Why I’m Starting to Self-Host Apps
The death of Google Reader came at an interesting time for me. Over the past few years, I’ve been scanning and making digital copies of my parents’ and grandmother’s photos. See, when I lived with my parents for 10 months right before my wedding, I lived in the basement. There I found a few old […]
21 Things That Currently Fascinate Me
I’ve got a lot on my mind – lots of cool and not-so-cool things going on. So let’s dump them out on a page, shall we? (note: This is a good exercise for you to do, especially if you are having trouble concentrating.) Jazz music. I’ve added the Blue Note app on Spotify, and I play […]
Do It For More Than The Chicks
Back in the Stone Age, when MTV used to play actual music videos, as time wore on you saw musicians and artists developing a trend in the themes of their videos – particularly in the rap and hip-hop genre: the star was the center of attention, worshiped by those surrounding him. Draped all over the […]
Creativity, Power, and Guitars
A few nights ago, before the New Year was rung in, I sat in my basement fiddling with the television. I was installing software to my Raspberry Pi so that I could have a full home media center in my basement, complete with live TV, just like the upstairs living room (insert shameless plug for […]
The Top Everything of 2012
It’s review time for me today, which I think is one of those exercises that everybody would benefit from. I’ll be going over how I did on my annual goals and setting myself up for 2013, but first I want to look at some of the good things that went on this year. What better […]
Thoughts on Manvotionals, Chapter 1
I haven’t written a whole lot about reading yet because, frankly, I don’t know how to. I don’t know what form this post will take, nor do I know whether or not it will change as time goes on. Either way, we’re just going to roll with it and see what happens. What Chapter One […]
12 Things I Will Stop Being Angry With in 2013
As the year winds down, I’m starting to get reflective. I think that’s a healthy thing – from time to time, we need to take stock in our lives and make some changes. We’re not perfect human beings, so we can always strive to be better. One thing I’ve noticed over the years is how […]