If I squint hard enough, I see an odd symmetry to my life that can be book-ended pretty simply with the phrase, “I want to build a thing.” I say this now, and I said it when I headed off to college, but I didn’t say it all that much in between. At least, I…
I spent a good portion of this fall working on a Pluralsight course. It was originally going to be ready earlier, but it’s a lot harder to get a course recorded in a hotel room than it is in my comfy office at home. Nevertheless, I finished it up some weeks back, and it was…
The last couple of years, I’ve posted yearly “retrospectives” about this blog. Last year, I actually mentioned that I’d started doing this because it seemed like something other bloggers did and then I kept doing it because I like continuity. This year, I’d like to take the opportunity to stop. I suppose some reading might…
I’d like to wish all (American) readers here a Happy Thanksgiving. I’m probably not going to make a post for Friday and perhaps not Monday, so this will be it for a little while. I’m rarely home these days, so I’m going to take the opportunity of being here to relax and visit with family….
Instead of your (semi) regularly scheduled post, I’d like to mark something of a milestone today. As a child, I was pretty sure I had it figured out. I was going to write science fiction novels for money and alternate between roaming around the world and living in the woods. I’m not sure exactly where…
