Fire is Fun
The last three weeks have been a backyard fire extravaganza! We’ve had three great evenings burning stuff with a variety of friends on late fall evenings. The air is brisk, and the fire is toasty. The...
View ArticleSuper Bowl in the rain
I’m watching the Super Bowl and I have to comment that the rain beading up on the helmets makes HDTV worth every penny. :-)
View ArticleEditing a Book
I’m working on creating my very first photography book. The editing process is arduous. The light is nearing though. The book is laid out. The photos are selected and tweaked like I want. Using a great...
View ArticleTammy’s Favorite Picture of Me
Tammy went digging deep into our Lightroom library looking for photos for our new exercise room. She told me she had found her “favorite picture” of me. I was very curious what picture it was. I like...
View ArticleB-Squad 2012 Season Underway
Another year of Men’s Recreational E-League Softball has begun. The suspense is heavy this year. The B-Squad is playing well. A win taunts us.
View Article2% Real Maple Syrup
I’ve been using only real maple syrup at home for a while. I kind of take it as a given that people know that most syrup in the store is just various corn syrups with maple flavoring. I ran into this...
View ArticleMazie’s First Hockey Game
Mazie and I went to the Minnesota Wild game last night along with Alone and Dylan. It was Mazie’s first hockey game and although she thought it was too loud at times she had a great time. Of course...
View ArticleRemembering Farhan Muhammad
On Tuesday morning I was shocked to get an email from Jennifer at ILM Professional Services informing us that Farhan Muhammad, the CEO of ILM, had passed away in his sleep on Sunday night. I see Farhan...
View ArticlePHP Post-Facebook
Facebook is famously built in PHP, and I think it is really interesting to watch what they are doing technically with that massive codebase. This week Facebook announced Hack, a new language that...
View ArticleFrontline: Generation Like
Tammy and I watched this Frontline: Generation Like tonight. If you are at all curious about how the social media ecosystem works, where the revenue is, what the motivation behind the users is check...
View Article…like a monkey
At least now the code doesn’t look like it was made by a monkey. Paul commenting on the structure of my WikiApiary code after doing some refactoring.
View ArticleProfile Photo (May 2014)
I figured it was time to move to a new profile photo on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. Heck, even Google Plus. I try to use the same one everywhere to be consistent. Putting this blog post here so I...
View Articlekeybase.io
I have my profile setup on Keybase.io. Keybase is an interesting product using public key cryptography in a decentralized way to allow identities to be known without having to meet people in person,...
View ArticleOatmeal: What it’s like to own a Tesla Model S
The Oatmeal did a great two-piece part on What it’s like to own a Tesla Model-S (and part 2).
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Awesome, and true. If you're too busy to have a weekly review, you really need to have a weekly review. — John Arundel (@bitfield) May 23, 2014
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