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This editing interface (blogger.com) works intermittently, but does work most of the time. However, my page at blogspot.com is simply not available to me.</p><p>If you are one of the nice folks whom have posted a note, I cannot reply (I only know about them because of the moderation interface) except in this very public way (or via Email). Thanks for your notes, and here are some public replies.</p><h2 id=lost-day-in-china>Lost Day in China<a hidden class=anchor aria-hidden=true href=#lost-day-in-china>#</a></h2><p>TD, When I say I went the wrong direction, it is that — not as far as I walked this day — in a different direction is the Zhong Guan Cun Shopping District. KFC and Cold Stone Creamery would have agreed with me on the Lost Day, but instead I went the other way, and found nothing very interesting.</p><h2 id=short-update-in-china>Short Update in China<a hidden class=anchor aria-hidden=true href=#short-update-in-china>#</a></h2><p>TD, The tea was probably oolong, but I haven’t had it again to ask someone to confirm. Considering how simple tea is, it can really have a lot of flavors.</p><p>I thought I would mention though that Japanese restaurants are not actually so rare. I’ve seen two (which also means I was able to recognize them as Japanese). This is a fairly large metropolitan area, and even though I can’t read much (about 10 to 15 percent of public signs and product labels have English translations – only about 5% of business signs). That’s not to say that all of the locals “like it”, there is no shortage of Mazdas on the roads either.</p><h2 id=big-night-in-china>Big Night in China<a hidden class=anchor aria-hidden=true href=#big-night-in-china>#</a></h2><p>TD, No, I’ve seen no traffic accidents. “The Other American” did - but only the aftermath. A mangled bicycle, a dented taxi and broken glass.</p><p>TD & DH: After about a week you realize that along with the insanity of breaking all the rules, everybody in cars move with a determined sense of caution, which often makes traffic ooze instead of move. The merge thing is part of that ooze. Those whom are a little less cautious will simply get around those who are a little more cautious.</p><p>Crossing streets - especially large streets - the dynamic changes with crowds. The crossing is simply done in the form of safety by numbers. Where the lead - least cautious - walkers take the risk and lead the way for the rest of the group. Crossing a street alone is pretty much what I described though.</p><p>DH: I think HongKong tracks more closely to Brittan - as they were the law of the land until fairly recently. Audio crossing is definitely a downtown London sound.</p><p>UD: Hey, everyone… It’s my Uncle! … I’m still working out how to get some photos in the blog, there are lots of sites that can help don’t exactly agree with me from here (either intermittent or non-existent).</p></div><footer class=post-footer><ul class=post-tags><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/blog/>blog</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/in-china/>in-china</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/history/>history</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/work/>work</a></li></ul><div class=share-buttons><a target=_blank rel="noopener noreferrer" aria-label="share A Note To My Readers...(from China) on twitter" href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet/?text=A%20Note%20To%20My%20Readers...%28from%20China%29&url=https%3a%2f%2fblog.vollink.com%2fin-china%2f2007%2f10%2fa-note-to-my-readers...from-china%2f&hashtags=blog%2cin-china%2chistory%2cwork"><svg viewBox="0 0 512 512"><path 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This editing interface (blogger.com) works intermittently, but does work most of the time. However, my page at blogspot.com is simply not available to me.</p><p>If you are one of the nice folks whom have posted a note, I cannot reply (I only know about them because of the moderation interface) except in this very public way (or via Email). Thanks for your notes, and here are some public replies.</p><h2 id=lost-day-in-china>Lost Day in China<a hidden class=anchor aria-hidden=true href=#lost-day-in-china>#</a></h2><p>TD, When I say I went the wrong direction, it is that — not as far as I walked this day — in a different direction is the Zhong Guan Cun Shopping District. KFC and Cold Stone Creamery would have agreed with me on the Lost Day, but instead I went the other way, and found nothing very interesting.</p><h2 id=short-update-in-china>Short Update in China<a hidden class=anchor aria-hidden=true href=#short-update-in-china>#</a></h2><p>TD, The tea was probably oolong, but I haven’t had it again to ask someone to confirm. Considering how simple tea is, it can really have a lot of flavors.</p><p>I thought I would mention though that Japanese restaurants are not actually so rare. I’ve seen two (which also means I was able to recognize them as Japanese). This is a fairly large metropolitan area, and even though I can’t read much (about 10 to 15 percent of public signs and product labels have English translations – only about 5% of business signs). That’s not to say that all of the locals “like it”, there is no shortage of Mazdas on the roads either.</p><h2 id=big-night-in-china>Big Night in China<a hidden class=anchor aria-hidden=true href=#big-night-in-china>#</a></h2><p>TD, No, I’ve seen no traffic accidents. “The Other American” did - but only the aftermath. A mangled bicycle, a dented taxi and broken glass.</p><p>TD & DH: After about a week you realize that along with the insanity of breaking all the rules, everybody in cars move with a determined sense of caution, which often makes traffic ooze instead of move. The merge thing is part of that ooze. Those whom are a little less cautious will simply get around those who are a little more cautious.</p><p>Crossing streets - especially large streets - the dynamic changes with crowds. The crossing is simply done in the form of safety by numbers. Where the lead - least cautious - walkers take the risk and lead the way for the rest of the group. Crossing a street alone is pretty much what I described though.</p><p>DH: I think HongKong tracks more closely to Brittan - as they were the law of the land until fairly recently. 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@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ well if you don’t like something particular. There was this sweet
and sour sparerib dish that looked really good in the picture, and
was mostly a pile of bones on the plate. Otherwise there were two
potato dishes, and a green vegetable (hard to say what it was - but
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@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ I’m betting that the locals can pay even less for it, but I’m not
about to attempt to bargain at my skill level not for something
so inexpensive. I’ve had great Thai, Japanese and Korean BBQ here.
I had some “O.K.” Chinese food, but as they say… nothing
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and the presentation was great, but as SG said, “It’s not Szechuan”.</p><h2 id=cleaning-the-palette>Cleaning the Palette<a hidden class=anchor aria-hidden=true href=#cleaning-the-palette>#</a></h2><p>Afterwards OA went back to the hotel, and the remaining four of us
went to a bar for a few drinks. It took a while to find a bar that
wasn’t a restaurant or a “club”. Finally we did, and I had a
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It just wasn’t fun. 13 hours chasing the sun the whole way, and really not being able to catch any sleep. I was in a middle seat of a 747 - row 60 (only two rows from the absolute back), and even with my noise canceling headphones in, there was just too much light, and too much going on. Drink service every 90 to 120 minutes or so.</p><p>I was between two very nice women, Jennifer and Gretchen. Both of them were flying with people who had been given upgrades to business class. Jennifer was very friendly, and told me about her children and about her friend, who is an Ex-Pat on year two of her assignment. Gretchen was less sharing, but works for “the University” as some sort of Foreign Programs coordinator.</p><p>I have an iPod, and had loaded several movies on it, so I watched some, but kept having to pause it for interruptions anyway. One of the interruptions occurred when the in-flight movie suddenly shut-off, and both Jennifer and Gretchen commented on how obnoxious it was.</p><p>First Meal - another iPod movie on pause. “Our selections for this meal are Steak or Curry Chicken,” on the PA. 20 minutes later (remember, row 60)… only Curry Chicken left. It sort of worked out. There was so much curry smell in the air, the steak would have tasted like curry. It wasn’t bad for airline food, but it wasn’t “good” either.</p><h2 id=october-13>October 13<a hidden class=anchor aria-hidden=true href=#october-13>#</a></h2><p>Flying Over North East Asia</p><p>On two of my leg stretching walks around the cabin - I took some pictures out one of the massive exit door windows. One of those - maybe two and a half hours out of landing, I got a picture of what looked like a forest fire, except on what basically looked like dark brown desert.</p><p>I give up on movies after two and a half, and finally decide maybe I’ll try to sleep for real. 10 minutes later, snack time is announced. Chinese noodle bowl (pretty much Ramen Noodles with a few “actual” vegetables). After snack, I tried to snooze a little, and then more in flight movie problems made everyone restless.</p><p>I slept for about 15 minutes. Pure exhaustion.</p><p>Meal two (also lunch). Choices this time was a Turkey and Cheese on a Pretzel roll, or some sort of Chicken and Noodle thing. 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+positive about my experiences so far – this shower in my hotel room is
+really, really nice. It has a double shower head switchable to a
+hand-held shower head. It just feels nice. The water pressure is really
+strong, too.</p><p>I go down to eat the hotel breakfast:</p><ul><li>2 steamed buns with different fillings</li><li>2 pieces of “baked bacon”</li><li>1 Fairly McDonald’s style potato cake (they call it potato pie)</li><li>1 piece of very British tasting sausage</li><li>1 Hard Boiled brown egg</li><li>1 French style croissant</li></ul><p>There’s another American here that I’m supposed to be able to meet up with,
+and at 10 in the morning I call him up. Of course, he’s younger than me
+so he’s sleeping, and says he’ll call me back later.</p><p>This is the point where the jet lag really starts bugging me. I’m all
+restless, but tired too. I start to watch some DVDs that I took with me
+(there’s a DVD player in my room). About 1pm, I’m totally annoyed that
+I didn’t get a call back, and decide to go see what I can find.</p><p>I’ll start by simply saying that I walked in the wrong direction.
+I didn’t know it then. I did find a 7-11, a McDonalds, someplace called
+Big Pizza, and a Dairy Queen - all along a road that was so wide it had
+pedestrian bridges across it at regular intervals. I totally didn’t
+bring the camera (should have).</p><p>On the way back to the Hotel, I stopped by the 7-11 and bought a can of
+Pringles, some Laundry Soap and a liter of “Coke Light”. When I got back
+here, I puttered around a little, drank some Coke Light, ate half the
+Pringles, cleaned my dirty clothes (not much, but wanted to figure out
+how the machine worked) - it’s a “Washer / Dryer”, and all of the
+instructions are in Chinese, so I sort of guessed, and ended up with
+clean dry clothes two hours later.</p><p>I ate some Ramen noodle type thing for Dinner (the hotel had a few items
+that they started me off with - including tea bags and bottled water).
+About 9PM, the other American called me back, and told me that he had
+fallen back to sleep, and didn’t wake up until 2, and that he had tried
+calling then. We made arrangements to meet up in the morning.</p><p>Tired and fuzzy, and having taken no useful pictures… I went to bed.
+Tomorrow is the first day at work.</p></div><footer class=post-footer><ul class=post-tags><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/blog/>blog</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/in-china/>in-china</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/history/>history</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/work/>work</a></li></ul><div class=share-buttons><a target=_blank rel="noopener noreferrer" aria-label="share Getting there is NOT half the fun on twitter" href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet/?text=Getting%20there%20is%20NOT%20half%20the%20fun&url=https%3a%2f%2fblog.vollink.com%2fin-china%2f2007%2f10%2fgetting-there-is-not-half-the-fun%2f&hashtags=blog%2cin-china%2chistory%2cwork"><svg viewBox="0 0 512 512"><path d="M449.446.0C483.971.0 512 28.03 512 62.554v386.892C512 483.97 483.97 512 449.446 512H62.554c-34.524.0-62.554-28.03-62.554-62.554V62.554c0-34.524 28.029-62.554 62.554-62.554h386.892zM195.519 424.544c135.939.0 210.268-112.643 210.268-210.268.0-3.218.0-6.437-.153-9.502 14.406-10.421 26.973-23.448 36.935-38.314-13.18 5.824-27.433 9.809-42.452 11.648 15.326-9.196 26.973-23.602 32.49-40.92-14.252 8.429-30.038 14.56-46.896 17.931-13.487-14.406-32.644-23.295-53.946-23.295-40.767.0-73.87 33.104-73.87 73.87.0 5.824.613 11.494 1.992 16.858-61.456-3.065-115.862-32.49-152.337-77.241-6.284 10.881-9.962 23.601-9.962 37.088.0 25.594 13.027 48.276 32.95 61.456-12.107-.307-23.448-3.678-33.41-9.196v.92c0 35.862 25.441 65.594 59.311 72.49-6.13 1.686-12.72 2.606-19.464 2.606-4.751.0-9.348-.46-13.946-1.38 9.349 29.426 36.628 50.728 68.965 51.341-25.287 19.771-57.164 31.571-91.8 31.571-5.977.0-11.801-.306-17.625-1.073 32.337 21.15 71.264 33.41 112.95 33.41z"/></svg></a><a target=_blank rel="noopener noreferrer" aria-label="share Getting there is NOT half the fun on linkedin" href="https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https%3a%2f%2fblog.vollink.com%2fin-china%2f2007%2f10%2fgetting-there-is-not-half-the-fun%2f&title=Getting%20there%20is%20NOT%20half%20the%20fun&summary=Getting%20there%20is%20NOT%20half%20the%20fun&source=https%3a%2f%2fblog.vollink.com%2fin-china%2f2007%2f10%2fgetting-there-is-not-half-the-fun%2f"><svg viewBox="0 0 512 512"><path d="M449.446.0C483.971.0 512 28.03 512 62.554v386.892C512 483.97 483.97 512 449.446 512H62.554c-34.524.0-62.554-28.03-62.554-62.554V62.554c0-34.524 28.029-62.554 62.554-62.554h386.892zM160.461 423.278V197.561h-75.04v225.717h75.04zm270.539.0V293.839c0-69.333-37.018-101.586-86.381-101.586-39.804.0-57.634 21.891-67.617 37.266v-31.958h-75.021c.995 21.181.0 225.717.0 225.717h75.02V297.222c0-6.748.486-13.492 2.474-18.315 5.414-13.475 17.767-27.434 38.494-27.434 27.135.0 38.007 20.707 38.007 51.037v120.768H431zM123.448 88.722C97.774 88.722 81 105.601 81 127.724c0 21.658 16.264 39.002 41.455 39.002h.484c26.165.0 42.452-17.344 42.452-39.002-.485-22.092-16.241-38.954-41.943-39.002z"/></svg></a><a target=_blank rel="noopener noreferrer" aria-label="share Getting there is NOT half the fun on reddit" href="https://reddit.com/submit?url=https%3a%2f%2fblog.vollink.com%2fin-china%2f2007%2f10%2fgetting-there-is-not-half-the-fun%2f&title=Getting%20there%20is%20NOT%20half%20the%20fun"><svg viewBox="0 0 512 512"><path d="M449.446.0C483.971.0 512 28.03 512 62.554v386.892C512 483.97 483.97 512 449.446 512H62.554c-34.524.0-62.554-28.03-62.554-62.554V62.554c0-34.524 28.029-62.554 62.554-62.554h386.892zM446 265.638c0-22.964-18.616-41.58-41.58-41.58-11.211.0-21.361 4.457-28.841 11.666-28.424-20.508-67.586-33.757-111.204-35.278l18.941-89.121 61.884 13.157c.756 15.734 13.642 28.29 29.56 28.29 16.407.0 29.706-13.299 29.706-29.701.0-16.403-13.299-29.702-29.706-29.702-11.666.0-21.657 6.792-26.515 16.578l-69.105-14.69c-1.922-.418-3.939-.042-5.585 1.036-1.658 1.073-2.811 2.761-3.224 4.686l-21.152 99.438c-44.258 1.228-84.046 14.494-112.837 35.232-7.468-7.164-17.589-11.591-28.757-11.591-22.965.0-41.585 18.616-41.585 41.58.0 16.896 10.095 31.41 24.568 37.918-.639 4.135-.99 8.328-.99 12.576.0 63.977 74.469 115.836 166.33 115.836s166.334-51.859 166.334-115.836c0-4.218-.347-8.387-.977-12.493 14.564-6.47 24.735-21.034 24.735-38.001zM326.526 373.831c-20.27 20.241-59.115 21.816-70.534 21.816-11.428.0-50.277-1.575-70.522-21.82-3.007-3.008-3.007-7.882.0-10.889 3.003-2.999 7.882-3.003 10.885.0 12.777 12.781 40.11 17.317 59.637 17.317 19.522.0 46.86-4.536 59.657-17.321 3.016-2.999 7.886-2.995 10.885.008 3.008 3.011 3.003 7.882-.008 10.889zm-5.23-48.781c-16.373.0-29.701-13.324-29.701-29.698.0-16.381 13.328-29.714 29.701-29.714 16.378.0 29.706 13.333 29.706 29.714.0 16.374-13.328 29.698-29.706 29.698zM160.91 295.348c0-16.381 13.328-29.71 29.714-29.71 16.369.0 29.689 13.329 29.689 29.71.0 16.373-13.32 29.693-29.689 29.693-16.386.0-29.714-13.32-29.714-29.693z"/></svg></a></div></footer></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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a half of waiting for the rest of the hiking party. I definitely
could not have made the journey.</p><p>I had a lot of time here to take shots of the
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it with two fingers and very haltingly say, “Wo You Er…”</p><p>The kid behind the counter looks at me like I’m an idiot and says,
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@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ bar in the hotel that we used, and the format was pot-luck.</p><p>I searched the
to make deep fried Chicken Wings. Tobasco sauce is available from
the imports section, so I made them Buffalo style. Simple party
food. The apartment still smells like fry oil though.</p><p>Nobody attempted to dress up or anything. Overall the party was a
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spent there, and wish I had more time to spend there.</p><p>Due to a number of issues that are beyond my control, the
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We agreed to meet at a KFC (not “the KFCâ€, but one a block away) between 10:30 and 10:45. She arrived about 10 minutes after I did apologizing that she was very late....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2007-11-11 14:00:00 +0800 +0800">11 Nov 2007</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to YongHeGong, Lama Temple" href=https://blog.vollink.com/in-china/2007/11/yonghegong-lama-temple/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Note on Photos</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>There are many pictures that I have posted to the photos site that are not visible to the general public.
http://photos.vollink.com/
If I know you, you can sign up for an account, then Email me your login name. I will then enable your account to see the rest of the photo collections. This includes categories like, “Friends at Work†and “Friends at Hotelâ€.
-If I don’t know you, you can still sign up for an account, but you’ll get no benefit, and will have given your Email address to another random site on the internet....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2007-11-11 12:00:00 +0800 +0800">11 Nov 2007</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Note on Photos" href=https://blog.vollink.com/in-china/2007/11/note-on-photos/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=next href=https://blog.vollink.com/in-china/page/2/>Next »</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+If I don’t know you, you can still sign up for an account, but you’ll get no benefit, and will have given your Email address to another random site on the internet....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2007-11-11 12:00:00 +0800 +0800">11 Nov 2007</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Note on Photos" href=https://blog.vollink.com/in-china/2007/11/note-on-photos/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=next href=https://blog.vollink.com/in-china/page/2/>Next »</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Wait though, it’s not that bread doesn’t exist. There’s a lot of bread her
North East Beijing Territory
Some people from work were talking about a Great Wall Hike. I was reluctantly invited to go along, after being told many times that it would be a lot of up and down, and it’s very strenuous…
Gubeikou The group starts off at a break-neck pace, and I become winded almost immediately....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2007-10-28 14:00:00 +0800 +0800">28 Oct 2007</span> · 4 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Great Wall Hike" href=https://blog.vollink.com/in-china/2007/10/great-wall-hike/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/in-china/>« Prev</a>
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Credit Due… Special thanks to Vital Systems Support for setting up the photo hosting.</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2007-10-23 12:00:00 +0800 +0800">23 Oct 2007</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Photos" href=https://blog.vollink.com/in-china/2007/10/photos/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Friday Night Out</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>October 19
Adventures with Hairy Crab A group of people who are working in the office, none of whom are from China, decided we’d do dinner as a group. Singapore girl (whom was part of Thursday’s dinner) heard that Hairy Crab was in season and that this particular restaurant had it. A quick search on the internet wasn’t very promising, but I promised myself I’d keep an open mind. So, off we went in two cabs (there’s a four person limit per cab, and we were a party of 5)....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2007-10-20 14:00:00 +0800 +0800">20 Oct 2007</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Friday Night Out" href=https://blog.vollink.com/in-china/2007/10/friday-night-out/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>A Note To My Readers...(from China)</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>BlogSpot and China BlogSpot and China do not appear to get along very well. This editing interface (blogger.com) works intermittently, but does work most of the time. However, my page at blogspot.com is simply not available to me.
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Zhong Guan Cun District, Beijing
3:50. Really? No, can’t be. It feels like I slept all day. Yep, 4:10 AM. Still pitch dark outside. This must be that jet lag people kept warning me about.
I’m already unpacked, no chance of going back to sleep. I spend the next 45 minutes watching the end of Karate Kid 2, dubbed in Mandarin, with Chinese sub-titles. I was totally lost until the big dramatic fight scene at the end....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2007-10-15 12:00:00 +0800 +0800">15 Oct 2007</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Getting there is NOT half the fun" href=https://blog.vollink.com/in-china/2007/10/getting-there-is-not-half-the-fun/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Reporting for Duty</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Haidan District, Beijing There’s a building a few blocks over from my Hotel room that has strobe lights on top of it. It’s tall enough to require them if the building were in a flight path, but there are buildings as tall around it, and they don’t seem to need strobe lights. Hmph. So, I close the hotel curtains all the way. If I strain, I can still sense the strobe, but with the curtains drawn and my eyelids closed, it doesn’t exist....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2007-10-15 12:00:00 +0800 +0800">15 Oct 2007</span> · 4 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Reporting for Duty" href=https://blog.vollink.com/in-china/2007/10/reporting-for-duty/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/in-china/page/3/>« Prev</a>
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I remembered to take some pictures of the Airport terminal on the way to customs.
