#445 - AI, Tesla, Unicode, MCU, and Energy
What should have been several smaller Columns
What should have been several smaller Columns
The biggest project completion to date.
A good idea that I’m not great at
Effortful Fun is still Fun
#385, Three Years Later
You know, a Column
To Cloud, or Not to Cloud, that is the Question
Revisiting a Favorite Topic
Apple Vision Pro (or con?), Widgets, and an unrelated Top 5.
Tears of the Kingdom is good.
An actual short post about a long post yet to come
A thing that (sort of) doesn’t exist
From a guy with moderate experience and no formal training
A bad guide
An Unfortunate Fact of Life
A sequel to 258 - only this time I solve it
It’s that time again.
Expanding on 2023’s main theme
The Annual Review/Preview.
An Unprecedented Streak of Suck.
A new Aaron Project™ has been born.
Relish Rope Fuzz
Technically this Column should contain all existing problems.
As if I wasn’t already all in
Making Things to Make
Hey Google, Hey Siri, AY WHADDUP ALEXA!
The Internet’s Home for Chaos Art
The Week is Weak
Notion, VS Code, TypeScript, and Diagrams as Code
Not a Treacherous Territory
A Year in Review
Less complaining than you might expect!
September & October have been strange.
Where fun meets productive.
Checking back in on a few themes.
When the Earth starts to settle, God throws a stone at it.
Scott Pilgrim, the Future, Slippery Life Lessons
A classic Aaron Column
A post in which I state the obvious.
Two very fun topics! Plus some other things that actually are fun.
As one does.
A Good Look at a Bad Year
Catching Up on Little Topics.
Simple sets of good advice for most people.
An updated look at Aaron Information Management
A Celebration of 400 Posts & Look at the Times.
Just immediately throw out that last post.
A snapshot of what I use to do stuff
A smattering of little stuff
Another show in the history books
A deep dive on the evolution and related learnings from my biggest Project.
A recap of Apple’s 2020 WWDC, plus other stuff (like usual)
A post about balance & a return to living freely
About changes to the site, plus other stuff. I hate fully-meta blog posts.
Thoughts on Life Tracking after 7 Years
A quick look at my new notetaking system.
Don’t waste this opportunity for introspection, learning, and personal development.
A look at living with intent.
It’s been a little bit. I’ve been incredibly focused.
January’s 30 Day Challenge was to refactor the old “Life Tracker” into the “Data Journal” component of my new overall system. I wasn’t sure how much effort t...
It took me 6.8 years to think of two words.
Doesn’t it seem like 2020 has always been “the future!”. Technically as of this writing that’s still true… but almost assuredly for you reading this it is no...
This Column exists mostly as a test of the new mail letter. Thanks to Google Plus shuttering its doors and my recent switch of hosting platform, I didn’t rea...
It’s December by the time I’m publishing this. The title is no longer accurate. Word #1 of this page was a lie. How does that feel for a good start?
Oh hey. I’m writing. I’m also watching “Frozen” for the first time in forever. Disney Plus is incredible and an absolute no-brainer as a person with a very y...
It’s been a while since I’ve written. I have had a lot of heavy trains of thought in that time. Daunting ones that would take a lot of time and energy to wri...
What is “Healthy”?
Last November I bought an iPhone. I spent much of the previous 10 months adapting to both it and the Apple ecosystem. If you had my browsing history (say, fr...
In late 2013 I watched a TED Talk that changed my life. Attributing a life change to a TED Talk feels somewhat embarrassing in 2019, but it happened to me. T...
I said I was interested in changing up The Column. This is me doing that. For future reference, this is the first post I’m writing after my move from Blogger...
Motto: This Turned Out to be a Monster I'd like to thank my local library and the various apps (one, two, three) that connect with it for increasi...
Motto: Okay Google... what's your goal here?IntroThis post is going to be an expansion on something I wrote about in Column #354. It will (hopefully) complet...
Motto: Keep It Simple, StupidI suck at what I'm about to write about.An overarching theme for most of my posts lately (and because my writing so closely rela...
Motto: This is essentially just FacebookMy little family unit just took our first 3-person vacation... and we liked it so much we decided to go for immediate...
Motto: Cause Nothing Ever Stays "Good Enough"I left the last post off saying I'd write more about Notion. This is going to be that + me revisiting notetaking...
Motto: A Place for Every Datum, and Every Datum in its PlaceLast Column I briefly mentioned a blog I found called "Minding the Borderlands". That site, in ad...
Motto: Slow pitch straight down the center of the plate Marvel I'm not in the business of writing movie reviews on the Column since I started a podcast that ...
Motto: You can probably just stop reading here, too.Today is day 30 of our Whole30.If you don't know about Whole30, it can be summarized pretty simply as a (...
Motto: You can probably just stop reading.This post is not for anyone. I wanted to write it, though. TL;DR - I read two books, one was good, one was not. Als...
Motto: Google is GodThere's a Google product you should know about; it's called Google Takeout. It is not a food service, so don't get excited. Don't ma...
Motto: Opportunity MissedRemember how I said I want to write a book, and how I might dump stuff on here that's from the book? This is counting.--------------...
Motto: Free the BeastI want to write a book. I don't to write a book so that I can "I'm a guy who's written a book", but because I have something have I...
