Category: General
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Book: Pilgrim Spokes
Trying to get back into the habit sharing of reading notes. This will only be for Kindle items as I don’t highlight physical books. Generally, that’ll mean a heavier dose of fiction than what I’m collectively really reading because I’ve read that helps me fall asleep and I use only my Kindle in bed. Yeah, this […]
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One Month Into Full-Stack
As mentioned in my post Reboot, I’ve been working on a Full-Stack development course. Let’s check in after a month? I’ve completed 7 of the 53 lecture hours, reviewing HTML and mostly learning CSS for the first time (the age of CSS is when I stopped “doing” code-based web-dev – I’ve always been capable of […]
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An entirely unscientific study of Facebook usage as evidenced by birthday wishes per year
And that, friends, is my longest post title ever. Hypothesis Facebook usage is in decline as evidenced by a sharp decline in the number of birthday wishes received this year. Method Visit Facebook Activity Log, copy + paste from top to bottom of “Others’ Posts To Your Timeline” from approximately February 14-17 (we can assume […]
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Reboot
For the third time in three years, I’m being laid off. This time my company is shutting its doors. A good portion of folks are already gone, but I’ve been given two months to wrap up my work, document it, and hope someone at a firm specializing in maintaining failed businesses will be able to […]
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Plywood monitor stand
I’ve long been fascinated with woodworking. This past weekend I tackled an incredibly simple project with some scrap plywood from some shelving I put into one of our closets (I don’t consider that a woodworking project since there was zero polish involved). This was a great first project because my tools are limited and it’s […]
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2019 Year in Review
An excellent year. Life Became President of my bike team. Sold her house. Started a great new gig. Bought a house. Got married. Got a 2nd cat. Losses My recipient passed away in September. This was kind of hard on me. Travel The Dalles/Maupin for New Years and a race (January) Mt. Hood/Parkdale for a […]