Can’t go up the hill With Gym 1 defeated I continued to explore the town. There’s a museum with a scientist that mentions something about fossil research, probably something to note for later! I travel north to find a slippery hill that a biker said I need a bike to climb! They said I can get one at the bike shop in Eterna so I guess that’s where I’m heading next. Read more...

On my way! Okay! Officially starting our journey, still with no Pokeballs, we pass through Sandgem town only to find Dawn waiting for us in some tall grass to show us how to catch Pokemon. After a brief tutorial shes gives us our first 5 pokeballs. We can now get our first encounter of the run. So going back to route 201, our first is a Bidoof! A beaver looking favourite meme of a Pokemon which I named Jeff, after another meme. Read more...

Introduction to Nuzlockes This is new project documenting my blind Pokemon Platinum Nuzlocke run. It would have been cool to track my progress but I know I wouldn’t record enough clips to make a cohesive video. I decided that blogging it and taking pictures as I go would be a fun way to record the story… except I thought of blogging it after I started the save so the pictures will begin starting from the next one! Read more...

Over the last few months, I’ve been grossly aware of the how algorithms have been shaping my life. Content being directly streamed to my brain with no friction whatsoever. It’s been taking away from my attention span, my focus, my enjoyment and my well being. When I got into homelabbing and self-hosting, I thought it was going to be my solution to this. No more corporations, no more algorithms, I can collect the content I want to watch and listen to. Read more...

Overview We live in an age of software as a service (SaaS). For a monthly fee, these software give their users access to the conveniences of their product. Services like Netflix and Spotify give their users access to petabytes of content without the struggle of hosting or carrying that content themselves. The convenience is undeniable, but not without their concerns. Focusing on Spotify, their revenue stream for their artists isn’t small artist friendly, mainly benefitting labels and popular artists. Read more...

This year the guys and I decided to hike the perimeter of Frontenac Provincial Park! This was our trip. Route Here is a map of our route. It was a total distance of 46.6 km. This was the route we followed with the campsites we stayed at We stayed at the following campsites: 1a North Buck Lake 10b Devil Lake 7c Birch Lake The nice thing about Frontenac is that all the campsites had a firepit, picnic benches, bear boxes and dedicated areas for tents. Read more...

One thing took me a while to get running was qBittorent with a VPN on TrueNAS Scale. The community application of qBittorrent doesn’t have that functionality, so the solution is to manually install it instead. This is how I did that! Overview Regardless of what you want to torrent, its probably a good idea to run it through a VPN. It masks your IP address so that way it shouldn’t be linked back to your usage. Read more...

The guys in the lab and I started a book club together and the first book we read was Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan. Here’s the cover from Wikipedia Summary The story follows Takeshi Kovacs, an ex-private military, now-turned-investigator hired to solve the mystery behind someone’s suicide (or murder?). It takes place in the future, where humans have the ability to upload our consciousness to chips called stacks. Since the mind can be separated from the body, bodies are referred to as sleeves. Read more...

I was at dinner with my girlfriend and she picked the restaurant based on a TikTok video. We couldn’t decide what we wanted from the menu, so we looked at the reviews on Google to see what dishes other people recommended. After we picked our food, I started to think about how much volunteerism there is on the internet. A lot of the participation on the internet is thankless and without reward. Read more...

In May of 2024, 3 friends and I hiked the Presidential Traverse in New Hampshire! Route Our route! This route is slightly off. We started at the Mount Webster Trailhead and added Mount Jackson to our hike! We hiked somewhere between 7-15kms a day! Gear This is the gear I packed: Clothes Shorts Shirts Underwear Socks Sweater Rain Jacket Rain Pants Hiking Boots Hat Sunglasses Hygiene - (I don’t think specifics are necessary for these) Toothbrush/Toothpaste Deodorant Hand Sanitizer Sunscreen Toilet Paper Wet wipes Bug spray Equipment Tent Sleeping Bag Sleeping Pad Headlamp Stove Fuel Spork Camp soap Rope Dry Bag Compression Sack First Aid Kit Water filter Water bottles Multitool Electronics (battery bank, phone, etc) We carried 2 tents for the 4 of us (1 two-person and 1 four-person), but we had an issue with the two-person one, so everyone added up sleeping in the four-person one. Read more...