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, horror movies, and very broadly: technology that straddles the transition from analog to digital.

My "mission" for my own sake is to hang on to the elements of my digital space which bring me pleasure, and to work in opposition to a world that is shaping up to be a technocratic monolith. This website is titled as such because many of my endeavors were originally pursued due to a lack of options and the resultant anger and frustration from that experience. It is becoming harder and harder to opt-out of the pull of hyperconnectivity. "Radio Jaws" seems to vaguely sum up how I feel about playing both offense and defense in a digital world that could offer freedom of choice to its users but opts not to.

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 also kept a landline until last year. I would rather take the hard road to personalization than bow to homogenous technology. I believe certain tech companies shared that sentiment for decades, and I think that's what made the digital world so fun and individualistic between the nineties (maybe even long before, although it's not my place to say) and early 2000's.

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