Category: Miscellaneous
Life is not only work.
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Life After God review
Life After God by Douglas Coupland My rating: 5 of 5 stars I have an embarrassing number of highlights, underlines, and margin notes in this book. I’m a picky person with picky tastes, and yet this is one of those few books that just resonated with me deeply. It’s format is unique, which I think…
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Cargo
I’m a sucker for a good zombie movie. There’s just something about that mix of post-apocalypse and body horror that makes for the perfect sub-genre.
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Sharp Objects review
Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn My rating: 4 of 5 stars This was a pretty great debut novel. I’m so impressed with Flynn’s sharp wit. She has this acerbic dissection of everyday relationships that is both hard to read, yet difficult to quit. As soon as I read Gone Girl, I was hooked on her…
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de-Facebooking my life
I sometimes can be mistaken for a curmudgeon. Perhaps it comes with age. Perhaps it’s my field which breeds overly particular engineers obsessing about better ways of doing things.
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TortoiseSVN + Escape = tears
So I’m nearly done committing my software changes using the normally amazing TortoiseSVN. I’m about 200 words into this tome, documenting all the arcane bits of changes that I feel will aid the future Rob and other devs understand why I did what I did. And what should I do at that ill-timed moment? I…
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Einstein’s religious thoughts
I found some old collected daily calendar Einstein quotes that rang true to me recently. Enjoy… I think that a man’s moral worth is not measured by what his religious beliefs are, but rather by what emotional impulses he has received from nature. To sister Margarit Goelmer, Feb 1955 One cannot help but be in…
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Android visual automation programming
My day job has me thinking about automation for a living . And while I try not to bring the office home with me, these concepts tend to follow me around.
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Redesigning our family finance
The art of personal finance has been a topic of interest for me for most of my adult life. Some people feel strongly about it, choosing all manner of tools, software, processes, etc.; while others employ no real system at all, opting for a more intuitive sense of financial decision-making. That’s a wide spectrum of…
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The mystical comfort of music
Immediately following the 2016 US presidential election, the very last place I wanted to go to for comfort was my church. I’m not alone in this. I attend a fairly-conservative, mostly-white Republican Evangelical church in a similarly populated town. As a registered Democrat, I suddenly felt politically and ideologically “naked” among my fellow parishioners like…
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Customizing Chrome’s “new” tab
Ever bore of the new tab screen in Chrome? It’s what you’re presented with after doing a CTRL + T. Well, with the magic that is extensions, you’re free to change this. There are a host of replacements available on the Chrome Web Store. But I’ve always appreciated a low-tech, unobtrusive approach. I’ve used the…