The other day I was reading an essay or article from a developer, I can’t even remember what, and the writer mentioned a website where you can work on coding projects and I felt really embarrassed and bit dismayed for a minute because I suddenly remembered I’d signed up for…

It Can Help You Move Forward I’ve been working on a coding problem on a site for a while, just here and there as I can, but it’s usually night when I have time. I knew a while back I’d spent too long on the problem. It wasn’t supposed to…

I’ve passed my one year anniversary of coding. Or rather, I’ve finished Year Zero, and this is the start of Year One. A year ago, (and it…

When I used to do the grocery shopping some years back I found some 100% fruit juice popsicles, the kind in a plastic sleeve. I bought them on a whim and found that they were pretty tasty. I don’t remember much about them except I used to eat several at…

I can’t quite say it’s a regret that I never explored the American West outside California when I was younger, but in hindsight it seems like, for me, there could have been more viable/interesting options than moving to the seemingly unforgiving Bay Area from ’03 — ’04. When I was…

What can you say about a restaurant that has over 8000 online reviews, 6000 of them positively glowing and 2000 of them full of hate and anger and none of them are inaccurate, really, and in spite of it all the restaurant just keeps on crashing through every day, people…

I’ve been a Strat person since 1990 or so, when I bought a MIJ flower power Strat from a little music store in Akron that later burned down. I used that guitar for the next 20 years. It has great feel and low action but also (took me a while…

January 13, 2017 — the day my life, or at least my sedentary hours, of which there are many, changed.

I was at the dermatologist for the first time recently, sitting there in a paper gown and the doctor turned out to be this suave guy who almost stormed into the room and stuck out his hand for me to shake it while a nurse followed closely behind him. He’s…