Can you connect? https://sam.isinthe.icu/ en Sat, 14 Feb 2026 22:16:50 +0000 1440 I'm in the middle of writing another longer post, but i needed to just write a quick to-do list for this site. apparently as of about 2014, google has owned the .zip tld, and probably a whole bunch of others, but it just sits on them until it decides to make them publicly available. obviously .zip is a crazy tld that will be very prone to abuse, and so will .mov, which they also for some reason have. anyway i think im gonna eventually phase out inthe.icu cuz i dont really like the name all to... https://sam.isinthe.icu/posts/2023-05-12-lease-update-approval-2023.pdf.zip.html Fri, 12 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Welcome to the long-awaited blog post for which you've surely kept your breath well-abaited (lol). https://sam.isinthe.icu/posts/2022-02-10-Main-Page-Theme-Update.html Thu, 10 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000 I'm going to try to be quick about this one. I just realized that I've had this blog for about four years now, and haven't really done much with it. I've written about 10 pieces on a variety of subjects, but I never really achieved my main goal of pushing myself to write more in a shorter period of time, to get over the annoying Writer's Block-esque thing I have going on. Last week, with my PC-98 article, I felt a burst of inspiration that I forced myself to capitalize on, even though I was a... https://sam.isinthe.icu/posts/2026-02-09-February-2026-Update.html Mon, 09 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 This is a new "series" I'm starting because I want to get back into writing on here. It won't be especially well-researched, or even mediocrely researched like my last language piece, but it's all just for fun, really, so please afford me the kindness of overlooking this laziness. https://sam.isinthe.icu/posts/2025-04-08-Usefulness-of-Japanese-Synonyms.html Tue, 08 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Alright so this is another quick update, which ashamedly comes again after another domain name purchase. Unlike last time, it's nothing nefarious, just some fun, mostly because i wanted one of those short 2-letter domain names, except those are hard to find and the ones that make sense are obviously taken. https://sam.isinthe.icu/posts/2023-10-25-October-Update-New-Domain.html Wed, 25 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Welcome to my silly little blog :3 https://sam.isinthe.icu/posts/2022-01-05-First-Post.html Wed, 05 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000 I'm writing this guide to outline the steps I took to get the VN Shizuku, recently translated by Her-Saki (vndb.org, ROMHacking.net), to work on my Mac. I'll also try to provide some general PC-98 resources that I came across along the way. https://sam.isinthe.icu/posts/2026-01-31-PC98-on-macOS.html Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Ok. Starting this up as a general thoughts dump for some of the books I got from the library today. Starting with Yukio Mishima's Sound of Waves (1954). https://sam.isinthe.icu/posts/2026-02-10-yukio-mishima.html Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Welcome to my monthly blog update. Yes, the rumours are indeed true, almost nothing has been changed, added or improved! You are very welcome. I had expected progress to be relatively slow, but I'm just oh so overwhelmed with everything from school to my classes and my courses and my homework and also a very unhealthy valorant addiction that I haven't had the time to work on this. I apologize, dear Reader, for leaving you without the update and progress that you so desperately crave, I really... https://sam.isinthe.icu/posts/2022-03-24-March-Update.html Thu, 24 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 I've been using an iPhone SE since August 2019, when I bought my friend's old one off of him for $100. Prior to that I used my mom's old 5S that she had given up for a new Pixel 2. I remember my time with that 5S fondly; how I used to discuss with my friends with the same phone whether or not to update to the next ios, because of how haphazardly Apple was releasing these unoptimized software updates to such weak devices; how I could finally send snapchats to my classmates using an actual phot... https://sam.isinthe.icu/posts/2025-06-14-Iphone-SE-Elegy.html Sat, 14 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Recently, I have been working on some of my other sites, which I'll be sure to post on here and share once they're all ready and stuff. I had wanted to use the "lain font" that was used in the show, and the writer of SE:L, Chiaki Konaka had actually uploaded the font to his website. I downloaded the version for mac, since I'm currently running a mac, and was faced with the strange situation of needing to convert the old font to a more modern format so that I could use it on my website. I've o... https://sam.isinthe.icu/posts/2022-06-30-Love-Letter-Typewriter.html Thu, 30 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Like most people who've gone through high school, I've read a bit of Shakespeare. I don't mean that I've read a lot of Shakespeare; like most people, I tried to get by while keeping the yawnfest to a minimum. Of course, there were the class readalongs, where disinterested and terribly tongue-tied teens tripped over the troublesome tirades of Titus Andronicus, which made trying to follow along without being driven to the verge of suicide harder than you'd expect. Otherwise, I tended to keep u... https://sam.isinthe.icu/posts/2024-02-19-Cousins-German-Almain-Gennets.html Mon, 19 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000