If you’re like me and really don’t care about having the latest phone (My Oneplus 3T is still going strong!), you’ve probably run into those ugly little rectangles instead of whatever new emoji it’s supposed to be. Normally your emojis are refreshed via system updates. However, if your phone is as “old” as mine you…
Month: January 2020
Made in Pennsylvania
If states were reviewed on Yelp, PA would have very mixed reviews. Lititz is the “coolest small town in America”, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh hate each other, tourists love the idyllic scenery and Amish farms in Lancaster, said tourists and Amish also bring traffic in parts of Lancaster to a grueling crawl, the weather here is…
Aurora
Yes I did stay up until midnight on a work night just so I could listen to the new album, despite the fact I’m going to be streaming it at work and my CD copy is arriving today. I can safely say, this is an amazing album. If you’re a fan of Breaking Benjamin, you…
“Scars”
This is a bit of a followup to the previous post. This is based on a playlist I made over time on my phone of music I found to be cathartic when I was going through some low spots. I wanted to share this in the hope that someone else finds it as helpful as…
Shadows and Hope in Music
One of the most common observations I’ve heard of the music I listen to is that it’s “dark” or even to some “demonic”. Truth is, hard rock and metal (especially gothic metal) does sound very “dark,” with violent rhythms and lyrics usually about death, apocalypses, spirits, loneliness, pain, and the like. However, one mustn’t take…
Hello world!
Wassup. I started a blog. Not entirely sure what I’m going to post on here, probably random stuff music/tech related. For those tech nerds out there, it’s self-hosted on a Raspberry Pi, proxied through Cloudflare who also handles DNSSEC validation for this site, and Google handles the domain registration and privacy. SSL is handled with…