Category: miscellaneous

  • Strange loop quote from Bacon

    We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. – Francis Bacon I like the paradox in this quote. Especially because it’s true.

  • Quick job for a local designer

    I’m working on a small project and need to find a local designer to work with me to create a model that can be 3d printed. Know anyone? Interested?  It’s a paying gig and shouldn’t take more than an hour or two.

  • I am a "needy" home educating dad

    After a lot of discussion, reflection and even amidst continuing doubts, we (Mason, DeAnna and I) have made the decision to give home education a go again for this next year, which would be his Freshman year in traditional high school.  When we decided to try home education for the first time last year, we…

  • Security dominoes

    Getting off my ass and finally getting email encryption setup seems to have set off the security bug.  Last week I decided to go ahead and finally sign up for a VPN to secure all of my internet traffic.  I shopped around and finally settled on a provider that had high reviews in forums, on…

  • Back to school

    No not the kids (at least not yet).  Me, at least for the next 2 days. In 48 hours I will be an NRA certified pistol and home firearm safety instructor, assuming I can pass the test.

  • No such thing as bad press

    I hope there really is no such thing as bad press because my dad and I both made headlines yesterday. My dad made it into the local paper.  And I made it into…Maxim. This is a follow up to my far to brief (fractions of a second around the 36 or 37 second mark) of…

  • Ethical Leadership

    As I mentioned in the intro to my last post, I spent last week cloistered in the woods south of Atlanta at a week long company sponsored leadership training.  I had a combination of both high a low expectations going in: high expectations about the quality of the course which were set primarily based on the…

  • Hostages to fortune

    He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. – Francis Bacon

  • Great write up on a recent Trump speech

    This is the most informative and well thought out piece I have read on a 2016 presidential candidate so far (not that I have read a lot…but its still really good).