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Week 39, 2025 - September 29, 2025

This blog post is a weekly update covering various projects and personal events.

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• Subject: Repurposed Dell Recovery USB labeled "Windows XP x86 32-bit BR 2025-09-24"
• Title: "How to ensure no one touches your USB drive"

Meaning behind icon and title: The title text is related to how I purposely labeled a USB drive with personal files as Windows XP to deter anyone else from looking at its contents.

Week 33-38, 2025 - September 22, 2025

This blog post is a weekly update covering various projects and personal events.

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• Subject: Me holding a KRISS Vector SDP pistol
• Title: "Direction and Magnitude"

Meaning behind icon and title: The title text is a reference to the Terraria mod "Vector" that adds the KRISS Vector with the tooltip text "melting bosses with direction and magnitude" which in itself is a reference to Vector from Despicable Me.

Week 32, 2025 - August 11, 2025

This blog post is a weekly update covering various projects and personal events.

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• Subject: Dell Precision 690 desktop with a can of grape Faygo on top
• Title: "Clowntown Inside"

Meaning behind icon and title: The title and the picture itself is based off the desktop's use of Intel "Clovertown" CPUs being two Xeon X5355. It is based off an inside joke from 2020 when an online friend misread Clovertown as Clowntown. This is the first system I worked with that used Intel "Clovertown" CPUs.

Week 31, 2025 - August 4, 2025

This blog post is a weekly update covering various projects and personal events.

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• Subject: Marvus Xoloto keychain next to a bottle of Dreamin Faygo and an Innolux N156BGA-EA3 panel
• Title: ":o)"

Meaning behind icon and title: The icon is a picture of the keychain received the week before but described in this blog post. The title is based off the clown emote used by Marvus.

Week 30, 2025 - July 28, 2025

This blog post is a weekly update covering various projects and personal events.

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• Subject: OBD-II scanner connected in a 2024 Subaru Forester
• Title: "Driving me mad"

Meaning behind icon and title: Arbitrarily chosen pun. This is the first time I have used an OBD scanner and found it fascinating.

Week 29, 2025 - July 21, 2025

This blog post is a weekly update covering various projects and personal events.

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• Subject: Early 2000s monitor with "DISCONNECTOR" shown on screen
• Title: "DISCONNECTOR"

Meaning behind icon and title: The title quotes the text shown in the icon

Week 28, 2025 - July 14, 2025

This blog post is a weekly update covering various projects and personal events.

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• Subject: Unknown 80s cell phone
• Title: "Dialing Digits"

Meaning behind icon and title: The title is a reference to the Grand Theft Auto V achievement name "Dialing Digits".

Week 27, 2025 - July 7, 2025

This blog post is a weekly update covering various projects and personal events.

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• Subject: Mortar-style firework tube
• Title: "Having a blast"

Meaning behind icon and title: Title is a pun related to the fireworks seen.

Week 26, 2025 - June 30, 2025

This blog post is a weekly update covering various projects and personal events.

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• Subject: Picture of the LattePanda Mu Lite carrier kit
• Title: "You have two cows"

Meaning behind icon and title: The icon shows the second development kit given to me by the LattePanda team for MediaCow Touch 2. The title text references the old political satire.

Week 25, 2025 - June 23, 2025

This blog post is a weekly update covering various projects and personal events.

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• Subject: Picture of the Qimonda DDR SDRAM on the Samsung TV board
• Title: "Key to the television"

Meaning behind icon and title: The icon shows the Qimonda DDR SDRAM on the Samsung TV board through the back vents. This continues the "Key to the" trend with icons that are related to Qimonda.

Week 24, 2025 - June 16, 2025

This blog post is a weekly update covering various projects and personal events.

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• Subject: Picture of the OneShot Solstice Aviator cutscene on a Steam Deck while in a Cessna 182 Skylane mid-air.
• Title: "OneShot, One Opportunity"

Meaning behind icon and title: The icon shows the OneShot: Solstice Aviator cutscene on a Steam Deck while in a Cessna 182 Skylane mid-air. The title "OneShot, One Opportunity" came from a joke seen in a Discord server related to OneShot with "Niko starts rapping: OneShot, One Opportunity" over a screenshot of the text "Yo" appearing over gameplay, taken out of context. This in itself may be a reference to Lose Yourself by Eminem. This reflects that I only had one opportunity to do this onboard the aircraft as it would likely be a long time before I see a Cessna 182 Skylane again.

Week 23, 2025 - June 9, 2025

This blog post is a weekly update covering various projects and personal events.

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• Subject: A picture of an AMD EPYC sticker on a Dell PowerEdge server
• Title: "Feeling EPYC"

Meaning behind icon and title: The title is a pun relating to the AMD EPYC processor. This being the first time I have seen an AMD EPYC sticker.

Week 22, 2025 - June 2, 2025

This blog post is a weekly update covering various projects and personal events.

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• Subject: TBD
• Title: TBD

Meaning behind icon and title: TBD

Week 21, 2025 - May 26, 2025

This blog post is a weekly update covering various projects and personal events.

