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A Good Look at a Bad Year
A Good Look at a Bad Year
Just immediately throw out that last post.
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
Thoughts on Life Tracking after 7 Years
Don’t waste this opportunity for introspection, learning, and personal development.
It’s been a little bit. I’ve been incredibly focused.
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: 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: 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: 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...
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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...
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: This Column is Handsome, but Not Hot
Motto: Knowledge is Power!
Motto: Better late than never!
Motto: Productivity schmoductivity
Just immediately throw out that last post.
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)
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.
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: 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.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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Make HappyI write the first half of this Column from a position of privilege. Actually I write every Column from that position, now tha...
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: 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: 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: ...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: 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...
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: :-(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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 ...
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: 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: 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: "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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Putting the “Multi” in “Multimedia”
Motto: Knowledge is Power!
A good idea that I’m not great at
Effortful Fun is still Fun
#385, Three Years Later
You know, a Column
Revisiting a Favorite Topic
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
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.
Making Things to Make
The Week is Weak
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.
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.
A smattering of little stuff
Note from the Future: I’ve decided to remove my kid’s personal info from this post
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 Regularity
Motto: You’re Not Special
Motto: It has been a Very Interesting Quarter-Century
Motto: Catch up and mustard
Motto: Take Me Out to of the Ballgame
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: Float On
Motto: 10PM and all is well!
Motto: “I/O” stands for “I CAN’T BELIEVE IT! OH MY GOD!”
Motto: Just a Normal Day at the Office (Chair)
Motto: “Sa-wat-dee-khrap” not “Sweaty Crap”
Motto: AAAAAAAAAAA!!!
Motto: So it goes.
Motto: I’ve got nothing to say - but I’m going to say a lot
Motto: My health? It’s gone viral.
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: One man’s trash is another man’s trash
Motto One: Three column’s in one.
Motto: 364 days until Christmas!
Motto: This Motto isn’t Orange, it’s Golden.
Motto: Nerds rule the world.
Motto: Prevention is 16 times more effective than cure, by weight.
Motto: Rubber ducky, you’re the one..
Motto: Using segways to make random topics seem related…
Motto: Nobody’s perfect… I guess this extends to corporations, too.
Motto: Don’t Panic.
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: 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: 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: Corn is Always Interesting
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: Productivity schmoductivity
Motto: Bwhaaaaaaaaaam
Motto: Why yes, I can Engineer that for you…
Motto: Hasta La Vista, homework
Hello there.
#385, Three Years Later
You know, a Column
To Cloud, or Not to Cloud, that is the Question
Expanding on 2023’s main theme
A new Aaron Project™ has been born.
Relish Rope Fuzz
Making Things to Make
September & October have been strange.
Where fun meets productive.
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.
An updated look at Aaron Information Management
A Celebration of 400 Posts & Look at the Times.
A snapshot of what I use to do stuff
A deep dive on the evolution and related learnings from my biggest Project.
Thoughts on Life Tracking after 7 Years
A quick look at my new notetaking system.
A look at living with intent.
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...
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?
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...
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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...
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Your Projected Projects Project Your Identity <div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div style="line-height: 1.15;">...
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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...
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...
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: 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: 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: 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: 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
Fact: I’ve tracked 35 days
Motto: “If I had an hour to save the world I would spend 59 minutes defining the problem and one minute finding solutions”
Motto: Just a Normal Day at the Office (Chair)
Motto: Shallow and Pedantic
Motto: Today was a two-fer
Motto: Labeled, Segregated, Categorized, Classified, Sorted, Filed, Tabulated, and Designated
Motto: Save ALL the things!
Motto: Don’t eat an apple a day. Doctor visits are necessary.
A post about balance & a return to living freely
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: 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 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: “Motion Pictures” Don’t Promise You Audio<div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></div>Melissa was in Rhode Island last week...
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: "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: "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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Like Before, but More
Motto: Graphics Interchange Format
Motto: WVZ7X7
Motto: Yaaaaaaay Debt!
