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Going Back to Byzantium

Sun, 11 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I recently came into possession of a book called España Mistica by José Ortiz-Echagüe as a Christmas gift from my good buddy Harley. Thanks man!

José was a Spanish photographer born around the end of the 19th century, who saw the oncoming industrialization of his country as a young man. He understood this change to be unavoidable, and his desire was to capture different aspects of Spanish life before these changes happened as a means to preserve his culture.

José has several different works capturing different facets of Spanish life, but this particular work focuses on the religious life of Spain, and includes photographs of monasteries, cathedrals, monastic life, processions, and more. Shot in large format, the majority of the photographs were processed by José himself using charcoal method. Some of the images appear as if they were painted with a brush, and are absolutely stunning. I highly encourage everyone to take a look for themselves to see what I mean (photographs begin on pg. 40 of the PDF).

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In flipping through the pages of this book and witnessing the beauty of days gone by, it got me thinking.

Even briefly skimming through the photos in España Mistica, it’s very easy to acquire a sense of hopelessness. To see the beauty of what once was, contrasted with the ugliness of modernity, can quickly lead one to blackpill. I regularly see people on Twitter, or on Telegram, pining for the old days of Byzantium, or of Rome, or of the 1950’s – urging for us to collectively “retvrn” to these times as a society.

The fact is that we can’t return to these times. These places, these moments in time, were products of their environments that can’t simply be revived as they were in their own day – even by stacks of executive orders, or protests, or activism, or of hard will, or whatever else.

Almost nothing lasts forever, even if God may let us have these things for a short while for our own benefit – but we can always build something new with His help.

“Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.” + St. Augustine of Hippo.

1995 Nissan Hardbody: Clutch Safety Bypass + HAM Radio Install

Wed, 03 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Earlier this summer I brought home an old Nissan Pickup, also commonly known as the Nissan Hardbody or Nissan D21. I had been looking for one of these trucks for over two years before I found one in good shape, but that’s the Rust Belt for you.

I picked her up from an older gentleman and retired mechanic in Southern Pennsylvania, who only put ~3,000 miles on the thing during the 15 years that he owned it. At this point she’s sitting at just over 201k miles, and these old VG30E’s were known to get upwards of 400k miles with regular maintenance. To top it off, there isn’t an ounce of rust anywhere on this thing, and the interior was kept in fantastic shape.

Bypassing the Clutch Safety

For those of you who have no experience driving a car with a manual transmission, since 1991 all vehicles sold in the United States are required to have a clutch safety switch that prevents the vehicle from starting unless the clutch is fully depressed. I find this very annoying because I know how to drive – so I removed it.

First, I began by locating the safety switch at the very back of the clutch pedal. You can see that there’s a small blue connector leading into the back of the switch. Depress the clip on top with a screwdriver, and wiggle it out.

Here you can see that it’s just a simple two-slot connector. When the clutch pedal is depressed, the switch completes the circut and allows the starter to crank.

After testing with a paper clip, I cut and stripped a small piece of 18-gauge copper wire as a more permanent solution, since I didn’t feel like going out to buy a jumper.

Shove the wire in, and you’re done. It really is that simple. Now I don’t have to depress the clutch when I want to start the truck.

This mod isn’t just for sake of convenience (though it is mostly for sake of convenience), but can prove useful for getting out of percarious situations. Now that the starter can be engaged while in-gear, I should, in theory, be able to use the power of the starter to move the vehicle a very short distance if the engine won’t turn for whatever reason.

As of writing this post, the starter actually died due to a recent cold-snap lol. Good thing I’m not planning to take her anywhere until the salt is off the road anyways.

Installing the HAM Radio

An old truck like this isn’t complete without some kind of boomer comms system. Several years ago, my dad bought me a mobile HAM radio for Christmas, so I figured this would be a good time to slap it in.

I drilled four small holes in the bottom of the glovebox for the radio mount, and ran the power cable through the rubber electrical conduit on the passenger side of the firewall. The positive and negative leads already had fuses installed for protection, so all I had to do was crimp a few lugs on the end of each lead and stick them on the battery terminals.

Once I fire her up again in the spring, I’ll figure out how I want to mount an antenna.

And of course, no old pickup is complete without this in the glovebox:

Photos from Camp

Thu, 16 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Last weekend, my wife and I spent two nights at a small cabin in a quiet place. It’s really not much, but I wanted to share these few photos from our stay. I hope you will enjoy them.

This place is so warm.

Deep in the holler.

Impasse.

October 10th, 2025.

There is shade in the shadow of the cross after all.

The Best Casio Mod

Sun, 27 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

There’s a cool project in the classic Casio space that I’ve wanted to check out for a while called Sensor Watch. The project is headed up by Joey Castillo, and aims to add more modern functionality to the Casio F-91W. The latest revision, Sensor Watch Pro, just started shippping a few weeks ago – so I bought one.

So what is it?

Sensor Watch is a drop-in board replacement for the F-91W and A168 series watches. The board is powered by an ARM microcontroller, has support for extra hardware sensors, and has a two year battery life on a single coin cell. The hardware and software are both open source, too. You can choose to run this thing using the original F-91W LCD display, or for $8 bucks more, you can add an upgraded LCD display with more comprehensive output (which I cannot recommend enough).

As you can see, the upgraded LCD can display much more information than the original F-91W LCD, and is far easier to read:

Sensor Watch Pro showing the current temperature in hell.

What does it do?

Sensor Watch allows you to write your own programs (called ‘watch faces’) to use on the watch with Second Movement, the official firmware. Second Movement includes several watch faces by default, but there are many more that you can add. Essentially, you just clone the repo and specify which faces you want to include when you build the firmware, then flash it to the watch with a micro USB cable. I suppose if you really had some gumption, you could write your own firmware from scratch.

