The Hawthorne Effect

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Hard-Light Reflections

It's been over a year since I last posted here. I don't entirely know why. One component might be the two years of global pandemic and my subsequent injury from the vaccine that was lauded as our only savior. Another is likely that I just didn&

Living in a Twilight World

"We live in a twilight world..." The quote is from the latest Christopher Nolan movie Tenet, another to add to his collection of masterpieces. This one focuses heavily on the concepts of time and knowledge (two of Nolan's favorite subjects really). It's an incredible

C-19: Trouble in Paradise

In my previous post I praised all the benefits of the global pandemic and general unrest that have left me safe and cozy in my ivory tower. However, I notice a dark cloud that has infiltrated my keep. Something about the isolation has changed me a little bit, perhaps rewired

COVID-19 or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Quarantine

It's difficult to accurately express the effects of the COVID-19 outbreak and the subsequent nation-wide quarantine. It will certainly be one for the history books. As of late it is popular to decry 2020 as the worst year on record, full of strife and misery (see the civil

Nothing is working

I've reached a point in my IT-oriented hobby where it feels like nothing works the way I want. I've spent the last few weeks devoting large amounts of time to optimizing and upgrading, only to realize that there are just as many things now that need

Linux XFS File Recovery

So, you let your Ghost blog file get overwritten by an auto-update (like me) and now you want it back. As you probably know, when files are deleted or overwritten, they are likely not destroyed on the physical disk until that space is needed. There are a variety of file

Post-Show Suffering

Steins;Gate has emotionally wrecked me in the past. As I have begun to put the puzzle pieces together on my emotional reactions to shows, movies, and games, I have started to engage media in my mind a bit differently. I think Steins;Gate provides a strikingly clear example of

The Post-Movie Blues Redux

I had another chance to visit the clouded state that comes from the end of a good film. The game Bioshock Infinite (2013) provided me with another dose of melancholy just about a week ago. I've waited long enough that the effect barely lingers, but it's

The Post-Movie Blues

I just saw Parasite (2019) and I'm feeling down. This seems to occur after I see most good movies. To be clear, Parasite was fantastic. A near perfect movie in my book; incredible story-telling with all around great performances, clean and pretty cinematography, and the ability to evoke

Getting Started

Hello friend. This is my first post here. I am still exploring the privacy and security of this blog client, but might start to write here regularly if everything checks out.