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Dec 12, 2025 : My body is a temple to a dark and ancient god. Older than thought, its wisdom carved in my genes by a thousand and a thousand ancestors. It predates …
Nov 26, 2025 : Hobbit Meal 2025 During last year’s Hobbit Meal (which, apparently, I didn’t post about,) I ended up serving way too much bread. Don’t get me wrong. I like bread. But …
Nov 23, 2025 : Big ideas require a big piece of paper. Sorry, I don’t make the rules. — The person who did, in fact, make this rule.
Nov 17, 2025 : Not everything has to be immediate or predictable. Defend slowness when it serves a purpose, silence when it speaks and difference when evocative. …
Nov 9, 2025 : “Man, Sub-creator, the refracted light through whom is splintered from a single White to many hues, and endlessly combined in living shapes that move …
Oct 25, 2025 : “We like imperfection in others, but expect perfection in ourselves.” — Sarah Renae Clark
Oct 19, 2025 : Ash: “Put that away.” Me: “What?” Ash: “Your whimsy.”
Oct 10, 2025 : I Spend Too Much Money on Magic For Someone Who Doesn’t Play Magic If I had to guess I last played Magic: The Gathering in 2005. I went to a card shop (a type of place I spent approximately no time, even then,) to …
Oct 9, 2025 : Have the audacity. Believe that you can. Do the thing.
Oct 9, 2025 : It feels like we’ve developed some kind of histamine reaction to imagination. We are afraid that people will “catch” a bad idea. Well, stupid people …
Oct 4, 2025 : Minimum Wage I’m going to start living on minimum wage. Sort of. Not really. It’s complicated. Some types of sophistication won’t make you enjoy the object more, …
Oct 3, 2025 : Orienting Toward Wizard Some of the concepts and terminology I’m about to use, as well as the title of the blog post, were lifted directly from here. Having said that, I …
Oct 3, 2025 : One sentence on each place in Europe that I’ve been, in order of preference. 🇳🇴 Oslo, Norway Perfection. 🇳🇴 Kristiansand, Norway Feels like walking …
Sep 30, 2025 : Stockholm, Sweden
Sep 28, 2025 : Tallinn, Estonia
Sep 27, 2025 : Riga, Latvia
Sep 26, 2025 : Klaipeda, Lithuania
Sep 24, 2025 : Berlin, Germany
Sep 23, 2025 : Hamburg, Germany Neuengamme Concentration Camp
Sep 22, 2025 : Copenhagen, Denmark
Sep 21, 2025 : Aarhus, Denmark
Sep 21, 2025 : “Hamlet? Is that a sandwich?” — Ash
Sep 20, 2025 : Kristiansand, Norway
Sep 19, 2025 : Oslo Oslo is, without a doubt, my favorite country in all of Europe. It manages to feel expansive without feeling big. Cozy but not confined. The people …
Sep 13, 2025 : My frustration around products that include AI isn’t the AI itself, it’s that I’m already paying for Claude and I’m not interested in paying for seven …
Aug 27, 2025 : Not gonna lie, when I find someone who’s weirder than me in the ways I want to be weird I get a little jealous but like in a crush-y way? Like let’s …
Aug 27, 2025 : My seasonal theme is more thoughtful use of less space.
Aug 25, 2025 : Operating at the very top of the game, for any value of game, necessitates a single-minded devotion to the exclusion of all other interests or …
Aug 15, 2025 : “What is soup, but a potion for the soul?” — Ash
Aug 7, 2025 : “The French are good at two things: bread. Snails.” — Ash
Jul 19, 2025 : “I was complaining about this game two yahtzees ago.” — Ash
Jun 25, 2025 : On Productivity Lately I’ve been trying a new system for how I manage my evenings. Someone else might try “no system” or “having fun” or “relaxing,” but I am not that …
Jun 20, 2025 : Is there a service that would let me input the details of a future trip (dates, location, cost,) and let my friends decide if they want to book …
Jun 9, 2025 : WAG vs WUG I’m not a traditionally “goal-motivated” person. For certain values of goal, motivated, and person. I have a formative memory of telling my third …
Jun 3, 2025 : Another evening of memes with the wizards. Not saying any of them are particularly good, but we had fun. If intentional living sounds like your jam, …
Jun 1, 2025 : What is a curse if not a dark gift?
May 27, 2025 : Makin' memes with the wizards.
