Category Archives: Incoherent Ramblings

These entries exhibit the incoherent ramblings of a goofy engineer.

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I feel compelled to explain why I’ve just not made many tracks on the Internet lately, but … I guess that if you’ve followed along, you understand why.
I think that, like the rest of my family, I just feel pretty wrung-out right now. The hard part for me, I think, is that I’m usually [...]

An Update on the Jan 2007 Resolutions

Well, I’m officially breaking my make-to-be-broken resolution tonight; I’m behind enough on laundry that I won’t be laying anything out tonight for work. It’ll still be in various states of being laundered when I go to bed [an hour fast approaching, honestly]. In fact, it’s a strong possibility that I’ll be 0-for-3 on [...]

Why Two Sites?

Someone [okay, so it was Alex] asked me today, “So, how do you determine what goes on which site?”
This is a question I get often about this site and The Indiana Jones School of Management, which you might or might not realize is also mine. The other question is, “Why two sites?”
I’ve probably answered [...]

15 Years Later, Maybe I Figured It Out

Last night, I broke out Eric Clapton’s Unplugged. At the time, I tweeted, “Breaking out Eric Clapton’s /Unplugged/. You may hate it, but this was 1992 for me.” As I listened to “Lonely Stranger”, I had a memory and a revelation. The memory: I had a line from the song, “Some will [...]

Will You Hold the Light for Me?

Five years ago, my life changed. Sure, our lives are changing all the time, and small, seemingly inconsequential steps are, in retrospect, life-altering things. Call it a butterfly effect if you will—beauty coming out of chaos.
Five years ago, I was single. Still am. Then I was 23 and fresh from college. [...]