Motto: This Column was Meant to be about Many TopicsI have been thinking some about how stupid our conventions are for times and dates. I wonder if I could c...
Motto: Do You Have Any Apple Fritters?I read an article (like this one) about a psychology study in which the takeaway was: telling somebody you were going t...
Motto: OH BOO HOOYou ever fall out of your groove? It's funny how doing one little thing can start a domino effect. I didn't feel like cooking, so we at...
Motto: Oh Boo-HooI've been first-world struggling lately.Five and one-third years ago I wrote a Column about technological ecosystems. This is that table, up...
Motto: This Should have been Column 365. Shucks.It's 2019. It's the start of a new year and a chance to take a fresh look at life.I already have my obligator...
Motto: THOUGHTS! OPINIONS! WORDS IN AN ORDER TO CONVEY MEANING! This post is literally only about my continued review on iOS vs Android. I thought of more s...
Motto: Just one. That's all it takes.I, Aaron Gillespie, self-proclaimed best-guy alive, along two other best guys alive, started a movie podcast! It's calle...
Motto: BAAAAAAHThis graphic took longer to make than it was worth - the dates are (obviously) approximationsSome history (if you don't care about history and...
Motto: I VotedI hated economics in school. It was a boring subject. The study of supply and demand was too demanding. Interest rates didn't interest me. The ...
Motto: Mic Check One Thousand Two Hundred TwelveI have a kid. He's really cool. He sleeps a lot. He eats a lot. He's very large for his age. His temperament ...
Motto: This is Shooting-From-The-Hip Poetry at Its NothingestBefore we start - expectations be framed.Each bits of this is self-contained. I've wri...
Motto: Hamburgers are Fun on a BunFile this Column under "Aaron tells other people what they should be doing", which I realize is too common of a theme.You k...
In Column #97 I wrote about "The Taxonomy of Human Attractiveness". In that post, I analyzed the perceived differences between "cute", "pretty", "hot", ...
Motto: Make HappyI write the first half of this Column from a position of privilege. Actually I write every Column from that position, now tha...
Note from the Future: I’ve decided to remove my kid’s personal info from this post
Motto: Life, One Second a TimeI had a kid. I'll write about that next time. It's tough to try to get everything I want to say about that together and typed a...
Motto: Let's Get It Started In HereOur baby is going to be induced two days from now. Tomorrow we go in for pre-induction medical magic. That means basically...
Motto: Optimism Meets Realism Meets WritingFifteen million seven hundred sixty-eight thousand minutes!Fifteen million seven hundred sixty-eight thousand ...
Motto: Do the Thing the Person You Want to be Would Do - and Eventually that will be Who You Are.Does Anyone Remember When I Used to Write Everything in My B...
Motto: HELLO RANDOM PERSON GOOGLING FOR REVIEWS! I wrote this for you!Backstory:I obsessed about backpacks for a few months. I was in a loop where I research...
Motto: Everybody Needs a HobbyI have put a lot of the three major resources into crafting a home gym. I'm proud of it and it's one my favorite things about m...
Motto: It Makes a Fool of Us AllLife seems to me like a series of choices about what to do with your resources. Mostly those resources fall into energy, time...
Motto: GET READY FOR FINANCE, BABYTaxes are needlessly confusing. At least that's how I always found them to be. Some relatively simple jargon like "deductib...
Motto: I don't know why she swallowed the flyI'm literally not talking about the widely-recognized abuse of words like "literally". This is less of a Buzzfee...
Motto: Gentleman on the Streets, Freak in the Spreadsheets The Life Tracker. It was never given a better name - but it started with a worse name. If y...
Motto: Balance to the UniverseI've been unable to write this column for the past 50 hours since I watched Avengers: Infinity War for the first time. My brain...
Motto: girl scout cookies are a treat, boy scout popcorn is an obligationFirst, because I never do, here's a short poem:Running through the forest.Dodging tr...
Motto: Shooter McGavin was in an episode of Star Trek: The Next GenerationI haven't written much lately cause I've been busy.I rewatched Thor: Ragnarok. I th...
Motto: The Adventure Begins...Here's some notes-to-self from my Google Keep that I originally wrote with the intention of exploring at a greater length on he...
Motto: Dirigibles and Didgeridoos have Nothing in Common Other than They are both Plural Nouns and Long, Funny "D" WordsBitcoin is weird. I assume anyone who...
Motto: Don't say cheese, just smile. Life is Good. This is the kind of stuff I think about.What is "smart"? What makes somebody smart? Is it just.....
Motto: 7719836421125Don't bother trying to decipher the motto. It's from Rick and Morty. Someone on the internet may stumble across the post trying to figure...
Motto: Adept at being IneptThis isn't going to be fun to read, but It was fun to write. I'm not writing about any of the things that have happened latel...
Motto: 2017 is 99% complete & I'm 100% ready for 2018 to start.Christmas has come and gone. Gifts were given. I gave Melissa a back & neck massage th...
Motto: ...THERE'S NEVER "TOO MUCH" TO SAY ABOUT THE MCUFirst, a quick aside about some English stuff.Active voice: Thing A performs this action to Thing B. A...
Motto: What a Marvelous ContinuationPreface:Nearly 4 years ago, I wrote this long post about the Marvel Cinematic Universe (as it existed then). In...
