Gone but Not Deleted
This piece really hit home with me on this Father’s Day. via Boston Magazine: I don’t remember the final conversation I had with my father. Toward the end of his life, he was hard to understand …
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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Sometimes I Read Things, May 21, 2018 Edition
Your Saddest Desperation Cocktails, Ranked: As usual, Matt Ufford made me laugh. I Went to a Flat Earth Convention to Meet Flat Earthers Like My Mom RIP Margo Kidder: She will always be associated …
Read MoreSometimes I Read Things, May 13, 2018 Edition
The Long Way Round: The Plan That Accidentally Circumnavigated The Worl d: This was an incredibly gripping read. Gammons: Ichiro was never unprepared, and that won’t change no w Study: Seaweed in Cow …
Read MoreEssential Apps
This is an ordered list, but it really has no particular order. I use all of these apps every single day and are essential to my productivity. 1Password: I addressed this app earlier in the week. …
Read MoreSubscription hell
via TechCrunch: I’m frustrated that the web’s promise of instant and free access to the world’s information appears to be dying. I’m frustrated that subscription usually means just putting formerly …
Read MorePasswords
Via: The Verge Like sunscreen, it can be a hassle to apply, but it’s an easy way to stop yourself from getting burned. The reasons are simple: you need strong, unique passwords for each of your online …
Read MoreDefinitive Ranking of Nuts
This will likely be the most divisive thing that I have ever written here, but it’s time to get this off my chest. In Order of All Around Awesomeness Macadamias Cashews Pistachios Peanuts Brazil …
Read MoreMas Subramanian's Quest for a Billion-Dollar Red
via Bloomberg: The world lacks a great all-around red. Always has. We’ve made do with alternatives that could be toxic or plain gross. The gladiators smeared their faces with mercury-based vermilion. …
Read MoreAncient Roman Bathrooms - What Did They Do Without Toilet Paper?
via Sapiens.org: In the same way that we use an American-style toilet, a Roman user would sit down, take care of business, and watch number two float blissfully away down the sewer system. But instead …
Read MoreExperience: I've played a game of tag for 23 years
via The Guardian: Since we had busy lives and lived hundreds of miles apart, we agreed on three rules. First, we would play it only in February each year; second, you were not allowed immediately to …
Read MorePCXL Magazine November 1998: Ping-Free Partying
via Donde Quake 2: Who Needs Online Gaming When You Can Lug Your Kit Around Town to Shout Abuse at Complete Strangers? Online Gaming is Dead. LAN Parties Are Where It’s At. In retrospect, online …
Read MoreBurning Out: What Really Happens Inside a Crematorium
via Popular Mechanics: Four decades ago, less than 5 percent of American were cremated when they died. Now that figure stands at nearly half. This is how cremation actually works, and the story of …
Read MoreWhy I Quit Google to Work for Myself
via Silly Bits: The pipeline didn’t record many metrics. The ones it did have made it look like things had gotten worse. My bug discoveries caused the overall bug count to increase. The pipeline’s …
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Trump: ‘Take the guns first, go through due process second’ | TheHill: President Trump on Wednesday voiced support for confiscating guns from certain individuals deemed to be dangerous, …
Read MoreCrisis
Many police officers were surprised to find that not only the armed school resource officer but 3 other Broward County sheriff’s deputies were outside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School during the …
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