My employer was nice enough to arrange for me, a ride from the Beijing Airport to the Hotel....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2007-10-14 12:00:00 +0800 +0800">14 Oct 2007</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Welcome To Beijing..." href=https://blog.vollink.com/in-china/2007/10/welcome-to-beijing.../></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Getting there is NOT half the fun</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>October 12 Minneapolis, MN, USA
So, I’m in China for the next few months, and getting there is not half the fun.
-Don’t get me wrong, it wasn’t an unpleasant flight - as flights go. It just wasn’t fun. 13 hours chasing the sun the whole way, and really not being able to catch any sleep. I was in a middle seat of a 747 - row 60 (only two rows from the absolute back), and even with my noise canceling headphones in, there was just too much light, and too much going on....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2007-10-14 04:00:00 +0800 +0800">14 Oct 2007</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Getting there is NOT half the fun" href=https://blog.vollink.com/in-china/2007/10/getting-there-is-not-half-the-fun/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/in-china/page/4/>« Prev</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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How many character blocks will it take to display U+X? Will U+X be displayed in independent multicolor? Introduction I’ve been on a bit of a research kick in Unicode lately, and I’ve long been a C language user, since before UTF-8 became the “winning†encoding for Unicode. I’ve also long been a bit of an enthusiast for Virtual Terminals, especially as I started programming before fully integrated development environments for every language were the default....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2024-11-28 15:45:00 -0400 -0400">28 Nov 2024</span> · 4 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Virtual Terminal - Missing Functions" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2024/11/virt-term-functions/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Open Source Does NOT Mean Free</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Corporate Use Restrictions There seems to be a growing trend in Open Source software of adding Terms of Use of a download service to exclude use by businesses (usually defining this as some number of employees, some amount of revenue or both), so that the software itself remains free and open source, but making sure that businesses must pay for the privilage of using the product.
These span a wide swath of methods from very obvious paywalls to deeply obfuscated Terms of Use clauses, and they are dangerous for businesses specifically because some programmer who uses one of these technologies at home on an open source project often won’t think twice about installing the same on a business supplied computer to get their job’s work done…...</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2024-04-03 17:31:21 -0400 -0400">3 Apr 2024</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Open Source Does NOT Mean Free" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2024/04/open-is-not-always-free/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Your Terminal Emulator Is Wrong</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Introduction At this point, there are hundreds of graphical terminal emulators out there. Every single one that I have run into pretends like it is some varient of a hardware terminal made by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) from their Video Terminal (VT) line of products, from 1978’s VT100 through 1993’s VT525.
-A reader might chime in here and say, no MY TERMINAL thinks it is an xterm, but alas xterm pretends to be a VT420 (xterm can actually pretend it is many different terminals, so even if you DO use THE xterm software I doubt your computer is actually set up to most efficiently talk to it, I’ll talk about that later )....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2023-09-21 21:10:00 -0400 -0400">21 Sep 2023</span> · 10 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Your Terminal Emulator Is Wrong" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2023/09/standards-what-standards/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>The Anime I Like</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Why I Won’t Admit to Liking Anime When talking to someone who likes Anime, the first thing to come up is usually a show like Dragonball Z or Baruto. Some fighting is fine if the story requires it, but I don’t want to watch a single fight that lasts most of an episode. I want story to develop in every episode, not just exposition hidden in re-used fight sequences. At worst, I might stick with something that has a long fight in one or two episodes within a ten plus episode season....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2022-08-23 23:41:12 -0400 -0400">23 Aug 2022</span> · 6 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to The Anime I Like" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2022/08/anime/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=next href=https://blog.vollink.com/page/2/>Next »</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+A reader might chime in here and say, no MY TERMINAL thinks it is an xterm, but alas xterm pretends to be a VT420 (xterm can actually pretend it is many different terminals, so even if you DO use THE xterm software I doubt your computer is actually set up to most efficiently talk to it, I’ll talk about that later )....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2023-09-21 21:10:00 -0400 -0400">21 Sep 2023</span> · 10 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Your Terminal Emulator Is Wrong" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2023/09/standards-what-standards/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>The Anime I Like</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Why I Won’t Admit to Liking Anime When talking to someone who likes Anime, the first thing to come up is usually a show like Dragonball Z or Baruto. Some fighting is fine if the story requires it, but I don’t want to watch a single fight that lasts most of an episode. I want story to develop in every episode, not just exposition hidden in re-used fight sequences. At worst, I might stick with something that has a long fight in one or two episodes within a ten plus episode season....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2022-08-23 23:41:12 -0400 -0400">23 Aug 2022</span> · 6 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to The Anime I Like" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2022/08/anime/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=next href=https://blog.vollink.com/page/2/>Next »</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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https://blog.vollink.com/p/book-review-introduction.html</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-03-02 12:00:00.001 -0500 -0500">2 Mar 2019</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Book Reviews Introduction Page" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/03/book-reviews-introduction-page/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Catch-22 by Joseph Heller</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book Cover This is a different form than my normal reviews. I usually don't go back to old books to add to my reviews, but this is a touch-stone. It's a book that a LOT of folks have read, and I hope it might help someone who also read this book tune in on where I'm coming from. I read this book several years ago, and though I flipped through it to refresh my mind for this entry, I didn't just read it again in full....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-02-20 12:00:00 -0500 -0500">20 Feb 2019</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Catch-22 by Joseph Heller" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/02/catch-22/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Ball Lightning by Cixin Liu</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover I have a fairly particular view of science-fiction and how it is different from fantasy. The fantastic element in science fiction is usually both a catalyst for the story itself as well as a way to explore the reactionary side of society. Where in fantasy, the fantastic element is simply present. Used as a tool, maybe even explored in depth, but isn't the main goal....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-02-06 12:14:00 -0500 -0500">6 Feb 2019</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Ball Lightning by Cixin Liu" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/02/ball-lightning/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Comic] Darth Vader 1-25 by Charles Soule, art: Giuseppe Camuncoli</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Issue 1 cover If you read my review of the book, Oracle Year, I mentioned that Charles Soule writes for comic books, this is one of them that I've kept up on, and have read from start to finish, as this run ends at #25, though Charles Soule will have more to write for Marvel in the Star Wars world.
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From Bears to Bowdlerism...</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-12-26 21:32:00 -0500 -0500">26 Dec 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Euphemania by Ralph Keyes" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/12/euphemania/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] There There by Tommy Orange</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover I will start by noting that this book started slow for me. It took me over two weeks to read the prologue up through the fourth chapter. Once I passed that, I read the next 80% of the book in two days finishing on a third.
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Take something that seems like it should be relatively common: VR video. Go into cardboard (the app), request the VR video channel. Find a video. Start that video. THEN hit the cardboard icon that will put it into cardboard mode. Then pause it. Put my phone into the cardboard-compatible viewer and hope it doesn't touch anything on the way in....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-11-10 12:00:00 -0500 -0500">10 Nov 2018</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Google Cardboard is a Terrible Experience" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/11/google-cardboard-is-a-terrible-experience/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] David Bowie: A Life by Dylan Jones</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book sleeve cover The author of this book took a huge amount of time to collect together statements and interviews from a vast array of people who knew or in some cases even briefly met David Bowie. Jarringly, there are places where David Bowie's own statements are included. All of these vignettes are presented each in whole, collected into chapters into an approximate order as to when the main point of each vignette happened....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-10-31 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">31 Oct 2018</span> · 4 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] David Bowie: A Life by Dylan Jones" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/10/david-bowie-a-life/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/page/11/>« Prev</a>
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Seriously, the following is absolutely full of spoilers, and I don't want to hear about it. Well, for the stories that I actually like, I still try to keep them a little spoiler free, but the first story ... that one I lay out ALL the main points....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-10-13 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">13 Oct 2018</span> · 5 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book Spoiled] North American Lake Monsters" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/10/book-spoiled-north-american-lake-monsters/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/page/12/>« Prev</a>
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Several of the stories introduce a monster, but the monster itself is inactive ... in one case, already dead, leaving these stories to be more about the evil we bring with us where the monster is just a catalyst or even excuse for some all-too-human transition into bad behavior....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-10-03 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">3 Oct 2018</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] North American Lake Monsters by Nathan Ballingrud" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/10/north-american-lake-monsters/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover Since this is a non-fiction and educational book, I'm not going to worry about inadvertent spoilers as I usually do with fictional, or even narrative true-stories. This book does have a narrative flow, better that a lot of the fiction books I've already reviewed, but it is the narrative flow of a documentary, moving from subject to subject, building knowledge.
Neil deGrasse Tyson is one of the top science communicators alive today....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-09-19 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">19 Sep 2018</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/09/astrophysics-for-people-in-a-hurry/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Tech/PC] VirtualBox, Windows 7 and a new CPU</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>As I've done from time to time, this blog serves as a bit of a bench-notes of what I did. However, maybe someone else hits the same problem, and finds my blog via search.
About a month back, the new nVidia 2080 Ti card was announced. I decided to hit up eBay to see if anyone was selling off a 1080 Ti, and I was not disappointed in the price drops....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-09-15 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">15 Sep 2018</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Tech/PC] VirtualBox, Windows 7 and a new CPU" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/09/tech-pc-virtualbox-windows-7-and-a-new-cpu/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Leia, Princess of Aderaan by Claudia Gray</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover This book is a Star Wars story. It takes place during Leia Organa's 16th year. I would like to say that familiarity with the Star Wars universe isn't absolutely necessary, but I cannot be sure of that. It is, at its base, an exhilarating and sometimes sad, coming of age story, where we see Leia grow from a teen who thinks she's all grown up, to a woman who knows she isn't quite there....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-09-12 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">12 Sep 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Leia, Princess of Aderaan by Claudia Gray" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/09/leia-princess-of-aderaan/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/page/13/>« Prev</a>
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I categorize this book as a Memoir, mostly because it follows the narrative flow of a memoir. It starts out introducing the reader to Michael Bennett's childhood on a rural farm in the South, into college through the NFL, and discusses his own discovery of the importance of both support and activism on a number of issues of equality....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-08-29 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">29 Aug 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Things That Make White People Uncomfortable by Michael Bennett and Dave Zirin" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/08/things-that-make-white-people-uncomfortable/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Shopping] eBuyer Beware</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I know this. Read the fine print. I didn't do that. The rest is geeky details having to do with rack-mountable servers.
I have a 12U rack. Sort-of an end-table next to the couch. I have two servers. One of them is happily racked. The other one is awkwardly sitting sideways across the top of the rack.
I jumped on eBay a week ago, looking to find the rails I need....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-08-25 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">25 Aug 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Shopping] eBuyer Beware" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/08/shopping-ebuyer-beware/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/page/14/>« Prev</a>
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Scarlett, Jade and Blue are elite pilots of young dragons on the cruiser known as the Opal Dragon....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-08-22 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">22 Aug 2018</span> · 4 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Drawing The Dragon by April Adams" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/08/drawing-the-dragon/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover According to the preface, this book is a carefully researched retelling of surviving stories of the Nordic gods, Odin, Thor, Loki, Freya and others. Where surviving versions of a story differ, artistic license allows for the best of each to be used. First and foremost, these are Nordic tales. If you are familiar with these characters from Marvel comics or movies, be prepared to relearn a lot of what you thought you knew....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-08-15 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">15 Aug 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/08/norse-mythology/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Uprooted by Naomi Novik</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover The descriptions of the country, fashions and even the names of characters channels Poland of the 1500s or 1600s. The story focuses on a peaceful valley with little villages nestled along the Spindle river, but a dark forest grows nearby. Corrupted creatures come from the forest late at night and attack human, livestock or both. Or worse, a cloud of pollen might come in and corrupt a neighbor where they stand, turning them....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-08-08 12:00:00.003 -0400 -0400">8 Aug 2018</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Uprooted by Naomi Novik" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/08/uprooted/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] She Would Be King by Wayétu Moore</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book Cover (from publisher) This is divided into two books, THE THREE and SHE WOULD BE KING. A quote from the Author's Note (before the book even begins):
{Gbessa is pronounced "Bessah"} The first book is the story of three characters, each from different places and backgrounds. Gbessa is exiled from her African village as a witch. June escapes slavery from a plantation in Virginia....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-08-01 12:00:00.001 -0400 -0400">1 Aug 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] She Would Be King by Wayétu Moore" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/08/she-would-be-king/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/page/15/>« Prev</a>
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I met Jeremy Dale with Kelly by his side on several occasions at various comic book conventions. I am always on the lookout for a well written all-ages comic book story, and I found Jeremy and Skyward when there were only two issues, self-published and in black and white. Later, I saw him at a different convention and got issue 3, and he said that issue 4 should be out by NYCC....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-07-25 12:00:00.001 -0400 -0400">25 Jul 2018</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Skyward (Omnibus) by Jeremy and Kelly Dale" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/07/skyward-omnibus/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Unbeatable Squirrel Girl: 2 Fuzzy, 2 Furious by Shannon Hale and Dean Hale</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover Fourteen year-old Doreen Green is back in this second adventure of Squirrel Girl. Her parents are a little more used to the idea that she has super abilities, but are still nervous parents. Her Best Human Friend Forever (BHFF), Ana Sofia, is also a friend of Thor, and Agents of SHIELD show up. Her Best Squirrel Friend Forever (BSFF), Tippy Toe, also joins in to help her solve the big mystery....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-07-18 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">18 Jul 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Unbeatable Squirrel Girl: 2 Fuzzy, 2 Furious by Shannon Hale and Dean Hale" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/07/unbeatable-squirrel-girl-2-fuzzy-2-furious/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover (paperback) This is the 1989 book that later became a movie (which I never saw). This won the Booker Prize. We follow a quintessential British Butler named Stevens sometime after World War 2 on a journey to look up an ex-employee. The journey itself is beautifully and descriptively written.
While the main thread is the journey, the bulk of the story is Stevens' recollection of his past....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-07-11 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">11 Jul 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/07/the-remains-of-the-day/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Food] Homage to Pizza Gone By</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Gone Not too far from where I live is a "turn key fully equipped restaurant" for lease. The restaurant that was there until a few weeks ago was called Pizzaniste.
Pizzaniste had really good pizza. Gourmet, all fresh ingredients, coal fired, whole-wheat crust as an option; even gluten free as an option. Partly because they also made custom fresh salads, there were some unexpected ingredients: Real anchovies, fresh basil, artichokes, black beans, corn, cilantro, carrots, chickpeas, eggplant, hard-boiled egg, zucchini and two types of olives to choose from (along with all the other things you might expect every pizza place to have)....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-07-07 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">7 Jul 2018</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Food] Homage to Pizza Gone By" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/07/food-homage-to-pizza-gone-by/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/page/16/>« Prev</a>
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After the prelude, the first section of the book follows Bill Ashcraft, a drifter who is loaded up on drugs. Appropriate to the character - for the parts where we are following his narrative - the story is jumping back and forth between his past and present with no direct warning in-between, full of non-sequiturs, and frankly - hard to follow....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-06-27 12:00:00.001 -0400 -0400">27 Jun 2018</span> · 4 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Ohio by Stephen Markley" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/06/ohio/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Catching Stars by Cayla Keenan</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover The world building is probably the thing I liked the most about Catching Stars. There are people who have magical abilities and a larger group of people who don't. Within magic users, there are different types of magic users. There are kingdoms and politics, palace intrigue, roving gangs, sailing ships, petty rivalries and fierce prejudices. Though the story is quite different, the emotional feel of the world is similar to the book Steeplejack by A....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-06-20 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">20 Jun 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Catching Stars by Cayla Keenan" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/06/catching-stars/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] The Real Lolita by Sarah Weinman</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I got an advanced readers copy of this book from the first day of BookExpo. It is supposed to be released in September 2018, but that is preliminary, and the date could slip.
Book cover I don't usually read true-crime genre books. If I had never read the Nabokov fiction, Lolita, I would have never been interested enough in this book to read The Real Lolita by Sarah Weinman....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-06-13 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">13 Jun 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] The Real Lolita by Sarah Weinman" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/06/the-real-lolita/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/page/17/>« Prev</a>
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15 days without heat. 25 days to complete a delayed move, because we really couldn't live without heat. History and some details below.
Jen and I moved to New York in July of 2011, and we've lived in the same apartment ever since. A two bedroom, one bath apartment that is quite comfortable in a relatively well maintained building in the Bay Ridge neighborhood in Brooklyn....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-01-22 08:30:00 -0500 -0500">22 Jan 2018</span> · 4 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to The Agony of No Heat" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/01/the-agony-of-no-heat/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Agile Development on Infrastructure</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>After a friend asked about using agile, I started thinking about the skateboard to car drawing. The author of this, Henrik Kniberg, wrote a really good blog breaking this down, called Making sense of MVP (Minimum Viable Product). This model is absolutely important, and makes a very good case for going about building something brand new.
I've spent most of my post-Agile time doing infrastructure projects. I'm not building a product for end-users....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2017-10-21 13:43:00.002 -0400 -0400">21 Oct 2017</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Agile Development on Infrastructure" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2017/10/agile-development-on-infrastructure/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/page/18/>« Prev</a>
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This service was always free, for me, as I signed up before the free-tier was cancelled in December of 2012. I even bought my wife, Jen, a domain and set is up on G Suite before then (neiher of us could remember which year), as we were just dating at the time....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2022-05-28 15:39:33 -0400 -0400">28 May 2022</span> · 5 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Switching This Blog to Self Hosting" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2022/05/switch-to-self-host/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Terminal Colors with Highlight.js</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>This is another post where I’m working on Hugo capabilities. This time, though, I’m mostly dealing with expanding highlight.js, which is the highlighting tool used by the PaperMod theme.
Terminal in color This shows my terminal prompt in approximately the colors that I see.
[92mgvollink@javavm[0m [GIT: (✅) [92mmaster[0m]:0 [36mðŸ /src/web/hugo-blog[m$ The above, in source, has embedded ANSI escape codes. To do this I created a language called terminal for highlight.js and an accompanying PlugIn....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2022-05-25 20:45:29 -0400 -0400">25 May 2022</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Terminal Colors with Highlight.js" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2022/05/hugo-term-color/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/>« Prev</a>
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Someone said this to me who had heard the same from someone else. Â This comes from about three years ago, and was said in the context of my then current role (having moved from process and supervisory management to direct people management). Â It bothered me.
I first got to be in management, some 20 years ago....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2016-10-14 18:21:00 -0400 -0400">14 Oct 2016</span> · 4 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Misplaced Pride - and Getting Over It" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2016/10/misplaced-pride-and-getting-over-it/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>BLOG: The Sad State of 3D on a PC</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>This month, I built myself a new gaming PC, and decided to spend just a little extra money for the nVidia 3D Vision 2 package with a pair of shutter glasses and a USB controlled IR timing transmitter.  What I'm talking about here is PC gaming in stereoscopic 3D. This is gaming that not only depicts a 3D play environment, but also looks 3D to the player's eyes.
I remember that Descent came out in 1995, and it had support for a virtual reality headset called the Forte VFX-1....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2015-11-14 18:57:00.001 -0500 -0500">14 Nov 2015</span> · 6 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to BLOG: The Sad State of 3D on a PC" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2015/11/blog-the-sad-state-of-3d-on-a-pc/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/page/19/>« Prev</a>
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I tried to buy tickets to NYCC the minute they went on sale....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2015-05-14 10:06:00 -0400 -0400">14 May 2015</span> · 5 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to NYCC : Horrible Shopping Experience" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2015/05/nycc-horrible-shopping-experience/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Manhattan Flagship Stores Are Not For Me</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Manhattan shopping. In the story below, I'm NOT saying the brand or the nam e of the store. I don't want to throw rage at one tiny example of something that ex i sts throughout Manhattan, especially at the brand-name stores that call themsel v es A Flagship Store.                                        There are multiple stores in Manhattan that are not externally identified as Fla g ship but are....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2015-02-01 22:57:00.003 -0500 -0500">1 Feb 2015</span> · 6 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Manhattan Flagship Stores Are Not For Me" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2015/02/manhattan-flagship-stores-are-not-for-me/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Late Night Meeting ... Restless</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I'm not sure who the audience for this is supposed to be.  Just like the blog entry I left about adding a battery holder to my 1990s era MIDI workstation, I think it's mostly just a sounding board, and notebook for myself.  Maybe some of the people who work on this project will read this, maybe not.  Anyway, it's a lot of words, and not a lot of specifics.
