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cyber(b)space notes
or, the personal blog of one Joshua James Erb
Latest posts
The Day the Rains Arrive
An attempt to articulate the feeling of when the monsoon comes to Mumbai.
On Reflection
A very short story.
Breathless in the Hermit Kingdom
Reflecting on a week spent in Bhutan
Explaining Death to a Toddler at the Taj Mahal
A few thoughts after a weekend trip to Delhi and Agra
A Request for Impetus
Good friends are looking for podcast funding
Out of Pocket
Looking at the Chicago suburbs with fresh eyes
Retrograde Motion
or, the perceived movement of a backwards year
Keyboard for Hire
A brief announcement and some thoughts about work
When East Becomes West
Some jumbled thoughts after a week in Oman
Do Buy
Some thoughts on a recent trip
The Quarry of Thought
A metaphor to help you understand this blog
A Year of Antipodal Observations
Personal reflections after a year in Mumbai
Pencil Me In
On first drafts and psychological quirks
Digitally Syndicated Book Reviews
Announcing a dedicated RSS feed for book reviews
Tu Vuo' Fa' l'Italiano
Appreciation through relativity
Goa & Kerala
Thoughts and pictures from recent trips down south
Bookish Concerns
Notes on migrating my reading data to Notion
In Commonplaces
Reserving space for words that I encounter as I move through the world.
Glimpses of the World as It Otherwise Might Be
Part 1, Toward a Heliocentric Infrastructure
Lost in the Haze
Due to budget cuts the contents of the air in your lungs is unknown.
Ways of Seeing
Noting the cultural differences at the movie theater
Shelf Life
Building a Digital Bookshelf with RSS + Eleventy
America, from a distance
Brief notes on what Baudrillard saw in America
A Visit to the Lungs of the City
Discovering Sanjay Gandhi National Park
Against the Synthesis of Intellect
Why I won't use 'AI' for any of my writing
AQ-Aïe
Dealing with the Air Quality Blues
2024 in Retrospect
Like 'wrapped', but more exclusive
How's Work?
A log of work I am doing, want to do, and have done.
Ripe for Review
Quick thoughts on Sarah Rose Etter's latest novel
Dropping the Ocean
Brief log of changes to my home page's currently reading feature
Democracy & Doom Metal
Dry days and Dirge-filled nights in Mumbai
Violence and Derision on Vacation
Some thoughts on recent poolside reading.
Pret a Blogger
Musing on the linguistic mutations induced by global commerce.
The Contingency of Perception
a non-comprehensive account of my shifting assumptions in India
Rules for This Website
Previously undocumented rules I keep in mind when I build this site.
Sickness and Martyrdom
an old, unsummarized post
Auto Generating Dithered Blog Images
Wherein I discuss perceived performance, GitHub actions, and have some fun with CSS
In Situ Books
Pictures of my books in their natural habitat.
Mumbai at Street Level
Reflections after living in India's largest city for a month.
How I Added Maps to my Travel Posts
Quick overview of a new blog feature.
Odd Neighbors
Nobody told me about the snails in Mumbai.
The Improvised City
some half-baked impressions of Mumbai
Ras Malai
an ode to a previously unknown sweet
VS Code Obsolescence
crashing code editors in the year of our lord twenty twenty four?!
Your Man in Mumbai
on traveling to the other side of the world with a toddler and a dog
This World is Ending
What might we build where it once stood?
Walk with Me
why I don't wear headphones when I'm outside
New Spaces
yes, this is about to become a travel blog again
Feeder, Finally
Setting up an RSS feed