travel

Kandersteg, Switzerland: Emerald Heaven

/ hiking, journal, travel /

A week in the Swiss Alps was a whirlwind of breathtaking beauty and unexpected anxieties. In this article you’ll find the most stunning photos I’ve taken to date, and would well satisfy you without reading a single word. Hiking through stunning landscapes like Oeschinensee and the challenging Jegertosse-Fisialp pushed me to my limits, both physical and mental. The tranquility of the mountains was often interrupted by the absurdity of human behavior, from the man who shamed his friend for not swimming to the unsettling realization of my own anxieties and weight of my current circumstances. Despite these moments of darkness, the sheer beauty of Switzerland and the kindness of strangers offered fleeting moments of grace, leaving me with a bittersweet longing for a simpler, more fulfilling life true to my innate nature.

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DIMVA 2024: Lausanne, Switzerland

/ higher thought, journal, learning, perceptions, PhD Life, travel /

In this article I take you through my experience presenting a collaborated work on our newly discovered 0-day vulnerabilities in IoT firmware at DIMVA 2024 in Lausanne, Switzerland. Par for my usual narrative style, it contains connections to and small commentary on the infinite consciousness, encounters with objects of desire, and the difficulty in finding our path in life.

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DFRWS USA 2024: A Butterfly Dream

/ dreams, higher thought, travel /

In this article I recount my experience in Baton Rouge, Louisiana during DFRWS USA 2024 – a conference on digital forensics that I have now attended for the third time. I pepper the story of this experience with the idea of the unreality of the waking and dream states, and how both are actually dreams, much like the Butteryfly Dream parable from Zhuangzi.

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DFRWS EU 2024. Zaragoza, Spain

/ higher thought, journal, layers of reality, learning, perceptions, PhD Life, thought, travel /

This article is a retelling of my experience at DFRWS EU 2024. It tends to focus on my internal dialogue and thoughts as opposed to the academic and scientific lessons (which I believe the attendees have all been exposed to already). My target audience is the spiritual-leaning who have a taste for dark and dry humour, and thus the article has been so written. For the first time, I’ve decided to include excerpts written by my newfound companions Antonia, Charles, Dominique, Olivia, and Lux.

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I and Me, in Cali. [1/3]

/ travel /

As you likely realized, the partner with whom this trip was taken is no longer my partner, but a now dissociated human, like the ant I cannot see but with whom I share space. Contemplating releasing this article, I decided to make a compromise; the trip did happen, I certainly was there for it, and I have organized this dairy prior to being made single. And so, with respect to privacy and under the established assumption of my selfish and conceited nature, I have re-written it to only include me, and my travel partner, myself. This three part series will take on a new form, in which you will experience the entire 20 days between two people; I, and myself. It will read strangely, but it is my and myself’s sincerest hope that you enjoy what I call, comedic healing.

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Annecy, France

/ journal, travel /

Entering Annecy by its main train station, I immediately felt the warm embrace of the city. The orange street lights, quiet streets, slight bustle of night life. A man approached me and within the first few words out of my mouth, he asked “T’es Canadien, eh?” He told me the rest of his family currently lives in Montreal. We had a small exchange and finally bumped fists and I ventured off to take the 60 bus towards my small AirBnB, located some distance from Annecy in a commune called Veyrier-du-Lac, for the next three days.

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