Still Out There
I’m not sitting still long enough It’s fine. It’s honestly just…fine. Say what you will about life. Think what you will about the passing of time, about the rotation of the Earth on its axis, of the orbital jurisdictions...
Outside The World
Blog posts and fragments from Outside The World.
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Level One
What a 47 year old solo dev learns the hard way. I’ve always wanted to make a video game, and I’m pretty envious of people who have the know how. Come to think of it, I’m envious of any kind of artistic know how. When I...
A whole lot of nothing.
What do you expect? I'm just one person. Updated July 30, 2026 — The project has been delayed. I'll share a new launch date when I have one. I've been busy elsewhere this week, so I don't have a feature essay or even a r...
Balance is usually a myth
Bednar was right At church today, we were given about 15 minutes to consider a topic together amongst a group of men. Ages in the room ranged from late teens to young fathers in their mid 20s and early 30s, several of us...
The Midweek Weather
frgmnts.app is alive! Greetings, everybody . I’ve been busy here, toiling away during my evenings. It’s good to have a hobby, neh? Or many hobbies, many hobbies that conflict with each other and cause me to lose focus an...
Can we take a break from cynicism?
A lot of people had to put this back together just for you to roll your eyes at it. Oh, my gosh . What should have been a remarkably fun announcement from Marvel and Disney has taken on a life of its own. And I am not su...
Cruising Around Couches
Rereading April 2009 from the other end of it. Came across an old blog post last week. 17 years ago. I am intensely happy that I put forth the effort to record anything about those years. The snippet about the Hackintosh...
The Midweek Weather
The Skipping Stone Did you know that I love taking mushrooms? Settle that into your brainpan a little bit before I proceed. Ready? Without wading into far too much detail about the clinical side of life, I do have certai...
What the Shade Is Called
Vocabulary is more than language. It is personal scripture. I. Noise Without Language This essay is about a painting. I framed the outline with that in mind. I had it nailed down. But at the end of it, I bet we will all...
The Midweek Weather
This entry about a concert wasn't supposed to be about a concert at all I am going to go back to my roots of organic, off the cuff writing once per week. While I am having the time of my life diving deep into the realms...
Religion fills me with anger. God does not.
P.S.: agency is not an excuse for lazy certainty. About a week ago, Meta’s algorithm found it necessary to present me with a Facebook post. It arrived wearing the colors of religion. And while that made the whole thing m...
Who Is Taking Care of the Thing That Took Care of Us?
How the children of cartridges inherited a medium increasingly shaped by risk. When I was 10 years old, just after school ended on a cold winter Friday, I walked into the local movie rental store off of 500 south in Boun...
Every Solution Has an Expiration Date
On adulthood, technological fragility, and the exhaustion beneath adaptation. I've had some less than casual observations lately about the world we find ourselves in. This began as a stream of thought essay, so prepare y...
The Crucible of Continuous Revelation
Navigating Same Sex Relationships Within the Restoration A Note Before You Read This essay is the result of weeks of research, meditation, prayer, and revision. It is also the result of a much longer struggle: my attempt...
Different Mercies of the Same Light
A night alone in the desert, the Milky Way, and a glimpse of heaven’s hidden unity It is a rare occasion for me to be truly solitary. However, two Fridays back, an unexpected stillness settled in: my wife was away on her...
Painted Worlds
I grew up alongside Nintendo. Not in the abstract way people say they “grew up with” something now, when what they mostly mean is that it was around. I mean Nintendo was part of the geography of my childhood. It lived in...
Just, well...updating.
If I've been quiet , it's for a good reason. If I've neglected this site, know that I've focused my energies elsewhere. The frgmnts app is nearing a state of readiness that I didn't think was possible in the short time o...
Introducing frgmnts
Something has been bothering me for a long time. Not in a vague, ambient way in the specific way that eventually makes a person stop complaining and start building. The social apps I use the ones most of us use were not...
Not in my Nature
I hate keeping secrets. I don't hate the actual secrets themselves, but I have a hard time tamping them down. There is, after all, an art to timing, and value to be found in well aged and mature processes. And I do love...
