Category: technology & toys

I am a nerd by nature and a geek by trade, and I have a few things to say about all kinds of technology from enterprise platforms to playful games.

  • bardo the air privateer, part two

    bardo the air privateer, part two

    Winter flying is a mixed bag.  Heck, in the last few weeks since I first posted about my new wandering adventures through the virtual airspaces I have officially traversed the rocky mountains and defeated all sorts of variable weather. The worst of it was landing blind in a snowstorm in the Kootenays, but even my

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  • bardo the air privateer, part one

    bardo the air privateer, part one

    Well, darn. The new-ish Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 was ported and released on the PS5 …in late 2025 …which is almost 2026, so you figure that one out? But anyhow. I, like a fool, bought it and now I’m trying to rekindle my virtual flying madskillz to set off on another adventure in and around

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  • little green squares

    little green squares

    Describe your 2025 in tech or tools … to which I am going to answer with a picture of my Github contribution graph: If you know you know, but if you don’t know what this is, let me explain. Github is a code repository. It is like a cloud drive for computer code that keeps

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  • i, capitalist, part one

    i, capitalist, part one

    I have all these little things floating around in my life that are probably worthy of entire articles. Heck, if I wrote some of this stuff down and started a blog about each of them I would probably get wicked traffic… you know, because the whole money, investing, business and buying shit is the type

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  • code monkey, one

    code monkey, one

    I have been writing code for nearly as long as I have been using computers—which, ugh, it sparks my nostalgic angst fuse to write it but that was in grade school in the nineteen eighties.  To that point, I have been coding increasingly more and more these last few years, and making more and more

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