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January 1, 2015
2014 -> 2015
Okay, so just enough of my morning coffee has gotten to me to want to get to writing a blog post. 2014 was a great year and I hope that things work out for the best this year. A year ago today I scared the heck out of myself because I weighed more than I […]
December 24, 2014
A Christmas Story
Spoiler warning: An adult retrospective on Santa. If you ignored that warning: Santa is real. If you are satisfied with that statement, the rest of this note is immaterial to you. Go onto the next Santa thing in your google or bing search. Now that we have dispensed with true believers, let me get to […]
December 11, 2014
I didn’t know you were lefty? I’m not…
So this article was posted on LinkedIn about the earnings potential of left handed people. It was decidedly negative, contradicting all kinds of leftiness-advantage articles I’ve read over the years. I thought the message of the article kinda strange since I knew at least several lefties that were very smart and wildly successful, and you found […]
November 15, 2014
Songs
Ok, so I’m not a great guitarist, and my voice cracks with certain renditions of the favorite songs of the 70s, but I figured I’d try to compile the list of songs I know how to play on guitar and sing (aka I know all the chords and lyrics). I got to 100. I got to […]
September 20, 2014
Very smooth…
So I was at BJ’s tonight and there was a special on Jameson Irish Whiskey. If you bought the bottle of Black Barrel Jameson you got a free glass that was also black. I mulled it over for a second, walked around the wines and liquors, and back to the front and picked up the […]
August 24, 2014
On turning 50…
So five weeks ago, I turned 50. Every year since the dawn of the modern social media age, I’ve written a blog post on my birthday. (When I say modern I mean basically 2007… I avoided that weird era of myspace and Friendster just prior to that, although I was a very early LinkedIn user). Overall […]
August 10, 2014
When the dog bites, when the bee stings…
I wrote this email to family, friends and fellow church trustees yesterday to describe something that happened to me that afternoon. I hope you are amused…and this also should serve as a warning to my middle-aged contemporaries, that if it feels wrong, you’re not doing anyone any good in trying to tough it out. So, […]
July 12, 2014
My mother wanted me to be a doctor…
During my first semester as a freshman year at RIT, in 1982, I had a work-study job in the library, long before I got my job as a computer center lab assistant. One day, walking down the “quarter-mile”, the raised path from the dorms to the academic side of campus, one of my library […]
June 25, 2014
When Software was Hardware…
Okay folks, digging through tons of stuff and getting rid of it. Came across this note. This is probably around 1989 or 1990 as far as I can remember. We had a problem that came up on Friday night and I had to write to my boss about it. Some definitions VLC = VAXstation […]
April 25, 2014
Another ancient trip report
I’ve excised the company confidential stuff, but it was 16 years ago and it should provide some amusement. I was notorious for writing trip reports like this when I came back to the factory (as we called the office at the company) including my trip to India several years later. —————————————————————————- The Unauthorized Trip Report: […]
