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Keeping a Promise to IndexedDb
APIs are hellish things: inconstant moons, inconsistent interfaces, intolerable incompatibility. If you...
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lïf
- 4 min read
The Single Arity
Laying here as I fade in and out of scope over the waves of recovery from back surgery...
- 2 min read
Complex Units of Measure
I embrace the 'Stevie's Home' approach to life...
- 5 min read
Communicating and Why I Quit Email (Episode 1)
In the early 90s the constraints imposed by dialup speeds made email my primary interface for intera...
- 1 min read
On Competence
Years ago one of my dearest friends, Jennifer Elms and I...
- 23 min read
38,000 Steps Under the Digital Wallpaper of the Sun
The Trailhead...
- 3 min read
The Audacity of Despair
I began this over one year ago July 28 2010 but never finished I've lost the creative tingle herebut...
- 3 min read
Remember to Look Up and Write Down
To hike the mountain of lïf is to know peace. You, the hiker, cease to move. You are motionless but the...
- 3 min read
if it looks like a duck and walks like a duck, let''s call it a moose
I grew up writing laundry lists and never developed an adequate talent for other forms of literature...
- ~1 min read
Vancouver! Winter! Olympics! 2010!
It was hard to bring myself up to the attic through the winter. The cold discouraged warmth...
- ~1 min read
Eli Walks
It moves It walks...
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wishing and unwishing
my uncle once said something true...
- ~1 min read
year, new
I still remember the faces of the men we killed. Men women children. Chicken farmers most of them...
- 1 min read
a moral
in elementary school the 'they' that we remember vaguely as anything other than 'me' called me Son of Thunder...
- ~1 min read
like father like father
heather and i ran into a woman who attends my father's church at the mall today...
- 1 min read
Thanksgiving
I read a bit recently that described thanks as gratitude for that which one did not earn to which I...
- 1 min read
out of mind of sight
Self-consciousness is generally loathsome, though it doesn't stop me from trepidating on its doorstep...
- ~1 min read
i pity them
family is a strange thing...
- 1 min read
License to *hit
The subject of the latest email from Dean Indulging him...
- ~1 min read
hogwash
It's strange that in the largest and first economic crisis of our century the streets are calm...
- ~1 min read
full disclosure
never before and never since have I awoken with the force of another man's fist in my face there is...
- ~1 min read
a comment on comments
It's too early by the pundint's reconing to call but I've had my first comment...
- ~1 min read
shine and rise
mornings are like little deaths the gaping jawl of the reaper his teeth both rotting and sharpened l...
- 1 min read
this present opaqueness
There was within me a quiet comfort in the belief that some all knowing force guided the hands of ma...
- 1 min read
blief or belf
believe it or not
- 1 min read
circles twice removed
Time bends in unpredictable ways with children Eli is almost 6 months old and he's the most amazing...
- 1 min read
in the waking hours
There is within me this horribly perverse desire to hoard away little minutes here and thither for m...
- 1 min read
Eli, my Eli
It is almost a month since you were born We have taken many pictures of your progress and it is a jo...
- ~1 min read
Fallujah
Ithaca College today had the audacity to introduce and screen a film as a documentary "Fallujah" I a...
- ~1 min read
Greek God Vows to Avenge Son's Death
Greek god Apollo vowed today to AP reporter Donald Thisbit to prosecute Zeus king of the gods to the...
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thurgling
It comes at that time in the early morning when the throat clenches about the fist and a fast cry su...
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laziness breeds
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quit me thisly
squalor tempests beneath the artificial breeze...
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Sea of Rage
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See to Shining See
It takes a moment to find Calliope Urgency predicates motion...
- ~1 min read
can't see my tale
NothingEverything...
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tails of the apocalypse
Bukowski we miss hating you...
- ~1 min read
lampshade of the apocalypse
There's a moment when you first stumble down the stairs in the morning and collapse into the kitchen...
- ~1 min read
this country does noT exist
The moon was gold like violets in February and the grass green like radishes pulled from the dark re...
- ~1 min read
Rejected Personal Description from Yahoo
Introductions are best done at 15000 feet in a C130 preparing to dive into an aggressive landing pat...
- ~1 min read
Bait.
So in a bold move yesterday morning Jen tore into the guest bathroom adjacent to the guest bedroom w...
- 1 min read
elastic vengeance
It comes in those moments between 315 and the wailing of the next door neighbor's newborn tapioca ch...
- ~1 min read
Eves and Cusps
I lost my accent in the gutter of an alleyway in Germany a town called Hof which literally or otherw...
- 2 min read
обо мне
I talk to myself when I feel awkward I say the things that I want to say to the people involved past...
- 1 min read
Great Tidings
It is I think significant that certain days stand out in memory and beckon for our attention and ref...
- 1 min read
'W'it
I must have some repressed selfloathing because my brain unleashed a fury of W’s drivel in my dream ...
- ~1 min read
Peanut Butter and Sasquatch
So little has happened in the last 48 hours that I cannot use few enough words to describe it Perhap...
- 1 min read
I fought the giant lizard today
I knew going into that den of fear that my battle would not be one of fortunate ease At first he clu...
- 3 min read
Fellow Thebans
This winter has been especially harsh and long With temperatures plummeting to record lows and heat ...
- 3 min read
Baal is Dead; I Killed Him
Babylon approaches slowly Endless wasteland precedes barren desert and opens into more nothing than ...