Motto: Putting the “Multi” in “Multimedia”
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: This Column is Handsome, but Not Hot
Motto: Take Me Out to of the Ballgame
Motto: Too Much of a Good Thing is a Great Thing
Fact: I’ve tracked 35 days
Motto: Float On
Motto: 10PM and all is well!
Motto: “If I had an hour to save the world I would spend 59 minutes defining the problem and one minute finding solutions”
Motto: If pictures are worth 1000 words, this is a REALLY long column
Motto: “Sa-wat-dee-khrap” not “Sweaty Crap”
Motto: Keep It Simple, Stupid (alternatively: Simon)
Motto: I’ve got nothing to say - but I’m going to say a lot
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: One man’s trash is another man’s trash
Motto One: Three column’s in one.
Motto: I can count… allllll the way… to schfifty five.
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: The word “Sasquatch” is somewhere in this sentence, see if you can find it!
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 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: having a girlfriend you can see » having a girlfriend in elsewhereville
Motto: Practice makes perfect.
Motto: Two days ago, I was 23. Then I was 24. I aged one year in a day.
Motto: Short and Sweet.
Motto: Corn is Always Interesting
Motto: Upping the Entertainment Value for My Lovely Audience
Motto: Hoosier Daddy?
Motto: Three days in…
To Cloud, or Not to Cloud, that is the Question
Apple Vision Pro (or con?), Widgets, and an unrelated Top 5.
Tears of the Kingdom is good.
An Unfortunate Fact of Life
A sequel to 258 - only this time I solve it
It’s that time again.
A new Aaron Project™ has been born.
Hey Google, Hey Siri, AY WHADDUP ALEXA!
The Internet’s Home for Chaos Art
Notion, VS Code, TypeScript, and Diagrams as Code
When the Earth starts to settle, God throws a stone at it.
A classic Aaron Column
A post in which I state the obvious.
Two very fun topics! Plus some other things that actually are fun.
Catching Up on Little Topics.
A snapshot of what I use to do stuff
Motto: The Column - Now with Content!
Motto: Moving on Up
Motto: dnekeeW sdrawkcaB A
Motto: CANDY SOVEREIGN TERRITORY
Motto: The Horse is Never Dead
Motto: You’re Not Special
Motto: Catch up and mustard
Motto: Facts are Overrated Anyway
Motto: 3.5 hours of completely undivided attention
Motto: “I/O” stands for “I CAN’T BELIEVE IT! OH MY GOD!”
Motto: AAAAAAAAAAA!!!
Motto: Shallow and Pedantic
Motto: I’ve got nothing to say - but I’m going to say a lot
Motto: Google Plus is better
Motto: I need to lift more.
Motto: Labeled, Segregated, Categorized, Classified, Sorted, Filed, Tabulated, and Designated
Motto: Aesthetic, Aesthetic, Rho, Owe, No, Gary, Me, Larry, Larry, Ewe, Site, Pneumatic, Me, Ewe
Motto: I can count… allllll the way… to schfifty five.
Motto: This Motto isn’t Orange, it’s Golden.
Motto: Purity is in the eye of the column writer
Motto: Nerds rule the world.
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: Sub Sandwiches are so named because they are the same basic shape as a submarine.
Motto: The word “Sasquatch” is somewhere in this sentence, see if you can find it!
Motto: The ultimate Nexus of software and hardware.
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: The Column: Delayed.
Motto: Aaron Go Brag (somewhere else)
Motto: Corn is Always Interesting
Motto: What Would Clint Eastwood Do?
Motto: My phone is running Android 4.1, you jelly?
Motto: My own personal Jarvis
Motto: Bwhaaaaaaaaaam
Motto: As Google as it gets
Motto: Hasta La Vista, homework
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...
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?
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: 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: 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: 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...
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'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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Things are Crazy, and Crazy is Good
Motto: Float On
Motto: ~145 hours
Motto: Better late than never!
Motto: Randall Munroe is my hero.
To Cloud, or Not to Cloud, that is the Question
A sequel to 258 - only this time I solve it
Technically this Column should contain all existing problems.
