Kids & Personal Space
The baby drools like a fountain on one arm, the four year old has turned my legs into a jungle gym, and the six year old has claimed the rest of me. Kids help cure you of your silly need for personal space.
Curtis Jones
Happy Birthday!
My six-year-old wanted ice cream for her birthday, with a notary and UPS Store stop along the way. At both, strangers wished her happy birthday and she ate it up, gliding out with a polite "thank you." Who knew running errands could be so impactful?
Two Months of Blogging
Seven hundred posts over twenty years, several long hiatuses, and now two months back at it with a daily weekday habit. The goal is simple: keep it going for at least a year. If Roman Atwood can post daily, I can manage a paragraph with a moral.
Roast Duck
Roast duck isn't quite as spectacular as smoked, but it's still worth the effort. The real trick is finding a source for ducks big enough to make it pay off.
Elderly Programmer
A research project wants programmers over 35 to come forward. The premise lands a little too close to home. Ha ha ha ugh.
Caustic Realtors
Hunting for a rental, I called about a house vacant for months. The realtor barely answered, demanded I move in immediately, snapped "I bet you would!" when I offered to sign at once, then canceled our meeting with no explanation. I cannot figure out why this house hasn't rented.
One Monitor to Rule Them All
I've loved my Dell UltraSharp 40 curved 5k2k, the pinnacle for a programmer, until Dell announced the 52-inch U5226KW. A FOOT bigger, 6144x2560, less curve but larger pixels for easier edges. Will this $3k beast ever sit on my desk? Would my wife even notice?
I Want to be Left Behind when Jesus Comes
Chances are you've never heard of John Nelson Darby, but if you're a mainstream American Christian he defined the pre-tribulation rapture doctrine you grew up with, shiny and new in the 1800s. On Biblical interpretation, older is generally better.
A Science Project with the Kids: Learn, Design, Construct & Test an Antenna
I need an antenna tuned to 1090MHz. I could just buy one, but with patience I can turn it into a project for a couple of my kids: learn the electromagnetics, design a quarter-wave ground plane, construct it, then test whether our reception improves. More to come.
The Sovereignty of God
My father-in-law gifted Arthur W. Pink's 1918 book on the sovereignty of God to all seven of us. If a book survives a hundred years, it's probably good. Pink contrasts Moses, sentenced for one act of disobedience, with Hezekiah's added fifteen years: God acts to please Himself.