- 5 min read
Yes!
FriendsIn one sense I have been training for today my entire Army career Recline in your comfortable...
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Я не говорю по-испански
Friends of Athens...
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Wishing Wells Away
ComradesI have remained static while the location around me has changed Gone are the steelreinforced...
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The Swift Hand of The Enemy (AKA Those Who Have Been Liberated)
Once more I turn to your patient and receptive arms for comfort and consolation I have endured hard ...
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The Enemy (AKA Those Who Have Been Liberated) Revisited
Lest you in your idle wonderings throughout the day chance upon the grave and fundamentally flawed n...
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War Against the Enemy (AKA Those Who Have Been Liberated)
The time will come dear friends when I shall be forced to recount the long stories of my youth spent...
- 2 min read
One Last Hoorah
Friends of the US Armed Forces...
poetry
- ~1 min read
washed up on the shore of this morning
Uncle Petrov once swore that snow in April forebode a good summer catch. Summers and minnows followed...
- ~1 min read
this is the end of the world
The world is a small flat rock which rests evenly in the palm of your hand. As you toss it lightly...
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the blackess of winter
snow with no sun night skies with no stars...
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awesome pitiable envy
ants tunnel into the crops eroding the soil and spoiling the harvest...
- ~1 min read
forgotten futures
"The end of the day comes closer to my ear and whispers casually that she'll be leaving me alone"...
- ~1 min read
glope
An inadequately funded urchin tottled toward the slow gaze of despair Not glancing upward from its o...
- ~1 min read
In Title
It’s easy to forget the important things while you drink As you sit on the edge of the balcony cares...
- ~1 min read
adjustments
When the world has begun to spin...
- ~1 min read
blastphemy
Of all the emptiness and disdain...
- 2 min read
on bubbles
How would one justify the extent of the madness...
- ~1 min read
time sensitive
WHAT?is truth...
- ~1 min read
beneath
At times I wish only that my heart would open inside my mind...
- ~1 min read
parched
Where ever shall I go to find myself a drink...
- 1 min read
in the end
In the last days they will say to him...
- ~1 min read
earnest
How can we propose to fashion for ourselves life or livelihood an attempt to...
- ~1 min read
defer
I didn't touch the coffee...
- ~1 min read
mistake
of all the days of my...
- ~1 min read
linger
If I leave today I have lost nothing...
- ~1 min read
toes
Of the days that dwell within...
- ~1 min read
Muscles
Language's mildew the sweet oysters who foam...
- 3 min read
Mollie
shake your hair back...
- 3 min read
Lamplight
The lamplight it plays with your mind dances from its...
code
- 6 min read
Blogging to the Oldies
For quite a while now, I have wanted to update my blog...
- 8 min read
Code Generation Fail: An all the king’s horses tragedy
Sometimes best intentions and good ole fashioned elbow grease are no match against the tyrannical fist of Reality...
- 9 min read
Code Generation: Connecting T4 to Entity Framework Core
I have enjoyed working with T4 templates...
- 5 min read
Code Generation: There and Back Again
I can’t remember a project engineering or otherwise during which I haven’t paused to ask myself “Why...
- 4 min read
Currying Favor with Partial Application to get JavaScript SQL
Editor’s Note This is an old post from March of 2013 from an old blog Apparently it still gets enoug...
- 3 min read
Keeping a Promise to IndexedDb
APIs are hellish things: inconstant moons, inconsistent interfaces, intolerable incompatibility. If you...
- 2 min read
God Probably, *Probably*, Doesn''t Use Your App
I propose we immediately deprecate the word "administrator" and its diminutive form "admin" from language...
- 7 min read
Making Sense of Grunt: Importing an Existing Project
Last year I saw Paul Irish's introduction to Yeoman...
- 6 min read
From JsDoc to Github Pages in 27 easy steps (aka API Documentation Considered Evil)?
I ask the question because I assume it must be considered evilon the subsequent assumption that if i...
- 14 min read
A Promise to IndexedDb
Quite a bit of my free time in the last 8 months has slipped away into OJ...
- 1 min read
Crunchy Frog
I was musing over the usual eloquence of Mr Hague's recent post 'Stumbling Into the Cold Expanse of...
- 3 min read
Revisiting: How to Subclass an Array (Really)
In the course of building out my SQL prototype...
- 4 min read
Currying Favor with Partial Application to get JavaScript SQL
There is a domain that attends to curry as one of the quintessential elements of regional cuisine. This is not that...
- 4 min read
The Greatest Heist Ever Conceived
The Heist...
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Stealing a Trillion Dollars an Hour in Pure JavaScript
The Heist...
- 2 min read
Good Reads
Of the part of the day I don't spend eating sleeping or enjoying/surviving my family...
- 4 min read
JavaScript (aka Marlboro Country)
Sometimes JavaScript land just feels like Marlboro Country The sales pitch certainly feels similar...
- 1 min read
How to Subclass an Array (Not Really)
Update: I don't recommend following the advice in this post...
- 1 min read
Performance! Determinism. Vs?
David Ungar had an interesting talk...
- 23 min read
38,000 Steps Under the Digital Wallpaper of the Sun
The Trailhead...
- ~1 min read
Goodybye Randy Pausch
I didn't know him until the day he died I wish I had met him earlier...
news
- ~1 min read
Automakers Propose Cutting Emisions in Half by Releasing Only Pure, Clean Carbon-Monoxide
Relative Motors today announced plans to cut carbon emissions in half by converting dangerous carbon...
