How does a Camera tell a story?
This was fascinating to watch.
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 Buy Things
Read MoreLacrosse Photos 2017-01-28
Read MoreThe Best Shows I Watched in 2016
A little overdue, but here is the requisite “my favorite television shows” post (a music post is also in the works.) I didn’t watch a ton of television last year (moving to a new state and …
Read MoreLacrosse Saturday
Read MorePractice Skeptical Computing
From Ars Technica: Former Firefox developer Robert O’Callahan, now a free agent and safe from the PR tentacles of his corporate overlord, says that antivirus software is terrible, AV vendors are …
Read MoreFamily Reunion
I have a few small collections of things, but my latest curation is old software. In this case, Mac OS through the ages. From left: System 6 (the first retail boxed version of the Macintosh OS) System …
Read MoreSometimes I Backup My Stuff
With most of my correspondence, financial information, photos, etc. only existing electronically, it has always been important to have reliable and redundant backups. I’m sure you’re the same way, …
Read MoreDigital Video Advertising: 2017 Landscape
Cross-posted from work. Researchers predicted that 2016 was to be the “Year of Video” in the digital space — and it was. Cisco projected that 64% of all consumer internet traffic was video, and …
Read MoreWorking from Home (AKA, Do You Wear Pants?)
Can you actually be productive from home? I work from home. This hasn’t always been the case. For most of my career, all of my jobs over the years have required that I work out of an office (or …
Read MoreClicky
Most out-of-the box keyboards (the one that came with your crummy Dell, or was built into your laptop) are pretty terrible. Mushy-feeling, cheaply constructed, and quiet. Most laptop keyboards are bad …
Read MoreSometimes I Cook: Thai Basil Fried Rice
Sometimes I cook spicy Thai basil fried rice (Khao Pad Kra Prao Gai.) It’s one of my wife’s very favorite meals, and the kids are starting to enjoy it as well (I dial back the spiciness on …
Read MoreWatermelon: It's fine
Watermelon. Defenders of this fruit place it on a pedestal up with the world’s great cultivars. In this pantheon with strawberries, mangos, and pineapples is where watermelon finds itself. I …
Read MoreSometimes I Cook: General Tso's Chicken
Ah, General Tso’s. A staple of Chinese-American takeout food, and a dish that I’m quite fond of. There are many recipes out there for General Tso’s chicken. This one is mine. …
Read MoreQuote of the night
“You’re tickled about getting shotgun, but the guy who had the most to drink is driving!” – Jon
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