#435 - Missed Deadline
An actual short post about a long post yet to come
Columns by Year
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#434 - The Perfect Day
A thing that (sort of) doesn’t exist
#433 - Home Gym Recommendations
From a guy with moderate experience and no formal training
#432 - How to Create
A bad guide
#431 - Growth Requires Discomfort
An Unfortunate Fact of Life
#430 - Feature: Whiteboarding App Anxiety
A sequel to 258 - only this time I solve it
#429 - Tech Ecosystems Early 2023
It’s that time again.
#428 - More Wood, Fewer Arrows
Expanding on 2023’s main theme
#427 - 2022 → 2023
The Annual Review/Preview.
2022
#426 - Total Body Implosion
An Unprecedented Streak of Suck.
#425 - Get in to Win
A new Aaron Project™ has been born.
#424 - Puzzles for Hire
Relish Rope Fuzz
#423 - Feature: Solved Problems & Unsolved Problems
Technically this Column should contain all existing problems.
#422 - Notion for Everything
As if I wasn’t already all in
#421 - That’s Why They’re Called ‘Work’benches
Making Things to Make
#420 - Voice Assistant Showdown
Hey Google, Hey Siri, AY WHADDUP ALEXA!
#419 - Love Letter to r/Place
The Internet’s Home for Chaos Art
#418 - 10 Years + 168 Hours
The Week is Weak
#417 - My New Favorite Tools
Notion, VS Code, TypeScript, and Diagrams as Code
#416 - Silliness and Site Updates
Not a Treacherous Territory
#415 - 2021 → 2022
A Year in Review
2021
#414 - Subsystems Crash
Less complaining than you might expect!
#413 - Take a Month (or Two)
September & October have been strange.
#412 - Creative Projects
Where fun meets productive.
#411 - Local Directory Assistance
Checking back in on a few themes.
#410 - Start Again
When the Earth starts to settle, God throws a stone at it.
#409 - Launchpad McQuack
Scott Pilgrim, the Future, Slippery Life Lessons
#408 - Ambiguities and Long Term Thinking
A classic Aaron Column
#407 - iPads are Sweet
A post in which I state the obvious.
#406 - Ankylosing Spondylitis & Personal Data Warehouses
Two very fun topics! Plus some other things that actually are fun.
#405 - Marvel, Routine, Poetry, Data
As one does.
#404 - Column Title Not Found
A Good Look at a Bad Year
2020
#403 - A La Carte
Catching Up on Little Topics.
#402 - Index Cards of Advice
Simple sets of good advice for most people.
#401 - AIM Revisited
An updated look at Aaron Information Management
#400 - 20x20
A Celebration of 400 Posts & Look at the Times.
#399 - Apple Watch & iPad Event
Just immediately throw out that last post.
#398 - The Tools I Use
A snapshot of what I use to do stuff
#397 - Bunch of Unrelated Things
A smattering of little stuff
#396 - Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Finale
Another show in the history books
#395 - Data Journal Project History
A deep dive on the evolution and related learnings from my biggest Project.
#394 - iOS is Android
A recap of Apple’s 2020 WWDC, plus other stuff (like usual)
#393 - Optimization vs Enjoyment
A post about balance & a return to living freely
#392 - Site Updates & Tech Platform Analysis
About changes to the site, plus other stuff. I hate fully-meta blog posts.
#391 - Seven Years Tracked
Thoughts on Life Tracking after 7 Years
#390 - My Notes
A quick look at my new notetaking system.
#389 - Quarantine
Don’t waste this opportunity for introspection, learning, and personal development.
#388 - Manifest of Projects, Areas, and Goals
A look at living with intent.
#387 - I’M AN ADUUULT
It’s been a little bit. I’ve been incredibly focused.
#386 - Data Journal Pivot
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...
#385 - System Architecture
It took me 6.8 years to think of two words.
2019
#384 - 2020 is the Future
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...
#383 - Mailing List
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...
#382 - November 2019 (aka ‘6 month retrospective’)
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?
#381 - Atomic Habits Review
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...
#380 - Quick Simple List of Good Habits I Suck At
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...
#379 - Generalized Health Benchmark Test
What is “Healthy”?
#378 - Apple Ecosystem
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...
#377 - 30 Day Challenges
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...
#376 - New Column!
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...
#375 - Feature: Philosophies (a.k.a. “what happens when you read too much”)
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...