- ~1 min read
Pope Announces Revolutionary 'Abstinence Only Education'
In a radical move from the Vatican parttime Archbishop Donald Thisbit told Reuters reporters this mo...
- ~1 min read
Bush Repunctuates Education Law: 'No! Child... Left Behind?' Act
A recent review of the "No Child Left Behind" law enacted by Congress in 2004 and signed into law sh...
- ~1 min read
Greek God Vows to Avenge Son's Death
Greek god Apollo vowed today to AP reporter Donald Thisbit to prosecute Zeus king of the gods to the...
- ~1 min read
Concerns Rise as Expectations Lower
Area residents of Watkins Glen Arizona today noted increasing concern over their own lowered expecta...
- ~1 min read
Pope Announces: 'Life Begins at Lust'
Parttime Vice Cardinal at the Vatican Donald Thisbit revealed to AP reporters this morning the resul...
- ~1 min read
CBS Introduces 'Life on Demand'
In the absence of truly innovative reality TV programming CBS executives propose to cross the entert...
- ~1 min read
Area Man Confused By Obscure 'Mullis' References
Area man CSM Blackwood has been reported interrogating the portojohn guards with questions about the...
- 1 min read
Area Man Blows Second Chance at Life, Hopes for Third
Area man Donald Thisbit appeared shaken Wednesday afternoon after his close encounter with death "I ...
- 3 min read
Public Concern Rises as Treatment of Prisoners Declines
Despite increased attention and criticism from the Press and the United Nations conditions are worse...
- 1 min read
Local News
HEADLINES Mullis Sightings in HongKong Continue page 7...
- 1 min read
Local News
HEADLINES Politics...
eli
- ~1 min read
Eli Walks
It moves It walks...
- ~1 min read
shine and rise
mornings are like little deaths the gaping jawl of the reaper his teeth both rotting and sharpened l...
- ~1 min read
a man and his economy
[money management]httpsgithubcomcrfroehlichcdnrawmainimagesIMG1158JPG It's hard times for the discer...
- 1 min read
circles twice removed
Time bends in unpredictable ways with children Eli is almost 6 months old and he's the most amazing...
- 1 min read
in the waking hours
There is within me this horribly perverse desire to hoard away little minutes here and thither for m...
- ~1 min read
a dark in the shot
You had your first shots today my boy just a few short days after your learned to laugh It was pain...
- 1 min read
Eli, my Eli
It is almost a month since you were born We have taken many pictures of your progress and it is a jo...
- 2 min read
hello, son
It's mere minutes before the day you are scheduled albeit not destined to be born and though you may...
- ~1 min read
It's that time when the world falls in love
She sleeps with her mouth open and kicks when I brush against her legs It's an effort not to want to...
baghdad
- ~1 min read
Fallujah
Ithaca College today had the audacity to introduce and screen a film as a documentary "Fallujah" I a...
- ~1 min read
Area Man Confused By Obscure 'Mullis' References
Area man CSM Blackwood has been reported interrogating the portojohn guards with questions about the...
- 3 min read
Public Concern Rises as Treatment of Prisoners Declines
Despite increased attention and criticism from the Press and the United Nations conditions are worse...
- 1 min read
Local News
HEADLINES Mullis Sightings in HongKong Continue page 7...
- 1 min read
Local News
HEADLINES Politics...
- 3 min read
The Swift Hand of The Enemy (AKA Those Who Have Been Liberated)
Once more I turn to your patient and receptive arms for comfort and consolation I have endured hard ...
- 5 min read
The Enemy (AKA Those Who Have Been Liberated) Revisited
Lest you in your idle wonderings throughout the day chance upon the grave and fundamentally flawed n...
- 2 min read
War Against the Enemy (AKA Those Who Have Been Liberated)
The time will come dear friends when I shall be forced to recount the long stories of my youth spent...
logging
- 3 min read
nibbling at my own words
- 5 min read
You're Not a Dick, and So Can I
Already half way (or more) through my brief consciousness of this earth, and I still cannot quite wrap my head around what I must now conclude to be normative or perhaps even inevitable behavior...
- 6 min read
Blogging to the Oldies
For quite a while now, I have wanted to update my blog...
- 1 min read
Out With the Old, In With the New (Profile)
At the launch meeting for our new team blog 'Object Reference Not Set' we...
- 3 min read
The Audacity of Despair
I began this over one year ago July 28 2010 but never finished I've lost the creative tingle herebut...
- 3 min read
if it looks like a duck and walks like a duck, let''s call it a moose
I grew up writing laundry lists and never developed an adequate talent for other forms of literature...
- ~1 min read
over the hill and through the woods
there is always a time when we must choose how much evil we are willing to support to affect good...
- 2 min read
a grieved grievance
I've been very excited about upgrading my iPhone to the new iPhone 3G This morning I called the Appl...
donald thisbit
- 4 min read
The Audacity of Trying
Money (the desire for money), we might naively think, is the great unifier. We all want it as much of it...
- ~1 min read
Automakers Propose Cutting Emisions in Half by Releasing Only Pure, Clean Carbon-Monoxide
Relative Motors today announced plans to cut carbon emissions in half by converting dangerous carbon...
- 1 min read
Area Man Blows Second Chance at Life, Hopes for Third
Area man Donald Thisbit appeared shaken Wednesday afternoon after his close encounter with death "I ...
