Software Architect, Author, Musician, Dude.
Life, the Universe, and Everything
I’ll admit I’m not much of a collector. I never got “the gene” or whatever it is that drives people to create and catalogue massive collections, be they Beanie Babies, baseball cards, or butter dishes. When I was a kid, I did collect bottle caps; filled a whole trash bag with them in fact, Read More …
Getting Our Fix I’m going to reveal a deep, dark, and personal consumer secret: I love Reese’s Dark Chocolate Miniature Cups. So does my wife. They’re our go-to treat, snack, dessert. We never run out of them. Almost never. I say this because recently, an inexplicable thing happened. All of the stores we visit that Read More …
There has been a lot of talk recently about self-driving trucks and how they’re going to put (as one estimate has it) at least 3.5 million people out of a job. My step-father was a trucker, and some of my early memories are of going on trips here and there with him. Raised in the rural southeast Read More …
<RANT TOPIC=”MOVING TO MARS”> You can’t use Kickstarter to fund a migration to Mars, people. Just… stop it already.
I never realized it, but I think secretly, I always wanted to utter the words “And the winner is…” to someone other than my cats at salmon-time. Sadly, I was never asked to run a pie-eating contest or to give away an Oscar. I think I would’ve been great at it. Recently though, and quite Read More …
In a recent article in The Guardian, Mustafa Suleyman, progenitor of the Google-acquired AI company DeepMind, is quoted with the audacious statement: “Any talk of a super-intelligent machine vacuuming up all the knowledge in the world and then going about making its own decisions are absurd. There are engineers in this room who know Read More …
I’m lucky. When I started coding, back in the day of the Commodore Pet and Apple ][ and Ohio Scientific C8P and this weird new IBM PC thing, programming was still a form of High Magic. Approached and treated as such. Now it’s just a career path. The only barrier to entry Read More …