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  • Keyboard Tray

    Keyboard Tray

    I remember around 12 years ago, I slowly started having more and more shoulder and back pain.

  • Nothing to do

    Nothing to do

    I was thinking last year that there was a bit of a personal journey for me in the turbulent progression of events that led to our mass departure from KRC two years ago. And that might have started in a protest march on January 19, 2019.

  • MBTI: INTP

    MBTI: INTP

    I was talking with my parents about some difficulties at work last night, and dad brought up the question “what kinds of things do you like to do”, which led me to thinking about personality types – 20 years ago, back in college, the career counselor had me take the Myer-Briggs (MBTI) personality test. Back…

  • Eating log

    I lost 30 pounds 2018-2021 through exercise, and 30 more pounds over the last 6 months, and talked with too many people who think I did some crazy diet regiment, so I’m documenting here what I ate over the first 4-months of the diet.

  • Extracting samples for CalScope study

    Extracting samples for CalScope study

    Documenting blood sample self-extraction for a CDPH coronavirus study.

  • Testing self video

    Testing self video

    I have never really taken selfie photos before. Here, I’m testing out various technical questions related to filming myself on an impromptu selfie stick. Filmed using a Pixel 3a smartphone. does the external mic work? yes how wobbly is the video? does it need a gimball? it seems.. okay.. how much environmental noise can this…

  • Colorful Eviction-Promoting Advertisement

    Colorful Eviction-Promoting Advertisement

    This 1/3 page ad in a Korean newspaper today is kind of amazing. It’s riddled with strange translation artifacts, but it seems to wink at landlords to take it to their law firm and start evicting people “right now!” while pretending to be a PSA by giving information to “both sides” (tenants and landlords).

  • What does “patchiness” mean in this context?

    Addressing this question from HelloTalk: What does “patchiness” mean in this passage? Is there a similar word in Spanish? “Many ecologists now think that the relative long-term stability of climax communities comes not from diversity but from the “patchiness” of the environment; an environment that varies from place to place supports more kinds of organisms…

  • Repurposing a game

    Repurposing a game

    Northgard is this cleverly executed real time strategy-management-survival computer game rolled into one.

  • WCKNC Elections Witness Statement

    WCKNC Elections Witness Statement

    I saw illegal campaigning at the neighborhood council elections.