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Nicolas Ward

@ultranurd.net

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Cloud securitician and AWS principal engineer. Married to Andrle. I like Star Trek, books, games, Lego, and politics that reduces harm. Opinions are my own. Ⓥ Much more active over on Mastodon tacobelllabs.net/@ultranurd

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Nicolas Ward @ultranurd.net · 04/09/2026

@skyhookgames.bsky.social Dad mode unlocked. #PlayLMS2

Nicolas Ward @ultranurd.net · 02/08/2026

Red Badge of Nurdage blog.ultranurd.net/2026/08/01/red-b…

An oblong work badge sits at an angle on a wood grain desk next to the corner of a heavy black mechanical keyboard. It is a color photo of a young smiling Nick with no glasses (or beard) on a black background with a red border. It reads "Nicolas" on top and the bottom of the badge is cut off to obscure the username

Nicolas Ward @ultranurd.net · 31/07/2026

Blue Angels vs. Jimothy blog.ultranurd.net/2026/07/30/blue-…

A badly photoshopped image of Jimothy, a raccoon with a spinal birth defect, hunched and emitting an orange beam from his eyes at six Blue Angels F/A-18 airplanes flying in tight formation in front of the Space Needle and leaving smoke trails.

A bright blue sky over a residential hillside punctuated by six fighter jets flying away in tight formation in the middle of the frame beneath a power line in the foreground.

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Nicolas Ward @ultranurd.net · 20/07/2026

Pumpkin Chip Cookies blog.ultranurd.net/2026/07/19/pumpk…

A large stainless steel mixing bowl, viewed from above. There is a large lump of orange-brown cookie dough with dark brown flecks in it. A squeezable cookie scoop is also in it.

Fifteen loosely rounded cookie balls sit on parchment paper on a cookie sheet, ready to be baked

Close up of a few dozen baked cookies on a black wire cooling rack fading into the distance in rows against the glass tile of a kitchen backsplash.

A closeup of a flushed hand holding a small chocolate chip cookie with a bite out of it, showing the most layers and molten chocolate chips.

Nicolas Ward @ultranurd.net · 09/07/2026

Tee K.O. blog.ultranurd.net/2026/07/08/tee-k…

A doodle on a red shirt of a purple demon in a yellow sundress with orange belt labeled "Pretty Princess"

A doodle on a grey shirt of a French flag flapping on a flagpole labeled "Give me all ur chocolate"

A more detailed green and black line art of a sea turtle, swimming up and to the left on a grey shirt, labeled "Not Today"

A scary doodle on a blue shirt of a purple bunny with huge red eyes and crooked white whiskers labeled "u r my sunshine"

Nicolas Ward @ultranurd.net · 09/07/2026

Pike a Pose blog.ultranurd.net/2026/07/08/pike-…

Pike, a very small black and tan Yorkshire terrier, strikes a pose with his front paws pointed out and towards the camera as if ready to run all over the beige carpeted living room. He is looking at you but slightly askance with his ears up. Just out of frame to the right is a green plush toy of some kind.

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Nicolas Ward @ultranurd.net · 14/06/2026

SAM Old, SAM Old blog.ultranurd.net/2026/06/14/sam-o…

A split flap sign viewed from below and to the right currently reads:

A trillion gratitudes
In midday stillness
In a dusty house

A split flap sign viewed from below and to the left in the middle of changing its text reads:

<random characters>
The sounz <characters>
That makes <characters>
Resounds in a field with stone
Walls

A wall mounted sculpture of welding winding overlapping slinkies viewed from below at an oblique angle.

An explosion of varying size folded mylar balls sits in a large art gallery, viewed from above at a balcony. A city street is visible through a large vertical window on the right.

