I feel this weird need to fill in the gaps in my blog right now. I haven’t been updating much and even missed the April Tinkering update (which will be rolled into an April/May update). A lot has been going on, as you’ve probably managed to infer, and it’s kept me away from a lot of time that would otherwise be spent tinkering. Having Civilization 5 back on the laptop hasn’t helped either.
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Tinkering/Nerdery: January 2018
Posts in this series
- Tinkering/Nerdery: January 2018
- Tinkering/Nerdery: February 2018
- Maker Stuff: March 2018
Going to try to be more on-the-spot with these posts in 2018. In 2017, I was busy pretty much constantly and unfortunately, some of the tinkering fell by the wayside. So let’s chitchat about what went down in January of 2018, and what my nerdy goals for 2018 are.
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An Abundance of Riches
All my life, I’ve been plagued by an onslaught of great ideas. If you know me for any amount of time, you know that this is both a blessing and a curse. An idea falls in my lap, and I get started on the pursuit of that idea, and then while that’s underway, more ideas crop up and they’re interesting…more interesting than the actual execution of the current project. You could say that I subscribe to Shiny Object Syndrome, which is a hallmark of ADD1. One of my big goals has been to really rein in that crap, because it really does nothing but create a lot of frustration/regret/etc.
What I’ve Learned in 2016
Owning a fatbike is pretty fucking awesome. Adderall is a fucking lifesaver. The way someone treats other people is they way that they will treat you. Whether that’s now, or … Read more
Skills to Learn in 2017
In the vein of “you can’t stop the learning,”1 I’ve been thinking a lot about what’s next to stuff into my brain. Rather than have a huge, unrealistic laundry list of things I want to learn in 2017, I’m going to list two things I want to learn, and one thing I want to hone my skills at.