Things I am observing myself thinking about: I can’t listen to Peter Gabriel’s “Big Time” these days without thinking that it’s something like Donald Trump’s theme song.I’ve hit a wall in exercising. Need more motivation. Need to push harder. (Oddly enough, my annoyance at having hit a wall was motivating.)I think a lot of the [...]
Football fans, daily writing, fasting
Things I have observed recently: Football fans – even fans of my own favorite teams – can be absolute jerks and tools.I am committed to writing this… series or whatever it is. Yet it’s only a thing, and not the thing. Consistency is difficult.I would really love each observation to be relevant, heavy, big even [...]
Jalen Hurts, Clemson, Politics, Teamwork
Things I am thinking about having thought about: I feel bad for Jalen Hurts. Swapped out for Tua Tagovailoa, despite having been the guy for Alabama last year… and this year, gets put in on Alabama’s last drive for mop-up duty, when the game’s already lost and there’s no flexibility left to exploit. “Go in [...]
NCAA Football, accents, free will
Things I’m thinking about Monday: Tonight’s the last NCAA football game of the season. Thank goodness. I hope it’s a good one.I want to pronounce “Monday” with a Scottish accent, but it turns out I have no idea how to make it sound like it’s a Scottish accent. It’s not my accent, whatever it is, [...]
Recliners, Ocasio-Cortez, trust
Things I’ve thought about thinking about: I like recliners.I wonder if the same people who are outraged about Brett Kavanaugh’s drinking as a young man are the same people who have no problem whatsoever with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez dancing like a young woman in a video… or if the people horrified that a woman would dance [...]
Art, JDBC, coffee, JSoup, Gradle, Hallelujah, Resetting
Things I may have learned recently-ish: Painting pottery is fun. I’m not very good at it. I apparently also have a thing for beer steins… out of which I drink coffee, because beer isn’t very good in my opinion. But steins are also a LOT of coffee, so it’s impractical to drink coffee from steins.Speaking [...]
Virtuoso, people, exercise
Things I think I’ve learned today: Virtuoso – a SPARQL database that’s used by DBPedia – is surprisingly nice, but it’s also got some oddities in synchronization behavior. I have a bulk process that runs for days, and I added a “resting” phase to allow Virtuoso to handle checkpoints gracefully, etc., and finding the sweet [...]
Places, football, Facebook
Things I have learned recently, I think: Every so often, you figure out that you are exactly where you are supposed to be at this particular time. That can be reassuring or frightening, I suppose, depending on your outlook.College football this year has been boring. Sure, I’m affected by not having a pony in the [...]
Justice?, cats, resolutions, 2019
Things I’ve learned recently: It’s tempting to write expressions of moral outrage, like “Does anybody remember justice?”, but then you remember that yes, most people do, but they’d rather reach for revenge or outrage instead. Justice takes too long. It’s also too easy for justice to accept that the wrongdoer might not be so wrong [...]
Wondering if you’re loved, literally?, python dependencies
Things I’ve learned recently: If you really want to know if you have value, post something of questionable worth on the Internet. You’ll immediately have a bunch of people correcting you. That’s not to say you should post anything harmful – for goodness’ sake, don’t do that – but post something that makes an assertion [...]