Just got off a meeting, kicking off the third phase of a project that I've been working on for 22 months....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2015-01-28 00:26:00 -0500 -0500">28 Jan 2015</span> · 5 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Late Night Meeting ... Restless" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2015/01/late-night-meeting-restless/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/page/20/>« Prev</a>
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For most of my professional life, I've been a computer programmer or computer administrator.  This is my story....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2014-07-21 18:35:00.002 -0400 -0400">21 Jul 2014</span> · 11 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Professional Autobiography" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2014/07/professional-autobiography/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Team Building Tips for Managers from Agile</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I wrote the following, originally, for an ideas post at work.  Then I cleaned it up a little to take out some "my company" specific examples and posted it on Linked-In.
Then I remembered that I don't post enough content to my blog anymore, so here's a post with a link to a post.
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Jenn Gabriel-Powell had an accident yesterday, suffered a subdural hematoma, and never recovered....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2014-03-30 14:56:00.002 -0400 -0400">30 Mar 2014</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Goodbye to Jenn Gabriel-Powell" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2014/03/goodbye-to-jenn-gabriel-powell/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Stone, Surgery and Recovery</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>This tale starts in late June with extreme abdominal pain that, for at least four hours, I was convinced was just severe gas pain. I was sweating and shaking and curled up in a ball, and eventually asked Jen to get me to the emergency room. Well, x-rays, urine samples, and a contrast CAT scan later, and I was told that I had a Kidney stone descending into my bladder. That was 4mmx2mm, and too small for them to try to do anything specifically for....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2013-10-21 18:00:00 -0400 -0400">21 Oct 2013</span> · 6 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Stone, Surgery and Recovery" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2013/10/stone-surgery-and-recovery/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>NSA and Security, Again</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Or: What I knew, what I thought I knew, and what I really didn't know.
I have, since at least 1999, worked with companies that are internationally distributed.  This means, I regularly have correspondence with people in Australia, China, France, Germany, India, Israel, Poland, Singapore and the United Kingdom.  Some of these folks, I have become friends with, so I have had personal correspondence with people in these countries, both paper and electronic....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2013-07-03 21:13:00.001 -0400 -0400">3 Jul 2013</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to NSA and Security, Again" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2013/07/nsa-and-security-again/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2013-07-02 13:18:00 -0400 -0400">2 Jul 2013</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2013/07/fourth-amendment-to-the-united-states-constitution/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/page/22/>« Prev</a>
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There had been a low battery warning for, probably the last 10 years or so.  My response was to just never turn it off, which worked until I had to turn it off for a while....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2012-10-13 01:52:00.001 -0400 -0400">13 Oct 2012</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Syntaur Doing It Right" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2012/10/syntaur-doing-it-right/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>I Did NOT Subscribe, and Why</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Dear magazine publisher.
I was thinking that it would be awesome to sign up for your magazine for a year, try it out.  So, I went to your site, and started to fill out the information that you asked.  When it came to pay you, though, you have told me that by signing up now, I agree that you'll AUTOMATICALLY bill me again, every year, from now until I actually remember to go out of my way to cancel....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2012-04-30 13:18:00 -0400 -0400">30 Apr 2012</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to I Did NOT Subscribe, and Why" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2012/04/i-did-not-subscribe-and-why/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>SOPA/PIPA (Protect IP)</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I am your constituent and I never miss a vote.  I want to make clear, that there are already laws and international treaties in place to protect from online piracy.  If those are not working, using Chinese style censorship methods to block foreign sites makes me wonder what happened to freedom, and I will remember those in congress who agreed with a minority of struggling entertainment concerns that Chinese style internet totalitarianism is the best answer....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2012-01-18 10:56:00 -0500 -0500">18 Jan 2012</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to SOPA/PIPA (Protect IP)" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2012/01/sopa-pipa-protect-ip/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/page/23/>« Prev</a>
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To someone who needs to go through Times Square multiple times per day, tourists are painful, literally....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2011-08-28 15:15:00.001 -0400 -0400">28 Aug 2011</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to About Times Square" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2011/08/about-times-square/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Earthquake</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>New York City - Midtown
On Tuesday morning, Jen and I were both in the office and something seemed strange.
If you've ever been in the upper floors of a tall building during sustained winds, you can feel the building swaying. It felt just like that.  Jen says, "Is the building moving?"  "Yes," as I realize that I shouldn't feel wind movement from the third floor.  Still not really sure what's going on, I say, "...</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2011-08-24 08:41:00 -0400 -0400">24 Aug 2011</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Earthquake" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2011/08/earthquake/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/page/24/>« Prev</a>
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I've heard various things about the Government bail-outs of banks, auto makers and mortgages.  So, I did a quick search, and found a really great article over at ProPublica.  This is a list of who still has money, and who paid money back already....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2011-04-08 11:05:00 -0400 -0400">8 Apr 2011</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Government Bail Out vs. Shut Down" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2011/04/government-bail-out-vs-shut-down/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Go Read Joe</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Joe Klein is usually liberal, and always hopes to find the best in people, and frankly, I think we could all learn from people like him. Last night, I read an article in Time Magazine by him called, Palestinian People Power (annoyingly, Time changes the article titles on-line).
It talks about how a small, and steadily growing group of young activists in the Palestinian (Isreali Occupied) regions of Isreal are working towards political goals by using peaceful protests, sit-in vigils, and demonstrations....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2011-04-08 10:30:00 -0400 -0400">8 Apr 2011</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Go Read Joe" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2011/04/go-read-joe/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>The World vs America: Why the USA is Easy to Hate</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Because of the places I've worked, and the jobs I have had while at those places, I've been able to travel to other countries.  While in these places, I've had countless hours of conversations with people from those places, most of whom have never traveled outside of their own countries.  These conversations, frequently, are about America.
Today's blog started with me reading something that someone in the UK posted online after a rock concert....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2011-03-19 21:02:00 -0400 -0400">19 Mar 2011</span> · 8 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to The World vs America: Why the USA is Easy to Hate" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2011/03/the-world-vs-america-why-the-usa-is-easy-to-hate/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/page/25/>« Prev</a>
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You know all those e-mails that get sent around with some heart-felt story about some child who is in dire need, and if you just forward the e-mail, you could help save that child's life?  Well, the overwhelming majority of those e-mails don't actually have a link that they want you to send along with that e-mail.  A link where people who actually have the means can drop a dollar, or twenty....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2011-01-06 10:53:00 -0500 -0500">6 Jan 2011</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Spreading the Word For Simon" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2011/01/spreading-the-word-for-simon/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Apple Admits iPhone Can't Compete, Targets Android with Patent Suits</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Admitting that the iPhone can no longer feature compete with the fast moving open source platform, Android, Apple Inc dusts off some patents that could be stretched to cover some Android features and starts filing lawsuits.
Gone are the days when Apple could just tell people to use their phone and the difference in quality would be obvious.  These days, even the new Windows phones are better than iPhones, so to try to save it's market share, Apple has decided to sue instead of compete....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2011-01-03 10:04:00 -0500 -0500">3 Jan 2011</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Apple Admits iPhone Can't Compete, Targets Android with Patent Suits" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2011/01/apple-admits-iphone-can-t-compete-targets-android-with-patent-suits/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Facebook 101</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Collected from recent FaceBook 101 updates of a friend of mine.
Keep your personal drama problems off of Facebook. Do not write an ambiguous post just so the first commenter will have to ask, "What do you mean?" Learn how to use the privacy features of Facebook and DO NOT leave your profile open to the public. Do not post or comment if it will get you in trouble with your significant other; Offending others is OK, if you are really prepared for the backlash....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2010-12-22 22:14:00.001 -0500 -0500">22 Dec 2010</span> · 4 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Facebook 101" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2010/12/facebook-101/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/page/26/>« Prev</a>
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Christmas time is nigh...</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2010-12-07 21:33:00 -0500 -0500">7 Dec 2010</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Christmas Time Is Nigh" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2010/12/christmas-time-is-nigh/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Quasimodo says, &quot;The Horns, The Horns&quot;</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I'm on my second day where I feel relatively jet-lag free.  This is as good a time as any, to mention what is different about Traffic in Bangalore.  There seems to be a whole new (but not all new to my experience) rules for traffic navigation.
Despite what the numerous signs and dotted lines suggest, lanes are defined by the width of the vehicles next to you right now. Traffic signal lights are suggestions, that you follow only so far as someone in the other direction is tired of waiting for a green and is willing to put the front of their vehicle in front of your movement....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2010-11-11 05:34:00 -0500 -0500">11 Nov 2010</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Quasimodo says, &quot;The Horns, The Horns&quot;" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2010/11/quasimodo-says-the-horns-the-horns/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>What's My Beef with Bangalore?</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>So, I have been in Bangalore now for five days, but something happened two days ago, that I was a bit surprised by...
I've eaten at several places since I've been here, though, only one place would I consider having what I'm guessing is actual Indian food.  Which is to say, I've mostly eaten at hotels, or foreign Restaurants.  My room rate, at the hotel I'm staying in, comes with free Breakfast, so that's the one meal I will always eat at the hotel....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2010-11-11 04:39:00.001 -0500 -0500">11 Nov 2010</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to What's My Beef with Bangalore?" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2010/11/what-s-my-beef-with-bangalore/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/page/27/>« Prev</a>
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My job title is Technical Team Leader, but up to now, I've been dealing primarily with projects. During this project work, I've had between 1 and 5 people who are working on those projects. The guy I work for directly managed the people, while I just gave technical direction (leadership?...</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2010-09-14 20:22:00 -0400 -0400">14 Sep 2010</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Another Big Change; At Work" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2010/09/another-big-change-at-work/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Watch Out! Child Playing in the Street! No, A Speed Device</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Via PhysOrg.com [0], The City of West Vancouver, Canada, has unveiled the latest technology to get drivers to slow down.  A photo-realistic image of a little girl grabbing a ball, that is stretched long and flat to give the optical illusion that she is real, when viewed from a distance.  (Image from CTV, after the break.)
This particular experiment has been installed near a primary school, and only be in place for a week, and there are special signs and extra patrols in the area during this period....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2010-09-11 10:00:00.001 -0400 -0400">11 Sep 2010</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Watch Out! Child Playing in the Street! No, A Speed Device" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2010/09/watch-out-child-playing-in-the-street-no-a-speed-device/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/page/28/>« Prev</a>
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my $test = MyStuff->new(); if ( ! $test ) { printf {*STDERR} "Error.\n"; } Final Thoughts It took me over a week to figure out how to extract what I needed from my old Google blogger account, and now that I’ve done that, I’m … happy enough … with the results....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2022-05-16 21:52:30 -0400 -0400">16 May 2022</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Trying Hugo" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2022/05/trying-hugo/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Linux Command Prompt in Color</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>In this modern world, basically every terminal is compatible with VT-52 terminal sequences. These includes Windows Terminal (free from Microsoft on the Microsoft Store), Terminal.app (on macOS) and most terminals available under Linux. Further, most of these support emoji and 256 colors.
Yet, most of the advice out there on how to deal with this suggests hard-coding these escape sequences directly into your prompt. This is great, and probably will work just fine, but I find it to be painful....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2021-11-19 04:21:00.001 -0500 -0500">19 Nov 2021</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Linux Command Prompt in Color" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2021/11/linux-command-prompt-in-color/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Of Curses and Kisses by Sandhya Menon</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover I usually don't do the comparative thing, but this one stuck me pretty directly. Imagine the movie Crazy Rich Asians, but teenagers at a boarding school in the mountains outside of Aspen, with a broadly international cast. Main point: pretty much everybody is insanely rich.
The main character, Jaya Rao, is a princess from an old kingdom of India who is literally there to break someone's heart....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2020-01-22 12:00:00 -0500 -0500">22 Jan 2020</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Of Curses and Kisses by Sandhya Menon" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2020/01/of-curses-and-kisses/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/page/2/>« Prev</a>
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Shorter YouTube version too...</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2010-09-09 18:40:00 -0400 -0400">9 Sep 2010</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Video: Cruise Ship In Heavy Seas" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2010/09/video-cruise-ship-in-heavy-seas/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>St. Paul Sink Hole</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>There was a sink-hole in St. Paul this-morning.
Ever since I heard this story about a woman who fell through a grate in Manhattan, I've been worried about sidewalk grates. Â I just can't function if I have to worry about whole sidewalks, too!
Someone I know sent me a PDF file that had some pictures.  This is a really huge hole.  When I first heard about it, I was thinking man-hole cover size, not SUV size....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2010-09-07 18:26:00.001 -0400 -0400">7 Sep 2010</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to St. Paul Sink Hole" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2010/09/st-paul-sink-hole/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Big Change</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I just got off the phone with my girlfriend, J.  It was one of those marathon chats that go on and on, but we didn't really say much.  It's Labor day today, so we chatted about that.  I mentioned that I saw a tree on Friday that had half it's leaves brown already.  Fall is closing in early.  She mentioned some of the things she is doing where she is....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2010-09-06 17:58:00 -0400 -0400">6 Sep 2010</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Big Change" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2010/09/big-change/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/page/29/>« Prev</a>
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I read the article above*, and couldn't help but notice that this was the very same analysis that so many had about the Green Party during the G.W.Bush years. The whole idea, then, was that the Green party, by both attracting Democrats, and then also endorsing occasional bat-shit-crazy candidates basically imploded the realistic chances of either party. *The Headline is different in the print edition: Mark Halperin's Take: How the Tea Party Is a Mixed Blessing</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2010-07-19 12:35:00.001 -0400 -0400">19 Jul 2010</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Tea Party : The Republican Green?" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2010/07/tea-party-the-republican-green/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Crazy Morning, Getting Better</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>It's raining in St. Paul today.  I had an overnight guest, family of a friend*, who was planning to get into work early, and didn't quite make it in early.  To put it lightly, my overnight guest had a really bad morning.  I got up just in time to see her off, and decided to make some eggs as she left.  I just finished making breakfast when I got the phone call....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2010-06-08 11:53:00 -0400 -0400">8 Jun 2010</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Crazy Morning, Getting Better" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2010/06/crazy-morning-getting-better/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Password Retention Policies</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>It never used to bother me, but now it does.
Every time I hear about one of those laptops stolen with secrets, but "no secure password", I believe that corporate password retention policies are to blame.
I have now come to the point, where I work, that the various password systems, with their vastly different password policies, have collided to make it impossible for me to keep up anymore. I will now be one of the countless hoardes that puts my passwords on a sticky note above my notebook's keyboard....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2009-05-02 16:40:00 -0400 -0400">2 May 2009</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Password Retention Policies" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2009/05/password-retention-policies/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/page/30/>« Prev</a>
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I've been very busy with work and friends lately. I also don't have an internet connection at home, so I've been neglecting this blog. It's not that I haven't seen anything of interest lately, and it's not that I've had nothing to say. I've just been busy.
First -- I lost my TV. Not really that I lost a TV. I don't have one, but I did have a TV capture card, and I was able to get over-the-air signals with it....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2009-03-16 19:55:00 -0400 -0400">16 Mar 2009</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Spring and It's Been a While" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2009/03/spring-and-it-s-been-a-while/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Revisit: 'Attack and Muder at the Drum Tower' [Updated]</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Back in August, I wrote a blog entry about the attack that occurred in the second level of the Beijing drum tower.
I received a comment on that story that I deeply hope is true, but ... partly because it was anonymous (see update), and mostly because there have been no further news reports that I've been able to find, I have no way of being sure. Here is a copy of that comment:...</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-12-08 11:19:00 -0500 -0500">8 Dec 2008</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Revisit: 'Attack and Muder at the Drum Tower' [Updated]" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/12/revisit-attack-and-muder-at-the-drum-tower-updated/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Christmas Meme</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>So my mother sent me this set of questions in e-mail. Like all internet memes, the idea is to copy the questions, and fill in your own answers, and send that out to all the people you know. I don't often do these, but it's Christmas time, so I figured it's good enough to go up on my blog (and, by extension, Facebook). So, here are the questions with my answers:...</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-12-02 15:16:00 -0500 -0500">2 Dec 2008</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Christmas Meme" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/12/christmas-meme/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/page/31/>« Prev</a>
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I spotted it up ahead, and grabbed my camera. It's just an unusual thing to see...
I was traveling across the Minnesota River's Bloomington Ferry Bridge, and decided to take pictures while I could. He was going pretty slow....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-10-25 22:40:00 -0400 -0400">25 Oct 2008</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Driving Aircraft (part 2) [Updated]" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/10/driving-aircraft-part-2-updated/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Saturday's Day Trip</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I couldn't have asked for better weather. Sure, it's Minnesota and it's getting cool, but there was barely a cloud in the sky...
Darwin and Ray are some co-workers who are in town for a month, and this is their last full weekend in Minnesota. I had offered earlier to take them to see Lake Superior. Darwin, in particular, had mentioned how much he wanted to see the great lakes... so I figured I'd do the best I could, and show him the big one that's only a few hours drive from here....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-10-05 19:05:00 -0400 -0400">5 Oct 2008</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Saturday's Day Trip" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/10/saturday-s-day-trip/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/page/32/>« Prev</a>
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http://picasaweb.google.com/gary.vollink/NewYorkTrip</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-09-10 00:43:00 -0400 -0400">10 Sep 2008</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Back From New York" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/09/back-from-new-york/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Bad Speling Iz Ok Now?</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>This article has been in the back of my head, bugging me since I first read it. Mind, it's not the article itself that bothers me, it's the assertion that is being made in the article. Bad Spelling should be acceptable at the college level.
Spelling "truely atrosious," says academic (sic)
I've been mulling this over for weeks, and I've heard a few people make the argument that standardized spelling is a relatively new construct from a historic perspective....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-08-25 20:15:00 -0400 -0400">25 Aug 2008</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Bad Speling Iz Ok Now?" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/08/bad-speling-iz-ok-now/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Beijing : Attack and Murder at the Drum Tower</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I feel that I should begin by expressing how safe I felt while I was in Beijing. I felt safer in every part of Beijing than I do in downtown Minneapolis. The news outlets don't really say that enough while sharing this bit of news. Actual physical attacks on foreigners are very unusual in Beijing. Like any large city, crimes of opportunity are common, but confrontational attacks against foreigners are incredibly rare....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-08-09 21:01:00 -0400 -0400">9 Aug 2008</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Beijing : Attack and Murder at the Drum Tower" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/08/beijing-attack-and-murder-at-the-drum-tower/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/page/34/>« Prev</a>
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Snowy Egret
Woodstork w Roseate Spoonbill</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-08-02 20:46:00 -0400 -0400">2 Aug 2008</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Florida Bird Photos from Today." href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/08/florida-bird-photos-from-today/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Spotted This -- had to link it.</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p></p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-07-30 22:09:00 -0400 -0400">30 Jul 2008</span> · 0 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Spotted This -- had to link it." href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/07/spotted-this-had-to-link-it/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Just a Joke</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>The joke below was e-mailed to me recently, and I've entered it with the text that I received in the e-mail. However, it seems that the more popular version of the joke has the gender of the characters switched.
A man was leaving a convenience store with his morning coffee when he noticed a most unusual funeral procession approaching the nearby cemetery. A long black hearse was followed by a second long black hearse about 50 feet behind the first one....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-07-30 19:30:00 -0400 -0400">30 Jul 2008</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Just a Joke" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/07/just-a-joke/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/page/35/>« Prev</a>
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Quite unexpected. That's all I'm saying.</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-07-24 21:39:00 -0400 -0400">24 Jul 2008</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Strange Helicopter Transportation (photo)" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/07/strange-helicopter-transportation-photo/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>For My Floridian Friends</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>http://xkcd.net/453/
Upcoming Hurricanes The XKCD web comic is one of my favorites.</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-07-23 20:03:00 -0400 -0400">23 Jul 2008</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to For My Floridian Friends" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/07/for-my-floridian-friends/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Me and My Enneagram [Updated]</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>This is a bit of a meme that's been going around one of my circles of friends. It's this Enneagram test. So, after putting it off for a week, I finally decided to take the first (and longer) of the two tests presented at the link above.
I will not pretend that I've actually read through what this means or what it might mean, but - generally - I have a tendency of being very central on most personality tests, so -- I've linked the whole result set, with all of the scores, so that you can see the whole picture....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-07-23 10:27:00 -0400 -0400">23 Jul 2008</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Me and My Enneagram [Updated]" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/07/me-and-my-enneagram-updated/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/page/36/>« Prev</a>
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Get a First Life</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-07-17 19:30:00 -0400 -0400">17 Jul 2008</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to First Life" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/07/first-life/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Opinion: VMWare Server 2.0 Beta [Updated]</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I've used VMWare Server 2.0 Beta for about three solid hours now...
Things I like.
