On Wednesday, October 29th my daughter attended several lectures and presentations for Half Earth Day at the Field Museum of Natural History. I tagged along and while she was attending the lectures, I explored the museum for the first time in decades. I had been to the museum in recent…
A new project coming very soon
I have some spare web hosting and domain names lying around, so I have decided to give something a try: I am going to host a tech-centric (but not necessarily all computer related) blog and invite other people to post there too. We’ll see how it goes. Stay tuned…
Finally using the new PC
It took a while to get the new PC assembled, and then a while longer to get everything I needed moved over from the old PC, but I am finally using the new PC fulltime. So far, so good! The new PC is beyond noticeably faster than the old one….
More quick thoughts on social media
I become less and less interested in participating in social media as the years go by. I have contemplated quitting social media altogether, but it is the main source of contact with many of my relatives and former coworkers whom I would like to stay connected to. The downsides of…
The folly of political discourse on social media
In recent months I have mostly tried to stay out of extended conversations (e.g. arguments) about politics on social media. I do make comments here and there, and I share things sometimes, but I honestly try not to allow my political leanings to become my entire online identity. In fact,…
Building the PC
A couple of months ago, I finally purchased the components to build my next PC. I have been gradually assembling it, and I have been finding that either this is a lot more difficult than I remember it being, or these things have become more complex in the decade (plus)…
Taking time to slow down
My family has typically gone to Walt Disney World whenever we take a Summer vacation, but the last couple of years we’ve opted to go someplace else. I absolutely love Disney, but it is very expensive, and vacationing at Disney can be more hectic than normal daily life. These last…
The (monetary) cost of geekery
I have been thinking about building a new PC for quite a while. The one that I am currently using is quite old and there is no path to upgrading the existing hardware. With that in mind, I have been pricing new hardware, but as is typical for me I…
Another “Life is too short…” post
Earlier today I was thinking about something funny that an old friend and mentor had told me, and it hit me then that I hadn’t heard from him in a while. It wasn’t really out of the ordinary that I hadn’t heard from him, as he often disappeared for a…
I seriously hope the rodent was right…
I don’t like Winter in the Midwest very much, which seems like an odd thing to say since I live here (mostly) by choice, and have lived here my entire life. Aside from the cold, which sucks for all the obvious reasons, everything is just gray/brown and dead looking. If…