Flipping The Calendar
What we make of a year doesn't come rolling in on January 1st. It is a series of moments that culminate into a complete chapter. We like these changeovers because they arrange our lives into neatly packaged bits of narrative. The world is digested and made sense of.
It does make sense to at least . . .
Ten Albums I Loved In 2018
Though this list is ranked, I mostly wanted to share music from this year people should check out. So I used my LastFM profile to count albums from this year that I played the most. There are a ton of EPs I liked that were buried by the way LastFM ranks album plays, as well as some newer records that haven't had a chance to stick into the . . .
Link Post - Drones, Airports, and Sensationalism
Hackaday - The idea that the media would blindly report a piece of speculation shouldn't surprise anyone. Hackaday breaks down the evidence of the Gatwick airport closing, and it doesn't look good for the drone theory. It does help slip in free ads for a drone security device that pearl-clutching politicians can force airports to buy. . . .
100 Hour Reviews: Spider-Man
Calling Spider-Man, the best superhero video game feels like Hyperbole, even a month out from finishing it. The Marvel Ultimate Alliance and X-Men Legends games were great, but Spider-Man was a game that did its best to make you feel like a hero, while still staying close to the progression and story-telling required to feel like a game.
. . .Learning Diary: Learning But Not Coding
I’ll have to admit that my coding practice has fallen off almost completely. The new job has me learning a lot of new things, most of them not code related. Taking over SCOM and Orchestrator has me learning a lot more about Automation outside of coding though I did make a Powershell port scanner that was pretty fun to use.
I’ll . . .
Book Review: Rule 34 By Charlie Stross
It’s a good sign when you finish an older book that you go digging for the sequel. Sadly, despite the fact that Charlie Stross’ Rule 34 came out seven years ago, there isn’t going to be a sequel. Stross cancelled the series because the Snowden revelations were making the series too close to reality.
Making a . . .
NaNoWriMo 2018
I hit my fifty-thousand-word count for NaNoWriMo 2018 at 4 AM on December first, but I don’t count the date change until after I go to sleep. So I’m counting it as a win. The final day was a grind of nearly seven-thousand words, and I’m convinced that the last chapter became a hallucinatory version of the closing credits wrap up to the story. . . .