May 10, 2025 : The Crossroads Between Need and Desire Once upon a time if you asked a kid what they wanted to be when they grew up you’d get answers like “policeman” or “scientist.” I’m sure nowadays it’s …
May 2, 2025 : A Personal Interest Rubric Have you ever lost something and then spent the next ten years trying to find it? I have. It’s an essay about the fall of the Roman Empire. Did the …
Apr 30, 2025 : Somewhere around five years ago I briefly entertained the idea that I was very seriously going to attempt to be an author. During that time I …
Apr 4, 2025 : The Wizard's Workbench Friday, April 4 2025 I wanted to try something new this week and give an end-of-week status report. No idea if this is something I’ll keep doing, but the best way to …
Apr 3, 2025 : An update on this year’s Theme We’re a couple days over one quarter of the way into the year, so I sat down and worked on a template for planning around my yearly theme. Part of a …
Mar 27, 2025 : A Journey into TTRPG Thoughtspace It’s funny. The genesis of my gigantic TTRPG collection (almost certainly 500+ distinct books) was an old newsletter I used to write. I won’t link to …
Mar 25, 2025 : If you know who this is, we should be friends. Or enemies. Or frenemies.
Mar 18, 2025 : Me: “You’re Darmok, I’m Jalad, and together we are at Tanagra.” Ash: “What? Oh, Star Wars.”
Mar 14, 2025 : What’s up with me? Oh, just inventing a governance structure for a community of wizards. You?
Mar 5, 2025 : The first question: “is he spiders?” There is no second question.
Feb 23, 2025 : Working with AI My thoughts on working with AI have evolved a lot over the last year or so that I’ve been actively using them. I’ve gone from “this is an interesting …
Feb 20, 2025 : A Selection of Wizard Memes
Feb 1, 2025 : Shit's Fucked “What a week, huh?” “Lemon, it’s Wednesday.” — 30 Rock, S4E2 “Into the Crevasse” Without exception, the smartest people I know are all in agreement …
Jan 25, 2025 : Chat, are the vibes cooked?
Jan 19, 2025 : Ash: “what’s the cutest mammal?” Me: “are moths a mammal?”
Jan 6, 2025 : By age 400 you should have: defeated at least one plant. three orbs, at least one of which is cursed. read half of the 100 Greatest Tomes list. five …
Jan 1, 2025 : As far as I can tell this is Alton Brown’s journey: “No pasta.” Live and Let Diet, Good Eats S13:E13 “No white foods.” To the media at some point? I …
Dec 31, 2024 : 2024 App Defaults As we head out of 2024, these are the apps I’m using. (Computing) Bookmarks: Raindrop (Computing) Browser: Firefox (Computing) Calendar: Apple …
Dec 29, 2024 : Introducing HealthOS I believe it was roughly around this time of the year, several hundred years ago, third or fourth grade to be imprecise, that I declared in no …
Dec 29, 2024 : 2024 Year End Battle Report Every December my partner and I make the drive down to the Warhammer Citadel in Grapevine, TX to play our end-of-year game. If you’re a fan of …
Dec 13, 2024 : What is outer space if not a soup?
Dec 9, 2024 : Gondor calls for soup.
Dec 1, 2024 : The society I happen to have been born into is based on consumption. It tells me that my worth is measured in my economic contributions. That I will …
Nov 30, 2024 : “The tactical result of an engagement forms the base for new strategic decisions because victory or defeat in a battle changes the situation to such …
Nov 6, 2024 : Winter is coming You might surmise that this is a political post. And it sort of is, but also it isn’t. Because winter has always been coming. And most likely, winter …
Oct 28, 2024 : Wargaming as a hobby is incredibly cloistered, a series of rituals performed by robed adherents, and the systems broadly share so many concepts that …
Oct 25, 2024 : On Generative AI I would describe myself as “cautiously optimistic” about generative AI. LLMs are clearly capable of doing some useful things. Anyone who tries to …
Oct 15, 2024 : Thinking out loud about the iPad I have owned several iPads, and the role of the iPad in my life has changed over the years. With today’s announcement of the new iPad mini, I think …
Oct 14, 2024 : From the journals of St. Rev. Dr. McPunch, Dweller, Vault 76 “Reclamation day” my entire ass. The vault has everything we need, and I’ve spent most of …
Oct 10, 2024 : I’ve added a 100% Human Generated policy to my blog. […] AI is here. It’s going to “win” for many definitions of win, and some definitions of lose. …
Oct 10, 2024 : Things I have recently discovered ChatGPT is good at: jira templates confluence templates pictures of disturbingly happy fruit philosophical …
Sep 29, 2024 : Folsom Street Fair is an anime convention. No, I will not elaborate.
