2023-06-19 | #Books
I Love Reading Not for work or education. That’s for nerds. I really love reading in the evening, during travel, while camping, at the in-laws, in the bathroom… I love reading for fun, and I mostly read horror. A lot. Not a healthy amount but the “why are you so anxious?” amount. Admittedly, I even like when I read before bedtime and I have a nightmare. It really makes you feel alive.
2023-06-05 | #Geekyness #Mechanical Keyboard
Building a new keyboard requires an immense amount of justification. Because you can only use one at a time, and they are not cheap. My first keyboard build was fun, but, I had two things I disliked. First, the height of the chassis was uncomfortable. Second, I did not really LOVE the brown switches after months of use. Third and final, the last act of Red Dead Redemption 2 broke my spacebar switch.
2023-04-26 | #Geekyness #Maintenance #Site
Things have changed. Or not, if this went poorly It has been a few years since I’ve changed something with this site, and it was time. In early 2016 I switched to Hugo, from Octopress. This was done because Hugo seemed to have a lot of momentum behind it, and boy was it much faster to generate a site. Before that, in 2013 it was from Wordpress to Octopress. This was my first push into a static site vs a big publishing platform that required a bunch of resources I no longer had at my disposal.
2023-04-19 | #Geekyness #IRIX #SGI #Silicon Graphics
I did a fun thing at work. A group of us had run through Prometheus training, and the group coordinator had asked if people could present about new things they had discovered. So, how I learn the absolute best is to tinker. Its not to read, because I’m at a 5th grade reading level, nor is it to listen and watch adult story time because I have a short attention span.
2023-04-11 | #Games #Reviews
WARNING! This post has spoilers. Both in text and images. Do not read beyond the summary if you do not want anything spoiled. Pentiment I mentioned this masterpiece in my Games of 2022 post, as well as when I was a guest on EP78 The Jump Crouch Podcast, but I wanted to give a small and potentially spoiled review. Plus some pictures. Because I compensate for my poor wording and though process by distracting potential readers with images.
2023-01-16
2022, probably a less diverse year in gaming for me due to the overwhelming time sink that was and still is: Elden Ring. Still, here is my list Cyberpunk 2077 While I was waiting for Elden Ring to come out, I played Cyberpunk 2077 for the second time. I enjoyed it possibly even more than the first, and wrote a lengthy love letter Elden Ring I have played this game for over 500 hours, this year.
2023-01-06
Previous years, I have primarily had a focus on Deadlifts and Squats. They are my personal favorites. I feel like I get a lot of mileage out of them. After a few years of slow by steady progress with my deadlift and squat progress, I had noticed that my bench press and overhead press had become stagnant. Max bench press from 2016 - 2021 was 255. No more, no less.
2022-12-01 | #Desktop #Development #Geekyness #Linux #Work
This post is in the spirit of usesthis.com, because after working at Blizzard for a while I wanted to share the setup I’ve currently settled on and why. What I Do I’m a Site Reliability Engineer, and my day to day workload consists of: System troubleshooting (k8s, containers, vm’s, baremetal, etc.) YAML Software development (golang mostly) Communicate with people I help people solve problems, fix things, and occasionally I get to dive into a old system and figure out what is what.
2022-11-21 | #Obituary
I would be remiss if I wrote an entire post to my dearly departed cat, and not one of my father in law (who had a profound effect on myself and the family) Curt was diagnosed with cancer almost two years ago. During may of 2021 when we had made a trip down, my mother in law told me privately while I was in the garage putting some sodas in the fridge.
2022-08-16 | #Games #Reviews
Dead Space (2008) *WARNING! This post contains spoilers! I did another Long Jump podcast with the Jump Crouch folks: Aaron McNair, Orrin Luc, and the dark web only Kevin McNair on The Jump Crouch Podcast As this is now my tradition, here are my expanded thoughts that I mostly expressed on the episode. I played dead space when I was still in my PCMR snobbery before we even called it that.
