Jack Sarick'sPronunciation: /dʒæk sær.ək/ (my name rhymes with Quack Barrack) webgarden

Hello, and welcome to my corner of the internet. Like a cottage or a garden, this is a place I maintain and tend as a hobby, and I invite you to come and visit. ✿

I am a curious person. You may find me out and about looking at things or for things. If You are in fact looking for me (possibly to help look for someone else I'm pretty good at finding people who got lost or hurt in the woods/desert/wilderness/etc), please reach out to me. Otherwise, I will be wandering around somewhere in meatspace where finding me is not as easy as following a url.

Imagined Memories

This website represents practice. Speaking through technology is such an incredible skill and, as someone born post-internet, one whose grammar I find intuituve; a small project like this keeps me from falling out of habit. In a tradition of HTML-based sites, blogs, and social media, a semi-static networked presense is my preferred method of being online. Despite the horrors it contains, I am so grateful for the information superhighway that exists at our fingertips.

Further Memories of Travel

Turtle Island is vast. I have zig-zagged through the middle parts and dawdled along the rivers and mountains and coasts. The trees are generally my favourite part, though I have also found incredible people among them. Much of my travelling is done by wheel or foot because any faster and it becomes too easy to miss the important bits inbetween. This, however, is impractical for seeing the vast world that exists across oceans and geography, thus I am colouring in farther away part of the map much slower. My bucket list right now stands something like Mongolia, Cuba, and the Philippines.

Further Memories of Education

My path has not been particularyly direct, there being so much to explore. I studied contemporary philosophyGenerally speaking, contemporary philosophy is everything after Nietzsche. Specifically, I can talk your ear off about Benjamin and Deleuze at University of King's College and completed an EMT-BAn 'Emergency Medical Technichian - Basic' certificate is the credential needed to work as an emergency contractor in the States certificate at Colorado Mountain College. After some adventourus work with chainsaws and technical rescue, I found my way back to the Maritimes for my paramedicPrimary Care Paramedic, a Canadian designation roughly equivalent to the US's A-EMT certification.

Further Memories of Marginalia Think of this section as the blog: disperesed fragments of writing and thoughts meant to be at once freestanding and introductions to each other.

There are other parts of me too, like reading and fishing, but I try not to digitize too much of my life. In cyberspace I can still be found in Minecraft servers doing more or less the same things I do in meatspace, which is to say hanging with friends, fishing, and building silly little structures in the woods.

Shiny Digital Pebbles
Lines of Flight Like barnacles, contact methods cling to me. Also like barnacles, these contact methods resist scraping so I apologize for the captcha-esque puzzles