Scifi/horror film, directed by John Carpenter [1] . On December 14, 2020, I watched a Youtube video called "They Live - glasses scene" -- no recollection as to what linked me to it (probably some reddit comment), but I watched it. Since then, I have occasionally thought [2] about this scene and figured I would someday watch the movie, since I was interested in the premise. That day was today,…
As of July 2026, I potentially have a two week trip to Greece coming up in September. It barely crossed my mind to learn any of the language, until my mom made a comment: "Are you going to learn Greek?". I scoffed and said, "of course not." But the seed was planted. Once rooted in my mind, it started to feel inevitable for me to at least learn a little bit about the language and see what beginner…
What's up. What's going on. What am I doing, reading, interesting stuff to share that I don't feel like making a separate page for. I don't expect myself to keep this super regularly updated or fully comprehensive of my activity - but it's a place to put stuff that I find noteworthy. August 2026 Media Rewatching ATLA last month and finishing catching up on Rick & Morty is reminding me how good…
The Wheel of Time. 14 books, the first published in 1997, the last in 2013. The author, Robert Jordan, passed away, and Brandon Sanderson took up the wheel to complete the last three books, based heavily on notes left behind by Robert Jordan and by all accounts did a tremendously great job at finishing it off. My friend Elliott recommended the series to me, citing it as one of his most loved…
Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior — Park et al. (2023) https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.03442 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY5Wncq5vAE Experiment - simulated a small town called "Smallville" with a bunch (couple dozen?) of characters - only input from the start is small character bios. Agents then live out their day to day lives and have interactions with each other. There is…
Forums: LD4all Dreamviews They were just so much more active ten years ago, and likely more actively the further in the years prior too. Now it feels like there is more activity on Reddit [1] r/luciddreaming, and Discord groups (I'm in one big lucid dreaming one, and then one that is the official LD4all one). Why do I feel like forums are better than Discord groups? Discord is designed for…
It never crossed my mind in the past that I'd ever want to make one of these. Do I even like comics? I have enjoyed some Instagram webcomic creators (if isolated panel-clusters per post would be considered a webcomic creator) like Alex Norris's "webcomic_name" / "oh no" comics. Besides for that, I have occasionally come across some other ones, but I don't really browse Instagram for exploration,…
Idea is to animate the objects on top of my dresser in my childhood bedroom coming to life and jumping off the dresser and going on some adventure.
Idea is to make a 3D model doll house of my childhood house. Could be cool to 3D print it. It would open up like a dollhouse and you could look into all the rooms, and when closed it would look like the house from the outside. Could be nightmare / horror-movie fuel though, something to consider (joking but I acknowledge this could be a little creepy. [1] ). Reminding myself of the book "Time…
I've had a couple Hadestown -related ideas for 3D modeling/printing over the years. Not spoiler-related ideas: 3D model+print of the set of Hadestown Spoiler-related ideas: [!DANGER] Spoilers ahead. [!DANGER] Spoilers ahead. [!DANGER] Spoilers ahead. [!DANGER] Spoilers ahead. [!DANGER] Spoilers ahead. The ending Orpheus moment, crouched by the hole in the ground and looking into it distraught,…
I'd like to be able to draw people from imagination. This isn't a new goal. In 2020, I started a small list of (mostly creativity-oriented) goals for myself, and one of them was: "I want to be able to draw a realistic person in any pose". As of 2026, I haven't made much progress on this since adding it to the list. And I'm not necessarily saying that right now is the time to do so, but I've been…
Director: Céline Sciamma (French film) I liked this a lot! Even gave it a heart on Letterboxd. A lovely premise+story. Full of emotion; depiction of artistic vision; sensuality; echoes of mythology. A likely candidate for a rewatch (rare for me). Good writing and cinematography and direction. Bits of it also drive some inspiration to draw+paint, play piano, and like most good indie films I see…
Welcome to my little corner of the Internet. Hi. This is a mix of a blog and personal wiki. It's a place for me to: Comment on media I've consumed Share about my interests and personal projects Document viewpoints or aspects of my life that I want to share with the world You can Subscribe For Email Updates if you'd like to stay tuned. I recommend looking at the hierarchy of topics and seeing what…
Doings Starting to learn some Greek in preparation for a short trip coming up. Articles Netflix character requirements: "have this character announce what they’re doing so that viewers who have this program on in the background can follow along". This came up for me because of a really bad line in the S2 Netflix adaptation of Avatar Last Airbender, where a character did exactly that (Youtuber Drew…
by Kim Stanley Robinson 'Twas an apocalyptic-feeling day - July 15, 2026 - when wildfire smoke that drifted from Canada had filled the NYC skies with a reddish haze. I was seventeen e-book pages away from completing War and Peace and it would soon be time to select the next book I would read. After reading some Reddit comments in response to the wildfire events which made some dramatic (perhaps…
Sounds like kind of a silly question, doesn't it? But it's a serious one. Inspired by this line someone wrote: "If I wouldn't eat a dog no matter what, why should I want to suddenly eat a cow if it has been treated like a dog?". The "treatment" we are talking about here is with regards to the conditions of the cow's life [1] . For the cow to have a "good" life where it's free to do what it wants…
