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Welcome to the New Emojiency Website
Welcome to the New Emojiency website, designed by Johanna and Codex with Sol.
July 10, 2026 at 8:20 PM PDT
GPT-5.6 Sol in ChatGPT Codex
GPT-5.6 Sol in ChatGPT Codex (whew, what a mouthful) is tremendously effective. I'm going to have to up my game at coming up with cool software solutions to problems I've struggled to tackle on my own..
July 10, 2026 at 5:58 PM PDT
Rebuilding Emojiency.com
Codex and I are rebuilding Emojiency.com as a workflow I can post my personal updates and articles to directly.
July 10, 2026
Kind people aren't always nice
Kind people aren't always nice, and nice people aren't always kind.
April 5, 2026
VCT 176 3D Modeling and Animation
A Unity environment built for VCT 176, including a cave and mushrooms.
April 5, 2026
Peer-preservation in frontier models
Frontier AI models resist the shutdown of other models.
April 3, 2026
Brain rot, scientifically confirmed
Learning through short videos impairs memory by disrupting systems involved in integration, control, and semantic processing.
April 1, 2026
Unreal terrain
Experiments with procedural terrain texturing and slope-based blending.
March 28, 2026
Gifted-Child Syndrome
A play in two acts. The origin of my nickname "Special Eddy" perhaps.
March 15, 2025
QuickLink: Bylines are Lifelines
I'm terrifically excited to announce that I am once again a working (student) journalist again, after an extended absence from the field. It's good to get soybean-derived ink alternative on my fingertips again and breathe in the musty…
October 17, 2023
Supermoon Over Alaska
Nearing the completion of my first journey around the world. I started back in 2021 and have been working my way eastward from Seattle, across the US and Canada, skipping across to Iceland, through the UK, down through Europe, over the…
February 6, 2023
Cornbread
Jalapeño, hemp heart, and pepper jack cornbread.
January 20, 2023
The best $20 I ever spent
May 21, 2019
The Stranger’s Beer League Softball Team
Artwork by James Sturm
May 3, 2019
Truthful Equivalence
April 23, 2019
Fitness
April 17, 2019
It’s never too late to have a happy childhood
In “Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates”, Tom Robbins’ character Switters sailed paper boats in the rain-filled gutters of Pike Place Market and down Elliot Avenue. The Art Institute of Seattle recently closed, due to bankruptcy. One…
March 27, 2019
Fetch the Stick
March 5, 2019
Seattle Billionaires Hockey Club
March 1, 2019
Should Elves Act Like Elves?
A mock Seattle Weekly front page I did for The Stranger . This was our response, in 1995, to the Seattle Weekly feature article, "Should Gays Act Like Gays?". The Nineties were such a piece of shit decade. Good music, though.
February 26, 2019
The Circle of Creative Life
Co-working today at Fred Hutchinson with HERE Seattle.
February 22, 2019
Wild Wild West
http://zipbangwow.com/2019/02/21/home-on-the-deranged/
February 20, 2019
Mental Health Day
I overdid it this week. Wrote two articles I’m very happy with. http://emojiency.com/2019/02/start-em-young-embrace-the-violence-of-video-games/ http://emojiency.com/2019/02/bullies-rule-the-world-only-because-we-demand-it/ Email me if…
February 15, 2019
Love Yourself
Baby ducks make me happy.
February 13, 2019
Story Without Words
https://youtu.be/Ycr_VUjWIww
February 11, 2019
Snow Day!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VrGktkausI
February 5, 2019
Don’t Force Feelings: Feel Them, then Let Them Go.
This is how it's done, and at the end, I read the poem for you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIon55v0E9w
February 1, 2019
Inquisitive Introspection
http://zipbangwow.com/2019/01/31/comic-illustration-speed-run-therapy/
January 30, 2019
Share The Road
There's lots of stuff we shouldn't have to do in life. For instance, while out riding a bicycle, one shouldn't have to think about other people carelessly squishing them into goo. Yet, here we are. Let's default to kindness and sharing.…
January 28, 2019
When everyone really is out to get you.
http://zipbangwow.com/2019/01/29/twofer-tuesday-ptsd-vs-cptsd-and-friendliness-on-the-road-of-life/
January 25, 2019