A garage sale for your mind

A garage sale for your mind

Sign in Subscribe

Latest — 16 Mar 2026

Bank Fail

With my new bank—which I severely dislike, and that’s putting it mildly—I finally decided it was time to go paperless. You know, save a tree, stop the mailbox from turning into a recycling bin full of statements I never read, all that responsible-adult stuff. Sounds simple enough.

More posts

My Super Power

I once wrote an app. Crazy right? The main requirement for this app was that it needed to scan ITF barcodes. I didn't know anything about barcodes at the time, but I knew iOS had built-in support for handling some barcodes. Turns out, it didn't have

A New Hate (GA ZLY-564)

I don't think I ever even thought enough about the sport bike community to have an opinion on its existence ... until the other day. We were driving home from church, just like any other Sunday. We eventually caught up with this gaggle of sport bikes. Two of them

Instagram is Dead

I guess it shouldn't surprise me that Instagram would go the way of its parent company (Facebook). Sporadically I'll venture back to Facebook, thinking I can catch up on whatever the latest is my friends or relatives are up to, and instead I'm accosted

Primal Urges

Every time I light a fire and smell the smoke – most recently in the context of getting the grill going – something in my very core is awoken; something that wants me to own a big chunk of land in the mountains with a cabin or something, where we can go

Wind-ow

We were driving along when the wind started "whistling" because the window was slightly open. The kid in the car with me asked what that sound was. I explained. And then we both started wondering about the word "window" and "wind". Are they related?

Finally Running

I don't particularly love running, but I do love that, as far as being a mechanism for exercise, it just requires clothes and shoes. It is about as simple as possible. When I moved into this mountainous neighborhood I had to get used to running uphill. Eventually I

Friends

If you don't have yourself some first generation, Chinese immigrant friends, get yourself some first generation, Chinese immigrant friends. The take-home leftovers are amazing.

Kindle Kids Catch 22

My 9yo comes to me with his Kindle. He's reading a book that has some printable supplementary material. When he taps on the link, the Kindle tells him that printing is not supported from within Amazon Kids. Hmm. I exit Amazon Kids for him. Maybe we can access

St. Croix Pros & Cons

One of the downsides to life on St. Croix is that Amazon deliveries might take 2 - 3 days, but they might also randomly get hung up in Puerto Rico for 3 - 4 weeks. There's no way to tell. One of the upsides though is that there

Web Analytics