Piece originally published in 2600: The Hacker Quarterly's Spring 2023 issue. Please buy a copy. Transcript via Medium.Transcript via Cohost.It took me a long time to come up with the answer to that question that I have to admit I wondered abou

2 June 2023: TeamFAFO.

Jun 3rd, 2023 2m 47s

So, who or what is #TeamFAFO?A little insight. Transcript via Medium.Transcript via Cohost. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

1 June 2023: Verbing the Noun

Jun 2nd, 2023 2m 56s

A simple mindfulness exercise that can help ground you in the moment. Transcript via Medium.Transcript via Cohost. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

31 May 2023: Restarting again

Jun 1st, 2023 5m 23s

Transcript on MediumTranscript on CohostThe last six months have been various flavours of unexpected. Here's an update on what I've been doing, what I'm doing next, and where things will go from here.CW: Mentions of abuse and body issues. Hoste

Breaking patterns

Jan 1st, 2023 3m 17s

transcript linkCW: Mention of addiction without referencing any specific addictionsA short ep for the end of the year.We all have patterns in our lives. Some of them can cause harm. This is a short bit of support for anyone trying to break any

A Wake-Up Call.

Dec 25th, 2022 16m 54s

GoFundMe link to help me separate from my abusersTranscript on Cohost Instagram post Mastodon postWell, this is why i haven’t released an episode for a couple weeks. Thanks for your patience. The generic warning here would be that this episode

Fact Vs Truth

Dec 13th, 2022 7m 9s

Transcript on cohost.org/Support the show via ko-fi.org/almostlive. Help me pay the cat and feed the bills. There is a very good reason why I sometimes say, "truthful and factual." This show is a factual as it can be and as truthful as it needs

The Three Word Exercise

Dec 5th, 2022 8m 2s

Full transcript is at cohost.com/graphickal.Support via ko-fi.com/almostlive. Help me feed the bills and pay the cat. This is a little different from a normal episode. After mentioning this mindfulness exercise on Mastodon, I thought it might b

The Hundo.

Nov 30th, 2022 13m 24s

The Hundo is an outgrowth of #BadIdeaSaturday. My original plan was for this to be an intimate, private, offline experience in Alameda last week. Just about everything about this project changed far beyond that plan. And this is the first time

An Angry Moment

Nov 29th, 2022 4m 32s

There's a tool that I never used to have at my disposal that is helping me get things done, even if I still run out of hours in the day.But like any tool, it's the user that determines its uses.This episode discusses why I didn't have this for

Shaking Death's Hand

Nov 26th, 2022 6m 48s

I've managed to have a few close calls with death, and this was an incident that happened 16 years ago that haunted me for a long time until someone I didn't expect let me in on a secret. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informa

A Letter To Those Who Need It.

Nov 23rd, 2022 5m 15s

I've had people reach out to me across social media. (It's one of the reasons I always keep my DMs open.) They come to me with questions and anxieties about issues of identity. I've responded with some version of this letter to them, and I'm sh

A Coming Out Story.

Nov 20th, 2022 7m 48s

I thought I would share my coming out story here. It's the story of how I came out.. as Canadian. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Driving to an island.

Nov 17th, 2022 4m 19s

I remembered a short story about that same trip to SeaTac that I wanted to share. I spoke to a couple Japanese businessmen for a minute, and made them grin when I mentioned I drove to and from Japan a couple days prior. Hosted on Acast. See ac

Driver's Licenses

Nov 17th, 2022 4m 43s

At least in North America, driver's licenses are a seeming rite of passage and something one simply has. Consider the default ask for identification in North America is, "Can I see your driver's license?" despite passports, identification cards

#BadIdeaSaturday

Nov 14th, 2022 13m 33s

One of the projects that I'm attempting under the aegis of the return of AlmostLive. is #BadIdeaSaturday.Some of them are silly.Some are audacious.All of them have a reason behind them.Attempted so far, by publish date, are Clam-o-naise™ grille

Goodbye, 1c75a.

Nov 11th, 2022 15m 42s

For a long time on social media I used "1c75a" as a handle or account name. As a hacker, that series of characters looks like hexadecimal, maybe some secret that unlocked part of system or a magic number for a file. Nope. Real reason was much m

Sharing a beer

Nov 8th, 2022 14m 55s

Content warning: Discussion of alcohol, including subjective experience of sensory and mental status effectsI cracked open a twelve year old bottle of beer last week to share with a friend. I want to share that magic with others, maybe even lea

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#LibertyDeniers

Nov 8th, 2022 5m 45s

Impromptu episodes are me reading a post I’ve made online to bring life to those words.Original post: https://chaos.social/@Aphrodite/109303855943058256This was inspired by stories of vile acts and the cries by those that did them for immunity

Mistakes

Nov 6th, 2022 6m 26s

I goofed tonight. Miscalculated my range in my EV. As I wait for a tow in I-5, some thoughts on mistakes, why I used to be horrified of them, and why now.. they are learning experiences, even if uncomfortable. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pri

A Letter to Steve from a Cubs Fan

Nov 2nd, 2022 10m 15s

The World Series is currently happening and I wanted to share two nights and two stories. Game 6 of the Cubs-Marlins series in 2003, when I last recorded an episode of AlmostLive, and Game 7 of the 2016 World Series. A story about a guy who jus

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