The Sensor Watch website has a short list of some of the watch faces that the community has already written:

The Day/Night Percentage watch face, by Wesley Aptekar-Cassels, shows the current time as a percentage of the way through the day or night.
The Interval Timer, by Andreas Nebinger, brings nine customizable interval timers to Sensor Watch for high-intensity interval training or time management.
The Menstrual Cycle watch face, by Joseph Borne Komosa, implements the Calendar Method for period tracking and fertility window estimation.
The Couch to 5K watch face, by Ekaitz Zarraga, guides you through thrice-weekly training sessions of walking and running, to get you into shape.
The Wordle watch face, by David Volovskiy, brings the popular word game to Sensor Watch.
The Tarot watch face, by Jeremy O’Brien, can deliver a three card tarot spread using just the major arcana, or the full deck.

Why I like it

As you can see from the list above, there’s more that can be done with the watch than one might expect, albeit in a very limited capacity – but that’s exactly why I like it. Push notifications are invasive enough without them being on your wrist. I don’t want Apple sending my heartrate and sleep health to my insurance provider. I don’t want to be tempted to glance down at my wrist to read a text in the middle of a conversation, or have another thing that I need to remember to charge.

Joey Castillo sums it up well with, “I wanted a smartwatch that was less smart, and more watch.” So many of the “open-source smartwatch” projects are just trying to emulate modern wearables in a slightly more ethical fashion, but aren’t really presenting anything different. Sensor Watch isn’t really trying to be a “smartwatch,” but a classic Casio that you can control and customize in ways you can’t do with the original. And that’s exactly what I wanted.

Latitude: A Theme for Hugo

Mon, 16 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Here’s something I’ve been meaning to do for a while.

I’ve created a Github repo for this site’s theme, which I am dubbing Latitude.

Latitude was originally forked from Luke Smith’s Lugo, so a special thanks goes to him for helping me to grasp Hugo themes. Several features from Lugo have been carried over into Latitude.

Some notable stuff:

I don’t have Hugo generate the main landing page (index.html). This comes down to personal preference, and you could have Hugo manage it if you wanted.
Latitude has two stylesheets. There’s style.css for PCs and other larger devices, and mobile.css for phones. This helps to make reading and navigating easier on phones while preserving the site’s overall aesthetic. You don’t have to run with two stylesheets if you don’t want to.
The styling for the Gallery page is a mess, and there’s probably a better way to do it. Just beware.

If you end up using the theme, I would love to hear about it!

I Miss Landlines!

Sat, 31 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This post is probably going to come off as a sort of boomer rant, but I feel compelled to share it because I haven’t really heard anyone talk about this before (including actual boomers, ironically).

Anyways, I miss landlines. Or maybe it’s more accurate to say that I miss the rhythm of life that landlines were designed for. I know the idea seems asinine – but I assure you, my nostalgia is sensible and warranted.

If an older person is reading this, they’ll probably understand what I’m about to say intuitively. But for people who’ve never had a landline in their own home, the thought might seem irrelevant.

Solely from a technological standpoint, landlines were actually great for what they were designed to do, and superior to modern VOIP systems in many ways. Call quality was crystal clear, and latency was non-existent. Anybody old enough to recall speaking over a landline can attest that it was pure bliss.

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“But cell phones are so convenient! I can reach anyone, anytime, anywhere!”

In some circumstances that is certainly nice, but it’s also annoying. Let me give an example:

I currently work a job that is heavily dependent on me being attached to my cell phone. I regularly deal with people trying to contact me late into the evening, when they should be doing literally anything else. When landlines were the prevalent form of long-distance communication, people had a stronger sense of personal boundaries that everyone was expected to respect. It was considered rude to call someone late in the day, because in doing so you weren’t just calling Mr. Johnson – you were really calling the entire Johnson household, potentially disrupting the life of the family.

And I think that last point best expresses my real nostalgia for landlines. There’s something about the idea of a household calling a household that I really like. It recalls a time when people were generally more connected with one another and less atomized. An individual calling an individual certainly has it’s utilitarian merits, I guess.

I’ll end on this note: the ubiquitous switch from landlines to cell phones is, more often than not, framed as a normal technological advancement. But I think that in a very small way, that “advancement” is also just another thing that’s taking us from a more communal and familial society, to a more isolated one.

New Key

Sun, 10 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Good afternoon, and blessed Lord’s Day to everyone!

I just wanted to write a quick update to announce that my current GPG key will be expiring this coming St. Valentine’s day. I have already generated a new keypair to replace the old one, which is currently available to download on my Contact page.

If you have my keys already, please download the new key and replace it at your soonest convenience.

Many years!

The Icon Project: Praying for Your Parish

Thu, 04 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Hello everyone! I hope that you all are having a blessed holiday with your friends and family. I wanted to share something that we recently started at my local parish, a “Traveling Icon Prayer Ministry”.

Sometime back in February, our priest came to our home to perform the yearly house blessing. After the blessing had concluded, we sat down to enjoy dinner together, and he told us about a practice that he had recently heard about from the congregants of another local parish.

Several weeks prior, he had gone to visit a friend of his who had fallen ill – a man who attends another local parish, St. John’s. While they were visiting, the man’s wife returned from the church, bringing with her a small wooden box containing a wooden stand, a handmade sash, and an icon of Deisis. Removing the items from the box, she placed the icon onto the stand and draped the sash over it, and placed it in their prayer corner.

She explained that each Sunday following Liturgy, the icon is passed from one family to another. Whichever family has the duty for that week takes the icon home with them and places it in their icon corner, or in some other common area in their home. In doing so, they also assume the task of praying for their parish in the morning and evening throughout that week. Come next Sunday, the family returns the icon to the church, where it would be assumed by the next family, and the process starts over again.

Hearing all of this, my priest was struck with the idea, and went to speak with Father David to discuss further. With the goal of incorporating the same practice at our parish, he noted five things that would be needed:

An icon, preferrably mounted on wood.
A stand for the icon to rest on.
A sash to adorn the icon.
A carrying case or bag.
A written prayer for the faithful to recite, specifically for their parish & community of faith.

It was here, over dinner, that Father Stephen proposed to my wife and I the task of gathering these items for our parish. We agreed, and were both excited to take ownership of his request. He made it clear that we were free to select any icon we felt was appropriate, though he did encourage us to select something that may, in some way, reflect our prayer for the community. He also tasked us with finding a stand and a carrying case that would suit the icon. He would take the responsibility of supplying a written prayer.

