Whitewashing Authoritarianism
Former President George W. Bush has written a piece about George Washington, ostensibly for the President’s Day holiday: As America’s first president, Washington knew “the first of everything in …
Read MoreI started blogging on February 2000, on a different domain and in a nacent phase of my life. I have an archive of my early posts, and I hope to begin adding them in here (I have a plain text export of my original Movable Type blog entries (nearly 1,000 entries!), so it will take a bit of time to move them to Markdown/Hugo.)
Eras of my blog:
- 2022 - Now - Corporate life ( 39 posts ~ 0.74 posts/month )
- 2020 - 2022 - Independence ( 26 posts ~ 0.72 posts/month )
- 2014 - 2020 - Agency life ( 60 posts ~ 0.71 posts/month )
- 2011 - 2014 - Dark days of unemployment ( 0 posts ~ 0.00 posts/month )
- 2009 - 2011 - Professional peak ( 0 posts ~ 0.00 posts/month )
- 2003 - 2008 - First job, marriage, and early career ( 6 posts ~ 0.08 posts/month )
- 2000 - 2003 - College ( 10 posts ~ 0.21 posts/month )
Total posts since 2000: 117 posts ~ 0.37 posts/month
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Today we lost Catherine O’Hara. I first saw her while watching reruns of SCTV on Nick at Nite sometime in the late-1980s/early-1990s. I was somewhere between 10 and 13 years old when I came to …
Read MoreTen Pointless Facts About Me
Saw this fun blogger exercise via Forking Mad: Do you floss your teeth? Yes, about 1.2 times per day (always once at night, and then irregularly after lunch.) I still have permanent retainers in my …
Read MoreCormac McCarthy's Curiosity
I really enjoyed reading this piece about cataloguing the contents the late author Cormac McCarthy’s home. The second major discovery, discernible in his work but confirmed beyond doubt in his …
Read MoreAbusive Messaging
Shot: “Starting in the fall, Apple iOS will include a new message filter that some Republicans fear will punt political texts to a separate inbox without giving the user an alert or …
Read MoreSometimes I Watch Stuff (July 2025 Edition)
Some of the stuff I have watched recently: The White Lotus (S3): The third season had a stellar cast, but did not give that cast much to do on screen that was particularly interesting. A missed …
Read MoreSoviet Leftovers
An old (failed) Soviet lander originally destined for Venus is coming home: The former Soviet Union’s Cosmos 482 was lofted back in 1972. But that country’s attempted Venus probe ran amuck …
Read MoreRotten
via The Guardian: The elder Gutiérrez reportedly said he overheard Ice agents saying that his son had not been the person they had come to get. “The officers grabbed him and two other boys right at …
Read MoreIt Begins
We knew it was coming, and here it is: President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday requiring people to provide documents proving they are citizens when they register to vote, a mandate …
Read MoreLegalizing Theft
via The Verge: OpenAI and Google are pushing the US government to allow their AI models to train on copyrighted material. Both companies outlined their stances in proposals published this week, with …
Read MoreThe GOP Has Abandoned The American Dream
via The Bulwark: In 2024, some significant portion of voters chose Trump not in spite of his explicitly authoritarian program but because of it. Today we have some hard data to support this theory. …
Read MoreAI Skepticism Is Good And Healthy
I incorporate technology into every aspect of my personal and professional life, even when it isn’t remotely necessary. I’m probably one of the nerdiest people you know, if not the …
Read MoreHow We Win
It’s inauguration day in the United States, and the former president has returned to power. We all have legitimate concerns about the potential consequences, but one thing is certain: chaos is likely …
Read MoreSoft Relaunch
Relaunching my blog, in what is maybe it’s 10th iteration since February 2000. I migrated it from Wordpress (hosted by the awesome team at Pantheon.io) to the Hugo platform. I’m really …
Read MoreNozilla
Via Lunduke: The Mozilla Foundation has released their latest annual report – covering the time up through December of 2022 (Mozilla’s reporting always lags by one year) – and …
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