A few Saturdays ago—the singular calm day I got between the chaos of Thanksgiving and the subsequent eternity two weeks of my entire family getting every seasonal illness under the sun—we went to a local holiday market (its first year back after being shut down by the pandemic). While it’s...
I’ve never been good at expressing gratitude. It’s not so much that I’m ungrateful, because I’m incredibly thankful for my life and the people in it, but showing that gratitude hasn’t typically come naturally for me.
I’ve done some writing before on sustainability as it pertains to technology, and some of my efforts to keep my own tech (and some salvaged tech) alive and useful for as long as possible. The amount of e-waste we generate is staggering, and as technology becomes obsolete, the throwing-away of...
I’m not exactly what one would call “handy.”
I was never a Boy Scout.
In case you are unaware, the US is currently experience a critical shortage of blood. That means that, at any moment, someone who needs a blood transfusion to survive is at risk of not receiving one. Not to put too fine a point on it, but that person could be...
A short while ago, my grandfather took a spill and wound up in the hospital.
I’m attending KubeCon + CloudNativeCon this week, and while the conference itself has been excellent, I have discovered that I have completely forgotten how to be a competent packer. Silly me, I spent a ton of timing making sure I was packed appropriately for the weather, but forgot to consider...
I’m attending KubeCon + CloudNativeCon this week—a technology conference focused on the free software that powers the world—and while there has been more to experience than any one person could possibly take in, there is one category of events that I’ve found to be both necessary and rewarding: Wellness.
It could probably go without saying, but I read a lot of books.
I’ve been thinking a lot about identity lately. Not in the existential sense, but the literal one: my name, my face, my contact information; all of the things that don’t tell you who I am, but still sort of tell you who I am.
I’m at Denver Comic Con Fan Expo this weekend. Actually… I’m sitting in my hotel room across the street right now, writing this post (which, despite how lame it might sound, sitting at a hotel desk at seven in the morning is turning out to be one of my favorite...
About a month back, I subscribed to Dave Rupert’s RSS feed and noticed that there were a handful of posts that didn’t exist on his website. Turns out, Dave has created something called RSS Club that provides RSS-only content. In his words:
I have two kids and, if I’m being honest, I’m tired all the time.
I hate interviewing.