I have a couple of related ideas for a tool or collection of tools that I could build that might be useful. One is some for of "personal archive" or "personal collection." This is essentially meant to be an archive of data that is personally meaningful in some way to an individual. It occurred to me that large corporations managed collections of ( Read more... )

After taking Learning to Kayak - Level 1 at Salmon Bay Paddle at the end of the summer, I realized as fall began to set in that if I didn't practice kayaking until the spring I would forget everything I learned. That is the primary reason, other than my particular brand of madness, that inspired me to buy a dry suit at REI. My NRS dry suit... I am ( Read more... )

This summer I started getting into kayaking. Apparently this is one of those going things. Something to do during a global pandemic. So many people are getting into kayaking and there are global supply chain issues (which seems to me like it must be euphemistic) and you can't get certain supplies that you might want. Spray skirts and neoprene boots ( Read more... )

I heard a cover by Jamila Woods of "Fast Car" by Tracy Chapman on KEXP this week. It killed me.

I'm trying to take a minute to attempt to articulate what really hit me about this song. There are a lot of symbols. "Fast Car" "Get Out of Here" "Be Someone". The mixture of the deep urges to get something out of life and the specific articulations of ( Read more... )

Today and the next two days are mostly filled with planning meetings about product vision for the next... period of time. I noticed that the overarching meeting that these were all sub-parts of invited people to come into the office for it if possible. When I saw that I felt a little mixed up. First of all... not everyone even can come into the ( Read more... )

I've been reading the Silmarillion out loud to Momo Bird as bedtime reading. I familiarized myself with the Appendix at the end of the Return of the King to get my bearings before I got too deep into pronouncing Sindarin out loud, but this evening I got curious to see if I could dig up some more detail online. Actually it was a single phrase that I ( Read more... )

I keep having this thought, often. Over and over. "I wish I were a better person." Who was it? Cary Grant? "I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person."

I've taken the Landmark Forum and several other courses at Landmark. There is this idea at Landmark that you can really be the person you want to be. You can deal ( Read more... )

This was written at 5:05 on 4/17/21 in PDT.

I am reading the Lord of the Rings to Momo currently as birdy bedtime reading. Well, I should really say "was" because we just finished it this evening. We read the last chapter, "The Grey Havens".

I felt like sharing this with someone and but... not really with anyone in particular so I decided to journal about it. I found my reaction surprising ( Read more... )

I stood up an AWS ElasticSearch cluster a couple months ago. It had some mode that was supposed to be cheaper to run, based on usage. Well... It was not cheap to run. I didn't monitor it closely enough and basically flushed... an embarrassing amount of money down the corporate toilet. Oh, well. My bad.

So, now I've been investigating: is there a ( Read more... )