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Tech

Allen Iverson?

A.I. is having a moment.  Everywhere I look these days it seems that people are embedding the former Philadelphia 76er and Hall of Fame point guard into their products and…  wait…  just being corrected here…  A.I. refers to “artificial intelligence”.  Ah.  That makes a bit more sense… There are a lot of hot takes happening.  […]

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Tech

Can an M2 iPad Actually Replace My Laptop?

As a bit of a follow up to my mea culpa regarding the Apple M-series MacBooks and how impressed I am with them, I have taken the plunge and purchased my first new Apple product since the iPhone 7, an iPad Pro with M2 processor.  The question: can this serve as a legitimate laptop replacement […]

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Life Tech

Smartphones Suck.

I am a notoriously difficult person to get a hold of.  Texts are missed for days or weeks, emails too, my social media appearances are few and far between, if I don’t recognize a phone number I don’t answer the phone. This is not because I don’t want to talk to people or because I […]

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Life Tech

Back to the Future

I started a new job a while back where, for the first time in many years, I am back to doing full time software engineering work that involves me writing code.  Frankly, I’m enjoying it.  I spent the first twenty years of my career writing code and the last ten leading and building teams of […]

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Tech

OK, Apple. I admit it. I was wrong about the M-Chip Macs.

The post Steve Jobs era of Apple has been hard on me.  I was such an Apple fanboi that I had friends who called me iRyan.  I used Macs to design and print the inserts and labels to make the first Nuclear Gopher albums when I was a teenager.  I bought the very first iMac […]

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Writing

Writing

I am a firm believer in doing the work required to maintain mental plasticity and for me this means writing. I don’t have much of a publishing track record, I will admit.  My only commercially published writing was over 20 years ago and was related to technical topics.  My personal journal entries from the 2002-2006 […]

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Stunned.

Today I awoke to learn that the funding goal set to launch “Witness Underground” out into the world was reached, two days ahead of schedule.  Not quite under the wire but not exactly a chip shot either. I will be honest here, I really dislike crowdfunding as a concept, I think social media is a […]

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Music

Nuclear Gopher: Origins

People occasionally ask me about how Nuclear Gopher happened.  There is sometimes a sort of wonder that even though Rhett and I were two nice Jehovah’s Witness kids from the neighborhood we started this crazy experimental band and then an underground record label.  The assumption seems to be that we must have been rebels or […]

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Them Changes

I may not have been born yet when the late, great, Buddy Miles sang about Them Changes but I like to think I know what he was singing about.  Change is all there is, nothing ever really stays the same, not exactly, even in the most humdrum and repetitive phases of our lives.  Even though this […]

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We Have Met The Enemy And He Is Us

The hardest part about losing my religion wasn’t unlearning the teachings. Doing study and research enough to replace the baseless fantasies I had believed in with reality-based information was intense, sure, but I love learning and I enjoyed the thrill of discovery. Who doesn’t get a kick out of the mental buzz you get when […]