Articles
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PowerPoint is the wrong hammer
April 28, 2020
Read moreOut of an email discussion at work , came this, which I thought I’d share since I seem to have to repeat it on a semi-regular basis… indeed, we are doomed to re-learn most lessons.
ATMOAccording To My Opinion (warning: rant begins) there is no plausible “good” use-case for Power Point, but it has become so embedded in the technocracy that it’s extremely difficult to back out of the habit. One can use it to present good material, but that doesn’t make any use whatsoever of the features that make PowerPoint what it is. Better to use a different tool altogether, lest one be tempted by the “features”.
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Bikepacking in Henry Coe State Park
March 8, 2020
Read moreThe rest of my family was heading off to Southern California for some college visits, leaving me to my own ends for three days… the weather has been unseasonably dry and warm, downright spring-like according to the flowers and grass which have taken off like it was May, so some kind of big outdoor adventure seemed in order. “Aha” I thought, “I shall go bikepacking into the depths of Henry Coe! That will keep me entertained for all of three days!”
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Blog Update
January 20, 2020
Read moreAfter (another) lengthy but unintended hiatus from posting, I’ve decided to revamp this blog.
I’ve been spending too much time reading Twitter and looking at Instagram. Thank goodness I never fell down the Facebook well, as the others are more than enough of a mostly-useless time sink.
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The Barputer
January 20, 2020
Read moreA few years ago (2005, see this blog post), Frosty and I came up with the notion of a small, inexpensive device that one could take to the bar, or elsewhere, without feeling like you were risking an expensive laptop or iPad – with a focus on writing (of code, or words) rather than web-surfing or game-playing. We coined the term “barputer” to describe this concept.
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Things Fall Apart
December 30, 2015
Read moreOn the one hand, it’s amazing how long old stuff can last. On the other, when your house was built in the 1950s, there’s an awful lot of old stuff that’s just waiting to break down. An example is the roller assemblies that our garage doors hang from.