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• Subject: Screenshot of the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "House Sittin' for Sandy" showing robots escaping and wreaking havoc on Sandy's Treedome.
• Title: "Waking up in a place full of robots"

Meaning behind icon and title: The icon and title references a meme I made oversimplifying AMOXA's storyline where robots leave the facility to kidnap former AMOXA employees.

Week 20, 2025 - May 19, 2025

This blog post is a weekly update covering various projects and personal events.

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• Subject: Screenshot of Marvus from Homestuck Friendsim during the armpit story arc
• Title: "Mindless Clown Indulgence"

Meaning behind icon and title: Referencing Mindless Self Indulgence based off the text shown in the icon where the player chooses to sniff Marvus's armpit

MediaCow Touch 2 - Part 18 - May 12, 2025

This blog post covers progress and news about MediaCow Touch 2.

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• Subject: Screenshot of the player (Postal Dude) holding a sledgehammer in front of a cow
• Title: "Cattle Decapitation"

This references the premise of POSTAL 2: Apocalypse Weekend, where cows are infected with mad cow disease and turn into zombies where the objective is to kill all of the zombie cows after the player is given a sledgehammer. I noticed how the game had many missed opportunities to have a reference to the band Cattle Decapitation since that is quite literally the objective of this part of the game.

Icon/title choice symbolizes that I effectively started over on the project.

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• Subject: Screenshot of cows from the POSTAL 2 expansion Apocalypse Weekend
• Title: "Mad Cow Disease"

This references the premise of POSTAL 2: Apocalypse Weekend, where cows are infected with mad cow disease and turn into zombies. Here, just the cows are shown.

Week 19, 2025 - May 12, 2025

This blog post is a weekly update covering various projects and personal events.

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• Subject: A photo of my hand with fingernails painted black, on top of the HP ZBook Studio G3 with the Xeon Inside sticker visible
• Title: "Xeon Inside, femboy outside"

Meaning behind icon and title: The title references the "Xeon Inside" sticker shown in the picture. The icon is a reference to how I have described myself as a femboy in the past, where at this time, I started to paint my nails as part of the aesthetic.

Week 18, 2025 - May 5, 2025

This blog post is a weekly update covering various projects and personal events.

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• Subject: Aftermath of the April 30 Incident where I accidentally drove the 2005 Chevy Tahoe into the garage door
• Title: "Crashing Out"

Meaning behind icon and title: The title is a play on words with the phrase "crashing out" meaning to "To become uncontrollably angry or upset."

MediaCow Touch 2 - Part 17 - April 28, 2025

This blog post covers progress and news about MediaCow Touch 2.

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• Subject: Picture of me using a library computer alongside the HP ZBook to display chip datasheets
• Title: "A moment where Windows 11 actually was not insufferable dogshit"

Meaning behind icon and title: The title references how I view Windows 11 as extremly inefficient and distracting. Wording chosen to weed out software with arbitrary censorship. This help lead to the total iOS/macOS ban on September 20, 2025.

Week 17, 2025 - April 28, 2025

This blog post is a weekly update covering various projects and personal events.

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• Subject: Picture of the Phineas and Ferb episode "Norm Unleashed" showing Norm during the "Weaponry" song
• Title: "Pummel them until they get the gist"

Meaning behind icon and title: The title references the line "Pummel them until they get the gist" from the song "Weaponry" in the Phineas and Ferb episode "Norm Unleashed". I have found the song so eerily similar to what is being faced now in the 2020s despite being released in 2012.

Week 16, 2025 - April 21, 2025

This blog post is a weekly update covering various projects and personal events.

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• Subject: Picture of the backrest of an inflatable chair that I pointed out looks similar to Among Us characters
• Title: Amogus Chair

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• Subject: Screenshot of the MathPad PCB design in KiCAD, showing the new CTCL logo
• Title: "Mathematical"

Meaning behind icon and title: The title is more or less a reference to the first episode of Adventure Time.

Week 15, 2025 - April 14, 2025

This blog post is a weekly update covering various projects and personal events.

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• Subject: Picture of a large fire that I had in the backyard
• Title: "Light It Up"

Meaning behind icon and title: The title was chosen arbitrarily.

Week 14, 2025 - April 7, 2025

This blog post is a weekly update covering various projects and personal events.

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• Subject: Picture of the coal coke oven on ATV trails near Bramwell, West Virginia
• Title: "Still smelts 32 items"

Meaning behind icon and title: The title is a reference to the Week 34, 2024 blog post showing the same coke oven but how it appears now. The title references the Coke Oven from the Minecraft Railcraft mod with its importance during playthroughs of modded Minecraft with my father years ago.

ThinkPad T430s 1080p Display Upgrade - Part 2 - April 7, 2025

This blog post covers the progress and news about the ThinkPad T430s 1080p Display Upgrade.

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• Subject: Placeholder image
• Title: None

Meaning behind icon and title: The icon is a placeholder and no title text was provided. I yet to decide on what to use for an icon.

MediaCow Touch 2 - Part 16 - April 7, 2025

This blog post covers progress and news about MediaCow Touch 2.

