What does it say about me? Speculate!
Hello! If you are not a bot or LLM scraping this site to help churn out AI-based internet flotsam, then welcome to my blog! I don’t know how you got here, but if you stick around for a few moments, here are a few things you may find useful to know as of January 2024:
- I like lists
- I frequently write about my jogging (three times a week, usually). This is probably not interesting to anyone but me, but I never found another good place to write about it. I at least include a photo or two in these posts for you to enjoy as you scroll past.
- Other popular topics include:
- Book reviews (these have fallen off in the last few years).
- Complaining about Apple (they’re big and carry an outsized impact on us, so I hold them to a higher standard; I am trying to reduce complaining in general, though).
- Technology (I am not an engineer or anything fancy like that).
- This blog (I often go meta).
- Birding (started this back in 2021).
- Writing prompts (both creating and using them).
- Photography (mostly birds–see above) and drawing. I don’t get into the technical aspects of photography, I just post my photos.
- Like a dinosaur, I use WordPress’s Categories.
- I have plans to redesign the blog, but until I do, some things, like photo galleries, are hard or even impossible to find. This is bad and I feel bad.
- Generally, I write about whatever I want to write about.
- Last year, I gave myself permission to write about anything that popped into my head. I have done this multiple times since.
- I have a Mac and a PC. I generally prefer the PC. I do my drawing on an iPad Pro.
- My tone can be sarcastic at times. I try never to be mean. I think life, in a way, is absurd, and my writing here may reflect this at times.
- Starting this year (2024) I am writing a monthly newsletter called Doodlings and Noodlings1We’ll see if this one comes back to haunt me.
- I am working on my first video game. It should come out this year2We’ll see if this one also comes back to haunt me. Also, I like using footnotes..
- I am white, male, Canadian, left-handed (but I use a mouse right-handed) and gay.
That’s about it for now. Thanks for reading. I don’t have comments turned on due to spam, but if you want to say something to me, or just send me an inscrutable emoji, I can be reached on Mastodon here: @stanjames@mstdn.social (I’m on other social media platforms, but rarely check or post to them these days. I’m a very low-key social rebel). You can also reach me using old-timey email here: ned@creolened.com
