Oh, hi. Remember me?
So, hey. Remember me? I used to blog here. Yeah, well… I keep intending to, but things keep happening. And blogging keeps losing to “sleep” on the “what do I do next?” list in the evening. The good...
View ArticleWhy I’ve decided to stop blogging….
One of the things I’ve been mulling over the last few months is where this blog ranked in the priority of the things going on in my life and how much time (if any) I wanted to commit to it. It wasn’t...
View Articleminor brags….
I hadn’t looked at this for a while but I checked out some of the numbers attached to my online accounts and they kinda of blew me away. Over on Google+, there are now more than 8,000 of you who have...
View ArticleCortisone Day
Monday was Cortisone day. It is a day I both look forward to and dread. Off to visit the Orthopedist, wearing sweats that I can pull up over the knees easily. Back in 2007, I was out for a walk, and...
View ArticleA few quick updates…
Running around like crazy again, working on some writing but haven’t quite gotten them done, but here’s a few quick updates on what’s going on for those that might be interested… Just made the hotel...
View ArticleBacking WildHelp on Kickstarter
Just a quick note to encourage all of you to consider backing this project on Kickstarter. WildHelp is an app that if it gets built will make it easier for everyone to get help for injured or sick...
View ArticleCrazy times….
time (and mental energy) to write has been a bit tough again, but I’m happy to say that a project I’ve been working on has been approved into the next phase as of today when we reviewed the PRD I’ve...
View ArticleI have been away seeking adventures!
The blog shall soon recommence. I have been away seeking adventures, and I have found them. We woke up this morning around 8AM in Portland Oregon. Here we are about 11PM typing from Santa Clara,...
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Northwest Wines
As I’d mentioned in the road trip notes, when in Astoria we always stop by Cellar on 10th and basically beg them to put together a case of stuff they like that we don’t know to ask for. By now, some of...
View ArticleStarting new projects
Vacation is done, work has settled down, fall is here and honestly, I won’t miss summer much. Fall is my favorite season as the weather cools and the rains start and we move beyond the dry heat of...
View ArticleThat time in the project….
I probably should have put the “gone fishing” sign out on the blog ten days ago, but I didn’t think about it. But I’m elbow deep in a major project at work, and it’s sucking all of my brain cells dry....
View ArticleWhy I retired from writing fiction….
I get this question every so often, and I just ran across a blog post by Walter Jon Williams that wonderfully explains why I chose to stop writing fiction — almost 20 years ago (how time flies when...
View ArticlePlanning forward…
The project at work moves forward; we shifted D-day from thursday to tuesday to make sure some server/cloud gremlins that have cropped up are properly dispatched. My task list has one more item...
View ArticleWhat this week has taught me…
If you had told me before this week started that the North Koreans would threaten us with nuclear weapons and someone would mail Ricin to the president of the united states and a town in Texas would...
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A bit of a rant on how the internet is killing newspapers…
circles of CONFUSION – From hot type to bottom feeders: Sometime around the turn of the twentieth century, my great grandfather started a printing and publishing business in Philadelphia, which, for...
View ArticleToday in Boston
I’m numb. It’s happened again. Too many times during this lifetime for me, but that’s just an aspect of humanity. I think it is important to try to notice not the evil act that happened, but the...
View ArticleLooking back at 2013
2013 was a fascinating year for me, on balance one of the best years I’ve survived in the last decade. It was also a year of transitions. My photography has been in transition. In 2013 I shifted my...
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Looking forward into 2014
Where will 2014 take me? To be honest, I don’t know. I have some plans, but I also expect those plans to change. Mostly it’s about getting started, then iterating until I’m happy with them. There was a...
View Article15 of the interesting and influential
Every year I try to do a short list of people and sites that I find interesting or that have influenced me significantly in the last year. Here’s the list for 2013. Not surprisingly it’s heavily biased...
View Article“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...
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