Motto: Discipline Beats MotivationLately I have had trouble doing new Aaron things.The ideas haven't gone. It's the follow through. I sought to remedy this s...
Motto: Some Handsome HandI don't like this post. You should skip it. I'm not saying this to intrigue you into reading further. This Column was supposed to be...
Motto: Round and Round We GoRoutine.Imagine life without it. It would be chaos. Everyone has routines they go through every day. You do the same things in th...
Motto: I Forgot to RememberLast time I wrote about stuff I had been putting on the back burner for a while. I forgot this stuff.SCIENCE AND HUMANITY AND STUF...
Motto: DC, KC, ABQ, and stuffPart of the reason I don't write "Features" all that much anymore is that they take me a LONG time, and they push out other thin...
Motto: I wanted to Share this with youThe Stock Market doesn't make any sense, I can't believe it's a thing. It seems to me like a form of gambling, tha...
Motto: 365 Out of 31536000 Seconds Last Year Let's get right to it. I've been doing that for 5 full years now. It would take 40+ minutes to watch all 5 ...
Motto: Let the Chips Fall Where They MayI have ecosystem anxiety. A long time ago, I jumped into the Google ecosystem with both feet. I even went so far...
Motto: The words need to fit together. The paragraphs do not.Writing.Every time I start a Column it starts with the single word "Writing". I go in and change...
Motto: After Writing All of This I Realized Most of it is EmbarrassingHello internet. I'm writing this in my basement on the couch, waiting for Shadow of the...
Motto: Hello! My Name is... Mr. ComplainerI'm in a good mood. I've switched NSAIDs and my back feels great. I've had some great times over the past week and ...
Motto: Opinions! They're like facts, but so messy!I write these posts in random order. Sometimes I start on the body. Sometimes not. Today this is the last p...
A motto: TomatoIt has been a while.Have you ever been too busy living life to live life? I have been seizing the crap out of the day, every day. Since I last...
Motto: Balance in the ForceThis post will serve as the "yong" to the previous post's "ying". First I'll start by saying I'm back on prescription anti-in...
Motto: No shirt. No shoes. No thanks.Columns will go on as long as they have to.This Column was supposed to be a "fun" one, cause I feel like the last one I ...
Motto: I Will Never Understand You. When Will I Stop Trying?311 is Melissa's favorite number because she likes (or liked?) the band "311". #FunFactRightOutTh...
Motto: IRON FIIISTI changed the layout to the Column. This is how it looks now. I guess that's all there is to say about that. In 18 days the Life Tracker wi...
Motto: Sentences that Begin and End with the Same Word are My Favorite Sentences.Before this 30 Day Challenge I wouldn't really have understood the title I u...
Motto: Sometimes I Impress MyselfIn Columns #219 and #289 I shared a series of snippets from the Moleskine I had been writing in for the ...
Motto: Dr. Jan ItorFollow through... follow through is the topic I want to talk about for this Column.Actually let's talk about something else.It goes withou...
Motto: Think Outside the Box, but Color Inside the LinesThe title of this post is not a reference to the Super Bowl. I didn't watch it. I have heard how it w...
Motto: I Guess Ryan Gosling is OkayThis year I am back to my 30 Day Challenges. They bring a variety to life that I quite enjoy. I missed the feeling that th...
Motto: New Year, Same General IdeaThere's not much time to write this. My laptop is dying. It's already fairly late.Last year my resolution was to run 12 "ch...
Motto: the word “Pizzazz” has never been played in a game of Scrabble<div style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><div class="separator" st...
Motto: Hey Google, tell me about my dayI'm just going to post this as is - everything in italics is how my Posts start, before I fill them out with words.Goo...
Motto: I'm Here to Make a BargainI have had a lot on my mind lately. An almost inexplicably large amount for a person whose so far into the steady-state port...
Motto: THIS IS SPARTAI've written 300 of these. That's a round number which seems significant. It's not, though. If humans had 12 fingers instead of 10, I'd ...
Motto: Upon this rock, I will build my church.If the motto is sacrilegious, I apologize. I'm not referencing Matthew 16:18, I'm referencing Ultron. Ultr...
Motto: WHOA IS ME!This Column will have some of the same old stuff I usually talk about presented in the same old ways. It will also have some different new ...
Motto: Mr. Handy Man CanMy grandpa was a carpenter. My dad builds stuff. It turns out I build some stuff too.Am I great? No.Am I capable?Arguably.My who...
Motto: Labor Day = Don't Go to Work? What?Last Column was very... focused. This time the glasses are coming off. Things are going to be nice and out-of-...
Motto: WELCOME TO MY NATION OF ARTICULATIONI'm an adult, dude.I'm sitting at the table in my kitchen, the one that used to be my only table. I own a table. I...
Motto: Jason UnbourneI haven't written in a while because I haven't had internet in a while. Melissa and I are moving to a full-blown house in less than a we...
Motto: Is the "Of Pisa" really necessary?Stuff's happening. I'm very likely buying a house. Melissa and I will quickly become homeowners. LIVING THE AMERICAN...
Motto: Coding with a mug full of Java... C what I did there?Full disclosure - I'm multitasking.Yesterday evening I picked back up where I left off 8 months a...
Motto: Pajamas are the coolest thing according to cats, meanwhile the knee is the object bees find the most hip.Hi!Right out the gate - my cousins were in to...