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• Subject: Picture of a cow seen in a 2019 YouTube video by Mills Engine Works that I have turned into a meme relating to Minecraft
• Title: "Quite a mouthful"

Meaning behind icon and title: The title describes how the cow has its mouth full of hay, mid-moo. Ironically, the blog post is actually relatively short.

Week 13, 2025 - March 31, 2025

This blog post is a weekly update covering various projects and personal events.

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• Subject: Picture of the succcessful display upgrade in a Samsung XE500C13 Chromebook
• Title: "The Azimuthal Anchoring... whatever"

Meaning behind icon and title: The title is a reference to how I have used the title "The Azimuthal Anchoring Switch" in prior blog posts, describing the recent upgrades to Innolux AAS panels in various laptops. The idea that I have been doing this so much that the joke got worn out.

MediaCow Touch 2 - Part 15 - March 24, 2025

This blog post covers progress and news about MediaCow Touch 2.

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• Subject: Screenshot of one of Niko's dreams in OneShot, showing the "Sun" being broken
• Title: "You should wake up now"

Meaning behind icon and title: The icon is a continuation of the icon from the Week 12, 2025 blog post being the previous part of the dream.

Week 12, 2025 - March 24, 2025

This blog post is a weekly update covering various projects and personal events.

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• Subject: Screenshot of the broken sun dream, showing Niko looking over to the broken sun
• Title: "confused cat noises"

Meaning behind icon and title: The title references a line from OneShot where Niko says "*confused cat noises*" during the Solstice run when being explained to on what the player should do to continue.

MediaCow Touch 2 - Part 14 - March 17, 2025

This blog post covers progress and news about MediaCow Touch 2.

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• Subject:TBD
• Title: TBD

Week 11, 2025 - March 17, 2025

• Subject: Picture of my father testing the acetlyne torch, the first time I have seen one in action
• Title: "Uncetylene"

Meaning behind icon and title: The title is a pun on the word "acetlyne" and "unsettling" how the experience was quite unsettling.

Week 10, 2025 - March 10, 2025

This blog post is a weekly update covering various projects and personal events.

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• Subject: Picture of me posing, in thigh-high socks in front of the desktop computer "Polybutylene Terephthalate"
• Title: "AMD Red Team Socks"

Meaning behind icon and title: The title is a reference to how the socks are in red and black, colors commonly associated with AMD as the desktop is an "All-AMD" setup.

ThinkPad T430s 1080p Display Upgrade - March 4, 2025

This blog post covers the progress and news about the ThinkPad T430s 1080p Display Upgrade.

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• Subject: Picture of the LVDS-eDP module installed on the T430s motherboard
• Title: "The Azimuthal Anchoring Switch, for real this time"

Meaning behind icon and title: The title references how MonitorCow's development became stagnant and that I have finally started to work on the T430s display upgrade after starting planning it in June 2024. Once again this is a reference to Innolux's Azimuthal Anchoring Switch technology.

MediaCow Touch 2 - Part 13 - March 4, 2025

This blog post covers progress and news about MediaCow Touch 2.

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• Subject: My legs, covered by yellow and black thigh-high socks posed in fron of the desktop computer, showing me working on implementing a GOWIN FPGA in MediaCow Touch 2 (before being replaced by a Lattice FPGA then having the entire part that requires an FPGA scrapped with MediaCow Touch 2 Lite)
• Title: "How to piss off the US government using KiCAD"

Meaning behind icon and title: References that GOWIN is listed on the US DoD's CCMC list and how the US government has been treating the LGBT community.

The FPGA later was switched to a Lattice equivalent in light of the former.

Week 9, 2025 - March 3, 2025

This blog post is a weekly update covering various projects and personal events.

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• Subject: Picture of a cat from a 2021 meme of a cat trying to get into a room through a crack in the door
• Title: "Feel the squeeze"

Meaning behind icon and title: The title is a play on the term "feel the squeeze" describing the push to work on MediaCow Touch 2 and other projects.

Week 8, 2025 - February 24, 2025

This blog post is a weekly update covering various projects and personal events.

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• Subject: Picture of a snow-covered path showing lights from a nearby road
• Title: "snowhere, virginia"

Meaning behind icon and title: The title is a play on the term "nowhere, virginia" seen in a friend's Discord profile, likely a continuation of the icon title of MediaCow Touch 2 - Part 7. The title and icon gives off a feeling of dream-like isolation of being lost in a snow-covered forest.

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• Subject: Picture of OneShot being played on a Valve Steam Deck showing the inventory full of pictures of Niko
• Title: "The ultimate photo"

Meaning behind icon and title: Title quotes text seen in image

MediaCow Touch 2 - Part 12 - February 17, 2025

This blog post covers progress and news about MediaCow Touch 2.

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• Subject: KiCAD screenshot of a 3D render of the button PCB showing the recently-added clover symbol from OneShot
• Title: "And most importantly... You only have one shot, CTCL."

Meaning behind icon and title: The title is a reference to the "You only have one shot, \<playername>" line from OneShot.

