I moved because of a job offer. I accidentally applied for a job in Chicago, thinking it was in San Francisco due to some website filtering shenanigans. Fast forward a few days and I get an email asking "are you willing to relocate to Chicago", to which I respond with a cautions affirmative. A few phone interviews and some negotiation later and I ( Read more... )

A bad Frolicon is still better than a good weekend at home. This was my worst one yet, but I still had fun ( Read more... )

Eleven years ago I had a job at Dell Computers. ( Read more... )

I get asked a lot why I don't have a car. My modes of transportation change on a regular basis, everything from pedestrian to driving a gas guzzling pickup truck for work over the past few years, and there are many factors involved in deciding when it's time to change.

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kdsorceress thinks I should write about my future. Not being gifted with any discernable sixth sense or prescience, this will all be speculation, or at best goals and hopes.

In my near future, before next summer...
( Probably )

I'm planning to bring a civil action against a company that won't stop robocalling my cell phone. 3-5 calls a day, most leading to a recording. The statutory damages are $500 per infraction, times three if they are willful. A few days of calls provides enough infractions to hit the $15000 claim ceiling ( Read more... )

Today I walked the beltline for the first time, from Ponce to N Highland. Very nice walk, wide cleared area, lots of sculptures. Not a lot of places to stop and sit down yet, unfortunately. Rumor has it my side of the beltline is open from Piedmont Park to Cabbagetown. More on this in the near future.

I have a lot of sorted and unsorted electronics components, ranging from single inductors to ribbons of hundreds of parts I will never use to giant heavy things like motors and pumps. A large part of that middle area is due to ordering a few Surprise Boxes from Electronics Goldmine (which contents I detailed here). I am going to start at least ( Read more... )

The local board game meetup is on Saturday, but other than that my holiday weekend is completely empty. A friend from out of town will be around, and most of you are familiar with some of my hobbies... What is there to do around here this weekend?