Being a beautiful day outside here in central Virginia, sunny, and flirting with 80° outside, it seemed like the perfect opportunity to take the bike out to the local park/conservation area and try to get a few hours of riding in. Really beautiful out there, if someone desolate – it’s warm, with a nice breeze […]

Trying something a little different this morning, instead of running a random ten off of the hard drive or mp3 player, I’m recording the first ten tunes that come out of my pandora radio quick mix station. It’s one of those things I’ve been playing with since I got the new phone, and so far, […]

For the last two weeks, the software project I work on has been in one of those hiatuses inspired by the need for the program managers to brief successively higher levels of authority about progress before being granted permission to move on to the next phase where we get to build things instead of talk […]

Something I ran into this morning in purusal of the news: this story about how Magic Hat, the artisan brewer, just employed a new process that uses waste grain from the brewing process to produce natural gas to fuel the brewery’s wastewater treatment, saving the company a good deal of money and reducing it’s waste […]

I had the privilege of hearing this fellow speak a couple of weeks back, and a lot of his way of looking at the world resonated and stuck with with me. It’s a beautifully spiritual way of looking faith, religion (and it’s various definitions), and the universe through a scientific lens; one to which I’m […]

I’ve been seeing this all over the place the last couple of days, and to be honest, it’s one of the better simple analyses of the whole Wisconsin situation that I’ve seen. Presented here for posterity: A public union employee, a tea party activist, and a CEO are sitting at a table with a plate […]

It’s been a little quiet around here lately, other than eighteen seconds of laser cat bowling and a couple of microposts. It’s not that I’ve died, though at times over the last week or so, it’s kind of felt like it. I figure the half a dozen of you who actually look here regularly and […]