I like to thumb through old notepads and scraps that I’ve saved with doodles and drawings. Sometimes, when a drawing hits in a certain way, I copy it into my drawing app (Krita) and recreate it digitally. I don’t have a process to save or recall these doodles, but I find it meditative to thumb…
Category: Beside the point
Entrance to another realm
Sometimes I let my flights of fancy take off — even if just for a moment — and can imagine that this hole in the wall goes somewhere else. Somewhere that’s not here. This day I remembered that I have a camera in my pocket at all times. The local lore is that this road…
Creativity vs. pragmatism
I almost missed my weekly post. This week I got busy and had less reflection time, so this is very off-the-cuff. I’m not really a traditional “car guy.” My dad was mechanically inclined and while he was good at fixing and maintaining his cars, he never really fetishized a brand or model the way some…
Compartmentalization
Visual blog post today. Inspired by a dream.
Down the rabbit hole
Everything went out the window when the SD card arrived. You see, I have a Raspberry Pi server that, among other things, serves up my “personal cloud.” Unfortunately, the SD card that it boots from failed and I had no replacement. I had to steal the one in my 3D printer. Server up and running,…
Overheard in aisle 6
An alive idea is something that enters your brain from an external source: a philosopher, an article, someone you admire, someone you hate, and then you absorb it, and you think about it, and you decide, “I’m going to turn it around into this, and I’m going to make it alive and make it something…
A Clean Desk is a Sign of a Sick Mind
I like to have a clean desk at the end of the day. My desk is actually quite messy, because I like to keep too many things easily accessible. I’m a knowledge worker. I utilize my expertise to solve problems experienced by users of my employer’s products. Many issues are simple, resolved by the end…
Analysis paralysis
Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can achieve excellence. Vince Lombardi Sick day I took a sick day today. Some weird combination of vertigo and nausea. I’m writing this at midday, no longer nauseated but still somewhat dizzy. I decided to catch up on some maker videos that have been collecting…
Return of the index cards
This is just a quick post so that I attain my “post every week” goal. I must stop sleeping through my alarms. I was listening to a youtuber enthuse about the utility of index cards in maintaining one’s forward momentum with ongoing (or new) projects. Of course, someone in the comments said that this was…
I went grocery shopping this past Wednesday
My wife and I love each other very much. We also don’t celebrate Valentine’s day, mostly because we agree that it is a shameless money-grab that guilts people into performative “romance.” She finds it very irksome. We went grocery shopping on Wednesday night, quite on impulse because we were already out and needed to “pick…