Begleri

(august 10, 2026) I've struggled with acne for a while. I used to often pick at my face without even realizing, and even today I still can find myself doing it occasionally(but far less). About a year ago, I saw a video pop up on my phone while scrolling youtube shorts (addictions are hard to break) of some guy making begleri along with some commentary about how begleri can help addictions. Turns out it somewhat helped, since my hands are busy most of the time. Now my acne is noticeably less! Though there is a side effect: I feel really uncomfortable if I realize I don't have my begleri with me. Similar to losing your phone. Fortunately it's easy to make them.

I actually like to give my friends their own sets of begleri rather often. Pretty much immediately after meeting them, I'll make them a set and give it to them the next time I see them... Though I do know it's a little bit odd.

Amateur radio

Amateur radio is a sort of large encompassing hobby mostly focused around throwing radio waves into the aether and hoping other people can receive your sounds. In horribly simple, long range walkie talkies. The main hobby involves using your radio to talk to other people and tinker with your radio equipment to optimize your setups.

Since these radios don't really need much infrastructure other than an antenna and power source, and occasionally good atmospheric conditions and the sun having sunspots, they can come very in handy in emergency events. In fact, a large portion of amateur radio hobbyists are also doomsday preppers (they're fools in my opinion and they do little else for the hobby besides making collections of dusty radio equipment for people to get cheap second hand a couple years down the line).

I personally mostly enjoy the antenna making part of the hobby, where you design antennas to work best for specific frequencies of radio. Unfortunately, being an unemployed high school student (recently graduated) means I don't have the money needed for this part of the hobby. Now that I think about it, a large part of this hobby is based on having a large wallet. Maybe that's why the average age of licensed hobbyists is supposedly 63 years old, it's mostly retirees. Anyway here's a little gif I made of a dipole antenna connected to a radio.

Stereoscopic photography

and crosseye stereoscopy

Stereoscopy is a cool thing that can be used to emulate 3D vision using two images of different viewpoints. This is actually how VR headsets give depth to their images, each eye represents a different viewpoint in the virtual world. Left eye for left camera, right eye for right camera.

Crosseye stereoscopy is pretty much the same thing, but it uses crossing your eyes in order to overlap two different images of different viewpoints to create a single image with depth. It's a pretty cool thing, and I've been taking stereo photos every now and then at my trips so I've got a few photos I would like to share with you guys. I'll hold of on the most of them for if I buy neocities supporter tier.

There are different viewing types for crosseye seteroscopy, parallel view and cross view, their names are pretty self explanatory but I'll attach an image to help explain it better.
Sometimes you'll come into the issue where a stereo image looks sorta "inside out", that's because the image was taken differently from how you tend to view stereoscopic images. Here's a few photos to help you.

There's an app that can help you take these photos, though I'm pretty sure it's paid. It's called i3dsteroid. Check it out, it's pretty helpful and easy to get the hang of.