“Rhymes with Crisco”— Really?
Someone dropped me an email and called me to task for using “Rhymes with Crisco” in my note yesterday announcing my new job. The email could be boiled down to “Dude, really?” They have a point. It’s...
View ArticleBack from Yosemite
Back from a couple of quickly planned days in Yosemite. With the early closing of Badger Pass, I noticed that rooms were available from spring skiiers who canceled and so I scheduled myself in for two...
View ArticleBack at it….
The Interregnum is complete, and by the time you read this I should be back at it and under the yoke of employment. As much as I enjoyed Infoblox and intended to stay there, I’m looking forward to this...
View ArticleFirst week done at Cisco….
One week in at Cisco. The week started with with “hi, here’s your office, here’s your computer, we’re late for a meeting”, and never really slowed down. Nobody’s wandered into my office and yelled...
View ArticleCome join us at Cisco Live
I need to apologize for the extended quiet here on the blog. No time or brain cells to write, and I finally hauled myself out and fired up the cameras for the first time in six weeks on Sunday, but I...
View ArticleWhy I threw out my bucket list. Should you?
Like many people I’ve kept a so-called bucket list of things I want to do someday. Unlike most of you, I decided to throw mine out about a year ago. I happened to run into an old copy of it in my...
View ArticleThings happening, things planned
There’s been a lot going on behind the scenes, and one aspect of that is that it’s reduced the time and energy needed to keep up a regular set of blog postings here (that, and Elder Scrolls). (Oh, shut...
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Not Dead Yet #1: This wasn’t on my calendar…
Wednesday Night was a normal night. Laurie and I had a nice dinner, polished off some muffins she’d baked, and splurged with an Angry Orchard cider (very nice, good flavor, not just sweet). Next thing...
View ArticleNot Dead Yet #2: Social Media and the Always On Lifestyle
From the time the event started until I settled down in the ER bed, exactly what happened and when it happened became a bit of a blur. I was busy trying to figure out if I was about to die, stressed to...
View ArticleA first look at the Health app in IOS 8
(9/28, 12PM — edited to add a few notes at the end about some other things the ICE feature needs to do but doesn’t — chuq) One of the things that intrigued me was the new Health app that came with IOS...
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Portrait of my house mate, Tatiana
I was testing the Fuji XT1 and the 55-200, and what better subject than what’s in the room? I don’t take pictures of the local universe often enough, something I’m going to try to fix. Here’s one of...
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Not Dead Yet #3 — A Week Later
So, it’s been another week and I’m not dead yet. About ten days from the event, and probably time for an update. For the first couple of days everything moved hyper-fast, almost in a blur. And then it...
View ArticleState of the Chuq, revising the five year plan edition
Even before recent events, I’d been evaluating my online presence and my time commitments and trying to decide if my time and money expenditures were in line with my priorities (how to figure this out...
View ArticleThe Social Media Celebrity Diet
How much time do you spend on social media? How often a day (or an hour) do you stop and sneak a peek at Twitter or Facebook to see what new stuff might be there? How often do you let your social media...
View ArticleTraveling next week….
Apologies for the silence on the blog. Work’s been very busy, leaving few usable brain cells to write (among the projects I’m in the middle of — we’re doing a big event at Cisco Live Milan in January,...
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Not Dead Yet #4: thoughts on obesity, exercise and life and fixing your...
This is probably the final in the Not Dead Yet series. I’m happy to say I’m not dead yet, and still able to write these things, in and around work, which is really busy right now… It’s now two months...
View ArticlePlans for 2015
The Christmas/family obligations are done for the year and I’ve returned from Southern California alive and ready for a few days off before going back to work. With the holidays behind me, I’m hoping I...
View ArticleI’m in Birdwatcher’s Digest
Just a quick note to let folks know that I have an article reprinted in the Jan/Feb 2015 issue of Birdwatcher’s Digest. They’re reprinting my piece on Getting Started in Bird Photography — Choose Your...
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My view for the next couple of days
Here is my view for the next couple of days. Laurie was kind enough to give me a weekend pass, and I’m currently holed up in Fort Bragg decompressing. I apologize for the silence, but I’ve been buried...
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A quick brag….
This one’s been a long time coming. For the last ten days, I’ve been at or below 380 (today: 377) — my lowest weight since 2007, which was about the time I was diagnosed with sleep apnea and almost the...
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