- 3 min read
Public Concern Rises as Treatment of Prisoners Declines
Despite increased attention and criticism from the Press and the United Nations conditions are worse...
- 1 min read
Local News
HEADLINES Mullis Sightings in HongKong Continue page 7...
- 1 min read
Local News
HEADLINES Politics...
göd
- 2 min read
God Probably, *Probably*, Doesn''t Use Your App
I propose we immediately deprecate the word "administrator" and its diminutive form "admin" from language...
- 4 min read
for your bucket of thoughts
If you ask the Jew the average practicing Jew or even a cross section of Rabis on the question of th...
- 1 min read
this present opaqueness
There was within me a quiet comfort in the belief that some all knowing force guided the hands of ma...
- 1 min read
blief or belf
believe it or not
- 2 min read
hello, son
It's mere minutes before the day you are scheduled albeit not destined to be born and though you may...
- 3 min read
Baal is Dead; I Killed Him
Babylon approaches slowly Endless wasteland precedes barren desert and opens into more nothing than ...
tech
- 6 min read
Blogging to the Oldies
For quite a while now, I have wanted to update my blog...
- 4 min read
Remoting: It’s even better and even worse than you expected
Billions of gallons of ink have been spilled on this subject. Google if you want any other perspective...
- 2 min read
a grieved grievance
I've been very excited about upgrading my iPhone to the new iPhone 3G This morning I called the Appl...
- 3 min read
Put These Into My Car
Every day that I drive stuck in traffic I find myself wishing for little thingsoften simple things t...
- 3 min read
Open P2P (Peer to Peer) to Life
I'm just one fellow and not terribly educated at that so my opinions may not be grounded in actualit...
family
- 2 min read
wishing and unwishing
my uncle once said something true...
- ~1 min read
like father like father
heather and i ran into a woman who attends my father's church at the mall today...
- ~1 min read
i pity them
family is a strange thing...
- 1 min read
License to *hit
The subject of the latest email from Dean Indulging him...
- 1 min read
the folly of age
My brother, Timothy, wise beyond his years hipped me to an email conversation with our grandparents...
fiction
- 16 min read
Oscar
Every sixty minutes at seven minutes past the hour exactly, Oscar would run naked through the house...
- 32 min read
The Tetraktys by Pythagoras
Mr George Pyncheon bolted upright in bed and stared at the ceiling for a moment before he reached to...
- ~1 min read
Apeiron by Thales of Miletus
I opened his heart on the kitchen counter this morning with a pairing knife and a garlic press...
- 3 min read
Arkhē by Heraclitus of Ephesus
The mechanic paused to wipe the grease from his hands across the murky surface of his coveralls befo...
- 15 min read
Meeting Melchizedek
My father lives in an old army footlocker that lies in the attic of our home. Faded rusted and rotting...
work
- 4 min read
Remoting: It’s even better and even worse than you expected
Billions of gallons of ink have been spilled on this subject. Google if you want any other perspective...
- 24 min read
How to Lose an Employee in 10 Seconds or Less
The answer contrary to what one might naively assume is profoundly simple stare your employee square...
- 4 min read
The Quick, Molting Sweat Lodge of the Soul
It was the spring of our discontent...
- 2 min read
Good Reads
Of the part of the day I don't spend eating sleeping or enjoying/surviving my family...
- ~1 min read
The Cost of Urgency
Sandstorms are spectacular creatures From lessthanether they arise demolish and vanish...
short story
- 16 min read
Oscar
Every sixty minutes at seven minutes past the hour exactly, Oscar would run naked through the house...
- ~1 min read
Apeiron by Thales of Miletus
I opened his heart on the kitchen counter this morning with a pairing knife and a garlic press...
- 3 min read
Arkhē by Heraclitus of Ephesus
The mechanic paused to wipe the grease from his hands across the murky surface of his coveralls befo...
- 15 min read
Meeting Melchizedek
My father lives in an old army footlocker that lies in the attic of our home. Faded rusted and rotting...
politics
- ~1 min read
i pity them
family is a strange thing...
- 1 min read
the folly of age
My brother, Timothy, wise beyond his years hipped me to an email conversation with our grandparents...
- ~1 min read
burning bush
the agony of waiting for it all to end...
hiking
- 23 min read
38,000 Steps Under the Digital Wallpaper of the Sun
The Trailhead...
- 1 min read
Equipment Failure
When you've been hiking as long as I have you know instinctively that equipment failure is a guaran...
- ~1 min read
Some People Climb Everest; I Hike My Desk
It's been said that behind every great man is a Tenzing Norgay...
translation
- 32 min read
The Tetraktys by Pythagoras
Mr George Pyncheon bolted upright in bed and stared at the ceiling for a moment before he reached to...
- ~1 min read
Apeiron by Thales of Miletus
I opened his heart on the kitchen counter this morning with a pairing knife and a garlic press...
- 3 min read
Arkhē by Heraclitus of Ephesus
The mechanic paused to wipe the grease from his hands across the murky surface of his coveralls befo...
ελλάς
- 32 min read
The Tetraktys by Pythagoras
Mr George Pyncheon bolted upright in bed and stared at the ceiling for a moment before he reached to...
- ~1 min read
Apeiron by Thales of Miletus
I opened his heart on the kitchen counter this morning with a pairing knife and a garlic press...
