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Divesting in Google
Three years ago, at OSCON 2010, I was ready to go all-in with Google. I came in a Google fan-boy. I used every Google service I could, both personally and in shifting (particularly mail and chat) any...
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Just about 25 years ago, for one week at the start of football season in 1988, I had the nickname “The Wedgebuster”See, I played junior varsity football in high school. “Played” is a bit too charitable...
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In the Garden
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There is no Spork
Portmanteau is a funny word.And by “funny” - I mean fun to say, fun to pronounce, and fun to drop with pomp and circumstance into a conversation, but with a twinkle in your eye that belies the fact...
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It is always sunrise somewhere
This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and...
View ArticleA Sysadmin Looks At Forty
Last night, I watched WarGames for the first time in years.There’s a great quote in the middle of the movie, where Matthew Broderick and Ally Sheedy’s characters are discussing the untimely (and...
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On The River
It’s been awhile, hasn’t it?A lot of life has happened in the last few months. After four years of searching, my wife and I finally found a home that we liked - on the western side of the...
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Snowmageddon 2014
The biggest snowstorm we’ve had in quite some time hit the Triangle area on February 12 and February 13, and the views here reinforced every feeling about this place becoming Home. More pictures from...
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Other Residents
It’s been awhile, and the blog is owed a whole lot of new posts, but in the meantime, I did set up a trail cam to capture snapshots of some other Little River View residents. Here were the first two...
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Happy Holidays!
While this is the iconic image of Christmas morning here beside the Little River: This succession of (blurry, sorry, wrong shutter speed) images is perhaps iconic of 2014: Sometimes in life, your goose...
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On trees and life.
While I love walking down to the river here, and watching the water endlessly flow, and love watching the wildflowers crane their necks around as the day passes to present themselves full on to the...
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Head in the clouds
The first time I ever was in a plane, I was 11 years old. RDU to LGA in a day to watch a baseball game.And now, 30 years later, I’ve maybe averaged a flight a year, enough that the process is a...
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Winter Solstice
The last rays of light of the Solstice Sun just a few hundred yards down the road from the LittleRiverView. And we spin, another day, another dawn, another year, another song. Into winter we surrender,...
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Snomaggedon 2017
Snow, in any amount that is more than an trace amount is such a rare event that the entire area shuts down. But if that means time for joy here at the view, so much the better. More snow from the...
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Summer Solstice
Truman keeping watch on the river, Summer Solstice 2017 It’s been a while – over 3 years – since I last officially rambled on at “rambleon.org” and after some machination that deserve its own post, the...
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