Week 7, 2025 - February 17, 2025

This blog post is a weekly update covering various projects and personal events.

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• Subject: Picture of the Sunplus SPHE8203R DVD decoder SoC in a DVD player I was asked to fix
• Title: "The Other Sun"

Meaning behind icon and title: The title is a reference to the Sunplus SPHE8203R DVD decoder SoC, the first Sunplus IC I have seen, though not this specific unit. The title references how the SP7021 is used in MediaCow Touch 2 "Paris" as the embedded controller.

Week 6, 2025 - February 10, 2025

This blog post is a weekly update covering various projects and personal events.

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• Subject: Picture of a stack of modern Dell PowerEdge servers, presumably with AMD EPYC CPUs, during a visit to the VCU HPRC center to volunteer
• Title: "PowerEdgy"

Meaning behind icon and title: The title is a play on the term "PowerEdge" and "Edgy".

Week 5, 2025 - February 3, 2025

This blog post is a weekly update covering various projects and personal events.

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• Subject: Picture of the outside of QTS Richmond
• Title: "Key to the datacenter"

Meaning behind icon and title: The title is a continuation of how icons relating to Qimonda would start with "Key to the" relating to Qimonda possibly translating to "Key to the world".

MediaCow Touch 2 - Part 11 - January 27, 2025

This blog post covers progress and news about MediaCow Touch 2.

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• Subject: Picture of road signs pointing to Moosic, Pennsylvania
• Title: "Time to face the moo-sic"

Meaning behind icon and title: The title is a play on the term "Time to face the music" and the location Moosic, Pennsylvania which I have historically joked about relating to MediaCow.

Week 4, 2025 - January 27, 2025

This blog post is a weekly update covering various projects and personal events.

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• Subject: Picture of a Tesla Cybertruck spotted in a local plaza
• Title: "Cybertruckery 2: Electric Vehicle"

Meaning behind icon and title: The title is a continuation of "Cybertruckery" from the Week 31, 2024 blog post. Referencing the meme surrounding "Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo".

Week 3, 2025 - January 20, 2025

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• Subject: Picture of the Portal 2 community map "Ozbie Pavah" successfully running on the AMD Opteron system.
• Title: "Vanilla Crazy Cake"

Meaning behind icon and title: The title is a play on GLaDOS's "Vanilla Crazy Cake" line heard in the map

Week 2, 2025 - January 13, 2025

This blog post is a weekly update covering various projects and personal events.

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• Subject: Picture of me posed in front of a campfire, Steam Deck running OneShot resting on my legs covered with Nightmare Before Christmas pajamas.
• Title: "Vampire by the campfire"

Meaning behind icon and title: The title is a rhyme, likely taking inspiration from the Adventure Time Elements miniseries where Marceline was turned into "Marshmaline the Campfire Queen". The icon is a reference to things that I associate with the gothic-like aesthetic that I have been trying to adopt.

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• Subject: Picture of the motherboard in the AST Advantage! Adventure 4066d showing the CPU and Chips&Technologies SuperIO.
• Title: N/A

Week 1, 2025 - January 6, 2025

This blog post is a weekly update covering various projects and personal events.

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• Subject: Picture of Portal-themed warning icons on the Steam Deck shipping box
• Title: "Aperture Science Weighted Gaming Device"

Meaning behind icon and title: The title is a play on the the "Aperture Science Weighted Companion Cube" from Portal.

Week 51-52, 2024 - December 30, 2024

This blog post is a weekly update covering various projects and personal events. This post combines events from Week 51 and Week 52, 2024.

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• Subject: Meme about notorious audio driver issues on Linux; "Oh, now there is no sound"
• Title: "Oh, now there is no sound"

Meaning behind icon and title: The icon shows a screenshot of the music video for "Virtual Insanity" by Jamiroquai. The title is a reference to the meme about the infamous audio driver issues on Linux. I did not create this meme though it was chosen in relation to struggles with audio on Fedora Linux.

Week 50, 2024 - December 16, 2024

This blog post is a weekly update covering various projects and personal events.

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• Subject: Picture of the Banana Pi BPI-F2P board
• Title: "Here comes the sun, again"

Meaning behind icon and title: The title is a reference to the song "Here Comes the Sun" by The Beatles, noting I have used this title before, being a play on the Sunplus SP7021.

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• Subject: Snail-UV from Chowder
• Title: "More like snummer"

Meaning behind icon and title: The icon is a reference to the character Snail-UV from Chowder that appears briefly in the episode "The Snail Car". The title text combines Snail and Hummer.

Week 49, 2024 - December 9, 2024

This blog post is a weekly update covering various projects and personal events.

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• Subject: Picture of my first experiences of Fedora Linux in 2024
• Title: "m'lady"

Meaning behind icon and title: The title is a reference to the meme "*tips fedora*, m'lady"

Week 48, 2024 - December 2, 2024

This blog post is a weekly update covering various projects and personal events.

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• Subject: Picture of me pointing to a sign about the Micron Technology plant being built in Clay, New York
• Title: "memecron"

Meaning behind icon and title: The title is a reference to a term I have seen used in the memory overclocking community combining "meme" and "Micron".