- 3 min read
Arkhē by Heraclitus of Ephesus
The mechanic paused to wipe the grease from his hands across the murky surface of his coveralls befo...
metadata
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Code Generation Fail: An all the king’s horses tragedy
Sometimes best intentions and good ole fashioned elbow grease are no match against the tyrannical fist of Reality...
- 9 min read
Code Generation: Connecting T4 to Entity Framework Core
I have enjoyed working with T4 templates...
- 5 min read
Code Generation: There and Back Again
I can’t remember a project engineering or otherwise during which I haven’t paused to ask myself “Why...
retrospective
- 8 min read
Code Generation Fail: An all the king’s horses tragedy
Sometimes best intentions and good ole fashioned elbow grease are no match against the tyrannical fist of Reality...
- 9 min read
Code Generation: Connecting T4 to Entity Framework Core
I have enjoyed working with T4 templates...
- 5 min read
Code Generation: There and Back Again
I can’t remember a project engineering or otherwise during which I haven’t paused to ask myself “Why...
generation
- 8 min read
Code Generation Fail: An all the king’s horses tragedy
Sometimes best intentions and good ole fashioned elbow grease are no match against the tyrannical fist of Reality...
- 9 min read
Code Generation: Connecting T4 to Entity Framework Core
I have enjoyed working with T4 templates...
- 5 min read
Code Generation: There and Back Again
I can’t remember a project engineering or otherwise during which I haven’t paused to ask myself “Why...
army
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Purged By Fire
Friends of family family of friends and persons unconnected to either...
- 2 min read
One Last Hoorah
Friends of the US Armed Forces...
россия
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обо мне
I talk to myself when I feel awkward I say the things that I want to say to the people involved past...
- ~1 min read
Я не говорю по-испански
Friends of Athens...
holiday
- 1 min read
Thanksgiving
I read a bit recently that described thanks as gratitude for that which one did not earn to which I...
- 1 min read
Great Tidings
It is I think significant that certain days stand out in memory and beckon for our attention and ref...
hungry
- ~1 min read
thurgling
It comes at that time in the early morning when the throat clenches about the fist and a fast cry su...
- 1 min read
Great Tidings
It is I think significant that certain days stand out in memory and beckon for our attention and ref...
liberation
- 4 min read
The Audacity of Trying
Money (the desire for money), we might naively think, is the great unifier. We all want it as much of it...
- 2 min read
обо мне
I talk to myself when I feel awkward I say the things that I want to say to the people involved past...
pope
- ~1 min read
Pope Announces Revolutionary 'Abstinence Only Education'
In a radical move from the Vatican parttime Archbishop Donald Thisbit told Reuters reporters this mo...
- ~1 min read
Pope Announces: 'Life Begins at Lust'
Parttime Vice Cardinal at the Vatican Donald Thisbit revealed to AP reporters this morning the resul...
slashdot
- 3 min read
Put These Into My Car
Every day that I drive stuck in traffic I find myself wishing for little thingsoften simple things t...
- 3 min read
Open P2P (Peer to Peer) to Life
I'm just one fellow and not terribly educated at that so my opinions may not be grounded in actualit...
wishes
- 3 min read
Put These Into My Car
Every day that I drive stuck in traffic I find myself wishing for little thingsoften simple things t...
- 3 min read
Open P2P (Peer to Peer) to Life
I'm just one fellow and not terribly educated at that so my opinions may not be grounded in actualit...
home
- 2 min read
Complex Units of Measure
I embrace the 'Stevie's Home' approach to life...
- 1 min read
in the waking hours
There is within me this horribly perverse desire to hoard away little minutes here and thither for m...
belief
- 2 min read
wishing and unwishing
my uncle once said something true...
- 1 min read
blief or belf
believe it or not
economy
- 4 min read
The Audacity of Trying
Money (the desire for money), we might naively think, is the great unifier. We all want it as much of it...
- ~1 min read
hogwash
It's strange that in the largest and first economic crisis of our century the streets are calm...
regret
- ~1 min read
alas
The sheer number of times by volume by which I find myself cursing...
- 1 min read
palin should have won
at the end of the day obama cannot be all of the things he promised to be, be the person we imagined...
desk
- 4 min read
How to Build a Mountain
The decision to climb Mount Vesuvius probably does not come lightly...
- ~1 min read
Some People Climb Everest; I Hike My Desk
It's been said that behind every great man is a Tenzing Norgay...
mountain
- 4 min read
How to Build a Mountain
The decision to climb Mount Vesuvius probably does not come lightly...
- ~1 min read
Sir George Mountain
Reflection...
writing
- 1 min read
On Competence
Years ago one of my dearest friends, Jennifer Elms and I...
- 3 min read
Remember to Look Up and Write Down
To hike the mountain of lïf is to know peace. You, the hiker, cease to move. You are motionless but the...
competence
- 2 min read
Good Reads
Of the part of the day I don't spend eating sleeping or enjoying/surviving my family...
- 1 min read
On Competence
Years ago one of my dearest friends, Jennifer Elms and I...
communication
- 4 min read
The Single Arity
Laying here as I fade in and out of scope over the waves of recovery from back surgery...
- 5 min read
Communicating and Why I Quit Email (Episode 1)
In the early 90s the constraints imposed by dialup speeds made email my primary interface for intera...
- 4 min read
The Single Arity
Laying here as I fade in and out of scope over the waves of recovery from back surgery...