Just checking in, y'all
The sheer volume of projects I have going right now is keeping me from attending to the most sincere and critical areas of OTW right now, but I promise it'll be worth it. Stay close to this feed for more information in t...
Check In: Definitely not me at Costco.
Definitely not me at Costco.
Fragment: It has a pulse.
It has a pulse.
Positivity: Let's see if we can bring this...
Let's see if we can bring this dream to life, shall we?
Regret: Always want.
Always want.
Check In: Apple finally discontinued the Mac Pro after...
Apple finally discontinued the Mac Pro after 20 years. The writing was on the wall...it languished with the M2 Ultra since '23 and was surpassed by the Mac Studio with the M3 Ultra...
50 Best Apple Products
A wonderful bit of nostalgia bait posted to The Verge today. And they did it in the best way possible: a pitch perfect recreation of the Classic Mac OS. I wish I had more experience with the products the staff chose; ite...
Positivity: Guess who's back?
Guess who's back?
Residue: Too much. Just too much sometimes. Also...
Too much. Just too much sometimes. Also I want frozen yogurt.
Positivity: Just casually responding to no one in...
Just casually responding to no one in particular… You can have many Diet Cokes before approaching the realm of what folks call an "addiction". Approach that definition of "many" ho...
Fragment: Interesting developments afoot. Stay tuned.
Interesting developments afoot. Stay tuned.
Check In: Each new day brings new challenges and...
Each new day brings new challenges and opportunities to learn. Keep your eyes open, listen to your friends. Don't dismiss their questions as annoyances or as trivia. Use it instead...
Complaint: It's 4pm! Brain zaps brain zaps brain...
It's 4pm! Brain zaps brain zaps brain zaps brain zaps brain zaps etc etc etc etc
Residue: Listening to Billie Eilish is never a...
Listening to Billie Eilish is never a bad idea.
A Map of the Sleeping Mind
Like most dreams, it just begins; dropped into the frame like an afterthought. What I see is familiar: cracked asphalt laid down decades ago, its surface buckled by gnarled tree roots and years of forgotten traffic. Fade...
Positivity: A full day's work was done today....
A full day's work was done today. Time for bed.
Check In: Just wrote a dilly of a whopper....
Just wrote a dilly of a whopper. To be published later. Why am I so weird?
Positivity: Testing, hoping I didn't break this feed!
Testing, hoping I didn't break this feed!
Residue: My domain is old enough to rent...
My domain is old enough to rent a car.
Back in the Saddle, pt 2
I think it's beyond time to swing this blog a little toward the positive side. So, what to talk about? Why, one of my favorite little hobbies since my youth: cycling. Back in July of '22, I posted a quiet note to Instagr...
Positivity: Movie good statement. Happy happy happy
Movie good statement. Happy happy happy
Fragment: BTW! The fragments posted in this feed...
BTW! The fragments posted in this feed are all real. Well, except the OTW Bot. They are a figment of my imagination. Now, those ads you may see? Totally a joke.
Positivity: A new visitor has entered the chat…
A new visitor has entered the chat…
Complaint: Ads?? On my own social media page???...
Ads?? On my own social media page??? How dare I put fake ads on my very real, very amazing site.
Positivity: 11:11pm and I'm in bed. On my...
11:11pm and I'm in bed. On my phone, but in bed.
Residue: You would not believe what one can...
You would not believe what one can accomplish if they simply choose not to sleep.
Residue: I can neither confirm nor deny what...
I can neither confirm nor deny what my thoughts are on bedtime, tonight. I would like to ask for 6 extra hours today, however.
Spiritual: Both my body and mind feel heavy...
Both my body and mind feel heavy today. An inescapable emotion of lack. Fighting against the kindness of gravity today feels burdensome. I am left in a vacuum of nameless want and...
Complaint: Oh goodie! It's that magical time of...
Oh goodie! It's that magical time of year when we use A/C all the time in all the buildings, and I wear sweatshirts inside.
Resistance: The Primary
Tags: family Preface What spills forth below is the end result of the 649 days in between this very moment and the day my mom crossed the bridge to her next journey. It is the compendium of waking up relentlessly exhaust...
Spiritual: Reposing in the vacuum of silence. Not...
Reposing in the vacuum of silence. Not comfortably, I might add.