The sash is a little more interesting. According to Father David, it’s traditionally the case in many eastern European cultures that the colors and patterns displayed on the sash can be used to identify the general geographic region, or in some cases the exact village or city, where the sash was made. Fortunately, Father David happened to have a small stash of sashes on-hand, and was willing to supply one to our cause.

Grafted into Christ.

After a few weeks of scrolling through the entirety of Legacy Icons several times, my wife and I stumbled across the icon of Christ of the Vine. We thought that this icon would be a great fit for our purpose, and Father Stephen agreed, so he placed an order. Several days later, the icon arrived and he blessed it during the Liturgy on the Sunday before Lent.

One of my friends also happened to have a small pouch that, by sheer coincidence, actually had the icon of Christ of the Vine embroidered on it! And it happened to be just the right size to fit the icon, sash, stand, and card, perfectly. Providence!

The prayer card that Father Stephen supplied includes the standard evening prayers, but also includes a short introduction to the “Traveling Icon Prayer Ministry”, along with a prayer to be said especially for the community of the faithful. It begins:

Thank you for your participation in this special ministry! The goals of this ministry are:

To increase prayer in the homes of our faithful by having this icon visit each household.

To increase devotion to Our Lord, His Most-Pure Mother, and out church’s patron Saints.

To encourage us to pray for our area, our church, and our fellow faithful – our brothers and sisters in Christ.

By having this “Traveling Icon” in your home, you are committing to offering these prayers once per day. They can either be recited by everyone together, or family members can take turns. These prayers can be said at any time of the day that is convenient for everyone.

The prayer for the community reads:

O Heavenly Father, we humbly beseech You to send Your Holy Spirit to touch the hearts of the people of [REDACTED] and our entire region. We ask You to encourage them to seek the living truth – Your Son, Jesus Christ – and His holy Church. We pray that their hearts may be turned away from the temptations of this world and from the words of false teachers. We also pray for ourselves, that our hearts would not be hardened to the Gospel, but that we would be living lights and representatives of our Savior. We pray for our church of [REDACTED] – with it’s clergy and faithful and their families – that it may be a true haven of rest, encouragement and hope for all who call it home. And we pray that all who call upon the name of the Lord Jesus Christ in our region may be one, even as You and Your Son and the Holy Spirit are one. Amen.

If your parish has a ministry like this, I would love to hear about it. If not, why not consider forwarding this article to your priest?

May There Be Light

Sat, 11 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Last Friday night, I recieved a text from my brother – a photo that he had taken of the Northern Lights. To my knowledge, the Lights have never made an appearance in Pennsylvania remotely within my lifetime.

After I saw his photo, I immediately walked outside to see if the Lights were visible from my house, but the lights of the town were obstructing the view. Knowing that I may never have the opportunity to see this again, I got dressed, grabbed a bag with my camera, and a beer, and a few cigarettes, and went with a friend to try to get a better view.

Between this incident and the total solar eclipse that happened last month, Pennsylvania has definitely been the place to witness heavenly phenomena so far this year.

After getting out of town a little ways, we did find the Lights, and we took some photos. This is one scenario where it would have been nice to shoot with a wider lens, as my 58mm Soviet-era Helios didn’t do the best job at capturing the landscapes at hand, but I tried to pull off a few decent shots.

Though, now I wonder if this is only the first time that this Soviet lens has seen the Northern Lights.

May 10, 2024

Canon T3i. Helios 44M-4 58mm, f2.

Auction Today.

Canon T3i. Helios 44M-4 58mm, f2.

Stargazer.

Canon T3i. Helios 44M-4 58mm, f2.

Christmas Tree.

Canon T3i. Helios 44M-4 58mm, f2.

The Gallery Has Returned

Sat, 24 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

This is an update to an announcement I made on Thursday in regards to my Gallery page being down for the count.

After some poking around, I discovered that I was able to continue using the html page I had written specially for the Gallery by making a few adjustments – namely, by adding some good old Hugo front matter, in conjunction with removing the <article> div tags. I’m not exactly sure how Hugo is processing everything at this point; I’m just glad it works.

With the weather slowly beginning to warm up again, I’m looking forward to making some additions to the collection in the near future.

Gallery Down For Maintenance

Thu, 22 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Several days ago, I noticed that my Gallery page wasn’t rendering correctly for some reason.

Well, as it turns out, Hugo got a pretty big update just a few days ago that included several breaking changes. One of these changes was in regards to how Hugo treats html files in the /content directory.

Unlike all of the other index pages on my website, the Gallery was written in plain html. At the time, it was easier to keep the styling I wanted for the page (namely, the photo “cards” and captions,) by writing it in html, rather than coming up with a shortcode to handle it or something. This worked fine for months, but now after these new changes, my Gallery page no longer renders correctly. Hugo appears to be taking my index.html and reading the whole thing as Content, then runs it through my baseof.html, as if it were a normal Markdown file.

After this recent push, I’m probably gonna have to tinker with the page a little bit to make it render properly again. Supposedly this “issue” can be circumvented by simply adding some front matter to the html file. Though, I can’t seem to get that to work on my five hours of sleep from last night.

At the very least, it will give me something to work on over the weekend.

Blessed to Give

Wed, 14 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

When I was young, I was surrounded by very strong opinions when it came to giving money to beggars. It seemed that most of the adults in my life at that time all had a philosophy that was more-or-less the same, which boiled down to something like this: “I’ll give them food, but I won’t give them money.”

In all fairness, it seems sensible, and I can truly understand why some people think this way. “What if the person takes the money and uses it to fund their vices? Am I, in some small way, responsible for their folley? What if they don’t really need the money, and they’re just trying to make a quick buck at the expense of someone’s good will? Am I being played for a fool, or being taken advantage of? Why should I entrust this stranger with my money? After all, they’re probably stuck begging on the street because they don’t have a good sense of direction.”

It’s very easy to go on justifying yourself in this way, and if your heart is set, you will gather hundreds of reasons to withold giving.

