Across three decades working in I.T., I've had the opportunity to observe some spectacularly good and spectacularly bad managers. I feel like writing an homage to the three that were the most memorable.
I will be using the real name of the individuals mentioned, but I …
Category: Life Tagged: Life Non-religious post Non-technical post Polemic Prose
Read MoreThis is in response to my fedifriend's toot:
Sit down next to the fireplace my friend, as I spin my yarn...
In January 2016, after over two years of searching, I finally found a church home. I loved where I …
Category: Life Tagged: Christianity Content Warning Ethics Life Non-technical post Philosophy
Read MoreWell, today is the last day of Writing Month, and this is my 20th blog post of 20, which is what I signed up for.
My last post was a lot more involved and time-consuming than I expected, so I wanted to end on a high note, with a fairly …
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Read MoreAs I wrote in yesterday's article, I have a soft spot in my heart for laptops. They exist in this incredibly sweet spot where convenience and agency/freedom converge in the very best way, possible. I bought my first laptop in 1995 with my very hard-earned money, but let's start …
Category: Tech Tagged: ADHD Computing FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) Hobbies Life Linux Non-religious post Productivity Retrocomputing UNIX WritingMonth
Read MoreUnlike most young people, and not unlike many of my GenX peers, I haven't played much Minecraft.
I got into it a little bit with my cousin's kids when they were young around 2010, and I even played it a little bit on my own at the time, but the …
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Read MoreTonight was one of those nights were things fall into perspective.
I went to a family friend's birthday party, and it was my first time visiting them at their house in about 10 years, as well as my first time seeing both of his kids (both now grown) in nearly …
Category: Life Tagged: ADHD Life Non-religious post Non-technical post Philosophy Productivity WritingMonth
Read MoreI was going to go in a different direction for tonight's blog post (thanks to the help of some kind fedifriends), but while starting on that post, I felt like I needed to revive a blog post idea from a few weeks ago first.
A month and four days ago …
Category: Life Tagged: Beauty Life Loss Non-religious post Non-technical post WritingMonth
Read MoreYou're driving to work and you see them. A bunch of people holding up signs in favor of the human being (if they can be truly described as such!) that you loathe the most on the entire earth.
Your blood boils.
You air out …
Category: Life Tagged: Beauty Ethics Life Non-religious post Non-technical post Philosophy WritingMonth
Read MoreIn Part I, I listed several things/places/events that felt magical to me in my life. In this article, I will discuss the most recent one, which I refer to as my "Socratic Sign."
At 40 years old, I found myself without a job and without the …
Category: Life Tagged: ADHD Beauty Life Non-religious post Non-technical post Philosophy Prose WritingMonth
Read MoreThis article is written based on a prompt I shared with a friend a couple weeks ago. You can my article from that "round-robin" prompt exercise here.
Since neither of my fedifriends have written their prompts yet, I'm actually borrowing the idea I gave Amin to write:
I'm going to …
Category: Life Tagged: Beauty Computing Entertainment Hobbies Life Music Non-religious post Non-technical post Philosophy Prose Retrocomputing WritingMonth
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