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There was a time, not so very long ago, when walking out your door meant you were no longer reachable by anyone who wasn’t physically next to you. At...
Over the years, I’ve encountered quite a lot of tech problems, as someone who knows a lot about computers, writes software for a living, and has ...
Last week, my hallway light burned out. As one does, I got up on my footstool in the dark, unscrewed the set screws carefully to avoid dropping the g...
Some months ago we talked about commonplacing, a technique for recording quotations and other random ideas you come across. In this rather short post, ...
I bought a small countertop dishwasher for my apartment a few weeks ago. This is a box about eighteen inches on each side that fits on a counter or side ...
I’m naturally pretty average at navigation. I’m not bad – at least since my teens, I’ve always been able to use a map (GPS-enabled or not) or listen ...
In the final weeks of my sabbatical, I settled into my new home, finished up a variety of projects, and got ready to start a new job.
I read about 30 books in 2021. Here were the ones that stood out the most; I highly recommend all of these.
This was an action-packed couple of weeks mostly characterized by moving.
Looks like it has been 6 weeks since I posted here! Things have not been going quite how I expected, but they should be back on track about now.
This has been a whirlwind week and quite productive! I finished up with tzk for now and spent a lot of time working on TiddlyRemember, among other things.
I wrote this on Saturday, but apparently forgot to publish it for 4 days. Whoops. Here’s what I was saying I was up to then.
This week was an odd mixture of a lot of different things, and next week will likely be the same. Regardless, I am still greatly enjoying this whole sabbatic...
A whirlwind week, as expected, and my work didn’t go the way I expected, but it was still good! I was visiting family from Friday to Monday 9/6.
September, and with it the start of classes at most educational institutions in the United States, is almost upon us. In honor of this, I’d like to l...
A relatively quiet week. It was rainy almost the whole week, so I spent most of it inside reading and hacking on the Zettelkasten stuff.
I hesitate to write about politics on a blog that is rarely overtly political. But this is a special kind of politics. It is a kind of politics that tran...
I can hardly believe it has only been 3 weeks since I left my job at Federated Insurance. These weeks have been packed full and felt very long – which is gre...