Knowing that all people are icons of Christ, the classic Jordanville Prayer Book lists the disdain of beggars among many other sins:

O Lord, Heavenly King, Comforter, Spirit of Truth, show compassion and have mercy on me Thy sinful servant, and loose me from mine unworthiness, and forgive all wherein I have sinned against Thee today as a man, and not only as a man, but even worse than a beast, my sins voluntary and involuntary, known and unknown, whether from youth, and from evil suggestion, or whether from brazenness and despondency. If I have sworn by Thy name, or have blasphemed it in my thought; or reproached anyone, or slandered anyone in mine anger, or grieved anyone, or have become angry about anything; or have lied, or slept needlessly, or if a beggar hath come to me and I disdained him, … have mercy, O Master my Creator, on me, …

For a long time, I carried what I was taught, without thinking much about it. To be fair, I didn’t really need to think about it much, as there aren’t many street beggars in my neck of the woods. There were a handful of moments, after I had learned to drive as a teenager, when people would approach me to ask for food or money. Following what I had always been taught, I was always willing to buy them something to eat, but I never would have allowed myself to consider giving them cash. I can recall times when I would see the rare beggar on the street, and for whatever reason it was too inconvenient at the time to buy food for them, and I didn’t want to give them money, so I would just pass them by and hope someone else would come to their aid. More often than not, it was just easier to neglect them, and so I did.

I continued to think this way, until one particular Sunday, not long after my Chrismation, when our Bishop paid a visit to our parish. In his homily after the Liturgy, he went on to teach us about the importance of almsgiving, and told us that Christ expects us to give abundantly, especially to those in need. If you will excuse my paraphrasing, “Christ commanded us to give to the poor. But He did not tell you to consult yourself, asking what the beggar may do with the money afterwards. If they take it and spend it frivilously? Then judgement is theirs! But you have done your duty.” Hearing this felt like a great relief to me, as though I now had the ability to give without worry.

All of this was happening around the time that I had taken a new job, and was beginning to travel more often for work. Many of my excursions ended up taking me to larger cities where street beggars are, sadly, more abundant. So, I took this as an opportunity to give as I was able, making it a point to try to give each time I encountered someone on the street, in order to begin to correct myself. There is one particular instance that I remember very well, and it was in this encounter that I learned about the blessedness of giving.

Right after I had accepted my new job, I was sent to a nearby city for a whole week to go through the company training program. Each day at noon, I would drive from the office to the gas station down the street to get something to eat. During one of these visits, I noticed there was an older man in a wheelchair, wearing a Veteran’s ballcap, asking for money in the median of the intersection just next to the gas station. At that moment, I decided that I would go inside, eat, and give him a few dollars on my way back to the office.

As I was finishing my lunch, I noticed that the man had rolled in through the door of the gas station. So, I approached him, got his attention, and pulled out a bill from my wallet, saying, “This is for you. Christ be with you.” And at that moment, he lit up, and with the most joy I have seen in the face of a beggar, he replied, “Thank you! He has been! I pray to Him every day.” I was stunned, having no clue how to respond to him in the moment. So, we shook hands and parted ways.

The exchange deeply affected me. I kept revisiting the moment in my head, returning to the same thoughts throughout the day: If I were in his shoes, a broken old man, begging for my next meal in the oppressive heat of the sun, would I have the same demeanor that he displayed in that moment? This Veteran was sold a lie, gave up his youth for promises of heroism, and returned to a country that hated him. Would I be thankful for anything if I were him? Would I despair, and give up prayer? Would I be tempted to think that God has forsaken me? And why was I so surprised at his response?

As the chief of sinners, each of us have squandered the particular gifts that we have been entrusted with, in a way that is unique to each of us. Yet, how many blessings have we received from God in spite of that? Surely, we deserve none of them. With an attitude of true love for our neighbor, let us joyfully offer back to Christ that which He has blessed us with – witholding nothing from Him. In our obedience, God will bless us by showing us our own faults and lead us to repentance.

Undimmed Has Moved!

Wed, 08 Nov 2023 21:36:11 -0500

So a few years back, I decided that it would be a good idea to host a little XMPP server for myself and some personal friends. I bought the domain undimmed.net, pointed it to a server running Debian 10, and got everything going in a short afternoon. I even went through the trouble of creating a little landing page for it.

Well, long story short, that XMPP server hasn’t been active in quite some time, so I decided to pull the plug on it. However, I was still fond of the landing page I had created, and didn’t want to simply forget about it on some flash drive somewhere. So, as of today, undimmed.net now points to the VPS that runs this site, and if you visit from that URL, you’ll see the landing page that I designed way back when. I also went through the trouble of cleaning up the CSS; my code was much messier back then (if you can even call CSS “code”).

Maybe one of these days, I could have the image and hymn change to represent the most recent major fast or feast?

Update (December 14th, 2023): Starting today, if you go to the homepage, you’ll see I’ve replaced the 88x31 buttons in the bottom-right corner with a small icon that links to the page.

My Thoughts on Hestia "Craft" Cigarettes

Mon, 02 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Sometime last year, I stumbled across something a little more unique: Hestia Tobacco Company.

Who is Hestia?

Hestia Tobacco Company, founded in 2010 by a gentleman named David Sley, began by manufacturing filtered cigars ¹ in small-scale. In more recent years the company has really boomed, and they’ve transitioned over to manufacturing true cigarettes, which they proudly claim are “the finest cigarettes on earth,” according to the little card they attach when you order from them.

Hestia currently has only two varieties: Hesper Form and Stone Form. Both are marketed under the name Hestia Craft Cigarettes (think of it like “craft” beer, I guess). Hesper Form was the original, full-flavored variety; Stone Form is a more mellow variety, released later by popular demand. Unlike most other manufacturers, they do not have a menthol variety (which to me is a good sign). I ended up purchasing a carton of the Hesper Form, and splitting it with a few friends.

Obtaining the Pack

So, how the hell does one obtain a pack of Hestia? Unless you live in their distribution zone (which at the time of this article being published is only 4 states), you have to order them online. On top of that, you gotta buy them by the carton. 10 packs. 200 cigarettes. If you want to try Hestia, you gotta commit. You’re making an investment; you’re taking a gamble. And if you don’t like them? Sucks to be you. Maybe you could donate them to a smoker in need.

