Digital Life

Now that TFF's main site has been relaunched, I suppose I can now officially state that I am a content writer for the site. Not that it was any big secret or anything. Just seemed silly to say it and then have nothing to actually show for it. Two of the rotating articles on the home page are mine. But of course, if you'd read them you would know that. /shrug. Jus' sayin'.

If you have anything you would like to see more of feel free to let me know. We are hoping to launch more community-interactive ...

Shamelessly stealing this idea from Scalzi. Because I think it will be interesting to observe how my technology benchmark changes over time. So, this is the current tech in my lair, er, apartment.

Desktop: Gateway Model GT5692 I bought this when my last computer died about four years ago now. It runs on an AMD Phenom 8450 triple-core processor with 4GB of RAM and a 500GB HD. It may be old but it's far from slow. I get a better response from this machine than my mom's year old quad-core ...

That's what I'm making today. Got my last two batches in the oven as I type, in fact. The weather has definitely turned toward autumn, which means it's chilly and the sky is kind of broody, cloudy and just glum. So I wanted to look for a cookie version of a classic comfort food, apple pie. Cause pie is messy and not as fun to bring to work.

These certainly smell delicious; they legit smell exactly like apple pie. I am making a modification to the recipe; as is, it calls for an icing ...

I just watched the livestream a few minutes ago of Endeavour lifting into the sky for the last time. Not on a mission of course, as the fleet, well, what remains of it, are officially retired. It's heading for California, no doubt to spend the rest of its life as a museum exhibit or some other equally miserable fate.

It makes me sad. But I also feel fortunate, as I actually witnessed a shuttle launch some years back. I do not remember which one it was but my brain wants to say Discovery. ...

and realize it's way more involved than you thought it would be?

Yeah. The corollary to that being holy shit, I never realized just how massive this series really is now. Looks like that sidebar's going to be on the backburner, at least for now.

That does seem to happen to me a lot, now that I think about it. It never looks like a lot of work until I actually start, well, working on it and then it turns into this enormous hydra-like virtual being.

So ...