Hot Diggety Blog!
No ketchup on this dog — er, blog.
Subscribe via RSS:
-
Advice for the Passionless
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the nature of passion and work and how we try so hard to combine the two.
-
Why Cybersecurity Feels Like Bullshit
2.9 billion people. That’s the estimate for how many were affected by the recent NPD data breach. After reading this Time article about the hack, I had more questions than answers. Which is par for the course when you’re tallking about media coverage of anything regarding politics, health care, science, or data breeches. After the…
-
Owning a Home is… Expensive
We’ll likely look back on this time and think, Wow, I’m really glad we drank all those cocktails every night.
-
Reading right now
I don’t remember a time when I didn’t have a stack of books I was reading. I’ve been a library hound from a very young age. Even today, wandering the stacks at our local library gives me joy. Even if I don’t know what I’m looking for, there’s something about seeing so many books that…
-
$180
To say we’ve had a lot going on with our house since we moved in is like saying the 2024 political climate is somewhat polarized. There’s been a lot to deal with, and a lot to learn. Today’s was a comparatively small issue and a pretty quick fix. By a long shot, the least expensive…
-
Daydream Believer
I daydream a lot – that’s how I get my ideas. If I’m sitting in a café, I’m not on my phone because I want to hear my mind. I think that those periods of small solitude that we are really losing are so important. — Patti Smith
-
Bats!
We have bats in our attic. And not the baseball kind.
-
None of My Business
I’ve spent a lot of time and energy — many lost hours and years — worrying how people perceived me. Whether or not they liked me. Did I say something weird or was I misunderstood? Was I dressed appropriately? Was that joke weird or did they get it? I’ve decided that what people think of…
-
Why Do We Think What We Think?
Groupthink makes me cranky. The most important thing we can teach our children is to think for themselves. You might argue that teaching them to respect all other beings is a tad bit more important. I grant you, I thought of that as well. But I believe that if they can think for themselves, respect…
Air Force Apple be yourself Blue's Clues books career coffee computers cybersecurity driving drought education geekery groupthink home HP kids LGBTQ+ libraries life Linux living differently Macintosh me mindfulness money moving music nerd new year Opportunity parenting philosophy politics questioning reading resolutions restoration retro computing saving money Southern California tech TRS-80 vintage yard