In my case, I paid $110 for the carton with shipping included, though if you live inside their distribution zone, your price will be substantially cheaper. Luckily, I had a few friends who wanted to go in on the carton with me, so I didn’t have to foot the whole cost. Still, even at the most inflated price of $110, a carton of Hestia is comparable to the cost of an average carton of cigarettes. That’s fantastic, especially when you consider what you’re getting.

I received my carton pretty quickly. I think it only took two or three days to arrive after I’d ordered. I was honestly surprised that you’re even allowed to ship cigarettes in the mail, but apparently it’s possible. From Hestia’s FAQ page, “we are embargoed from using all the normal shippers, and are relegated to a constellation of regional shippers, for which we are eternally grateful. … It’s a reporting and regulatory nightmare.”

But, Cigarettes?

I recognize that there is a cultural stigma around tobacco in general, especially around cigarettes. In the case of cigarettes specifically, I would even say it’s warranted, at least to a degree. Big Tobacco is no more innocent than Big Pharma or Big Food, people are just more culturally aware of the sins of Big Tobacco than of other major industries. The quality of the tobacco grown for use in U.S. market cigarettes is just awful, with a handful of narrow exceptions – and even those rare exceptions are often grown or manufactured under less-than-ideal conditions. If you’ve had the opportunity to taste an array of tobacco, you can tell when it’s not right, and the leaf they’re growing for cigarettes today falls at the rock bottom of the totem pole. It’s for this reason that I don’t like cigarettes. They just use poor leaf, and you can taste it. Still, it’s good to remember that Lipton is not Tea, Maxwell House is not Coffee, and Marlboro is not Tobacco.

Contrast that with cigars, my favorite form of the leaf. Cigars are a complex art, and to make one correctly requires strict adherence to craftsmanship. Those skills, from cultivation, to blending, to rolling, have traditionally been passed down from grandfather to father, father to son. A nice cigar is something you can sit down with, think about, and appreciate in many ways. If you’re going to sell poor tobacco, cigars are just not the best way to do it.

So then, what are you to do when the occasion calls for the brief, casual smoking experience that cigarettes offer? Most obviously, you could have a cigarette, but it would taste bad. You could also light a cigar, which would offer a much nicer experience, but you might not have an hour to smoke it, or the social atmosphere may discourage it. For me, that’s where Hestia comes in. Hestia sources their leaf from family farms who cultivate rightly, ditching the quick-n-dirty American approach for one that takes effort – but that effort is strongly rewarded. Make no mistake, this is the best cigarette I’ve ever had. Nothing compares. No taste of paper, chemicals, metals, or anything foreign, just fine tobacco. Someone who tried them with me described them as “good tobacco that happens to be in a paper tube.” A good cigarette is something that hasn’t existed for a long time, and Hestia is aiming to redeem something that never had to be bastardized. It’s interesting to smoke a cigarette that wasn’t made by Big Tobacco. I think there’s a reason they’re named after the Keeper of the Hearth.

Would I take a pack of Hestia instead of a fine cigar, or a good pipe? Not very often. Still, I am certainly going to keep them stocked in my tobacco cabinet for when the occasions arise.

Fun Fact: The term “filtered cigar” is sort of a misnomer that exists mostly for legal reasons in the U.S. market. Cigarette manufacturers will sometimes label a product as a “filtered cigar” in order to circumvent tax hikes. If the cigarettes weigh more than 3lbs. per thousand, they are subject to a substantially higher tax rate at sale. This is where you get the distinction between “Class A” and “Class B” cigarettes. The Class A distinction is reserved for cigarettes that weigh less than 3lbs. per thousand, and Class B cigarettes are classified as weighing more than 3lbs. per thousand. By labelling these cigarettes, which would normally be classified as Class B cigarettes, as “filtered cigars” instead, they don’t have to pay the excise – so long as the manufacturer uses a rolling paper that is at least two-thirds tobacco fiber. “Filtered cigars” do not represent true cigars, in the same way that fermented grape Kool-Aid is not representative of fine wine. ↩︎

Getting an Upgrade

Sat, 23 Sep 2023 15:41:10 -0400

I decided to take a few minutes this afternoon to upgrade the server to the latest stable release of Debian, which at the time of writing is Debian 12 Bookworm. On top of that, I also got my SearXNG instance up and running again!

Hopefully I won’t have to do that again for another 5 years.

Migrating to Hugo

Sun, 10 Sep 2023 23:22:51 -0400

I never thought I would’ve had the motivation to do it, but here we are.

Since the beginning of this weekend, I’ve been taking advantage of my small, dispersed moments of free time to migrate my site to Hugo. It felt like a big task, but it wasn’t as bad as I thought it was going to be.

Why move to Hugo?

At first, I actually didn’t want to. I’m a boomer at heart in many ways; although I’ve tinkered with several static site generators in the past, I’ve just kinda stuck to plain HTML/CSS out of habit and comfiness. Originally, I was only looking for a more elegant and practical solution to generate and organize my blog posts, and wasn’t at all interested in moving my site to an actual framework. However, it quickly became apparent that I wasn’t going to be able to achieve robustness, simplicity, and stylistic uniformity unless I did something differently. I didn’t want to remove content from the site or ruin it thematically, so that left me only one choice: I had to migrate to some kind of framework. So finally, in part due to the ETERNAL and UNWAVERING clamoring of THIS MAN, I elected to move the site to Hugo (thank you, Max).

So far I’ve been enjoying it. Hopefully I won’t feel the need to do anything like this again for a long, long time.

A Recipe for Tomato Bruschetta

Tue, 05 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Tomato Bruschetta

Several weeks ago, the priest from our home parish decided to take a very well-deserved vacation. In his absence, we decided to attend the services at another familiar parish just outside of town. The priest at this parish, along with his wife, had prepared a bruschetta for the coffee hour following the Liturgy using tomatoes, garlic, and basil that they had grown themselves. I loved it, and wanted to make it myself.

Ingredients

🍅 Five medium, ripe tomatoes
🧄 Five whole cloves of garlic
🌿 Six large basil leaves
🫒 Extra virgin olive oil
⚱️ Balsamic vinaigrette
🍞 Bread (Italian loaf, baguette, etc.)

