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Samurai 3000-2007 Katana

It’s that time of year again, when we have left-over pumpkin decorations in need of disposal. This year I decided to make multiple successive passes through a single target – and had multiple targets to eliminate. I first selected the one decorated in the lovely “barren oak tree” motif by my wife, shown here next

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Finger Kata

I can passably play the piano, which is to say that most of the time I sit down and attempt to sound competent on one I succeed. I started with limited lessons when I was nine (or thereabouts, I really don’t recall), but didn’t stick with it for more than a couple of months before

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Ted the Caver

Happy Halloween! I was recently directed to Ted the Caver, a re-envisioning of Thomas Lera‘s “Fear of Darkness” (PDF Link). While I was unimpressed with Fear of Darkness in its entirety (it attempts to tell too much of the story, and resolves around ideas stretched for me too far beyond my willing suspension of disbelief

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Momentary Updates

For a code slinger like myself it’s a sore spot that I haven’t been able to finish my wife’s web site. The urgency has not been there, since most of her interaction with clients is done face to face – but now with an out-of-state potential client wanting to review her work I really needed

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