The idea behind this post has been swirling around my head for the past week or two. Really, for anyone who’s followed this blog, or my posts on Facebook before shuttering my account a year ago, this line of thought has been lurking in the corners of my brain for several years. An article published […]
ArsTechnica had an interesting article about the ever-expanding trend of renting vs. owning when it comes to all things digital. First it was renting “cloud” storage rather than providing for your own data backup solution. More recently, the big players like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google brought the option to rent computer processing power, and then […]
Several years ago when I was still living in the land of Windows, I joined a Microsoft program called TechNet. At the time it was a program for IT professionals (and other geeks) to try out installations of different Microsoft operating systems and applications. Members could download full versions of various operating systems (Windows 7 […]
I think I’ve hinted around the edges of this idea in some of my previous posts about technology, smartphones, and social media. But for some reason, lately, I’ve been noticing more the degree to which technology is changing the ways in which we engage the world (and people) around us. One of the key ways […]
This isn’t news to my Nebraska friends, but given that I no longer live in Lincoln (and am no longer on Facebook) I only recently found out that the Shopko chain of stores is in the final stages of closing all their locations. I had never heard of Shopko until […]
Given that I had to capitulate back to a smartphone in order to reliably open & read MMS messages, I’m at least grateful for the (divinely enabled) ability to repudiate the siren song of screen time.
As a rule, I try to avoid politics as a direct subject in my posts. I’ve made it pretty clear that I can’t abide either political party. But holy cow, with fawning profile after fawning profile of Beto O’Rourke over the past few months, the majority of the media is clearly, and intentionally, attempting […]
For many years, both during my time in Nebraska and my time in Kansas, I have declined to affiliate with any political party. The primary reason is that I think both of the major political parties are power-hungry, craven, and profoundly unworthy of my loyalty or my support. But not far behind is this: I’ve […]
Folks who have known me for a while know that a year or so ago I ditched my Android smartphone. The reasons were many, and had some analogs to the reasons I dumped my Facebook account in late 2018, but one of the primary reasons was the Pavlovian instinct to reach for and check my […]
With snow on the ground outside, it’s time to stream the first Royals spring training game of 2019.