is shade in the shadow of the cross after all.
There’s a cool project in the classic Casio space that I’ve wanted to check out for a while called Sensor Watch . The project is headed up by Joey Castillo, and aims to add more modern functionality to the Casio F-91W. The latest revision, Sensor Watch Pro, just started shippping a few weeks ago – so I bought one. So what is it? Sensor Watch is a drop-in board replacement for the…
Here’s something I’ve been meaning to do for a while. I’ve created a Github repo for this site’s theme, which I am dubbing Latitude . Latitude was originally forked from Luke Smith’s Lugo , so a special thanks goes to him for helping me to grasp Hugo themes. Several features from Lugo have been carried over into Latitude. Some notable stuff: I don’t have Hugo…
This post is probably going to come off as a sort of boomer rant, but I feel compelled to share it because I haven’t really heard anyone talk about this before (including actual boomers, ironically). Anyways, I miss landlines. Or maybe it’s more accurate to say that I miss the rhythm of life that landlines were designed for. I know the idea seems asinine – but I assure you, my…
Good afternoon, and blessed Lord’s Day to everyone! I just wanted to write a quick update to announce that my current GPG key will be expiring this coming St. Valentine’s day. I have already generated a new keypair to replace the old one, which is currently available to download on my Contact page . If you have my keys already, please download the new key and replace it at your soonest…
Hello everyone! I hope that you all are having a blessed holiday with your friends and family. I wanted to share something that we recently started at my local parish, a “Traveling Icon Prayer Ministry” . Sometime back in February, our priest came to our home to perform the yearly house blessing. After the blessing had concluded, we sat down to enjoy dinner together, and he told us…
Last Friday night, I recieved a text from my brother – a photo that he had taken of the Northern Lights. To my knowledge, the Lights have never made an appearance in Pennsylvania remotely within my lifetime. After I saw his photo, I immediately walked outside to see if the Lights were visible from my house, but the lights of the town were obstructing the view. Knowing that I may never have…
This is an update to an announcement I made on Thursday in regards to my Gallery page being down for the count. After some poking around, I discovered that I was able to continue using the html page I had written specially for the Gallery by making a few adjustments – namely, by adding some good old Hugo front matter, in conjunction with removing the <article> div tags. I’m not exactly…
Several days ago, I noticed that my Gallery page wasn’t rendering correctly for some reason. Well, as it turns out, Hugo got a pretty big update just a few days ago that included several breaking changes . One of these changes was in regards to how Hugo treats html files in the /content directory. Unlike all of the other index pages on my website, the Gallery was written in plain html. At…
When I was young, I was surrounded by very strong opinions when it came to giving money to beggars. It seemed that most of the adults in my life at that time all had a philosophy that was more-or-less the same, which boiled down to something like this: “I’ll give them food, but I won’t give them money.” In all fairness, it seems sensible, and I can truly understand why some…
So a few years back, I decided that it would be a good idea to host a little XMPP server for myself and some personal friends. I bought the domain undimmed.net , pointed it to a server running Debian 10, and got everything going in a short afternoon. I even went through the trouble of creating a little landing page for it. Well, long story short, that XMPP server hasn’t been active in quite…
Sometime last year, I stumbled across something a little more unique: Hestia Tobacco Company. Who is Hestia? Hestia Tobacco Company, founded in 2010 by a gentleman named David Sley, began by manufacturing filtered cigars 1 in small-scale. In more recent years the company has really boomed, and they’ve transitioned over to manufacturing true cigarettes, which they proudly claim are “the…
I decided to take a few minutes this afternoon to upgrade the server to the latest stable release of Debian, which at the time of writing is Debian 12 Bookworm. On top of that, I also got my SearXNG instance up and running again! Hopefully I won’t have to do that again for another 5 years.
I never thought I would’ve had the motivation to do it, but here we are. Since the beginning of this weekend, I’ve been taking advantage of my small, dispersed moments of free time to migrate my site to Hugo. It felt like a big task, but it wasn’t as bad as I thought it was going to be. Why move to Hugo? At first, I actually didn’t want to. I’m a boomer at heart in…
Tomato Bruschetta Several weeks ago, the priest from our home parish decided to take a very well-deserved vacation. In his absence, we decided to attend the services at another familiar parish just outside of town. The priest at this parish, along with his wife, had prepared a bruschetta for the coffee hour following the Liturgy using tomatoes, garlic, and basil that they had grown themselves. I…
Contact Me E-Mail 📬 The best way to get in touch with me is via e-mail. Feel free to shoot me a message if you have questions, want to respond to something I wrote, or if you just want to say hello. You can reach me at lux@cherub.im . There’s no excuse for not encrypting your mail these days, and I encourage everyone to do so. You can get my GPG key by clicking here , or, if you’re a…
You Are Now Leaving Nowhereville… Some links to other websites I find interesting or worthwhile. This website is a participant in the Heaven Tree Webring. ⟵ 🌲 ⟶ Friends of Mine 👥 Abram Johnson Dunderbucket The Duckfather Tom Fasano The Extra Mundane Michael Carney Misc. Pages & Resources 📖🖋️ Desert Wisdom: Death to the World türksigara.net Low-Tech Magazine Adam…
La Galería “I’m going to need you to be my eyes.” Click any image to take a closer look… She Prays For You. Canon T3i. Helios 44M-4 58mm, f2. Highest Brilliancy. Canon T3i. Canon EF-S 18-55mm, f5.6. Light at the End of the Tunnel. Canon T3i. Helios 44M-4 58mm, f5.6. One Horse Town. Canon T3i. Helios 44M-4 58mm, f2. Bird in the Canyon. Canon T3i. Canon EF-S 18-55mm, f5.6.…
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Allow Me to Introduce Myself… I’m a person who has been created in the image of God. My name is Lucas, and I’m an Orthodox Christian . Pennsylvania is my home. April 28th, 2024. What is this place? This is my personal webpage, where I share photographs that I’ve taken, links to other webpages, and the occasional blog entry. The website itself primarily serves as a creative…
I recently discovered how stupidly easy it is to customize your TTY login prompt. Obviously this knowledge will only apply to startx chads, but it’s not too difficult to migrate away from a login manager if you really want to do this. It surprises me that I don’t see more .jpgs of riced prompts, since the folks using startx tend to be a little more technically literate, I think. But…
A small collection of photographs. There’s this sort of “nature attraction” not far from my parents’ old house. It consists of a waterfall, whose stream cuts down through a small valley, in parallel to a walking trail on the ridge. It used to be one of those places that wasn’t too well known, even if you were a local – you just had to know someone who knew .…
Background About four months ago, I decided I wanted to replace my laptop with a true desktop PC. Having a laptop is nice if you’re a commuter student as I once was, but for a long time I’ve been ready to move on to something more modular, secure, and extensible. A desktop was the obvious choice for me, although I did consider the Framework , Purism , Pine64 , and System76 projects as…