#374 - Feature: Google Lament
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...
#373 - Simplicity & Embracing “Good Enough”
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...
#372 - Gillespie Summer Vacation 2019
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...
#371 - AIM Immediate Followup
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...
#370 - Feature: Aaron Information Management (AIM)
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...
#369 - Marvel + Tech + Whole30 Data = Standard Column Content
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 ...
#368 - Feature: Whole30 Review
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 (...
#367 - Short Book Review: Broken Angels
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...
#366 - Feature: Google Takeout
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...
#365 - The One That SHOULD Have Been about Date and Time, but is about Counting
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.--------------...
#364 - The Engineering Binder (Working Title)
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...
#363 - Time & Date
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...
#362 - Things I like. Things I don’t.
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...
#361 - In which Aaron Complains about Routine
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...
#360 - Tech Ecosystem Mixing & “Okay Google”
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...
#359 - Retrospective
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...
2018
#358 - More iOS vs Android Thoughts
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...
#357 - We Scene a Movie
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...
#356 - Feature: Personal History of Phones & the iPhone
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...
#355 - Representative Cross Section of the Column
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 ...
#354 - King Dad & Fallible Google
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 ...
#353 - Lyrics to No Song + Hollow Knight
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...
#352 - Make Stuff
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...
#344 that never was - Feature: Analysis of Human Attractiveness (Spoilers: I’m Ugly)
In Column #97 I wrote about "The Taxonomy of Human Attractiveness". In that post, I analyzed the perceived differences between "cute", "pretty", "hot", ...
#351 - Self Help (Yourself)
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...
#350 - Fatherhood
Note from the Future: I’ve decided to remove my kid’s personal info from this post
#349 - Sixth Second-A-Day
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...
#348 - Last Post Pre-Baby
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...
#347 - Thirty
Motto: Optimism Meets Realism Meets WritingFifteen million seven hundred sixty-eight thousand minutes!Fifteen million seven hundred sixty-eight thousand ...
#346 - Marvel in Media & Upcoming Dad Transition
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...
#345 - Feature: Timbuk2 Never Check Expandable Backpack Extensive/Exhaustive Review
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...
#343 - The Parable of the Rowing Machine
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...
#342 - Time, Energy, Money (mostly time)
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...
#341 - Aaron Explains Income Tax
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...
#340 - Definition Vs Usage
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...
#339 - Five Years Tracked
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...
#338 - Avengers: Infinity War (No spoilers)
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...
#337 - Apple iCosystem
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...
#336 - Memes & Pictures and Previews
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...
#335 - Straight from My Notes - also Jessica Jones Season 2
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...
#334 - Bitcoin is weird, Android Coding Update, and Black Panther
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...
#333 - Just Press 3 for a While
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.....
#332 - Complaining About Stuff No Reasonable Person Should Complain About
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...
#331 - No Zero Days, Escape Rooms, Podcast Count
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...
2017
#330 - Christmas 2017, Resolutions for 2018
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...
#329 - Avengers: Infinity War Trailer & The End of the MCU
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...
#328 - Feature: The MCU, Revisited
Motto: What a Marvelous ContinuationPreface:Nearly 4 years ago, I wrote this long post about the Marvel Cinematic Universe (as it existed then). In...
#327 - You Lack Discipline
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...
#326 - Not a Good One
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...
#325 - Loops
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...
#323 - Remembered Stuff I Forgot
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...
#322 - Fixing Sports, Definitions, Pictures
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...
#321 - Stocks, GoPro, Nintendo Switch
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...
#320 - My 28th Year
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 ...
#319 - Limited Choices
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...
#318 - A Series of Disassociated Thoughts
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...
#317 - Internal Dialog, but Written Down
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...
#316 - Good Mood Rant
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 ...
#315 - Systems, High-Concept, Paper Weight, Podcasts
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...
#314 - 1592653589793238462643383279502884…
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...
#313 - A Great Time
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...
#312 - Undifferentiated Spondyloarthropathy
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 ...
#311 - Melissa’s Favorite Number / I Write About Existential Bologna
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...
#310 - Different Layout, Plus Iron Fist Kinda Sucked, also /r/place
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...
#309 - Intent: Android
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...
#308 - A Brief Selection from My Irish Notebook
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 ...
#307 - MCU Lows, CostCo Challenge
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...
