About Me

I live in Austin. I typically post photos and personal & work-related updates, especially travel. I offer my opinions on Internet trends and media, talk about TV and movies I watch, share books I read or want to read, rant on right-wing politics, and advocate for inclusion and diversity in all facets of life. I also use this blog as a place to log various activities and media that I enjoy.

Politics

Blue Texas

06 Nov

Personal

Neurodivergent

24 Oct

Personal

Diagnosing my Mood

01 Oct

Blogging

Writing a More Perfect Sentence

I taught an AI to reverse-engineer what makes a sentence great, then used the diagnosis to fix my own writing: more analogy, fewer rhetorical questions, one thing I already do well.

15 Sep

Personal

Effort-Driven Quality?

In my previous life, I was an architecture student. Well, actually, in the late nineties. Or, as the kids these

01 Sep

Tech

How to become indispensable in the age of AI

18 Aug

Food

Trying Out Fine Dining Spots

03 Aug

The Strange Library ★★★☆☆

Strange, short, and well made, and I’m still not sure what it was about. I haven’t read much

So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men ★★★★☆

Three short stories, very few words, and not one of them wasted. Claire Keegan uses words like rice grains in

Sleeping Giants ★★★☆☆

A strong premise, a clever format, and a middle that loses its grip. The format is the best thing here.

The Message ★★★★★

You cannot read Ta-Nehisi Coates for fun. In The Message, he moves from Senegal to the 2020 reckoning and to Palestine, and draws one line through all three. A difficult, necessary book.