Virtual Hardware v. 7 with USB 2.0 support. Tomcat based VM monitoring, is pretty responsive. Does NOT request or attempt to "require" IIS. The Server interface, while different, remains similar.Technical -- I've loaded VMWare-Server beta on two separate Windows XP host systems (I have an Ubuntu as well, but I've had problems in the past loading both "...</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-07-17 10:20:00 -0400 -0400">17 Jul 2008</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Opinion: VMWare Server 2.0 Beta [Updated]" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/07/opinion-vmware-server-2-0-beta-updated/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Flamingo Hand</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>This came from one of those e-mails that people send around. It was a collection of "hand art". One that I'm sure has an online source somewhere, and if I find it, I'll link to that ... but, I thought this was interesting enough, so .. check it out.</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-07-16 00:50:00 -0400 -0400">16 Jul 2008</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Flamingo Hand" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/07/flamingo-hand/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/page/37/>« Prev</a>
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After several years of tension, and many attempts by various colony-side groups to get the British parliament to listen to basic grievances, conflict arose.
The Colonists and the British Army started shooting on 19 April 1775 at Lexington - just outside of Boston. On 11 June 1776, more than a year after the war had begun, the delegates to the Continental Congress appointed a committee of five, and they got started on the serious work of making a formal declaration of Independence....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-07-04 16:51:00 -0400 -0400">4 Jul 2008</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Happy Independence Day" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/07/happy-independence-day/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>SmokeStack Gone : The Video</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>So, here is the video that I took of the St Paul Smoke Stack falling...
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My wife is a librarian, and when I started this blog, it was partly a way for me to share something about the numerous pre-release books that she and I would get when we went to book events. Also, when I started, doing this was fun, and I figured that if I were any good at it, maybe I would reach other readers....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-10-06 00:00:00 -0400 -0400">6 Oct 2019</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Stopping Regular Book Blog" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/10/stopping-regular-book-blog/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Title Illustration I read somewhere that the story of Disney's Frozen was based on this book, so I decided to read and review it for this blog.  I want to be clear that there is almost nothing that the story of Frozen has left in common with this original fairytale, except for a talking reindeer. This is a short read, and I've linked to the full text via Project Gutenberg in the book information block below....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-10-03 01:36:00 -0400 -0400">3 Oct 2019</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/10/the-snow-queen/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover The Graveyard Book isn't a horror novel, but it is absolutely goth and macabre. The story follows a boy from 18 months old when his whole family is murdered and he wanders off into the night through his childhood as he is raised in a graveyard by two ghosts and a vampire as guardian (who supplies physical things, like food and clothes). At one point, we meet a werewolf and ghouls as well....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-09-18 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">18 Sep 2019</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/09/the-graveyard-book/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] This Fight Is Our Fight by Elizabeth Warren</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book Cover Elizabeth Warren is running for president, and pretty much every candidate writes a book prior to running.  It's a good way to let folks know where they are coming from, and do so in a long format, unfiltered by the journalist's desire to pare things down into sound-bites. This book is subtitled: The Battle to Save America's Middle Class. This is a book about politics, personal history of the author and the economic history of the country along with ample explanation of why the past matters today....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-09-04 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">4 Sep 2019</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] This Fight Is Our Fight by Elizabeth Warren" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/09/this-fight-is-our-fight/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/page/3/>« Prev</a>
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I went to a great summer solstice party last night, one of those parties where I only knew one person, but absolutely everybody was cool and easy to talk to. Had a wonderful time, and I got home really late.</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-06-22 17:50:00 -0400 -0400">22 Jun 2008</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Summertime" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/06/summertime/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/page/39/>« Prev</a>
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I firmly believe that most people are either, pretty much O.K. with the way most things are, or so apathetic to the possibility of change that they don't care.
Of this great majority, there is no reason to stand up and demand that things stay pretty much the same. Who would bother getting out of the house to vote for someone who doesn't think there's much to do....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-06-20 03:03:00 -0400 -0400">20 Jun 2008</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Why Most Politics Is Radical" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/06/why-most-politics-is-radical/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Web Ads</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>A few times in the last few months, I've thought to actually go out of my way and click on a Web Ad. In every case, the web ad was non-traditional and insisted on doing something which got it blocked. Seems that web ads would be much more successful if they didn't demand dumb user behavior...
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First and foremost, the "...</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-08-21 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">21 Aug 2019</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/08/the-adventures-of-tom-sawyer/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Defy the Fates by Claudia Gray</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book Cover This is the final book of the Defy the Stars trilogy (start with reviews of book one and two). There are probably mild spoilers for the first and one major spoiler for the second book in this review of book three, so please proceed with that in mind.
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There is a lot to unpack in the world-building and the world is built along with the story. Each chapter is unusually episodic, in that some small part of the last scene of a previous chapter will be often be repeated at the beginning of the next....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-07-10 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">10 Jul 2019</span> · 4 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Binti Trilogy by Nnedi Okorafor" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/07/binti-trilogy/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/page/5/>« Prev</a>
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I cannot review this book without noting that Fred Rogers means a lot to me, as I watched his show regularly for many years....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-06-12 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">12 Jun 2019</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] The Good Neighbor by Maxwell King" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/06/the-good-neighbor/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Defy The Stars by Claudia Gray</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>This is book one of a three book series (the third book came out earlier this month), and since I've already had good reviews of two other books by this author, I decided to pick up this series as well to see what she had done outside of the Star Wars universe.
Book cover Through a ring of stabilized wormholes, large enough for whole ships to pass through, Earth expanded to five other planets....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-05-29 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">29 May 2019</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Defy The Stars by Claudia Gray" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/05/defy-the-stars/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Maid by Stephanie Land</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover Start from one mistake, one that is tragically common - becoming a parent a little to young. From that point, almost everything that can go wrong in someone's life while still making the best possible choice for the circumstance is laid out in the first four chapters of this book. This beginning is a treatise on despair and government anti-poverty programs.
The arc doesn't exactly get better from there, but it starts to be framed in a way that shows gratitude for the things that haven't gone completely wrong, though things do continue to go wrong....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-05-15 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">15 May 2019</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Maid by Stephanie Land" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/05/maid/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/page/6/>« Prev</a>
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The very beginning of this book does capture the early history of Pixar up through the release and success of Toy Story....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-04-03 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">3 Apr 2019</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Creativity Inc. by Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/04/creativity-inc/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Fixing the Broken</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I was reading my twitter feed, when I stumbled upon this:
If a process is broken throw it in the trash and start over. Nothing is set in stone. The simplicity of the tweet is absolutely true. It totally reminded me of a problem I've seen multiple times though.  The process is rarely the difficult part of fixing a problem.
A long time ago, when I was a team lead, the group I worked with had an automated build system that was extremely complicated, built entirely in-house, and didn't follow the conventions of any of the standard build-systems that exist....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-03-30 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">30 Mar 2019</span> · 4 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Fixing the Broken" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/03/fixing-the-broken/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/page/7/>« Prev</a>
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Won't you be my neighbor is a very well paced, carefully timed, and beautifully edited documentary....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-03-09 12:00:00 -0500 -0500">9 Mar 2019</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Movie] Won't You Be My Neighbor (2018)" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/03/movie-won-t-you-be-my-neighbor-2018/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Managing Difficult Problems</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I can no longer count the number of times that I've been able to re-invigorate a problem investigation, even if I have zero visibility on the actual problem. This takes some self-discipline that doesn't come easy, especially during an urgent investigation.
Here's that one weird trick:I do the depth of reading myself. If I see multiple threads, I'll read all of them. Then I will write as short a summary of all of the facts that I can....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-03-09 12:00:00.001 -0500 -0500">9 Mar 2019</span> · 4 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Managing Difficult Problems" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/03/managing-difficult-problems/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Fear by Bob Woodward</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover I haven't been sleeping well. A good friend of mine suggested that my reading this book may be one of the reasons. I can't dispute that directly. As I write this, right before New Year's 2018, I'm actively looking for employment, and that is stressful, but this book definitely hasn't helped.
Subtitled Trump in the White House, Fear is about the presidency of Donald Trump and written by the Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-03-06 12:00:00 -0500 -0500">6 Mar 2019</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Fear by Bob Woodward" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/03/fear/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/page/8/>« Prev</a>
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I had been thinking for the last several months about Nixon's "Silent Majority" [1] [2].
The silent majority is usually described as the "mostly conservative" bulk of people who are not easily swayed by politics. Some discussions have suggested that this majority is simply gone, that it doesn't exist. However, I take it that - even while Nixon called them a ""><script type=application/ld+json>{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Posts","item":"https://blog.vollink.com/post/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Remembering the Silent Majority","item":"https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/06/remembering-the-silent-majority/"}]}</script><script type=application/ld+json>{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BlogPosting","headline":"Remembering the Silent Majority","name":"Remembering the Silent Majority","description":"Concerning my previous blog post: Why Most Politics Is Radical\nI had been thinking for the last several months about Nixon's \"Silent Majority\" [1] [2].\nThe silent majority is usually described as the \"mostly conservative\" bulk of people who are not easily swayed by politics. Some discussions have suggested that this majority is simply gone, that it doesn't exist. However, I take it that - even while Nixon called them a \"","keywords":["blog","politics"],"articleBody":"Concerning my previous blog post: Why Most Politics Is Radical\nI had been thinking for the last several months about Nixon's \"Silent Majority\" [1] [2].\nThe silent majority is usually described as the \"mostly conservative\" bulk of people who are not easily swayed by politics. Some discussions have suggested that this majority is simply gone, that it doesn't exist. However, I take it that - even while Nixon called them a \"mostly conservative\" group in his campaigning, I don't think this was accurate in the political sense of the word. \"Mostly conservative\", I believe, means \"leave me alone, and don't try to change too much.\"\nI know the silent majority is alive and well. We are not in an era of extremes - not as extreme as the late 60s represented. That was Nixon's time - and the call for \"normal\" was powerful and uniting then. I don't know if that call can be made again easily.\nIt's not easy for politics to call for common sense, and simplicity. Worse yet that the last time a politician succeeded in doing so, we got Nixon and the Watergate scandal.\n[1] Wikipedia: Silent Majority\n[2] Lassiter, M.D.: The Silent Majority ","wordCount":"198","inLanguage":"en","datePublished":"2008-06-27T18:02:00-04:00","dateModified":"2010-09-07T18:30:12.731-04:00","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Gary Allen Vollink"},"mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/06/remembering-the-silent-majority/"},"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"On My Mind...","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://blog.vollink.com/favicon.ico"}}}</script></head><body id=top><script>localStorage.getItem("pref-theme")==="dark"?document.body.classList.add("dark"):localStorage.getItem("pref-theme")==="light"?document.body.classList.remove("dark"):window.matchMedia("(prefers-color-scheme: dark)").matches&&document.body.classList.add("dark")</script><header class=header><nav class=nav><div class=logo><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/ accesskey=h title="Home (Alt + H)"><img src=https://blog.vollink.com/AllenWrench.gif alt=logo aria-label=logo height=35>Home</a>
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Wait for it to load - Action starts during minute 5, so forward to there (half-way point). I haven't had a chance to edit it down.
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The smoke stack held a falcon box for several years, but that box was removed in January before the falcons returned from their winter journey."><meta property="og:type" content="article"><meta property="og:url" content="https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/06/smokestack-gone/"><meta property="article:section" content="post"><meta property="article:published_time" content="2008-06-28T10:07:00-04:00"><meta property="article:modified_time" content="2010-09-07T18:30:12-04:00"><meta property="og:site_name" content="On My Mind..."><meta name=twitter:card content="summary"><meta name=twitter:title content="SmokeStack Gone."><meta name=twitter:description content="Well -- it was a crazy minute, but the Smoke Stack at the Mississippi River at the St. Paul High Bridge came falling down. It was described in the article as an implosion, but the way the video is shown, it seems very likely that they meant for it to tumble like a felled tree, as it did.
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I am planning on going to the office, and filming this from the tallest building in St. Paul. I Think it will be really cool to see. It's early though. I've never seen anything like this in person though.
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I firmly believe that most people are either, pretty much O.K. with the way most things are, or so apathetic to the possibility of change that they don't care.
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Who would bother getting out of the house to vote for someone who doesn't think there's much to do.","keywords":["blog","politics"],"articleBody":"Status Quo\nI firmly believe that most people are either, pretty much O.K. with the way most things are, or so apathetic to the possibility of change that they don't care.\nOf this great majority, there is no reason to stand up and demand that things stay pretty much the same. Who would bother getting out of the house to vote for someone who doesn't think there's much to do.\nThe Press\nThe press is quick to seek out the exciting story, the political outsider that says something that sounds radical, but almost makes sense if you haven't thought it through. These radicals are the basis for our political system as it now stands. A candidate that says, \"Let's try to carefully maintain what we already have,\" just doesn't make for a lead story.\nThere are political groups that regularly get press for saying poorly thought out ideas. Green Party candidates have a long list of decent ideas ignored after being quoted as saying something similar to, \"everyone should be required to ride a bicycle to work.\" Besides the impracticality of this on an \"everyone\" scale, and the implications it would carry for public transportation, and those who don't know how to ride a bicycle - or physically can't ... This is the only idea that gets press. The one that is likely to alienate most of the voting public.\nWhat Issues\nSo we are left with picking politicians based on issues. In my view, most important issues, have very few points of debate. It is usually a case where the desired end-point is well agreed, but the road to get there is hotly debated. This is like the primary rifts between Liberals and Conservatives. In any case, when the desired end-point is the same, it's really hard for anybody to really care what the differences are. That's when the road becomes an attack point by the other side. Why does the road become an attack point? See \"The Press\" above.\nThe side affect of attacking the road is that the issue becomes side-lined for the debate about how one road is inherently evil, while the other is inherently good. Those that follow these debates closely, and the only ones who would bother commenting, are the same ones who believe that the issue \"is\" the road, and not the end-point. These people, by majority, are radicals.\nWhat Remains\nWhat remains are the issues that are deeply entrenched, and unlikely to be solved by any single election or candidate. Abortion, Death Penalty, and War Ending. All are good for quick headlines, but all of these types of issues are the ones that a great deal of people have strong opinions about. In most of these cases, both sides are right about all of the issues that they talk about.\nSo, we are left with a system where only the radicals get heard, and only the skillful candidates that can express enthusiasm and empathy about nothing in particular are the most likely to be elected. How sad is that?\nWin an election based on personality alone... a pretty radical idea, if you think about it. When that sort of person gets into office, the only voices they hear are the radical think tanks.\nThe Majority\nThe majority will not be heard, because the Majority does not think things need to be radically changed, and so few think it's important to speak out in support of what they already have. The majority loses again. 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Who would bother getting out of the house to vote for someone who doesn't think there's much to do.<br><br><strong>The Press</strong><br><br>The press is quick to seek out the exciting story, the political outsider that says something that sounds radical, but almost makes sense if you haven't thought it through. These radicals are the basis for our political system as it now stands. A candidate that says, "Let's try to carefully maintain what we already have," just doesn't make for a lead story.<br><br>There are political groups that regularly get press for saying poorly thought out ideas. Green Party candidates have a long list of decent ideas ignored after being quoted as saying something similar to, "everyone should be required to ride a bicycle to work." Besides the impracticality of this on an "everyone" scale, and the implications it would carry for public transportation, and those who don't know how to ride a bicycle - or physically can't ... This is the only idea that gets press. The one that is likely to alienate most of the voting public.<br><br><strong>What Issues</strong><br><br>So we are left with picking politicians based on issues. In my view, most important issues, have very few points of debate. It is usually a case where the desired end-point is well agreed, but the road to get there is hotly debated. This is like the primary rifts between Liberals and Conservatives. In any case, when the desired end-point is the same, it's really hard for anybody to really care what the differences are. That's when the road becomes an attack point by the other side. Why does the road become an attack point? See "The Press" above.<br><br>The side affect of attacking the road is that the issue becomes side-lined for the debate about how one road is inherently evil, while the other is inherently good. Those that follow these debates closely, and the only ones who would bother commenting, are the same ones who believe that the issue "is" the road, and not the end-point. These people, by majority, are radicals.<br><br><strong>What Remains</strong><br><br>What remains are the issues that are deeply entrenched, and unlikely to be solved by any single election or candidate. Abortion, Death Penalty, and War Ending. All are good for quick headlines, but all of these types of issues are the ones that a great deal of people have strong opinions about. In most of these cases, both sides are right about all of the issues that they talk about.<br><br>So, we are left with a system where only the radicals get heard, and only the skillful candidates that can express enthusiasm and empathy about nothing in particular are the most likely to be elected. How sad is that?<br><br>Win an election based on personality alone... a pretty radical idea, if you think about it. When that sort of person gets into office, the only voices they hear are the radical think tanks.<br><br><strong>The Majority</strong><br><br>The majority will not be heard, because the Majority does not think things need to be radically changed, and so few think it's important to speak out in support of what they already have. The majority loses again.</div><footer class=post-footer><ul class=post-tags><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/blog/>blog</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/politics/>politics</a></li></ul><nav class=paginav><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/06/summertime/><span class=title>« Prev</span><br><span>Summertime</span></a>
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After several years of tension, and many attempts by various colony-side groups to get the British parliament to listen to basic grievances, conflict arose.
The Colonists and the British Army started shooting on 19 April 1775 at Lexington - just outside of Boston. On 11 June 1776, more than a year after the war had begun, the delegates to the Continental Congress appointed a committee of five, and they got started on the serious work of making a formal declaration of Independence."><script type=application/ld+json>{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Posts","item":"https://blog.vollink.com/post/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Happy Independence Day","item":"https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/07/happy-independence-day/"}]}</script><script type=application/ld+json>{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BlogPosting","headline":"Happy Independence Day","name":"Happy Independence Day","description":"It is, of course, the Fourth day of July.\nAfter several years of tension, and many attempts by various colony-side groups to get the British parliament to listen to basic grievances, conflict arose.\nThe Colonists and the British Army started shooting on 19 April 1775 at Lexington - just outside of Boston. On 11 June 1776, more than a year after the war had begun, the delegates to the Continental Congress appointed a committee of five, and they got started on the serious work of making a formal declaration of Independence.","keywords":["blog","history"],"articleBody":"It is, of course, the Fourth day of July.\nAfter several years of tension, and many attempts by various colony-side groups to get the British parliament to listen to basic grievances, conflict arose.\nThe Colonists and the British Army started shooting on 19 April 1775 at Lexington - just outside of Boston. On 11 June 1776, more than a year after the war had begun, the delegates to the Continental Congress appointed a committee of five, and they got started on the serious work of making a formal declaration of Independence. Thomas Jefferson did most of the writing, and the decision to ratify a Declaration of Independence was adopted by the Continental Congress on July 2, 1776. Over the next two days, wording of the draft document was debated, and the final wording was approved after minor changes on 4 July 1776.\nThe war continued trough 1783. The Treaty of Paris was signed on 3 September 1783, and the last of the British troops left New York City on 25 November 1783.\nGeorge Washington left the office of Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army in December 1783, and did not become President of the United States of America until 30 April 1789, 14 years after the revolutionary war started, 13 years after the ratification of the Declaration of Independence, and 5 years after the British left.\n[edits: added links to Wikipedia Articles] ","wordCount":"231","inLanguage":"en","datePublished":"2008-07-04T16:51:00-04:00","dateModified":"2010-09-07T18:30:12.674-04:00","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Gary Allen Vollink"},"mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/07/happy-independence-day/"},"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"On My Mind...","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://blog.vollink.com/favicon.ico"}}}</script></head><body id=top><script>localStorage.getItem("pref-theme")==="dark"?document.body.classList.add("dark"):localStorage.getItem("pref-theme")==="light"?document.body.classList.remove("dark"):window.matchMedia("(prefers-color-scheme: dark)").matches&&document.body.classList.add("dark")</script><header class=header><nav class=nav><div class=logo><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/ accesskey=h title="Home (Alt + H)"><img src=https://blog.vollink.com/AllenWrench.gif alt=logo aria-label=logo height=35>Home</a>
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@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Inside the web based VMWare management tool, there is a button to <em>create a l
<span style=text-decoration:line-through>, player</span>
style interface that used to be available for VMWare Server 1.x has been replaced with a browser plug-in loaded console screen that is very painfully slow to load
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However, for two days I've had this same song going through my head. I've LISTENED to the song at least 12 times trying to satisfy whatever is making this song run through my head. It hasn't helped. So, I figure I'll try to give it to someone else, maybe the song will leave me alone for a while."><meta property="og:type" content="article"><meta property="og:url" content="https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/07/song-in-my-head/"><meta property="article:section" content="post"><meta property="article:published_time" content="2008-07-19T01:56:00-04:00"><meta property="article:modified_time" content="2010-09-07T18:30:12-04:00"><meta property="og:site_name" content="On My Mind..."><meta name=twitter:card content="summary"><meta name=twitter:title content="Song In My Head"><meta name=twitter:description content="First, it's a really good song. Musically complex, and very heart-felt. I would link to it here, but I didn't find a source that has a copy.
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Quite unexpected. That's all I'm saying.
