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November 14th, 2025

Constraint is the Condition of Art

I'm usually not contemplative, especially not about art, but lately I've been considering art, and more specifically photography. I have fully ditched the smart phone and have only a dumbphone these days. It was a long time coming and was pushed into being when my already debloated and limited smartphone took a swim in the river during a canoe trip. Now, I like my setup, but my wife misses my ability to take photos. The dumbphone has a camera, but it's at a 2004 level quality, ie everything is a potato.

November 14th, 2025

The Obligatory Annual-ish Update

Keeping a blog is hard because you have to write stuff periodically. It's much easier to build a new one, throw up a few posts to make sure it's all working, and than move onto another website next year.

This is week two of getting back into exercise and reclaiming my body and mind. Today on my one mile run I was joined by both Alistair and Estelle. We ran 1.1 miles in exactly 12 minutes today. Afterwards I managed five sets of kettlebell swings @ 20kg, where each set was made up of 10 swings per arm, for a total of 20 swings.

June 17, 2024

June 16th, 2024

Phone Debloat

I'd like to downgrade to a dumbphone or a minimalist phone one day. My hang-up right now is that I use my phone for a number of things, and if I switched to a phone with fewer features, I'd end up either losing out on these things (some of which I view as a neccesity) or at the very least I'd need to find a new tool/device/system to replace these features with. I figured step one was to reduce the amount of uses I have for my phone.

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