iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Jacob Earl @jacobearl.org · 02/09/2026

One nice thing about gremlin is he will come and knock my phone out of my hand and bonk his head on my nose as hard as he can if I’m looking at Instagram reels for too long. One bad thing about him is he’ll also do this if I’m reading a book

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Jacob Earl @jacobearl.org · 29/08/2026

I assume you already ruled it out but it does seems like you're pretty close to the plot of a few good men

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Jacob Earl @jacobearl.org · 17/08/2026

you’ll never believe what I found on the sidewalk

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Jacob Earl @jacobearl.org · 16/08/2026

just remembered I saw this on the way back from a recent road trip, had to pull over

a photo of Jacob, the author, a white man in a blue camp collar shirt blue bandana and fedora, in front of a sign in a bar window that says “jakes saloon”. he is grinning excitedly

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Jacob Earl @jacobearl.org · 28/07/2026

im being, embargoed, I guess lol so I'll just say: sex purge movie good

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Jacob Earl @jacobearl.org · 28/07/2026

Whenever I see this style of office building outside of my childhood memory of anchorage it’s like finding out a building you thought of as singular is actually a crashed imperial spaceship

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Jacob Earl @jacobearl.org · 18/07/2026

Any nerds got even one idea as to why this might be happening, at a seemingly random schedule, at the rate until I turn bluetooth off or restart the iPad

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Jacob Earl @jacobearl.org · 15/07/2026

filming the tv is like micing an amp cabinet: I understand why you do it but theres gotta be a better way

screenshot of a suggested YouTube video that I haven't clicked on. Looks like a clip from the new historical Larry David show but obviously filmed off a tv or computer screen b/c the colours are off and it's skewed. Its got 58k views

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Jacob Earl @jacobearl.org · 11/06/2026

surprised how good the zoom h2e is at cutting out the noise of a box fan pointed right at my head

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Jacob Earl @jacobearl.org · 19/05/2026

“Stop fucking with your bandage or I will cone you >:-(“ — @sasharosehansen.bsky.social

A photo of my right hand which has been grabbed from me and suddenly wrapped up in the self adhesive bandage tape sasha got from their work at the vet. They’ve done a good job but it’s a little overkill

Same as previous but the bottom of my hand

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Jacob Earl @jacobearl.org · 16/05/2026

damn its crazy no Ancient Greeks ever went to Africa despite it being so close upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...

a diagrammatic picture of the Rosetta Stone from wikipedia. the languages are, from top down: Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs, Ancient Egyptian Demotic, and Greek.

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Jacob Earl @jacobearl.org · 09/04/2026

the shadow of the torturer books are still in print but in sets; covers still cool!

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Jacob Earl @jacobearl.org · 26/03/2026

x the everything wine bar

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Jacob Earl @jacobearl.org · 20/03/2026

it’s so hot in LA even the cat has decided to sit in front of the fan

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Jacob Earl @jacobearl.org · 22/02/2026

Patti LuPone!! THE GREATEST TO EVER DO IT!! w/ @sasharosehansen.bsky.social

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Jacob Earl @jacobearl.org · 10/12/2025

“blue black” my ass

scribbles from my notes that are hard to read but clearly written in different inks. All of which are marketed as blue black but look wildly different

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Jacob Earl @jacobearl.org · 07/11/2025

re-inventing the laptop

An iPad mini bolted onto a wooden star-wars inspired lapdesk I had made previously, wired to a “Planck” 40-something percent ortholinear keyboard. Seen from the users perspective.

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Jacob Earl @jacobearl.org · 22/10/2025

CW robot cartoon spider climbing over my factorio base to demonstrate the way it moves — very well animated btw

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Jacob Earl @jacobearl.org · 22/10/2025

Doing a little arachnophobic exposure therapy in factorio

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Jacob Earl @jacobearl.org · 23/09/2025

for no particular reason revisiting don’t be a sucker (dod, 1945): archive.org/details/y…

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Jacob Earl @jacobearl.org · 10/09/2025

Shout out to the funniest billboard combo I drive past in Hollywood

A giant billboard for the ai spy tech gizmo “friend” above another billboard for a plumber named Mike diamond. The building it’s above is a characteristically abandoned Hollywood storefront

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Jacob Earl @jacobearl.org · 07/09/2025

My First Diary / Log: jacobdavidearl.com/2025/09/07/my-fi… circa 13/oct/04-27/apr/05

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Jacob Earl @jacobearl.org · 06/09/2025

I like to watch movies in an order that they sort of connect and form an arc when I look back at them, like a exquisite corpse. There’s something here I think

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Jacob Earl @jacobearl.org · 04/09/2025

Trip Log, j2: jacobdavidearl.com/2025/09/04/trip-… My movements at age 13 tracked in spreadsheet form

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Jacob Earl @jacobearl.org · 27/08/2025

boy genius here is talking into the wrong side of the mic #alienearth

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Jacob Earl @jacobearl.org · 22/08/2025

sometimes this pervasive he/him as the standard for a person comes from some dumbass proofreading conceit to which I always want to point to this bit of on writing well and say if even ZINSSER could get his head out of his ass,

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