Since my girlfriend of 4 years broke up with me over a year ago, people keep asking me if I am lonely. Blunt question! Lately, there seems to be an obsession with loneliness. News reports it as an epidemic. Since the pandemic started, doctors and other officials have fretted over loneliness as a mental health…
Category: Finds and Ramblings
The Possible Impact of NFTs
NFTs, or nonfungible tokens, have appeared throughout the news cycle recently. NFTs use blockchain technology similar to Bitcoin to make a certificate of authenticity for a digital item or to make what amounts to a digital trading card. A certificate of authenticity NFT basically states you own an original or serial-numbered copy of a digital…
Looking Back at 2020
It’s time again for my personally indulgent look back on the past year. This is a part of a double post to mark JP’s 10th birthday. Many people describe 2020 as a dumpster fire. It has been a year of self-inflicted wounds, a year that made me realize introverts truly are the minority. Otherwise, the…
My Year on Linux (And Plans for JP)
It’s been over a year since I changed all my computers from Windows to Linux. As a gamer, I had the misconception that Linux wouldn’t work for me. If you aren’t aware, Linux is a family of operating systems built on the principles of Open Source code, code that is viewable and changeable by anyone….
The Great Pause of 2020
Pandemics strike about once every 100 years, just beyond the memory of most people. The last happened in 1918, and I know of only one person who remembered it. She was around 2 years old at the time. However, most of the media focus is on the economic fallout and the death numbers. While important,…
Locked in by the Coronavirus? Try these 5 Projects!
As the United States closes schools and colleges because of the spread of the 2020 coronavirus, you might suddenly find yourself with a lot of free time. It’s rare to have such free time, so take advantage of it! I’m a bit of a workaholic, so I look forward to (maybe) having more time to…