It looks ominious and obnoxious. Like a giant tablet that doesn’t work like a tablet. Starlink. For my country living self and family, it’s FAST. 3 days in, and I can do things like upload my half of a podcast in the time it takes me to grab a salad. I also got a swank Starlink sticker. But that’s not even the big news of the week. Yesterday I recorded with Greg Schaffer talking about very, very […]
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I was shadow IT. Before the term. Before it was bad, and before programmers were “developers.” We had to be – more tasks than formal IT staff. Programming was the best way to solve business problems. Connect data together into information, into knowledge. Then wisdom for the people who needed to act on it. So if you had programming skill in the 90s, you’d get an opportunity to use that at work. If programming was
Scope was clear and sensible. Small pool-shaped (and sized) terraced flower bed. Prepped and growing flowers for as low a cost as possible. Marigolds, nasturtiums. Direct sow seeds. June had it looking a bit sparse, so I picked up a few annuals to plant in the gaps. Come mid July, the marigolds grew so big and so prevalent they dwarfed everything else. The packaging tells you when to thin the plants…and how much. Naa. They
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“Cashews are for rich people.” That’s a fallacy from my youth, along with thinking quicksand, snakebites, scorpions, and black widow spiders are actual daily perils. 🐍🕷️ 🦂 On the flip side – due to my father’s job, certain months of the year, we ate bucketsful of morel mushrooms many nights for dinner. So that seemed a given for adulthood.🍄 Our perspectives shift as we experience and learn more as to what’s real and where to
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In April – hard to believe – I started my 18th year of remote work. The only non-remote-based work during this time was teaching last semester onsite at Ozarks Technical Community College. But, teaching’s other areas of work – grading and administration of information – make teaching a #hybrid job. The original hybrid job. When you know you’re going to be a home-based worker, you select your living arrangements based on it. You need one or more workspaces
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Kayaks look quite stable but are exceptionally easy to tip.
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Nico and Cisco inspire changes in security.
Babies and toddlers do, too.
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34 years ago. 180 – 200 biscuits. My first night of work – June 14, 1989. Business likes metrics, so there you go. A couple o’ hundred biscuits. People rave about specialization for productivity, so there you go again. Biscuit queen for a day. KFC made them from scratch then. I was 16, almost 17 (yes, you can sing that), and I combined buttermilk, biscuit mix, and increasing speed throughout the night. Line the trays,
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After some summer inactivity, it was some weightlifting on Tuesday and a 3-mile run on Wednesday.
Oh, not for me. But I can certainly empathize – and I’m sure you can, too.
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It’s every morning – between 7 and 8 local time.
The watering. Shade garden. Vegetable garden. Flower garden.
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