#306 - COMEBACK CITY
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...
#305 - Sketch Comedy
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...
#304 - 2017 is a Prime Number
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...
2016
#303 - Checking in on the 2016 Resolutions
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...
#302 - The Bones of a Column
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...
#301 - A Lot on My Mind
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...
#300 - Short & Sweet
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 ...
#299 - Homegym + Andromeda + Luke Cage
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...
#298 - Same Old, Same Old, Different New
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 ...
#297 - Building Stuff/Aaron’s Desk
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...
#296 - More Eclectic Thoughts than Last Time
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-...
#295 - I’M AN ADUUUULT
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...
#294 - My 27th Year
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...
#293 - One Big Chicken
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...
#292 - On the Code Again… Just Can’t Wait to be on the Code Again
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...
#291 - Crackers Update, Clarity, ChromeOS & Android, and Unsexy Solutions
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...
#290 - Post Vacation Life
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...
#289 - Another Set of Brief Selections from My Moleskine
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...
#288 - Everything is Awesome
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...
#287 - Re: LAX (don’t do it)
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...
#286 - Meet Me in St. Louis
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...
#285 - Batman Vs Superman Vs the Trailers
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...
#284 - General Life Update
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...
#283 - MCU Disappointment & an Appreciation for History
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...
#282 - Monitor & Videogames
Motto: Writing WrongsThat monitor situation I talked about in my previous post got resolved. I successfully returned the 4K monitor, lessons learned. Earlier...
#281 - New Monitor’s Resolutions
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...
#280 - Good Routine ⇾ Good Life
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...
#279 - A, L, B, U….. QUERQUE!
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...
#278 - One Thousand Days
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...
#277 - Year = Year + 1
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...
2015
#276 - THINGS ARE STILL GOOD
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 ...
#275 - THINGS ARE GOOD
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...
#274 - Vacation: Full Stop.
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 ...
#273 - 30 Day Challenges are Challenging
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...
#272 - Android TV Experiment
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 ...
#271 - 2045
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...
#270 - #HYPE
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....
#269 - Consumer Tech Prediction - A Hypothetical Day in the Life
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...
#268 - I Forgot to Name
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, ...
#267 - Writing Stuff, 30 Day Challenge Stuff, 2008
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...
#266 - Simple Writing About My Big Week & Phone
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...
#265 - Marvel Cinematic Universe, Life Tracking, and Tech Stuff …Basically, “a Column”
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...
#264 - Maths: Dimensional Analysis
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 ...
#263 - Winfield, Work Trip, Site Updates, Marvel Sound Effect Video
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...
#262 - Tablets, Movies, a Case for No-Name Actors
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...
#261 - 30 Day Challenge, Kitty Clicker, New “Google”, New Android (Wear and Otherwise)
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...
#260 - New Look & Phone Tree Rant
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...
#259 - Follow-up to My Previous Post
Motto: I found a homogeneous mixture composed of only one phase<div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></div><div style="font-fa...
#258 - Feature: Notetaking Platform Anxiety
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...
#257 - Four Great Days
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...
#256 - Tech News
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...
#255 - He’s a Twit
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...
#254 - My 26th Year
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...
#253 - The Video Everyone’s Waiting For
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. ...
#252 - Short One with a Video and Some Other Stuff
Motto: Healthy Living, No GimmicksGoPro makes one heck of a promotional video. Their newest "GoPro HERO4 Session" camera is tiny, but ultimately not compelli...
#251 - 10 Things You Won’t Believe I Accomplished While Melissa was Out!:
Motto: “Motion Pictures” Don’t Promise You Audio<div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></div>Melissa was in Rhode Island last week...
#250 - Life Tracker Refactor
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...
#249 - Feature: Flightplan is the Worst Movie Ever
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 ...
#248 - Column Without Typing Anything Fancy
Motto: This Post Brought to You by ABCDFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ<div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></div>Last night I told a group...
#247 - I’m Annoying
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'...
#246 - What I’ve been Doing, First World Problems, & USB-C
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:...
#245 - Not Your Usual Column
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...
#244 - Google I/O 2015 Recap & 30 Day Challenge
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...
#243 - Short Post - Meta, Google I/O Hopes
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...
#242 - Feature: The Life Tracker
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...
#241 - Colorado Vacation
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...
#240 - Not in My Experience
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...
#239 - 1 Down… Many to Go
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...
