this website was a blog between 2021-2024/2025. now i write elsewhere, but you can check out these old posts. i might still share something here if it’s a personal topic (Like the last post about my grandfather)
Bir Avukatın Rüyası: 1950’lerde bir İsveç Seyahati
Dedem Erkan Arat’ın İsveç gezisi ile ilgili anlattığı hikayeler.
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Qazaqstan Temir Jolı
Kazakistan Demir Yolu’nu kullanarak bir şehirden ötekine geçişimizin hikayesi.
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Codex Cumanicus and “куаныш”
Codex Cumanicus is a 13th century manuscript written in Latin for Catholic Missionaries interacting with the Cumans, the nomadic, Turkic speaking people who were scattered around the Eurasian steppes at the time. The codex is part dictionary and part missionary book. The dictionary contains translations of Cuman words into Latin (and i think it also…
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pizzacının sihri
How kids can find magic in pop culture. Çocukların popüler kültür ürünlerinde sihirli bir şeyler bulabilmesi üzerine.
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Kaf ق Kef ك ‘i keşfedişim
Türkçe’de Osmanlıca zamanında ayrımı yapılan iki farklı ‘k’ sesi olduğunu biliyor muydunuz?
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Dracula and Baksheesh: Cultural Transports from East to West
What does a word have in common with a famous villain? I was reading Bram Stoker’s Dracula in high school. At the time, I wanted to improve my English by reading a proper classic, and what better book to pick than the one that created the first vampire? You see, I had just finished watching…
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Hasan ile Röportaj: Sınır Dışındaki Türk Kültürü, Bir Dil Bir İnsan, Deprem Sonrası Hayat
Hasan ile Maraş’ın ilçesi Pazarcık’ta, Mart ayı 2023’te tanıştım. Beraber Toplum Gönüllüleri Vakfı (TOG) bünyesinde deprem gönüllüsü olarak Maraş’taki bir kampta kalıyorduk. Hasan’ın hayat hikayesi üzerine sohbet etmek isteyince, çocukluğundan deprem gönüllülüğüne uzanan yaklaşık 30 dakikalık bir röportaj yaptık. Arkamızdaki okulu ve AFAD çadırlarını görebilirsiniz. Erzak sığınağı olarak kullanılan, çatlaklarla kaplı fakat hala ayakta duran…
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The Prison Break Quest, and the Town Designs of Mount&Blade:Warband
A design analysis of the prison break quest from Mount and Blade: Warband, and an analysis of its environment design.
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Global and Connected Bards
I want to create a network of people and a system of thought, that will allow the stories of the peoples of the world to be exchanged and introduced to each other again. Humans are a story telling species. News are stories. We tell each other stories of harmful events that happened in the past,…
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Ancestral Recall
Humans tell stories Humans tell stories of their ancestors and of ages long gone. Stories of the ancient past are so powerful, that nationalism used them to craft nation identities, with which they could bring the people together and lead them. Ancient Danish Kings claimed divine ancestry through stories, reinforcing their positions as rulers by…
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thinking in dominoes
initiate big change: as smaller blocks tip the bigger ones over, creating an avalanche effect that increases in intensity, which eventually creates big change; sending shockwaves throughout the world and throughout centuries… there is no knowing how big the end block is going to be; you might even tip over reality… Hello! This was inspired…
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Humans are a Story Telling Species
the nature of life, and the (retelling of) and the (conveying of information about) past events I watched on the news today that someone in the US killed other people, then killed themselves. It happened recently, so there is nothing more in the story; just that someone killed other people then killed themselves. The story…
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Start of Something Big
I have embarked on a quest, to create… “the Global & Connected Bards” I have a series of essays I started writing, that will establish the foundations of global and connected bardistry. (15th c.) from Scottish Gaelic bàrd, from Old Irish bard, from Proto-Celtic *bardos (“bard, poet”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerH- (“praise”), and reinforced by Latin bardus, borrowed from Celtic. Cognate with Latin grātus (“grateful, pleasant, delightful”), Sanskrit गृणाति (gṛṇāti, “calls, praises”), Old Church Slavonic жрьти (žrĭti, “to sacrifice”).…
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Letting The Simulation Free?