Week 46-47, 2024 - November 25, 2024

• Subject: Me discovering that my certification project at Build, RVA is still there after nearly three years. Showing the old CTCL cube logo and full name: "CrazyblocksTechnologies Computer Laboratories"
• Title: Carved Memory

Meaning behind icon and title: The title is a play on the fact that the certification project is relating to using the wood CNC machine where this is a memory carved into the wood.

Week 45, 2024 - November 11, 2024

This blog post is a weekly update covering various projects and personal events.

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• Subject: Inside of the Lenovo ThinkServer TS200v "Polyoxybenzylmethyleneglycolanhydride"
• Title: "Back in Bakelite"

Meaning behind icon and title: The title is a play on AC/DC's "Back in Black" and Bakelite, what the device is codenamed after. Symbolizing that I have started to use this desktop again after several years.

Week 44, 2024 - November 4, 2024

This blog post is a weekly update covering various projects and personal events.

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• Subject: A picture of an iPhone XR showing the new Micron Technology brand page where it seems to resemble an iPhone setup screen
• Title: "Micron Appleification"

Meaning behind icon and title: The title jokes about how Micron's new branding appears similar to Apple's aesthetics.

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• Subject: A picture of the same iPhone XR showing the FreeBSD joke wallpaper I set for it in 2021
• Title: N/A

Week 43, 2024 - October 28, 2024

This blog post is a weekly update covering various projects and personal events.

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• Subject: A picture of a tiny rubber duck found in the stairway at college campus
• Title: "smol"

Meaning behind icon and title: The title is a reference to the meme "smol", how the duck was so small that it was easy to miss.

Week 42, 2024 - October 21, 2024

This blog post is a weekly update covering various projects and personal events.

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• Subject: A picture of something built by members of PMaM on a Minecraft server that I hosted myself
• Title: "GEL FUMP"

Meaning behind icon and title: The title quotes the text on the sign in game: "GEL FUMP 2016-2023 GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN"

Week 41, 2024 - October 14, 2024

This blog post is a weekly update covering various projects and personal events.

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• Subject: A selfie of me and a friend in a fursuit
• Title: "Flurries of Furries"

Meaning behind icon and title: The title was chosen arbitrarily.

Week 40, 2024 - October 7, 2024

This blog post is a weekly update covering various projects and personal events.

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• Subject: A picture of recently acquired Innolux N156KME-GNA panels
• Title: The Azimuthal Anchoring Switch

Meaning behind icon and title: This post started the "Azimuthal Anchoring Switch" trend in blog icon titles. The title is a reference to Innolux's AAS technology.

Week 39, 2024 - September 30, 2024

This blog post is a weekly update covering various projects and personal events.

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• Subject: A closeup of the cat, Lola, sniffing at something
• Title: "sniff"

Meaning behind icon and title: The title was chosen arbitrarily.

MediaCow Touch 2 - Part 10 - September 28, 2024

This blog post covers progress and news about MediaCow Touch 2.

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• Subject: A screenshot of a cow in Minecraft
• Title: "Don't have a cow, dad"

Meaning behind icon and title: The title is a play on the phrase "Don't have a cow, dad" from The Simpsons.

MediaCow Touch 2 - Part 9 - September 24, 2024

This blog post covers progress and news about MediaCow Touch 2.

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• Subject: A picture of the Flipper Zero being used as an UART-USB bridge to communicate with a Banana Pi F2P board
• Title: "Here comes the sun"

Meaning behind icon and title: The title is a reference to the Beatles song "Here Comes the Sun".

Week 36-38, 2024 - September 23, 2024

This blog post is a weekly update covering various projects and personal events.

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• Subject: A picture of me in pink-and-white thigh-high socks posed next to a ThinkPad T450s, with an IKEA shark in the background
• Title: "Femboyinator"

Meaning behind icon and title: The title was likely inspired by something added to a game by a mod. The title is a play on the phrase "femboy", to describe myself in the picture.

Week 35, 2024 - September 2, 2024

This blog post is a weekly update covering various projects and personal events.

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• Subject: The Flipper Zero showing a custom firmware that has the dolphin animation with the text "I don't know about this, Kick", a reference to the cartoonKick Buttowski.
• Title: "Dolphin Gunther"

Meaning behind icon and title: The title is a reference to the cartoon Kick Buttowski. This showcases modifications I have done to the default animation on the Flipper Zero.

Week 34, 2024 - August 26, 2024

This blog post is a weekly update covering various projects and personal events.

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• Subject: The coal coke oven on an ATV trail near Bramwell, West Virginia
• Title: "Smelts 32 Items"

Meaning behind icon and title: The title references the Coke Oven from the Minecraft Railcraft mod with its importance during playthroughs of modded Minecraft with my father years ago.

MediaCow Touch 2 - Part 8 - August 22, 2024

This blog post covers progress and news about MediaCow Touch 2.

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• Subject: Screenshot of schematic design for MediaCow Touch 2, showing power regulator configurations
• Title: "Power all the things"

Meaning behind icon and title: The title is a reference to the old meme "All the things", likely inspired by the meme's usage by Adventure Time in a 2010 episode.

