The content import from my work blog to my more lifestyle, food and sports oriented life over here is about halfway done. Gentle readers will notice heavy music and strong words categories, mostly delving into prog rock, sci-fi and intersections of the two (like Avatar).
Archive of posts filed under the General category.
Content Shuffle
I’m moving all of the non-work related content from my Sun Microsystems blog over to the Snowman, mostly to separate personal stuff and give it a long-term home. So you’ll see about 300 new blog entries show up, but none of them very recent — search, category results, tag results, and some cross-references will [...]
Channeling Relief to Haiti
Local tragedies have a way of uniting us globally. I was first made aware of this when Roberto Clemente, much beloved Pittsburgh Pirate, was killed in a post-earthquake aid and goodwill ambassador role in his native Nicaragua. All of baseball mourned #21, who was just responding through the goodness of his heart.
This week’s [...]
How Not To Do Yoga
About a month ago, I started going to yoga classes with my wonderful wife in an attempt to regain some flexibility, perhaps slowly get back into “skating shape” and just enjoy a little adult time with my spouse. It’s been fun, mostly because our yoga instructor is patient, tolerates my constant chatter, and will [...]
The 2009 List
It’s that time of year again. And what a long, strange trip of a year it’s been. Some thoughts from 2009:
Work moment.Trip to India in April, at the tail end of a tour that took me to Mexico City, Johannesburg, Mumbai and Bangalore. While meeting with the technical managers in the [...]
Science, Faith, Social Networks and One Young Man
The holiday season is now in full tilt, with last minute shopping and shipping, final touches to decorations, parties, and either dread or hopeful expectations of time with our families. My own interpretation of this feeling is that captured in the shehecheyanu, the Hebrew prayer said the first time you do something each [...]
Inaugural Optimism
I am breaking a few self-enforced “work rules” this morning, and I feel no shame or guilt about it. I have the television in my office turned on to watch the inaugural proceedings, sound turned down, but a distraction anyway. I should be preparing for an upcoming conference call, but I’m blogging because [...]
The Snowman Vote
Chalk this up to the wonders of Google PageRank and the ability of the net to help convolve people with similarly evolved interests.
Bob Eckstein, author of Today’s Snowman blog as well as the History Of The Snowman book, has included yours truly in the current snowman vote. Eckstein found [...]
The 2007 List
Presenting the fourth installment in a continuing series dating back to 2004: the 2007 list.
Best Parenting Moment: Son Benjamin’s Bar Mitzvah, celebrated with lots of friends and family. He made us cry, he made his hockey coaches cry (something I hadn’t seen before) and he played a mean guitar solo with [...]