The Internet’s Home for Chaos Art
A Good Look at a Bad Year
Simple sets of good advice for most people.
A snapshot of what I use to do stuff
A deep dive on the evolution and related learnings from my biggest Project.
Thoughts on Life Tracking after 7 Years
A quick look at my new notetaking system.
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.
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...
What is “Healthy”?
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: 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: 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: 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...
In Column #97 I wrote about "The Taxonomy of Human Attractiveness". In that post, I analyzed the perceived differences between "cute", "pretty", "hot", ...
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: What a Marvelous ContinuationPreface:Nearly 4 years ago, I wrote this long post about the Marvel Cinematic Universe (as it existed then). In...
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: 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: 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: 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 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: 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: 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: 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: "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: 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: 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: 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: 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: The World's Most Versatile Column <div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text...
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....
'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: 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: 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: 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 Horse is Never Dead
Motto: A Tool is Only as Useful as Its Operator’s Ability to Use It
Motto: This Column is Handsome, but Not Hot
Motto: Knowledge is Power!
Motto: Facts are Overrated Anyway
Motto: SUPERnerdy
Motto: Labeled, Segregated, Categorized, Classified, Sorted, Filed, Tabulated, and Designated
Motto: Pick your poison… and by poison I mean most interesting and useful thing in the modern world..
The Week is Weak
Not a Treacherous Territory
A Good Look at a Bad Year
An updated look at Aaron Information Management
A Celebration of 400 Posts & Look at the Times.
A post about balance & a return to living freely
About changes to the site, plus other stuff. I hate fully-meta blog posts.
A quick look at my new notetaking system.
Don’t waste this opportunity for introspection, learning, and personal development.
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...
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: 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: 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: 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: 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 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: #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...
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: 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: 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: 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 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: 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: 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: 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: The Column - Now with Content!
Motto: I Hate Writing about Writing. This Motto is Writing about Writing about Writing. Metametawriting.
Motto: Moving on Up
Motto: Change is Necessary for Growth
Motto: WVZ7X7
Motto: a Day Late and Still Free
Motto: The Regularity
Fact: I’ve tracked 35 days
Motto: 3 Day Weekends are the Best
Motto: HTML Stands for “Hard To Make Look (Good)”
Motto: Mottos are good for intros, but can be vague or confusing
Motto: I’m a Creative Cat; a Star-Performing Word-Worm
Motto: Labeled, Segregated, Categorized, Classified, Sorted, Filed, Tabulated, and Designated
Motto: The times, they are (not) a changin’
Motto: Better late than never!
Motto: The word “Sasquatch” is somewhere in this sentence, see if you can find it!
Motto: Aaron’s Telecommunications & Technology job
Motto: Knowledge comes from experience. Experience comes from doing things.
Motto: Hasta La Vista, homework
Motto: These “numbers” have been wrong for about 10 years
Hello there.
A recap of Apple’s 2020 WWDC, plus other stuff (like usual)
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 ...
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: The World's Most Versatile Column <div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text...
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: 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: Fight Club Reference <div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div><div style="line-height: 1.15;">The following ...
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...
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: 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: 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: Putting the “Multi” in “Multimedia”
Motto: It has been a Very Interesting Quarter-Century
Motto: Things are Crazy, and Crazy is Good
Motto: Too Much of a Good Thing is a Great Thing
Motto: Float On
Motto: “Sa-wat-dee-khrap” not “Sweaty Crap”
Motto: Shallow and Pedantic
Motto: Today was a two-fer
Motto: I need to lift more.
Motto: 6 Months Down, Six Months to Go
Motto One: Three column’s in one.
Motto: Randall Munroe is my hero.
A recap of Apple’s 2020 WWDC, plus other stuff (like usual)
A quick look at my new notetaking system.
Don’t waste this opportunity for introspection, learning, and personal development.
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...
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Healthy Living, No GimmicksGoPro makes one heck of a promotional video. Their newest "GoPro HERO4 Session" camera is tiny, but ultimately not compelli...
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 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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...
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'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...
