Jasper

We bought these sixteen acres in September. It's my outdoor gym. The one-time membership fee was painful, but the grossly unmaintained property is the workout gift that keeps on giving. For the past month I've been clearing what will be the backyard (left side of the

Thirty-nine months of catch-up.

Thirty-nine months later, I'M BACK. Let me catch you up really fast so we can get on with this. 2012.11 - iPad 4! 2013.05 - Met a girl 2013.05 - Moved to SkyHouse Midtown from Atlantic Station (ugh) 2013.12 - Surprised girl with a

Road-Side Tax Collection

Perhaps due to slacking off around Thanksgiving, the deputized, road-side tax collectors were out in force today - to the tune of nineteen speed traps between here and church. Sorry, Timmy, you don't get your present this year because Officer Billy Bob needed to make his quota.

Thanksgiving Leftovers

"To one large turkey add one gallon of vermouth and a demijohn of Angostura bitters. Shake." – F. Scott Fitzgerald, recipe for turkey cocktail. Seriously, he was a genius.

Conversation with Aimee

A: We're in an apartment building. Do you think we'll get trick-or-treat'ers? C: *checks calendar* Is today Halloween? I bought candy just so that I'd have something cheap to toss their way. *Merry Christmas. Here's a USB hard drive. It&

Stone Mountain PATH Trail

I ventured a little further from my comfort zone again today. First, my hopes of being able to calmly and fully explore the entirety of the Eastside Beltline trail were interrupted by some sort of high-pressure spraying being done to the trail, thus blocking the trail. Another cyclist told me

Parallela

I haven't been this excited about a Kickstart project in, well, forever, actually. Parallela. If all goes well, I'll have a 64-core RISC-based Ubuntu-running computer to play with this coming May. The DSP stuff I could do with that ... I wonder if I should start writing

Collected Thoughts on Elections and Squirrel-Like Behavior

Below, please find some of my collected thoughts that individually didn't warrant a blog post (even by my own, low standards) and together probably don't warrant one either. First, there's this upcoming presidential election. While I'll apply my thoughts specifically to that

GPS for Running

Back when I lived in Alpharetta I drove a couple miles to reach the Greenway whenever I wanted to bike or run. It was a luxury that I never fully appreciated until I moved away, spring arrived and running was no longer quite so simple. There's something about

Free, Throw-Away Email Addresses

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