A Most Intricate Tea Time on 茶蜂

Books

Sat, 20 Dec 2025 21:30:06 -0500

I finally got around to start organizing my reading log. It has been sitting in my todo pile for so long now that I have a lot of backlog to go through. I was able to retrieve last year’s reading, as well as the reading I have actually logged so far. The layout is a far cry from what I actually want to have, but at least I have things in place that I can play with. The new location is bookshelf.

Sweet Sweet Revenge LTD

Tue, 16 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

How To Be The Love You Seek

Mon, 01 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

What You Are Looking For Is in the Library

Fri, 21 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Falling Kingdoms

Fri, 31 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

Fri, 19 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The Wee Free Men

Fri, 01 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Infomocracy

Wed, 02 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The Village Effect: How Face-to-Face Contact Can Make Us Healthier, Happier, and Smarter

Sat, 21 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

Fri, 13 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Week 19

Tue, 06 May 2025 01:58:29 +0000

Notes for 2025 Week 19

Health

Received a final acupuncture treatment for a while. It’s amazing how relaxing it is to lie there for 20 minutes with a bunch of needles in from head to toe. It could also be that it really prevents you from fidgeting.

Projects

Finally sat down and actually wrote something, even if it was just this page.
Thinking about tracking my reading through this site as well as using it more as a personal database.
- Todo fix the list page for week notes (half way done)

Web Reading

Since I have finally gone through the entire merveilles webring, it has been time to dive more deeply into sites that I found interesting. I have really been enjoying zkbro’s site, and was inspired to start publishing some weekly notes.

Books

Started reading Babel by R. F. Kuang (Audiobook)

Daily details

Monday, May 5
- Acupuncture
- Writing (this page)
- Reading zkbro
- Reading (Books/Audiobook) Babel by R. F. Kuang [1:39:04]
Tuesday, May 6
- Normal day?
Wednesday, May 7
- A very long day. Didn’t get much time to myself
Thursday, May 8
- Slower. Read more Babel
Friday, May 9
- Thought more about the layout of these week notes. Thinking I need to move them around a bit.
Saturday, May 10
- Cleaning and organizing.

Babel

Tue, 06 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Water Moon

Sun, 27 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The Little Book of Hygge: Danish Secrets to Happy Living

Sat, 26 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Double Blind

Sun, 13 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The Heartbeat Library

Fri, 04 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The Tatami Galaxy

Fri, 04 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Quentins

Tue, 01 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work

Tue, 01 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The Art and Science of Connection: Why Social Health Is the Missing Key to Living Longer, Healthier, and Happier

Mon, 31 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Anasazi

Wed, 26 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Leave Society

Thu, 13 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The Great Believers

Tue, 11 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The Anatomist's Apprentice

Mon, 10 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

Mon, 03 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

In Five Years

Mon, 03 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Plutocracy: Chronicles of a Global Monopoly

Fri, 28 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Bones: Inside and Out

Wed, 26 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

A Mind Spread Out on the Ground

Mon, 24 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The Therapist

Mon, 24 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Tom Lake

Fri, 14 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The Huberator

Sun, 09 Feb 2025 22:00:31 -0500

I have come across more and more utilities that are hosted directly on Github and are simple binaries. As I am not thrilled at how the homebrew setup works on Linux, and other tools seemed a little heavy for my use case, I thought I would see how simple I could make something to do the same job. Below is my zsh script, which requires jq, yq, and gh to be installed.

Martyr!

Wed, 05 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down: How to Be Calm and Mindful in a Fast-Paced World

Wed, 05 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Counting the Cost

Sat, 01 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Scratch space for notes

Thu, 30 Jan 2025 00:19:13 -0500

Long form articles and things I don’t want to forget

Games for Cities: The hidden assumptions that drive SimCity

How to Keep House While Drowning: A Gentle Approach to Cleaning and Organizing

Thu, 30 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Ra

Wed, 29 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The Dog Who Followed the Moon

Wed, 29 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The Last Lecture

Wed, 29 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

A History of Wild Places

Fri, 24 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Bad Cree

Mon, 20 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The Cyberiad: Stories

Sun, 19 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The Restaurant of Lost Recipes

Sat, 18 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Taiwan Travelogue

Thu, 16 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Donuts and Other Proclamations of Love

Sun, 12 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The Covenant of Water

Wed, 08 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Calendar

Mon, 06 Jan 2025 21:59:55 -0500

I have long dreamed about calendar reform, with the main desire to keep things nice and tidy. For quite a while, I was fixated on a perfectly even number of days per month using a system of 13, 28 day months. Each month would be exactly four weeks with a year day and leap day tacked on the end as holidays which would exist neither in a month or a standard week. Though this was tidy, the thing that bothered me was the prime number of months which made the calendar difficult to break into smaller pieces. I also struggled with coming up with 13 month names…

A Psalm for the Wild-Built