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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 there! Quick rabbit update: Rex is doing well, pretty much back to his normal self after about two weeks. It’s good to see. The daughter is home from college for Thanksgiving break. Excited to have her here! Saturday is an annual Thanksgiving potluck at my favorite animal sanctuary. A thousand people show up,...
Watching movies at home in the mid-1980s, one had a few choices: Broadcast TV. Premium cable channels like HBO, Cinemax, or PRISM for movies a year or older; Expensive pay-per-view (or as I remember it being branded in the greater Philly area, “Front Row” and then “First Run”) where you could rent a movie that was...
We’ve been dealing with a sick bunny around the house this past week. Rabbits have fragile systems and can go from “OK” to “really bad news” quickly, so it’s important (and, at times, exhausting) to stay on top of things when they come up. He’s doing alright, on antibiotics to deal with a bacterial infection and a...
I seem to be settling into an every-other-week cadence with these weeknotes. I don’t think that’s a permanent thing, but I’m glad I gave myself the space to do these at indeterminate intervals. On Tuesday, I started my 22nd year of working elections. I first worked back in 2004 as a regular ol' election officer just...
Google has gone from the de facto search engine to mediocre, at best, and unusable at worst. Small, focused search engines are fun and useful in certain situations, but not as defaults. Kagi is neat, but let’s be real, it’s unlikely I’m going to pay for a search engine. (Donate occasionally if one is really useful?...
Life Notes I had a birthday and have officially made it to a half-century. I took the day off, went hiking with H up at Gambrill State Park in Maryland, had a nice lunch, did some record shopping, visited a pet cemetery, and saw a special screening at Alamo Drafthouse of Night of the Living Dead 1990’s new...
Human cemeteries are fascinating. no question. We try to infer stories about people’s entire lives from just the information on the gravestones. We make assumptions about cause of death based on the date they died. We quietly mourn babies and young children we never knew. We even sometimes get a good laugh at names...
Ten years ago I had some thoughts on turning 40. Now I’m at the next milestone birthday with a few more thoughts to share. A lot of life has happened in ten years. Let’s start with some birthday facts: Fifty years ago today, it was a Tuesday (like today!) and the weather was fair and mild in South Jersey. If my...
Weeknote #14. Too lazy to try and rhyme “fourteen.” Life Notes Last weekend I ran a half-marathon in West Virginia. The weather was beautiful, the vibes were nice, and I ran it faster than I expected to. Not a bad way to spend the second-to-last-weekend of my 40s. If reading about running doesn’t bore you, there’s a...
I kicked around several ideas about how to approach this post. It was initially going to be a standard “how I listen to music in 2025” post where I talked about how I’m trying to bring some variety back, going beyond just streaming. I was going to talk about playing vinyl, returning to my mp3 collection, etc. but...
I always wanted to be a person that ran. I was a fast kid, always at the top of elementary school gym class in the 50-yard dash and a frequent base stealer in my Little League days. But I never actually, really ran. I joined track in high school and peaced out after two days. That was the extent of it. As I got...
Weeknote #13, I’mma pluck ‘em, yay. This had to be his most, unlucky lucky day. Life Notes This was one of those weeks that felt two months long. But, hey, we made it! Some Links Worth Sharing How to Be a Good Literary Citizen (in Seven Easy Steps) The Danger of Stoic Sadism: I’d seen this “broic” philosophy taking...
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