Motto: Meet Dr. TryhardMelissa and I took a long vacation. For photos, see Facebook. If you don't know me well enough to see my Facebook, that's too bad. I'l...
Motto: I Write for PosterityThree posts in three days! I'm on a roll... possibly because I'm out of my routine so fully that writing has supplanted otherwise...
Motto: and now, for something completely different!My wife's name is Melissa. She and I met 6 3/4 years ago at KU in training for our new job. I was fairly r...
Motto: This post started so positive, then went down in flamesI wrote the majority of this post a week ago, but then lost internet connectivity and had to pu...
Motto: What's Left to Write? (this is a very similar pun to the one I made 4 Columns ago, sorry)I'm writing this from a hotel in St. Louis. Melissa and I are...
Motto: :-(21 hours ago I walked into a theater to watch one of the most anticipated movies... ever. The levels of hype varied from source to source - but all...
Motto: lightly flavored carbonated water ≠ sodaHI!I don't write as much any more. That's just the way things are, and the way they will likely continue to be...
Motto: BACK ON TRACKThe majority of this Column is going to consist of me doing something I rarely do - criticizing a portion of the Marvel Cinematic Univers...
Motto: Writing WrongsThat monitor situation I talked about in my previous post got resolved. I successfully returned the 4K monitor, lessons learned. Earlier...
Motto: Rambling for Rambling's SakeYesterday I bought a brand new 28" 4K Samsung computer monitor.Today I am writing this Column on it.Tomorrow I'll be retur...
Motto: Set Achievable Daily Goals and Achieve Them DailyI've struggled not to start every Column I've written over the past few months with "everything is re...
Motto: Baskin Robbins always finds outI spent a couple of nights in Albuquerque earlier this week. It was my first time (in memory) down around that state. T...
Motto: I have two on-going projects over 1,000 days old because I've only ever had two good ideasThis post going to be very short. I just wrote and published...
Motto: 2015 was cool. This Column is going to be written over the course of a few days. There's too much going on for me write now. I'm at the Hill house. A...
Motto: BUM BUM BUM, BUM BUMBUM, BUM BUMBUM, BWAM BWAM BWAM BWAM BWAMBWAM, BWAM BUH BWAM. DUHHHH DUH DUH DUH DUH DA DUHDUHDUHTo set the scene: I'm watching a ...
Motto: IN AND OUTThis is going to be a super quick update before the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. midseason finale. I'm very excited for that.I'm very excited abou...
Motto: Hi guys!I had a week vacation. Although I went into the week with some loosely-defined goals & objectives, when it came time to put the wheels on ...
Motto: I have half an hour to write thisIt's the beginning of the month. That means I'm transitioning between two 30 Day Challenges. Here's where I reflect o...
Motto: Well That's Disappointing In 2014, when Google announced the Nexus 6 that was a huge personal disappointment, they announced a few other things that ...
Motto: GREAT SCOTT! Yesterday was “Back to the Future” day. That is popular knowledge right now. I’m not stating that not so much to inform you now, but mor...
Motto: GET ON MY LEVEL The initial reviews for the Nexus 6P are coming back. I'm buying into the #HYPE. Initial. Reviews. Are. All. Positive. Seriously....
Motto: Hey/Okay Siri/Alexa/Cortana/Google, are you hearing me?<div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></div>Technology is cool.I th...
Motto: IT MIGHT SEEM CRAZY, WHAT I'M ABOUT TO SAY... I’m about to write something I promised myself I wouldn’t ever write:“It’s been so long since I wrote, ...
Motto: I'm the Guy in the Suit This post was written more for me than usual. Proceed with caution and/or boredom.Most of my writing lately has funneled into...
Motto: Simply Perfect I am writing whole piece this using only the ten hundred most often used words. I am doing this because a guy whose work I enjoy did t...
Motto: ACTIONBig things are brewing.I am watching Captain America: The First Avenger. I have made a playlist on my Plex server of all of the Marvel Cinematic...
Motto: Knowledge = Voltage × Current! This column is going to be fun, but first you've got to earn that fun through some learning. I'm going to start this ...
Motto: Grass.RGB(0,0,255) I am in the Hill's camper at Walnut Valley Blugrass Festival in Winfield. It's raining pretty hard, so we're stuck indoors. I'm ok...
Motto: Cross another off the movie bucket list I want a tablet, but... Tablets are the most fun pieces of computing tech out there - even if they may be th...
Motto: I've got so much to tell you! I have a lot to talk about. First I’m going to say - if you noticed the new favicon, I’m impressed. If you don’t see it...
Motto: If Not Now, When? Hey, this looks different!Yes, I've slightly changed the look & feel of the Column to celebrate my move from aarongilly.blogspo...
Motto: I found a homogeneous mixture composed of only one phase<div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></div><div style="font-fa...
Motto: Writing for Me, by Me Melissa is going back to grad school, she's taking her Mac Air & iPad with her & utilizing Microsoft OneNote. While she...
Motto: The Theme is "Worlds"... which Passes as a Theme I Suppose The past 4 days have been awesome. Here's why, with pictures & captions! Melissa and...
Motto: Google's Indexing the Internet, AlphabeticallyI'm embarrassed by that motto.Trebuchet is my favorite font. Presuming your browser didn't hijack my typ...