MediaCow Touch 2 - Part 7 - August 20, 2024

This blog post covers progress and news about MediaCow Touch 2.

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• Subject: A picture of a Virginia welcome sign
• Title: "nowhere, virginia"

Meaning behind icon and title: The title is a play on the term "nowhere, virginia" seen in a friend's Discord profile.

Week 33, 2024 - August 19, 2024

This blog post is a weekly update covering various projects and personal events.

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• Subject: A picture of a shoreline with a pier in the background at Atlantic Beach, North Carolina
• Title: "Beached"

Meaning behind icon and title: The title is a play on the phrase "beached whale".

MediaCow Touch 2 - Part 6 - August 14, 2024

This blog post covers progress and news about MediaCow Touch 2.

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• Subject: A picture of me writing documentation for MediaCow Touch 2 on the ThinkPad T450s while on an airplane
• Title: "In the air"

Meaning behind icon and title: The title is likely a reference to the song "In The Air Tonight" by Phil Collins, specifically the cover done by Nonpoint.

Week 32, 2024 - August 12, 2024

This blog post is a weekly update covering various projects and personal events.

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• Subject: A picture of the aftermath of Hurricane Ian in Fort Myers Beach, Florida, almost two years later
• Title: "Reconstruct"

Meaning behind icon and title: The title is a play on the phrase "reconstruct"; "Rebuild FMB" which me, my dad and his employer played an important role in doing so.

Week 31, 2024

This blog post is a weekly update covering various projects and personal events.

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• Subject: A picture of me seeing a Tesla Cybertruck for the first time
• Title: "Cybertruckery"

Meaning behind icon and title: The title references the OK KO Let's Be Heroes episode "Action News" where "Serious Truckery" is seen, a play on words.

MediaCow Touch 2 - Part 5 - August 5, 2024

This blog post covers progress and news about MediaCow Touch 2.

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• Subject: A screenshot of a PCB design for the button PCB in MediaCow Touch 2
• Title: "Push Every Button"

Meaning behind icon and title: The title is a reference to the song Mayhem - Push Every Button that introduced me to Lapfox in memes from 2023; specifically "Doohickey Coorporation".

MediaCow Touch 2 - Part 4 - July 31, 2024

This blog post covers progress and news about MediaCow Touch 2.

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• Subject: A picture of a TCM and ECU in a 1998 Volvo V70
• Title: "From Chromebooks to Cars"

Meaning behind icon and title: The title describes how I have been looking in everything from Chromebooks to cars to learn more about how things work and can be applied to MediaCow Touch 2.

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• Subject: A screenshot of the side-mounted display being represented in a draw.io diagram of the case design
• Title: N/A

Week 30, 2024 - July 29, 2024

This blog post is a weekly update covering various projects and personal events.

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• Subject: Screenshot from the game "People Playground" showing a human with a Samsung Note 7
• Title: "Instance.AddBehaviour\<ExplosiveBehaviour>();"

Meaning behind icon and title: The title is a reference to the C# Unity code "instance.AddBehaviour\<ExplosiveBehaviour>();" that gives something the ability to explode, which for example is used in People Playground mods.

MediaCow Touch 2 - Part 3 - July 25, 2024

This blog post covers progress and news about MediaCow Touch 2.

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• Subject: A screenshot of a PCB footprint being drawn for an Infineon MOSFET package
• Title: "Infinte Eon"

Meaning behind icon and title: The title references the meaning behind Infineon and how long this project is taking.

Week 29, 2024 - July 22, 2024

This blog post is a weekly update covering various projects and personal events.

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• Subject: A screenshot of a Terraria player in game with Leinfors's developer set
• Title: "'To keep those luscious locks as gorgeous as ever'"

Meaning behind icon and title: The title is a reference to the tooltip for helmet item "Leinfors' Hair Protector". The blog post covers how I was absolutely devastated on July 18, 2024 when I found out about Leinfors's death in February 2023 and how it took me so long to find out about it.

MediaCow Touch 2 - Part 2 - July 22, 2024

This blog post covers progress and news about MediaCow Touch 2.

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• Subject: Screenshot in KiCAD showing configuration of USB Type-C ports
• Title: "Dual Role Difficulty"

Meaning behind icon and title: The title is a reference to the difficulty of implementing USB Type-C.

Week 28, 2024 - July 15, 2024

This blog post is a weekly update covering various projects and personal events.

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• Subject: Screenshot of an early MediaCow Touch 2 block diagram in draw.io
• Title: "Going to have to redraw most of this at some point..."

Meaning behind icon and title: The icon and title shows MediaCow Touch 2 in active development

MediaCow Touch 2 - Part 1 - July 14, 2024

This blog post covers progress and news about MediaCow Touch 2.

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• Subject: A screenshot of the case design in OpenSCAD
• Title: "All coming together"

Meaning behind icon and title: The title is a reference to the saying "All coming together", with all parts of the case coming together.

