• 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 one happens to be non-fiction. This was the second…

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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 hacking it, but now I get it). I’m trying…

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  • Race: Teddy Twilight 3k

    TL;DR I think I need knee surgery, I set a PR of 10:28, 17:59 5k attempt still on for May. First test of the year? Complete! Running hasn’t been going well. I believe it all stems from my skiing knee injury in college for which I never got proper treatment (outside of PT – I’m certain I should have had the surgery). My whole…

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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 a few belated or coming in under the wire…

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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 pick it up and make use of it. ?‍♂️ Two…

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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 stupidly basic. I present you my new monitor stand!…

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