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Weeknotes 2022-02-25

25 February 2022·390 words·2 mins

Weeknotes Personal

This Week In, Well Everything: I have been horrified by the news coming out of Texas and Alabama, and strongly encourage you to donate to organizations that help trans youth and combat the hate in those places.

Weeknotes 2022-02-19

19 February 2022·258 words·2 mins

Weeknotes Personal

I’m trying to get back into the habit of writing more regularly here, and taking some inspiration from Quentin I’m going to start doing brief weekly updates. My hope is that doing these short posts will get me back in the groove and lead me to resuming more detailed write-ups.

Introducing Explorers Wanted

8 April 2020·375 words·2 mins

Articles Announcements Personal Projects Podcasts Ttrpg Numenera Explorers Wanted

It isn’t news to anyone that I’m a big fan of Numenera. It is my favorite game to run and I will shamelessly hype for it to anyone who will listen.

Your prescribed dose of garden photos

17 February 2019·63 words·1 min

Articles Photos Personal

One of my favorite places to visit is Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, PA. Exhausted from the gray and brown of winter, today my family made the trek out there for their Orchid Extravaganza.

New year, new nerdery

11 January 2018·1217 words·6 mins

Articles Aws Assorted Geekery Personal Vps Linux Gentoo Funtoo

It’s the January of 2018, and the sickness is upon me again. Sometimes you can feel it coming, like that first head fog that warns of a coming cold, or the klaxon of a stomach churn that alerts you to an impending flu.

2017 by the numbers

4 January 2018·741 words·4 mins

Articles Personal Meta

Yay, the obligatory retrospective post! Let’s face it, in many ways, 2017 was a dumpster fire of a year. The political and social climate has been toxic and frankly it’s hard to be effective in this kind of environment.

Riding the Mastodon

26 November 2017·1713 words·9 mins

Articles Personal Social Media Twitter Mastodon Open Source

Reader, I did it again. I joined another social network. I know, I know. I should know better, right? But this time feels different. There’s something special about this one. Maybe it’s simply the contrast from Facebook and Twitter that makes it so appealing, but I can’t help but feel there is great promise in Mastodon.

My faithful companion: mutt

21 July 2017·Updated: 8 January 2018·482 words·3 mins

Articles Email Assorted Geekery Personal

About a month ago, on a whim, I started an experiment where I stopped checking my personal email on my phone, or via the web. Instead, I moved all my personal email activity over to Mutt.

Soaring with Pelican

19 May 2017·737 words·4 mins

Articles Personal Development Assorted Geekery Meta Python Pelican

Get Pelican: it’s good! There comes a time in every young man’s life when he begins to neglect his digital lawn, and the weeds grow so thick you wouldn’t think there was any home there at all.

What Are You Doing Now?

8 November 2015·642 words·4 mins

Articles Personal

It’s easy to forget what’s important to you. It shouldn’t be. It should be easy to say “no” to the unimportant. It’s counterintuitive that we so easily set aside our priorities in the wake of the new shiny.

Hating on Curious George

10 April 2015·178 words·1 min

Articles Personal Parenting Tv

One thing that parents can always bond over is irritation over children’s programming on television. For my wife and I, the primary focus of our irritation is the cartoon adaptation of Curious George in all of its incarnations, but we each hate it for different reasons.

Strumming Again

30 March 2015·1444 words·7 mins

Articles Personal Music Guitar

Let's talk about regrets, shall we?

They tend to haunt us through the years. Sometimes they are the things we wish we had said (or could be unsaid), and sometimes they are bigger than that, a path you didn't take, or one you abandoned only a few steps along the way. It's the second type I'd like to focus on today, and I'd like to start with one of mine.

On Journaling

23 March 2015·714 words·4 mins

Articles Journal Writing Personal Psychology

Do you keep a journal? I often wonder. It’s something we’re told we should do. Any simple search on the internet, or any self-help book you care to pick up, will suggest that there are numerous mental health benefits to journaling.

Changelog: Improving Discovery and Readability

19 March 2015·780 words·4 mins

Articles Meta Personal Development Lsi Jekyll Octopress Django Xapian Haystack

Iteration is the thing. Or at least that’s what I tell myself. After all, tinkering is easy to do, especially when you are working with a platform as flexible as Jekyll. So as you would expect, I’ve made several changes to the site since the initial relaunch.

Morning Pages

17 August 2014·499 words·3 mins

Articles Writing Personal Ulysses Iii

I’ve been trying to get back into the routine of doing morning pages. That is, the process of writing three pages of material each day to clear my mind and prime my creative pump for the day.

Resolution Update: Feb 2014

1 February 2014·262 words·2 mins

Articles Personal Resolutions

Earlier this year, I wrote about my resolutions for 2014, and in that post I promised a monthly follow-up where I would report on my progress towards each of my defined goals.

Reflections, Resolutions, and the New Year

1 January 2014·1368 words·7 mins

Articles Personal Resolutions Writing Fitness

New Year’s Eve has always been an uncomfortable holiday for me. While for many, it’s used as a time of renewal and looking forward with hope to the future, I’ve always spent the time reflecting on what did and did not get accomplished the previous year.

Rolling Them Bones Again

22 April 2013·3838 words·19 mins

Articles Gaming Personal Ttrpg

I’ve been playing Dungeons & Dragons again for the first time in over ten years. It’s been a lot of fun, and challenging as well. When I started playing again, I elected to start by being the DM for my group, which is quite a bit of work, but very rewarding.

Avoiding Getting Caught Up In Other People's Bullshit

4 September 2011·682 words·4 mins

Articles Social Media Personal

One downside about social media is that it’s easier to get caught up in other people’s drama just from tangential contact. In most cases, it’s just the narcissism of small differences at work, and it isn’t worth your time and energy to get upset about it.

A Few Thoughts On Google+ From A Digital Misanthrope

10 July 2011·1903 words·9 mins

Articles Tech Social Networking Google Personal Featured

This Is Not A Review> This Is Not A Review # I have been using Google+ for a little over a week now, and over the course of that time, I have written several versions of this post you are reading right now.