"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." - Mark Twain
Thirty years ago I graduated with a Computer Science Applications degree from CU Boulder. CU was experimenting with a hybrid CS degree that spread across their Engineering and Liberal Arts programs; myself and several others took the bait. My reasoning for pursuing the degree was that I foresaw software increasingly
Approximately 2.5 yrs ago I installed a cold plunge pool at my house . Since then I have used the plunge for approximately four minutes per day, every day I've been home. The plunge is set to 46 degrees F. While traveling I am often in a location
While Search results have been degrading steadily over the past few years, they have fallen off of a cliff since chatgpt came online. AI has empowered SEO people to nearly perfectly game Google's Search crawling and indexing algorithms. Ad-littered, machine generated, gobbledygook text dominates the first several
If you were a longtime WellnessFX user like me, the recent shutdown of the service was quite disruptive. It was a good way to view blood draw biomarker data and understand important thresholds for healthy living. I exported all of my data (CSV) before the service went offline and have
Here's a quick tour of my experience with cold water exposure after jumping on the latest trend. Exposure to Cold Water Exposure A couple of years ago my son and I were vacationing in Mexico at a resort that had a "cold plunge" pool. I'
Obviously Apple and Google have done a good job building out the IP stack for mobile devices (I still can't believe Steve Jobs tricked AT&T into allowing them access to the data pipe back in the day), but, I thought things would have evolved further than
A couple of months ago I bought a reMarkable device for reading (I’m sure they have competitors… I didn’t comparison shop). It’s actually built for document editing, markup, and collaboration, but, I just wanted a standard paper-sized e-ink device that would
With the kiddos at driving ages we've been doing car entertainment/stereo exploration. While it's been a fun walk down memory lane (I used to be really into sound-systems), it's also been a reminder of how poorly technology deployment can go. Between a
Closures and stimulus checks have hulled out the restaurant industry. In talking with restauranteurs, I estimate that a third, to half, of all the staff you see working at a restaurant (front and back of the house) have never worked in a restaurant before. Restaurants are desperate for staff. McDonalds
This is an open letter of mine to Boulder's Parks and Rec department. Dear Boulder Parks and Recreation Department,  As COVID subsides, hopefully for good, our trail systems are going to be innundated with people getting out and enjoying themselves. As this coincides with our erratic Spring-
It turns out blog migration is hard. I wanted to move from my 2nd generation platform, Blogger, where this blog has been hosted for fifteen ...
If you're like me and had been longing for an iPhone 4S sized iPhone for the past several years, you were stoked when the iPhone 12 mini arr...
I have two kiddos (17 (M) and 14 (F)) in public High School. I have a nephew (10) and niece (7) in public Elementary. Needless to say...
I found myself down the B-Corp Certification exploration rabbit hole. Now that the certification craze dust has settled a bit (remember a fe...
I've been using Alexa, and Siri for awhile now. I gave Google Home a try for a few months, but dumped it (not enough integrations with IoT d...
