It turns out being an adult is mostly Googling how to do stuff.
Summer 2024. I’ve gone back to writing in a notebook. On May 28, someone posted a deal from meh.com in a Slack channel at work about a sale on the Panda Planner by Rocketbook. I’d heard of Rocketbook during my recent obsession with e-ink writing devices, but this was an opportunity to check them out … Read more
Since this keeps getting removed from YouTube, I thought I’d just host it here. God forbid TruTV or MTV get a little promotion. July 4, 2010, at a family picnic my father tried to “Slip and Slide”. It did not go well, but he was unharmed. I got the entire thing on video and posted … Read more
Facebook has a feature called Memories where they show you posts you made on this day in previous years. Apart from being sometimes creepy and often reminding me of things I used to like, I’ve started copy/pasting the best of them into this blog. It’s not removing them from Facebook or making them less private, … Read more
The year was 1994. I was working apartment maintenance and had a healthy interest in computers. I also had a IBM XT knockoff in my apartment connected to a 56K modem. One of the benefits of apartment maintenance is the lost and found that occurs when people move out quickly. Things of value usually get … Read more
In 1998 I wrote the only piece of software I had intended other people to see. I wrote it in Visual Basic 4. It’s a guitar fret board mapping program. Pick a note and a scale and click a button. It’ll show you where those notes are on the fret board. It was fun and … Read more
I found what I believe to be the earliest reference of me using Linux on the internet. Via Google Groups, I had posted a question asking for help configuring X on Debian 1.3.1 (released July 1997): I hope I haven’t missed an obvious solution to this problem somewhere – but it’s slowly driving me mad… … Read more
What a difference a year makes!! Last year I surprised my wife and daughter by driving by the site of the house where they filmed some scenes from that Christmas Classic “A Christmas Story” What a surprise to find out that we were invited in, and they were planning on renovating the house to it’s … Read more
On the way home from the Westside Market today, I decided to surprise Carrie and Ashley by taking them over to the house that “A Christmas Story” was filmed at. It took them both a couple of minutes to figure out where I had taken them, since the house has been renovated significantly since the … Read more
Abort, Retry, Ignore… Nevermore? I installed Linux again. This is like the fourth or fifth time. This time I found a new distribution: Mepis. I tried it out on my CrapTop(tm) at work (yeah – I scavenged an old low-end laptop to experiment on) and I got it working! So I brought the CD home … Read more