How to Make It

Begin by cutting your tomatoes into small pieces, each being roughly the size of the distalmost section of your index finger. Place all of these pieces into a large bowl. Be sure to get as much of the tomato juice into the bowl as possible.
Add 2tbsp of olive oil to the bowl.
Add 1tbsp of balsamic vinaigrette to the bowl.
Add ~1/2tbsp of salt to the bowl. Stir. Allow the bowl to rest for 15-30 minutes.
In a cast-iron skillet, add five finely-minced cloves of garlic and a touch of olive oil to keep it from sticking to the pan. Put the heat on a low setting and let the garlic brown slightly. This will help to take some of the bite out of the garlic and give it a more relaxed taste. Pay close attention to the garlic during this process – it will cook VERY quickly. After the garlic is browned to your liking, add it to the bowl and stir.
Take six large basil leaves and cut them into small slices. Add them to the bowl and stir again.
Slice your bread as desired. When working with an Italian loaf, I like to cut each slice in half, diagonally. Serving with a baguette, slice to your desired thickness on the bias.
Place the bread into the same pan that you just used to fry the garlic. Add a touch of olive oil to keep the bread from sticking. Traditionally, the bread is toasted over charcoal, nearly black – but I like to toast it to a nice, even golden-brown. You decide how thoroughly the bread is to be toasted.
Remove the bread from the pan and place onto a wire rack to keep it from getting soggy. Some people like to take a whole clove of garlic and rub it onto each piece of bread while it’s still hot, allowing the garlic to melt into the bread; that’s up to you.
With a tablespoon, take a small amount of juice from the bowl and place it onto the bread. Then, cover the entire piece of bread with a few spoonfulls of the bruschetta.

Enjoy!

Contact

Fri, 01 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Contact Me

E-Mail 📬

The best way to get in touch with me is via e-mail. Feel free to shoot me a message if you have questions, want to respond to something I wrote, or if you just want to say hello.

You can reach me at lux@cherub.im.

There’s no excuse for not encrypting your mail these days, and I encourage everyone to do so. You can get my GPG key by clicking here, or, if you’re a hacker:

curl -sL https://cherub.im/lux.gpg | gpg --import

7FCC 8ADA E452 B1DE F07C 77BF FC16 35C1 DDB0 B664

All legitimate e-mails from me will be signed with this key.

⚠️ An Important Note: ⚠️

There is a chance that my messages may be flagged as spam by your e-mail provider. In most cases, this should only happen the first time I send you a message. Check your spam folder, and consider whitelisting my domain if the issue persists.

XMPP 💬

I am also active on XMPP. Though e-mail is the best way to reach me, you’re still welcome to send me a message on there if that’s what you prefer.

My XMPP address is lux@cherub.im.

Friends of Lux

Fri, 01 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Friends of Mine

The Digital is the New Spiritual.

(Don’t surf for too long)

Personal Sites & Blogs 👥

Dunderbucket: Music for Nobody

Misc. 📖🖋️

Desert Wisdom: Death to the World

türksigara.net

Low-Tech Magazine

Adam McLean’s Alchemy Website

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La Galería

Fri, 01 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

La Galería

“I’m going to need you to be my eyes.”

Click any image to take a closer look…

She Prays For You.

Canon T3i. Helios 44M-4 58mm, f2.

Highest Brilliancy.

Canon T3i. Canon EF-S 18-55mm, f5.6.

Light at the End of the Tunnel.

Canon T3i. Helios 44M-4 58mm, f5.6.

One Horse Town.

Canon T3i. Helios 44M-4 58mm, f2.

Bird in the Canyon.

Canon T3i. Canon EF-S 18-55mm, f5.6.

Eye of the Storm.

Canon T3i. Helios 44M-4 58mm, f16.

Eight O'Clock Stride.

Canon T3i. Helios 44M-4 58mm, f2.

My Head Is Spinning.

Canon T3i. Helios 44M-4 58mm, f2.

Stargazer.

Canon T3i. Helios 44M-4 58mm, f2.

The Archives

Fri, 01 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

📜🪶 The Archives

This is where I post updates, announcements, projects, and the occasional thought.

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Who is Lux?

Fri, 01 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Allow Me to Introduce Myself…

I’m a person who has been created in the image of God.

My name is Lucas, and I’m an Orthodox Christian.

Pennsylvania is my home.

April 28th, 2024.

“What is this place?”

This is my personal webpage, where I share photographs that I’ve taken, links to other webpages, and the occasional blog entry. The website itself primarily serves as a creative outlet.

When I first began this project, my goal was simply to create a visually beautiful, unique thing. My main focus has always been directed towards refining the site’s style, design, and overarching aesthetic.

Since beginning this endeavor, I have also utilized this server to host my own e-mail, XMPP instance, and search engine, which have all proven to be useful in my day-to-day life.

The site is built using Hugo, sporting a custom theme that I wrote myself. You can check it out on my Github.

Hobbies & Interests ♟️🎲

I am a Renaissance Man, a true man of culture.

Some of my interests include:

☕ Fine Coffee
🚬 Pipe & Cigar Smoking
🍻 Good Beer (especially Trappist ale)
📸 Photography
🎼 Jazz, Bossa Nova, Bolero & Classical Guitar
⛪ Church History, Theology & Liturgical Music
💻 Open Source Software, Linux & Web Design (duh)
🛶 Kayaking & General Outdoorsmanship
🔧 Auto Mechanics and Car Culture
⌚ Casio Watches

Friends of Mine 👥

Despite many attempts to distinguish myself, it seems like I may be a “type.”

There are others like me.

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Customizing the Linux TTY

Fri, 12 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000

I recently discovered how stupidly easy it is to customize your TTY login prompt. Obviously this knowledge will only apply to startx chads, but it’s not too difficult to migrate away from a login manager if you really want to do this. It surprises me that I don’t see more .jpgs of riced prompts, since the folks using startx tend to be a little more technically literate, I think. But anyways, let’s get started.

