New Year’s Day is here. It’s considered a time of new beginnings, of fresh starts. People have made, or will be making, resolutions again. I’ve read that New Year’s resolutions have a low efficacy. Few people follow through on them. In my own experience, I tend to become distracted, or I forget my resolve, or … [Read more…]
I’m not a big player of the basketball. I’ve dabbled from time to time — in my driveway, at church gyms and on summer camp courts — and while I’ve always enjoyed it, I’ve never been extremely driven to do much more than shoot around a bit and play the occasional pick-up game. My two … [Read more…]
About six months ago, my daughter started going to an orthodontist based on a recommendation from her dentist. My initial reaction was somewhat skeptical — she’s only nine, surely she doesn’t need to see an orthodontist yet — but after the requisite lecture about how bad of a parent I would be to allow my … [Read more…]
I tend to watch a lot of TV (by TV I mean mostly stuff I download or stream on Hulu, etc.). I justify it because I often watch it while doing other things: Preparing dinner, washing dishes, folding laundry, etc. But it also has become somewhat of a distraction. I feel like it frequently makes … [Read more…]
I slept pretty darn good last night. Perhaps not long enough, but the sleep I got was deep. And, importantly, all at once. I tend to be a “middle-of-the-night” insomniac (really, that’s an actual type, acronymized as MOTN), falling asleep early and then waking up a couple hours later ready to hit the night life. … [Read more…]
I’ve recently been re-ripping my entire CD collection to FLAC. It’s been kind of a pain in the ass, but I will be glad to have everything in a lossless format. It also untethers me from keeping my music collection in iTunes, which is kinda nice. I plan to jailbreak my iTouch and install vlc4iphone … [Read more…]
Hulu, the really nifty Flash-based online media site, is considering charging for content starting in 2010. The company hasn’t disclosed details yet about when it’ll start charging or what type(s) of content it’ll charge for, but it’s clear that charging of some kind is going to happen. Hulu is, in one sense, basically a cable … [Read more…]
From the notebooks of Heinlein’s Time Enough for Love: Do not confuse “duty” with what other people expect of you; they are utterly different. Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily. Paying that debt can entail anything from years of patient work to instant willingness to die. … [Read more…]