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🔖Note to readers: this post contains a lot of personal opinions, if you're a reader who is not keen on metaphors, allegories, or analogies, please don't read this. This post has been brewing in my mind for days, the desire to write it has gotten strong

The Kaua'i ō'ō bird

Now extinct, the Kaua'i o'o bird was from the islands of Hawai'i specifically Kaua'i. I recently learned about it when someone posted an audio clip of the last known bird's call. The call was recorded by the ornithologist David Boynton

This morning’s teas

I’m starting to keep this blog as a journal more than larger posts It’s 48°F right now in Portland so a cup of tea sounds perfect.

15 years of usmanity.com

It was the last day of 2009, last day of the 2000s and I had just come back home from working at the warehouse. The whole past week I had been thinking so hard about my life and what I wanted to do next. I had been out of high

End of year review, 2024

In last year's post, I focused mainly on my health. This year, I wanted to write a holistic review of my year and talk about things in addition to my health like work, pets, home life, and other things. First, let's start with health. Health This

Samson and Rosie on Thanksgiving

This year, Rosie is the newcomer to the family but she is settling is well. Samson and her love going on walks so this is a photo (after many attempts) we were able to get of them. My photography skills have definitely deteriorated so I will try to capture more

Formatting messages in iMessages (in iOS 18)

With iOS 18 and other recent Apple OS releases, Apple announced animated and formatted messages. At first, on iOS this looks like this: But I wanted to share some more interesting shortcuts that I discovered on macOS by accident, you can actually format your messages using traditional text formatting shortcuts:

Showing photos to Heisenberg

I’m trying to notice the little moments in my daily life that are simple pleasures in grateful for. “Simple pleasures” comes from the Bobby Mcferrin album and I like it a lot. Yesterday, while I was heads down working, my cat Heisenberg came by and just sat in between

Who killed the squirrel?

I just sat down to write this because I couldn't stop thinking about what I experienced earlier today. I was talking on the phone with my sister so I was in the midst of conversation when I walked outside to the trash bins to throw away a bag

The Big Summer Update

I've been wanting to write this post for almost a month now. And as I waited, more and more things kept popping into my life. So, this weekend I wanted to sit down and write but yesterday I had an insane sinus headache that prevented me from doing

An alternative WezTerm icon

I recently read a post from Alex Plescan praising Wezterm, and it piqued my interest enough to try it. I followed most of Alex's guide on setting it up and then customizing it to look like my own a bit. Here's what my final setup looks

Iron Flame, book review

After a few months of slowly making progress through the audiobook, this weekend I finished the Iron Flame audiobook. I enjoyed the first book in the series, Fourth Wing, so this was an easy one to get started with. Rebecca Yarros is a great writer, I felt like I couldn’

Rethinking about my data hub

This morning, I woke up with this persistent thought nagging at me it would be really cool to have a working data hub Again? What is the data hub? The data hub is an idea that I should store almost all of my digital data in a single place. But

Samson with his favorite toys