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<span style=font-style:italic>The two injured women are in stable condition at a hospital,</span>
" does not suggest she is back at work today.<br><br>Todd and Barbara's daughter, who was present, but not injured, has even been reported on. As a former Olympiad, I suppose that's natural, but that only makes me more bothered at the fact that nobody reports any details about the tour guide. She is also a victim of this tragic crime. I'm sure I'm not the only person who wonders about such things.</div><footer class=post-footer><ul class=post-tags><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/blog/>blog</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/china/>china</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/history/>history</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/news/>news</a></li></ul><nav class=paginav><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/08/bad-speling-iz-ok-now/><span class=title>« Prev</span><br><span>Bad Speling Iz Ok Now?</span></a>
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<span style=font-style:italic>my favorite toolkit, x,</span>
" where X is either a larger distribution that includes Dojo, or a smaller, more specialized distribution that I've never heard of. The other suggestion I keep hearing is "Prototype".<br><br>That I've never heard of 'x', shouldn't be surprising. While I've been doing web pages and light web programming for some years, I've only done very lightweight JavaScript. I've never done anything with Ajax, for example. I've done pre-load and post-load things, but none of this requires a toolkit.<br><br>Anyway -- it's not that I don't want to hear about toolkits, but there is a certain undeniable power to a decent demonstration set -- not just a verbose description. And THAT is what got me to actually give Dojo a serious look.<br><br><a href=http://dojocampus.org/explorer/>http://dojocampus.org/explorer/</a><br><br>Once I get what I'm trying to do fully functional, I'll be sure to post it here. So, far, I've only <a href=http://home.vollink.com/blogindex.html>played around on my home computer</a>.</div><footer class=post-footer><ul class=post-tags><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/blog/>blog</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/dev/>dev</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/geek/>geek</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/web/>web</a></li></ul><nav class=paginav><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/08/beijing-attack-and-murder-at-the-drum-tower/><span class=title>« Prev</span><br><span>Beijing : Attack and Murder at the Drum Tower</span></a>
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The results, about 8% loss. Of course, this depends on what index you are looking at, but 8% seems to be right about in the middle. The Dow is down 777 points or 6.98%. The Russel 1000 is down 8.69%. Nasdaq Composite is down 199 points or 9."><script type=application/ld+json>{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Posts","item":"https://blog.vollink.com/post/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Eight Percent Lost","item":"https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/09/eight-percent-lost/"}]}</script><script type=application/ld+json>{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BlogPosting","headline":"Eight Percent Lost","name":"Eight Percent Lost","description":"Washington DC\nAs the House of Representatives are pandering to the most resentful and least educated of their respective constituents, the economists on Wall Street started another sell off.\nThe results, about 8% loss. Of course, this depends on what index you are looking at, but 8% seems to be right about in the middle. The Dow is down 777 points or 6.98%. The Russel 1000 is down 8.69%. Nasdaq Composite is down 199 points or 9.","keywords":["blog","money","news","politics"],"articleBody":"Washington DC\nAs the House of Representatives are pandering to the most resentful and least educated of their respective constituents, the economists on Wall Street started another sell off.\nThe results, about 8% loss. Of course, this depends on what index you are looking at, but 8% seems to be right about in the middle. The Dow is down 777 points or 6.98%. The Russel 1000 is down 8.69%. Nasdaq Composite is down 199 points or 9.14%\nI also feel that there is some risk in the behavior of congress talking about bailouts. I get the feeling that some of the most recent bank mergers are so that companies with less exposure can gain more exposure, and get some of the bail-out pie. However, those are the breaks. The government either can get involved, and start buying companies that are \"too big to fail\" ... or the government can stop claiming that this is in the works.\nFor all the folks who are protesting about the largess of Wall Street and high rolling CEO types, keep in mind that it's not the CEO that approved his own golden parachute... the CEO merely signed up with the best golden parachute offered by the boards of directors that are out there. The CEO gets the golden parachute because they are being given a job where they know beforehand that they will be fired if something goes wrong. That's the nature of business, a certain amount of risk is necessary to move a business forward, and balancing that risk against safety is always a difficult proposition.\nAny CEO or market manager who didn't try to take advantage of the forward market trends in real-estate (a rising trend for well over 10 years straight), was bound to get fired for not taking enough risk.\nEither way, today is a day where the markets are down 8%. This is because of market panic, and the market panicked because it didn't expect that the government money was at risk of being taken off the table. Wall Street ALWAYS panics when something unexpected happens. I'm not an economist or anything ... I learned this from listening to radio shows.\nWhy have my congressional representatives not figured this out yet?\nFull Text of current proposed law (as defeated today):\nhttp://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2008/images/09/28/ayo08c04_xml.pdf ","wordCount":"382","inLanguage":"en","datePublished":"2008-09-29T18:30:00-04:00","dateModified":"2010-09-07T18:30:12.462-04:00","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Gary Allen Vollink"},"mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/09/eight-percent-lost/"},"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"On My Mind...","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://blog.vollink.com/favicon.ico"}}}</script></head><body id=top><script>localStorage.getItem("pref-theme")==="dark"?document.body.classList.add("dark"):localStorage.getItem("pref-theme")==="light"?document.body.classList.remove("dark"):window.matchMedia("(prefers-color-scheme: dark)").matches&&document.body.classList.add("dark")</script><header class=header><nav class=nav><div class=logo><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/ accesskey=h title="Home (Alt + H)"><img src=https://blog.vollink.com/AllenWrench.gif alt=logo aria-label=logo height=35>Home</a>
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I arrived at the Bloomington, IL airport on the morning of September 10th, and was asked to visit the headquarters in East Peoria on September 11th. To save the customer money, another consultant agreed to lend me his pickup truck for the drive to East Peoria (on the other end of the state).<br><br>I left the hotel after 7 AM Central time, and was heading south on I-55, then West on I-74 towards East Peoria.<br><br>About 8:20 Central, I get a phone call from Minnesota. My wife was telling me that I had to get to a television set, and that a plane has struck the world trade center, and it's terrible. While she is talking, she stops mid-sentence, and then says it's an attack. Both buildings have been hit. If you look at the time-lines, both buildings had already been hit, but she didn't know it until that moment.<br><br>Picture this, me driving North-West along <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&ie=UTF8&ll=40.548179,-89.089921&spn=0.001794,0.003283&t=h&z=18">this stretch of corn-fields</a> towards East Peoria.<br><br>I'm trying to explain that there's nowhere to pull off, there's nothing to do. Eventually she hangs up, and I find a Radio Station that is reporting the news.<br><br>Then the radio reports that the Pentagon was hit. She calls back. She again tells me that there MUST be some place where I can stop and watch a television. I'm not about to go knocking on a farmhouse door. Especially on a day when everyone is thinking of terrorists.<br><br>A little after 9:00 AM, Central time, I finally <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&ie=UTF8&t=h&ll=40.6684,-89.588356&spn=0.028645,0.085831&z=14">find myself in East Peoria</a>. I park the truck in a parking ramp near the Caterpillar headquarters, and I walk towards the building.<br><br>The first thing that came through my mind is, how would a security director convince the company president that the security guards need to have Uzi sub-machine guns available. I can't imagine they went to the gun-shop and picked them up in the hour since the news had been heard, and there's no way Caterpillar is important or controversial enough to have armed guards standing outside all the time.<br><br>I cautiously walked past them towards the door, expecting that maybe I'll be challenged. I was carrying a laptop case, after-all. Then I walked in, signed in, and went up to the floor where my contact was waiting. I caught a few minutes of video of the destruction in NYC on a TV that had been set up in a break-room nearby. I spent most of the rest of the day, working on the customer's software concerns. The last 45 minutes I was there, I caught some more of the news coverage, and then I drove back to Pontiac.<br><br>My assignment in Pontiac was through the end of the week, and I had a ticket for Saturday the 15th. This happened to be the first flight out of Bloomington airport, and I've never seen such a small airport so crowded with people waiting for re-booking opportunities. 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Darwin and Ray are some co-workers who are in town for a month, and this is their last full weekend in Minnesota. I had offered earlier to take them to see Lake Superior. Darwin, in particular, had mentioned how much he wanted to see the great lakes... so I figured I'd do the best I could, and show him the big one that's only a few hours drive from here."><meta property="og:type" content="article"><meta property="og:url" content="https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/10/saturday-s-day-trip/"><meta property="article:section" content="post"><meta property="article:published_time" content="2008-10-05T19:05:00-04:00"><meta property="article:modified_time" content="2010-09-07T18:30:12-04:00"><meta property="og:site_name" content="On My Mind..."><meta name=twitter:card content="summary"><meta name=twitter:title content="Saturday's Day Trip"><meta name=twitter:description content="I couldn't have asked for better weather. Sure, it's Minnesota and it's getting cool, but there was barely a cloud in the sky...
Darwin and Ray are some co-workers who are in town for a month, and this is their last full weekend in Minnesota. I had offered earlier to take them to see Lake Superior. Darwin, in particular, had mentioned how much he wanted to see the great lakes... so I figured I'd do the best I could, and show him the big one that's only a few hours drive from here."><script type=application/ld+json>{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Posts","item":"https://blog.vollink.com/post/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Saturday's Day Trip","item":"https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/10/saturday-s-day-trip/"}]}</script><script type=application/ld+json>{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BlogPosting","headline":"Saturday's Day Trip","name":"Saturday\u0027s Day Trip","description":"I couldn't have asked for better weather. Sure, it's Minnesota and it's getting cool, but there was barely a cloud in the sky...\nDarwin and Ray are some co-workers who are in town for a month, and this is their last full weekend in Minnesota. I had offered earlier to take them to see Lake Superior. Darwin, in particular, had mentioned how much he wanted to see the great lakes... so I figured I'd do the best I could, and show him the big one that's only a few hours drive from here.","keywords":["blog","driving","get-away","relaxation"],"articleBody":"I couldn't have asked for better weather. Sure, it's Minnesota and it's getting cool, but there was barely a cloud in the sky...\nDarwin and Ray are some co-workers who are in town for a month, and this is their last full weekend in Minnesota. I had offered earlier to take them to see Lake Superior. Darwin, in particular, had mentioned how much he wanted to see the great lakes... so I figured I'd do the best I could, and show him the big one that's only a few hours drive from here.\nI drove north on I-35, through Duluth first, and kept driving to Two Harbors. I have always been fond of the view of the lake-shore and the vastness of the lake that can be seen from there. From Oct 4-Superior \nWe hung out along the rocky shore, ate lunch in Two Harbors at the Black Woods Bar \u0026 Grill, then we drove back into Duluth.\nI took skyline drive from the north, along 7 bridge road. We stopped for a few minutes at the seventh bridge to take photos of Amity Creek and the surroundings. We stopped for a few minutes at hawk ridge. Then we went to Enger Tower. \nAfter an hour at Enger tower, we headed to Canal Park to walk around, and get a closer look at the bridge. \nHave fun looking around the photos I took on Saturday. ","wordCount":"235","inLanguage":"en","datePublished":"2008-10-05T19:05:00-04:00","dateModified":"2010-09-07T18:30:12.452-04:00","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Gary Allen Vollink"},"mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/10/saturday-s-day-trip/"},"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"On My Mind...","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://blog.vollink.com/favicon.ico"}}}</script></head><body id=top><script>localStorage.getItem("pref-theme")==="dark"?document.body.classList.add("dark"):localStorage.getItem("pref-theme")==="light"?document.body.classList.remove("dark"):window.matchMedia("(prefers-color-scheme: dark)").matches&&document.body.classList.add("dark")</script><header class=header><nav class=nav><div class=logo><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/ accesskey=h title="Home (Alt + H)"><img src=https://blog.vollink.com/AllenWrench.gif alt=logo aria-label=logo height=35>Home</a>
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This will be convenient in the winter, and even more when there's a snow storm.
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I received a comment on that story that I deeply hope is true, but ... partly because it was anonymous (see update), and mostly because there have been no further news reports that I've been able to find, I have no way of being sure. Here is a copy of that comment:"><script type=application/ld+json>{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Posts","item":"https://blog.vollink.com/post/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Revisit: 'Attack and Muder at the Drum Tower' [Updated]","item":"https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/12/revisit-attack-and-muder-at-the-drum-tower-updated/"}]}</script><script type=application/ld+json>{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BlogPosting","headline":"Revisit: 'Attack and Muder at the Drum Tower' [Updated]","name":"Revisit: \u0027Attack and Muder at the Drum Tower\u0027 [Updated]","description":"Back in August, I wrote a blog entry about the attack that occurred in the second level of the Beijing drum tower.\nI received a comment on that story that I deeply hope is true, but ... partly because it was anonymous (see update), and mostly because there have been no further news reports that I've been able to find, I have no way of being sure. Here is a copy of that comment:","keywords":["blog","china","media","news"],"articleBody":"Back in August, I wrote a blog entry about the attack that occurred in the second level of the Beijing drum tower.\nI received a comment on that story that I deeply hope is true, but ... partly because it was anonymous (see update), and mostly because there have been no further news reports that I've been able to find, I have no way of being sure. Here is a copy of that comment:\n \"I am a Canadian who was in Beijing and had worked with the guide who was injured in the attack. I am happy to report that she is OK, and getting married very soon. While she underwent surgery shortly thereafter, she has recovered well from her wounds. Her brother is a doctor, and I can attest to the fact that she received excellent care, as I visited her in the hospital on two occasions. While I know she still experiences physical pain, this young Chinese girl has an indomitable spirit, and I am certain she will make a full psychological recovery. I too was frustrated that for 2 days while in Beijing I could find no information on her status. I feared she may have died, and hardly a day goes by that I don't think of the courage of my Chinese friend. Her name was Olivia.\" By this, I understand that her chosen \"English\" name is Olivia and that she is fine. I do so hope this to be true. It bothers me still that there has been zero coverage of her story.\nIn any case, I thought this was significant enough to post.\nUpdate: The comment came from Heath Sterling, who contacted me separately through another site. Now that the comment is no longer \"Anonymous\" to that level ... I have a much higher confidence that it's true. :-) ","wordCount":"305","inLanguage":"en","datePublished":"2008-12-08T11:19:00-05:00","dateModified":"2010-09-07T18:30:12.402-04:00","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Gary Allen Vollink"},"mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/12/revisit-attack-and-muder-at-the-drum-tower-updated/"},"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"On My Mind...","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://blog.vollink.com/favicon.ico"}}}</script></head><body id=top><script>localStorage.getItem("pref-theme")==="dark"?document.body.classList.add("dark"):localStorage.getItem("pref-theme")==="light"?document.body.classList.remove("dark"):window.matchMedia("(prefers-color-scheme: dark)").matches&&document.body.classList.add("dark")</script><header class=header><nav class=nav><div class=logo><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/ accesskey=h title="Home (Alt + H)"><img src=https://blog.vollink.com/AllenWrench.gif alt=logo aria-label=logo height=35>Home</a>
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The comment came from Heath Sterling, who contacted me separately through another site. Now that the comment is no longer "Anonymous" to that level ... I have a much higher confidence that it's true. :-)</div><footer class=post-footer><ul class=post-tags><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/blog/>blog</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/china/>china</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/media/>media</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/news/>news</a></li></ul><nav class=paginav><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2009/03/spring-and-it-s-been-a-while/><span class=title>« Prev</span><br><span>Spring and It's Been a While</span></a>
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I've been very busy with work and friends lately. I also don't have an internet connection at home, so I've been neglecting this blog. It's not that I haven't seen anything of interest lately, and it's not that I've had nothing to say. I've just been busy.
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To put it lightly, my overnight guest had a really bad morning. I got up just in time to see her off, and decided to make some eggs as she left. I just finished making breakfast when I got the phone call...<br><br>She got about 1 block from my place, and realized the right rear tire was completely flat. 7:30AM, wolf down eggs, throw on some clothes that can get wet, and head down. There's a homeless guy being extremely helpful when I arrive, and I jump in to make sure everything is going O.K. He takes off (I think she gave him some cash, but I'm not sure). Anyway, the little tiny donut spare is on, and she asks if it'll make the drive home after work (a two hour drive). I let her know that it MIGHT make it, but the little tire isn't made to go that far at all.<br><br>We bring her car back to my place, and I insisted that she take my car for the day. Then I drove hers over to the local car shop to get the tire patched.<br><br>I went home, took a shower, and sent out updates to the people that need them. Then I got to work by 9AM.<br><br>Today is getting better, but I'm really tired out. I have to leave here around 2:30 to go get her car back, and make sure it's ready for her to go home in.<br><br>* I try to keep these a little bit anonymous ;-)</div><footer class=post-footer><ul class=post-tags><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/blog/>blog</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/personal/>personal</a></li></ul><nav class=paginav><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2010/07/tea-party-the-republican-green/><span class=title>« Prev</span><br><span>Tea Party : The Republican Green?</span></a>
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Ever since I heard this story about a woman who fell through a grate in Manhattan, I've been worried about sidewalk grates. I just can't function if I have to worry about whole sidewalks, too!
