2023 Project 52 – 28/52
Big news this week. First, I finished my hellish Secure Software Development course. I was at the point where I was hoping for a “C” in the class. The professor apparently curved the grades and I got a “B+”. Woohoo!…
Category History
2023 Project 52 – 25/52
The week started off with Juneteenth. The wife and I walked to the Freedom House; a museum in one of the most notorious slave traders in the domestic slave trade. It was a very well done museum, teaching the history…
2023 Project 52 – 24/52
There’s just a lot going on right now. Work continues on our back yard. School work ramps up as I prepare for my midterm (to be taken tomorrow, as I write this). Taking on more responsibility at work (more to…
2023 Project 52 – 22/52
Short week of work because Monday was Memorial Day and Friday was a day off for me. We had a relaxing Memorial Day spent going for a nice walk through town and I played Xbox. We saw a regiment of…
My Mostly Magnificent Miscellany 007
James Bond edition! Get it … because 007? It’s not really a post dedicated to James Bond. I mean, I like the films, but I don’t think I know or follow the series enough to have a whole post dedicated…
My Mostly Magnificent Miscellany 003
What I Learned About The global droughts going on right now have made a whole host of strange things surface. From dead bodies in Lake Mead, Nevada to “Hunger Stones” in the river between Germany and the Czech Republic. It’s…
Halt Who Goes There?
I can’t remember how this story popped up recently, but I was reminded of it … so I thought I would share it to the world. I went to high school in Wiesbaden, Germany because my dad was in the…
Who Am I? But really?
I saw a post in a Facebook group for my High School alumni which showed this map of German beers from each state. This led me down the rabbit hole of investigating the German states a little more, since I…
Jon Stewart NY pizza rant
Diving down the YouTube rabbit hole today popped up this classic. Jon Stewart goes on a rant about NY pizza
Vintage New York
YouTube offered the following video as a suggestion alongside another video I was watching. It was one of those random ones that pops up, but their algorithm has clearly pegged me because I was interested. It’s a fascinating way to…
A different world
Note: I posted this originally on the Friendface … but felt I should post it here too. Found this photo on imgur. People watching the WTC burn 16 years ago. I remember that day pretty vividly. I remember feeling like the…
Shadow of the moon
Found on Reddit: