About...

This website

I originally futzed around with what I will loosely refer to as web development from about 2009-2014 because I thought I could make the next Serebii. My dad made the ill-advised decision to let me use our family's web hosting (and, eventually, my own domain) to accomplish this.

I did not make the next Serebii. After that, I had a few different blogging endeavors, but I ultimately fell off the train entirely around 2014 due to life stuff and the rise of social media. I ceased most public internet activity in 2020-2021, then made this website in 2022 because I missed making a fool of myself in public.

I gave up on trying to give this website a specific purpose a long time ago. Consider it a public-facing piece of my brain (very disorganized and doesn't know what it wants).

Me, the person(?)

Please, call me Kale. Mr. Chips was my father. I live on unceded Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Ute land, currently known as Colorado, USA. I was born in a year whose first digit is 1, which means I am effectively dead according to teenagers. I have undergraduate degrees in math and biology and graduate degrees in math and education because I like collecting expensive pieces of paper. I currently teach math to random neighborhood children in exchange for money.

I'm essentially an NPC, meaning I'm good at interacting with people but only if I'm approached first. Feel free to drop in my inbox and say hi!

Things I enjoy

  • Palisade peaches
  • Birdwatching
  • Flop movies (critically or financially, preferably both)
  • Sudoku
  • Oatmeal raisin cookies
  • Weird percussion instruments
  • Hiking

Trivia

  • The mean of my glasses prescriptions between eyes is -7.25
  • I can't visualize in my head at all, but I can perfectly reproduce audio in my head (sometimes this is annoying)
  • I play percussion. Historically I have played in concert band, marching band, and pit (Cats and Hello, Dolly!)
  • My favorite time signatures are 5/4 and 6/8 (anything with 8 on the bottom really) and my favorite key signature is A natural minor

Additional useless information

Pokemon team

Torterra, Bastiodon, Mega Beedrill, Tyrantrum, Dragalge, Centiskorch

Chipotle order

I usually go the Chipotle-at-home route these days (shit's expensive but beans and rice are cheap), so this is more of a generic list of stuff I put on a burrito bowl.

Bowl with:

  • Brown rice
  • No meat
  • Black beans
  • Pinto beans
  • Pico de gallo
  • Corn salsa
  • Lettuce
  • Sour cream
  • Cheese