#238 - Print “#238”
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 ...
#237 - Social Networks, Fitness
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...
#236 - Chromebit, Bruno Melissa, April 30 Day Challenge, and some Dominion
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 ...
#235 - New Place
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...
#234 - February 30 Day Challenge & the Next Few Months
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...
#233 - Time is Dumb & Phones are Dumb
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...
#232 - Mostly Updates to Projects
Motto: Your Projected Projects Project Your Identity <div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div style="line-height: 1.15;">...
#231 - Notes from the Previous Two Weeks
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...
#230 - Failio & The Perfect Bag
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...
#229 - Why Doesn’t Everybody…
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...
#228 - Windows 7 Ate 9
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...
#227 - Feature: A La Carte Television
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...
#226 - Build It Yourself
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...
2014
#225 - The Hobbit: The Column of The Review of The Movie
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...
#224 - Disney, Android Wear, and LoTR/MCU Actors
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 ...
#223 - This is Going to Be Difficult to Read
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><...
#222 - Two Two Two
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...
#221 - According to the Rules
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...
#220 - Reminder: Two Part Movies are Cheap
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...
#219 - Brief Selections from My Moleskine
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...
#218 - $1500
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 ...
#217 - Short Google Fit Rant
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...
#216 - Writing about 6 Months without Writing ONLY about 6 Months
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...
#215 - Lawrence Library, October 30 Day Challenge, Halloween
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=...
#214 - Marvel Event, Avengers News, Google Fit, What a Day
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’...
#213 - The Avengers Trailer
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...
#212 - New Car, Superhero Movie Release History Analysis, Review of the Weekend, and the Longest Column Title Ever
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 ...
#211 - New Stuff: Impressed/Not Impressed
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...
#210 - Just a Theory
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...
#209 - Life: The Guide
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. ...
#208 - To Whom It May Concern
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 ...
#207 - What’s Next
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...
#206 - First Watch Update
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...
#205 - Life Tracked
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...
#204 - Winfield
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:...
#203 - Moto 360
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 ...
#202 - Apple’s iPhone 6 and Watch Announcements
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...
#201 - Feature: Thought Experiments
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 ...
#200 - Column #200 Extravaganza (a.k.a. “Tiny Celebration”)
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;"...
#199 - Feature: Tech Setup
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...
#198 - Thirty Day Challenge, Action Packer, Marvel Supermegaultracut
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...
#197 - September and “Less Projects”
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...
#196 - Seriously Just a Big List of Fantasy Football Team Names
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...
#195 - Social Networking & Blog Naming Conventions
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;">...
#194 - Tireless Writing
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...
#193 - He’s Coding
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...
#192 - Feature: Dominion
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...
#191 - Fruition
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...
#190 - My 25th Year
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...
#189 - The Month of Many Challenges
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...
#188 - Feature: .txt files (also the fitness baseline results)
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...
#187 - LightWORKS
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...
#186 - Fitness Baseline
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...
#185 - Editor Rant
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...
#184 - Writing for Writing’s Sake
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...
#183 - Lonesome George
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...
#182 - 30 Day Challenges are Not Dead
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...
#181 - More on My Computer Reset + Portal
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...
#180 - Google I/O 2014 & Computer Reset
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...
#179 - Feature: Transportation
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 ...
#178 - Linux & “the Cloud”
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...
#177 - A Column about Nothing (the Way It’s Supposed to Be)
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...
#176 - Feature: Gone Pro (or Insane)
Motto: The World's Most Versatile Column <div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text...
#175 - List of Projects
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;"&...
#174 - The Walled Garden of Eden
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...
#173 - MCU Revisit & Other Superhero Universes
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...
#172 - The Ring
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...
#171 - The Greatest Week of My Life
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 ...
#170 - The Greatest Day of My Life
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,...
#169 - Wedding Talk
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...
#168 - The Wedding at the End of the Tunnel
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 ...
#167 - Feature: Password Security
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....
#166 - Attack Mode
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...
#165 - Multimedia Solution
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...
#164 - 30 Day Challenges, Other Goals, and One Year Ago
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...
#163 - The Buzz Heard Around the World
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 ...
#162 - Captain America: The Winter Soldier (Spoilers)
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 ...
#161 - Writing Wrapup
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...
#160 - Feature: Constrained Writing
'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...
#159 - Future Tech & Android Wear
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...
