Road weary and introspective
As everyone ran to export and delete their Twitter data in waves when Apartheid Clyde came to town, I sat back and watched with a chuckle from my cozy perch on my Mastodon instance. You see, I’d already done all that months ago, as the site had continued to fester into a sad pile of…
When I moved to Texas 4 years ago, it was to be closer to my wife’s family, given my health had hit another setback. After 8 years in Seattle, I knew I would have to adjust to some big changes. I mean, the usual summer high temperature in Seattle is roughly the overnight low in…
My history with my hometown of Salt Lake City is storied and less than rosy. I won’t bore you with that right now, but when I left—for a second time—even my mother, who clings to hope of the return to anything and everything in past tense, felt it was appropriate and fitting that I leave…
Jay and I were talking the other day. As practitioners of the dark art of “user experience,” we contemplated the connection between our field and our natural ability to seem in a constant state of complaint. “It’s not like we do it negatively…” “I know! We’re trying to help!” The topic eventually led to the…
A good friend of mine in California sent a group message via Facebook regarding today’s ruling on Proposition 8, the banning of same-sex marriage in that state. I just wanted to share a few thoughts on commitment to a person, and why we should not hinder its existence. While we here in WA don’t have…
Some of you who’ve read anything I’ve written online—in a non-work-related context—have noticed my propensity toward spelling in a manner alien to American English palettes. I’ll get notes and tweets from people saying I used a U when spelling colour, or that a word is not spelled with an S–it’s a Z, damn you! Today,…
On Inauguration Day, I had a seizure while talking about the M’s with the eye doctor dkr and I share. Early February, I had an object the size of a plum surgically plucked from my skull. A granuloma, to be exact. Late February introduced the idea of blood clots in my leg due to the…
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sfQ5lBa9Nw&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x234900&color2=0x4e9e00] This is one major reason I work where I work. I hope my contributions to the site are helping fulfill that vision.
As I currently work on a minor new feature for the Trusera website, I’m reminded for the fourth or fifth time today that 12 November marks my one year Trusera “birthday.” It seems bizarre to realise that exactly one year ago, I was sitting—eyes wide, brain trickling out my ear—at the end of my first…
I guess the real question is this: What were you doing when you heard that Barack Obama was elected to become the 44th president of the United States? Here’s what Sabrina and I were doing: We went to Kidd Valley for a quick cheeseburger. We’d been following the results trickle in via the web for…
