Perpetually starting out....
I, too, have been an avid connoisseur of linux distros and have had my fair share of distrohopping every time the next shiny thing barges into the Linux world. And in canonical nerd culture, it seems the next stage is to move into the titular "minimalism" aesthetic - where you only use the terminal and tiling window managers and emaciated distros with everything user-friendly chopped off. I tried…
I finished Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Time yesterday. The novel basically follows parallel storylines between humans embarked in a post-world's-end survival mission on a giant spaceship with whatever's left of humanity, and spiders in a wild planet getting genetically engineered for intelligence and sentience by a rogue virus. The spiders evolve fascinatingly across various generations,…
It's been two days since I've contracted what feels like hay fever - sore throat, coughs, sneezes and runny nose. This isn't a new occurrence, like clockwork I contract it every interseason and it lasts for around a week. I generally take my dose of recommended medicine (mostly cetirizine and paracetamol) which make me feel drowsy and miserable throughout the day, but this time I plan on…
It feels like an eternity since I have been unsuccessfully trying to start a journal or a blog, musing over all kinds of platforms, making accounts and then deleting them, going through uncountable brain farts that I believe could be something I'd love to discuss with internet strangers, and then forgetting all about it. Anon blog to start out The fact that you can open yourself to people without…