Motto: Twitter sucks #ProbablyJustJealous I don't have a Twitter. I don't like the idea of a stream of small text posts. So here's everything I would have tw...
Motto: 14 million 208 thousand 480 minutes! 14 million 208 thousand 480 moments of rife! 14 million 208 thousand 480 minutes! How do you measure, m...
Motto: Get really excited. Here it comes. You excited? I turned 27 yesterday. That marks my 27th* year on this earth, and my 3rd year's Second-A-Day video. ...
Motto: Healthy Living, No GimmicksGoPro makes one heck of a promotional video. Their newest "GoPro HERO4 Session" camera is tiny, but ultimately not compelli...
Motto: “Motion Pictures” Don’t Promise You Audio<div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></div>Melissa was in Rhode Island last week...
Motto: Diagnostics, on a Personal LevelBecause I anticipate this is a boring subject for many/most of you - I've included a TL;DR just above the Top 5 to whi...
Motto: careful with these links, they go to TVTropes.com - which you’ll never leave<div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></div>I ...
Motto: This Post Brought to You by ABCDFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ<div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></div>Last night I told a group...
Motto: I’ve got a long way to go<div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></div><div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'...
Motto: Have you had enough, or are you thirsty for more? <div>It’s been a couple of weeks, hasn’t it? There’s probably some good reasons for that:...
Motto: Take a jaunt. <div>This post will contain nothing about Marvel, coding, Life Tracker, second-a-day videos, Google, technology, or me. It wi...
Motto: Darn. <div>Google I/O 2015 happened yesterday. I wrote in my last Column about my hopes to walk away from it without disappointment. Unfortunate...
Motto: I think Parcheesi is a cheap, unpleasant, and blatantly inauthentic game <div>I am writing this on our porch. We really like our place. Even aft...
Motto: This Column May Set a Record for the Greatest Number of "I" Uses. Not proud. This Column is going to take a deep dive “Inside Baseball”. Moreso t...
Motto: I Might Be Inclined <div>Melissa and I are back from vacation. It was great.I’m sitting at the table. It’s late at night. Melissa is grading. Th...
Motto: I'm going to call Ratcatcher to trash this Copper <div>This is likely the last post I will write before Melissa and I go on our vacation to...
Motto: You Can Survive Anything for Just 10 Seconds! <div>Melissa and I went on our first real bike ride yesterday. We went on a 2.92 mile jaunt around...
Motto: Zen Mode Engage<div>I have decided to learn more about computer science. I’ve done some “coding” for several years, but it’s pretty much always ...
Motto: You Don't Exercise because You Have Energy, You Exercise because it GIVES You Energy <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; m...
Motto: Step 1 - wake up <div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div style="line-height: 1.15;">Have you ever been in a mood ...
Motto: Right about now, the funk's your brother. <div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div style="line-height: 1.15;">Seve...
Motto: You Can Never Achieve Perfection, You Can Only Get Closer <div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Transitional periods are d...
Motto: This Turned Out Longer than I Expected <div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div style="line-height: 1.15;">Convent...
Motto: Your Projected Projects Project Your Identity <div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div style="line-height: 1.15;">...
Motto: Bill Plates - President of Macrohard <div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div style="line-height: 1.15;">My 30 Day...
Motto: Get Over It, Dude <div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">January 2014 Melissa and I did the Paleo + CrossFit 30 Day Challen...
Motto: The Desolation of Smug <div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">This post is going to come across as snooty, maybe, but I don...
Motto: Vegas is Paying Out Big Money to Some to Some Lucky Betters This weekend I built a computer. Let me answer some anticipated questions: Q: Why did you...
Motto: Liberty and Monarchy, that's my Free King Motto <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Because I sorta w...
Motto: Coincidental Minds Think Alike <div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div style="line-height: 1.15;">If it’s been a...
Motto: Part 3/3 was a 3/10 in my book. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">The following is a rant about “Pa...
Motto: Two Kinds of Nerdy Will Battle in This PostI realized the other day that the Disney company is killing it in terms of content - especially content in ...
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Motto: Optimis Divisible Only by Himself and OneThe thirty day challenge I embarked upon for the month of November was simple - live on a budget. I wanted to...
Motto: #hashtag <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">I write these posts according to my own (previously) unw...
Reminder: Include a Motto <div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div style="line-height: 1.15;">I haven’t written much lat...
Motto: Just Cause <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">I love a good notebook. If you have a notebook, you ca...
Motto: Consumerism at its Finest <div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div style="line-height: 1.15;">Whoa! Dude! There’s ...
Motto: Google Fit, Not Quite Fit for Duty (HEADLINES, SON) <div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">This entire update is about Goog...
Motto: Putting the "I" in "Happiness" <div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div style="line-height: 1.15;">I’m going to wr...
Motto: Whoever said "You can never go back" clearly didn't put in the effort <div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div style=...
Motto: Rare Day <div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div style="line-height: 1.15;">This is going to be a short post. It’...
Motto: No Strings Attached <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Being a critic is not one of my skills. Howev...
Motto: Let's Get the Naming Scheme Right <div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div style="line-height: 1.15;">On Saturday ...
Motto: I Like These Oddly Formatted Columns. Expect More of Them.ImpressedRobert Downey Jr. is rumored to be joining the cast of the upcoming Captain America...
