Category: Miscellaneous
Life is not only work.
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Email, the new Todo
Shockingly, over a year has elapsed since I last spoke about my digital life-hacking. That’s a pretty terrible commitment to the discipline of writing and contemplation. I can blame that on so many things: raising small, needy humans; steadily growing home-improvement lists; active social calendars; too many screens and not enough books. But the truth…
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The king is dead, long live the king.
What I’m reading a lot on social media is a very determined effort to falsely equivocate either Obama or Hillary Clinton with Trump (whether their characters, their campaigns, or their future presidencies). In my view, this is particularly disingenuous. To put Obama’s presence and stature or Clinton’s experience and dignity up against Trump’s impulsiveness…
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Darth Rob
In honor of this new Star Wars movie I keep hearing about, I thought I’d dig up some photos from my past, when I was braver and perhaps even nerdier in my love of Star Wars. Here is my costume from 1999…
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The lack of file tags in Windows
So, I’m supposed to be working on this month-long challenge. But hey! I found some other project to work on. It’s in service of my recent computer switcheroo, with which I’m a little obsessed lately. Since recently switching from OS X on an iMac to Windows 10 on a laptop, I sorely miss file tagging.…
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Platform Interchange
I suppose that the “Slippery Slope” phenomenon applies to me right now. A chink in my Apple armor developed some time ago. Then I got out of the iPhone world all together, which amazed me as much as it did my friends. The recent maturity of Google’s cloud services (Photos, Drive, Music, etc.) had a considerable…
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Modernizing my email
A few months ago, I did an overhaul of my digital life. Those posts were all about switching smartphone platforms from Apple iOS to Android. What was most revealing to me was not the hardware and software differences, but just how I get things done now. In the end, I’m not unhappy with my switch. I tend to…
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Attack of the Robots
Is it just me, or have there been a lot of robot-themed movies lately? I suppose it’s not really that surprising, as science fiction is one of the best barometers of cultural zeitgeists.
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Pi through the ages
I’ve loved the irrational number set for most of my life. There’s something magical about numbers that have no finite limit. Pi is one of those.
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The economics of urban chicken ranching
My wife had a dream of raising chickens and she made it a reality. It wasn’t something I was extremely eager to get into at first. But I have to admit that they are fun, curious little creatures.
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Truth and Stories
To talk about my thoughts of the excellent documentary “Stories We Tell” in any detail would be robbing you of the joy of seeing it for yourself, of letting its layers unfold like slowly blooming petals.