On Jan. 6, 2020, the words anarch and domestic terrorist were finally used to describe the far-right and the Republican Party demonstrated a plurality of their members were willing to discard the votes of Americans through their electoral delegates. The Republicans can no longer call themselves disciples of the Constitution and are fervently opposed to…
Journal Entry Dec. 21, 2020
Winter break has been as difficult as any time has been since this mess began almost a year ago. I've spent the past week (I think) watching Dawson's Creek, a ridiculous teen soap that first aired before I was born. It tells the story of childhood friendships changing as they grow up in high school…
A Hopeful Winter Solstice!
Dec. 22, 2020Well, 2020's been one diper full of crap kind of year. The world ain't doing to great, from lockdown whiplash to anti-vaxers, we got quite a way to go before we can finally go back to anything resembling life before the pandemic.I wrote a blog post in one of my writing journals that…
Five Songs I can’t stop playing right now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdPkcgaH8zg Drama by: Ash Code https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFSrqfNhHTg Lisztomania by: Phoenix https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8p4ohy9a-_s Singularity by: New Order https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-Uv7jB9GZU The Fall by: Gary Numan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfLzBmuRJMc Cigarette Daydreams by: Cage The Elephant Read more ...
Hey everyone, You might have noticed I haven't been active in the last few days; I am taking the last few weeks of the fall term off from writing to focus on my college classes. I do enjoy the Variety Flyer Delivery posts, they are a great way to learn about interesting topics going on…
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Nov. 17, 2020 Merriam-Webster word of the day: Fulvous. Used in a sentence: Fulvous is a color though it is seldom used as simpler colors can be used in it's stead. From The Library of Congress, on Nov. 17, 1869 The Suez Canal, in Egypt, was opened, which connected the Mediterranean Sea to the Indian…
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Nov. 16, 2020, in review So, I took Sunday off. I haven't met my writing once a day for the month of November goal but I have gotten better at just writing frequently, even if it is only just a few sentences. Since this is the end of the day though, I have a lot,…
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Nov. 14, 2020 Merriam-Webster Word of the day: infinitesimal. Used in a sentence: There is only an infinitesimal chance that one day will be the same as the last. From The Library of Congress, On this day in 1732, the Library Company of Philadelphia, the spiritual predecessor to The Library of Congress, hired it's first…
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Nov. 13, 2020 Word of the day from Merriam-Webster: Farrier. An interesting word that I cannot think of anyway to be put into a casual sentence. A type of blacksmith who works with horseshoes and hooves. From Britannica, Today in 2015 The Paris Terror attacks, a terrorist attack occurred an the Bataclan theatre. The casualties were in…
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Nov. 12, 2020 Word of the day from Merriam-Webster: abnegate. Using the word "abnegate" in a sentence. If I were to ask a king of a YA fantasy book to abnegate a throne, it would mean asking him to relinquish the throne. From Britannica, on this day in 2018, Stan Lee, the embodiment of Marvel…
Let’s talk about algorithms/models
I wrote a short essay for one of my college classes. In typical me fashion, I did it wrong, but it's still interesting so I thought I would share it with you instead. I will be using what I wrote as the basis for the construction of this post. As another note, I read the…
It's been two days since my last post. I've had a few rough days where I didn't get around to writing a blog post. Hope to get back to writing a blog daily soon. Thanks for reading! -The Mycelium Zine
Biden has won the Presidential Election
Biden has now been projected to win the presidency with more than the 270 electoral votes needed. With Biden's victory, it seems that our flawed democracy will continue. Trump, despite his best efforts and refusal to concede, seems unlikely to be able to spin his election- night victory into a second term. The lawsuits the…
The question of ‘impossible’
If you are reading this post in the hopes that I will present you with some immensely difficult riddle, you and I both are going to be disappointed. If you are pondering on the last time you said something was impossible, this post might be for you. This is not my usually daily blog post…
Hey everyone, If you have been following this blog for awhile, a few things have changed: I have switched the theme and background color of my page making my blog more elegantly designed.A problem with the time & date settings has been corrected. Except for the most recent post, previous posts have been on London…
Algorithms running on my mind
Today, I went to my college class on algorithms and learned how they replicate the problematic patterns we give them. If the raw data has a problematic pattern the algorithm knows that pattern is successful at predicting something, like the correlation between how much time you spend on social media and content that matches a…
A very unproductive day; I read half a book
After waking up from a slightly longer night than usual, I ate a hearty breakfast of chocolate chip cookies from the previous day. Each time I ate one, it seemed I was brushing my teeth shortly thereafter. I followed the changes in the battleground states throughout the day, which distracted me from remembering what I…
A Premature Victory Speech
Despite my previous post, I'm still up. Trump just made a victory speech from the White House falsely claiming to have won several swing states which have not been called by The Associated Press. Trump does not have the 270 votes necessary to be assured another term as president. Trump called for the Supreme Court…
The Days After
It's already Tomorrow on the East Coast and, as expected, no candidate has been projected to win the 270 electoral votes necessary for the presidency. With the increases in mail-in voting and the increased number of ballots, it was always going to take longer than election night to get a clear idea of where the…
My Fall Term of College
When I started college online in the spring, I was still in high school and only doing a single class, and I already felt overwhelmed and lived in a state of stasis followed by brief periods of panic and elevated stress. Since the winter term of last year, I haven't had a very high self-esteem.…
