Category: miscellaneous

Listened to the most recent episode of Making Sense on the way into work today. I continue to be fascinated with the guests that Sam Harris finds. A few things that stuck with me: The connection between poetry and good thinking. I am not an expert in poetry, but I do find myself more attracted…

Moving to Lightsail is already paying dividends. One of the things on my wish list for a while now has been to add a SSL cert to my blog. This is a little for the geek factor / knowing how it works, but also since I know search engines give some extra juice to sites…

After deactivating all plugins and finding the log files, I determined that the nano instance of Lightsail is just too small to run the Bitnami WordPress image on. I just upgraded to the next largest size that has 1GB of RAM so we’ll see if that solves the database connection / crash errors that have…

I was listening to the most recent episode of The Portal podcast today. The Portal is a project by Eric Weinstein who works for Peter Thiel and is the brother of Bret Weinstein of Evergreen College fame (at least until I heard this podcast…). I am not sure I get what Eric is trying to…

Update: well that was a brief respite. Seem to be having some database connection errors so back to trying to figure this out. The blog has been a bit wonky for the last few weeks since I moved to Amazon. I tried out the basic components and seemed to have some success, but saw what…

I have made a number of tech upgrades in the last month or so. I happened to wander into a Apple store the day the new MacBook Pro 16″ launched…and walked home with one. I ended up getting far more machine than I need (the upgraded standard model with the core i9, 16 GB of…

I may or may not do a write up on the hike later on….but for now, here is a photo dump of the pics I took over a 6 day through hike of the Foothills trail in SC/NC. Highly recommended trail if you are looking into getting into backpacking.

We said goodbye to Sheriff today.  He seems to have been bitten by a brown recluse more than a month ago.  DeAnna gave him amazing care since then but he had been getting a little worse each day for the last week, so we made the call.  Who’d have thought something as small as a…

What am I doing that is thwarting my own attempts? Everything you?re trying to reach?by taking the long way round?you could have right now, this moment. If you?d only stop thwarting your own attempts. If you?d only let go of the past, entrust the future to Providence, and guide the present toward reverence and justice.…