In 2006 I bought two new vehicles: a motorcycle and a car. The car got
practically no use until the late Fall because I was riding the motorcycle
everywhere. Middle-aged crisis, anybody? I started obsessing over the computer
game Oblivion—it really was a significant impact on my life!—but I
still found time to begin running as a hobby, and even completed the 10K Sun
Run and another mini-marathon at UBC in the Summer. I quit my 6-year job and
started a new one because I needed to shift my focus away from being the best
damned tech writing SME you ever saw, and instead focused on managing people
and process. A two- or three-year arc of learning how to be a leader began in
this year.
| Dec 21st,
2006 - | Oblivion: The computer
game. The state it leaves me in. |
| Dec 20th,
2006 - | Who wants to be reminded
of our fragile mortality? I do! I do! Me too please! |
| Dec 13th,
2006 - | Billions and billions of
Brian Porters |
| Dec 11th,
2006 - | The Paranoid Gerbil and
other stories |
| Dec 8th,
2006 - | Wrestling with the
Optics Demon |
| Dec 5th,
2006 - | Fridge magnet Christmas
poetry |
| Nov 29th,
2006 - | A fragment of
humanism |
| Nov 24th,
2006 - | A quick conversation
about a friend's company |
| Nov 23rd,
2006 - | Roger Hodgson, formerly
of Supertramp |
| Nov 20th,
2006 - | On a "need to know"
basis |
| Nov 15th,
2006 - | Putting the "fun" back
into "dysfunctional" |
| Nov 7th,
2006 - | The photocopier is no
dummy; it knows what I did |
| Nov 3rd,
2006 - | Playing with your
Lagos |
| Oct 31st,
2006 - | All safe and no scare
makes Jack a loose cannon |
| Oct 25th,
2006 - | There is some value in
sentimentality, after all |
| Oct 20th,
2006 - | Some casual chat apropos
to last rant |
| Oct 18th,
2006 - | By their fruits are they
remembered |
| Oct 13th,
2006 - | Love in the time of
prairie drought, Part II |
| Oct 11th,
2006 - | Love in the time of
prairie drought, Part I |
| Oct 6th,
2006 - | Of users and
geeks |
| Oct 3rd,
2006 - | Pardon my
French |
| Sep 29th,
2006 - | Each day seems to bring
us new heights of pneumatic pulchritude |
| Sep 25th,
2006 - | Wham! Bam! I am! I swam
through spam! |
| Sep 20th,
2006 - | A tool of abuse and a
point of contention |
| Sep 18th,
2006 - | We all work for
Napoleon |
| Sep 15th,
2006 - | Chase You Out
Again |
| Sep 13th,
2006 - | Is it possible to pine
for crappy coffee? |
| Sep 6th,
2006 - | Put that romance thing
away before you hurt someone! |
| Aug 30th,
2006 - | True joy from the
unplanned and the unexpected |
| Aug 25th,
2006 - | We could all be
artificial intelligences |
| Aug 23rd,
2006 - | Why start looping
now? |
| Aug 22nd,
2006 - | Soul searching for
gratitude |
| Aug 18th,
2006 - | The fury of the
exceptional in the sights of the plodding |
| Aug 14th,
2006 - | My phantom
nemesis? |
| Aug 11th,
2006 - | It can't all just be
competition for resources ... can it? |
| Aug 8th,
2006 - | White-bred suburban
upper-middle-class Protestant boy ponders the word, "hay" |
| Aug 4th,
2006 - | Road-rage experienced
first-hand |
| Aug 2nd,
2006 - | Memories of
music |
| Jul 26th,
2006 - | You'd better be sure
it's worth it |
| Jul 24th,
2006 - | Monday thoughts of
turning the corner |
| Jul 20th,
2006 - | The content defines the
form? Well, probably not in the real world ... |
| Jul 19th,
2006 - | But I refuse to twice
say that "Z" word |
| Jul 17th,