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Nicolas Ward @ultranurd.net · 07/06/2026

Pike Place Barricade blog.ultranurd.net/2026/06/06/pike-…

Two large green movable vehicle barricades with narrow traffic cones perched on the angled tips are parked on a brick street, their wheels locked up and out of contact. A yellow pushcart is in the foreground, chained to one of them. The curve of a curb is in the background

Nicolas Ward @ultranurd.net · 02/06/2026

Stair Down blog.ultranurd.net/2026/06/02/stair…

An extremely long shadow of a man, mostly leg, lit from behind by the rising sun, projected onto a steep public stairwell through greenbelt. The sett stone street below has a few cars parked on it. You can see his left hand is on his hip.

Nicolas Ward @ultranurd.net · 01/06/2026

Interbay Microshelters blog.ultranurd.net/2026/05/31/inter…

A dirt construction site with dozens of tiny white shelter shed-like buildings arrayed on it. In the background is a large multistory storage facility and in the distance is the residential hillside of Magnolia. The sky is clear blue.

Nicolas Ward @ultranurd.net · 31/05/2026

SAM as it Ever Was blog.ultranurd.net/2026/05/28/sam-a…

Two tall brown and green tissue paper trees and curving aluminum foil steps on a green tempera background depict an outdoor tiered amphitheater

Close up of a delicate all black Calder mobile consisting of dozens of plates hanging from the high ceiling of an art gallery over an all black layered surface that evokes waves

A massive pile of large puff balls formed out of folded Mylar sheets to look kind of like round flowers or something

A huge black wall covered in randomly stretched and flattened slinkies forming trails as if slugs have climbed all over it

Nicolas Ward @ultranurd.net · 31/05/2026

Bowled Over blog.ultranurd.net/2026/05/28/bowle…

Close up of a large white bowl piled high with carefully group vegetables (kale, sweet potatoes, and broccoli crossed by cooked edamame) and drizzled with peanut sauce

A stainless steel bowl full of orange diced sweet potatoes with spices poured on but not yet mixed to coat

A small white bowl full of a brown glaze with a metal whisk sticking out to the right

Browning edamame in a cast iron pan, seen through steam

Nicolas Ward @ultranurd.net · 31/05/2026

City Erased blog.ultranurd.net/2026/05/27/city-…

A poster for the exhibit seen from an angle in a window next to an exterior door. It reads City Erased and depicts an aerial view of the I-5 construction site along the northern flank of Capitol Hill and cutting off the Eastlake neighborhood in the foreground.

A child in a black Death Cab for Cutie Plans shirt, his face obscured by an emoji, stands in front of a large black and white wall map of I-5 passing downtown, covered in photos and red string indicating buildings that were demolished for it

A large light filled brutalist atrium in an academic building, with multiple tiered concrete floors and huge skylights highlighting the criss-crossing concrete stairs

Close up of a tabletop map in black and white with red markup centering on Pike, Pine, and Boren (roughly where the convention center is now) and a few wooden models of old houses and hotels sitting alongside it

Nicolas Ward @ultranurd.net · 30/05/2026

Monorail Guy blog.ultranurd.net/2026/05/30/monor…

Two concrete monorail tracks go into the distance from left to right. Over the right one is an upside down U shaped metallic frame platform or cart, with a repair tech just visible standing inside one leg of the U. A yellow extension cable drops down to street level. In the background is a vintage small window office building. The concrete pylons have space needle and whale tale street art on them. In the upper foreground is a suspended stoplight turning yellow and a straight ahead only arrow sign.

Nicolas Ward @ultranurd.net · 27/05/2026

Cauliflower Nachos blog.ultranurd.net/2026/05/26/cauli…

A wide white ceramic bowl full of colorful tex-mex ingredients and sitting on a magenta upholstered surface.

A wide white ceramic bowl full of colorful tex-mex ingredients viewed at a slight angle sitting on a brown placemat on a glass table with fork and spoon. The photographer is reflected in the spoon if you look closely.

