Year: 2016
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Viszontlátásra 2016
And just like that another year has passed! Every year of my life has been better than the last. I used to believe that this was a nearly universal experience, as every year you should become smarter, learn from your mistakes, build on your successes, deepen your relationships, etc. But I talked to some people…
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Viszontlátásra 2016
And just like that another year has passed! Every year of my life has been better than the last. I used to believe that this was a nearly universal experience, as every year you should become smarter, learn from your mistakes, build on your successes, deepen your relationships, etc. But I talked to some people…
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Viszontlátásra 2016
And just like that another year has passed! Every year of my life has been better than the last. I used to believe that this was a nearly universal experience, as every year you should become smarter, learn from your mistakes, build on your successes, deepen your relationships, etc. But I talked to some people…
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Viszontlátásra 2016
And just like that another year has passed! Every year of my life has been better than the last. I used to believe that this was a nearly universal experience, as every year you should become smarter, learn from your mistakes, build on your successes, deepen your relationships, etc. But I talked to some people…
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How and Why to Switch to Linux
I switched to Linux a few years ago. Four, I think. It wasn’t my first time— I remember driving with my friend Phil to pick up a Slackware Linux CD in 1997, being very excited about how different it was, and then switching back to Windows a couple weeks later when I wanted my computer…
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The 2017 Gear Post
And now it’s time for the one post per year about which people bug me for months: the 2017 gear post. I realized that a lot of non-subscribers read this post every year, so I thought I’d drop a little background for context. I’ve been more or less a nomad since 2008, and was one…
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Being Positive
It begins with a basic acceptance that we will never really understand what’s going on around us. We’ll be wrong all the time, and oblivious even more frequently. It may feel as though we understand ourselves and our world around us, but the number of times we are wrong or surprised illustrates how little we…
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If You Never Fail
For a long time I was very proud of the fact that no girl I had attempted to kiss had given me the cheek. I thought that this meant that I was a precision sniper of dating, finely attuned to the subtleties of the male-female dynamic. I knew when girls wanted that first kiss to…
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Gratitude 2016
Thanksgiving is probably my favorite holiday. Although it started with religion, it’s become a secular holiday that’s pretty pure. Everyone who celebrates it does so with people they’re close to, and they think about what they’re thankful for. There’s a bit of gluttony mixed in, but even that includes a lot of healthy food. Today…
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Disregarding Other’s Decisions
I get called weird a lot. Not usually in a bad way, usually as a term of endearment. Looking at it objectively, I see the argument — I’m definitely a strange person who does unusual things. The thing is, I don’t feel weird. My day to day life feels pretty normal, and the decisions that…
