Gas station sushi was a topic that came up frequently with an old friend. It’s still the first phrase that pops into my head when I see something horrible. For this list, I decided to come up with things that were even worse.
Hacks: July 2016
July was not as productive as I would have liked. Summers are always a bit crazy and this one has been no different. I did get started on a few interesting things, though.
Echoes of Our Parents
As you age, you begin to notice echoes of your parents in your day-to-day behavior. This is particularly difficult if, like me, one those parents was a waste of carbon. There are times when I am surprised or even amused at things — for example, I talk to cats the same way my mother does (same tone, same words, same rhythms of speech) — and there are times when I am horrified by things, like when I do or say anything like my father would have done.
Hacks: June 2016
I’m still hacking away at stuff for a variety of reasons — to satisfy my curiosity, to learn stuff useful in my career, to turn my small business into something awesome, to keep me sane. This month, I did a few things that I released to the world under the Creative Commons, but I also … Read more
Hacks: May 2016
I didn’t do an update to this series in April because, well, I didn’t do much. If anything. Life has been in a state of non-stop upheaval for months now, and it’s left me too stressed to put energy into this sort of stuff. In May, though, I did get a few things started and worked on, which has been fun.
“Intellectual” Discourse
If only all political discussions could be so entertaining. From Twitter in February, in case you missed it:
#GOPMovies The Silence of the Sheeple
— Dan Bailey (@fontosaurus) February 25, 2016
@fontosaurus it puts the lotion on its skin or it gets the earned income tax credit removed.
— JP Sherman (@jpsherman) February 25, 2016
@jpsherman "Would you fuck the middle class? I'd fuck the middle class!"
— Dan Bailey (@fontosaurus) February 25, 2016
@fontosaurus OH MY GAWD. that's perfect, so bloody perfect. You win. hands down. you win.
— JP Sherman (@jpsherman) February 25, 2016
@jpsherman I have my moments.
— Dan Bailey (@fontosaurus) February 25, 2016
Hacks: March 2016
One of the things that’s been good for my mental health is that I’m tinkering a lot more. I find that it definitely keeps me from overthinking the shitty parts of my life.
Software Based Fun
Hipsterbot — grabs a block of text from hipsterjesus via the API, breaks it up into an array of sentences that are less than 140 characters, and then picks one at random to tweet.
A champion is one who gets up when he can’t.
— Jack Dempsey
Hacks: February 2016
This month, I got back into hacking out some stuff. It wasn’t because I was bored or anything — I just felt the need to start flexing my geek muscles again, and start mucking about with stuff. Really, the goal here is to sharpen my skills/thinking, and to start learning the skillset I need for … Read more