Hi

Like Python, sometimes it’s easier to write in a compile-once-run-many fashion. That is, there are times I find myself wishing that I kept track of some strange idea I had in the middle of the night, or explaining to multiple people some concept or story. Thus, I have created this blog as a reference for both myself and others in the hope that it may be, at best, a learning experience, or at worst, an interesting story to read.

I won’t be enforcing a strict focus to this blog – as a result, post topics can vary from bananas to physics (or the physics of bananas) to whatever else. I have many interests – it does not seem fair to selectively document a portion of them without giving attention to the rest. However, for want of specificity, a smattering of topics that immediately come to mind include:

• personal projects,
• international political affairs,
• fanfiction,
• academic papers,
• photography,
• low-level tech talk,
• running,
• fruits,
• Minecraft, and
• whatever else I can think of.

As for me, I’m a 20-something college graduate who majored in computer science and physics living in the Chicago area. I’m just trying to find interesting things to do and document my journey.

If you’re interested, check out my GitHub account. I’ll be happy to hear feedback and suggestions, either on the project issues page, or through email. Comments are turned off by default. Additionally, if this isn’t enough reading, I also authored a previous blog Coleslaw From Hell, back in high school (an archived version can be found here), which focused heavily on political stuff. Have a gander, but I’m no longer responsible for the musings of that dopey teenager.

The source code for this blog can be found on GitHub under the MIT license. The content of the blog – that is, the actual entries, both raw text (in the base markup language), as well as the generated HTML – is under the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 3.0).

Happy reading!

PS On a more technical note, I am using the Nikola engine to generate this blog in static format – because the site is static, I can abuse GitHub’s project pages feature to offset hosting onto the cloud. Additionally, Nikola doesn’t require Ruby (which requires a plethora of additional dependencies) and is fairly lightweight, with support for a variety of markup languages (which are abstracted away, thank God).

For all of the most important things, the timing always sucks. “Someday” is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.

Timothy Ferriss