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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Our internet bill was too high. It had gone beyond the promotional contract period and the triple-play bundle for 300/300 net, medium-level TV package, and home phone (yes, a landline!) was just too much considering that we almost never watched live TV/DVR anymore. My goal was simple: Increase our net to gigabit,...
I once again have a functioning 8-track player, so now I can play my grandfather’s old Sons of the Pioneers1 cartridges as well as knock off Monkees and Beatles groups doing covers. Yay! It involved opening up my Lear Jet H-300, poking around a bit, and finally determining it was just a belt that needed replacing. I...
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 Surplus Electronics.” One of dozens (or hundreds), I’m sure. The content was...
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 addition to writing new posts, I’ve been digging through old favorites that used...
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 giving a summary of what I’ve been up to, I’m going to share a couple sentences...
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 to music or writing a blog post or rearranging a room or taking a nap or just…...
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). How about we just get into a few links and things? Some Links Worth Sharing The...
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 insurance company offers towing coverage, it’s not a “nice add-on feature.” Each...
(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 Qobuz commentary tossed in): Vs. Deezer Advantages Live radio - It’s pretty cool to...
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 your own personal music collection. That could be simply playing music locally...
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 first record was Big & Beautiful, the Fat Boys' third album, which came out in...
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 stop walking into the street to avoid unshoveled sidewalks. I’ve had an unusually...
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