I'm sure there's probably someone out there, but I'm really interested in cool border crossings and how they represent nations on each side. As much as I am no nationalist, I find those projections of strength, friendship, security, etc. all super interesting.

Oh, and fake/fantasy transit maps. Those are always fun to draw up in my spare time.

I've been living in Canada for a year now (grad school). Going to hope and work hard to see if engineering can pan out over here.

The depravity is beyond parody.

Not much this morning. Just on my laptop with a coffee next to me downtown. For this afternoon though, probably just getting back into language learning to keep my brain active.

This evening though, gonna do a run by the lake shore. I'm also gonna message a bunch of friends I haven't talked to in a long time, because I have been pretty bad at reaching out and hanging out with people this year.

In exchange for cancelling my Spotify a long time ago, I try and buy about one-two (?) albums a month on Bandcamp.

I do download a lot of music off YouTube, though. I used to buy merch and go to shows a lot, but I don't make nearly enough as a grad student to justify that anymore. I also used to live a lot closer to a great music scene and venues to where that was super convenient for me, and I never paid more than $30-40 for a show. Not the case anymore.

I will say, I don't really draw a distinction between major labels and indie labels for any of this. Often major label records are not on Bandcamp so I tend to either not listen to them or just play them off YouTube, really. I wouldn't go out of way to buy merch or vinyl for them, maybe CDs if I can find them for cheap enough. It really is just a financial thing of, "is it affordable for me to support this properly", indie or not.

I think the most I would walk is around 40-45 minutes. So no, 1h15m would be far too long to justify walking. Maybe on the weekend if the library was super nice?

I've cancelled all my streaming services. Technically I stream my Bandcamp collection, but I still bought it so it's somewhat a different model.

The recent wave of artists taking their music off Spotify and how much AI is plaguing that app made me pull the plug.