Someone I know sent me a PDF file that had some pictures. This is a really huge hole. When I first heard about it, I was thinking man-hole cover size, not SUV size."><script type=application/ld+json>{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Posts","item":"https://blog.vollink.com/post/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"St. Paul Sink Hole","item":"https://blog.vollink.com/post/2010/09/st-paul-sink-hole/"}]}</script><script type=application/ld+json>{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BlogPosting","headline":"St. Paul Sink Hole","name":"St. Paul Sink Hole","description":"There was a sink-hole in St. Paul this-morning.\nEver since I heard this story about a woman who fell through a grate in Manhattan, I've been worried about sidewalk grates. \u0026nbsp;I just can't function if I have to worry about whole sidewalks, too!\nSomeone I know sent me a PDF file that had some pictures. \u0026nbsp;This is a really huge hole. \u0026nbsp;When I first heard about it, I was thinking man-hole cover size, not SUV size.","keywords":["blog","news"],"articleBody":"There was a sink-hole in St. Paul this-morning.\nEver since I heard this story about a woman who fell through a grate in Manhattan, I've been worried about sidewalk grates. I just can't function if I have to worry about whole sidewalks, too!\nSomeone I know sent me a PDF file that had some pictures. This is a really huge hole. When I first heard about it, I was thinking man-hole cover size, not SUV size. Anyway, check out the PDF. ","wordCount":"81","inLanguage":"en","datePublished":"2010-09-07T18:26:00.001-04:00","dateModified":"2010-09-08T12:42:49.871-04:00","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Gary Allen Vollink"},"mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://blog.vollink.com/post/2010/09/st-paul-sink-hole/"},"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"On My Mind...","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://blog.vollink.com/favicon.ico"}}}</script></head><body id=top><script>localStorage.getItem("pref-theme")==="dark"?document.body.classList.add("dark"):localStorage.getItem("pref-theme")==="light"?document.body.classList.remove("dark"):window.matchMedia("(prefers-color-scheme: dark)").matches&&document.body.classList.add("dark")</script><header class=header><nav class=nav><div class=logo><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/ accesskey=h title="Home (Alt + H)"><img src=https://blog.vollink.com/AllenWrench.gif alt=logo aria-label=logo height=35>Home</a>
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Seems this is basically followed, except by: Bicycles Mopeds Motorbikes Autorickshaws Cars that are small enough that they can \"probably\" not cause too much of a tie-up by going in the wrong direction ...Even on a divided highway. ...It still causes major tie-ups. Pedistrians cross the street in designated crosswalks and in non-designated cross-walks and in front of on-coming traffic and where-ever pedestrians can walk. Notably, it's very rare for a pedestrian to cross by climbing one of the high fences on some divided roads to keep people from crossing. No, instead, the pedestrian will walk along the center for some time from the last designated cross-walk so they can walk out into on-coming traffic. Pedestrians walk on the right side, left side or between ever-shifting lanes. But, most important, is traffic communication protocols. Most commercial vehicles have, on the back (instead of How am I driving, Call xxx) the words, \"Horn OK\". That sets the tone for this. 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This is as good a time as any, to mention what is different about Traffic in Bangalore. There seems to be a whole new (but not all new to my experience) rules for traffic navigation.<a name=more></a><br><ul><li>Despite what the numerous signs and dotted lines suggest, lanes are defined by the width of the vehicles next to you right now.</li><li>Traffic signal lights are suggestions, that you follow only so far as someone in the other direction is tired of waiting for a green and is willing to put the front of their vehicle in front of your movement.</li><li>Driving here is on the left side of the road, but this is based on the steering wheel being on the right side of the car. Seems this is basically followed, except by:</li><ul><li>Bicycles</li><li>Mopeds</li><li>Motorbikes</li><li>Autorickshaws</li><li>Cars that are small enough that they can "probably" not cause too much of a tie-up by going in the wrong direction</li><li>...Even on a divided highway.</li><li>...It still causes major tie-ups.</li></ul><li>Pedistrians cross the street in designated crosswalks</li><ul><li>and in non-designated cross-walks</li><li>and in front of on-coming traffic</li><li>and where-ever pedestrians can walk.</li><li>Notably, it's very rare for a pedestrian to cross by climbing one of the high fences on some divided roads to keep people from crossing. No, instead, the pedestrian will walk along the center for some time from the last designated cross-walk so they can walk out into on-coming traffic.</li></ul><li>Pedestrians walk on the right side, left side or between ever-shifting lanes.</li></ul><div>But, most important, is traffic communication protocols. Most commercial vehicles have, on the back (instead of How am I driving, Call xxx) the words, "Horn OK". That sets the tone for this. Some of these rules I have confirmed as actual suggested traffic training, others, I'm merely guessing:</div><div><ul><li>There is no traffic control suggestion, and you are coming to a cross-road. Honk to warn that you are crossing. It appears there's little difference between a main road in a cross-road, so people on either side will honk. See also traffic signal lights being suggestions ... so people honk at those too.</li><li>If you are about to overtake (pass another vehicle), honk so they know to watch for you.</li><li>If you are coming upon a vehicle who has chosen a lane that is not aligned to the vehicles directly next to them, honk to suggest that they re-evaluate their lane position.</li><li>If you come upon one of the pedestrians, also honk, even if they see you, and are getting out of the way.</li><li>Stray dog crossing the road, yes, honk. There are more stray dogs here, than anywhere else I've been.</li><ul><li>Stray cows though, don't honk. They just panic and freeze like a deer in headlights, so just go around, and hope they move on.</li></ul></ul><div>The result, however, is that no matter where you are in the city, the background sound is merely a symphony of horns. After five days, I'm still hearing it. It's not like the rumble of an A/C, horns are built to be irritating on purpose. 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Do not write an ambiguous post just so the first commenter will have to ask, \"What do you mean?\" Learn how to use the privacy features of Facebook and DO NOT leave your profile open to the public. Do not post or comment if it will get you in trouble with your significant other; Offending others is OK, if you are really prepared for the backlash.","keywords":["blog","media","web"],"articleBody":"Collected from recent FaceBook 101 updates of a friend of mine.\n Keep your personal drama problems off of Facebook. Do not write an ambiguous post just so the first commenter will have to ask, \"What do you mean?\" Learn how to use the privacy features of Facebook and DO NOT leave your profile open to the public. Do not post or comment if it will get you in trouble with your significant other; Offending others is OK, if you are really prepared for the backlash. Block people you know who do not like you, before they blast your wall. If you have to become a fan of something before you can see it, it is ALWAYS an advertisement...(or worse, a virus). Personal drama problems \n You are angry now, but do you want your friends to know you are angry now, when they read the update tomorrow, or next week? Will you still be the same angry? Check EVERYONE on your friends list, do you want those work buddies asking about this? Also, if someone ELSE tries to get you to engage in personal drama over Facebook, use anything BUT Facebook to engage them back; visits, phones and e-mails are all better ideas. Ambiguous post Here's an example: \"Oh my, I'm so excited about what just happened\" So now the first sucker has to say \"What just happened?\" Just add the next sentence. It's OK if you add the rest as the first comment, just don't leave your friends hanging. Such a waste of their time. Privacy Features Facebook has a lot of privacy settings. They change every three months or so. Learn what they mean, and learn to use them. Most likely, you do NOT want everybody who knows your name to be able to see every update you've made. Setting all share defaults to \"friends only\" is pretty reasonable. Take extra care to check what you are sharing with Facebook's advertising engine. If you let it, it will use your friend's Facebook pictures to try to sell you products. As importantly, it will try to use your picture to try to sell products to others. Also keep in mind that even though the settings are there, and they work today, always expect that at any moment everything you ever say might accidentally end up on some search engine because someone with access left a door open. Don't Anger Your Significant Other This should be obvious. It is OK to piss people off, if you are willing to deal with their real-world emotional response. However, it is never a good idea to piss off your significant other, or by extension, anybody you live with. These are the people who can find you in your sleep. Also, they are most likely to make your thoughtless post a \"Personal Drama Problem\". If they do, try not to get into it. \n Block Enemies Before they Drama on You Your friend and you just had a really nasty disagreement, and you are not going to patch it up. Block them quickly. The last thing you need is some frenemy posting their new \"Personal Drama Problem\" on your wall. Know What You Are Clicking \"Like\" On Your oldest most trusted friend writes on your wall, \"This video of a helpless baby seal being beaten with a club made me cry, check this link.\" So you click the link and are presented with a page that says, to see the video, first click \"Like\" (or \"Enable this App\", or \"Become a Fan\"). As soon as you click OK, guess what automatically gets posted to every one of your friend's walls in your name? If you guessed, \"This video of a helpless baby seal being beaten with a club made me cry, check this link,\" you are ahead of the game. You haven't seen it yet, but you just told all of your friends it made you cry. How sweet. Of course, the video may or may not be of a baby seal at all, and is very likely to be an ad for \"H3rbell V146R4\". 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Will you still be the same angry? Check EVERYONE on your friends list, do you want those work buddies asking about this? Also, if someone ELSE tries to get you to engage in personal drama over Facebook, use anything BUT Facebook to engage them back; visits, phones and e-mails are all better ideas.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Ambiguous post</b></div><div><br></div><div>Here's an example: "<i>Oh my, I'm so excited about what just happened</i>"</div><div>So now the first sucker has to say "<i>What just happened?</i>" Just add the next sentence. It's OK if you add the rest as the first comment, just don't leave your friends hanging. Such a waste of their time.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Privacy Features</b></div><div><br></div><div>Facebook has a lot of privacy settings. They change every three months or so. <a href=http://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation.php> Learn what they mean, and learn to use them</a>. Most likely, you do NOT want everybody who knows your name to be able to see every update you've made. Setting all share defaults to "friends only" is pretty reasonable. Take extra care to check what you are sharing with Facebook's advertising engine. If you let it, it will use your friend's Facebook pictures to try to sell you products. As importantly, it will try to use your picture to try to sell products to others. Also keep in mind that even though the settings are there, and they work today, always expect that at any moment everything you ever say might accidentally end up on some search engine because someone with access left a door open.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Don't Anger Your Significant Other</b></div><div><br></div><div>This should be obvious. It is OK to piss people off, if you are willing to deal with their real-world emotional response. However, it is never a good idea to piss off your significant other, or by extension, anybody you live with. These are the people who can find you in your sleep. Also, they are most likely to make your thoughtless post a "Personal Drama Problem". If they do, try not to get into it.</div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Block Enemies Before they Drama on You</b></div><div><br></div><div>Your friend and you just had a really nasty disagreement, and you are not going to patch it up. Block them quickly. The last thing you need is some frenemy posting their new "Personal Drama Problem" on your wall.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Know What You Are Clicking "Like" On</b></div><div><br></div><div>Your oldest most trusted friend writes on your wall, "<i>This video of a helpless baby seal being beaten with a club made me cry, check this link.</i>" So you click the link and are presented with a page that says, to see the video, first click "Like" (or "Enable this App", or "Become a Fan"). As soon as you click OK, guess what automatically gets posted to every one of your friend's walls in your name? If you guessed, "<i>This video of a helpless baby seal being beaten with a club made me cry, check this link,"</i> you are ahead of the game. You haven't seen it yet, but you just told all of your friends it made you cry. How sweet. Of course, the video may or may not be of a baby seal at all, and is very likely to be an ad for "H3rbell V146R4".</div></div><footer class=post-footer><ul class=post-tags><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/blog/>blog</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/media/>media</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/web/>web</a></li></ul><nav class=paginav><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2011/01/apple-admits-iphone-can-t-compete-targets-android-with-patent-suits/><span class=title>« Prev</span><br><span>Apple Admits iPhone Can't Compete, Targets Android with Patent Suits</span></a>
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Some people wondered how the information was obtained, but nobody said anything about WikiLeaks being a terrorist organization.<br><br>September 16, 2008 E-mails from the governor of Alaska and vice-presidential candidate, Sarah Palin's personal e-mail account showed up. Turns out, she was using her personal account for official business. Sarah Palin and some of her supporters had terrible things to say about WikiLeaks (and still do to this day). Overall, nobody cared much. Don't remember hearing anything about WikiLeaks itself doing something wrong though.<br><br>November 18, 2008 A Membership list for the British National Party (an ultra conservative party in UK politics) was posted to WikiLeaks.<br><br>November 17, 2009 Climategate. 1000+ e-mails from various climate researchers, mostly at the University of East Anglia were posted to WikiLeaks. Those who disagree with human-caused climate change celebrated the leak. Don't remember hearing anything about WikiLeaks itself doing something wrong.<br><br>April 5, 2010 Video from the cockpit of a US Army Apache helicopter in Iraq, attacking and killing 15 people, including two Reuters journalists. Many people legitimately questioned the value of posting this. Don't remember hearing anything about WikiLeaks itself doing something criminally wrong.<br><br>July 26, 2010 This is the last big one. Thousands of classified US military documents about Afghanistan were leaked to the web, and hosted by WikiLeaks. Lots of people didn't like it. However, the information within raised serious concerns about troop behavior in Afghanistan. So, few people were saying that WikiLeaks had done something criminally wrong, itself. People WERE saying that the information was posted irresponsibly, but I don't remember hearing the word prosecution applied to the WikiLeaks site.<br><br>Obviously, in all of the above, the sources of these leaks are up for prosecution if they are found. That's not what I'm hearing this time.<br><br>Allegedly, some US citizen, and member of the US Armed Forces sent classified communications between US Ambassadors in foreign lands to this same group of Australian nationals with the expectation that those Australian nationals would post that information on the Internet site they run. They did.<br><br>Which brings me back to the present. Why am I hearing my politicians saying, now, that Wikileaks has, itself, done something wrong? What, exactly, is different this time?<br><br>...Dismissing the hillarious political calls of "Treason" against people who are NOT US citizens. Dismissing that Amazon.com, Mastercard and PayPal have all stopped doing business with the web site on politician's suggestions that this company has done something criminally wrong. And dismissing anything silly that Sarah Palin has to say, being she was an early victim. Also dismissing anything that the Organization's leader may or may not personally be guilty of...<br><br>After all of that, what US law, or even what Austrailian law, is Wikileaks actually guilty of? Doesn't the USA protect free speech? I could have sworn that was one of the things that made me proud of this country.<br><br>Seriously, tell me. 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I have some developers reporting to me. So let me say this; Regulated, Regimented development. That's what I try to use most of the time. Yes, really. It is extremely important to start a project with good specifications. First, this means that I have had several conversations with my customers about what they are expecting to get out of the project, and how they expect to interact with it before anybody starts coding.<br><br>Requirements specifications make their way to Functional specifications. This is where I admit that these are often done incorrectly, but they are still done. Let me explain that. The requirements are the high level things that management wants to accomplish. The functional specs are supposed to be the things that define how the customer will interface with the product to meet the requirements. However, more often, most of the interface decisions are stuffed into Requirements leaving the functional specification to double as a technical roadmap to how the project will be completed.<br><br>As long as all of the necessary information is there, it doesn't really bother me.<br><br><br><a name=more></a><b>No Accounting for Expectations</b><br><br>One thing that all of these requirements do not get me is a customer that actually understands the full implications of what they are asking for. Further, it doesn't give me the forsight to understand that something that the customer legitimately asked for and agreed that they wanted, is actually the opposite of what they need after they see what they are about to get.<br><br>This point is why I need the documents. This part is why that top down approach is really, really important.<br><br>No, not to shove it down the user's throat, but to clearly be able to go to the project management team and say, this project is under threat. What the customer needs is NOT reflected in this documentation, and I need to go through some development iterations quickly with the customer until I can really figure out what they want. I use the documenation, plus the frustration of the customer to switch to collaborative development iterations.<br><br>1) Here's the almost finished development that does what you asked for.<br>2) Customer realizes that prototype needs something different.<br>3) Remind customer where they asked for what they got, get specific reasoning for the change. Does it save time? What goes wrong if we leave it as is?<br>4) Go back to project management, explain the problem and the reasons for the problem.<br>5) Work with the customer to fix it BEFORE it's a service issue later.<br><br>For the customer, the trade off is often that they lose features that were originally asked for if the timelines cannot be extended. As long as project management and the customer understand this up-front, then things go pretty well.<br><br>I recently led two separate projects that went through agile-collaborative cycles come to a close. The one that started with the most documentation has the happiest result. The one that started with almost no documentation is still a bit of a monster that is difficult to add new features to.<br><br>The worse of these was for an editor to help quickly add new data into a system. To start agile at the very beginning of a project in this case caused the completion date to slip by almost a year, and we lost the lead developer during (and likely because of) the project. The length of the project slip was partly due to that developer leaving, but I also know it has a lot to do with the fact that it was an agile project from it's inception. The customers lost track of the primary goals of the system, and around month two changed out it's primary goal. By it's end, a project which was supposed to help users quickly enter new data into the system was released as something that couldn't add new data, but only edit old data records. That's what the customer wanted, but the fact that the purpose did such a huge change really makes me wonder why it didn't have more documentation at it's beginning.<br><br>The one that worked much better had documentation that we kept referring back to, which actually helped keep our customer on-task as well. It could have been derailed by a long set of requests for search and reporting functionality. Request was deferred to a separate, second project, to leave the core functionality alone. Reporting got done on time as well.<br><br>Both of these projects had 6 month time-lines to start. Both of these projects finished with a great deal of customer collaboration, and iterative development cycles. One of them had good documentation at it's beginning telling us what our goals are. 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You know all those e-mails that get sent around with some heart-felt story about some child who is in dire need, and if you just forward the e-mail, you could help save that child's life? Well, the overwhelming majority of those e-mails don't actually have a link that they want you to send along with that e-mail. A link where people who actually have the means can drop a dollar, or twenty."><meta property="og:type" content="article"><meta property="og:url" content="https://blog.vollink.com/post/2011/01/spreading-the-word-for-simon/"><meta property="article:section" content="post"><meta property="article:published_time" content="2011-01-06T10:53:00-05:00"><meta property="article:modified_time" content="2011-01-06T10:53:15-05:00"><meta property="og:site_name" content="On My Mind..."><meta name=twitter:card content="summary"><meta name=twitter:title content="Spreading the Word For Simon"><meta name=twitter:description content="Please help make 2011 Simon's year.
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Well, the overwhelming majority of those e-mails don't actually have a link that they want you to send along with that e-mail. A link where people who actually have the means can drop a dollar, or twenty. A link like this one here.\ncota.donorpages.com/PatientOnlineDonation/COTAforSimonD\nLike this, those e-mails usually talk about some heart-wrenching case where the doctors spent years trying to figure out exactly what was wrong. In and out of hospitals. Parents work vacation time gone by mid-February, every year. Precious time was wasted, and meanwhile, that child's ability to just be a kid is not really complete.\ncota.donorpages.com/PatientOnlineDonation/COTAforSimonD\nSimon D is a real kid. His parents are not rich and not terribly poor. His father has a decent job. Simon lives in a regular home with two loving parents. It's just that he's sick, and the very real costs of needing a bone marrow transplant are overwhelming. Sadly, there are not very many doctors and hospitals capable of performing this surgery on children. So, Simon will have to go out of Florida, where he lives. And his family will have to go too, because you can't just send a child alone on such a scary journey. The loss of income, the hotels, the travel expenses, the eating at hospital cafeterias. The inevitable follow-up visits with the surgeons. The estimated costs of this is 75,000 dollars (that's US money). cota.donorpages.com/PatientOnlineDonation/COTAforSimonD\nThat is not an exaggeration, and honestly, deeply, even if this goal is made, it's still possible that it wouldn't be enough. Chances are, this goal will not be reached and Simon's parents will be in debt for the rest of their lives. Yes, this story is sad, and heart-breaking, but it's also very real.\nPlease help. Please send this like you have seen forwarded e-mails like I talked about above. Am I asking you to give money? Yes, yes I am, I won't deny that. I am ALSO asking you to forward this story to others. The COTA page doesn't tell a story. It's just a sentence, a picture and a donate button. Forward this story, and maybe some people will listen and be able to help a little bit.\n In case you were wondering, COTA is a Federally registered non-profit. Donations are tax deductible in the US. Also, for tax reasons, parents in this situation are NOT allowed to solicit donations themselves. They must rely on others to do this for them. Can you be someone who helps? -----------------------\nI have known Simon's father for over 19 years. He is, in my opinion, good people. I am just doing what I can. 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Well, the overwhelming majority of those e-mails don't actually have a link that they want you to send along with that e-mail. A link where people who actually have the means can drop a dollar, or twenty. A link like this one here.<br><br><a href=http://bit.ly/eDeZVt>cota.donorpages.com/PatientOnlineDonation/COTAforSimonD</a><br><br>Like this, those e-mails usually talk about some heart-wrenching case where the doctors spent years trying to figure out exactly what was wrong. In and out of hospitals. Parents work vacation time gone by mid-February, every year. Precious time was wasted, and meanwhile, that child's ability to just be a kid is not really complete.<br><br><a href=http://bit.ly/eDeZVt>cota.donorpages.com/PatientOnlineDonation/COTAforSimonD</a><br><br>Simon D is a real kid. His parents are not rich and not terribly poor. His father has a decent job. Simon lives in a regular home with two loving parents. It's just that he's sick, and the very real costs of needing a bone marrow transplant are overwhelming. Sadly, there are not very many doctors and hospitals capable of performing this surgery on children. So, Simon will have to go out of Florida, where he lives. And his family will have to go too, because you can't just send a child alone on such a scary journey. The loss of income, the hotels, the travel expenses, the eating at hospital cafeterias. The inevitable follow-up visits with the surgeons. The estimated costs of this is 75,000 dollars (that's US money).<br><br><a href=http://bit.ly/eDeZVt>cota.donorpages.com/PatientOnlineDonation/COTAforSimonD</a><br><br>That is not an exaggeration, and honestly, deeply, even if this goal is made, it's still possible that it wouldn't be enough. Chances are, this goal will not be reached and Simon's parents will be in debt for the rest of their lives. Yes, this story is sad, and heart-breaking, but it's also very real.<br><br>Please help. Please send this like you have seen forwarded e-mails like I talked about above. Am I asking you to give money? Yes, yes I am, I won't deny that. I am ALSO asking you to forward this story to others. The COTA page doesn't tell a story. It's just a sentence, a picture and a donate button. Forward this story, and maybe some people will listen and be able to help a little bit.<br><div style=margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;margin-top:0><br></div><div style=margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;margin-top:0>In case you were wondering, COTA is a Federally registered non-profit. Donations are tax deductible in the US. Also, for tax reasons, parents in this situation are NOT allowed to solicit donations themselves. They must rely on others to do this for them. Can you be someone who helps?</div><br>-----------------------<br><br>I have known Simon's father for over 19 years. He is, in my opinion, good people. I am just doing what I can. 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<span class=Apple-style-span style=border-collapse:collapse;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px>The band mentioned that they'd just returned from a 7 week tour of the USA. That was met will a wall of boos, and shouts of "fuck the USA" and "America sucks".'</span>
<br><br>Since I've discussed these opinions so often with people who have never been here, and I thought it would be something that would make a good blog post. So, sorry for the long setup. Here goes.<br><br><a name=more></a><br><b>American Exports</b><br><br>The backdrop of America, to most of the world comes from our most prolific export. America exports culture better than any other country in the entire world. However, we do this almost exclusively through our entertainment.<br><br>Think about that. For every single thing that as an American, I see on TV, and think embarrassingly, what an idiot, the rest of the world has no choice but to equate that to "Americans".<br><br>That's right, all that crap that is on TV, that actual Americans know for certain is the fringe of the fringe sort of stuff, happens to also be a wildly popular export. We send forth Snookie to be a cultural liaison. The kids on "The Real Life" or "Jackass" movies are in "reality shows", so that is what Americans are like, right? Borat, similarly, was a great teacher that it doesn't take long to find a complete, total, ass-hat, pretty much anywhere in America.<br><br>In both in China and India I've spent a strange amount of time pointing out that this stuff is entertainment in the US and exported from the US because it's also weird and freaky to Americans. These reality shows are always set up after finding people who have a very unusual lifestyle, and a very non-typical world-view. Then, more often than not, these odd people who have been found are taken out of their economic status, put up in a home that is larger than most Americans would ever live in, and given fame and fortune for being perpetually odd. It's a great way to entertain, but it isn't "reality". I point out that the people who are on their own local TV shows and movies also have little resemblance to the way that they themselves live their lives, then, I will point to specific examples.<br><br>Moving away from reality, what about the mainstream fiction? Sex and the City is a great example of people who cannot possibly make 1.3 million per year, but live as if they do. Desperate Housewives was really popular while I was in China. I know exactly one couple where the wife doesn't have to go to work every day. On that show, it's the exception.<br><br>In India, I looked around and said, "Why isn't everyone singing and dancing? Every movie here, everyone sings and dances. Would a foreigner who's never been here not automatically expect that every disagreement is resolved through song and dance?" In China, very few people actually know Kung Fu. Their movies certainly show otherwise. "Why don't you know Kung Fu?"<br><br>Unless they've really been here in the US for a substantial amount of time, this is the first time they start to grasp that America isn't exactly like the movies and shows they have seen. Even travelling here, most will never fully get it. The perception is that Americans are all rich, and they come here, and stay in a hotel that is cleaned daily by a maid service. Isn't that exactly what they've learned to expect? They are here, and treated as a guest, and so they don't get a chance to really "get it".<br><br>Just like most Americans can't spend a minute to feel bad for the CEO of HP who lost her job, the rest of the world has little care to spend a minute to feel bad for us Americans who sometimes, if not often, disagree with what our government is doing. After-all, we are a Democratic Republic, and one of the few countries in the world where we directly elect our leader (unlike Parliamentary systems where you hope the ruling party chooses a good Prime Minister). We are all rich, and should know better than to elect a government that won't do what we want.<br><br>Which brings me straight into<br><br><b>American Foreign Policy</b><br><br><span class=Apple-style-span style=font-family:inherit>The USA war policies of Bush are currently our main issues within Europe. Most Europeans, and especially the British that I've met, totally understand the crux of entertainment IS strange (though, still, we all must be rich), but it doesn't give us anything to explain why we are still in Iraq. Still being in Afghanistan wouldn't bother anybody if we were not also still in Iraq, mostly on a set of lies. (It can be argued that now, we are almost out of Iraq, but we are not actually out yet, and this doesn't explain why we've been there as long as we had been). </span><br><span class=Apple-style-span style=font-family:inherit><br></span><br><span class=Apple-style-span style=font-family:inherit>Let me be clear, the Bush war policies didn't start with Bush, just the current wars that we are hated for came from Bush. Generally, Obama is blameless for these, regardless of the nit-picking of what he has not done about them. The world is at least a little disillusioned that Obama didn't immediately end all wars, because, really, that is what the world wanted (including a large section of the Democratic base, here). Logically, if any one person thinks about what that would mean, it can be understood quickly that it would be a really bad idea, but logic and emotion do not have to jive.<br><br>So very recently, it was FRANCE that was the first to reach out to the rebel leadership in Libya. This, we absolutely can blame Obama for, but the move, even from the French, was a bit of a risky move. It fits the country's personality though, even going all the way back to the US revolution. If the US were that consistent, would the world hate us as much? Probably not.<br><br>Most of the worlds really bad political problems that have happened in the last 40 years, can be traced back to something our own CIA was involved with at one time, but fucked up. Please don't discount that. The rest of the world has certainly not.</span><br><span class=Apple-style-span style=font-family:inherit><br>But what about the UK, our closest political ally? My opinion of this is, they hate us because of the way we seem to drag them down. So, on the world stage, the UK is also hated along with us. I think the British, mostly, dislike us for that, in the way a clean living man hates his drug dealing brother (hate with caring).</span><br><span class=Apple-style-span style=font-family:inherit><br></span><br><span class=Apple-style-span style=font-family:inherit><b>Ancient History</b></span><br><span class=Apple-style-span style=font-family:inherit><br></span><br><span class=Apple-style-span style=font-family:inherit>America, as a country, has the shortest memory of any country I've ever visited. We see ancient history as anything that happened before we were each 10. No other place I've been has an easy dismissal of things that happened before they were born. I've met Chinese who still take it personally that the US supported the British opium war more than 100 years ago.</span><br><span class=Apple-style-span style=font-family:inherit><br></span><br><span class=Apple-style-span style=font-family:inherit>Similarly, don't look back at World War II, and say, "See we rebuilt your countries, and now you hate us!" At the end of the Eisenhower administration, the US deeply changed the way it dealt with the world. We started acting with the arc of "superpower". Also as importantly, we started nurturing a full time Military Industrial complex. Nobody really blamed us for that because the Soviet Union was much more feared than we were. That all changed in 1989 when the Berlin wall fell, and the Soviet Union fell right behind. The good-will of our helping to rebuild Europe has been replaced with questions about why we still have so many permanent military bases there. These are valid questions, but they also have valid answers.</span><br><br><span class=Apple-style-span style=font-family:inherit><b>It is Not Really Hate</b></span><br><span class=Apple-style-span style=font-family:inherit><br></span><br><span class=Apple-style-span style=font-family:inherit>Think about a neighbor who you worry about because he's got NRA stickers all over his pickup trucks and if anybody asks how he's doing he says, "Did you see Jersey Shore last night? Them's my kind of people!" You really don't like him, but he's your neighbor, and you worry about him. Also, when you asked him to help you fix that leaky sink, he took the spanner home, and didn't return it. Sure, you didn't know how to use it to fix the problem, but damnit, it was yours. That is, you know he'll help if you really need him to, but you really don't like asking him for help. Funny though, everything you hear about his family is all about success and money. We wish he'd adopt us. </span>
He's kind of a jerk, and you don't really know if he's actually friendly or not. Yep, that's us.<br><span class=Apple-style-span style=font-family:inherit><br></span><br><span class=Apple-style-span style=font-family:inherit><b>I Am NOT Apologizing</b></span><br><span class=Apple-style-span style=font-family:inherit><b><br></b></span><br><span class=Apple-style-span style=font-family:inherit>I need to make it very clear that this is not about hating America. I love us! However, I've talked to a lot of people, while on THEIR turf, and these are the lessons I've learned. Maybe you'll find it useful.</span></div></div><footer class=post-footer><ul class=post-tags><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/blog/>blog</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/history/>history</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/media/>media</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/politics/>politics</a></li></ul><nav class=paginav><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2011/04/go-read-joe/><span class=title>« Prev</span><br><span>Go Read Joe</span></a>
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Times Square is one of the street level places that is recognizable as obviously being in New York, and not some other city. As such, people who come to visit New York, at least for the first few times, feel that they must visit this space.