Just immediately throw out that last post.
A recap of Apple’s 2020 WWDC, plus other stuff (like usual)
About changes to the site, plus other stuff. I hate fully-meta blog posts.
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...
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: 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: Make HappyI write the first half of this Column from a position of privilege. Actually I write every Column from that position, now tha...
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: (Windows) 8 million form factors
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: 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: 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: “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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 ...
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: 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: "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: 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...
'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: 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: 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: 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 <div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div style="line-height: 1.15;">Mel...
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: 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: 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: Better late than never!
To Cloud, or Not to Cloud, that is the Question
From a guy with moderate experience and no formal training
An Unfortunate Fact of Life
A sequel to 258 - only this time I solve it
As if I wasn’t already all in
Making Things to Make
Notion, VS Code, TypeScript, and Diagrams as Code
Where fun meets productive.
A post in which I state the obvious.
Two very fun topics! Plus some other things that actually are fun.
A snapshot of what I use to do stuff
Motto: A Tool is Only as Useful as Its Operator’s Ability to Use It
Motto: Mottos are good for intros, but can be vague or confusing
Motto: AAAAAAAAAAA!!!
Motto: Labeled, Segregated, Categorized, Classified, Sorted, Filed, Tabulated, and Designated
Motto: Purity is in the eye of the column writer
Motto: Save ALL the things!
Motto: Thunder Buddies for Life
Motto: Say “Yes” More
Motto: I keep looking up the definition of insanity, it always says the same thing
Motto: My own personal Jarvis
Motto: 28 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes and 12 seconds
Effortful Fun is still Fun
Tears of the Kingdom is good.
Scott Pilgrim, the Future, Slippery Life Lessons
Two very fun topics! Plus some other things that actually are fun.
As one does.
Another show in the history books
Motto: Catch up and mustard
Motto: SUPERnerdy
Motto: I’m a Creative Cat; a Star-Performing Word-Worm
Motto: Whatever I feel like. That’s the whole idea.
Motto: Labeled, Segregated, Categorized, Classified, Sorted, Filed, Tabulated, and Designated
Motto: “That which goes up, must also come down” is a wildly inaccurate statement.
Motto: Bwhaaaaaaaaaam
Motto: As Google as it gets
Not a Treacherous Territory
As one does.
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: 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: 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: 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...
'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: 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: Putting the “Multi” in “Multimedia”
Motto: Don’t be an Oxymoron
Motto: HTML Stands for “Hard To Make Look (Good)”
Motto: So it goes.
Motto: Labeled, Segregated, Categorized, Classified, Sorted, Filed, Tabulated, and Designated
Motto: Knowledge comes from experience. Experience comes from doing things.
A deep dive on the evolution and related learnings from my biggest Project.
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: 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...
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Motto: Putting the “Multi” in “Multimedia”
Motto: Shallow and Pedantic
Motto: I’m a Creative Cat; a Star-Performing Word-Worm
Motto: Whatever I feel like. That’s the whole idea.
Motto: The times, they are (not) a changin’
Motto: Aaron Go Brag (somewhere else)
Motto: having a girlfriend you can see » having a girlfriend in elsewhereville
A deep dive on the evolution and related learnings from my biggest Project.
Thoughts on Life Tracking after 7 Years
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...
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: 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: 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: 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: A Bird in the Hand is Worth Several Hundred in the Bush. Birds are in Bushes All the Time, in Hands much less Often.
Fact: I’ve tracked 35 days
Motto: “If I had an hour to save the world I would spend 59 minutes defining the problem and one minute finding solutions”
Motto: Shallow and Pedantic
A look at living with intent.
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...
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?
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...
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...
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: 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: a Day Late and Still Free
Motto: Google Plus is better
Motto: For your treatment I prescribe several highly concentrated doses of life.
Motto: If You’re Going to Go, GoPro
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: The Column - Now with Content!
Motto: 10PM and all is well!
Motto: If You’re Going to Go, GoPro
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Scott Pilgrim, the Future, Slippery Life Lessons
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Expanding on 2023’s main theme
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