While looking for something else this morning, I ran across this old photo. I never could grow a full beard.
Scala, Java, Unix, MacOS tutorials (page 94)
A Boulder, Colorado sunset (over the Rocky Mountains), October 18, 2012.
Another cross-country move, another bean bag chair left with Goodwill.
~ September 1, 2011
Back in 2009 I went on a yoga retreat in Sayulita, Mexico, and thanks to a glitch in the scheduling, I stayed in this muy expensivo honeymoon suite on the top of the mountain.
My disability fraud neighbor finally got a job. I'd like to think it had something to do with my motivational speaking, but I think what really happened was that he needed some money to go on a date.
~ a note from Wasilla, Alaska, August 31, 2010
“Encourage the quest for happiness in your children, even if it takes them very far away from you.”
~ I don’t remember the source of this quote, but I like it
Here’s a little view of a road in the mountains of Hatcher Pass, Alaska.
It's a little disconcerting to walk up to the car repair shop and see some dude driving down the road in my car, window down, sipping a 32-ounce drink from a straw, and generally looking comfortable. They really took my “drive it as much as you need to” comment seriously.
~ Wasilla, Alaska, August 30, 2010
Here’s my latest favorite coffee mug, given to me by a friend, and filled with some organic espresso this afternoon.
(And if you like coffee mugs, you might also like my article, How to design products people love.)
When I woke up last night it was a little windy outside, so I decided to unplug my MacBook Pro because the power tends to flicker here. When I picked up the MacBook I noticed that it was very warm, even though the lid was closed and it was in sleep mode. This morning I decided to dig into the “Why is my MacBook hot even though the lid is closed and it’s in sleep mode” question.
CNBC has a good YouTube story about why Tim Horton’s struggles in the United States (despite great success in Canada).
“You want to know what your life will look like a year from now? Listen to what you’re saying when you talk to yourself. Your self-talk determines your future.”
~ from the book, Relentless Optimism
An “Alaska Stud Muffin” coffee mug. Back in the day I bought fine coffee mugs like these for friends and family.
Less than 24 hours back in Colorado, and I made a woman cry today.
But it was a good thing.
We were talking and I mentioned something we had talked about previously, and she said, “I can’t believe you remember that,” and started crying.
Just like someone lifted my spirits back in December of 2005 (a story I wrote about recently), never underestimate the effects of a kind word.
~ August 29, 2018
I took this photo one day while driving back from the grocery store. When I lived in Talkeetna, Alaska, I would go to the grocery store in Wasilla, then take the back roads of Hatcher Pass to get back to Talkeetna, typically eating lunch at Summit Lake in the mountains. This is part of the dirt road I drove on.
Motivated by GraalVM, I rewrote my sbtmkdirs command using Scala. Here’s a link to the new Scala `sbtmkdirs` project on Github.
Havana, with Robert Redford and Lena Olin, is an underrated movie. It’s only rated a 6.0 on IMDB, but I’d give it more of an 8.0 or so.
I learned about “visual notes” as a way of capturing presentations last year, and I really like the technique. The image shows the visual notes from a talk titled, “Build Your Dreams”. The drawing/artwork is by Lynne Cazaly.
