Category: Just Me

The past 24 hours have been a bit rough. Not something I’d want to do again. Short blog today.

Helium is one of those things that are interesting. It’s the first element that was predicted to exist. It was first discovered by looking at absorption lines from looking at the sun. Good old Sol. Helios. Helium. The...

Mt. St. Helens. 😃 Even though we couldn’t really see it because of the clouds, the presentations were pretty cool.

So, taking a step back from even the metaphor… to get in the groove is a term that was used by recording engineers when they were about to cut a record. If you were “in the groove” the record lathe was cutting...

On Saturday for my birthday I treated myself to an MSDN subscription. I finally got back my want to program that I had lost sometime at my time at Amazon. I had always had a fondness for C#. Something that I’ve not really...

Another year, another birthday. Seven years ago I was doing 39 years old as my first birthday in Seattle. This year I’m doing my first here in Nashville. It has certainly been a change, but it’s something that I feel...

So we dropped $50K off the price of the house. /sigh/

I had an interesting conversation yesterday about teaching and learning. Specifically about how Amazon teaches newcomers to their internal build systems. This also dovetails nicely with my overall ideas about how programmers...

Just south of Mount St. Helens there is the longest lava tube in North America… and you can walk through it! I had been in a lava tube before at Lava Beds National Monument, but this time I had someone to share the...

We’re slowly working our way through the rooms of the house and finalizing the unpacking. The bedroom is, by and large, complete. Yes, we need art on the walls… but from a fundamental sense, we can live in it without...