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  • Halloween 2018 movie fest

    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: I plan to also watch a couple TV shows, which I’ll cover later. First up was Creep 2, the sequel to Creep.  I liked what Creep set out to do:…

  • Digital volume knob fix

    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…

  • Letters from a Skeptic review

    Letters from a Skeptic by Gregory A. Boyd My rating: 5 of 5 stars This book was incredibly helpful to me during my faith deconstruction, long before I even had the language to call it that. What struck me the most about it was its compassion. Boyd has this rigor in his delivery somehow without…

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • de-Facebooking my life

    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.

  • TortoiseSVN + Escape = tears

    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…

  • Cordifying battery things

    Cordifying battery things

    In my house, we have a ton of “batteried” devices.  Having small children, in this modern age, one tends to collect a lot of toys, tools, crafts, and associated appliances that require an array of batteries.  Triple- and double-As are in high demand, though 9V and even the C cells are occasionally used.  Don’t even get…

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