A purple cauliflower cut in half on a composite cutting board on a white countertop

A bunch of diced and seasoned cauliflower waits to roast on parchment paper

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Nicolas Ward @ultranurd.net · 26/05/2026

Monorail Inspector blog.ultranurd.net/2026/05/26/monor…

A small upside down U shaped mechanism with a metallic frame travels along a concrete monorail downtown. Behind it is a hotel building and in the lower foreground is a purple trolleybus with its pantographs lowered.

Nicolas Ward @ultranurd.net · 24/05/2026

Light and Shadow blog.ultranurd.net/2026/05/24/light…

A small black and tan Yorkshire Terrier looks up at the camera from inside the brown poofy pet bed they're lounging in. Their body is in the sun, but their face is mostly in the shadow cast by the vertical edge of a window.

Nicolas Ward @ultranurd.net · 24/05/2026

Media — April 2026 blog.ultranurd.net/2026/05/24/media…

Nick, a white grey bearded man in glasses, looks skeptical sitting on a green couch holding the book Automatic Noodle. His skepticism may be because the teal, orange, and yellow elements of the cover design, with a robot hand picking up noodles with chopsticks, seems to match his teal, orange, and yellow PAX Prime 2024 t-shirt featuring a vintage Atari style motif of convention center escalators. Behind him, through the black metal railings of a townhouse staircase, are a pair of Death Cab for Cutie frames concert posters, also in orange, teal, and yellow.

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Nicolas Ward @ultranurd.net · 23/05/2026

I, Blog blog.ultranurd.net/2026/05/22/i-blog

A fake title screen for a Star Trek: The Next Generation episode with the Enterprise-D viewed from slightly below and to the left of the saucer section in front of a blue planet. In the upper left in Trek font is blue text "I, Blog"

Nicolas Ward @ultranurd.net · 19/05/2026

Liminal blog.ultranurd.net/2026/05/18/limin…

A photo of a long empty office hallway, titled at about 45 degrees so the edge between the brown business grade low pile carpeting and the plain off white walls is at the bottom center of the frame. Fluorescent lights and ceiling panels make weird shadows. There is a light wooden door with a badge reader at the end of the hall. On the left wall is a fire extinguisher in a white mourning box. The right wall is completely blank with no doors.

Nicolas Ward @ultranurd.net · 17/05/2026

Media — March 2026 blog.ultranurd.net/2026/05/16/media…

Four horizontal panels on a comic book page featuring a young Kal-El as a student on Krypton in a futuristic school building/classroom with many screens.

KRYPTON.
THE REDLANDS.
SIX YEARS AGO.
VAL-NODD, WELL DONE. EXCELLENT SUMMATION OF THE XENO DELTA FARMING PATTERNS.
ROZZ-LO, PERFECT WORK ON YOUR HISTORY OF THE GOLDEN VOLCANOES OF LURVAN.
KAL-EL...
KALI I'M CONFUSED ABOUT WHAT YOU TURNED IN HERE.

YOUR STORY ABOUT THE DANGERS FACED BY LOGGERS IN THE GLASS FOREST OF URRIKA
IS QUITE DESCRIPTIVE, BUT IT DOESN'T APPEAR TO EMPLOY ANY GENERATIVE TEXT AT ALL...
YOU DID
SOURCE THIS
DIRECTLY FROM THE KLERICS' LUMINARIUM, DIDN'T YOU?

I WROTE IT

KAL,
I CAN'T SEE YOU.
AND PLEASE
SPEAK UP.

I WROTE IT.
YOU
WROTE THIS
YOURSELF?

THAT'S...
KAL, THE LUMINARIUM CONTAINS ALL KNOWLEDGE OF THE SCIENCE LEAGUE FROM THROUGHOUT KRYPTONIAN HISTORY AND CAN ANSWER ANY QUESTION WE MIGHT EVER
POSSIBLY ASK.
WHY
WOULD YOU...
KAL..
I'D LIKE TO TALK WITH YOU AND YOUR PARENTS AFTER CLASS.

