Steam Machine, Drones

This is the first time I've been tempted to buy a game console since the Wii U – which I only bought so that I could own Mario Kart. Clearly it's not the aesthetics of this device causing the temptation. However, the temptation might be quelled when

Unintended Consequences of Technology

When I was a teenager and into my early 20s, I had a large spiral bound map book in the back pocket of the driver's seat in my car. I didn't have to use it often though. The rare trip to a new location was just

Migrating from Blogger to Ghost

Blogger (and blogging in general) may not be The Big Thing these days, but I still kind of expected Ghost would support migrating one’s old blog over. I did some digging. The most popular migration method is to: (1) export your Blogger posts to JSON, (2) import into WordPress,

The Wrong Dimension

Apple has been doing this for years. At this point it is impossible to believe they aren't just trolling the world. They never seem to know which dimension to focus on. How many years have they spent touting how they shaved 1/1,000,000th of a millimeter

Why Our Dreams Are Visual

A theory holds that dreams are a way for the visual cortex of the brain to “defend its turf” against being “taken over” to process inputs from other senses. Why Do We Dream? Maybe to Ensure We Can Literally ‘See’ the World upon AwakeningA theory holds that dreams are a

Peace in the Home

My wife has an allergy to empty spaces. I really dislike clutter. Somehow, we survive together. I returned home yesterday following a “church work day” — two of the kids and I spent the morning tossing stuff in the dumpster, cleaning out storage rooms and other such mundane but necessary tasks

SwiftUI: Does it [Still] Suck?

I used HyperCard in the late-80s and early-90s to make some fun applications and animations. It still amazes me that Myst was implemented in HyperCard. As kids, we did more with HyperCard than I've ever seen kids doing these days. I used Gtk with Perl to craft some

The Religion that Requires the Most Effort

I am, of course, thinking of Flat Earthers. There's an argument to be made that it requires a lot more faith to believe that all order came randomly from chaos than is required to believe in a divine Creator, but that's not what I want to

Mix-n-Match Church Beliefs

You've got churches that practice baptism by immersion. You've got churches that practice infant baptism. But where are the churches that practice infant baptism by immersion?? Why is there no overlap? I did not expect this to work, but I had to try anyway.... Grok actually

My Dot Com

Years ago I looked at curtisjones.com and saw that it was for sale. That might be fun to own. According to the Wayback Machine, it had been used for precisely nothing its entire existence, which was a little sad, and a lot fortuitous. The domain reseller follows up with