Sleep Deprivation 101
Interesting comic strip. I’ve been having a bit of trouble sleeping this week myself. But I’m not ready to start screaming about gorillas just yet. Maybe by Friday, if things […]
August 2016
playing with Volumio and organizing my music
Without really intending to, I would up spending a bunch of time today organizing my music collection and copying stuff over to my little Volumio box. I set up Volumio […]
paying my bills. (or not.)
I’ve moved almost entirely to paying my monthly bills online, and receiving the bills online. I’ve been doing it slowly and carefully though. I only just recently gave my electric […]
Migraines
A few months ago, I had an incident where my vision went all wonky for about 15 minutes, then I got a fairly bad headache right afterward. The vision problem […]
Instapaper
I’m a long-time user of Instapaper, going back to when the original creator, Marco Arment, still owned it. He sold it to a company called Betaworks a few years ago. […]
The Good Old Days
Remember the good old days, when SDCC selling out before the first day of the show was a big deal, and a surprise? Yeah, me neither. (OK, I do remember […]
Transmetropolitan
I just started reading Warren Ellis’ comic Transmetropolitan. I bought the whole series (60 issues plus a couple of specials) on Comixology a few years ago, when they had it […]
Trevor Von Eeden and Christopher Priest
Once in a while, I get nostalgic for the heyday of comics journalism, when magazines like The Comics Journal, Comics Interview, and Amazing Heroes were being published regularly. There’s not […]
Windows 10 Anniversary Update
I am currently installing the Windows 10 Anniversary Update on my ThinkPad. Surprisingly, it still hasn’t shown up in Windows Updates on my fairly new desktop PC, but it showed […]
Installers
I’m currently working on a somewhat oddball project at work. The output of this project is going to be a DLL that will need to get deployed on a bunch […]