I don’t have a ton to say here. This title came to me as soon as I saw the opposite topic posted on It’s FOSS News. When I saw that their complaint might have been about only 15,000 and 115...
Read the post →I was bummed out when I heard that Max Maker was leaving The Create/Invent Podcast. Jeremy interviewed me on the next episode. He decided to start recording video podcasts, and he wanted a safe guinea pig to interview for his...
Read the post →We’ve been under some level of quarantine for quite a while already. Last week, I saw Jeremy Cook tweet about staying at home, and what a huge change this HASN’T been for him. I figured I’d poke at him with...
Read the post →About four months ago, Brian Moses and I started another blog. We decided that this was a good idea almost two years ago, but life and procrastination got in the way. Near the end of April, I said to hell...
Read the post →Dear Board of Directors and Members of TheLab.ms,
Read the post →I’ve been doing a terrible job reading books this year. I read a dozen books last year, but I’ve only managed to complete five so far this year. I was doing alright up through March, but then I didn’t complete...
Read the post →Continuing on my way through the Discworld Reading Order Guide has brought me to Guards! Guards!, the first book in Terry Pratchett’s series of Watch novels. I almost always eat through Discworld books in a few days. A week at...
Read the post →I’ve been going to a bar / restaurant near my hometown since the late nineties. They serve good food in generous potions and very cheap beer. They also have an array of very old, sometimes creepy photos covering the walls...
Read the post →I might be reading a little too quickly. Just two weeks ago, at the end of my Casino Royale post, I mentioned that I was going to choose my next book from one of the various Humble eBook Bundle or...
Read the post →I was at a bar with my old friend Tim back in January. It seems that if he’s not busy building awesome guitars, that he just might be reading a book. He told me that he read about half of...
Read the post →I started this blog back in 2009, and at the time, I really had no idea what my requirements were in a blogging engine. There was only one thing I knew for certain: I wanted static HTML pages. Static pages...
Read the post →I grew up playing videogames. I remember begging my parents incessantly for an Atari when I was six years old. I was too young to know that there were better systems available, and I had no idea that the machine...
Read the post →I have been working my way through Pratchett’s Discworld series for quite a few years now. I’ve stuck pretty closely to the Discworld Reading Order diagram. It didn’t take me much more than a year to plow through all the...
Read the post →I was hoping to avoid writing another post like this again this year. While I was writing the last one, I decided that it would be a much better idea to write up a short review each time I finish...
Read the post →Earlier in the year, I posted a short list of resolutions for the year ahead. Most of them were really just tasks or projects that I was hoping to work on this year. The year is now rapidly winding down,...
Read the post →Buy a good, comfortable, sturdy chair now rather than later
Read the post →I am not entirely certain how comprehensive this list is. I’ve never bothered to keep track of the books I read, but I recently read an article telling me that 13% of Americans claimed to have read 11 to 20...
Read the post →I’m pretty sure only one item on this list counts as a resolution. They aren’t life-changing in any way. Most of them are just small tasks that, for one reason or another, never make it to the top of my...
Read the post →One of the buildings in the apartment complex we were living in three months ago, Houston Lake Apartment Community was very much on fire last night. The view in the video is from the front porch of our current apartment....
Read the post →I've been carrying a small roll of duct tape in both my wallet and laptop bag for years. I've been taking advantage of the fact that duct tape is the same width as a business card. You just roll some...
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