Now

I don't use social media, so a now page seemed like a good idea. It's not my idea, but I do think it's a good one.

As of September 2026, I am:

Listening to Music

I'm obsessed with these songs right now:

Playing Bass

I've started a new project with a couple of friends bringing together elements of stoner/desert rock, punk, and prog. It's obnoxious loud sloppy fun.

I’ve also gotten into soul. So I’m working on thumpy patterns.

Reading Prose

I am rereading East of Eden by John Steinbeck.

Reading Non-Fiction

I am reading Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari.

Reading Poetry

I am reading The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel. I know what I said.

Writing Code

I am learning Laravel and Python.

I am building a showcase for code experiments on the dev version of this site. Kiddo is storyboarding some 404 pages for me to build. She's writing a whole backstory for Parolly the robot.

Paying Bills

I am Digital Analytics Technical Lead at an insurance company.

Exercising

I do 1hr endurance spin classes daily.

I run daily, pushing for a fast 5k.

My partner and I walk about 8km/day. We do a long hike (12-15km) every Saturday.

I do 5+ hours of yoga a week.

Cooking

I am learning not to eat like an addict. I live mostly on pineapple, skyr, and salads. I mess with embellishments to keep things interesting. I bake too: bread, fruit loaves, granola bars, cookies, and spiced legumes for salads.

I am learning about Indian, Japanese, Thai, Vietnamese, and Ethiopian cuisines.

Flying

I am working on realizing a childhood dream. Because life, securing a medical certificate is nontrivial. I've completed my part of that process and am waiting for adjudication by Transport Canada.

Meantime, I am working my way through online ground school courses so when the time comes I can fly (ha!) through the theory and focus on applied learning at the controls.

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Nightshade

03 Aug 2026

Data poisoning gets a bad rap. It's part of a revolutionary toolkit. Discussed here are ubiquitous surveillance, a novel from the late 1970s, some data science nerdery, and an appeal to gently break some stuff that has deserved it for some time.

The Tree

01 Jul 2026

An erudite friend told me yesterday that expecting life to be fair is a fool's errand. That fairness is malleable, defined in terms of the wants of the present. Fickle. He used the word. He found grueling victory in a recent deep regret I'd communicated over coffee.

Dusty Tomes

23 Jun 2026

A reflection on Lemonade by Raymond Carver, pulled from the archive of an ancient database. This may become a feature as I have made a lot of words throughout my life, and some of the arrangements just happen to be pretty. That's not quite the right word. But it will do.

On Endings

07 Jun 2026

Musings about Destiny 2's end and what makes games addictive for me. Destiny 2 has a very specific appeal because of one weapon. This post goes into detail about that weapon and what it means for me.

Continue?

30 May 2026

Resuming a saved game used to be a matter of correctly copying down long sequences of letters and numbers, then hoping you'd not made a mistake while writing. Entering them was a matter of entering letters and numbers with a d-pad, then hoping you'd not made a mistake entering in the letters.

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Words.

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Hi. I'm Luc. I make pretty things by pressing buttons and wiggling a mouse. I do corporate surveillance, after a fashion. I'm working on flight. I make music. I write sometimes too. This site is for all that. Except the surveillance.