Nicolas Ward @ultranurd.net · 11/05/2026

Spring in our Step blog.ultranurd.net/2026/05/10/sprin…

Close up of a bunch of Baby Blue Eyes, blue five-petals flowers with a white center coming off clover-like stems

A tween in a black hoodie and super baggy jorts stands on the plastic seat of a baby swing on a swing set. Their face is obscured by a smiling emoji.

A tall man in jeans, a black t shirt, and sunglasses leans back swinging on a swing that he is too big for. His legs seem extra long due to the camera angle.

Looking through an opening in shaded trees across the park at the bow of a green and red bulk freighter (the Graecia Aeterna) being loaded at a wharf off shore. Other land is in the distance across the bay.

Nicolas Ward @ultranurd.net · 11/05/2026

Mother’s Day Brownies blog.ultranurd.net/2026/05/10/mothe…

A small white puppy dessert plate with a square brownie and another chunk of brownie on it. A glass of light brown iced coffee sits next to it on a brown placemat.

Fudgy batter fills a parchment paper lined ceramic baking dish, viewed from above. There are wave patterns where a spatula pressed the batter into the dish.

The same ceramic dish viewed from above, except this time the brownie is fully baked and the top layer has smoothed out

The brownies sit on a wire cooling rack, viewed corner on showing the texture, a few peanut butter swirls, and mini chocolate chips.

Nicolas Ward @ultranurd.net · 30/04/2026

Marry Me Mac & Cheez blog.ultranurd.net/2026/04/29/marry…

A white plate with a pile of seasoned cheezy macaroni on the left and some ground vegan "meat" on the right, ready to be mixed. The photographer's distorted reflection is just visible in the surface of a spoon in the upper right.

A small knife sits just out of frame on a bamboo cutting board covered in a pile of roughly diced garlic

Garlic browning in vegan butter bubbling in a large black cast iron pan

A creamy white sauce cooking in said paid, with a red silicone spatula resting in it

Nicolas Ward @ultranurd.net · 28/04/2026

Game Day Lunch blog.ultranurd.net/2026/04/27/game-…

A completed game of Ticket to Ride laid out on a brown covered table, cards scattered about. The board is upside down in this view, with Finland, Sweden, and Norway on the map and trains mostly avoiding the coastal ferry routes.

A white platter on a brown table top with (clockwise form top) a large butter lettuce leaf filled with seasoned tofu and covered in a peanut sauce; a skewer with a grape, pineapple chunk, cantaloupe chunk, and strawberry on it; a pile of nacho cauliflower with beans and corn and a dollop of white sour cream; two pieces of bread; and a greenish dip.

A spread of food on a white countertop. The fruit plates are on the right, with bowls of chips above. At the top is a baking sheet of nacho cauliflower with bowls of sour cream, red onions, and jalapeños close at hand. A baking pan filled with dip is on the left and a large black cast iron pan holds cooked tofu. A bowl of peanut sauce and a salad spinner full of butter lettuce is below that.

A large stainless steel bowl filled to the brim with cut but not yet seasoned cauliflower.

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Nicolas Ward @ultranurd.net · 24/04/2026

Accept All Cookies blog.ultranurd.net/2026/04/23/accep…

A dozen chocolate chip cookies cooling on parchment paper on a cookie sheet on a cooktop, viewed from a low angle with patterned white tile backsplash visible in the background. Another tray is out of frame to the left.

A single chocolate chip cookie, viewed from above, the chips melted and glistening in the light.

A stainless steel mixing bowl and red silicone spatula with melted butter and a pile of sugar and a larger pile of brown sugar shaped like an inverted measuring cup

A dark brown batter base with a big pile of flour in it, ready to be mixed, in the same bowl.

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Nicolas Ward @ultranurd.net · 20/04/2026

Moss and Flower blog.ultranurd.net/2026/04/20/moss-…

A shallow focus of a pink-red flowering tree branch extending into the distance towards a partly cloudy sky. Another branch crosses at the bottom of the frame, out of focus in the foreground and covered in bursts of moss.