Setting a Custom Font

If you haven’t already, you might enjoy the look of using a custom font. While you’re still in the TTY, you can run setfont $FONTNAME to change the font of the terminal. Most likely, your console-specific fonts will be stored in /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts/. Using the setfont command only invokes temporary changes; permanent font changes are done in the /etc/vconsole.conf file. If you don’t have this file on your system already, you can create it and add the following: FONT=sun12x22.psfu.gz. I chose Sun Gallant Demi, because it is objectively the best console font. Luxi Mono is pretty close stylistically, if you want something you can use outside of the TTY. To set the default font, replace sun12x22.psfu.gz with the name of the font you want to use. Specifying the directory is unnecessary, unless the font you want to use is stored outside of the kbd folder. You can also set a keymap in vconsole.conf by adding KEYMAP=$KEYMAP, and it is set to us by default.

To finalize your changes and have the font load on startup, be sure to add consolefont to your mkinitcpio hooks and rebuild.

By default, agetty will process the contents of /etc/issue when you land at the TTY. If you don’t have this file already you can create it by doing a touch /etc/issue. As a personal preference, I like to clear the contents of the screen at landing (i.e., the wall of text your OS generates during startup). You can invoke this by inserting a “clear” escape sequence in the first line of your issue file by running clear > /etc/issue. This will destroy any existing /etc/issue file and insert the characters ^[[H^[[2J at the first line of the new file. When you edit the file from now on, be sure not to change the first line. A screenshot of my machine’s issue file is below. Notice how I have a few empty lines at the top and bottom of the file for formatting and pleasant looks.

If you tried putting some ASCII art in your issue file as I did, you will soon discover that a lot of ASCII art is probably be too big to fit on your screen (in the TTY, anyways). The number of lines you’ll have to work with will depend on your font size and screen resolution. Just play around with it and see what works. There are a couple sites out there that have large ASCII collections, or you could use a text-to-ASCII art generator to display a simple message in an aesthetically-pleasing fashion.

Escape Codes

Issue files can contain a number of escape codes, which display variable information about your system. All escape codes are comprised of a backslash followed by one of several characters. From man agetty:

\4 | Insert the IPv4 address of the specified network interface (\4{eth0}).
\6 | The same as \4, but for IPv6.
\b | Insert the baudrate of the current line.
\d | Insert the current date.
\e | Translate the human-readable name to an escape sequence and insert it (for example: \e{red}Alert text.\e{reset}). If the name argument is not specified, then insert \033. The currently supported names are: black, blink, blue, bold, brown, cyan, darkgray, gray, green, halfbright, lightblue, lightcyan, lightgray, lightgreen, lightmagenta, lightred, magenta, red, reset, reverse, yellow and white. All unknown names are silently ignored.
\s | Insert the system name (the name of the OS).
\S | Insert the VARIABLE data from /etc/os-release. If this file does not exist then fall back to /usr/lib/os-release.
\l | Insert the name of the current TTY line.
\m | Insert the architecture identifier of the machine.
\n | Insert the nodename (hostname) of the machine.
\o | Insert the NIS domainname of the machine.
\O | Insert the DNS domainname of the machine.
\r | Insert the release number of the OS.
\t | Insert the current time.
\u | Insert the number of users currently logged in.
\U | Insert the string “1 user” or “X users” where X is the number of users currently logged in.
\v | Insert the version of the OS, that is, build date and such.

For example, my /etc/issue file reads as:

ARTIX LINUX ROLLING \r [\m] | \n @ \4{wlp3s0}

And when I boot the machine, it displays as:

ARTIX LINUX ROLLING 5.15.52-1-lts [x86_64] | illumina @ 192.168.x.xx

The Message of the Day

As the /etc/issue file is displayed before you login, agetty can also display a “Message of the Day”, or MOTD, after you login. I personally don’t make use of a MOTD, because I have X launch immediately upon logging in, but this could be useful on a server that regularly gets SSH’d into by multiple people. MOTD configuration is done in the /etc/motd file. Any text entered in this file is displayed automatically after login. It will also recognize and process the same escape codes that can be called in the /etc/issue file. You can also use the /etc/update-motd.d directory to call scripts on login, appending their output to the MOTD. The scheme for naming scripts is NN-scriptname, where NN is any number from 0 to 99. Scripts will run in order, beginning at the lowest number and working up to the highest number.

Photographs from The Falls

Tue, 01 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000

A small collection of photographs.

There’s this sort of “nature attraction” not far from my parents’ old house. It consists of a waterfall, whose stream cuts down through a small valley, in parallel to a walking trail on the ridge.

It used to be one of those places that wasn’t too well known, even if you were a local – you just had to know someone who knew.

During the first lockdown, people began to look for things to do outdoors, and gradually, places like The Falls came to be more frequently populated.

But before all that, when we were the only souls who cared to pay a visit, my brothers and our cousin would come here to smoke our pipes, and sometimes cigars, if we had extra money for some reason.

Really, we didn’t have much to do for fun (that was cheap), so “smoking while walking around in different places” more or less became our default activity.

Regardless, this was always one of our favorite venues.

Building a Libre Server: ASUS KGPE-D16 Workstation Build w/ Libreboot

Sat, 29 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Background

About four months ago, I decided I wanted to replace my laptop with a true desktop PC. Having a laptop is nice if you’re a commuter student as I once was, but for a long time I’ve been ready to move on to something more modular, secure, and extensible. A desktop was the obvious choice for me, although I did consider the Framework, Purism, Pine64, and System76 projects as well.

Not Just Any Desktop

If I’m gonna build a desktop, I’m gonna do it once. I don’t wanna have to tear into the case any more than I have to. But as I said, I wanted something secure, modular, and extensible. This build had to be at least as powerful or (preferably) more powerful than my laptop was. I also wanted to be able to flash Coreboot or Libreboot to the board, and combine that with full disk encryption for ultimate security. But finding a decent, sort-of-modern board that’s compatible with Libreboot isn’t as easy as it sounds. Most of the devices that Libreboot supports are old Thinkpads, old server/workstation boards, and a handful of Chromebooks for some reason. All aside, after weighing my options, I bought a refurbished ASUS KGPE-D16 board off eBay.

The Components

The most tedious and confusing part of this build was gathering the parts. If you dare attempt a build like this, you need to ensure you’re buying exactly the right components, as Libreboot can be kinda picky with hardware support.

