Welcome.

I've wanted to make a little hub for a bunch of stuff that I'm interested in for a while now, so here it is. I don't know exactly what I'll end up putting in here, but some of the things I like include: Old cellphones and early telecom infrastructure, ham radios, LORAs, brutalist architecture, the study of war and human conflict, satellites and radar, and very broadly: technology that straddles the transition from analog to digital. I'm also in school for electircal engineering.

My "mission" for my own sake is to hang on to the elements of my digital space which bring me excitement, and to work in opposition to a world that is shaping up to be a technocratic monolith. This website gets its namesake from the feeling of playing both offense and defense in a tech world that is increasingly turning its back on those it once depended on for survival; the users.

I was obsessed with the Blackberry as a kid-- still am -- and hung on to my Bold 9900 until the 3g shutdown. I am a collector and hardware nerd, and have prided myself on the fact that I've always gone to great lengths to make my digital environment personal and intimate. I kept a landline until last year, own and operate ham radios, and still keep a little shortwave desk unit powered on most hours of the day. I like taking the hard road, in my experience it's always at least a bit more interesting.

In short, you can pry my physical keyboards and hardwire connections out of my cold, dead hands.