https://chris.zarate.org/snippets/ Recent content in Snippets on ∅ Hugo en-us Wed, 19 Aug 2026 13:03:40 +0000 https://chris.zarate.org/snippets/hotel-breakfast/ Wed, 19 Aug 2026 13:03:40 +0000 https://chris.zarate.org/snippets/hotel-breakfast/ <p>Hotel breakfast is the creation of the universe. Entropy is low: Everyone there has slept on the same mattress, watched the same <em>Friends</em> reruns, searched for the same impossible-to-reach outlet hidden behind the same nicked-up furniture. Everyone smells of the same wall-mounted shampoo and body wash.</p> <p>At 8:50am they file in. Spread out before them is the same half-hearted food they expected but still dread—and yet will accept. Gingerly they take what they must. Energy is building. Coffee. Powdered eggs. Cheerios. Subtitled local news plays on the TV, keeping things at a low simmer.</p>