Category Archives: Personal

At A Crossroads

So I’d like your advice, my dear Internet. I have a software project called dbasr that I’ve been working on for a while — several years, on and off, in fact. Weirdly enough, it’s actually probably more relevant and useful now than when I started it. I’ve rewritten the code base several times, but I think I’m [...]
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Christmas List

Here’s my Christmas list for this year, if anybody feels like buying me stuff. This is all wish-listy sort of stuff, I don’t really expect anybody to buy me anything. But if you’re feeling generous. Decent electric toothbrush Black Fisher “Bullet” Space Pen Lego Mindstorms NXT kit (really) Cheap Telecaster guitar Flip HD camera a Bug Labs Bugbase a bicycle trainer A big [...]
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Shades of gray.

A friend wrote me an email tonight, raising some thoughtful and valid questions about the ethics of what I’m doing. So to clarify: I’m not working for Halliburton, CACI, or any of the other monolithic contractors over there. Nor would I. The company I work for is relatively small, and their sole purpose in this is [...]
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My current theory on dieting and weight loss.

If you take a statistical sampling of diet tips from a few dozen people, you will learn that every single possible foodstuff is terrible for you; water may be poisonous in small doses; and that the only “real” way to lose weight and get into shape is to make your daily caloric intake consist of [...]
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Big man with a gun.

I went to The Gun Store today with Andi and her friends from California so that I could price and check out some guns. Let me be clear on this: I don’t actually like guns. I’m a constitutionalist, so I believe the Second Amendment is just as important to protect and enforce as the First…but I [...]
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Where I'm going

So, as those of you who follow my Twitters know, I’ve been excited about something these past few days. Now, I think, I can talk about it. I can’t really tell you everything, for reasons which will become clear, but I can tell you a bit. I’ve been hired by a medical technology company to do [...]
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Show: Saturday, Mar. 14th, 7pm @ Arts Factory, Las Vegas, NV

(Got the weekday wrong on the last post, sorry.)
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Where I've Been

Sorry I haven’t updated in so very long. The long and short is: I’ve been (and am still) very, very busy. I can finally, hopefully, pay my bills, but I am working all the time now. I am: Doing web design/development, both as part of a new (sort of) day job and as a freelancer; Trying to finish [...]
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My Valentine's Present from Andi

Shut up shut up shut up shut up.
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Fuck 2008.

I’m glad to see the last of this year. It has not been awesome for me, mostly. Hopefully 2009 will be better — for me, and you, and everybody. (If your year was awesome, well — 2009 will be awesomer.) I’m really sad today, but I’m hopeful that I can be a better human and a [...]
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