Tag: backstory

  • black hole blog

    black hole blog

    Another navel-gazing blog post to start the week. I would avoid fumbing into another blogging about blogging post on a Monday morning, but I feel like I need to plant a flag at this moment and explain some things. I doubt you’re paying much attention, but if you were you may have noticed that the

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  • study’s end

    study’s end

    Twenty four hours from when I started penning these words will mark the start of the final module in a bit of professional upgrading I’ve been working on. That’s to say, class starts this time tomorrow and then after this final weekend of lectures—and one more big assignment to submit—I’ll be complete. On a weird

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  • performance anxiety

    performance anxiety

    There is a teensy chance that people are actually reading this site. I may have mentioned in a previous post that I wrote a blog for something like sixteen years, pulling it down about five years ago when I got into a management role at work and had employees who literally hated me because “me

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  • pi day

    pi day

    May fifth is definitely not pi day, that annual nerdy celebration of a happy mathematical confluence between the calendar and one of the worlds favourite pastries, pie. Normally the geeky among us celebrate with an extra helping of dessert on March fourteenth: three fourteen. Three one four. May fifth is, however, something of an anniversary

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  • book reviews: may the forth

    book reviews: may the forth

    (…be with you!) It’s Star Wars day and I haven’t done much of anything intergalactic, but I have been doing a lot of reading lately. Worse than my neglect of Star Wars, I checked out a bunch of library books and in such a flurry that a couple have expired before I even got part

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