a little early for 2026 but I’ll still be here next year, posting at my own pace see you then

youtu.be/x4X0h-G8hy8?... my textbook a quiet, no-frills Japanese camp-cooking drama the minimal dialogue really works for me

installed an OS on a used macbook i just picked up i really love working under constraints like “this only runs on this OS” or “this can only be made on this mac”

imusa / 0.7 qt easily my favorite thing i bought this year i took it everywhere — mountains, rivers, the ocean rice, coffee, noodles, pasta already excited about what i’ll cook with it next year

The Process of Making a Hurricane Lamp Japan’s Only Hurricane Lamp Factory youtu.be/S3qzUJ4L2M0?...

i just like having a place where i can talk about the things i love my favorite books, movies, art the places and moments i care about i really like that kind of space i’m not interested in the opposite at all including the people who live in it

pretty much the classic choice for IMUSA pot lids is the batchstovez one but this DAISO leisure-cooker lid i tried today is actually pretty great too it’s stainless so it has a nice bit of weight to it feels like it’d be really solid for rice cooking and stuff tho

the DAISO leisure-cooker lid fits the IMUSA pot perfectly and the leisure-cooker itself can use my favorite 味覇 lid this whole combo is kinda perfect

kinda proud of this new carbon-felt stove lid off = full blast lid on = slow warm mode and somehow it runs for like 1h20min on just 15 mL… which is wild the red lid on the right has nothing to do with it btw it’s just from my favorite seasoning can thought they looked cute together, ha

kinda wanna go on this tiny solo mission find one of those old watch shops a town only has one of and pick up a cheap CASIO no phone, just those station maps feels like it’d be fun to get a lil lost

ngl i’ve been brainstorming in this weird posture and i just keep knocking out like this then the cold just… wakes me up

tbh i never thought i’d end up finding the bottom of a soda can kinda beautiful not until i got into hiking and everything started hitting different

i made this tiny ultra-low flame burner just a moment ago and it already heat-ran itself into a full burn and scorched the body fuel amount and pot distance can probably prevent it next time still… the texture it left is weirdly beautiful, something i could never make on purpose

testing a tiny low-flame alcohol stove it’s meant only for keeping things warm both the main chamber and the sub-chamber have carbon felt built in, so the fuel stays steady instead of flaring the goal is getting around 30 minutes of burn time from just 5mL

for me, making alcohol stoves isn’t really a “hobby” it’s more like building a tool that becomes part of the view i get to see with it it’s fun, sure, but the feeling is different—more like shaping something that’ll walk the trail with me

making coffee on a mountaintop with water i boiled on my tiny diy alcohol stove it feels like a quiet little luxury, and sometimes it really feels like i’m living just for that moment maybe that sounds dramatic, haha

been tweaking my carbon felt stove again and i think it finally hit the personality i was chasing regular felt stoves still have that liquid behavior, and i kinda wanted something that runs on vapor only—clean, steady, predictable

finally finished *Harmony* by 伊藤計劃 and it hits so different in a world where everything gets tagged as “wellness” or “self-care”

finally finished Altered Carbon and it hits so different in the age of cloud backups and auto-renew everything we’re already treating our lives like one big monthly billing cycle, so the idea of “wanna bolt immortality onto your sub plan too?” just feels… genuinely cursed

tiny dual-chamber alcohol stove steel wool packed inside the inner chamber calm top flame, no jets 5ml burns for a clean 12min 10ml brings 350ml to a boil works surprisingly well

made a new pot stand / windscreen setup for my top-burner UL stove used a same-size can and a lil joint part to connect them

fire breathes, metal ages, and tools remember who touched them

this old Esbit just fits the side-burner stove that survived the campfire

made these lately — tiny UL alcohol stoves they all kinda look the same, but each one’s got its own little tweaks inside — carbon felt, airflow stuff, tiny differences that change how they burn — and yeah, they’re all cute in their own way

made this tiny side-burner alcohol stove after playing around to keep just enough vapor space, it ended up with this perfect flame that fits perfectly under the Evernew Ti Pot 900 put it next to the Evernew—kinda round and chubby, looks super cute lol

the lil flame adjuster i made from a soda can’s doing surprisingly well only 10 mL and it keeps that cute slow burn going for half an hour still, my desk’s as unsexy as ever—everyone keeps telling me that lol

been kinda obsessed with cf stoves lately like— i knew they existed, but i used to think it’s just carbon felt stuffed into a cheap aluminum cup from amazon no art, no thought, just… there

kinda terrified by how strong my side-burner stove turned out burns like a tiny jet engine also yeah… fuel’s gone in no time

lately most of my time outside work goes to thinking about ul gear setups and diy alcohol stoves even though work’s piled up and i’ve got nowhere to go lol it’s lowkey fun also been into night walks cool air feels nice these days

tornado flame alcohol stove efficient even with tiny fuel stackable, simple, stupidly pretty—made in japan craft

been using this pan to make my morning toast the heat left these blue-purple-brown layers looks kinda like a lil universe

even with the simmer ring on, this evernew’s still kinda feral. titanium, light, cute—yeah. but way too hungry, haha btw, this mess tin’s adorable. it’s a perfect cube

old but new my new partner Esbit—glad it found me