Author Archives: Gary

About Gary

I write and maintain code for various websites as both a professional and a hobbyist developer, and have used computer technology for most of my life.

14-Loft

Did we awake from the stupor that can consume our lives — lost amidst bits & bytes, screens & feeds — and find ourselves, as G.K. Chesterton once wrote, “in a street full of splendid strangers?”

Did we allow the years to teach us their subtle lessons?

The idea is not that we will win in our own lifetimes and that’s the measure of us, but that we will die trying.”

Barbara Ehrenreich

Stopping puts some space in your long haul. Rest is a way of being. Pacing is recalibrated care. ~Pato Hebert

  • STOP
    • REST
      • PACE

12-Gage

Last night G stepped into a conversation between R and M. The problem R was expressing to M was exactly the same problem G was experiencing.

It seemed R and G might commiserate to find the one right solution for both because, although M and R were on the same team and G was leading a distinctly different team, any answers found would be to their mutual benefit.

But, G was outside R & M’s coupling and so easy to dismiss.

11-Heel

The wheel was discovered around 5000 years ago.

During the age of wagons & chariots, it may have never occurred to anyone that putting two wheels in line with each other would be a practical thing.


bike

But finally in 1817 the bicycle was invented, and that idea led to the motorcycle, and doing backflips:


What invention of the past could use a new twist today?


10-Drop

-kick me, Jesus …

With 3 seconds left in the fourth quarter and his team down 16-17, Ravens (#9) kicker Justin Tucker swung his leg with as much power as he could and broke the record for the longest field goal in league history, a 66-yarder that bounced off the crossbar and into the net.

What would constitute a perfect day for you?

09-Fire

Then, in the decades of the Twenty First Century, one after another ten-years burning down the road.

Life Support

  • Make a Difference
  • Energize with Passion
  • Focus on a Big Idea
  • Love the One you’re With
  • Keep Moving
  • Stay Alive

08-Cott

Would you like to buy one of these?

Me too!


They might be found on the discounted thrift shelf by now.

No matter how far we have veered from reverence for the miraculous fact that we exist in a universe that we don’t understand, until we stop getting to dawn, we get a chance to start over.

David Milch