RAM Modules

Here’s an example from personal experience: Using the stock BIOS, a user should be able to use virtually any ECC DDR3 UDIMM, RDIMM, or LRDIMM module with this board, up to 1600Mhz, as long as you’re running a 6200+ series CPU. Simple. However, with Libreboot, there are only a few very specific modules that are known to work properly, with some brands being more or less reliable than others (it is recommended to avoid Kingston modules). And not just that, but the compatibility of those very specific modules can change depending on the other core components in your system, such as your CPU model, your particular board revision, etc. The Coreboot Wiki has an excellent breakdown of memory modules that are known to work with various configurations.

CPU Variants

This is a hefty board, meeting the SSI EEB 3.61 (12“ x 13” !) size spec. It’s also one of the few boards to support the AMD G34 socket, which is used exclusively(?) in the server and workstation space. The board is dual-socketed, and compatible with most Opteron CPUs. That said, only the 6100, 6200, and 6300 Series chips are supported by Libreboot. The number of cores per CPU varies some, but most of the Opterons feature a standard 16. Be warned, though: Running dual Opterons in a retro server board might sound really cool, but the individual performance per-core is just garbage. Don’t expect to get power out of this platform. If you want to learn more about the board despite that, the best resources are the official ASUS KGPE-D16 Manual or the KGPE-D16 Libreboot Wiki page.

When I received my board, it came with just one 6100 Series CPU and a single 2U fan. Quite honestly, that just wasn’t gonna work for me – we’re building this thing once. You don’t buy a dual-socket board to NOT have two CPUs in it. Tossing the 6100, I bought a set of Opteron 6278s. They’re not the most powerful Opterons, but they don’t require any microcode updates to function securely, like most of the 6300 Series chips. The 6100 Series Opterons are older, slower, and mostly untested with Libreboot, so I wanted to stay away from those.

Coolers and Fans

Good luck finding coolers if you try this build. Heatsinks for the G34 socket are basically extinct, even on eBay. I was, thankfully, able to get my hands on a pair of Dynatron T757 coolers¶, but they cost twice as much as an average heatsink would, which was disappointing. But, they are BEEFY coolers, and they keep the CPUs cool, so it’s alright.

¶ At the time of writing (January 29, 2022), the T757 coolers have become out of stock on Newegg, and I doubt they will ever be back in stock.

The Case

Finding a decent case was difficult, too. This is a server board, after all – it’s just expected that you’d throw it into a normal chassis and mount it on a server rack. But I didn’t want to mess around with putting this thing in a true server case. I don’t have space on my desk for that, and at the time of building, I also didn’t want to invest in a rack to mount it on. I just wanted a normal consumer case, at least for the time being, for sake of convenience. The cheapest case on Newegg to support the SSI EEB 3.61 spec was good enough for me.

Misc.

Something I didn’t realize when I purchased this board was that it didn’t have any USB 3.x I/O. I usually don’t mind not having USB 3.x, but for an extra $22 I was willing to add the functionality. We’re building this thing once.

The board also doesn’t have any built-in audio output, which is understandable since it is intended as a server board. I had an old (I mean OLD) Creative Soundblaster lying around from a desktop I tore apart years ago, so I tried throwing that into the case, but it wouldn’t give me any output. I wasn’t even sure if the card was still functional, so I decided to remove it and just use a Scarlett 2i4 as the main audio device. It’s actually pretty nice all things considered – I like having a physical volume knob instead of adjusting it with a keybinding or a GUI.

Libreboot Challenges

When I first began this project, my dumb ass somehow missed the very clear disclaimer on the Libreboot Wiki that graphics DO NOT INITIALIZE when running Libreboot on this board. This is fine if you’re intending to use it as a server as you’d probably only need text mode, but it’s not so great if you want to use it as a desktop PC, which is why I originally began the build.

For years, I’ve been sitting on a second BIOS chip with Libreboot already prepared, but have kept using the stock BIOS so that I could have access to graphics mode. That said, I have recently purchased a Thinkpad x230, which will soon be acting as my main machine once I have a chance to install some custom BIOS and swap out the chiclet keyboard for the classic x220 keyboard. This means that my KGPE-D16 will be able to finally retire, and become the home server that it was always meant to be – Libreboot and all.

Lucas' Website

Going Back to Byzantium

1995 Nissan Hardbody: Clutch Safety Bypass + HAM Radio Install

Bypassing the Clutch Safety

Installing the HAM Radio

Photos from Camp

The Best Casio Mod

So what is it?

What does it do?

Why I like it

Latitude: A Theme for Hugo

Some notable stuff:

I Miss Landlines!

New Key

The Icon Project: Praying for Your Parish

May There Be Light

The Gallery Has Returned

Gallery Down For Maintenance

Blessed to Give

Undimmed Has Moved!

My Thoughts on Hestia "Craft" Cigarettes

Who is Hestia?

Obtaining the Pack

But, Cigarettes?

Getting an Upgrade

Migrating to Hugo

Why move to Hugo?

A Recipe for Tomato Bruschetta

Ingredients

How to Make It

Contact

Contact Me

E-Mail 📬

⚠️ An Important Note: ⚠️

XMPP 💬

Friends of Lux

Friends of Mine

The Digital is the New Spiritual.

(Don’t surf for too long)

Personal Sites & Blogs 👥

Misc. 📖🖋️

La Galería

La Galería

“I’m going to need you to be my eyes.”

Click any image to take a closer look…

The Archives

📜🪶 The Archives

Recent posts:

Who is Lux?

Allow Me to Introduce Myself…

“What is this place?”

Hobbies & Interests ♟️🎲

Friends of Mine 👥

Support This Webpage ❣️

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Customizing the Linux TTY

Setting a Custom Font

Customizing the Login Prompt

Escape Codes

The Message of the Day

Photographs from The Falls

A small collection of photographs.

Building a Libre Server: ASUS KGPE-D16 Workstation Build w/ Libreboot

Background

Not Just Any Desktop

The Components

RAM Modules

CPU Variants

Coolers and Fans

The Case

Misc.

Libreboot Challenges

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