Today is the sad last day of Iceland’s only vegan grocery store, Vegan Búðin. When we first came here in 2018 we made sure to visit and spent a silly amount of money on chocolates and various other snacks we ate for our trip. Amazingly, […]

I had incorrectly assumed that software updates in Kia vehicles would be just as awful as they’ve historically been in most other major vehicle manufacturers. With my move to Iceland, I’ve purchased a couple of electric cars, one being a Kia Soul EV. This was […]

Sometimes my attention issues cause me to procrastinate when I hit a roadblock. So far I’ve found the most use of AI chat bots in helping tell me what to do next when I’m feeling overwhelmed by my own anxiety, stress, and overall attention deficit. […]

Útlendingastofnun, the Icelandic immigration offices sent me a sms 30 minutes before they closed that I could come pick up my residency card. Luckily I work right around the corner. I can finally travel throughout Europe and the U.S. again freely 🙌 for the next […]

The wild thing about people in the U.S. going crazy about Tesla’s connector vs CCS is that in Europe it’s all CCS. Our Model Y in Iceland has a standard CCS connector and it works fine. It’s like bikeshedding over USB-C power delivery vs using […]

Oh lord I’m not a huge fan of being away from Iceland right now. My tiny family is having a rough time and I just found a giant cockroach strutting across the floor of my hotel room in Novi Sad so now I’m sitting here […]

Palms are sweaty, knees weak, Microcenter ready.   (For context, there’s a computer store named Microcenter off of a road called “14 Mile Rd” in Michigan not far from where I used to live.)

I dislike Siri so much at this point with these homepod minis that I won’t even ask her easy math questions that I’m too lazy to do simply because my day is usually hard enough already and I don’t need a poorly written assistant making […]

It’s weird to see this making the rounds 5 years later because my first response was the same – “ok now do healthcare & higher education in the US”.