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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It’s been a while since I’ve posted an #ArchiveTheUnimportant item. Today’s is a 28-page paper newsletter from April 1990 that I found in the basement. Used Computer Locator billed itself as “The National Guide to Used Computers and...
Richard MacManus wrote a piece last year titled “Replanting Articles: Bring Legacy Posts to Your Website” and it resonated with me before I even got to the text. It’s exactly what I’ve been doing since relaunching my site last year. In...
Sometimes catching someone else up on your life (or writing such a blog post) is like those weekly status calls at work where it feels like you’re justifying your continued employment to your co-workers. Kinda weird, right? Instead of...
Quiet days are a must. Days where you don’t foist the “need-to-dos” on yourself. Days where moments of sitting outside and listening to the birds or feeling the wind blow make up the majority of the day. When reading a book or listening...
The 25th weeknote is a bit short and uneventful. No real reason other than I’m just in a bit of a creative funk for the moment and wading through some general Life Overwhelm (which I feel like needs to be a Slack status or something)....
A few things I’ve learned in the last few weeks: Good stress is still stress. The way car insurance operates makes very little sense to the average person (me). Almost everything you’d think works one way, works another. (Also: if your...
(Read part one here, where I discuss my month with Qobuz.) I started with a free month of Qobuz and then used two months to try out Deezer. Let’s run down the list of my observations of how Deezer stacks up against Spotify (with some...
Streaming sucks for artists because the major players pay squat per stream. And in Spotify’s case, artists who don’t get many streams may get literally nothing. One alternative to traditional streaming services is to bring focus back to...
I was thinking today a bit about the first records I ever bought myself. It’s going back 40 years, so my memories be slightly switched about which purchase came first, but I know the two records and the two stores I got them from. The...
The snow from the storm I referenced weeks ago in my last update is still on the ground after weeks of sub-freezing temperatures. With it getting up into the 40s and 50s now, it’s starting to melt off which means soon I may be able to...
This week I’m featured on Manuel Moreale’s excellent People & Blogs series, answering his questions about my silly little blog, nearly 28 years in. It’s very much worth browsing through his archive; I’ve found a lot of great new blogs...
This is a reprint of an interview that I participated in as part of the People & Blogs project, originally conducted by Manuel Moreale and now maintained by Zachary Kai. It was kind of nice to be the subject of an interview! (Reposted...
This was my longest length of time between Weeknotes but come on… you didn’t even notice, right? The holidays and new year were nice and I certainly enjoyed two weeks off from work. There was plenty of time with family and friends, nice...
It’s the second steep of a relatively gentle green tea. I’m going with about 170 degrees Fahrenheit and though it’s recommended to brew gong fu style with short steepings, I’m brewing for a couple of minutes with fewer leaves this go...
My first paid streaming service was MOG. I joined in October 2010, paying $4.99 a month (!) and really liked it. The interface was a little odd and the way the queue operated took some getting used to, but it was a quirky service with...