Today marks the first day of 2019 when I’ve used my BBQ. I love eating off my grill, and though I’ve been known to fire it up in the middle of winter, this winter was a harsh one. It’s not PC, but I don’t care … Continue readingFirst BBQ of the season
Today is a special day for me, for today marks the first day that I will no longer commute. This has been a goal of mine that I have been working towards for a while. For those of you unfamiliar with how bad commuting is … Continue readingEnding the commute
I have seen the future of social media, and I saw it by looking at the past. The social media of today is similar to e-mail of the days before the Internet; we have a few big players, completely incompatible with each other. Someone on … Continue readingThe future of social networks
Today is March 14, 2019. If we write it out as 3.14.2019, the month and day look like pi, a mathematical constant that denotes the circumference of a circle to its diameter. I believe this offers us an excellent opportunity to illustrate how superior fractional … Continue readingHappy Pi Day
But the loser hacker failed at this and at life … Continue readingpquirk.com gets hacked
Facebook is an interesting phenomenon whereas its users are not the customer, they are the product. What this means is they collect information about you and then sell that information to whoever wants to buy it. When it comes to their platform, I understand the … Continue readingFacebook is everywhere
An ad campaign of mis-information … Continue readingEducate before you vaccinate
Just over a month ago, I decided to stop using Facebook after receiving a system wide ban for three days for posting a joke in a closed group. For the record, I never got banned from the group; I’m still a member, the admins never … Continue readingA month without Facebook
All the benefits of tracking with none of the privacy issues … Continue readingKeeping track of myself
This past week I had a snow day, so I decided to stay at home and rebuild my first Windows ’98 machine. The 90’s were a time of positive change and growth for me. I started the 90’s as a single college student using an … Continue readingSnow day time travel: 1998