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Beatricebaker.com - URL Changing! (And Life Rambles)
Change your bookmarks for this site to http://beatricebaker.com please!
Sometime in the next month, the current Quinlan Circle sites will all go down. They’re not disappearing, necessarily; all sites are backed up and on a new server. But, there is a high likelihood that many of them will disappear.
I’ve been prepping a lot of new blog posts recently, but I haven’t posted any of them because of…
5th Anniversary of Coming to Japan
I came to Japan 5 years ago, and a lot’s happened since then.
Almost four years in snowy Aomori, half a year in sunny Shizuoka, and almost a year in variable weather Kyoto… I’ve lived in four and a half houses, worked in about 15 different schools, gotten big into and slowly out of debt two separate times, and met a lot of mostly wonderful people from all sorts of backgrounds.
So many firsts in…
Civ Is Too Long
It’s taboo to say these feared words, but I’ll admit that Civ is too long. Sometimes way too long. And unless you drastically alter your playstyle or use certain mods, it’s very difficult to get it shorter.
A few weeks ago, I was really getting into the Tides of History podcast’s overview of the ancient world, and somehow that got me playing Civ VI one weekend night.
If you know me, you know I…
Link Scoop 003: True Love
I’ve found true love, and its name is… Link Scoop.
Welcome to another addition of this blog series where I share with you the things I’ve been seeing on this here wide world of web. Considering I spend a majority of my waking hours interfacing with the internet on various backlit screens, I guess you can call that true love. Or true addiction.
Anyway, you’re probably the same way, which is why…
Do It Yourself Anime American Character Annoys Me
It’s a pretty nice anime, but the Do It Yourself anime American character really annoys me in a few ways.
This Fall 2022 anime came and went without a ton of fanfare, but it’s one of the very few original series that release each year. Not based on a book, manga, game, toy line, or anything else, just a straight-up story. It’s a clear Yuru Camp cash-in, trying to get a crossover audience with…
Switch 2 Ideas
I’ve got some Switch 2 ideas for you. Based on everyone else’s speculation, based on existing patents, based on the mood of the gaming world, I’m giving my idealized Nintendo Switch successor system.
These aren’t predictions, per se. It’s my idealized-but-realistic version of Switch 2 ideas. Not going full-on dreamer here–there ain’t gonna be an official FPGA modular Nintendo console with a Wii…
Link Scoop 001: Let’s Go
Welcome to Link Scoop, my brand-new… blog series? Newsletter? Whatever this is.
Basically, the idea is simple. I give you some links–scoop up, as you might say–from across the internet. It WON’T be timely news-oriented stuff… usually. A mix of longer reads, videos, weird stuff, and whatever piques my interest. Hopefully it’ll pique yours too (then you can subscribe to my blog).
Let’s begin the…
Note Taking Workflow Experiments - Phase One
I’ve been struggling with note taking workflow and my creative output for years. I’ve never found the right balance. Maybe soon I will.
This is based on my 11/14/2023 Life Rambles post. I started rambling on there, then it got so long I spun it off into its own note taking workflow article!
These are, basically, the segments of my note taking workflow:
Life reminders, important info retrieval,…
Life Rambles - 11/14/2023
Here’s my Life Rambles post for 11/14/2023, where I talk about various topics in my daily and creative life. For 11/14/2023, that is. As you know from my last post, I’m still trying to figure out what this thing might actually end up being.
I’ve been emotionally kind of down the last couple days. In a real self-pity mood, which is the worst kind of mood for me to act irrationally. So I’m just…