- 5 min read
Communicating and Why I Quit Email (Episode 1)
In the early 90s the constraints imposed by dialup speeds made email my primary interface for intera...
copyleft
- 4 min read
The Greatest Heist Ever Conceived
The Heist...
- 4 min read
Stealing a Trillion Dollars an Hour in Pure JavaScript
The Heist...
promises
- 3 min read
Keeping a Promise to IndexedDb
APIs are hellish things: inconstant moons, inconsistent interfaces, intolerable incompatibility. If you...
- 14 min read
A Promise to IndexedDb
Quite a bit of my free time in the last 8 months has slipped away into OJ...
persistence
- 3 min read
Keeping a Promise to IndexedDb
APIs are hellish things: inconstant moons, inconsistent interfaces, intolerable incompatibility. If you...
- 14 min read
A Promise to IndexedDb
Quite a bit of my free time in the last 8 months has slipped away into OJ...
lamps
- 3 min read
Lamplight
The lamplight it plays with your mind dances from its...
highschool
- 3 min read
Lamplight
The lamplight it plays with your mind dances from its...
cello
- 3 min read
Mollie
shake your hair back...
churches
- 3 min read
Mollie
shake your hair back...
muscle
- ~1 min read
Muscles
Language's mildew the sweet oysters who foam...
leafing
- ~1 min read
linger
If I leave today I have lost nothing...
wading
- ~1 min read
linger
If I leave today I have lost nothing...
love
- ~1 min read
beneath
At times I wish only that my heart would open inside my mind...
blastphemy
- ~1 min read
blastphemy
Of all the emptiness and disdain...
spinning
- ~1 min read
adjustments
When the world has begun to spin...
letter
- 3 min read
Purged By Fire
Friends of family family of friends and persons unconnected to either...
letters
- 5 min read
Yes!
FriendsIn one sense I have been training for today my entire Army career Recline in your comfortable...
notes
- 5 min read
Yes!
FriendsIn one sense I have been training for today my entire Army career Recline in your comfortable...
farewell
- 5 min read
Yes!
FriendsIn one sense I have been training for today my entire Army career Recline in your comfortable...
pillaging
- 1 min read
'W'it
I must have some repressed selfloathing because my brain unleashed a fury of W’s drivel in my dream ...
dreams
- 1 min read
'W'it
I must have some repressed selfloathing because my brain unleashed a fury of W’s drivel in my dream ...
honesty
- 2 min read
обо мне
I talk to myself when I feel awkward I say the things that I want to say to the people involved past...
deutschland
- ~1 min read
Eves and Cusps
I lost my accent in the gutter of an alleyway in Germany a town called Hof which literally or otherw...
exonerated
- ~1 min read
Eves and Cusps
I lost my accent in the gutter of an alleyway in Germany a town called Hof which literally or otherw...
pregnant
- 1 min read
elastic vengeance
It comes in those moments between 315 and the wailing of the next door neighbor's newborn tapioca ch...
dog
- ~1 min read
Bait.
So in a bold move yesterday morning Jen tore into the guest bathroom adjacent to the guest bedroom w...
jen
- ~1 min read
Bait.
So in a bold move yesterday morning Jen tore into the guest bathroom adjacent to the guest bedroom w...
gibbled
- ~1 min read
Rejected Personal Description from Yahoo
Introductions are best done at 15000 feet in a C130 preparing to dive into an aggressive landing pat...
personal
- ~1 min read
Rejected Personal Description from Yahoo
Introductions are best done at 15000 feet in a C130 preparing to dive into an aggressive landing pat...
eggplant
- ~1 min read
this country does noT exist
The moon was gold like violets in February and the grass green like radishes pulled from the dark re...
thwibbt
- ~1 min read
lampshade of the apocalypse
There's a moment when you first stumble down the stairs in the morning and collapse into the kitchen...
gimel
- ~1 min read
tails of the apocalypse
Bukowski we miss hating you...
obsequious
- ~1 min read
can't see my tale
NothingEverything...
anaxagoras
- 1 min read
See to Shining See
It takes a moment to find Calliope Urgency predicates motion...
fury
- ~1 min read
Sea of Rage
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sam
- ~1 min read
Sea of Rage
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glated
- ~1 min read
quit me thisly
squalor tempests beneath the artificial breeze...
heat
- ~1 min read
quit me thisly
squalor tempests beneath the artificial breeze...
lollygagging
- ~1 min read
laziness breeds
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peanut
- ~1 min read
laziness breeds
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republicans
- ~1 min read
thurgling
It comes at that time in the early morning when the throat clenches about the fist and a fast cry su...
w
- ~1 min read
Bush Repunctuates Education Law: 'No! Child... Left Behind?' Act
A recent review of the "No Child Left Behind" law enacted by Congress in 2004 and signed into law sh...
pie
- 3 min read
Put These Into My Car
Every day that I drive stuck in traffic I find myself wishing for little thingsoften simple things t...
sky
- 3 min read
Put These Into My Car
Every day that I drive stuck in traffic I find myself wishing for little thingsoften simple things t...
surgery
- ~1 min read
thought in progress
I opened his heart on the kitchen counter this morning with a pairing knife and a garlic press His b...
meanderings
- ~1 min read
thought in progress
I opened his heart on the kitchen counter this morning with a pairing knife and a garlic press His b...
hello
- 1 min read
Eli, my Eli
It is almost a month since you were born We have taken many pictures of your progress and it is a jo...
