Category Archives: General

📚📈🌺 So over the past few months, I’ve been trudging along slowly to add basic features to Bookends. If you haven’t read of my other posts, Bookends is a project I’m working on by myself to create a book tracking and discovery website. There are many reasons as to why I’ve been making slow progress […]

I just finished listening to Bill Bryson’s A Short History of Nearly Everything. I started listening to this after finishing his book about Australia called In a Sunburned Country which I wrote about recently as well. I really enjoy Bill Bryson’s style of writing, it feels approachable to me. Without spoiling much of the book, […]

I’m in Mexico City right now but I can’t keep my mind off of Venezuela. Mexico City is beautiful, food is great, and people are nice but every bit of time I get where I have some time with my phone, I’m reading about what’s going on in Venezuela. Until earlier this week, I was […]

I wanted to talk about setting New Years resolutions and goals in general. I’ve had a realization in the past few years of setting goals and acting on them. Goals that have measurable metrics like weight lost in pounds or number of books read are easy to track but pretty linear. By that I mean, […]

The year is almost over and it’s a good time to be reflective of what has happened this year, where I went, and just how I feel about it.  First of all, I got married in 2018!! 👫 Trips I recently came back from Portland and I decided to jot down some places I visited […]

For years, I’ve told myself I’m going to learn iOS. I have had an iPhone since 2011 and I use tons of apps on my phone every day. Since the introduction of Swift, iOS has become even more appealing.  So about 2 weeks ago, I started working on some tutorial apps and getting myself in […]

I want to talk about how Conspicuous Consumption has led me to write this post, in a hypocritical state of mind if nothing else. As I posted late last night or early this morning, I am in Portland and it’s been a fun few days. I contacted a few friends to meet up and we’ve […]

I’m in Portland right now. I’m here for a few days and I wanted to write that down so I can remember on my blog.  I’ll be making a post for the whole of 2018 while I’m here but I’m just feeling like I should post often enough to keep a cadence going. I’m currently […]

I was reading yet another article about how Facebook has been abusing user trust by dealing with their data among third-party companies (BBC). This is just one example of a couple of other recent “trip-ups” Facebook has had in the public:  Sri Lanka accuses Facebook over hate speech after deadly riots Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data scandal […]