Chronicles

The Banana-Pants Defect

The Prince of Darkness meets Harry Styles. Between the Timberlake funk and the Bublé charm, the music is surprisingly solid—but the banana-yellow pants and gym sweatshirt combo is a total systems failure.

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I Jinxed It

I said the words. I told the universe the snow was finished for the year. Now, as I dig out from a “shit pile” of white regret, I’m looking at the history of bacon and admitting that my writing schedule is now a weekly occupation.

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The Muscle Memory of a Rap God

While grinding on the new Rolling with Scissors gear store, I rediscovered some deep-seated muscle memory. Turns out, five years away from Eminem doesn’t mean you forget how to keep up with the Rap God. Here’s a status update on the store and a reminder that some signals never fade.

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Waking Up to the AI War

An IT veteran’s perspective on why the OpenAI military contract is the real-world beginning of Skynet. It’s time to stop calling it “the chat” and start calling it what it is: a weapons system.

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The Jetsetter: Custom Retro Gaming PC

I set out to build a practical Windows gaming machine for Microsoft Flight Simulator and a library of retro DOS classics. What Hobbs at H-Mods delivered instead was a fully fabricated, RGB-lit piece of functional art — a custom PC so visually ridiculous I keep pausing games just to stare at the case. From accessibility realities and hardware anxiety to wall-mounted retro gaming and resurrected music software, this is the story behind the Jetsetter build and why modern horsepower is mostly being used to run 1993 shooters.

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Digital Dust

While building the Nine Inch Nails deep dive, I pulled out one of the first CDs I ever ripped into MP3 — sometime around 2000. What I didn’t expect was hearing the digital equivalent of vinyl wear. Not damage… but texture. It raised a strange question: when does outdated audio quality stop being a flaw and start becoming nostalgia?

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The Web Developer Who Neglected His Own Website for a Decade

There’s a darkly hilarious truth about working in web development — the guy who builds and maintains everyone else’s websites never has time to fix his own. After neglecting my company site since 2014 and accidentally crashing it while poking around the backend, I finally did what any responsible developer would do… I launched the new one that had been sitting 90% finished on my server.