Jungle
Every now and then, an album just really hits the spot. Most of my music recommendations come in through TikTok these days and the latest video from Jungle, Back on 74, has spawned a rabbit hole of...
View ArticleRecently Read
I don’t consider myself an avid reader. Sometimes I go months without reading a book. I have been in a season of reading, engaging my brain in a different way. As I get back into writing more, it’s a...
View ArticleImaginary Conversations
One of the things that has helped my mental health is recognizing all of the imaginary conversations that I have. Full blown arguments that get me angry and frustrated and at the end of the day, the...
View ArticleStill No CSS Reset
It was interesting to read Chris Coyier’s recent post about Andy Bell’s recent post. It made me think of my personal projects and remembering that I didn’t use a reset for any of them. Well, sort of....
View ArticleBurnout
I was reading Dan Mall’s blog post on Income Transparency a while back and my attention was caught by a particular section on burnout. In his post, he quotes Psychologist Herbert Freudenberger, who...
View ArticlePruning
As I’ve been going through my projects, I’ve been needing to ask myself the question of what to get rid of. When I rebuilt the SMACSS site, I was able to simplify a lot but also cleared out a bunch of...
View ArticleExternal isn’t Internal
Stupid title, I know. I just wanted to say that when a person or company blogs about an idea or approach or concept, you might think—naturally so—that they’re telling you about something that they’ve...
View ArticleCaught on a Bur
Every now and then I am struck by how the things I initially thought unimportant and thus not worthy of paying attention to are the things that inevitably bother me to no end. I bought a new place and...
View ArticleDream with me
It can be fun to buy a lottery ticket and dream of what you might do with the winnings. Maybe imagine a huge mansion with a ten car garage out in the suburbs? How about a yacht sitting in the Monaco...
View ArticleNew Year, Old Me
We have crossed over a collectively agreed upon arbitrary date line once again and as such we vow to become better people than the year before. Two weeks in, I’ve already failed and thus will throw the...
View ArticleQuicker Thoughts on Chips
I think Canadians and Americans might view chips differently. Reading Dave Rupert’s thoughts on chips, I realized that I classify chips differently—namely by its primary ingredient.The Potato ChipIf...
View ArticleEmpty Townhouse
My therapist asked me to think of a happy memory from my childhood. I remembered back to when I was five years old. I only have about four memories from before the age of six and this is one of them....
View ArticleVibing 2
My Vibing playlist slowly builds as I add a track here or there to the list. Here’s a few tracks I’ve added recently.Say What You Want by 33.3After falling head over heels for Jungle, I instantly...
View ArticleSqueaky Wheel Gets the Grease
Europe saw more than 30,000 cases of measles in 2023, compared with 941 in 2022. For many, the success of vaccination meant the effects of the diseases became so insignificant as to become invisible—to...
View ArticleNo Analytics
It was nice to see Rach talk about stripping out analytics. I stripped out my analytics years ago and while I thought I wrote about it, I can’t find where I did so. My apologies if I’m repeating...
View ArticleLenticular Photos
Growing up, I always loved those lenticular cards—ones that had two photos that transitioned as you rotated from side to side. Maybe it was a hockey player taking a shot or a superhero transforming...
View ArticleMy Younger Self
There’s an exercise where you ask yourself what you’d tell your younger self if you ever had the chance. My answer has been and continues to be that I wouldn’t tell my younger self anything. It would...
View ArticleTaking a risk
Back in 1999, I was working as a manager in a retail computer store selling and building PC hardware and software. On the side, my hobby was playing with the web—a nascent technology that had only been...
View ArticleShifting Identities
In a twist on my younger self, I saw a joke recently about what you’d tell your eight year old self. Which reminded me of my mom and her collection of bells. Anybody who knew my mom knew she collected...
View ArticleBest of the Best
After finishing off the challenge of eating at 50 of the World’s 50 Best Restaurants before I turned 50, I turned to a couple smaller quests—one of which is to go to all of the Best of the Best...
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