The Hive

I was working on figuring out the uptime for one of our services at work.

Caring for yourself and actually doing the work of taking care of yourself are not easy feats.

This is a recipe that my wife found on Facebook and asked me to make.

I recently read I oppose marijuana legalization — on libertarian grounds by Jim Grey, and it has truly been living rent free in my head ever since.

I’d like to open this post by saying that anyone who is pro-second amendment and also pro-cop is delusional.

Today I read “This is why I’m fat” by Gordon McLean, and a lot of the ideas he puts forth I can relate to, so I wanted to write about those, and my own experiences.

Some years ago I learned about security.txt, a proposed document that could be added to a website to let security researchers know who to contact in the event a security concern is found.

There’s been talk going around about a new protocol, humans.json - not to be confused with humans.txt, of course.

Apparently my RSS feed hasn’t been working for an indeterminate amount of time.

The other day, my wife and I went to one of our favorite places to get brunch.

I haven’t had much energy to write lately, but when I saw Shellsharks had completed this questionaire, I just had to join in. 1.

Maybe it’s because I’ve gotten older, or wiser, or maybe just more jaded, but it dawned on me the other day, that I can’t think of any holiday I celebrate where I actually feel like I’m celebrating anything.

This story’s a bit different from my usual People stories.

Over the past year, this blog has become a library of echoes.

When I was a wee lad, say 6 years old, my favorite place to be was in the sandbox at the park down the street from where I lived.

Saucey dogs are a simple dish of just tomato sauce and hot dogs.

A fun thing about having been raised as a middle-class, white, AMAB who is also at least a touch self-aware, is that any time I have, what I believe to be, a profound thought, I have to stop and wonder if it actually is profound.

Today’s entry is a short one, as it was less than a five minute encounter, but it’s too good not to share.

There’s another blogging questionnaire going around, and thanks to a tagging from ShellSharks, you now get to know some useless information about me.

The company I currently work for has something they call the Core Values.

Thanks to Kev Quirk’s post, I found this post by Joel Chrono, Blogging Expectations, which was in turn inspired by a post from Robert Birming, which was inspired by a post from Brandon’s Journal.

This page serves as a catalog for all my slash pages.

I write this blog because I have a lot to say.

I do not consider myself a professional database administrator.

I was talking with my coworkers one day about our work lives before joining our current company.

It seems that questionaires have become a trend among bloggers, and I’m so happy about that.

I often find myself scared of existing.

I’m a child of the mid-2000’s internet, and as such, I spent a lot of my time on MySpace filling out surveys, or memes, or meta posts, or what ever you want to call them.

I’ve been really into making ganache recently after having to do it once for some brownies.

Back in ‘09 or ‘10, my church’s youth group made a trip to a nearby amusement park.

One of my partners recently posed an interesting question: do I think love is transactional?

It occurred to me yesterday that I don’t generally advertise the posts in this section of the blog.

During my middle school years, I spent a lot of time at the library.

These hamburger buns are a modified version of my peasant bread recipe.

I’ve never considered myself a marmalade guy, but my roommate made this for a special occasion, and it was phenomenal.

This recipe is a core component of the Milk Bread recipe.

This recipe is my partner’s recipe for a Japanese-style milk bread.

Why Did I Think I Could Do This?

This bee’s Chipotle® order.

Content Warning: suicide During my time in the bakery, I made one of my best friends ever, Tyler Baumgartner.

10-key Encoding I recently made a big switch, and downgraded from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone to a dumb flip phone.

I had originally tried to make this a pull-apart bread, a la monkey bread, but it turns out savory monkey breads are pretty hard to make, and it ended up just turning into a loaf.

One night in early spring, I was alone in my state’s capital waiting for my partner to be done at a metal concert, and found myself with little to do.

The curse of knowledge is one of my favorite cognitive biases to ponder on.

DLA - A Naive Approach Jump to the demo!

I saw this fun looking “meme”, as they used to be called back in the day, on Facebook where you ask your friends to give you a number, and then you answer the question respective to the number they picked.

One time my partner and I were at our local grocery store.

Inspired by a post from Jeremy Kieth, I thought I’d share some bookmarklets that I use.

The mind is truly a fragile thing, and an unfortunate truth is that in order for it to maintain itself, it must forget things eventually.

Just a classic peanut butter cookie recipe.