Rants, Raves, and Rhetoric v4

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  • The TBR Long Tail

    May 21, 2016
    Books / Novels / Writing

    My “to be read” (TBR) list is long. Too long. Over a thousand books long. Part of the problem is Goodreads. I will hear about some book say on the radio, open up the app, find it and mark it TBR. Often enough, I will find that I already have. There are 207 TBR physical books…

  • DVR sort by size

    May 16, 2016
    Movies / Films / TV

    When I get home from a trip like yesterday’s getting home from Jekyll Island, one of the first things I do is check out the free space remaining on the DVR. At times I get it down to under 50% full, but there have been times upon returning home I was up to over 95%…

  • TED Talk: Byron to Batman

    April 26, 2016
    Psychology

    This talk resonated very deeply in part because so much of the media I consume. Of the Marvel and DC heroes, Batman and Ironman, two billionaires who are brilliant, resourceful, and psychologically broken are my idols. I love Sherlock Holmes and Frank Underwood for their insights into the frailty of human goodness. Maybe I should…

  • Review: Wolf Hall

    April 22, 2016
    Books / Novels / Writing

    Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel My rating: 3 of 5 stars Found the writing pretty dry. Plenty of characters who go by their name, nickname, or title. So it was easy to lose track of what is happening when reading in little spurts, which probably set me back about 25% my normal pace just from…

  • TED Talk: Open your library, share your story

    April 19, 2016
    Race / Racism

    A spoken word piece at TEDxUGA which I enjoyed.

  • Scary Password Policy

    April 19, 2016
    Cybersecurity

    Doing a training thing for work next week. The training coordinator sent an email to 25 of us about how to access the learning portal. The username is email and password is a single word with an exclamation point. My first instinct was get in ASAP and change the password since so many other people…

  • TED Talk: Star to universe

    April 12, 2016
    Quotes

    My first in person TEDxUGA was last year. I returned again this year. It opened with this spoken word poem to set this year’s theme: Illuminate.

  • Hangouts New Message Annoyance

    April 7, 2016
    Google

    In Gmail, the Google Hangouts icon showed I had a new message. If there is an indicator of something new, then I must clear it. Not an obsession or a compulsion, but it makes me uncomfortable to have unread things laying around. The conversation list only showed old items. There were a couple near the…

  • Resolution Progress 2016: First Quarter

    April 2, 2016
    Books / Novels / Writing, Goal Progress, Health / Medicine

      Read 75 books. I should be at 18.75 read by this point. So, 18 is pretty good. Hit 25,000 pages. I should be at 6,250 pages read, so my 6,270 is on pace. Finish series already started. I finished the Millennium series (one book) and make progress on both the Robot and Expanse series (4…

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