Category Archives: Personal

New Look

I’m sure I’ll keep poking and prodding it for a while, but I’m trying out a new look for the blog starting today.

And yes, if you’re viewing this in anything approaching a decent browser, those are real, non-standard fonts. Hallelujah!

The Illustrated History of QLab, Personal Milestone Edition

Or: “Holy Frijoles. Five years?”

Or: “So THAT just happened.”

Or: “In a few hours the circle closes and I am going to yell about it from my little rooftop because although it ain’t really all that huge — wow it sure feels huge to me.”

Warning: personal story ahead. And yeah, it’s kind of long. [...]

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Brian Howard.

Some folks affect you disproportionately. Brian has been one of those. I’m not sure exactly how to describe it. It’s probably silly for me to pull the word “hero” into the description, but I’m not sure I can really avoid the word either. Little things can confer that status on [...]

Look Left

It’s early Saturday morning, my wife just went to work, and residing in my mental register are about eight things that take drastically higher priority over writing a blog post.

So heeeeyyyeeeeeere I am. Top of the morning to you. I’ve got a date with the farmers’ market in about an hour, so let’s [...]

Figure 53 in the Baltimore Sun

I just walked down to Eddie’s Market and picked myself up a few copies of today’s Baltimore Sun.

The checkout lady (who loves to gab and give advice) grinned and asked if I was in it. I guess buying four copies is a give-away. I mumbled yes, which sent her diving into the stack, [...]