laze.net
laze.net
Ryan M
laze.net is where I write about things that interest me. Try not to be shocked at the level of innovation! The site's history goes all the way back to December of 1994 when I launched a personal home page on my college's web server. It was only the second student site on the server and would eventually go on to eclipse the college's main page in terms of traffic. It also drew the ire of a politician in Richmond because I linked to "The Butt Page."
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Hey. Hope y’all are doing well out there in blog/rss/email land. Some stuff broke with my Occasional Weeknote mailing list when I moved to Netlify, but I think it’s all fixed now. If you’re one of the few that got these emails before,...
Busy days around these parts as the summer starts its decline. Both cars failed inspection and getting them up to spec was a nice chunk of change. Our younger kiddo is starting high school next week, while our older one is moving into...
This is a truly fantastic album cover: Is the guy on the left aiming to block the shot of the guy on the right? Or is he also aiming for the red ball, but has poor vision? What is the guy in the white suit (Isao, I assume) hoping is the...
Happy 150th birthday (yesterday) to my great-grandfather Andrew. He was born in Poland 99 years before I was born and died here in the US 20 years before I came into the world. He seems like he would have been an interesting guy to know....
OK, so again a month has passed between Weeknotes. This time I’ve been spending time moving my site because, hey, it’s been a couple of years and what’s laze.net without a periodic server move? I wrote a bit about it on the site already,...
About three weeks ago, a neighbor down the street posted to a local group that she found an orange cat laying on her porch. She’d brought him in for the night, but was looking for his person. The next day, I was outside chatting with my...
If you’re reading this, you’re seeing laze.net at its new home. And pretty much nothing should look any different. Any previous URLs should either be the same or automatically redirect. Old functionality is still there. Some things on...
(reverse chronological order; so, books read most recently first) 2026 Water, Water: Poems by Billy Collins Moonbound: A Novel by Robin Sloan This and That: Selected Short Poems of Zen Master Ryokan by Ryōkan (trans. Stan Ziobro and John...
I’m not a typewriter geek in the least, but having grown up using my mom’s typewriter and, later, in middle school, an electric typewriter, I can certainly understand how people enjoy typewriters as a hobby to obsess over. And like any...
Yesterday I went to Safeway–a grocery store in town we only go to once or twice a year–because they’re the only store in the area currently carrying the (very good) Waterloo Root Beer Float seltzer. Safeway was our primary our first...
(last updated: October 1, 2025) (originally posted: roughly August 23, 2018) I subscribe to many, many podcasts and have been listening to the format for 20+ years. I commuted 75 minutes each way for six years and listened to a lot and...
This weekend, on the way home from a drive-in event at the mighty Mahoning (largest screen in the US! only 35mm projecting drive-in left!), the Simulwatch crew and I stopped off at Timeline Arcade in York, PA. We dropped $10 a piece for...
.microblog_permalink { color: gray; font-style: italic; } .microblog_divider { color: gray; } ZgotmplZ Occasional Weeknote #30 The Occasional Weeknote seems to be getting every so slightly more occasional with each week that passes. It’s...
The Occasional Weeknote seems to be getting every so slightly more occasional with each week that passes. It’s been almost a month since the last one. Sorry? Last week, I had my second ER visit of the year (I’m fine, but learned what it...
Good lord, I love lists. On our family trip to California in 1988, I obsessed over my Uncle Don’s copy of the original 1977 printing of The Book of Lists by David Wallechinsky, his father Irving Wallace, and sister Amy Wallace. Uncle Don...