Sep 24, 2024 : I might be the only person you know who doesn’t shop on Amazon. That’s not to say I never did. I had prime, many years ago. I even had a couple of …
Sep 17, 2024 : I spent most of last night talking with a dear friend about community and connection in the current age of the Internet. We met, what feels like a …
Sep 5, 2024 : A few months ago I looked back at my first 30 days of tracking 100% of my time. Now I have about a quarter’s worth of data, and some patterns have …
Aug 29, 2024 : Saving $20 on airport food by spending $30 at Buc-Ee’s.
Aug 22, 2024 : I’d like to talk a bit about my favorite Massively Multiplayer Online PvP Game: eBay On the off chance you’re not familiar, eBay is an auction …
Aug 20, 2024 : The way I make sense of the world is to talk about it, at length, with anyone who’ll listen. Which frequently means the people closest to me are stuck …
Aug 7, 2024 : I updated the main body font for my blog. It’s kind of a kludgy hack, but I think it’s a lot more readable. I’m working on a v2.0 of the theme to roll …
Aug 5, 2024 : The Nature of Things (Burmese Classical Poems) Often a man suffers destruction In order that another man Might enjoy well-being. Such is the nature of things! A courtier’s satisfaction. In …
Aug 5, 2024 : Establishing a baseline for reviewing things can be difficult. Culturally, it seems like most Americans operate on a rating system that reflects the …
Jul 31, 2024 : I have a new blog theme! It’s entirely possible you’re witnessing it right now, with your very own eye-holes. If not, you might want to click through …
Jul 23, 2024 : I’ll be moving in roughly 3-4 years. I know what city, but not which suburb or neighborhood. What are some things I could be doing right now to …
Jul 22, 2024 : In no particular order, a list of things I need. I need to figure out somewhere to keep my cookbooks. I need to figure out where to track my project to read and review RPG books. I need to catch up …
Jul 21, 2024 : “Is this a problem you have to solve, or can the world solve it for you later?” — Adam Savage
Jul 21, 2024 : I’m not “traditionally” goal motivated. What do I mean by that? I mean if I tried to set a goal for a year from now that looked something like this: …
Jul 20, 2024 : My curse is being incredibly picky about UI and UX but not being very good at implementing either.
Jul 18, 2024 : In competitive video games you should expect a 50% win rate. About half the time the other team will be better than you, half the time they won’t. …
Jul 17, 2024 : I wish there were a way on micro.blog to write different kinds of posts. I forget the terminology but I’ve used hugo in the past to have a few …
Jul 9, 2024 : I really hated the Libre 2 continuous glucose monitor (CGM.) A friend asked for some detail about why, which lead me down a long-winded story about …
Jul 8, 2024 : I’ve spent the last several weeks using Toggl to track 100% of my time, and the results have been interesting. Reasoning On a flight to who knows …
Jun 26, 2024 : Banh Mi Burgers Important Note #1 - This is a draft recipe. I made it somewhat improvisationally, so the amounts are in many cases a rough guess. …
Jun 23, 2024 : In no particular order, an update on various interests and hobbies. Clocks The mantle clock is running strong, but about five minutes fast per day. It …
May 14, 2024 : I had the great fortune to spend the last week or so sailing along Alaska’s inside passage on the NCL Jewel. Being the kind of person that I am, I …
Apr 2, 2024 : I’m doing what any reasonable person who has not eaten food for the last 48 hours would do and watching nothing but cooking videos.
Apr 1, 2024 : Whether I live here for six months or six years, I’ve decided that I am not holding my house in escrow for the future owners. There are plenty of …
Apr 1, 2024 : My ideal April 1st is one where at no point do I see anything related to “April Fools.” I realize this makes me sound like a buzzkill …
Mar 22, 2024 : The important thing is that dreamers are still out there trying to build something new. There’s nothing the tech giants could think up this fiscal …
Mar 16, 2024 : Since I can never seem to pronounce “arnold palmer” correctly when I go to order one, I’m going to start calling it a Ryan Reynolds instead. Relative …
Feb 29, 2024 : Yes I’ve seen the new Dune ornithopter from Lego. Call me when I can build Shai-Hulud; bless the Maker and His water. Bless the coming and going of …
Feb 28, 2024 : Language is hard. Communication is harder. When someone receives a communication, they interpret it through their own understanding and world view and …
Feb 28, 2024 : The grandfather clock is currently haunted. It chimes randomly, often playing only part. The clocksman’s coming out next Sunday to gather the …
Feb 26, 2024 : Do the children know of bash.org? Who cries for bloodninja’s robe and wizard hat? Who sings the song of hunter2?
