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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 It raised a strange question: when does outdated audio quality stop being a flaw and start becoming nostalgia?
Silent Vice — When the Algorithm Actually Gets It Right
A late-night algorithm stumble led to the discovery of Silent Vice and their crushing track “Temptress.” What started as a random TikTok clip turned into a full catalog deep dive — and the realization that this San Diego band has been building something heavy, atmospheric, and fully realized since 2010.
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.
Everyone Should Own a Toothless
Watching How to Train Your Dragon completely backwards led to an unexpected realization — I don’t want a war dragon like the ones from Game of Thrones. I want Toothless. The emotionally supportive, flight-capable, plasma-breathing house cat we all deserve.
Uninstall McAfee, Then We’ll Talk
What started as a quiet breakfast at my girlfriend’s house turned into an unexpected tech-support intervention when a coffee-soaked HP laptop entered the room. I expected catastrophic hardware failure — what I found instead was a machine brought to its knees by preloaded antivirus and OEM software bloat. A funny, ridiculous, and painfully relatable look at modern laptops, trialware, and why removing McAfee sometimes fixes more than espresso ever breaks.
Changing the Oil
Living with cerebral palsy means living with nonstop muscle spasms — and the only thing keeping mine under control is a surgically implanted baclofen pump. Every three months it has to be refilled or things get medically dangerous fast. What should be routine maintenance turned into a road trip, a rental billing mess, hospital bureaucracy, and a transportation system that wasn’t even sure a wheelchair user qualified for a wheelchair van. If I don’t laugh about it… I’m going to punch somebody.
I don’t talk about sports very often.
Disabled athletes are competing at elite, full-contact levels — from wheelchair rugby to sled hockey — yet the sports world continues to ignore them. Even moments that should have changed everything, like the Murderball documentary, faded back into silence. With the Paralympics pushed to the margins of broadcast coverage, this post takes an angry, unfiltered look at why adaptive sports are still treated like an afterthought instead of world-class competition.
Three Weeks. Three Very Different Headspaces.
Three weeks. Three completely different sonic worlds. From the spirit and soul of Bob Marley to the mysterious transmissions of Agent K and the raw industrial weight of early Nine Inch Nails, Rolling with Scissors shifts gears hard and refuses to stay in one lane.
I Can’t Count. Moving On.
I screwed up the episode numbers before any of the episodes even aired. Nobody noticed. I did. This is me correcting it loudly, cleanly, and moving on — because the music matters more than pretending I didn’t mess up.
I’m Done Pretending
I’m Done Pretending is a new blog category created out of exhaustion with false balance, willful ignorance, and the pressure to treat misinformation as just another opinion. This post explains why the category exists and what kind of writing will live here going forward.