blog birthdays
apparently websites age too, except they don’t get wrinkles, just broken links # Blog birthdays are ridiculous because which birthday am I even counting? First diary? First proper site? Splinder?...
Memory & Time
ECLIXAR
digital diary
Journal.
fragments of quiet intelligence
There is a manner in which certain things ask to be written, not so that they may be found, but because to exist in silence, for too long, eventually becomes insufficient. It is not urgency. It is something closer to a necessity that makes no noise, waiting patiently until it discovers the proper form. This archive was born in such a way.
Not as a diary. Not as a blog. Not as something that is updated merely for the sake of appearing alive. It is a place where certain thoughts come to rest, those which do not dissolve, those which return, those which insist with the silent obstinacy of things that truly belong to you...
Every article is a scene. Every word, a frame of something that would not have remained, had it not
been writtenFrom the archive.
Body & Energy
blood, cells and things that work by themselves
my body is doing approximately eight billion things without consulting me # I got a tiny cut today. Nothing, barely worth mentioning, except then I watched it stop bleeding and...
Laws & Universe
internal, external and absolute temperatures
outside: cold. inside: too hot. absolute zero: somehow still not my bedroom # Outside cold, tram too hot, work warm, house warm, bedroom somehow either Sahara or Siberia depending on...
Networks & Codes
evil genius in programming
the computer is doing exactly what you told it to do, which is unfortunately not what you meant # Programming is evil because the computer is technically innocent. That’s the...
Music & Sound
something with a steel guitar
what IS that sound and why do i suddenly need more of it # Something with a steel guitar. This is now a legitimate search criterion apparently. I heard that...
Journey & Time
months that seem to last longer than necessary
january contains approximately forty seven days and science refuses to investigate # January is finally over and I don’t understand how a month with thirty one days can feel longer...
Music & Sound
the long way around
apparently i like songs that sound like leaving somewhere # I have been listening to Taking the Long Way and I think I’ve identified what is happening with this country...
Memory & Time
memory
remembering is not the same thing as having been there # Memory today, because there are dates where writing something clever feels inappropriate and January 27 is one of them....
Logic & Form
pessimism, realism and statistics
«i’m just being realistic» is sometimes pessimism wearing glasses # People love calling themselves realists because nobody wants to introduce themselves as a pessimist. «I’m not negative, I’m realistic.» Okay,...
Questions & Musings
overthinking and the uncertainty principle
my brain would like more information than reality is contractually required to provide # Mental masturbation night, excuse the expression but there is no elegant substitute, because I have spent...
Music & Sound
sundays with guitar
sunday apparently sounds better with strings in it # Sunday. Church this morning, lunch, absolutely no desire to move quickly afterwards, tea at five with the legally mandated four biscuits,...
School & Learning
types of work and endless emails
some jobs produce objects. some jobs apparently produce replies to replies about replies. # I was thinking about types of work today because Mom’s colleagues were around again and at...
Why?
Because every thought leaves a trace. If something moved you, disturbed you, softened you, or made you think, leave it here, quietly.