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Gym Philosophy: return to normal
“I dunno, I think this is all ok. We got the first black president out of the way. We got the first woman out of the way. Now we got a billionaire president out of the way. Maybe soon we can get back to normal again.” – some dude at my gym one morning
Featured on The Engineers’ Tribune
The engineering community and news outlet website reached out to me to feature my blog. I appreciate the opportunity! [stextbox id=’info’]ElectroLund highlight on Engineers’ Tribune[/stextbox] Sponsored by: Amphenol Connectors PEI-Genesis
Unconditional Parenting by Alfie Kohn
Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason by Alfie Kohn My rating: 4 of 5 stars I’m so enamored with Alfie’s work. It’s validating to hear researchers coming to progressive conclusions about child-rearing. But what struck me the most about this book was how practical and actionable the advice was, how …
Video editing on Windows 10
First things first: I’m a recent convert to Windows. There, I said it. Even I can’t believe it.
One Man Against the World: The Tragedy of Richard Nixon by Tim Weiner
This is truly a staggering work. It was a tower of details, geopolitical intrigue, espionage, statecraft, deception, and of course corruption. Not having lived through this period in history, I think my biggest takeaway is that everything I’d come to accept as “culturally” true about the Nixon era is every bit warranted. In other words, …
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The Goblins & the Forest
Netflix has really gone all-in this Halloween. They’ve produced tons of original content for the holiday. But over on reddit, they sponsored an interesting little campaign. They asked for users to tell their childhood nightmare stories and an artist would volunteer to illustrate the dream. I submitted mine, but I think it was just a …
Halloween 2018 movie fest
For those that like a little dose of fictional fear and thrill each October, there are endless Halloween movie candidates. This year’s lineup for me was: The Boy The Endless Apostle Creep 2 Hush Holidays Hold The Dark I plan to also watch a couple TV shows, which I’ll cover later. Ghoul The Haunting of Hill …
Digital volume knob fix
The volume knob in my wife’s Toyota Highlander behaved weirdly. As you turned it up or down, the volume setting would jump up or down, sometimes in the wrong direction and by an unpredictable amount. It didn’t give a linear output as you would expect. What to do? Why, take it apart of course!
The Language of God review
The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief by Francis S. Collins My rating: 5 of 5 stars I really loved this book. Collins helped me wrestle with the very real possibility of “a third way” to be a spiritual being and yet also fully endorsing of material science. The false dichotomies in …