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If you've ever been in the upper floors of a tall building during sustained winds, you can feel the building swaying. It felt just like that. Jen says, "Is the building moving?" "Yes," as I realize that I shouldn't feel wind movement from the third floor. Still not really sure what's going on, I say, ""><script type=application/ld+json>{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Posts","item":"https://blog.vollink.com/post/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Earthquake","item":"https://blog.vollink.com/post/2011/08/earthquake/"}]}</script><script type=application/ld+json>{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BlogPosting","headline":"Earthquake","name":"Earthquake","description":"New York City - Midtown\nOn Tuesday morning, Jen and I were both in the office and something seemed strange.\nIf you've ever been in the upper floors of a tall building during sustained winds, you can feel the building swaying. It felt just like that. \u0026nbsp;Jen says, \"Is the building moving?\" \u0026nbsp;\"Yes,\" as I realize that I shouldn't feel wind movement from the third floor. \u0026nbsp;Still not really sure what's going on, I say, \"","keywords":["blog","earthquake","media","work"],"articleBody":"New York City - Midtown\nOn Tuesday morning, Jen and I were both in the office and something seemed strange.\nIf you've ever been in the upper floors of a tall building during sustained winds, you can feel the building swaying. It felt just like that. Jen says, \"Is the building moving?\" \"Yes,\" as I realize that I shouldn't feel wind movement from the third floor. Still not really sure what's going on, I say, \"I wonder how bad this feels on the upper floors?\"\nJust after the swaying stops; Mark, sitting nearby, gets a phone call, \"It's an earthquake... My son heard it on Twitter.\" I hit Google's news service, and nothing yet. Then I hit Twitter myself. Yep, lots of buzz about an earthquake. Someone posted a link to the USGS page for the event, 5.8-Preliminary in Virginia. I posted a few tweets myself. Back at Google, and I see the news stories posting. At about 15 minutes later, the security coordinator comes on the building PA, saying that everything was fine (I think most people had assumed that).\nJen said it felt like the swaying of a boat on water. I sent a text to Anil in St. Paul, that the weather is so nice that the Earth was trying to rock us to sleep.\nAll that said, I hope everybody in Virginia, near where the quake was centered, made it through O.K. ","wordCount":"235","inLanguage":"en","datePublished":"2011-08-24T08:41:00-04:00","dateModified":"2011-08-24T08:41:55.482-04:00","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Gary Allen Vollink"},"mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://blog.vollink.com/post/2011/08/earthquake/"},"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"On My Mind...","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://blog.vollink.com/favicon.ico"}}}</script></head><body id=top><script>localStorage.getItem("pref-theme")==="dark"?document.body.classList.add("dark"):localStorage.getItem("pref-theme")==="light"?document.body.classList.remove("dark"):window.matchMedia("(prefers-color-scheme: dark)").matches&&document.body.classList.add("dark")</script><header class=header><nav class=nav><div class=logo><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/ accesskey=h title="Home (Alt + H)"><img src=https://blog.vollink.com/AllenWrench.gif alt=logo aria-label=logo height=35>Home</a>
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Up until recently, innovations with mouses have been about adding more buttons, and scroll wheels. Now, with Smart-Phones becoming more and more popular, things like multi-touch and gestures are being added too. So, Jen and I were in an Apple store a few weeks back browsing (well, playing with) the new laptops. The touch-pads on these things are very sensitive, and accidentally letting a second finger graze the pad while trying to move the pointer does unexpected things. Two fingers, and the app switches, three fingers, and you are thrown to another desktop. I was thinking to myself that it would take a few hours with it to really get used to it. Jen says that the care required to work it was more than she is willing to put in (paraphrased). Microsoft Touch Mouse (Amazon) Over at Amazon, they are now advertising this thing called the Microsoft Touch Mouse. It, of course, is the Microsoft answer to the Apple Magic Mouse, except the Microsoft listing has a video of how to operate it. Similar thing. I'm thinking to myself, Oh, this could take a few days of use to get used to, and maybe, maybe it will make computing faster if I learn this, but is it worth the effort? Jen, she has a similar reaction as she did to the Mac touch-pads. Doing cursory research for this blog, I found a demo video for the Apple Magic Mouse as well. The Apple demo (not surprisingly) is of much higher production value than the Amazon/Microsoft demo, but it also advertises a feature that made Jen and me feel better about it... They show you where to turn the multi-touch features off. This makes sense, being that the Magic Mouse is the default mouse that comes with new Apple products. Apple Magic Mouse (Amazon) But it makes me really question a basic fundamental. Do they make these improvements because consumers want these features? Or, do they make these improvements because without improvement people will just stick to their old mouse -- As these days, with so few moving parts, they seem to last forever anyway. 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Up until recently, innovations with mouses have been about adding more buttons, and scroll wheels. Now, with Smart-Phones becoming more and more popular, things like multi-touch and gestures are being added too.<div><br></div></div><div>So, Jen and I were in an Apple store a few weeks back browsing (well, playing with) the new laptops. The touch-pads on these things are very sensitive, and accidentally letting a second finger graze the pad while trying to move the pointer does unexpected things. Two fingers, and the app switches, three fingers, and you are thrown to another desktop. I was thinking to myself that it would take a few hours with it to really get used to it. Jen says that the care required to work it was more than she is willing to put in (paraphrased).<a name=more></a></div><div><br></div><table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 class=tr-caption-container style=float:right;margin-left:1em;text-align:right><tbody><tr><td style=text-align:center><a href=http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51DAEcRnDTL.jpg imageanchor=1 style=clear:right;margin-bottom:1em;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto><img border=0 height=213 src=/img/geek-the-ubiquitous-computer-mouse_2_51DAEcRnDTL.jpg width=320></a></td></tr><tr><td class=tr-caption style=text-align:center><a href=http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004HYGU18/>Microsoft Touch Mouse (Amazon)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><div>Over at Amazon, they are now advertising this thing called the <a href=http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004HYGU18/>Microsoft Touch Mouse</a>. It, of course, is the Microsoft answer to the <a href=http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002TLTGM6>Apple Magic Mouse</a>, except the Microsoft listing has a video of how to operate it. Similar thing. I'm thinking to myself, Oh, this could take a few days of use to get used to, and maybe, maybe it will make computing faster if I learn this, but is it worth the effort? Jen, she has a similar reaction as she did to the Mac touch-pads.</div><div><br></div><div>Doing cursory research for this blog, I found a demo video for the <a href=http://www.apple.com/magicmouse/>Apple Magic Mouse</a> as well. The Apple demo (not surprisingly) is of much higher production value than the Amazon/Microsoft demo, but it also advertises a feature that made Jen and me feel better about it... They show you where to turn the multi-touch features off. This makes sense, being that the Magic Mouse is the default mouse that comes with new Apple products.</div><table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 class=tr-caption-container style=float:left;margin-right:1em;text-align:left><tbody><tr><td style=text-align:center><a href=http://images.apple.com/magicmouse/images/hero_2_20091020.jpg imageanchor=1 style=clear:left;margin-bottom:1em;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto><img border=0 height=137 src=/img/geek-the-ubiquitous-computer-mouse_3_hero_2_20091020.jpg width=400></a></td></tr><tr><td class=tr-caption style=text-align:center><a href=http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002TLTGM6>Apple Magic Mouse (Amazon)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>But it makes me really question a basic fundamental. Do they make these improvements because consumers want these features? 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There had been a low battery warning for, probably the last 10 years or so. My response was to just never turn it off, which worked until I had to turn it off for a while."><meta property="og:type" content="article"><meta property="og:url" content="https://blog.vollink.com/post/2012/10/syntaur-doing-it-right/"><meta property="article:section" content="post"><meta property="article:published_time" content="2012-10-13T01:52:00-04:00"><meta property="article:modified_time" content="2015-09-16T11:48:58-04:00"><meta property="og:site_name" content="On My Mind..."><meta name=twitter:card content="summary"><meta name=twitter:title content="Syntaur Doing It Right"><meta name=twitter:description content="I have an Ensoniq KS-32 keyboard that was released 20 years ago. I think that mine is only 17 years old, though (I'm the third owner, but I have owned it since 1998). Anyway, it's a great board, and it has treated me very well for a very long time.
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I don't have more time than that.</span></span></div><span style=background-color:#fff;color:#333;line-height:20px><span style="font-family:Times,Times New Roman,serif"> -- @GAVollink</span></span><br><br><span style="font-family:Helvetica Neue,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">I've been following along with a pilot training program that was recently launched where I work. One section of it is on a project definition framework. I have never liked this framework, and only today - while responding to the trainer on another inquiry, did I finally understand why. At the same time, I realized that I shouldn't dislike the framework at all...</span><br><span style="font-family:Helvetica Neue,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span><span style="font-family:Helvetica Neue,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">I started implementing projects 18 years ago. I started defining projects 12 years ago. I started advocating projects from other peoples ideas almost 10 years ago. Over the last 8 years, sometimes, I <i>am</i> the decision maker. In all this time, I have never seen a project accepted by a decision maker for implementation because of how carefully documented it is. Quite the opposite. The project that can be described in two sentences - basically, twitter format - is most likely to get that person's attention. The project that can get someone's attention an ALSO has a 30 second elevator pitch as a follow-up is rarely passed by.</span><br><span style="font-family:Helvetica Neue,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span><span style="font-family:Helvetica Neue,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">That said, mounds of research and careful documentation is absolutely useful, essential even, about 20 minutes after the idea has been successfully pitched. At the point it has been pitched, it will be a project, ready or not, so the details need to be ready too. That's not the point. What I've come to realize is that if someone has not thought through the project carefully enough to be able to isolate it to an introductory sound bite, and a follow-up paragraph, then the project probably is not ready to be done.</span><br><span style="font-family:Helvetica Neue,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span><span style="font-family:Helvetica Neue,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">In some cases, it is a project that is supposed to be solving too many problems at once. Something that is trying to fix everything is likely to be like a porcupine walking backwards through a silk shop. In some cases, it is a project that would be best served as an add-on to a different project entirely. In most cases, it is a project that is going to be waylaid by someone else's description of a problem.</span><br><span style="font-family:Helvetica Neue,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span><span style="font-family:Helvetica Neue,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">When the project that can't be simply explained is swimming in a decision makers head, and someone else describes a problem, suddenly - because the project is not understood in the first place - the project and the problem are arbitrarily married. The misguided ah-ha moment, "That must be what that project is for."</span><br><span style="font-family:Helvetica Neue,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span><span style="font-family:Helvetica Neue,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Coming back to the framework though, if there isn't a full project framework in place to back up that sound byte and elevator pitch, any technical person who is supposed to support that project going forward is going to expect that mound of research, the proof that this was really thought through. Not having a well thought out plan for an idea that was already bought by a decision maker, will grow enemies quickly. So my dislike for the framework is not about the framework, but the lack of the step where a sound byte and elevator pitch are distilled from that framework.</span><br><span style="font-family:Helvetica Neue,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span><span style="font-family:Helvetica Neue,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">So, now I think of it this way; If I can't tweet a project description that makes sense, I'm not ready to pitch the project. If I can't come up with a 30 second elevator speech to back up the tweet, then, I'm not ready to pitch the project. 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This means, I regularly have correspondence with people in Australia, China, France, Germany, India, Israel, Poland, Singapore and the United Kingdom. Some of these folks, I have become friends with, so I have had personal correspondence with people in these countries, both paper and electronic.<br><br>I have known about the existence of the NSA since the 80s. They are, of course, prominently featured in political dramas (Tom Clancy's works, for example). The technology suggested in such entertainment has long been "accelerated technology", but I never for a moment assumed that it was all fiction.<br><br>That is, I have long known that the NSA knows who I am. There's a huge amount of the population, of course, that has to correspond with people in foreign countries, but it is a small percentage of people in comparison to the whole US population. Domestically, the USA is not in the NSA charter, but in talking with another country, I figured that I would be fair game in the context of those conversations, on a technicality.<br><br>Of course, then 2001 happened, and everything went haywire. Homeland security, the merger of the intelligence services, a new era of inter-agency cooperation, all in the name of security.<br><br>In 2002, it turned out that the <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Intelligence_Surveillance_Court target=_blank>FISA court</a> had found out that the FBI was breaching the provisions of the <a href=http://blog.vollink.com/2013/07/fourth-amendment-to-united-states.html target=_blank>Fourth Amendment of the Constitution</a>, by lying to the court, and they issued a rare public opinion, to try to stop it.<br><br>In December of 2005, the New York Times <a href="http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F00F1FFF3D540C758DDDAB0994DD404482" target=_blank>broke a story</a> that the Bush Administration had unilaterally authorized spying on US citizens' phone calls without any court oversight at all. I wrote a <a href=http://www.home.vollink.com/gary/nsa.html target=_blank>blog entry</a> in direct reaction to that at the time.<br><br>Well, it's 8 years later, the NSA has actually vastly expanded the project that was started in 2002, and seems to have no shame about it. Probably because nobody cared in 2005, or because nobody noticed, and this time the FISA court seems to issue ever renewing blanket warrants for everything.<br><br>The revelations that have come out of this have been deeply surprising in some ways, and sad. Mostly sad. I could point you to resources, but if you haven't looked it up yet, I highly doubt my blog will convince you. I will, though, leave you with a quote from one of the US founding fathers.<br><br><span style=background-color:#000;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.1875px><i><span style=color:#fff>They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.</span></i></span><br><span style=background-color:#000;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.1875px><span style=color:#fff> -- Benjamin Franklin</span></span></div></div><footer class=post-footer><ul class=post-tags><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/blog/>blog</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/politics/>politics</a></li></ul><nav class=paginav><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2013/10/stone-surgery-and-recovery/><span class=title>« Prev</span><br><span>Stone, Surgery and Recovery</span></a>
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I was sweating and shaking and curled up in a ball, and eventually asked Jen to get me to the emergency room. Well, x-rays, urine samples, and a contrast CAT scan later, and I was told that I had a Kidney stone descending into my bladder. That was 4mmx2mm, and too small for them to try to do anything specifically for. They gave me some really effective pain medication, and told me to follow-up with their Urology clinic. Jen and I left the ER around 7AM, and I missed a day of work. Within a day, the stone had passed, and I was feeling much better.<br><br>I tried to get to the Urology clinic that the hospital had suggested, and I couldn't get anyone on the phone (Jen also tried), so I was a bit stuck. Jen went into the annual best doctor's issue of New York magazine, and found a doc who works out of Mt Sinai. I ended up with an appointment at the beginning of September. I asked the local hospital to forward my medical records, and waited.<br><br>During this time, I read up on Kidney Stones, and adjusted the things in my diet that are safe to adjust without knowing which of the seven types of Kidney Stones I was having (my blood pressure is lower, now). During this time, I had a few other instances of kidney stones passing (one, even, on the right side).<br><br>When I arrived at the doctor's office, the local hospital had never forwarded my records, and time had passed, so the doc had to basically start over, and ordered a new CAT Scan. I went back the following Wednesday (to another part of Mt. Sinai) and got the new Scan, and then, after another two weeks, I was finally able to see the Doctor (I was fit in, but didn't have an actual appointment time).<br><br>The Doctor's appointment on the 25th of September was very interesting. They showed me a 25mm (and inch wide) Staghorn (meaning grown into the various valleys of my kidney) Kidney Stone, and said it had probably been growing there for several years. And... the local hospital E.R. had clearly missed it. The Doctor tentatively scheduled me in for the 8th of October to have it removed, and sent me off for a different doctor, to get a pre-surgical clearance. I was able to get in there on the 27th, got some chest X-rays to verify that my heart was ticking proper, and then I waited to find out about the firmness of that date. I didn't find out for certain about the surgery on the 8th until they called me on the 7th.<br><br>The surgery itself was slow to get started, but eventually happened. I was VERY nervous about this, being my first time under general anesthesia, but ... I did wake up. The entire surgery was done through a single tube inserted from my left flank into my kidney (this part was done about an hour before the surgery, and under just a local anesthetic. The estimate was that I'd be in the operating room for 1 hour, and instead it took 2 hours and 15 minutes. The Doctor said to Jen, "chasing bits of stone into all sorts of nooks and crannies", or something near that. I'm repeating it third hand, at least. Which suggests to me that this thing was even more spread out than the CAT scan had showed. Anyway, when I woke up my first thought was, "Oh, I guess I am going to survive this."<br><br>I stayed in the Hospital overnight, and got two morphine shots; though, I only remember the second one. By morning, I was feeling better. I had two catheters, one was the tube that had been put in to support the surgery itself, directly into my kidney, I went home with this one. The other was removed fairly early on Wednesday (in front of an audience of 8 nursing students), I was too groggy to even feel embarrassed. By that evening, I had done the required walking, and they sent me home, with an appointment to have the tube (and bag) removed the following Monday (14th).<br><br>Walking around with a tube sticking out of my side, and carrying a bag of urine is a surreal state of being. I was tired and if I walked for more than about a block, my muscles would cramp up around where the tube was sticking out of me. I was also worried about people bumping into it. So, I ended up staying home a lot. There are pictures, but I'm not planning on grossing anybody out with them.<br><br>On 14 October, I went in to have the tube removed. So the tube that was in me was a catheter. That is, it went from inside my kidney to outside of my body, and handily hooked up to a bag. This means that when my kidney finished with liquids, and ejected urine it would go through this catheter. From my right kidney, everything continued to work as normal, kidney, bladder, urethra, toilet.<br><br>I had joked with some people that, by the description of the doc, they would clip a tether, pull the tube out of me, and send me home...<br><br>...I had that wrong. They did put two very thin pieces of gauze over the hole and taped it on before sending me home. The implications of this should not have been surprising, but they took me a bit off guard. Pardon, but this is gross, and I can't really help it.<br><br>Knowing that there would be "a little leakage" (my dumb head was just thinking bloody discharge), I smartly asked Jen to buy us some <a data-cke-saved-href="http://www.amazon.com/NorthShore-Premium-Disposable-Underpads-Large/dp/B000FD2AZ0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1382380541&sr=8-1&keywords=Chux" href="http://www.amazon.com/NorthShore-Premium-Disposable-Underpads-Large/dp/B000FD2AZ0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1382380541&sr=8-1&keywords=Chux" lj-cmd=LJLink2 target=_blank>Chux</a>. I mean, it seems crazy that they would send me for an 1 plus hour ride home with two strips of gause if my kidney is still pumping out 1.8 liters of urine per day (as measured from the bag over a week). But this, they did, and to suggest that the gauze and the Chux were insufficient, would be a nice way of putting it. Remind me to get the car steam cleaned.<br><br>Over two nights, Jen and I tried some different things to hold the deluge, and each failed in its own interesting way resulting me waking up cold, scared and wet. We eventually settled on Pampers taped to my side, which were the most effective but still not 100%.<br><br>Some time before 11AM on Wednesday, the hole in my kidney finally healed enough for me to unstrap from the diaper. Also, there was an immediate flood of pain as (and I was warned about this part) surgical detritus flushed towards my bladder. It was not "all better" for me quite yet, but with a dry back, sanity begins to return, and I would be able to get the much needed post surgery rest that I'd been lacking up until that point.<br><br>Since Wednesday the 16th, I've been feeling progressively better each day, until today, when I am finally well enough to return to work.<br><br>The fallout of this is that I have Uric Acid type kidney stones. This means, I get coffee back, but it also means that I cannot have more than six ounces of "animal protein" per day. Chicken, Pork, Beef, Fish, even eggs are high in these chemicals called Purines.</div></div><footer class=post-footer><ul class=post-tags><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/blog/>blog</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/medical/>medical</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/personal/>personal</a></li></ul><nav class=paginav><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2014/03/goodbye-to-jenn-gabriel-powell/><span class=title>« Prev</span><br><span>Goodbye to Jenn Gabriel-Powell</span></a>
