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This Home That Was Never Mine

Writing about Toronto is hard. I haven't written about it much since getting back from my trip there back in October because—and I don't really care how dramatic this sounds—it all feels so raw. When I got to Toronto, within a day, it just felt like home. It

Politics

Acute Fear of the Gigantic Nameless Thing

I recently completed a literary survey of every piece of creative fiction I could find that H. P. Lovecraft wrote or collaborated on. At first, this was motivated by climate grief and my feeling that there is something important for Lovecraft’s work and his personal fears to say about

Humor

How to Finish All the Items on Your To-Do List

With the fast pace of modern life and the go-go-go, always-on work culture, it’s easy to get to the end of the day and feel like you didn’t accomplish anything. Heck, sometimes you get to the end of a busy day and you can’t even figure out

Photography

Nexus

Toronto, Ontario, 2019-10-05 (f/4.5, 1/500, 100).This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Photography

Mourning Light

Gainesville, Florida, 2020-04-11 (f/16, 1/60, 800).This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Photography

Cypress Sky

Lake Eola Park, Orlando, Florida (f/14, 1/125, 100).This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Photography

Portrait of the Artist

Home, Gainesville, Florida, 2020-01-22 (f/3.5, 1/60, 3200).This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Photography

Broadview & Queen

Toronto, Ontario, 2019-10-05 (f/2.8, 1/60, 1000).This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Photography

Black Birds at Butler Lake

Lakeside Park, Lake Butler, Florida (f/16, 1/125, 100).This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Animal Crossing

Living Fossil

Posing with the coelacanth at the museum, 2020-03-26.

Animal Crossing

Roommates

Mantis and tarantula, 2020-03-25.

Animal Crossing

A Song in the Air

Singing with Buck and Diva, 2020-03-27.

Photography

Portal

Home, Gainesville, Florida, 2020-02-12 (f/14, 1, 1600).This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Animal Crossing

Vinyl Fever

New turntable, 2020-03-24.

Photography

Southeast Sky

Gainesville, Florida, 2020-01-09 (f/22, 1/80, 100).This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Animal Crossing

Fishing

Fishing, 2020-03-22.

Animal Crossing

Exchange

Exchanging fruit with friends, 2020-03-21.

Photography

Notebook

Home, Gainesville, Florida, 2020-01-08 (f/8, 1/60, 6400).This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Reading Notes

Reading Notes on “Modern Science and Anarchism”

This essay felt like an excellent short summary of anarchist thought and its history. In attempting to make a case that anarchism is born from the inductive reasoning of the scientific method, Kropotkin ends up outlining the history of the movement in a tight summary that I found particularly approachable.

Photography

Tendrils

Gainesville, Florida, 2020-01-17 (f/16, 1/80, 3200).This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Animal Crossing

Roughing It

Roughing it on Cobbler Island, 2020-03-20.

Photography

Opposites

Hough Hall, University of Florida, 2020-02-07 (f/10, 1/125, 100).This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Animal Crossing

New Horizons

Starting a new life on Cobbler Island in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, 2020-03-20.

Photography

Between

Lake Alice, Gainesville, Florida, 2020-02-01 (f/18, 1/60, 200).This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Photography

Kate Critiques Apple’s Deep Fusion in an Ad-Hoc Manner

I am prepared to offer a critique of the iPhone 11 Pro camera, specifically the Deep Fusion machine learning piece to add in detail. While it’s an impressive piece of engineering, it doesn’t always lead to great photos. Sometimes, it imparts so much computed texture to minuscule details