I used the word ‘blithesome’ in a sentence today. Felt like a rockstar!
The current, sad state of my broken toaster has never been more relevant and disappointing than, right now.
If people were to ask, I would say that I didn’t use social media, despite all the things I post to dandelion-utilitarian.com ending up on micro.blog, bluesky and the wider fedi. I think, that I dont parse it as social media because from my point of view it’s just me pushing things to my website. Maybe I shouldn’t cross post to other places
I’m editing my ‘current writing project‘. I don’t know if it’s because it’s winter, or because I have country music on, but I can’t get ‘into’ it right now. I have this cozy vibe which makes me want to read a book, not write one.
Come Visit.
Animal crossing pocket edition complete is like an amazing dopamine drip and I can’t not play it right now. Totally getting me though December 😊
I really like DevonTHINK. Just saying.
Whats on my desk – December 2024 edition
Saturday, December 7, 2024
These last few months have been transformative in many ways. I have been, as I have outlined in a previous post, Ejecting Things from my life, as well as changing some workflow things, both physically and digitally. I know I did an update reasonably recently, but now it feels a little more ‘final’ and I think this may even be the last desk update for a while. At this time I have ejected around 30% of the non-essential items I owned.
In conversations, I repeat myself too much. It comes from a desire to refine ideas. I image people notice, and find it annoying it. Sorry.
I had good food this evening. Which is mostly mad becausee I assembled it myself.
Dandelion-Utilitarian has a NET & a COM
Sunday, December 1, 2024
I wanted to take a moment to than explain something which I have only recently realised maybe confusing. Both Dandelion-Utilitarian.com and Dandelion-Utilitarian.net exist. The dot com, is my main public facing WordPress site. It is where you will find my curated articles and my Niceferatu comic posts. And, of course, my more long-form writing releases. The dot net however, is a Micro.Blog powered feed. It contains all the main page posts from the dot com, as well as anything which you may consider ‘a stream of ideas.
I drew the man who served me the excellent coffee the other day.
i had an amazing coffee this afternoon.
I need to write a blog post explaining my usage differences between my dot com and dot net urls.
The Hex has been lifted.
Friday, November 29, 2024
We all move on from things, and it often feels like a good move, it feels liberating and enchiching. I have had a lot of that feeling of liberty recently has I have been doing a very utilitarian decluttering of my home. Moving on from an online persona, however, feels like a death, more than a purge. I have been known socially as ‘Hex’ since college, when the movie Hackers was the greatest thing my friends and I had ever seen and we were all very edgy witchcraft obsessed teens.
Static, in motion – The formation of a man with terrible taste.
Thursday, November 28, 2024
The Outer Limits opening contains the now legendary words, “we will control the horizontal, we will control the vertical.” Like many kids, watching the scary black and white episodes through a half broken television, on a raining evening, the words were seared into my mind, along with pregnant tonal whistle which accompanied it. This struck me as something magical as child, in the same way that the opening line of Neuromancer hit me as an adult, “The sky above the port was the color of television tuned to a dead channel.
Kindling, Copyright, Catastrophe
Saturday, November 23, 2024
I’ve used a Kindle as my main book-window since the Kindle Voyage was launched in 2014 and since that time I’ve read many a controversy about the way Amazon manage the platform. Most of the reports are actually about copyright law, not Amazon, not directly. I thing which most anti-eBook/anti-Kindle crusaders point at is the time that everyone had their copy of 1984 taken away, one morning in 2009. Rarely does anyone bother asking why Amazon did this, they usually just point and yell.
A desk. Sans Monitor
Saturday, November 16, 2024
This week I had a very minor problem with the monitor at my desk, it has developed, suddenly, a small light bleed, or bright spot, across the right edge. I could almost ignore it. Then last night my dock started failing to process USB input, something it has done in the past. These two minor problems coupled with my love of trying new things made me think, screw it, lets see how streamlined we can make the desk… and this happened…
The micro mirror miracle. (Micro.hexdsl.com)
Tuesday, November 12, 2024
You can skip this entire article and just click here, if I’m totally honest. If you would like to know, slightly more, keep reading… Micro.Blog has come up on my radar a lot over the last few years, mostly by being supported a supported publishing target by a bunch of writing software I have used. This includes Ulysses, Ia writer and a bunch of tools for content pushing. Micro.blog doesn’t do the best job at explaining its self, in part at least, because it’s flexible by design.
Time can’t split. Projects eat time.
Thursday, November 7, 2024
No matter how productive I can become, and no matter how skilled I become, I still have twenty-four hours in a day. Much like nothing exceeds the speed of light, no productivity pipeline will break the time barrier. This has never been more evident to me than when I started drawing. I have been in the habit of writing for a few hours every day for a few years. While I don’t manage to actually accomplish this every day, the habit is formed.