semantics
- ~1 min read
i love twine
from the knots it forms in my [drawers]httpwwwsciencenewsorgarticles20071222bob11asp...
vapor
- ~1 min read
i love twine
from the knots it forms in my [drawers]httpwwwsciencenewsorgarticles20071222bob11asp...
wear
- ~1 min read
i love twine
from the knots it forms in my [drawers]httpwwwsciencenewsorgarticles20071222bob11asp...
musing
- 1 min read
circles twice removed
Time bends in unpredictable ways with children Eli is almost 6 months old and he's the most amazing...
fruit
- 2 min read
a grieved grievance
I've been very excited about upgrading my iPhone to the new iPhone 3G This morning I called the Appl...
good
- 1 min read
blief or belf
believe it or not
peas
- ~1 min read
presidential politics aside
I wonder if teething is nature's way of driving parents towards insanity I remember times looking a...
carrots
- ~1 min read
presidential politics aside
I wonder if teething is nature's way of driving parents towards insanity I remember times looking a...
economics
- ~1 min read
a man and his economy
[money management]httpsgithubcomcrfroehlichcdnrawmainimagesIMG1158JPG It's hard times for the discer...
free
- ~1 min read
unleash the space
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cancer
- 1 min read
this present opaqueness
There was within me a quiet comfort in the belief that some all knowing force guided the hands of ma...
mournings
- ~1 min read
shine and rise
mornings are like little deaths the gaping jawl of the reaper his teeth both rotting and sharpened l...
ugliness
- 4 min read
for your bucket of thoughts
If you ask the Jew the average practicing Jew or even a cross section of Rabis on the question of th...
damnation
- 4 min read
for your bucket of thoughts
If you ask the Jew the average practicing Jew or even a cross section of Rabis on the question of th...
evil
- 4 min read
for your bucket of thoughts
If you ask the Jew the average practicing Jew or even a cross section of Rabis on the question of th...
advice
- ~1 min read
a comment on comments
It's too early by the pundint's reconing to call but I've had my first comment...
country
- 1 min read
the folly of age
My brother, Timothy, wise beyond his years hipped me to an email conversation with our grandparents...
crisis
- ~1 min read
hogwash
It's strange that in the largest and first economic crisis of our century the streets are calm...
hatred
- 1 min read
License to *hit
The subject of the latest email from Dean Indulging him...
mind
- 1 min read
out of mind of sight
Self-consciousness is generally loathsome, though it doesn't stop me from trepidating on its doorstep...
sailing
- 1 min read
out of mind of sight
Self-consciousness is generally loathsome, though it doesn't stop me from trepidating on its doorstep...
thanksgiving
- 1 min read
Thanksgiving
I read a bit recently that described thanks as gratitude for that which one did not earn to which I...
fatherhood
- ~1 min read
like father like father
heather and i ran into a woman who attends my father's church at the mall today...
father
- ~1 min read
like father like father
heather and i ran into a woman who attends my father's church at the mall today...
ought
- 1 min read
a moral
in elementary school the 'they' that we remember vaguely as anything other than 'me' called me Son of Thunder...
morality
- 1 min read
a moral
in elementary school the 'they' that we remember vaguely as anything other than 'me' called me Son of Thunder...
war
- ~1 min read
year, new
I still remember the faces of the men we killed. Men women children. Chicken farmers most of them...
sharing
Back to Top ↑attic
- ~1 min read
Vancouver! Winter! Olympics! 2010!
It was hard to bring myself up to the attic through the winter. The cold discouraged warmth...
tenzing norgay
- ~1 min read
Some People Climb Everest; I Hike My Desk
It's been said that behind every great man is a Tenzing Norgay...
optimism
- ~1 min read
Some People Climb Everest; I Hike My Desk
It's been said that behind every great man is a Tenzing Norgay...
spam
- ~1 min read
Trail Mix
What hiker does not need nourishment on the journey toward nirvana? Google has some advice...
trail
- ~1 min read
Trail Mix
What hiker does not need nourishment on the journey toward nirvana? Google has some advice...
mix
- ~1 min read
Trail Mix
What hiker does not need nourishment on the journey toward nirvana? Google has some advice...
failure
- 1 min read
Equipment Failure
When you've been hiking as long as I have you know instinctively that equipment failure is a guaran...
equipment
- 1 min read
Equipment Failure
When you've been hiking as long as I have you know instinctively that equipment failure is a guaran...
meaning
- ~1 min read
Seeing the Tree for the Forest
My hike today spanned the 3500 km of the Appalachian Trail. The journey I embarked when I began hiking...
journey
- ~1 min read
Seeing the Tree for the Forest
My hike today spanned the 3500 km of the Appalachian Trail. The journey I embarked when I began hiking...
details
- ~1 min read
Seeing the Tree for the Forest
My hike today spanned the 3500 km of the Appalachian Trail. The journey I embarked when I began hiking...
diy
- 4 min read
How to Build a Mountain
The decision to climb Mount Vesuvius probably does not come lightly...
standing
- 4 min read
How to Build a Mountain
The decision to climb Mount Vesuvius probably does not come lightly...
void
- ~1 min read
One Man Hiking His Desk Makes a Journey. Two Men Hiking Makes a Race.
