I took shrooms a couple days ago and really thought about the funk I’ve been in for the last few months since I got laid off from my job. I always get like this when I’m unemployed but this time it’s not as bad as in the past because I’m working on my memoir, but I realized as I was tripping that i need more than that. I’m no Stephen King. I can’t focus all day on writing. I need balance. I need other writing projects, other artistic explorations and…
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Cops Don’t Care
More information about Kalin’s memoir. This page is super disorganized rough draft right now. This page is about the memoir I’m writing, so it’s only going to interest you if you are in the memoir or have read it and want to dive deeper. This page is mostly for transparency. If I haven’t covered anything here that concerns you about my memoir, please let me know. Current state: The book is currently in rough draft form. I have started showing it to close friends and some of the people in…
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Once upon a modern time, an emotionally healthy guy named Kyle lived in a little apartment overlooking the town of Soggy Bottom on one side and Deer-Fart Park on the other. Kyle had a little buddy named Alan. Alan enjoyed collecting junk off the street and turning it into pieces of art. It represented how we can take little broken pieces of our lives and turn them into something fun. A little dragon made of tin cans and plastic spoons sat on Kyle’s deck. One day Kyle drove home from…
Read MoreModern Web Development Is Fundamentally Broken
No one cares about building quality products anymore I’m glad I got laid off from my job recently. I’ve been a web developer for over twenty years and I’ve watched this industry change in ways that simply make no sense and I can’t get behind. This is a mostly un-edited free-write. I may come back to turn these into proper articles. This is going to sound like the ravings of a lunatic conspiracy theorist, but I believe that a huge percentage of decisions made in corporate web development have nothing…
Read MoreAI Makes Me a Better Human
Anti-AI hate is still Hate I’ve found it difficult to come here and write this. I didn’t realize how triggering this topic was for me and how much anger management it would require. I think this is because I identify as a trans-humanist, which basically means I look forward to a time when humans are far more deeply integrated with technology than we already are. I believe Mother Nature created us with the specific purpose of building space craft to spread life to other worlds, and that her long-term existence…
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