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Nicolas Ward @ultranurd.net · 19/04/2026

Golden Gardens blog.ultranurd.net/2026/04/18/golde…

A tween in a pink shirt and blue shorts stands in the shallows facing out to the water, his arms extended backwards in an almost Naruto running pose

A tween in a pink Tails shirt and blue shorts is on his knees digging out a marked out square hole in a beach, sand being tossed onto a pile behind him. A colorful picnic blanket and his shoes are in the foreground.

A child in a pink shirt and blue shorts and a man in blue shirt and blue jeans, cuffed up a bit, wave from the waterline at a beach. The child's face has been obscured by a beach umbrella emoji. A line of seaweed is in front of them. Behind them is the water and in the distance the land on the other side.

A smiling couple in sunglasses and hats. Nick, a white bearded man leans in from the left with a Smokey Bear green and white trucker hat. Andrle, a white woman, sits in frame in a green shirt and a grey Seattle hat.

Nicolas Ward @ultranurd.net · 19/04/2026

The Heart of the Library blog.ultranurd.net/2026/04/18/the-h…

A tween in a black hoodie, viewed from behind, rides up a narrow escalator with day glo yellow side panels and glass windows that open up onto dense shelving of library stacks.

A tween in a black hoodie and jeans walks in a glossy read room in front of a floor to ceiling window that looks down on the large open atrium and entrance area of a library.

A tween in a black hoodie, with his face obscured by a globe emoji (Americas side), pulls out a large metal drawer full of USGS topo maps. Behind him on the wall is painted "maritz map room" in blue. His head obscures the m in map.

A tween in a black hoodie and jeans, with a brown fanny pack worn cross body, sits in the single articulated seat of a bus. A slightly too big black KN95 mask hides his face beneath his glasses.

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Nicolas Ward @ultranurd.net · 16/04/2026

High Tea blog.ultranurd.net/2026/04/16/high-…

A glass table arrayed for high tea. There is a glass teapot on the right, three place settings each with a glass teacup on a purple crocheted coaster, a blue green glass tumbler of ice water, a small white desert plate with a smiling dog face on it, and a tiny spoon. There is a white marble serving tray with savory tea sandwiches and crackers, and a two tier marble serving tray with brass handle with sweet bars on top and scones on bottom. Tiny white ramekins near the scones have red jam and yellow curd. A metal milk steamer on the left has non-dairy milk in it. A small vase of three pink-purple roses and baby's breath sits behind the serving trays.

The same spread, closer up and featuring the savory platter in front. The tea pot is not in view.

The savory platter viewed from above, with three square chickpea salad sandwiches in the middle, three triangular hamless sandwiches in a triskelion layout, and two kinds of cheez covered crackers in the spaces between.

A closer view of the two tiered serving platter, with small glass vase of roses on the left and a living room and TV and some potted plants out of focus in the background.

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Nicolas Ward @ultranurd.net · 15/04/2026

Brinner Sandwiches blog.ultranurd.net/2026/04/14/brinn…

A toasted breakfast sandwich viewed from the side on a white plate. Crumbled yellow tofu scramble is spilling out of the sandwich between layers of breakfast potato and vegan sausage

A toasted sandwich sits on a white plate viewed from above. Next to it is a second potato hash brown patty covered in a pile of yellow tofu scramble.

A large cast iron pan full of steaming yellow tofu crumble on a glass stovetop.

A pair of bamboo tongs prepares to grab two thin slices of bread out of a white pop up toaster sitting on a white countertop.

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Nicolas Ward @ultranurd.net · 15/04/2026

Art Link blog.ultranurd.net/2026/04/14/art-l…

A black cutout image of a cat is embedded in a glass station divider; behind it is a sound transit light rail train. It looks like the cat is announcing "2 line" on its digital sign.

Across multiple glass panels on a station divider is black cutout art of a woman seeming to release birds flying to the right. Above is a wayfinding sign pointing to the station exits.