#158 - Lists.
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;"&...
#157 - GoPro Basketball Video
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...
#156 - Showered and Writing
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...
#155 - I Thought it was Funny
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...
#154 - Advantages & Android Wear
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;">...
#153 - Man Week
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...
#152 - Continuing Education
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...
#151 - Feature: Fonts
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...
#150 - Meta Cheese
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...
#149 - Today’s Writing Exercise
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...
#148 - Mission: Impossibly Convenient
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...
#147 - Toshiba Chromebook
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...
#146 - New Rotation
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 ...
#145 - Feature: Minimalist Thought Experiment
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 ...
#144 - 30 Days, 3 Books, Google Storage
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...
#143 - Guardians of the Galaxy Trailer
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...
#142 - Products I Like
Motto: Fight Club Reference <div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div><div style="line-height: 1.15;">The following ...
#141 - Ad Nauseum
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...
#140 - From 25.0 to 25.5 Video
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...
#139 - A Eulogy for Thor
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,...
#138 - The End of the Paleolithic Era
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...
#137 - Post about Posts
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...
#136 - Chrome, in All It’s Forms
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...
#135 - Awesome Weekend + Half a Year Tracked + Other Stuff
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 ...
#134 - A Menagerie of Goodness
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...
#133 - 6 Days of Paleo & an Intro to CrossFit
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;">...
#132 - 30 Day Challenges, Dominion Box, and the Break
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 ...
2013
#131 - Save the Date Video
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 ...
#130 - Feature: The Marvel Cinematic Universe
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...
#129 - 24th Year Swell and Engagement Photo
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. ...
#128 - Nexus 5, Android 4.4, Battlefield 4
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...
#127 - October Project Ended 4 Days Shy
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...
#126 - Late is Better than Never
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 ...
#125 - The Mighty and the Mischievous
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...
#124 - Mid-October
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...
#123 - Disc Golf Video (and a Column)
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...
#122 - Make-up Post
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 ...
#121 - Future Projects
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...
#120 - The October Project
Motto: Like Before, but More
#119 - Google Fiber, Television is terrible, GoPro, Column
Motto: The Column - Now with Content!
#118 - Tough Mudder (record shortest post yet)
Motto: Get to It
#117 - Minor Changes
Motto: I Hate Writing about Writing. This Motto is Writing about Writing about Writing. Metametawriting.
#116 - Nexus 7 (2013) and Column Aspirations
Motto: Moving on Up
#115 - An Internet Video & Picture
Motto: dnekeeW sdrawkcaB A
#114 - Test Redesign & The Future of the Column
Motto: Change is Necessary for Growth
#113 - Even shorter post, mostly about GIFs
Motto: Graphics Interchange Format
#112 - KitKat & Dominion (short post)
Motto: CANDY SOVEREIGN TERRITORY
#111 - WVZ7X7 (and more)
Motto: WVZ7X7
#110 - Media Expansion, Life Tracking Correlations, Security, and Linux
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.
#109 - Ecosystems Revisited
Motto: The Horse is Never Dead
#108 - Vehicular History, Dietary Tracking, Smartphone Superpowers, and a Lame Joke
Motto: a Day Late and Still Free
#107 - New Car Smell
Motto: Yaaaaaaay Debt!
#106 - Experimental Phase
Motto: The Regularity
#105 - Nothing in Particular
Motto: You’re Not Special
#104 - Creating Multimedia/XKCD Volume 0
Motto: Putting the “Multi” in “Multimedia”
#103 - 25 Years of Awesome
Motto: It has been a Very Interesting Quarter-Century
#102 - List of Words
Motto: You with Your Long Words and Your Short Difficult Words
#101 - Tackling the Backlog
Motto: Catch up and mustard
#100 - One Hundred
Motto: Things are Crazy, and Crazy is Good
#99 - Feature on Tools
Motto: A Tool is Only as Useful as Its Operator’s Ability to Use It
#98 - Further Down the River
Motto: Float On
#97 - Feature: Taxonomy of Human Attractiveness
Motto: This Column is Handsome, but Not Hot
#96 - Feature: Intelligence
Motto: Knowledge is Power!