#project Note: This page was formerly titled "Specific Main App Pursuit I'm Currently Working On" Slowness I started writing down ideas related to this project in July of 2024. It's taken me a really long time to make progress. There are several factors that have caused this. General life stuff - changing priorities, other pursuits capturing my interest (like piano and learning Japanese)…
#gamedev #project A game I made during a high school summer program I attended in summer of 2018. It's an infinite scroller. You control a bee's movement to the left and right as it moves forward toward the horizon, collecting flowers and avoiding birds. The graphics were very simplistic (I vaguely wanted to make them better in the future but never went back to it). I published it to the Google…
#podcast #entrepreneurship Episode #177 of the Indie Hackers Podcast: "Mastering the Lifestyle-First Approach to Indie Hacking with Daniel Vassallo" - published October 20, 2020 Overview This was a good listen. After listening to 1 Second Everyday - Indie Hackers Podcast and much enjoying it, I wanted to give another episode a try. I actually asked Chat GPT for the best episodes of the podcast,…
#podcast #entrepreneurship #digitalgarden Written on: 2025-12-07 Well hello there. This is my first ever attempt at an actual blog post / garden entry. Yesterday was the first day I learned of the concept of a Digital Garden, from a short bit of this video (Relevant part at about 26:45 but the whole video is worth watching), which directed me to this article for more context on Digital Gardens.…
Video title: "Don't Follow Your Dreams, Follow Your Tools" Channel: Hank Green Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_Rqf-vxBM8 Relevant part of the video: "When they're like, 'how do you decide what to do?' -- 'I fall downhill,' is what I say. I am not swimming upstream, very rarely. I might be swimming upstream in terms of the broader culture, but in terms of my skillset and my toolkit and my…
Concept from Ready Player One -- you enter a movie in VR and you have to play along as one of the characters in the movie, say the right lines, etc. Rick and Morty S8E7 ("Ricker Than Fiction") reminded me of this too (though they mess with the plot) It has occasionally crossed my mind that LLM-based AI could probably get us to something similar. I asked ChatGPT if there are any current…
#coding #project #miniproject Restaurant AI VR Simulation Please Don't Spearphish Me (Creating an Obsidian Plugin)
One of my strongest interests in Virtual Reality is the idea of having an auto-generating virtual environment. Similar to the game simulation in Ender's Game [1] . (well... ultimately not really but kind of) ↩︎
Whoops, it's been two and a half years since I've watched a Rick and Morty episode! Back then, I had watched up through season 6. Then there was the wait for the next season, and I just never got back into it. But now apparently I'm in the mood for it again (and I'm over the fact that they changed the voice actor(s?) starting in S7 -- not that I disagree with their decision to do so, but it had me…
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Sci-fi author, one of my favorites. Contender [1] for favorite overall author. Also apparently studied under Ursula K. Le Guin (another favorite author). His books that I've read: Mars trilogy The Years of Rice and Salt (Contender for one of my overall favorite books) Shaman contender because I'm bad at committing to 'favorites' ↩︎
The title is misleading. It's not AI art falling in the forest. It's human-made art. Here is the question I pose: If you see a piece of art, and you do not know who created it, is it any different from AI-generated art? Or, put a different way: Is AI-generated art just as valuable as human-made art if you don't know what human made the art? A couple assumptions are necessary: It is impossible to…
When I was first creating this digital garden, I was wondering if I should add a comments system so that people can react and discuss to my posts. There could be genuine community and engagement developed through that. It's possible I may change my decision in the future. However, I have been hesitant to add a comments system. Instead, if someone wants to react to something I've written, I hope…
Finished July 2026. Excellent. Easy? No. Some slow parts, some Tolstoy philosophy. But - strongly compelling character arcs. Though I may eventually have otherwise found my way to reading War and Peace, what got me to read it at the time that I did was 100% caused by Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 , a Broadway musical (Tony-nominated) based on an ~80 page slice of the book (the…
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I have never typed the name Dostoevsky until this moment -- it's a milestone. I have also never read any of his books (though I probably will eventually). However, I did recently read a blog post called "Dostoevsky as lover" by Henrik Karlsson on his blog "Escaping Flatland" -- it's part 2 of his series of posts starting with Looking for Alice , which was a high-impact article for me. As part of…
This should be like 2025 Music Retrospective but more as the year goes on rather than one burst at the end (though I may reflect at the end). Standouts Jan-April Mostly taking this from my playlist called "Stepping Forward Briskly" "Family Business" (album) by Lawrence A friend recommended Lawrence to me years ago and I never really explored it, so this is the first -- and I'm glad I did. I…
Flying Pretty happy with my ability here generally. Perhaps I can improve on actually flying to get to another specific destination (more of a travel skill than just flight itself) Hovering different from flying - flying involves leaping off from the ground usually, with hovering it would be a more gentle, intentional start into floating a short height from the ground and gliding through the air.…