No one is first and you're last...
titanic
- 1 min read
Affectation Without Action
Bu\`bon´ics (bũ\`bǒn´ĭks)...
death
- 1 min read
Affectation Without Action
Bu\`bon´ics (bũ\`bǒn´ĭks)...
knol
- 1 min read
Affectation Without Action
Bu\`bon´ics (bũ\`bǒn´ĭks)...
bubonics
- 1 min read
Affectation Without Action
Bu\`bon´ics (bũ\`bǒn´ĭks)...
programming
- 1 min read
On Competence
Years ago one of my dearest friends, Jennifer Elms and I...
wat
- 1 min read
On Competence
Years ago one of my dearest friends, Jennifer Elms and I...
social
Back to Top ↑media
- 1 min read
Out With the Old, In With the New (Profile)
At the launch meeting for our new team blog 'Object Reference Not Set' we...
measurements
- 1 min read
Performance! Determinism. Vs?
David Ungar had an interesting talk...
speed
- 1 min read
Performance! Determinism. Vs?
David Ungar had an interesting talk...
class
- 1 min read
How to Subclass an Array (Not Really)
Update: I don't recommend following the advice in this post...
array
- 1 min read
How to Subclass an Array (Not Really)
Update: I don't recommend following the advice in this post...
subclass
- 1 min read
How to Subclass an Array (Not Really)
Update: I don't recommend following the advice in this post...
mistake
- 1 min read
How to Subclass an Array (Not Really)
Update: I don't recommend following the advice in this post...
sandstorm
- ~1 min read
The Cost of Urgency
Sandstorms are spectacular creatures From lessthanether they arise demolish and vanish...
action
- ~1 min read
The Cost of Urgency
Sandstorms are spectacular creatures From lessthanether they arise demolish and vanish...
reaction
- ~1 min read
The Cost of Urgency
Sandstorms are spectacular creatures From lessthanether they arise demolish and vanish...
inventory
- 3 min read
Physical Books (and Such)
I don't read as many books as I used to and I wonder why...
meandering
- 3 min read
Physical Books (and Such)
I don't read as many books as I used to and I wonder why...
film
- 2 min read
Your Hyperbole is Too Large
A confluence of events have me pondering a kernel of an idea...
reviews
- 2 min read
Your Hyperbole is Too Large
A confluence of events have me pondering a kernel of an idea...
hyper
- 2 min read
Your Hyperbole is Too Large
A confluence of events have me pondering a kernel of an idea...
bole
- 2 min read
Your Hyperbole is Too Large
A confluence of events have me pondering a kernel of an idea...
curry
- 4 min read
Currying Favor with Partial Application to get JavaScript SQL
There is a domain that attends to curry as one of the quintessential elements of regional cuisine. This is not that...
sweat
- 4 min read
The Quick, Molting Sweat Lodge of the Soul
It was the spring of our discontent...
lodge
- 4 min read
The Quick, Molting Sweat Lodge of the Soul
It was the spring of our discontent...
api
- 6 min read
From JsDoc to Github Pages in 27 easy steps (aka API Documentation Considered Evil)?
I ask the question because I assume it must be considered evilon the subsequent assumption that if i...
docs
- 6 min read
From JsDoc to Github Pages in 27 easy steps (aka API Documentation Considered Evil)?
I ask the question because I assume it must be considered evilon the subsequent assumption that if i...
tools
- 7 min read
Making Sense of Grunt: Importing an Existing Project
Last year I saw Paul Irish's introduction to Yeoman...
zen
- 3 min read
Keeping a Promise to IndexedDb
APIs are hellish things: inconstant moons, inconsistent interfaces, intolerable incompatibility. If you...
cable
- 4 min read
The Audacity of Trying
Money (the desire for money), we might naively think, is the great unifier. We all want it as much of it...
management
- 24 min read
How to Lose an Employee in 10 Seconds or Less
The answer contrary to what one might naively assume is profoundly simple stare your employee square...
leadership
- 24 min read
How to Lose an Employee in 10 Seconds or Less
The answer contrary to what one might naively assume is profoundly simple stare your employee square...
hiring
- 24 min read
How to Lose an Employee in 10 Seconds or Less
The answer contrary to what one might naively assume is profoundly simple stare your employee square...
currying
- 4 min read
Currying Favor with Partial Application to get JavaScript SQL
Editor’s Note This is an old post from March of 2013 from an old blog Apparently it still gets enoug...
partial
- 4 min read
Currying Favor with Partial Application to get JavaScript SQL
Editor’s Note This is an old post from March of 2013 from an old blog Apparently it still gets enoug...
application
- 4 min read
Currying Favor with Partial Application to get JavaScript SQL
Editor’s Note This is an old post from March of 2013 from an old blog Apparently it still gets enoug...
remote
- 4 min read
Remoting: It’s even better and even worse than you expected
Billions of gallons of ink have been spilled on this subject. Google if you want any other perspective...
solstice
- 1 min read
The Solstice Squid
She lives at the South Pole, this much we know. How she came to live there or her reasons for...
winter
- 1 min read
The Solstice Squid
She lives at the South Pole, this much we know. How she came to live there or her reasons for...
squid
- 1 min read
The Solstice Squid
She lives at the South Pole, this much we know. How she came to live there or her reasons for...
cyrano
- 3 min read
nibbling at my own words
salty
- 3 min read
nibbling at my own words
crunchy
- 3 min read
Out With the Old, In With the New (Profile)
At the launch meeting for our new team blog 'Object Reference Not Set' we...