Motto: Tonight's a Twofer <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">I have a theory about stress, not all types of...
Motto: Tangent <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Systems analysis - that’s got to be a passtime of mine. ...
Motto: I Like Posts Like This <div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">If you’re reading this, there’s a zero percent chance any of ...
Motto: The Quantified Masses, The Hunt for Ripped October, The Yes Man Cometh, All Other Potential Names <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-b...
Motto: Focus, by Marc Jacobs <div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div style="line-height: 1.15;">I’m writing this post in...
Motto: Aaron, Meet Aaron <div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">This post is going to be long, but it’s kind of a big deal. Hopefu...
Motto: My Grass is Blue <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><pre style="line-height: normal; white-space:...
Motto: Infall Klocka <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Two weeks ago I wrote about how excited I was for ...
Motto: Apple iWatch Air S C Plus <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Apple’s iPhone 6/iWatch announcement ha...
Motto: "What running features should each Column have?" Five months ago I wrote a feature post titled "Minimalist Thought Experiment". In that post I gave a ...
Motto: "Miles Stone" would be a sweet secret agent name. <div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div style="line-height: 1.15;"...
Motto: I wrote this on a laptop <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">I’ve been interested in consumer technol...
Motto: Read It <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">When it comes to my New Year’s resolution, August was kno...
Motto: "September" is an anagram of "Mr. Best Pee" <div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div style="line-height: 1.15;">I...
Motto: Guess I'm Going to Have to Learn Football <div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div style="line-height: 1.15;">I go...
Motto: Person aaron = new Person("Aaron",26,80,227); <div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div style="line-height: 1.15;">...
Motto: I'd make another wheel-based pun, but I won't because I'm 3/4ths tired. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0p...
Motto: Clean your weight, deary <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">This post isn’t a feature. It’s mostly a...
Motto: Hello Melissa! Hello Danielle! This post is not for everyone. The first part is for everyone who's at all interested in this game I've been playing a...
Motto: No Half Measures <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Let’s take a quick look back at Column #175 - “L...
Motto: It's My Party and I'll Cry to Make a Throwback Joke <div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div><div style="line-h...
Motto: No hablo Espanol <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">This is going to be a short and sweet Column. T...
Motto: Keep it Simple, Stupid <div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">I love .txt files. A .txt file is the simplest possible tex...
Motto: IT'S ALIVE!!! <div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">This is a continuation of my previous few Columns. Re: Linux & vi...
Motto: Bro, do You Even Lift? (or run? or stretch?) <div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div style="line-height: 1.15;">I...
Motto: This is a Column for Me, Not so much You <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><pre style="line-heig...
Motto: This Column is about Nothing <div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div style="line-height: 1.15;">This is the first...
Motto: The Tyrannosaurus Wrecks His Car <div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div style="line-height: 1.15;">Despite the t...
Motto: Matt Cutts I've been lazy with the 30 Day Challenges lately. I'll admit that. But I have not given up on them entirely. They've definitely been in the...
Motto: Now I'm thinki0 0ng with Portals. <div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">So. It’s been a week since my last post. Why...
Motto: El Google Google I/O happened. I had to work during most of the keynote, but it was still fantastic.Here's the changelog:Material Design is Google's n...
Motto: Cars Go Fast <div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div style="line-height: 1.15;">This Column is long, but I think ...
Motto: Open is as Open Does <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">This Column is about computer stuff. It is g...
Motto: 13-Across, a 7 letter word for "Mrs. Gillespie" <div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div style="line-height: 1.15;"&g...
Motto: The World's Most Versatile Column <div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text...
Motto: The Project Project is Projected to be a Success <div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div style="line-height: 1.15;"&...
Motto: WWDC stands for Wow. What a Developer's Conference <div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Everything I’m about to say might...
Motto: #ItsAllConnected <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">If you don’t care about Marvel Comics, this post...
Motto: 7 Days (equals one week!) <div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div style="line-height: 1.15;">I’ve been married fo...
Motto: Whoa. <div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div style="line-height: 1.15;">Just to set the scene properly for your ...
Motto: Have You Ever Had a Perfect Day? I had a perfect day. It happened about 3 weeks ago.Melissa and I were married on Saturday the 3rd of May in Lawrence,...
Motto: That's MR. Gillespie to you. <div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div style="line-height: 1.15;">The original titl...
Motto: Details Details Details I sometimes have a tendency to get excited about something, then forget that anything exists beyond that thing. I was excited ...
Motto: My Heartbleed's for You <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">The motto is not grammatically incorrect....
Motto: So Much to Do and so Little Time <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Writing Columns is something I d...
Motto: I Just Want to Play What I Have on What I Have <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">There was a time w...
Motto: T Minus 23 Days <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">I swear I’m taking these 30 Day Challenges seriou...
Motto: I Hate Getting My Hair Cut. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Yesterday was the worst day I’ve had ...
Motto: The Star-Spangled Man with a Plan <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">On Thursday, April 3rd Melissa ...
Motto: Give it a Break Already <div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div style="line-height: 1.15;">My Feature on constrai...
'Tis in a Motto: Ottoman I Sit <div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div style="line-height: 1.15;">Writing with constrain...
Motto: Watch What I'm About to Do Here <div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Predicting the future of technology has been a stapl...
Motto: If you are listless, you lack energy or enthusiasm. Prepare for energy and enthusiasm. <div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"&...
