You’d think that I would have blogged sooner with all the free time I have these days. I have plenty to talk about, after all, and I haven’t worked in ten days. In reality, I’ve been slowly piecing together my thoughts on a major life transition, and I wanted to start talking about it all today. Continue reading
This was either going to be a short blog post or a long status update, so here we are. First, let me say that I’ve found a solution to my Facebook problem. Some of you already know that I usually have a few tabs open with stories that I plan to post on Facebook “later” so I don’t get too spammy. I’ve been contemplating using Buffer for a while to help space these stories out, and today I’ve made the jump. From this point out, I’ll be buffering stories as I come across them, and Buffer will post them at rationally spaced out times. We’ll see what kind of schedule the app comes up with. I hope it doesn’t post the good stuff at 2am. Continue reading
So I’m hearing that today is Teacher Appreciation Day. I won’t skip an opportunity to thank the teachers that influenced me the most. Continue reading
I wanted to write up a long post about May Day today and discuss the disappointment on the left around how little support this important day has in the United States. I’ve discussed the decline in organized labor in the U.S. several times on this blog and I’m sure it will come up again, but I didn’t find the time to put out a quality post today.
Then I read that the Ohio legislature is up to their old tricks again. Continue reading
In my conversations with friends, coworkers, and various netizens in social media or news comment sections, I’m often subject to a handful of overused and meaningless attack phrases that have become part of the lexicon of left-bashers. For example:
I don’t know how two weeks goes by so quickly, but clearly, I was a little stressed around the time of my last post. April was a bit rough and I wasn’t feeling it. Beyond the week in San Juan, everything pretty much sucked, and I occasionally have a hard time pulling out of situations like that… but I got there. Two weeks of traveling for work, a week of insanity trying to get caught up on the backlog that creates, the cancellation of some projects I had worked hard on for quite some time… not a great combination, but it’s the tough times that remind us how great life is on the upswing. Continue reading
So I got sick again… since I started working from home again last August, I’ve been sick three or four times, including my October trip to Orlando and the week after Christmas. When I was flying back and forth every few weeks, things were great, but my immune system is clearly weakened again. It doesn’t help that I haven’t been hitting the gym or even really going outside because of the weather. I’ve said it before, but it bears repeating:
If you work from a home office, get outside and around others often. It will help keep you healthy. Continue reading
Uninformed and/or misguided souls in the United States have been posting condolences for Margaret Thatcher via their favorite social media outlets today. After all, she’s the female half of capitalism’s favorite duo, the Super Free Marketeers. Americans have been taught to worship Ronald Reagan and his British counterpart for saving us from the clutches of godless Communism. As she so eloquently (and ignorantly) put it, “the problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.” Continue reading
The past few weeks, I’ve moved away from my former obsession with Haxball, the multiplayer online soccer/hockey Flash game that helped me pass the time when nothing else was going on. The switch happened when I stumbled upon a Java-based Capture-the-Flag style game called TagPro. It’s another exceptionally simple online game with a chat interface and up to eight people playing simultaneously, but it adds power-ups, registration, and a leaderboard, amongst other things. You can also join the conversation with the developer and the player community at the TagPro subreddit. Continue reading
You don’t want homeless people living in your part of town. They look dirty and lower the property values. Of course, you don’t want them on welfare either, because that’s just “stealing money from your paycheck to buy drugs,” despite the fact that impoverished folks test well below average for drug use. If they shouldn’t be broke and they shouldn’t use assistance, what should they do? Ah, of course… they should get a job. Continue reading