Evan Harmon

(This is a now page, and if you have your own site you should make one too.)

Reading

• Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace
• The Courage To Be by Paul Tillich
• How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain de Botton

  Recently read

• Re-read A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers: Feels like my generation's The Catcher in the Rye
• The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck by Mark Manson
• Invisible Storm: A Soldier's Memoir of Politics and PTSD by Jason Kander: This is a really well-done way to talk about mental health. And Jason Kander has a pretty interesting story to tell.

Doing

• Using Obsidian as my second brain and digital garden. I call mine Memex
• Coding
• Revamping my homelab and self-hosted infrastructure
• Decluttering, minimizing, simplifying, and practicing the Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning

Making

• I want to reverse-engineer some wood benches I have

Learning

• The IndieWeb: (like this /now page and omg.lol!)
• Astro Web Framework
• Privacy-preserving AI architectures: (local LLMs, RAG, distributed pipelines)
• Sustainable living/permaculture and sustainable computing/permacomputing

Listening

• Champagne Drip - Kaleidoscope - Apple Music
• Jesse Morris: Sunday Morning Coming Down - YouTube
• Milky Edwards & The Chamberlings - Starman - YouTube

Laughing

• Orsen Welles drunk outtakes for a wine commercial
• A Normal Person Explains Cryptocurrency
• You Expect Me To Believe That?!? (Ft. Tim Robinson)

Watching

• Old Norm MacDonald clips. Love that ol' chunk a coal
• 🤷‍♂️ Modern pulp on my TV as background noise
• The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Playing

• Valheim: I got a dedicated server on my homelab going
• Dead Cells: Finally found a rogue-like I enjoy
• Sea of Thieves: Great, fun, simple co-op

Enjoying

• Time with friends and family, talking, reminiscing
• Making terrible approximations of Coca-Cola with my new SodaStream machine

Last updated 2024-08-03. Back to my omg.lol page!