#95 - Basketball Tournament & Royals Games
Motto: Take Me Out to of the Ballgame
#94 - Feature: Path of Least Resistance
Motto: Facts are Overrated Anyway
#93 - Cousin Week
Motto: Too Much of a Good Thing is a Great Thing
#92 - One Month Tracked
Fact: I’ve tracked 35 days
#91 - Creativity & JIF GIF Revisited
Motto: 3 Day Weekends are the Best
#90 - Row Your Boat to the Column
Motto: Don’t be an Oxymoron
#89 - Short, Revised Formatting
Motto: HTML Stands for “Hard To Make Look (Good)”
#88 - Fishing Trip
Motto: Float On
#87 - Google I/O
Motto: 3.5 hours of completely undivided attention
#86 - Good Weekend
Motto: 10PM and all is well!
#85 - Predictions for Google I/O
Motto: “I/O” stands for “I CAN’T BELIEVE IT! OH MY GOD!”
#84 - A Little Bit of History (and New Toys!)
Motto: If You’re Going to Go, GoPro
#83 - One Week Tracked
Motto: “If I had an hour to save the world I would spend 59 minutes defining the problem and one minute finding solutions”
#82 - Superheroes
Motto: SUPERnerdy
#81 - Back to Normal
Motto: Just a Normal Day at the Office (Chair)
#80 - Pictures, Pictures, Pictures
Motto: If pictures are worth 1000 words, this is a REALLY long column
#79 - Pros & Cons
Motto: Mottos are good for intros, but can be vague or confusing
#78 - TL;DR Thailand is Awesome and We’re Engaged
Motto: “Sa-wat-dee-khrap” not “Sweaty Crap”
#77 - Pre-Trip Madness
Motto: AAAAAAAAAAA!!!
#76 - Fitness. Life Tracking System. Video.
Motto: Shallow and Pedantic
#75 - Sleep & Adulthood
Motto: So it goes.
#74 - Simplicity. Dogs. XKCD Part 2
Motto: Keep It Simple, Stupid (alternatively: Simon)
#73 - Lots
Motto: I’ve got nothing to say - but I’m going to say a lot
#72 - One Year Later & Movie Poster Idea
Motto: I’m a Creative Cat; a Star-Performing Word-Worm
#71 - Premature Victory Dance
Motto: ~145 hours
#70 - Pi Virus
Motto: My health? It’s gone viral.
#69 - Stolen Ideas
Motto: Today was a two-fer
#68 - Social Networks, One Joke and One Bit of News
Motto: Google Plus is better
#67 - Great, Terrible, Great
Motto: Whatever I feel like. That’s the whole idea.
#66 - KU, Scroogled, Snow
Motto: I need to lift more.
#65 - The Adventures of Aaron
Motto: For your treatment I prescribe several highly concentrated doses of life.
#64 - All the Labels to Celebrate all the Labels
Motto: Labeled, Segregated, Categorized, Classified, Sorted, Filed, Tabulated, and Designated
#63 - Creativity, Autopilot, Racists
Motto: Original, Please
#62 - No Facebook, Phonetic Alphabet, Pride
Motto: Aesthetic, Aesthetic, Rho, Owe, No, Gary, Me, Larry, Larry, Ewe, Site, Pneumatic, Me, Ewe
#61 - Movie Mode
Motto: Throwing Everything Possibly Deep at a Wall to See What Sticks
#60 - 184 days, in 4 minutes
Motto: 6 Months Down, Six Months to Go
#59 - Blog Update about a Blog Update
Motto: The times, they are (not) a changin’
#58 - New Broken Computer & Some Pictures
Motto: One man’s trash is another man’s trash
#57 - Too Long Makes for Too Long
Motto: Better late than never!
#56 - A Three-Post Post
Motto One: Three column’s in one.
2012
#55 - Schfifty Five + the Year in Review
Motto: I can count… allllll the way… to schfifty five.
#54 - Morning After Christmas
Motto: 364 days until Christmas!
#53 - Bullet Points and Gifs
Motto: The movie “Big Fish” sucked.
#52 - The Man with the Golden Phone Number
Motto: This Motto isn’t Orange, it’s Golden.
#51 - Turn It Up to Eleven
Motto: Purity is in the eye of the column writer
#50 - Odd Happenings & Pretentiousness
Motto: Randall Munroe is my hero.
#49 - Full of Nerd
Motto: Nerds rule the world.
#48 - is a Weird Post.
Motto: Prevention is 16 times more effective than cure, by weight.
