The personal site for Jet 'Jetroid' Holt
Today, whilst trying to concentrate on an online lesson, I caught myself distracted. I was thinking about someone that I had disagreed with yesterday; and I wasn’t focussing because of it. I always have troubles with focussing. So much so, that whilst writing the few lines up to this one, I have already been distracted by scrolling on my phone, fiddling with my tweezers, and playing with a set of…
I often hear people say things like “I’m glad that I’m not on Twitter”. A lot of people see Twitter as just endless drama, political debate, trolling, and perhaps even memes too. I’ve certainly seen it used that way and it might even be the most dominant use cases. It’s strange behaviour; people are letting them get upset by something they can’t change, and typing messages that don’t do anything…
I have a mild interest in missing persons, unexplained deaths, and mysterious phenomena, etc. I always have done; one of my favourite books as a kid was “The Complete Book of the Unexplained: A Thrilling Exploration of the Earth’s Most Baffling Mysteries”. These days I mostly get my ‘fix’ through YouTube channels like ‘Dark5’ and ‘Bedtime Stories’. Often, clearly suspicious deaths or…
A number of times over the past year, I have received emails, comments, or seen blog posts that praise me for my work. When I dig deeper, it usually turns out that they know me for one specific project. It’s nice to receive the praise - very nice! - but it makes you feel a bit unappreciated for your other works. I long to be complimented about some minor project that I have all but forgotten…
There’s a blogger that I follow who often refers to something that a particular (very famous) musician did or said, or uses them as an example. The musician is clearly an inspiration (and perhaps an idol) for the blogger, and influences their thinking. It can be quite jarring to me, because I never think about this musician; I never listen to their music. I never read their tweets. I never watch…
In yesterday’s post, I talked about how I often occupy my mind by watching ‘low effort’ YouTube shows whilst I cook, or clean, or eat, or even try to get to sleep. There are a lot of other ways that I have occupied my mind whilst doing day to day tasks; like listening to music whilst walking somewhere, or listening to music whilst working out or running, or even listening to a podcast whilst…
I realised recently that I do not enjoy one of webcomic that I’ve been habitually consuming for the better part of the last decade. The webcomic didn’t change or drop off in quality or anything, my interests just changed. These days, I read the strip, say ‘meh’, and go on with my day. It’d be roughly equivalent for me not to read it. Then I realised that this comic strip was a microcosm of a lot…
We all have regrets in life. “I wish I hadn’t said that to him.” “I could have studied harder in college.” “I should have experimented more when I was younger.” “I ought to have been more careful when I signed off on that.” Consider these feelings. Some of them will help you to make sense of the world, avoid negative behaviours in the future, or make more positive choices. If so, they were useful;…
A few days ago, my girlfriend Ni sent me an Excel spreadsheet that she had received, and asked me to explain to her how it was made and how it works. She’s trying to learn more about Excel to help her automate routine tasks and be more efficient with her spreadsheets. I’m not an expert at Excel - I often just write code to do calculations for me - but I thought I’d give it a go. The main feature…
As an addendum to yesterday’s post, there’s one other problem I have with publishing something every day: It’s much harder to go into depth on a topic. Ordinarily, if I had something that I wanted to go into depth on, I’d spend a few days writing it. But if I’m trying to publish every day, I can’t really justify doing that, because I won’t have anything to publish on the days when I’m writing it.…