(2011 intro)
Just a place to jot down recipes, beer tasting notes, restaurants I liked, and so on. I could do that in a notebook, but why not online? The fact that other people can see it is incidental.
(2020 edit)
Ah, the early 2010s, when a blog felt like the easiest way to share notes and photos with friends… As I started using social media more, this site mostly petered out. That’s too bad, because I still look back at it to jog my memory on how I cooked something, or remember some specific beer I liked in Belgium long ago.
In any case, I’m keeping this around as a personal time capsule, low-quality photos and all. I did split out my top homebrewing-and-similar projects in their own web site with more photos and less text (http://analogrobotbrewing.com/), I might update that more often.
(2025 edit)
Well, I’ve started using this again– mostly to keep notes on recipes / home cooking that turned out well (travel photos still mostly live on ephermal social media or in group texts…). I also migrated this blog to Hugo in the process of moving various projects off of Wordpress, and the search functionality is much better now. I expect some links or images may have broken during that migration, but good enough for a personal blog…