2006 - | Do flight attendants
read movie credits? |
| Jul 8th,
2006 - | Ethanol, a scary TV
show, and where art thou, my wife? |
| Jul 5th,
2006 - | It's a big world, after
all |
| Jun 30th,
2006 - | Even a mother can be
selfless for only so long |
| Jun 27th,
2006 - | Idle words about idyll
words; eye-dull words about idol words |
| Jun 23rd,
2006 - | They are not "just
words" |
| Jun 22nd,
2006 - | *Sniff* Goodbye, my
faithful little companion |
| Jun 15th,
2006 - | Where does the line
between self-respect and survival fall? |
| Jun 12th,
2006 - | With this ring, I see
red |
| Jun 1st,
2006 - | Too much oil is bad for
the health |
| May 29th,
2006 - | Three little ninjas are
we |
| May 23rd,
2006 - | The crushing agonizing
deathly loneliness that leads you into another's arms |
| May 16th,
2006 - | All I really need to
know I learned in my high school boys' room |
| May 15th,
2006 - | The Dog Explosion and
the Church of Environmentalism |
| May 9th,
2006 - | Freedom is the
embodiment of perfection |
| May 5th,
2006 - | A piano piece of cake
and eat it too |
| May 3rd,
2006 - | Fun in the Sun |
| May 2nd,
2006 - | Geez! Some people's
children! |
| May 1st,
2006 - | Making memories |
| Apr 24th,
2006 - | Fun in the Sun
(Run) |
| Apr 19th,
2006 - | A weak muscle to
flex |
| Apr 13th,
2006 - | The word
piranhas |
| Apr 5th,
2006 - | "Here for a good time /
Not a long time" |
| Apr 3rd,
2006 - | The Kawasaki
Kompensator |
| Mar 30th,
2006 - | Would you like a
side-order of style with that? |
| Mar 23rd,
2006 - | I'm gonna write that
boring shit right outta my blog |
| Mar 21st,
2006 - | It's all about
perceptions |
| Mar 16th,
2006 - | Fear is the true
addictive substance for which rampant consumerism attempts to
compensate |
| Mar 13th,
2006 - | Victoria
victims |
| Mar 12th,
2006 - | Thought for
food |
| Mar 8th,
2006 - | Internalising the
pursuit of that which we can't define |
| Mar 6th,
2006 - | A note about some
songs |
| Mar 2nd,
2006 - | There's confidence,
there's pigheadedness ... and then there's the successful ... |
| Feb 22nd,
2006 - | Mensa, you
idiots! |
| Feb 21st,
2006 - | A cashless
society |
| Feb 19th,
2006 - | You Wish |
| Feb 17th,
2006 - | "Dust in the Wind", eh?
Kansas were optimists |
| Feb 16th,
2006 - | Congratulations! You've
been overchoiced! |
| Feb 14th,
2006 - | Happy Easter! Drat! Not
again! Maybe I got head-punched too many times in the 80s |
| Feb 8th,
2006 - | I envy the youths that
don't feel the need to bite the hand that- OUCH! |
| Feb 6th,
2006 - | If only people were more
like databases, damnit |
| Jan 31st,
2006 - | And the coffee tastes
better, too |
| Jan 30th,
2006 - | OK, there, I finally
said it; just be glad I didn't name names |
| Jan 27th,
2006 - | If I were blind this
would piss me off |
| Jan 26th,
2006 - | Hah hah that was so
funny I forgot to laugh |
| Jan 23rd,
2006 - | Semantic and mechanical
meanings of hyperlinks |
| Jan 19th,
2006 - | It's my right and kind
of a rite to write, right? |
| Jan 18th,
2006 - | A certain amount of
inner strength and a big dose of non-self-consciousness |
| Jan 16th,
2006 - | And the coffee tastes
better, too |
| Jan 11th,
2006 - | The Shredmaster 3000 ...
just when you thought it was safe to start hoarding bank statements again
... |
| Jan 4th,
2006 - | No resolutions for the
new year, but a theme |