Five things you might not know about me
I thought that I had dodged the five things meme, but Gene tagged me before it ran its course. So with no further ado, five things you might not know about me.
- The house where I grew up has been owned by my family since 1967, one of three adjoining houses held by the same families since that time. We didn’t realize that my father and the head of the family next door shared a birth day until a couple of years ago.
- Our house was half a block from the Dirt Trails; a mesh of undulating dirt trails on a vacant, triangular lot with sidewalks on two sides and a dirt road on the other. We would ride our bikes for hours on those trails, often in an improvised game of bicycle tag. A house replaced the Dirt Trails a few years after my initiation to them.
- I took a tax preparation class from H&R Block when I was in High School. A friend of mine convinced me that we could earn good money working for H&R Block once we completed the course. I forget how much the class cost, but I never prepared a return for H&R Block. If I read the search engine tea leaves correctly, then my friend is now a CPA, MBA, and Assistant Professor of Accounting.
- I am a fair cook, but a good baker. My failings as a cook stem from my mediocre sense of taste. And my successes come from an ability to follow directions and a good background in techniques. Baking draws upon my cooking strengths and avoids my weaknesses.
- I am addicted to caffeine. The smart thing would be to just feed my addiction. But I fight it by limiting myself to decaf and avoiding caffeine as best I can. Try as I may, I still suffer through the nausea and headaches of caffeine withdraw three or four times a year.
Next up: Thomas Warfield, Steve Kirks, Kevin Barnes, Michael Harmer and Jeff Angus.
Welcome to the Soap Box
I've been known to consider my weblog a conversation. But Michael Herman's comment that blogging is a high-tech version of bathroom grafitti reminds me that conversation is a group activity [via Scoble]. And since soliloquy is the primary form of discourse here, I can't really call this a conversation.
A weblog may be a good place to start a conversation. And it may be a good way to distribute the results of a conversation. But it's not a particularly good way to have a conversation – it has many of downsides of email and it's slower to boot. It's more of a soap box from which to proclaim opinions.
So welcome to my soap box, where I hold forth on the internet, software, sports and whatever else takes my fancy. Feel free to drag your own soap box near by and join in.
That was an Adventure
When I started this weblog, I expected to talk about Content Management and Software Development. As events have unfolded, this blog has been about Sports, Content Management and Software Development. So I added some new categories, wrestled with Radio for a few hours, and now my Sports and Software categories are a going concern.
First Post
I confess. I worked myself into a state of complete writer's block. I frittered away my 30 day free trial of Radio Userland.
And then I remembered one of my first lessons as a freshman:
- 1 >> 0
- n + 1 > n
This first entry may not be very impressive, but it's a heck of a lot more impressive than nothing. And it will get better as I go.
That's how I got a title and a first post.
[15 January] I switched
[23 February] When I started this blog, I expected to talk about Content Management and Software Development. As events have unfolded, this blog has been about Sports and Software Development and Content Management.
[28 February] My Sports Allegiances