I find it darkly amusing, if you’ll forgive the adjective choice, how many otherwise thinking and compassionate people, the kind who would never dream to make fun of anyone’s physical or mental health conditions, absolutely dismiss suffer...
I confess I’m feeling something like writer’s block lately. Not because I don’t have ideas I want to explore, but because I find myself overwhelmed by the political and epidemiological crises that are unfolding around us. My thought...
My fourth attempt to grow a lemon tree in a pot, while far and away the most successful in the series, appears to be tracking to a denouement in the compost bin as did the other three before it. About a month ago, the edges of some leaves started tu...
If there’s one thing I’ve learned in over thirty years as an engineer, it’s something like a nerd’s refactoring of the Maya Angelou quote: when you see a problem in a system, believe it. A strange message in a log file, a sque...
I’m usually pretty bad at predicting the future, but I nailed one thing this year: knowing I needed to take today off from work because I wasn’t going to be in any kind suitable mental state for it. I wasn’t entirely sure if I was g...
I’ve never lived through a hurricane. In the Midwest, the natural disasters come at you too fast to do anything but run down and hide in the basement. You don’t have a lot of time to prep, or to fret. So I can only imagine what it feels l...
charlatans
Another post about the blog infrastructure itself. I know. But the events of the larger world are a little too overwhelming to get my arms around at the moment, and my beloved White Sox hiring a walking, talking Blue Lives Matter flag for...
It’s a little hard to tell exactly when I started, based on the half-gigabyte dataset which I have to navigate without any signposts other than filenames and JSON tags. I’ve gathered this: I made my first friend on May 26, 2007 (yo, Ken)...
UPDATE 2020-10-23 20:15 CDT
I simplified the whole thing. Now there’s just a single opt-in step. You still get a confirmation email, but you don’t have to click anything to make it work. I also went into the database and just updated ever...
OK, I think the subscription system is finally ready to go! Big, big thanks to the beta testers who helped shake out the bugs.
But I suppose the question you may be grappling with is why? Why should I subscribe? And what exactly am I subscribing to? ...