Week 27, 2024 - July 8, 2024

This blog post is a weekly update covering various projects and personal events.

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• Subject: Photo of the LattePanda Mu beside a Raspberry Pi, Flipper Zero and the LattePanda Mu Lite Carrier Board
• Title: "Small but Powerful"

Meaning behind icon and title: Despite the System on Module being about the size of a Raspberry Pi, from my testing, it can play modern games and do modern tasks.

Week 26, 2024 - July 1, 2024

This blog post is a weekly update covering various projects and personal events.

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• Subject": Photo of the original MediaCow Touch "Nashville" being used to play back songs from the Lapfox Vol. 5 album
• Title: "RINSE OUT"

Meaning behind icon and title: The title is a reference to the song "RINSE OUT" seen in the photo.

Week 25, 2024 - June 24, 2024

This blog post is a weekly update covering various projects and personal events.

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• Subject: A photo of an AMD Radeon HD 4770, focusing on DRAM chips
• Title: "Key to the GPU"

Meaning behind icon and title: The title is the continuation of the "Key to the" trend with any icon that is related to Qimonda. Showing the Qimonda GDDR5 chips on the AMD Radeon HD 4770.

Week 24, 2024 - June 17, 2024

This blog post is a weekly update covering various projects and personal events.

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• Subject: A photo of an IKEA shark, Blahaj
• Title: "Blåhaj"

Meaning behind icon and title: The title is a reference to the IKEA shark, Blahaj, a symbol used in the LGBT community.

Week 23, 2024 - June 10, 2024

This blog post is a weekly update covering various projects and personal events.

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• Subject: A photo of me and a few others playing Drawful
• Title: "push button receive bacon"

Meaning behind icon and title: The title is a reference to the phrase "push button receive bacon" seen in the photo.

Week 22, 2024 - June 3, 2024

This blog post is a weekly update covering various projects and personal events.

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• Subject: A photo of White Oak Lake in Madison, Virginia
• Title: "gm_lake"

Meaning behind icon and title: The title is a reference to the odd experiences I had, like I was in a Garry's Mod map. I could hear water rushing like the sound was coming from right next to the dock though the source of the sound was off in the distance, sort of like soundscapes in the Source Engine.

Week 21, 2024 - May 27, 2024

This blog post is a weekly update covering various projects and personal events.

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• Subject: A family of geese crossing the road
• Title: "Wild Goose Chase"

Meaning behind icon and title: The title is a reference to the phrase "Wild Goose Chase", referring to the geese crossing the road.

Week 20, 2024 - May 20, 2024

This blog post is a weekly update covering various projects and personal events.

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• Subject: A photo of a toad that was found in the backyard
• Title: "forg!!!"

Meaning behind icon and title: The title describes the Southern Toad in the icon, rare in this part of Virginia.

Week 19, 2024 - May 13, 2024

This blog post is a weekly update covering various projects and personal events.

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• Subject: A photo of the Flipper Zero being unboxed
• Title: "Flip the World"

Meaning behind icon and title: The title is a reference to the phrase "Flip the World" seen in the photo.

Week 18, 2024 - May 6, 2024

This blog post is a weekly update covering various projects and personal events.

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• Subject: A photo of an HP ink cartridge showing the a tab with a "no littering" icon
• Title: ":put_litter_in_its_place:"

Meaning behind icon and title: The title is a reference to the emoji in Discord, often used by the Mindustry community to rate community schematics; referring to it as trash.

Week 17, 2024 - April 29, 2024

This blog post is a weekly update covering various projects and personal events.

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• Subject: A screenshot of a nearly completed PCB design for MicroMemory
• Title: "Project Overcompilcator"

Meaning behind icon and title: The title makes fun of the fact that the project would often overcomplicate designs it is implemented in.

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• Subject: A student-made presentation slide describing the slang term "sweat" to describe someone who tries too hard
• Title: N/A

Week 16, 2024 - April 22, 2024

This blog post is a weekly update covering various projects and personal events.

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• Subject: A screenshot of the player effectively being defeated by a boss, 'Eclipse' in the game "Mindustry"
• Title: "Eclipsed"

Meaning behind icon and title: The title is a reference to the Eclipse boss seen in the photo, effectively defeating the player. This icon and title also references the eclipse that occurred on April 8, 2024.

Week 15, 2024 - April 15, 2024

This blog post is a weekly update covering various projects and personal events.

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• Subject: A photo of concrete poured to make a fire pit stand, showing "CTCL 2024" written on it
• Title: "Set in Stone"

Meaning behind icon and title: The title is a reference to the phrase "Set in Stone", referring to CTCL 2024 being drawn in the concrete.

Week 14, 2024 - April 8, 2024

This blog post is a weekly update covering various projects and personal events.

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• Subject: A photo of the "Qimonda Atrium" sign in VCU Engineering Hall East
• Title: "Key to the Atrium"

Meaning behind icon and title: The title refers to the trend of using the phrase "Key to the" with icons that are related to Qimonda.

Week 13, 2024 - March 31, 2024

This blog post is a weekly update covering various projects and personal events.