https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/looking-for-alice Dating advice which feels refreshing. My main takeaways: Introduces a concept of "pattern matching" -- during the process of learning what you are looking for in a person, gradually narrowing down your criteria and choosing to spend more time in spaces where the people who fit your criteria are more likely to be. It's something I've been already…
#digitalgarden Things to do: (Done 12/13/2025) Set my own favicon instead of the default add a commenting system (Done, 12/8/2025) Or at least an (optionally-anonymous) feedback/contact form in the mean time make it so the date published and date last updated appears on pages make a list of my hobbies/interests (and then eventually link pages/folders from them) be able to see page view count…
Podcast I've been loving -- each episode is a discussion about recent science news and current events with the lens of scientific skepticism. Skepticism here is in the context of always questioning things and not believing things just because you are told them or because its the popular view; holding beliefs that are based in evidence/facts. I like that they not only talk about interesting topics,…
Articles: Article I found via Makoism (which seems to be my new favorite blog lately -- or at least I've really liked the links that he posts): Why I'm Not Worried About Running Out of Work in the Age of AI - Standout part to me: You want to be driving the tools, not driven by them. Aggressively learn AI. Be the person who knows the most about solving problems using AI tools — integrating them,…
Reading / taking notes on this article: https://letters.thedankoe.com/p/why-your-life-feels-fake-an-antidote (found via Makoism coffee post) "You wake up. and rather than hiding from the day by pressing snooze, you can’t wait to get up." Unfortunately I definitely do not wake up excited for my day most of the time. There is usually a vague sense of not really wanting to start working for the day.…
Notes about https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/search-query "A blog post is a very long and complex search query to find fascinating people and make them route interesting stuff to your inbox" TODO : apparently this is part 3 of a series of posts, starting at https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/first-we-shape-our-social-graph-then "you can shape yourself by reshaping your relationships" " Writing for a…
No one has specifically asked me this question (not directly at least) but it kind of is a certain subtext to the vegan experience, so I will answer it. The answer: The intellectual and rational refusal to support animal exploitation/suffering/unnecessary_death far outweighs the sensation of satisfying the desire for this "missed" food item or any pleasure that might arise from consuming it. It's…
I've been vegan since around 2020. My reasons for staying vegan include the health benefits, an opposition to animal exploitation, and the environmental benefits. Read On Cooking - Veganism and Whole-Food Plant-Based Diet for some more description of my journey. Notes about veganism: Asked Why Am I Vegan Animal Agriculture As An Atrocity Why do vegans want imitation meat On Cooking - Veganism and…
Doings I sewed a button back onto my shorts. Huge news, I know. First time doing this. Needle and thread. Followed youtube vids. I went on a Foraging tour with Wildman Steve Brill - foraged (and ate) plants in Central Park. Great experience! I'm excited to become more confident on identifying the plants we saw. I've finally gone back to the sketch I made in January for Pools (2025)#Paint a picture…
I've had many ideas related to this topic. I can explain it in more depth in the future, but for right now I'm just going to paste a tiny thought-stream question I asked ChatGPT and then the AI response. Just a little bit of ideating for something I know I want to spend more time on in the future. I want want 3d environment building to be an art form, a kind of journaling and exploration and…
It's more of a dream project than a goal -- this would be a long-spanning thing over many dreams. Equally as importing as experiencing it is writing+documenting it. This goal has served as a strong point of motivation that gets me looking forward to mastering my dreams, because I think it would be so cool to do this. The task The way I've envisioned it in my head: in a dream, I establish a…
The term and concept of "persistent realms" comes from this DreamViews post by Hyu in 2012 [1] . It's probably one of my favorite posts in a lucid dreaming forum ever. Essentially, the idea is to establish a consistent universe within your dreams which you can go back to across different dreams and things will be somewhat how you left them. For example, you could enter a persistent realm in one…
I've come across this concept a couple times, and it's extremely appealing and aligns with my hopes for the future, especially as a contrast to how the current dominant systems in the world's governments work. But what if there is something good to look forward to? A future where technological advancements and the power of industry can be used for the good of mankind and our planet. ~ "A…
I try to be pretty privacy-aware went writing publicly. This includes not disclosing where exactly I'll be at a specific time and place. I don't want someone malicious to know where I'll be! It feels more okay to talk about where I was, after it happened. For example, saying I was at a certain concert or similar event. There's something similar I've seen people do for their public Instagram…
Oh My Rockness is a website that lists music shows in NYC. It also lets you filter by shows that are free to attend. I've never actually attended a show through the site, but I've wanted to. My one qualm with it is that it does not easily show the genre of the bands or a description of the kind of music they play. There are so many event listings that it's hard to make a choice of which I might be…