what are the odds that a really old blog post (14 years old, to be precise) poking fun of a spam message gets a comment 3 days ago... AND THAT COMMENT IS SPAM! like spamception!
Thursday, July 17, 2025
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Sunday, June 29, 2025
the office party
Sunday, June 22, 2025
ungraceful degradation
"the ability of the human body to gracefully degrade under adverse conditions fascinates me :)"
- Kris, September 7th 2013
12 years ago. How much has changed since then.
I have just spent a whole week, barely functioning. Literally just crawling out of bed to eat and rest and eventually sleep. Cooking is about the most I've been able to muster the energy for.
The funny thing is, metabolically, my body is supposedly fine. Not entirely fine - but probably in similar shape based on medical parameters etc. But it isn't behaving the same. Has medicine not reached the level where what's going on can be pinpointed? Or is this the result of the passing of some tipping point in a slow process which was in motion years ago, maybe even before 2013? Some doctors have said it could also be the result of a brief viral infection that left me but that my body has not recovered from.
Chances are it's a combination of at least two of those things.
One thing is for sure - biohacking does NOT work long term. All those things I did to push myself, thinking I had discovered something really smart about myself? They probably had long term effects.
Irregular sleep, low quality sleep, multiple short sleep intervals instead of one full night's sleep - the impact of those is clear to me now.
Screen time is now having an impact obvious enough to be measurable on a day to day basis.
The constant input of compressed information into my head may or may not be affecting how I process information now - but I know that my ability to process information has definitely been affected.
Embracing the internet and social media (back when it seemed fledgling and world-changing) seems to have had an oversized impact on me as I have been using it for far longer than most people. It's reached the point where the measures I had put in place to streamline my usage have been blocked by social media platforms, forcing me to use them as they see fit.
And then there's random age related (yep some things are clearly age related!) things that are simply making it harder to deal with everything else.
And so, we're at this point - where I'm struggling to cope. Where the degradation is no longer graceful or even sustainable.
But I'm still alive and functioning. I can still do most of the things that I used to, but just more carefully. I'm worried about how long that will last though. That is not a day of realization I'm looking forward to.
Friday, June 06, 2025
chronic fatigue
Sunday, May 25, 2025
y u lukin lidat
May 2012... 13 years ago to the day. I did a 600+ km overnight motorbike ride across the country as I was on vacation and had just got a job offer confirmed - they expected me to start on May 28th. left Karnataka at like 6pm and reached home at about 10am. there was no network for the first 6 hours or so, and Google didn't have offline maps back then - I was riding in the dark along (and sometimes beside!) country roads in the hope of getting to a highway... which I did at almost midnight. I remember the sigh of relief when I pulled into the Kolhapur McDonald's, finally able to freshen up and grab a bite.
From stert to finish, I listened to this song on loop and sang along - literally the entire night, to keep myself alert:
When I got bored of the existing lyrics, I made up my own. Mostly funny and sometimes rude, some so rude I can never repeat them out loud. Not that it really matters what I sang though. It kept me going.
Y U Lukin Lidat!
Thursday, May 22, 2025
the universe is finite
Saturday, May 17, 2025
a new day has come
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