Tag: Rants
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Perforce: Still Secretly in Love with It
I began using Perforce (they call it “Helix Core” now, which I will never accept) for change management starting at ATX Forms circa 2003. More than 20 years later I still favor it, for better or worse, over modern and far more popular — and arguably more capable — tools like Git. This post started…
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Ye Olde Internet — I miss it
Strap in. This elder millennial is about to yell at some clouds. I’ve been feeling this for quite a while and pretty deeply in recent years — the idea that we’ve lost something magical about the “old” internet as we barrel towards a more AI corrupted dystopic enabled future. Who am I kidding? We’re already…
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New McLids: I Don’t Like ‘Em
What is the purpose of a personal blog if not for ranting about inconsequential things that I find mildly annoying? I’ve noticed a change in the plastic lids that cover the drinks the past couple of times that I got takeout from McDonalds. They appear to be a combination of the two types of lids…
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Killing Us with Kindness
I knew what was about happen in my brain the moment I saw it, so I kept walking. I was taking a short walk during a break at work today when I came across a sticker posted on a board. I got another 20 paces or so past it before I turned back to read…
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Queues and Lines
Buckle up. We’re headed to McDonalds with more beef than we might leave with. TL;DR I feel that Americans might do well to adopt the term queuing to help normalize a sense of community and cooperation instead of the usual “destined to conquer” approach we take to nearly everything in life — including the McDonalds…
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How NOT to Apply Cabin Chinking
We’re having quite a bit of work done to our cabin this year, including blasting off the old stain (which was really more like brown paint), replacing the old caulking (tee-hee!), and re-staining the cabin. The first step, the blasting of the cabin with abrasive media (glass and sand) to remove the old stain, went…
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