A Redmond bound light rail train with headlights on approaches the station from the west. The platform edge yellow is framed in the bottom middle of the image. There is an ivy covered sound wall on the left. Multiple tracks curve slightly to the right in the distance. The digital sign is displaying a service alert and another sign indicates the photo is being taking from the Downtown Redmond bound side of the platform.

A view of an empty highway bridge sloping down towards the water to the left. Houses dot the shoreline in the distance. The sky is cloudy and grey.

Nicolas Ward @ultranurd.net · 13/04/2026

Computing: Home Era blog.ultranurd.net/2026/04/13/compu…

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Nicolas Ward @ultranurd.net · 12/04/2026

Computing: School Era blog.ultranurd.net/2026/04/12/compu…

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Nicolas Ward @ultranurd.net · 12/04/2026

Computing: PC Era blog.ultranurd.net/2026/04/11/compu…

A slightly blurry photo of a long paper printout hung on yellow house siding that reads "Happy Birthday Nick". The 7th is obscured by a child's hands (not Nick's) blocking part of the banner. On the left is a line art graphic of Kermit strumming a banjo.

Nicolas Ward @ultranurd.net · 11/04/2026

Stair at the Sun blog.ultranurd.net/2026/04/11/stair…

A moss covered outdoor stairwell goes up towards a grey cloudy sky along a concrete wall with brick inlay diamond patterns. On the right railing are a series of old green metal lanterns with yellowed glass globes atop. A leafing green tree and a house are on a street at the lower level background to the right.

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Nicolas Ward @ultranurd.net · 10/04/2026

Fifteenth Anniversary blog.ultranurd.net/2026/04/10/fifte…

A black and white photo of a smiling white woman in a strapless wedding gown and small veil. She is looking toward the camera to her left.

A black and white photo of a smiling white man in a suit and tie, his arms crossed as he leans against a wall in a wedding venue. He is looking right at the camera.

A scrabble rack that spells out ANDRLE with a female astronaut LEGO minifig sitting on the right end of it all on a white tablecloth

A scrabble rack that spells out NICK with a male astronaut LEGO minifig sitting on the right end of it all on a white tablecloth

Nicolas Ward @ultranurd.net · 09/04/2026

Morning Magnolia blog.ultranurd.net/2026/04/09/morni…

The bright sun just peeks through past a magnolia blossom at the center of the image, causing lens flares. The flowers on the tree are not yet fully open, but are white with pink purple edges. Behind any hill road can just be seen. The sky is blue and a few utility wires angle from the right near the top of the image.

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Nicolas Ward @ultranurd.net · 06/04/2026

Feaster blog.ultranurd.net/2026/04/05/feast…

A white plate on a brown placemat on a glass table, full of food. It has a roll, some potatoes, some carrots, some pesto pasta, and a baked tofu.

A small desert plate on a brown placemat with a fork to the left. The plate has a yellow lemon loaf slice and a white chocolate accented chocolate candy egg. An iced coffee glass with a leaf design sits on a pink and purple crocheted coaster.

An iced lemon loaf viewed from above on an oblong pink serving platter

Two blocks of glazed tofu baking in a ceramic dish, squished next to one another but offset. They are prepared like a ham, with diagonal crosshatches and whole cloves shoved into the intersections. The glaze has made the tofu dark brown.

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Nicolas Ward @ultranurd.net · 30/03/2026

Environmental Storytyping blog.ultranurd.net/2026/03/29/envir…

An Apple Magic Keyboard, a small aluminum Bluetooth keyboard, sits in the mud alongside a sidewalk. Its left arrow key is missing. Many of the keys are dirty.

Nicolas Ward @ultranurd.net · 29/03/2026

Hasselbacked blog.ultranurd.net/2026/03/28/hasse…

A round white plate with a sliced whole baked potato, a pile of reddish seasoned tofu, and a pile of steamed broccoli.

