Merry Chrismukkah! The other night was the last night of Hannukah, but my family didn't do much to celebrate. We made up for it a little today by making latkes for Christmas Eve. I thought it'd be fun to rank/review some of the things you can put on your latkes, so without further ado here we go:
Sometimes I'll mention struggling with brain fog to people and they'll respond something like "ugh, I know right, I hate when that happens 🙄" as if I told them someone cut in front of me at the grocery store. I don't know how to make them understand that this isn't a minor inconvenience to me, it's debilitating. There are certain days where it's so bad, that I straight up can't get anything done. Where doing basic tasks or holding a basic conversation is a challenge for me.
It's come to a point recently where it's not just impacting stuff like chores or work, even just trying to engage in hobbies feels like too much sometimes. Blogging should be so easy for me. It's literally just typing into a box. It should be so. Damn. Easy. And yet, every time I sit down to do it, I feel like I can't think clearly.
I've seen a few different people talk about the uprise of the "zero-click internet". For those unfamiliar, in a nutshell the "zero-click internet" refers to how search engines now use AI summaries to answer questions, so users don't actually have to click on links or visit sites anymore.
There are obviously a lot of problems with this. AI overviews are notoriously buggy. They often get stuff wrong and the sources for said info is often missing or misattributed, but you probably already knew that. Smarter people than me have already pointed all of this out and analyzed it in depth.
Something I haven't seen as many talk about, however, is that even if you turn AI summaries off, the search results still suck.
In 2022, one of my friends told me about a Kickstarter for a then-upcoming, browser-based game called PawBorough. The pitch was basically "Flight Rising, but with cats", I was immediately hooked!
This ones a little different. I like music, I'm sure everybody does, but I'm not a connoisseur. I don't know anything about music theory and I've never written a full album review. Honestly, this is probably better described as "notes I took while listening to the album" than a proper review, so maybe don't hold your expectations too high.
It's been about a month since my last blog post. Thought I should pop in real quick and give a few updates.
I have a few guides/tutorials saved in my drafts. Most of them start with a tangentially related preamble about this subject. I thought it'd be smart to just trim the fat; cut straight to the point for those posts, and share the preamble here separately for those who really care.
I recently started and then promptly gave up on trying to list every single small/independent webring and web directory I could find. Was it worth it? I don't know, but now that I've seen and catalogued so many of them, I wanted to share some observations.
Today is July 11th (7/11), which means 7-Eleven is giving out free slurpees! Multiple 7-Elevens by my house have closed down, so we actually had to go out of our way to find a new one. When we got there the line was really long, almost going out the door! My brother got a mix of the green and blue flavors (he couldn't remember the actual names) and I got a mix of a little of everything.
As dumb as it sounds, this is something I kind of look forward to every year. I only drink one slurpee a year, and it's this one. It's also just nice to get out of the house sometimes, even if that place is a convenience store. Aside from going on walks, I haven't really done many summer activities this year. I guess when you get older all the seasons just kind of blend together and stop mattering. It's nice to enjoy the few "summerish" moments that I get.