Category: Musings

  • Shelves, Part II

    Hey, the shelves are done! Check ’em out → Total cost: ~0 Total time: ~10 days It’s always fun building this sort of stuff. On the surface, they’re nothing special since the knotty pine is inherently not a high-quality wood. Nor did I go to great lengths to get a smooth finish. But I’m pleased…

  • The Aristocracy Threshold

    My friend Andy and I came up with the term, “Aristocracy Threshold” a while ago as we were discussing wealth and how people do/don’t accumulate it. It’s an interesting concept. The idea is that there is some amount of wealth that, if achieved, allows an individual or family to become financially independent soley on the…

  • Hardware Reuse

    Once upon a time I was a NeXT developer. For quite a few years actually. It was one of the more educating periods of my career (NeXT developers, as a group, are some of the more disciplined programmers you’ll run across.) But that’s beside the point. Long after I stopped working on NeXTs, I kept…

  • Shelves, Part I

    It’s only taken me 5 months, but I’m finally getting around to building some bookshelves for our “library” (read “spare room”). Designing these things is always interesting since there are multiple considerations. For us it was… Maximize space for shelves Look nice Work as a display case for a few items Be relatively easy to…

  • Central Oregon Sunrise

    Wow, 34° out this morning and another beautiful day is in the works. Unfortunately our office is on the West side of the house so I frequently miss out on the spectacular sunrises that we get here. Maybe it’s for the better as I seem to be turning into somewhat of a sunrise slut. I…