An uncooked yellow potato with several slices (each under 1/4" apart) propped up on a cutting board between two small wooden tongs

A hand holds a potato from the left while a large knife carefully slices into it

A swirl stands in the surface of a mixed reddish marinade in a stainless steel bowl

Nicolas Ward @ultranurd.net · 26/03/2026

Back to the Table blog.ultranurd.net/2026/03/25/back-…

A Lego minfig wearing a huge dark grey armored helm and adventuring gear carrying a pickaxe and hammer stands on top of the upper left corner of a printed out character sheet for Macomb. You can see that he is a 6th level artificer with 15 strength but 9 dexterity.

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Nicolas Ward @ultranurd.net · 25/03/2026

Sunset Blooms blog.ultranurd.net/2026/03/24/sunse…

A magnolia tree bursting with large white blossoms against a blue sky, lit from the left by an orange tinged evening sun.

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Nicolas Ward @ultranurd.net · 24/03/2026

Quick Bulgogi blog.ultranurd.net/2026/03/23/quick…

A large white bowl sits on a glass table. It is full of a pile of brownish grain, some greens, and four strips of brown marinated fake meat. The picture is slightly blurry.

Close up of bunch of diced cruciferous and garlic sautéing in a large cast iron pan.

Three items going at once on an induction stovetop: in the lower left a light blue enamel cast iron pan full of brown seitan strips; in the upper left a stainless steel pot full of simmering water and a grain; in the upper right a large cast iron pan sautéing greens.

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Nicolas Ward @ultranurd.net · 22/03/2026

Shake It Off blog.ultranurd.net/2026/03/22/shake…

A wide compostable plastic straw sticks out of a Next Level Burger patterned cup with a shake in it. The top is covered with marshmallows and green and yellow sprinkles.

Nicolas Ward @ultranurd.net · 21/03/2026

Software Adventuring blog.ultranurd.net/2026/03/21/softw…

Nicolas Ward @ultranurd.net · 16/03/2026

Heirloom Bean Soup blog.ultranurd.net/2026/03/15/heirl…

A chunky beany red brown soup sits in a large white bowl

The same soup seen from an angle sitting in a large pot, simmering

A mirepoix of onion, carrot, and celery is stirred by a red silicone spatula in a large ceramic dutch oven

A spice blend is mixed in a small pink bowl on a white countertop. A stainless steel Morgenhaan 1/2 tsp measuring spoon sticks out of it.

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Nicolas Ward @ultranurd.net · 16/03/2026

Approximately Pie blog.ultranurd.net/2026/03/15/appro…

A slice of pie on a small dessert plate viewed from the side, showing Oreo crust and peanut butter fluff layers.

A slice of pie sits on a small plate on a brown round placemat on a glass table. A diner mug of black coffee sits on a purple and pink crocheted coaster.

Two femme hands hold the glass pie dish up at a better lighting angle. One of the wrists has a nautical style sparrow tattoo visible.

Close up of part of the pie showing quartered peanut butter cups on top of peanut topping and ganache

Nicolas Ward @ultranurd.net · 13/03/2026

Morning Snow blog.ultranurd.net/2026/03/13/morni…

The budding branches of a Japanese maple just obscure a snow coated rooftop. Homes and apartments on the hillside in the background also have some snow against a grey sky.

A grey VW golf covered in a thin coating of wet snow, parked between a building and a fence. Some hot component under the hood has left a rectangular outline of melt spots.

A car approaches down a slight hill of a wet street with parking on either side. The blooming cherry trees on the left are lightly coated in snow

A grassy large field surrounded by fences has a dusting of snow. A large TV transmitter tower fades into the grey clouds in the distance between the houses and trees surrounding the park.

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Nicolas Ward @ultranurd.net · 08/03/2026

Grey Tower blog.ultranurd.net/2026/03/07/grey-…

The façade of an early white and grey stone skyscraper viewed from below against a cloudy grey sky, with the sky in the top third of the image. The stone above the door is carved "Smith Tower".

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