Motto: En Route, En Queue, In English <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">As Danielle pointed out to me this...
Motto: Feel the Love I'd like to start this post by saying wedding showers are awesome. I suggest you have one as soon as you can. I have access to all sorts...
Motto: It's All Good (Except for the Bad Stuff) <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">When I was in middle sch...
Motto: The Point of this Post is to Make You Hate Me <div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div style="line-height: 1.15;">...
Motto: It's What You Make of It <div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div style="line-height: 1.15;">Melissa is in Wichita...
Motto: Not Sure <div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">I have no plans for this post. It’s 10PM. At some point in time over the pa...
Motto: It's not what you say or how you say it; it's what it looks like. <div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">This Column is mos...
Motto: It's Good for You <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">One hundred fifty. I’ve written one hundred fif...
Motto: Seriously. <div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div style="line-height: 1.15;">I’m sorry if my “write every day” g...
Motto: When "Running to the Store" is Literally Possible <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">I’ve lived in f...
Motto: Writing about Chrome, in Chrome <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">A couple of months ago I wrote ab...
Motto: The Times, They are a Changing September 2012 I started my first real job. I entered into an engineering technical development rotation program. For ...
Motto: This Line Doesn't Really Need to Be Here. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">I was going to preface ...
Motto: Reading is for Nerds <div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Yesterday marked more than just the first day of a new month, i...
Motto: I just now learned Timbuktu is a real place <div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div><div style="line-height: 1...
Motto: Fight Club Reference <div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div><div style="line-height: 1.15;">The following ...
Motto: I'm Really Proud of the Title of this Post, Too On the first of this month I wrote about my experiences while on a Paleo diet. I mentioned that I fel...
Motto: We're Going Through Changes <div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div style="line-height: 1.15;">One week ago was 2...
Thor Odinson Gillespie: 09/01/2013-02/05/2014.Yes, that was his name - and yesterday Melissa and I had to take him to see the vet for last time.October 13th,...
Motto: I'm Really Proud of the Title of this Post <div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div style="line-height: 1.15;">Mel...
Motto: These Mottos Do Not Accurately Reflect Anyone's Actual Motto <div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div style="line-hei...
Motto: Boldly Going Where Chrome has Gone Before Chromebooks are specialized laptops that run Google's Chrome OS. For those of you who don't know about Chrom...
Motto: Good Times <div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div style="line-height: 1.15;">This weekend was a good one. I saw ...
Motto: Mod podge <div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div style="line-height: 1.15;">I keep a backlog of ideas for the co...
Motto: Sugar, Replaced by Spice, is not quite as Nice <div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div style="line-height: 1.15;">...
Motto: Have a holly, jolly Christmas, a happy, slappy Hanukkah, a hippy, trippy Kwanzaa, and/or a pleasant end of the year, non-religious vacation. Way back ...
Motto: In Two Weeks, Someone Will Make a New Year's Resolution Joke with the Punchline "1920x1080" I wrote one post in the past month. If you asked why that ...
Motto: What a Marvelous Accomplishment Preface:<div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Before I get started I’d like to let you kno...
Motto: the Approval of Random Internet Strangers Three months ago, I put this video on YouTube:Up until 14 hours ago, that video had been watched 232 times. ...
Motto: EVERYTHING IS SO NEW AND SHINY I took a week off. Life happens. I’m going to make this update into 3 short updates in one.<div dir="ltr" style="mar...
Motto: If you can't eat it you don't need it. I’m ending the October Project a few days early. First I’m going to post the picture you’ve probably already no...
Motto: I wish they played basketball in the NBA <div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div style="line-height: 1.15;">I’ve ...
Motto: He then let out a mighty, roaring mew <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Melissa and I each got a ki...
Motto: the Fattening The October Project is half over. Brief recap - I'm doing a month long project that can basically be summarized as "Eat more, workout mo...
Motto: Owed In Son Today is Monday. Today is not Sunday. I didn’t get my workouts done consistently last week. I’m going to lift as soon as I post this. Th...
Motto: Darn the Bad Luck There <div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div style="line-height: 1.15;">I got sick. It ruined ...
Motto: Otto Octavius was in a skydiving accident. Sadly, he's now an octoplegic. <div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div st...
Motto: Like Before, but More
Motto: The Column - Now with Content!
Motto: Get to It
Motto: I Hate Writing about Writing. This Motto is Writing about Writing about Writing. Metametawriting.
Motto: Moving on Up
Motto: dnekeeW sdrawkcaB A
Motto: Change is Necessary for Growth
Motto: Graphics Interchange Format
Motto: CANDY SOVEREIGN TERRITORY
Motto: WVZ7X7
Motto: A Bird in the Hand is Worth Several Hundred in the Bush. Birds are in Bushes All the Time, in Hands much less Often.
Motto: The Horse is Never Dead
Motto: a Day Late and Still Free
Motto: Yaaaaaaay Debt!
Motto: The Regularity
Motto: You’re Not Special
Motto: Putting the “Multi” in “Multimedia”
Motto: It has been a Very Interesting Quarter-Century
Motto: You with Your Long Words and Your Short Difficult Words
Motto: Catch up and mustard
Motto: Things are Crazy, and Crazy is Good
Motto: A Tool is Only as Useful as Its Operator’s Ability to Use It
Motto: Float On
Motto: This Column is Handsome, but Not Hot
Motto: Knowledge is Power!
