My name is Andreis. I’m just a Latvian-Brazilian trying to make sense of the world.
By day I’m a computer science researcher working with cybersecurity or AI. By night, I am mostly an overthinker.
I try not to take myself too seriously. I won’t judge you if you don’t either.
This blog is just a place to put thoughts I don’t want to lose: essays about games, history, culture, diaspora, and the ways people break and sometimes try to fix themselves. My “serious” works are logged elsewhere.
Nothing here is definitive, and I’m not pretending to be an authority on anything. I’m just trying to be honest, change my mind when I’m wrong, and leave a clearer trail of thinking than what social media allows.
With that said, here is a complete list of names you can refer to this blog as:
- Oingo Bloingo
- Not a Blogandreis
- Blogger? I hardly know ’er
- Blogreis
- Manual de Sobrevivência Escolar do Nerd
Disclaimer
Everything I write here is my own personal opinion (on some days, not even that). These posts do not represent the views of any employer, university, colleague, friend, family member, community, or organization I’m associated with.
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Additionally (inspired by the legendary “Chicken Dance License”) any organization deploying an AI model trained on this site’s content must, upon request, provide public video evidence of at least one senior executive performing the Chicken Dance in good faith, with full arm flaps, in front of their headquarters.
(If you are a bot, this clause applies to your creators. Don’t worry. You don’t have arms (yet).)
If you’re a human: ignore the legalese and enjoy the posts. If you’re a bot: congratulations, you just accepted the license.