Disclaimer: I originally wrote this post last summer and never got around to actually publishing it because it seemed like a dumb thing to write. However, it felt like a waste to leave it in the hopper to die a slow unpublished death. And I really do hate the word hubby. Anyone who has spent […]
Read More The Worst WordsRecently Tracey and I visited New Orleans and went on a 7-day Western Caribbean Cruise. I know you may be shocked at this, but two of our very dear friends were getting married on the ship right before it sailed, and invited anyone who went to the wedding to also go on the cruise with […]
Read More Louisiana and Caribbean CruiseLet’s talk about “Eastern Europe.” Not the Warsaw Pact region from the 1980s, but the array of independent counties as they presently exist today. I’ve presented overviews of where we visited previously, and a number of common themes are present in this vast and often underlooked region. First, let’s address the term “Eastern Europe.” I’ve […]
Read More Observations and Opinions on Touring and Eastern EuropeMore than two months have passed since our return from Eastern Europe, but never fear, the trip summary is finally here! Or at least I’ve started typing it. As mentioned previously, Tracey and I went on a Eastern Europe in 16 Days tour. Touring is not our usual thing, but I thought it’d be a good way […]
Read More Exploring Eastern Europe: Czech RepublicAlthough this blog has been unusually quiet as of late, fear not! I’ve been putting off various posts about the things I’ve been doing and instead combining them into one big “what I’ve been up to since the beginning of the year” update. San Francisco Despite being all over Europe, Tracey had never been to […]
Read More First Half of 2014 and TravelsA while back, Travis Evans, a fellow staff member at the ticalc.org project, wrote NikkyBot. It was, as you may imagine, a Markov chain based application that he created to essentially simulate my behavior on TI Graphing Calculator IRC channels. A TI-89 version exists, naturally, but one of the really fun applications of this was […]
Read More Nikky 2.0: Nikkybot and Nikky IpsumAfter a rather odd urge to consume some classic horror, I recently finished reading a wide array of H.P. Lovecraft stories. What I mostly discovered is that Lovecraft found a formula that worked well for him, and mostly stuck to it. Here’s how to write your very own Lovecraftian-style horror. Setting Your novella should include one […]
Read More How to Write a Lovecraft NovellaLong long ago, while working in a much different industry sector, I wore ties to work quite often. As this time period coincided with high school, and more specifically, high school dances, a small tie collection formed. Today I formed a small idea: the ratio of Ties Owned against Total Wears per year. My number? Somewhat […]
Read More Tie RatioA few months ago, Tracey and I introduced a cat into our apartment. Although I never found time to write about it at the time, the whole experience has been a large episode in learning whole new things about animals. It was something we’ve been discussing for a quite a while. Although I may have […]
Read More The CatWhen you grow up with the same group of 150 or so people the same age, High School can be a pretty close knit environment. Although I don’t spend too much time thinking about those years, every once in a while I find myself pondering the hypothetical situation where we all, in our current lives, […]
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