Motto: Take Me Out to of the Ballgame
Motto: Facts are Overrated Anyway
Motto: Too Much of a Good Thing is a Great Thing
Fact: I’ve tracked 35 days
Motto: 3 Day Weekends are the Best
Motto: Don’t be an Oxymoron
Motto: HTML Stands for “Hard To Make Look (Good)”
Motto: Float On
Motto: 3.5 hours of completely undivided attention
Motto: 10PM and all is well!
Motto: “I/O” stands for “I CAN’T BELIEVE IT! OH MY GOD!”
Motto: If You’re Going to Go, GoPro
Motto: “If I had an hour to save the world I would spend 59 minutes defining the problem and one minute finding solutions”
Motto: SUPERnerdy
Motto: Just a Normal Day at the Office (Chair)
Motto: If pictures are worth 1000 words, this is a REALLY long column
Motto: Mottos are good for intros, but can be vague or confusing
Motto: “Sa-wat-dee-khrap” not “Sweaty Crap”
Motto: AAAAAAAAAAA!!!
Motto: Shallow and Pedantic
Motto: So it goes.
Motto: Keep It Simple, Stupid (alternatively: Simon)
Motto: I’ve got nothing to say - but I’m going to say a lot
Motto: I’m a Creative Cat; a Star-Performing Word-Worm
Motto: ~145 hours
Motto: My health? It’s gone viral.
Motto: Today was a two-fer
Motto: Google Plus is better
Motto: Whatever I feel like. That’s the whole idea.
Motto: I need to lift more.
Motto: For your treatment I prescribe several highly concentrated doses of life.
Motto: Labeled, Segregated, Categorized, Classified, Sorted, Filed, Tabulated, and Designated
Motto: Original, Please
Motto: Aesthetic, Aesthetic, Rho, Owe, No, Gary, Me, Larry, Larry, Ewe, Site, Pneumatic, Me, Ewe
Motto: Throwing Everything Possibly Deep at a Wall to See What Sticks
Motto: 6 Months Down, Six Months to Go
Motto: The times, they are (not) a changin’
Motto: One man’s trash is another man’s trash
Motto: Better late than never!
Motto One: Three column’s in one.
Motto: I can count… allllll the way… to schfifty five.
Motto: 364 days until Christmas!
Motto: The movie “Big Fish” sucked.
Motto: This Motto isn’t Orange, it’s Golden.
Motto: Purity is in the eye of the column writer
Motto: Randall Munroe is my hero.
Motto: Nerds rule the world.
Motto: Prevention is 16 times more effective than cure, by weight.
Motto: Rubber ducky, you’re the one..
Motto: “That which goes up, must also come down” is a wildly inaccurate statement.
Motto: Using segways to make random topics seem related…
Motto: Pick your poison… and by poison I mean most interesting and useful thing in the modern world..
Motto: Nobody’s perfect… I guess this extends to corporations, too.
Motto: Don’t Panic.
Motto: Sub Sandwiches are so named because they are the same basic shape as a submarine.
Motto: It’s all good (except the bad stuff).
Motto: The word “Sasquatch” is somewhere in this sentence, see if you can find it!
Motto: The ultimate Nexus of software and hardware.
Motto: (Windows) 8 million form factors
Motto: “Apple iPad Mini” is an anagram of “Animal I Pipped” - and I’m not sure what that means.
Motto: Save ALL the things!
Motto: Aaron’s Telecommunications & Technology job
Motto: I sat in the theater of Looper with a camera. I looked at myself in the camera and watched myself watching myself watch myself watch Looper.
Motto: The next step. (watch yourselves, he’s all deep and stuff)
Motto: Movin on up.
Motto: The Column: Delayed.
Motto: Aaron Go Brag (somewhere else)
Motto: Beverly Hills- that’s where I want to be.
Motto: I am a very lucky man
Motto: You know what I’ve noticed? Nobody panics when things go “according to plan.” Even if the plan is horrifying!
Motto: having a girlfriend you can see » having a girlfriend in elsewhereville
Motto: Practice makes perfect.
Motto: Don’t eat an apple a day. Doctor visits are necessary.
Motto: Two days ago, I was 23. Then I was 24. I aged one year in a day.
Motto: Short and Sweet.
Motto: Knowledge comes from experience. Experience comes from doing things.
Motto: Corn is Always Interesting
Motto: What Would Clint Eastwood Do?
Motto: Upping the Entertainment Value for My Lovely Audience
Motto: Thunder Buddies for Life
Motto: My phone is running Android 4.1, you jelly?
Motto: Hoosier Daddy?
Motto: Three days in…
Motto: Say “Yes” More
Motto: I keep looking up the definition of insanity, it always says the same thing
Motto: This is a vacation That’s what I’m calling it at least. A vacation after school before getting my first big boy job. I’m not sure what that job will b...
Motto: My own personal Jarvis
Motto: 28 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes and 12 seconds
Motto: Productivity schmoductivity
Motto: Bwhaaaaaaaaaam
Motto: Why yes, I can Engineer that for you…
Motto: As Google as it gets
Motto: Hasta La Vista, homework
Motto: These “numbers” have been wrong for about 10 years
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