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Friday, September 4th, 2020

An Evening With AppEngine And Python3

About a month ago, I received an email with the subject, “Configure alternative cost management method(s) for App Engine projects by July 24, 2021.” After skimming it, I decided to star it in Gmail and move on with life; maybe the COVID-19 global pandemic would be over before then and this task would rise above […]

Sunday, April 26th, 2020

COVID-19 pyttsx3 Chilblains

Unless one has been living on Antarctica for the last few months, life has probably been affected by COVID-19 in some way, shape or form. It has been almost 7 weeks since the company I work for issued a recommended work from home (WFH) notice and I have not been into the office since. The […]

Sunday, May 19th, 2019

Bike to Work Day

When I was 11 years old, I biked for work; delivering ~20 papers along a ~1 mile route with a fairly steep hill. Alas, none of my jobs post-college have really been bike-able, given nearly all of them have been in San Francisco; and there isn’t a bike lane all the way across the Bay […]

Thursday, February 21st, 2019

RIP Sweet, Tender CafePress

Somewhere along my circuitous route through paid employment I spent ~21 months at a company called CafePress. I met some great people, learned a lot and as part of the offer letter, received Incentive Stock Options (ISO) in the not-yet-public company. My previous encounter with stock options did not result in anything material i.e. my […]

Friday, October 5th, 2018

Real World Rollback

When doing anything, it’s always a good idea to have reasonable a way to undo it. Sometimes reverting something, while possible, requires too much effort or costs too much. On rare occasions, it may be impossible and one is faced with a “point of no return”. If dealing with digital data, the standard process is […]

Wednesday, July 11th, 2018

Father’s Day, Perf and PII

For Father’s Day this year my daughter presented me with a sheet of paper containing a variety of “my dad…” statements e.g. My dad’s favorite color is:__________ My dad always says:__________ My thoughts drifted to The Newlywed Game as I wondered how many of the questions I would have answered with the same exact answer […]

Friday, May 4th, 2018

Crossover Dates

My wife and I recently crossed a round number year anniversary of the date we first met in person. It occurred to me that it was actually more than half my lifetime and (in hindsight) thought that “crossover date” might have been another moment in time worth paying attention to. Below is a quick and […]

Friday, August 25th, 2017

The Sneaky Snacky Squirrel

Previously I wrote about a board game our daughter enjoys playing, Hi Ho! Cherry-O. One of the things that makes it somewhat uninteresting to adults is the lack of any applicable strategy; luck completely determines the outcome. Another game she enjoys is The Sneaky Snacky Squirrel. While luck determines much of the outcome, there are […]

Friday, June 16th, 2017

Fearless Jeter Bunny Salami

25hrs and 43min, the time period between 6:46a Sunday May 14, 2017 (when my flight touched down) to 8:30a Monday May 15, 2017 (when my return flight took off). Witnessing the ceremony to retire Derek Jeter’s #2 occupied a portion of time around 6:35p +/- travel time to and from Yankee Stadium, but what about […]

Sunday, February 5th, 2017

Burger King Is Out Of Burgers

Just over 20 years ago, I arrived in Berkeley California for college. 1996 was an election year, though not remotely as contentious at the presidential level as the most recent one. At the time, talk of red state/blue state would have brought to mind Sandra Boynton not Clinton Dole. However at the state level, proposition […]