On Marriage Equality

I haven’t writ­ten much on my blog in the past few years, let along any­thing about pol­i­tics. But this has been some week, has­n’t it? Today’s US Supreme Court 5–4 rul­ing strik­ing down anti-same-sex-mar­riage laws —such as those we have had! here in Ten­nessee— feels like a once-in-a-life­­time kind of change. That so many Amer­i­cans… Con­tin­ue read­ing On Mar­riage Equality

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I reached 10,000 miles on my Nis­san LEAF this past Sun­day evening. It’s prob­a­bly a lot less than nor­mal dri­ving for about 22 months, but just goes to show that an ev is a per­fect fit for me. I just don’t real­ly dri­ve that far.

10,000 EV Miles

Hit 10,000 miles in my LEAF while dri­ving to pick up Chipo­tle, which was a high­ly like­ly cir­cum­stance know­ing our family.

Remembering Leonard Nimoy

Leonard Nimoy passed away ear­li­er today. If you asked many peo­ple, they might tell you that they hear Mor­gan Free­man’s voice in their head when they imag­ine the voice of God. To me, it will always be Leonard Nimoy. That placid, chain-smok­ing-induced growl that, in part, made Spock such a won­der­ful char­ac­ter of his fills… Con­tin­ue read­ing Remem­ber­ing Leonard Nimoy

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The End of RadioShack

RadioShack announced today that they have filed for Chap­ter 11 bank­rupt­cy. They will close about 2,400 of their stores with many of the remain­ing loca­tions being pur­chased by Sprint. This is more-or-less fit­ting, giv­en that the brand has basi­cal­ly gone from the go-to sup­ply store for elec­tron­ics parts to a cell phone reseller. I hon­est­ly… Con­tin­ue read­ing The End of RadioShack

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Coke Life

I hap­pened to see a six pack of Coca-Cola Life1 at the gro­cery store the oth­er day. I don’t recall ever even hear­ing about the bev­er­age before, but it’s sort of a ‘nat­u­ral’2 ver­sion of the dis­con­tin­ued C2, which was a half-calo­rie soda. Life uses both cane sug­ar and Ste­via as sweet­en­ers. I per­son­al­ly liked… Con­tin­ue read­ing Coke Life

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Needle in a Haystack

I just fin­ished what was one of the longest days of my career so-far at Bent­ley. And every­thing that was bad about today was entire­ly my own damn fault and could have been eas­i­ly avoid­ed if I’d just been a bit more care­ful. In addi­tion to push­ing some pub­lish­ing updates to our doc­u­men­ta­tion CCMS last… Con­tin­ue read­ing Nee­dle in a Haystack

Out of nowhere, I got into the mood to lis­ten some Amy Wine­house this after­noon. It struck me as a real shame she nev­er got to record a Bond theme, among the many dis­ap­point­ments of los­ing her. Wine­house just had the per­fect sul­try, throw­back voice for a Bond film intro. I real­ize that it was ‘attempt­ed’ and, hon­est­ly, hav­ing a duet by Alishia Keys & Jack White is a pret­ty good con­so­la­tion. “Anoth­er Way to Die” is a great song, but I can’t help but won­der what could have been…