Welcome to my website. This is where I write about things that interest me. Hopefully, readers might occasionally find it interesting, too. I write mostly about things that happen in my life: personal history, music, software, travel, photography, cooking, and occasional ill-advised forays into politics (though I have to say that politics is a subject that should generally be avoided, because it tends to overshadow everything else that's useful or interesting).
Essays & Poetry
A collection of prose and poetry, both serious and profane, on numerous subjects ranging from music to software to cooking to work and biography. Most of what I write is for my own memory, but it might be interesting to someone else.
- Cider and Beer
- Travel Gear
- Running
- Photo Prompts
- Apple Airpods
- Stonehenge
- Syncope
- Vanity Nameservers with AWS Route53
- My Favorite Movies
- Waiting
- Oh, the places you'll go!
- Broadpool Cottages
- Rage, Rage
- My little ukulele
- The humble mailing list
- I love the “a”
- That old house
- Smart Locks
- On Being Fat
- Amazon
- Street Photography
- Please, allow me to rant a moment
- Bags
- Doing It Right
- Code for America
- Quite possibly the most important management advice you'll ever receive
- The management transition
- Happy Birthday
- Sacred Spaces
- Playing Around
- On Longer Days
- Chapter One
- Continuous Integration for php-opencloud
- Boost your website performance
- Working with Wok
- Programmable DNS
- I accidentally my servers
- Vanity nameservers with Rackspace DNS
- Music performance apps for the iPad
- How to talk about gun control
- I want to die in Autumn
- The best luggage I ever owned
- SQL is the new hotness
- Say what?
- Amo, amas, amat
- The Apogee Jam
- Life is short
- Alligator Gar
- The transit of Venus
- Understanding the Keystone Service Catalog
- Death
- Developing for the cloud
- The Library Crew
- Classical Music
- Marching Band
- Gadgets
- A joke my mother told me
- Snow Day
- Never trust anyone
- Flam, diddle, paradiddle, drag
- The most powerful emotion
- Go west, young man
- Begin at the beginning
- It's not all about the code.
- Software contingency planning, Donald Rumsfeld, and the epistemology of ignorance
- A good nights' sleep
- Goodbye, Bro
- How to deliver bad news to your boss
- How to write a performance review
- How to give a presentation
- How to give a status report
Ham Radio
These are a number of posts related to amateur ("ham") radio. Since they are probably not of general interest, I keep them in a separate section here. (K6GEC is my FCC-issued callsign.)
- Field Day
- HF frustration
- On the air!
- New dipole
- Building a shack
- Low-cost HF
- Ham etiquette and operating procedures
- Equipment
- The new rig
- Hitting the (HF) airways
- What's the ULS?
- The ARRL Book
- So what's next?
- K6GEC/AE!
- Again? Seriously?
- Chirp!
- Well, it's official now
- What is APRS?
- K6GEC/AG
- Studying
On Garner Road
A few years ago, I operated an infrequent podcast wherein I interviewed interesting and unusual people on the Internet. They are archived here for all to see. All the original recordings are available.
- Episode 22, Which is better—Pulp Fiction or The Empire Strikes Back?
- Episode 21, the Engineer in the kitchen
- Episode 20, the Southern Belle
- Episode 19, the Speculator
- Episode 18, The Critic
- Episode 17, Return of the FFundercats
- Episode 16, The Last Time Lord
- Episode 15, Life-streaming and rockets
- Episode 14, Rob Michael
- Episode 13, The Photojournalist on Honeymoon
- Episode 12, Father of Twins
- Episode 11, Memorial Day Special
- Episode 10, What do you get when you cross a moose with a unicorn?
- Episode 9, What the Warner Brothers Taught Me
- Episode 8, Film, Tech, and Whisky
- Episode 7, Pecans and Film Cameras
- Episode 6, Do you know Enid Blyton?
- Episode 5, The Queen of FriendFeed
- Episode 4, Sarah Vela
- Episode 3, The Other Scoble
- Episode 2, John Piercy
- Episode 1, Mary Carmen
Software, Web Projects
Various websites and software that I've written and deployed. Nearly all of this is open-source, and most of it is available on Github.
Recipes
I enjoy cooking. These are dishes that I have adapted in some way or another.
- Gumbo (by Akiva)
- Waffles
- Biscuits
- Turkey, Cranberry, and Wild Rice Soup
- Buttermilk Pie
- Chocolate Krinkles
- The Scrivener Eggnog Recipe
- Soft White Bread
- Texas-Style Slow Cooker Chili
- Macaroni 'n' Cheese