Finally got around to updating this dang website.

I’m using straight Hugo, built on a WSL Ubuntu, and rsync’d over to my website (why is rsync on Windows so hard?). I might use quarto going forward to render any notebooks I have. For R and python I’m using micromamba to manage installation and environments.

Formerly I’d relied on the R package blogdown to create the website; however, I felt that it abstracted just a bit too much of the process away, I wanted to be more involved in maintaining hugo settings and understanding the system a little better. Don’t get me wrong, I think for those who don’t want to know about hugo or jekyll or whatever, blogdown is a great way to get up-and-running very quickly. I just had a terrible system for managing things that got in the way and lowered motivation to update the website, so I wanted to simplify.

Twitch was at least 12 years old, perhaps as old as 14.

Twitch was a centerpiece at my cousin’s wedding – a Chinese wedding – in New York City. Goldfish symbolize wealth, abundance, and fertility in Chinese culture. According to wikipedia, Jinyu (金鱼, the word for a goldfish) is a homophone for “gold in abundance”; therefore, they are perceived as suitable gifts for wedding. Facebook tells me the wedding was in 2011, but for some reason I seem to remember it being earlier. My parents took him home that evening, along with two compatriots.

A transformative experience, both philosophically and as it relates to gameplay mechanics. As many others might tell you, it is, metaphorically speaking, a jigsaw puzzle for which the pieces are scattered across space and time, you are made a detective in gathering these pieces, and the act of completing the puzzle at last reveals a majestic story. It is a game you are able to fully experience once and only once – perhaps like life itself; appropriate given how much the game dwells on the nature of life and ironically told through your own countless inevitable deaths.

Moonlander ZSA Review

I bought this thing in late October, a few days after I’d had some pain in my wrist at work. This thing comes direct from Taiwan (free shipping!), and the wait was rather agonizing, checking the tracking every 10 minutes or so. At about $375, this is not a budget keyboard by any means, but I figured the health benefits avoiding wrist injury was worth the price tag. Reviews indicated that the build quality is extremely high, so I went for it.

Despair Simulator 2015 - excellent foray into existential crises, moral dilemmas, and science fiction horror.