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• Subject: A photo of a test of the NetKart transmission
• Title: "Trust me, I'm an engineer"

Meaning behind icon and title: The title is a reference to the meme "Trust me, I'm an engineer", referring to the possibly failed test of the NetKart transmission, showing the engine turning at high speed.

Week 12, 2024 - March 24, 2024

This blog post is a weekly update covering various projects and personal events.

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• Subject: A photo of two Qimonda DDR3 Registered ECC memory modules
• Title: "Key to the World"

Meaning behind icon and title: The title is a reference to Qimonda possibly translating to "Key to the World". This title and icon starts the trend of using "Key to the" with icons that are related to Qimonda.

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• Subject: A picture of the boot splash and text of one of the HP ProLiant BL460c G8 systems
• Title: N/A

Week 11, 2024 - March 17, 2024

This blog post is a weekly update covering various projects and personal events.

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• Subject: A photo of a cosplayer dressed as Alastor from Hazbin Hotel
• Title: "What can I do for you, my effeminate fellow?"

Meaning behind icon and title: The title is a reference to the infamous line from the Hazbin Hotel pilot. I have only seen the pilot of the series and by the looks of later episodes, it may stay that way.

Week 10, 2024 - March 10, 2024

This blog post is a weekly update covering various projects and personal events.

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• Subject: A photo of the gearbox on NetKart being mounted
• Title: "Continously Variable"

Meaning behind icon and title: The title references that a CVT transmission is being used.

Week 9, 2024 - March 3, 2024

This blog post is a weekly update covering various projects and personal events.

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• Subject: A photo of a new version of the website under development
• Title: "Yet another website backend rewrite"

Meaning behind icon and title: The title is a reference to the fact that the website is being rewritten.

Week 8, 2024 - February 25, 2024

This blog post is a weekly update covering various projects and personal events.

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• Subject: A photo of me in the VCU HPRC datacenter for the first time
• Title: "In the datacenter, where I belong"

Meaning behind icon and title: The title is a reference to the fact that I am in the datacenter, a career I want to pursue.

A message about RAMList - February 18, 2024

This blog post covers the discontinuation of the RAMList project.

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• Subject: A photo of two Nanya DDR4 SODIMM mmemory modules
• Title: "Nanya Business"

Meaning behind icon and title: The title references the inside joke and pun of using the term "Nanya Business" instead of "Nunya Business".

Week 7, 2024 - February 18, 2024

This blog post is a weekly update covering various projects and personal events.

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• Subject A photo of the steel reinforced ceiling of a room in a house I worked on in 2023
• Title: "Solid as steel"

Meaning behind icon and title: The title is a reference to the fact that the ceiling is made of steel, referencing the motto I had for the SLAG project being "Solid as steel".

Week 6, 2024 - February 11, 2024

This blog post is a weekly update covering various projects and personal events.

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• Subject: A screenshot of SLAG logging test, showing my user status being logged with "i forgor 💀"
• Title: "i forgor 💀"

Meaning behind icon and title: The title is a reference to the meme "i forgor 💀".

Week 5, 2024 - February 4, 2024

This blog post is a weekly update covering various projects and personal events.

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• Subject: A photo of MediaCow Touch "Nashville" being used for likely the first time since 2023
• Title: "MediaCow Touch in 2024"

Meaning behind icon and title: The title is a reference to the fact that MediaCow Touch is being used in 2024.

Week 4, 2024 - January 28, 2024

This blog post is a weekly update covering various projects and personal events.

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• Subject: A photo of a test of using ntfy to send notifications to my watch, showing the nerd emoji as the message
• Title: "A literal nerd alert"

Meaning behind icon and title: The title is a reference to the fact that the message is a nerd emoji, playing on the term "nerd alert".

Week 3, 2024 - January 21, 2024

This blog post is a weekly update covering various projects and personal events.

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• Subject: A screenshot of the once-in-progress map for Portal 2 named "The Hall"
• Title: "A familiar hallway"

Meaning behind icon and title: The title is a reference to the fact that "The Hall" was based off childhood memories of a hallway in a school building.

Week 2, 2024 - January 14, 2024

This blog post is a weekly update covering various projects and personal events.

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• Subject: A picture of a staircase hallway in hotel during the January 2024 trip to Virginia Beach
• Title: "Backrooms Vacation"

Meaning behind icon and title: The title is a reference to the Backrooms meme, that I take these photos to share under the aesthetic.

Week 1, 2024 - January 7, 2024

This blog post is a weekly update covering various projects and personal events.

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• Subject: A photo of me working on optimizing someone's Minecraft server, with the HP ZBook being shown
• Title: "Professional Minecraft player"

Meaning behind icon and title: The title is a reference to the fact that I am working on optimizing someone's Minecraft server, in a professional environment.

2023 in Review

This blog post is a recap of my experiences in 2023.

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• Subject: A screenshot of Niko during the "aviator" cutscene in OneShot
• Title: "July 14, 2023 in one picture"

Meaning behind icon and title: The title is a reference to my first time in a non-commercial flight in a Cessna 182 on July 14, 2023.