I have a long history of adoring long books. When I first started reading, I quickly moved away from kids books to what I charmingly called “chapter books, mama”. I read my first Tom Clancy book in fourth grade. Why did I choose it? Because it was big. There was something in my brain that was quite impressed with...

A few days late just means there is more to cover, right? Programming and Scripting This week I worked on my homepage quite a bit. I added a ListenBrainz widget and fixed quite a few bugs that have been bugging me for a while. I also worked on Mattrix, but I’m thinking about scrapping it. Between Claude and me,...

The NVMe in my big HP Workstation died yesterday. I’m not sure why other than it was cheap and used from eBay. I, however, decided to treat this as an opportunity instead of crying in my beard. Something I’ve planned for a while now, but had been putting off, is a significant refactoring of my home lab. My setup...

I wrote somewhere (probably in a Newsletter), about how sick I am of Winter. I think that was December. It is now March and WINTER IS STILL FUCKING HERE. I’m soooooooo sick of cold weather and snow. I’m not an outdoors type guy, but I’m sick of being cooped up in the house. I need Spring to get here fast or I’m...

I use my phone more than Aleem does. Way more. There is a part of me that feels the same, that I use it too much and that I should try to slow it down. The other part of me knows exactly what I’m doing and is okay with it. I use my phone for everything, some of them even productive. It’s the non-productive things I...

I spent the last day or so completely redesigning the Music page here on the blog. I took inspiration from the week view on Last FM. It’s not as colorful, and I still have some work to do (the background of the div containers are not right), but it’s pretty great. LastFM provides quite a bit of info via their API. I...

I wrote a little while ago, that I planned to stop blogging every day. I stated in that post that it had started to feel like an obligation, and that it had stopped being fun because I was forcing it. Since then, I’ve had a problem in that I’m not blogging at all. I’ve only posted 19 times since that post and that...

My sleeping habits are all over the place. This getting up early thing is going to take awhile to set in. Some days I do well, and I’m up and at ’em early. Other days, I still sleep until late morning and it feels like the day is over too early. But I’m working on it. Programming and Scripting I made a python script...

I’ve had a few days where I’ve been super productive. I’ve gotten up earlier, gone to bed earlier, and accomplished a lot of stuff. I even finally cleaned my desk and computer, something I’ve been meaning to do for ages. But today, I have a list of things to do, and no interest in doing any of them. One of them was...

This has been a very odd week. I’ve long been a night owl. I go to sleep sometime in the 3-4AM range, and then sleep until around 11AM. I’ve been working this last week to be a little more normal. To sleep before 2AM and then up around 9AM. It has been easier than I thought it would be. Anyway, here’s this week’s...

So, on Mastodon last night, I saw someone say something along the line of “I couldn’t finish this book, I’m so sorry. No hate on the author, it’s a great book!” This pissed me off. I read a lot. I read many books that are good, many that are bad. I DNF books all the time because they’re not something I want to...

So, I’m a well known note taker. I’ve talked about it many times on this here blog. I will undoubtedly talk about it many more times. I’m a bit of a note taking junkie. But, I’ve moved between platforms so much over the years, my organization is a bloody mess. For example, I have multiple folders titled a variation...