I wanted to remember a quote from Nietzsche so I looked it up online. I found it and read it, and then because of how excited it made me feel, I uncontrollably opened up another tab on my browser and searched for the name of the book. This is an action that has now become…
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An Ode to Ancient Times
Milattan önceki yıllardaki yazarları hayal ettiğimde, tahta bir masada, tek başına, sarı küçük bir mum ve katır kutur bir parşömen, ve mürekkep ve hokka, kalem… Neden hep böyle hissediyorum? Çok engin Boşluk Boş tarlalar, araziler Sessizlik Hayvanlar, otlayan sessiz hayvanlar Yıldızlı gece altında ahırlarda sessizce bekleyen hayvanlar It must have been “something else” to have…
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Tying the Movie Together
A personal reflection on the movie called the Big Lebowski. First time watching The Big Lebowski, I was with someone much older and wiser than me. In the only night we were together, in a dreamlike state we watched this movie. We were sitting on a couch and puffing puffs. As the occasion required, she…
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Reading into the Far Octarine
Rincewind the wizard ( B. Mgc., Unseen University [failed] ) explains to Twoflower the tourist (a word which, Rincewind had decided, meant “idiot”), the laws that govern (their) (fictional) universe. The Law of Conservation of Reality; demands that the effort needed to achieve a goal should be the same regardless of the means used. What…
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The Words which came out of the Color of Magic
Explanation for this blog post: I am re-reading The Color of Magic. It is my usual practice to get a .docx to write down the meanings of the words I don’t see often. I also occasionally write down what I think about, or what one particular word or passage made me think about. I had…
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Temperature Dependance of the BJT Small-Signal Model
Find out that BJT small signal model is only viable under certain temperature and Vbe conditions. Turns out the model itself is dependant on Q point too!
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U.S. Chronices NO#2
The second blog in my series of blogs where I write about my personal experiences of moving&living in the U.S.!
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Atlas Sinemasından Çıkış
Çalgıcılar Sokak’a çıktığımda önümde dizilmiş sıra sıra masalar vardı. Masalarda çok güzel suratlar oturuyordu. Hava karanlıktı ve sokak, sarı lambalarla aydınlatılmıştı. Onlarca kişinin aynı anda konuşmasından doğan yüksek ses, bir anda yüzüme çarptı. Afalladım. Işık, ses, bir anda duyularımı aşırı yükledi. Güneşe gözlerimi alıştırır gibi etrafıma bakındım. Bir masadan “Orada sinema mı varmış?” dendiğini işittim.…
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Mobility into Old Age?
**DISCLAIMER: I don’t do weightlifting. As I watch more of Clarence’s videos, I understand how the image of him I present here is quite wrong in so many places. I learned that progress in Olympic Weightlifting can get stumped at some point. From what I understand, improvement in weightlifting is closely related to mobility and…
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What @xiangoh_ Taught Me Through a Workout Video (DabRats)
First of all, I posted a shorter version of this post before on my Blogger blog but then decided not to use Blogger anymore so I will be posting it here as well. It is an important post for me, since it is the first time I ever wrote about climbing. Originally I wrote it…
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Hebron – What does it mean?
In the 23rd chapter of the Bible, it is written that Abraham went out to the land of the Hittites to bury his dead, his wife Sarah. This land is said to be at a place called Mamre, which is then explained as being called Hebron. “Afterward Abraham buried his wife Sarah in the cave…
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Tin Whistle Recording – The Bear and the Maiden Fair
I played the song “The Bear and the Maiden Fair” on my tin whistle. It is a song composed by christocakes, and the lyrics are from the ASOIAF(game of thrones) books. I tried to make my own tin whistle tabs for this song by following a tutorial they did on YouTube.I used a tin whistle…
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Ege Akdeniz Yolu
Şüphesiz ki Antalya dünyanın en güzel şehridir Belki de Akyaka öyledir ? Peki ya Bodrum nasıldır? Bu yazıyı yaklaşık bir haftalık Ege Akdeniz gezimiz hakkında yazmak istiyorum. Geziye bir Alman arkadaşım ve bir Elektrik Mühendisi arkadaşım ile beraber çıktık. Evet, diğer arkadaşımın öne çıkardığım özelliği Elektrik mühendisi olması. Bunun tek sebebi memleketdaş olmamız, zira bir…
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Short-Circuit Transconductance with Emitter Degeneration
Finding the Short-Circuit Transconductance of the Cascode Amplifier without the Emitter Degenaration output grounded, and the current flowing in from the output ground is measured Since iout is equal to the current flowing out from the voltage controlled current source gm2Vpi2 and ro2 we should find the equivalent resistance of that block . . We…
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