#47 - A Hit Out on Facebook
Motto: Rubber ducky, you’re the one..
#46 - Early Morning Thoughts
Motto: “That which goes up, must also come down” is a wildly inaccurate statement.
#45 - Speaking of the Column
Motto: Using segways to make random topics seem related…
#44 - Master Tech Comparison Column
Motto: Pick your poison… and by poison I mean most interesting and useful thing in the modern world..
#43 - No Nexus 4 Yet & If I had a Free Year
Motto: Nobody’s perfect… I guess this extends to corporations, too.
#42 - Life, The Universe, and Everything
Motto: Don’t Panic.
#41 - Forum Snobs and the Google Kool-Aid
Motto: Sub Sandwiches are so named because they are the same basic shape as a submarine.
#40 - Remember, Remember the Fifth of November
Motto: It’s all good (except the bad stuff).
#39 - Tech Cool Down
Motto: The word “Sasquatch” is somewhere in this sentence, see if you can find it!
#38 - Tech Announcement Week Day (7): Google’s Nexus Announcement
Motto: The ultimate Nexus of software and hardware.
#37 - Tech Announcement Week Day (7): Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8
Motto: (Windows) 8 million form factors
#36 - Tech Announcement Week Day 1: Apple & the iPad Mini
Motto: “Apple iPad Mini” is an anagram of “Animal I Pipped” - and I’m not sure what that means.
#35 - Google Drive & List 2.0
Motto: Save ALL the things!
#34 - Three Weeks of Work
Motto: Aaron’s Telecommunications & Technology job
#33 - One Week of Work
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.
#32 - Work in the Morning
Motto: The next step. (watch yourselves, he’s all deep and stuff)
#31 - Kansas City
Motto: Movin on up.
#30 - Pre/Post-iPhone 5 and additional reflections
Motto: The Column: Delayed.
#29 - The Wait (Irishfest, Tech Factionism)
Motto: Aaron Go Brag (somewhere else)
#28 - TL;DR: California is Awesome.
Motto: Beverly Hills- that’s where I want to be.
#27 - Google Fiber Space, Friends, and the Top Post on All of Reddit
Motto: I am a very lucky man
#26 - Employment
Motto: You know what I’ve noticed? Nobody panics when things go “according to plan.” Even if the plan is horrifying!
#25 - Finished Desk + Melissa’s Return
Motto: having a girlfriend you can see » having a girlfriend in elsewhereville
#24 - Practice
Motto: Practice makes perfect.
#23 - A Well-Documented Life
Motto: Don’t eat an apple a day. Doctor visits are necessary.
#22 - It’s my party and I’ll cry to get attention.
Motto: Two days ago, I was 23. Then I was 24. I aged one year in a day.
#21 - My Last Summer’s Last Week
Motto: Short and Sweet.
#20 - Metawriting
Motto: Knowledge comes from experience. Experience comes from doing things.
#19 - Nexus 7 & Nebraska
Motto: Corn is Always Interesting
#18 - XKCD, DRM, other letters
Motto: What Would Clint Eastwood Do?
#17 - Amy’s Wedding
Motto: Upping the Entertainment Value for My Lovely Audience
#16 - Crackers & Aging
Motto: Thunder Buddies for Life
#15 - Jelly Bean
Motto: My phone is running Android 4.1, you jelly?
#14 - Indiana, probable home of Ricky Bobby
Motto: Hoosier Daddy?
#13 - and he said “Yes” and it was good.
Motto: Three days in…
#12 - Yes Man, Top 5 Apps
Motto: Say “Yes” More
#11 - Good weekend and notes
Motto: I keep looking up the definition of insanity, it always says the same thing
#10 - Quick. Then Redone.
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...
#9 - Visions of a Googley Future
Motto: My own personal Jarvis
#8 - Donnie Darko, EDC fruition
Motto: 28 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes and 12 seconds
#7 - Futurama
Motto: Productivity schmoductivity
#6 - Time.
Motto: Bwhaaaaaaaaaam
#5 - Aaron Gillespie, owner of a B.S. in Electrical Engineering
Motto: Why yes, I can Engineer that for you…
#4 - Awesomeness
Motto: As Google as it gets
#3 - late night homework was bittersweet
Motto: Hasta La Vista, homework
#2 - Officially Blogger
Motto: These “numbers” have been wrong for about 10 years
#1 - Why do this thing again?
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