Projects, et al Projects and Updates, 2019-10-01 A quick party hack: I've been adding Post-It Notes to my door to let guests know they've found the right place. (The crowd favorite is a note that simply reads: "It's this
Projects, et al Projects and Updates, 2019-07-01 For the last 3 months, I've definitely spent more time playing tennis than designing or coding. It's been great. Playlist of music in this post: Spotify App Updates I've been using my Invitation
AotYWinners 1972 OMAs: Album of the Year At this point, All Things Must Pass is my favorite album by a Beatle, including all of the Beatles' albums. 1972 One Man AcademyAlbum of the Year All Things Must Pass, George Harrison
AotYNominees 1972 Nominees: Album of the Year For the second straight year, I've heard of all the Album of the Year nominees. We'll see how long this streak lasts... Playlist(s) of music in this post: Spotify You'll have about
Projects, et al Projects and Updates, 2019-04-01 People of Minnesota: eat the last cookie. Please. Don't leave it, don't cut it in half. You crushed the first 49, finish the job. That's apropos to nothing in this post, it just
Projects, et al Using Python and Python-Docx to build Word Docs As someone who loves automating things, I've learned to... well... not. It's often not worth it. I'll look to automate if I think it will improve the accuracy of a process that needs
Revisited 1971 Briefly Revisited: AotY The 1971 award cycle was a decent year for music. If you only listen to one song: "Pullin'", Aretha Franklin The Beatles Let It Be sounds very un-Beatles-ish to me. At
Consolidated and Non Sequitur Thoughts on So-Called Social Media Here are some thoughts that, somehow, all fit together in my head. Throwing Rocks At The Google Bus I read a book called Throwing Rocks At The Google Bus and it was very
Projects, et al Projects and Updates, 2019-01-01 I moved! And it consumed as much time and energy as you would expect. The new view is great and I'm excited to drink ALL THE BUBBLES on my new balcony, once it
1971 1971 OMAs: Album of the Year 1971 One Man AcademyAlbum of the Year Elton John, Elton John Worth a listen Sweet Baby James, James Taylor If you only listen to one song: "No Shoe Strings on Louise"
AotYNominees 1971 Nominees: Album of the Year For the first time in this project, I'm actually familiar with all of the artists who were nominated for this year's Album of the Year award. (But will I like all of their
Projects, et al Projects and Updates, 2018-10-01 Event and Invitation Managing Software My phone now runs a beta alpha whatever-comes-before-alpha version of my event planning/invitation managing software. I've been using the software for about 6 weeks and the results
One Man Academy 1970 Briefly Revisited: AotY OMG Zeppelin Yes. If you only listen to one song: "Prologue, August 29, 1968" and "Someday (August 29, 1968)", Chicago The history in the music The Chicago Transit Authority,
AotYWinners 1970 OMAs: Album of the Year The Beatles keep on being The Beatles; I right a wrong and give Johnny Cash an Album of the Year award. 1970 One Man AcademyAlbum of the Year Abbey Road, The Beatles At
Projects, et al Projects and Updates, 2018-07-01 Here's the thing with testing voice interfaces... you sound like you're losing your mind while you're doing it: "Computer, where's my train? Computer, where's MYYyyyy train? Computer, where's mahtrain? Computer, WHERE'Smahtrain? Computer.
AotYNominees 1970 Nominees: Album of the Year Before hearing a single note, it's fairly obvious 1970's nominees are better than 1969's. This is a relief. Playlist(s) of music in this post: Spotify It's officially the 70s! Will The Beatles
Revisited 1969 Briefly Revisited: AotY This project often becomes an exercise in wondering: Wow... how in the world did y'all get this So Wrong?? If you only listen to one song: "(You Make Me Feel Like) A
Projects, et al Project Updates, et al: 2018-04-01 Creating an Alexa Skill Sometime in January, I decided I wanted a better way to time my morning commute to work. A few obsessive weeks later, I have an Alexa skill that uses
AotYWinners 1969 OMAs: Album of the Year 1969 was a tough year for the Album of the Year nominees... 1969 One Man Academy: Album of the Year - Rule Zero "If zero albums are up to OMA standards in
AotYNominees 1969 Nominees: Album of the Year We're back! We've done all the revisiting we're going to do from the Grammy's first ten years[1], and now it's time to push forward into decade number two. Playlist(s) of music
Revisited 1959-68 Revisited: Richard, Berry, Diddley, Domino There's a lot to say about rock and roll -- obviously. Originally, this post was going to revisit British Invasion rock and roll. Then it was going to revisit "all" of
Projects, et al Project Updates, et al: 2018-01-01 Event Planning App Everyone has their neuroses. One of mine: I keep slightly obsessive track of whom I've invited to things, if they've responded, if I need to forward them event details, etc.
1959-to-1968 1959-68 Revisited: Christmas Tunes "Not a single Christmas song? Otherwise I approve of the list." Some wrongs must be set right. The current One Man Academy (OMA) project is listening to the Grammy's Album of
Revisited 1959-68 Revisited: Elvis Elvis is really good. Although, for the record, if one of his movie characters sings to you "Cross my heart, I hope to die, well I wouldn't tell you no lie"
Revisited 1959-68 Revisited: Nina Simone While writing about Ray Charles and how nobody sounds like him, I knew I wanted to listen to Nina Simone, next. While Nina doesn't sound like Ray, she created music in a decently