Feb 26, 2024 : 個人サイト管理人に50の質問 50 Questions for Personal Site Administrators Shamelessly borrowed from bikobatanari.art/posts/202… who also provides context on where …
Feb 11, 2024 : I back a lot of things on Kickstarter. Like. A lot of things. Especially during the annual ZineQuest, where indie TTRPG creators are encouraged to …
Feb 8, 2024 : Tonight I put frames on approximately 83% of the box of stuff that needs to be framed. Hanging it all will be a project for another year.
Feb 5, 2024 : Back at home safely ensconced in my office, wearing the slanket, and it’s time to talk about Hawaii. This is going to be something of a journal post, …
Feb 1, 2024 : I’m about to say something you might find shocking, so before I do I want to make two things clear: This isn’t a complaint post. The purpose is not …
Jan 26, 2024 : I finished Roots of Pacha at a little over 50 hours of total play time. I still wouldn’t recommend it. “But random internet wizard, what would you …
Jan 22, 2024 : I’ve been away from home the last two weeks, give or take, smushing some personal travel together with some business travel to minimize my “suffering …
Jan 17, 2024 : Shipwrecked.
Jan 15, 2024 : Sunset on Baker Beach.
Jan 8, 2024 : As part of the Year of Scales and Arpeggios I find myself needing to keep track of new things in new ways. The problem is that tracking things, like …
Dec 31, 2023 : It’s the last day of the Year of Time, and I think of it broadly as a success. I’ve cut my commitments to the bare minimum, and for the first time in …
Dec 28, 2023 : Watching A Goofy Movie as a kid: it’s about a parent learning to understand his son. Watching A Goofy Movie now: it’s about a family learning to …
Dec 26, 2023 : A couple days belated, but last week was primarily about the run-up to Christmas. My routine for the last several weeks has been to wrap up dinner …
Dec 18, 2023 : I quietly set the goal of spending no money for a week and almost managed to do it. There’s nearly enough food in the house that if I’m clever I don’t …
Dec 13, 2023 : An Opinionated Decision Matrix for Which TTRPG System to Use If your primary concern is getting people together at a table to play at all, pick D&D 5E. Everyone knows how to play it, it can be molded to meet the …
Dec 12, 2023 : I would like to propose the term “corporate dozen” to refer to any time or situation where a company has reduced the standard and customary amount of …
Dec 10, 2023 : 2024W50 Week in Review Resisting the urge to wait until I know exactly what I want to say before saying anything. Spent the day on the couch playing Dave the Diver which I …
Dec 1, 2023 : Had an excellent conversation last night with Jerry Holkins from Penny Arcade about tyranid list building and strategy that has me reconsidering half …
Nov 22, 2023 : I’ve decided to restart my character in www.fallenlondon.com and play it over again. Hello again, delicious friends.
Nov 18, 2023 : The first book I’ve read in one sitting in probably two decades. Like being hugged by a warm bowl of soup. A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot …
Nov 17, 2023 : I notice that when someone makes a post that micro.blog shortens to a title + link, if that title isn’t descriptive of the content, there’s 0% chance …
Nov 11, 2023 : Getting ready for next weekend’s retreat by printing off every blog post even tangentially related to the problems I’m hoping to solve so that I have …
Nov 11, 2023 : Updated my version of a “now” page to add podcasts, since they’re the majority of my engagement with both news and media. thewizardly.com/now/
Nov 6, 2023 : My dream used to be to have no clocks in the house. To be fully untethered from needing to know what time it was. Probably achievable up to a point. …
Nov 4, 2023 : Freshly repaired, cleaned, and polished.
Nov 4, 2023 : The cashiers at Trader Joe’s were positively agog over the novelty of a $10 bill from 1993, which they had never seen before.
Nov 3, 2023 : I’m currently on the weird part of the internet. Which is to say, the only part of the internet which is still good. I have found a blinking gif which …
Nov 2, 2023 : Also, I would have £600 added yearly for the performance of charitable works, and those things I would not, neither will be, accountable for. — …
Nov 2, 2023 : Just discovered home.omg.lol which I don’t think I have a use case for, but it’s pretty cool and you should take a look.
Oct 31, 2023 : By Way Of An Introduction I suppose it’s only fitting to announce the existence of my new blog on my blog, and by extension the places it’ll automatically cross-post. I’m here! …