Morning Ritual
What’s your morning ritual? Here’s mine: My alarm is always set for 7. This means I wake up anytime between 6:00 and 7:30. I instantly grab my iPhone to check email and read the Twitter …
My New Rule for RSS
A couple of months ago, I realized that I spent way too many spare moments in front of my computer screen, trying to get my Google Reader unread count to zero. Then, I realized that when I did get to …
A Monday Night Date
Sometimes you just need to get out of the house and have a nice date with your beautiful wife.
The Summer of Radiators and Incidental Complexity
During the summer between high school and college, a very important summer in most people’s lives, I worked as a radiator mechanic. The guys I hung out with in high school talked mostly about …
Instagram on Flickr
About 5.5 million public Instagram photos on Flickr.
The Fear
I wrestled in high school. Our team was good, even winning a state championship one year, and our team was filled with several highly-ranked wrestlers. By my second year of high school, I was a good …
My Jekyll and Git Workflow
A few weeks ago, I decided that I wanted to start blogging again. The reasons for why belong to another post but this is a purely technical explanation of how I setup git and jekyll to do things like …
When the Guy Does the Gal's Sad Song
Both of these covers are syrupy sweet, but, man, it works. First, Justin Vernon of Bon Iver covering Bonnie Raitt’s “I Can’t Make You Love Me”. Secondly, James Blake covering …
Shutters and Apertures
Through college, I used a little Canon PowerShot that more or less had an on-and-off switch and handled all the messy details of focusing and metering for me. For capturing events, it worked, but …
Days by Philip Larkin
What are days for? Days are where we live. They come, they wake us Time and time over. They are to be happy in: Where can we live but days? Ah, solving that question Brings the priest and the doctor …