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I've written about parts of this for my old web site (the one hosted at home). I'm keeping this professional. It is likely that I'll post this again at some distant point in the future, but with more detail.\nFor most of my professional life, I've been a computer programmer or computer administrator. This is my story.\n\nSmall Beginnings\nFor an American, I grew up relatively poor. At least the part of my child-hood after my parents divorced. My mother couldn't afford a computer, and at had declared that they were nothing more than overpriced video game systems. The point of this is I never had access to a computer in my home growing up. To this day, I don't know if this is a benefit or disadvantage.\nTwo Things From School\nIn the 8th grade, I took a business class, and learned to type. I had absolutely no idea at the time that this one thing would be the most important thing I would ever learn in school. Everything I've done professionally, I thank Ms. Mason for teaching that class.\nIn high school, something else happened that would also shape my life, but I never imagined that it could. A friend of mine got an Amiga 500. These computers came with a BASIC language interpreter, and that BASIC interpreter could do simple (monophonic) music as well as a very basic text to speech function. I actually spent hours in front of that thing getting it to do and say different things. I was fascinated by programming.\nI learned Mechanical Drafting on paper and AutoCAD, both in high-school and vocational. I can't say that I never would have found a job in this field, but I can say that knowing how to type meant I was in a better paying job by the time I got an interview.\nIn the early mornings at the vocational school, I played with their IBM computers that would boot to a BASIC prompt, and wrote many silly little programs in my spare time. I didn't own a computer of my own, and I just thought that putting in commands, and making the computer do what I wanted seemed like magic. Either way, it was a game to me, and I never once thought that I'd have a chance to ever do anything with this.\nI thought I knew at the time that \"real programmers\" could do a very different kind of magic. I thought that computer programmers were Electronics Engineering majors that could write an entire functional program in their head, and type it out in binary without thought (this is what the movies taught me). For the most part, this is still what movies teach, and that is too bad.\nOffice Work\nAbout a year after I left school, I was able to quit my job in a K-Mart garden center for an office job doing data entry. This was a friend connection job, as so many successful starting out stories are, and the only prerequisite was that I know how to type. I took the job, at just under twice minimum wage at the time, and was doing so much better than I had at K-Mart that I thought I was set.\nSeveral things all happened in a six month span that were all very amazing. A roommate couldn't pay his rent, I had a very bad interview, and I opened my mind to new possibilities.\n At home, my girlfriend at the time and I had a roommate for a while. He was there for only five months total, but his helping with the rent was good. Then, on the third month, he couldn't pay his rent. Then, he brought home a computer, and suggested a barter. I wanted it, and it was too easy to talk me into it. It had a 286 processor when Pentium processors were already out (three versions old), and I reasoned that it could have been sold cheaply and handed down. I knew then that it was probably stolen, and that it was wrong for me to agree to take it. It came with MS-DOS, and had some programs on there that I had no interest in, and deleted. For the first time in my life, I had a computer at home. While doing this job, I got a job interview for a Mechanical Drafting job. This is what I thought my path was, so I went on the interview. I found out that the job payed 20% less than I was already making, and that they thought that they were paying generous wages. Then, surprising everyone there (including me) I spent most of the interview time asking them about their technology and how it works (and even had some notes on how they could improve it). The guy who ran the place told me that I probably need to be in the Information Technology field. I gave up on the idea of using my vocational schooling at that point.\nAfter not so long doing data-entry, I started realizing that most people who work in an office environment, in my area of the country, drove cars. Even people in that same office, and same company, drove cars. They were not fabulous cars, not necessarily even new cars, but I took the bus or rode my bicycle to the office. So, I start looking at what these other people do, and I realize that they are all either computer programmers or computer administrators. In my head, all magicians to be revered.\nI started talking to the programmers here and there, and a couple of things started to strike me. First, these guys knew more, but they weren't really smarter than I was. Second, programming even relatively simple things took these guys a long time. They didn't write in BASIC, they mostly wrote in C (I didn't know anything about C, but I figured that I could learn it). I started asking questions. I started reading technical manuals for the computer systems that they had.\nNorman Bronstein worked there. This guy was in his 60s (at the time), and loved to tell tales about when he used to work for Bell Labs in New Jersey. He talked about technology, and handed me compiler software to load at home (this was pre-internet, I didn't even know this stuff could be purchased by mere mortals, and certainly wasn't aware of software piracy as a problem). He bought me one of my first books on learning the C language...\nSelf Schooling\n\nWhen people hear that I don't have a college degree, most assume that I must be some sort of savant. The thing is, I've probably read more computer books, done more homework, and actually keyed in more examples than most people with four year Computer Science degrees. What I'm missing, honestly, is Calculus and Trigonometry. I can, however, do binary algebra with the best of them (and frankly, I've never once been asked to do the sorts of graphics processing that would require the math that I'm missing).\nI started with nothing but my hobby background in BASIC, and went to the book store looking for a book on C. Well, I started with a book that was well above my head, A Small C Compiler by James Hendrix. I read a lot of it, but it talked so much about the limitations of computer internals that it probably did me more harm than good. I realized that I was missing something fundamental but I wasn't sure what it was.\nI then picked up a book on Intel Assembly Language (and a copy of MASM that Norm had handed me). I read through some of this, and I saw a distant glow of possibility, but nothing really clicked. I borrowed some other books from people at work, started reading those, too. I just didn't really understand what I was looking at. All of this, though, like the first book I picked up, did a lot of talking about what the hardware itself was doing.\nMy mother had a book from when she went to college called Digital Fundamentals by Thomas Floyd. This is the book that made it all click for me. It starts with binary algebra, and the CMOS logic gates that implements the binary algebra. It talks about memory, and gate sets, and functions implemented in gate arrays, and finished on microprocessors, specifically calling out the 8088, the very set of Intel Assembly that I had been reading about before that.\nI spent the next three months diligently writing assembly from my various books, going so far as rushing through the examples in Assembly Programming: For Real Programmers Only by Marcus Johnson, including the Windows examples, and excluding the device driver examples.\nFrom there, I went back to the C books, but this time, I would compile the samples into Assembly so that I would understand what was actually happening. After a few more months, I stopped reading and using assembly, and I started trusting what the compiler was doing.\nThen, as a way to give myself a project, I wrote a Klondike Solitaire program, including graphics and mouse control (but no \"win\" detection) under Watcom C and DOS 4. When it worked, I was amazed.\nMeanwhile, At the Office\n\nBy way of recognizing that I was learning things about computers in general, I was hired into the computer operations group. I did very well at this job, and it was a place where questioning everything, all of the time was not only encouraged ... it was rewarded. I sometimes caught things that other operators didn't catch, and I know I made some enemies during this time. I didn't mean to be hurtful, but I was cocky.\nAt one point, there was a general call to all of the computer operators. There is a programmer job, and everyone is encouraged to turn in a program they wrote (executable and source code). Except me, every person who applied had been going to the local college for Computer Science. Except me, every applicant turned in their final assignment from the C class (a single user customer-service management app). I ... turned in my lowly solitaire program, and I got the job!\nTwo weeks before my new job starts, I hear that Norm Bronstein was being laid off. He was \"too slow\". I will always feel bad about this. This man had been a mentor to me, and I ended up replacing him. I was a UNIX shell programmer for a few months, then I was a C programmer for almost a year. Then, after I was put under a manager who had been in operations when I had been cocky, I ended up switching roles and working as a UNIX Administrator for a while. Eventually I was a team lead over the operations team that I had previously worked in.\nThen, after a rather scary change of management at that company, I decided to move to another state (the company closed 5 months later). I had done a lot to train in one of the operations guys to do a lot of the UNIX Admin job that I was also doing, and recommended him as my replacement on the way out the door. That guy got the job, for the little time the company lasted.\nLegitimate Work\n\nI had spent my first five+ professional years at a company where a friend of a friend worked. Even my getting the programming job over the other guys could have been, at least partly, because of that nepotism. I wasn't fully sure of myself, but I knew in my heart that I had some legitimate skills. So, when I found myself in a new state, and a new market, I was worried. I stayed unemployed for over six weeks, and finally got a contracting job running Linux systems (1,600 Linux systems), and I did fine. I was there for 5 months (and I often don't list this on my CV).\nAt the end of that contract, I found a new job doing HP/UX administration and software support. After six months, I started repairing laptops and picking up the rest of the IT admin work at this company (their only IT support was in another country). I had one of those tough negotiations with my manager, and got the title IT Manager after 8 months. While I was there, only sometimes with part-time employees, I started using Perl to do automation work. I also did Oracle DBA work, and became certified in Progress 9 (another database).\nAt the end of my time there, the comptroller let me know that they were looking to outsource my job to an external IT contractor (I wasn't actually making that much, but they were looking to sell, and wanted to cut down the salary base pre-sale). I was at this company for over six years, ending as the Director of IT. Just before my end-date, I found a contract job as a Perl programmer.\nAt the end of a six month contract as a Perl programmer, I was hired full-time. My job was Technical Team Leader. I was a Technical Team Leader with teams of 1 to 4 people for five years, and then was promoted to Development manager. I don't program or administer anything anymore. It's been 21 years since this tale began, and I'm happy that I've made it to management. Strangely, while I miss being \"close to the metal\" and doing stuff, I can also tell ... I'm slow and sloppy now. Maybe I'm just out of practice. Or maybe, it's the slow that was creeping up on Norm all those years back. 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I've written about parts of this for my old web site (the one hosted at home). I'm keeping this professional. It is likely that I'll post this again at some distant point in the future, but with more detail.<br><br>For most of my professional life, I've been a computer programmer or computer administrator. This is my story.<br><br><a name=more></a><br><b>Small Beginnings</b><br><br>For an American, I grew up relatively poor. At least the part of my child-hood after my parents divorced. My mother couldn't afford a computer, and at had declared that they were nothing more than overpriced video game systems. The point of this is I never had access to a computer in my home growing up. To this day, I don't know if this is a benefit or disadvantage.<br><br><b>Two Things From School</b><br><br>In the 8th grade, I took a business class, and learned to type. I had absolutely no idea at the time that this one thing would be the most important thing I would ever learn in school. Everything I've done professionally, I thank Ms. Mason for teaching that class.<br><br>In high school, something else happened that would also shape my life, but I never imagined that it could. A friend of mine got an Amiga 500. These computers came with a BASIC language interpreter, and that BASIC interpreter could do simple (monophonic) music as well as a very basic text to speech function. I actually spent hours in front of that thing getting it to do and say different things. I was fascinated by programming.<br><br>I learned Mechanical Drafting on paper and AutoCAD, both in high-school and vocational. I can't say that I never would have found a job in this field, but I can say that knowing how to type meant I was in a better paying job by the time I got an interview.<br><br>In the early mornings at the vocational school, I played with their IBM computers that would boot to a BASIC prompt, and wrote many silly little programs in my spare time. I didn't own a computer of my own, and I just thought that putting in commands, and making the computer do what I wanted seemed like magic. Either way, it was a game to me, and I never once thought that I'd have a chance to ever do anything with this.<br><br>I thought I knew at the time that "real programmers" could do a very different kind of magic. I thought that computer programmers were Electronics Engineering majors that could write an entire functional program in their head, and type it out in binary without thought (this is what the movies taught me). For the most part, this is still what movies teach, and that is too bad.<br><br><b>Office Work</b><br><br>About a year after I left school, I was able to quit my job in a K-Mart garden center for an office job doing data entry. This was a friend connection job, as so many successful starting out stories are, and the only prerequisite was that I know how to type. I took the job, at just under twice minimum wage at the time, and was doing so much better than I had at K-Mart that I thought I was set.<br><br>Several things all happened in a six month span that were all very amazing. A roommate couldn't pay his rent, I had a very bad interview, and I opened my mind to new possibilities.<br><div><br></div><div>At home, my girlfriend at the time and I had a roommate for a while. He was there for only five months total, but his helping with the rent was good. Then, on the third month, he couldn't pay his rent. Then, he brought home a computer, and suggested a barter. I wanted it, and it was too easy to talk me into it. It had a 286 processor when Pentium processors were already out (three versions old), and I reasoned that it could have been sold cheaply and handed down. I knew then that it was probably stolen, and that it was wrong for me to agree to take it. It came with MS-DOS, and had some programs on there that I had no interest in, and deleted. For the first time in my life, I had a computer at home.</div><div><br></div>While doing this job, I got a job interview for a Mechanical Drafting job. This is what I thought my path was, so I went on the interview. I found out that the job payed 20% less than I was already making, and that they thought that they were paying generous wages. Then, surprising everyone there (including me) I spent most of the interview time asking them about their technology and how it works (and even had some notes on how they could improve it). The guy who ran the place told me that I probably need to be in the Information Technology field. I gave up on the idea of using my vocational schooling at that point.<br><br>After not so long doing data-entry, I started realizing that most people who work in an office environment, in my area of the country, drove cars. Even people in that same office, and same company, drove cars. They were not fabulous cars, not necessarily even new cars, but I took the bus or rode my bicycle to the office. So, I start looking at what these other people do, and I realize that they are all either computer programmers or computer administrators. In my head, all magicians to be revered.<br><br>I started talking to the programmers here and there, and a couple of things started to strike me. First, these guys knew more, but they weren't really smarter than I was. Second, programming even relatively simple things took these guys a long time. They didn't write in BASIC, they mostly wrote in C (I didn't know anything about C, but I figured that I could learn it). I started asking questions. I started reading technical manuals for the computer systems that they had.<br><br>Norman Bronstein worked there. This guy was in his 60s (at the time), and loved to tell tales about when he used to work for Bell Labs in New Jersey. He talked about technology, and handed me compiler software to load at home (this was pre-internet, I didn't even know this stuff could be purchased by mere mortals, and certainly wasn't aware of software piracy as a problem). He bought me one of my first books on learning the C language...<br><br><b>Self Schooling</b><br><b><br></b>When people hear that I don't have a college degree, most assume that I must be some sort of savant. The thing is, I've probably read more computer books, done more homework, and actually keyed in more examples than most people with four year Computer Science degrees. What I'm missing, honestly, is Calculus and Trigonometry. I can, however, do binary algebra with the best of them (and frankly, I've never once been asked to do the sorts of graphics processing that would require the math that I'm missing).<br><br>I started with nothing but my hobby background in BASIC, and went to the book store looking for a book on C. Well, I started with a book that was well above my head, A Small C Compiler by James Hendrix. I read a lot of it, but it talked so much about the limitations of computer internals that it probably did me more harm than good. I realized that I was missing something fundamental but I wasn't sure what it was.<br><br>I then picked up a book on Intel Assembly Language (and a copy of MASM that Norm had handed me). I read through some of this, and I saw a distant glow of possibility, but nothing really clicked. I borrowed some other books from people at work, started reading those, too. I just didn't really understand what I was looking at. All of this, though, like the first book I picked up, did a lot of talking about what the hardware itself was doing.<br><br>My mother had a book from when she went to college called Digital Fundamentals by Thomas Floyd. This is the book that made it all click for me. It starts with binary algebra, and the CMOS logic gates that implements the binary algebra. It talks about memory, and gate sets, and functions implemented in gate arrays, and finished on microprocessors, specifically calling out the 8088, the very set of Intel Assembly that I had been reading about before that.<br><br>I spent the next three months diligently writing assembly from my various books, going so far as rushing through the examples in Assembly Programming: For Real Programmers Only by Marcus Johnson, including the Windows examples, and excluding the device driver examples.<br><br>From there, I went back to the C books, but this time, I would compile the samples into Assembly so that I would understand what was actually happening. After a few more months, I stopped reading and using assembly, and I started trusting what the compiler was doing.<br><br>Then, as a way to give myself a project, I wrote a Klondike Solitaire program, including graphics and mouse control (but no "win" detection) under Watcom C and DOS 4. When it worked, I was amazed.<br><br><b>Meanwhile, At the Office</b><br><b><br></b>By way of recognizing that I was learning things about computers in general, I was hired into the computer operations group. I did very well at this job, and it was a place where questioning everything, all of the time was not only encouraged ... it was rewarded. I sometimes caught things that other operators didn't catch, and I know I made some enemies during this time. I didn't mean to be hurtful, but I was cocky.<br><br>At one point, there was a general call to all of the computer operators. There is a programmer job, and everyone is encouraged to turn in a program they wrote (executable and source code). Except me, every person who applied had been going to the local college for Computer Science. Except me, every applicant turned in their final assignment from the C class (a single user customer-service management app). I ... turned in my lowly solitaire program, and I got the job!<br><br>Two weeks before my new job starts, I hear that Norm Bronstein was being laid off. He was "too slow". I will always feel bad about this. This man had been a mentor to me, and I ended up replacing him. I was a UNIX shell programmer for a few months, then I was a C programmer for almost a year. Then, after I was put under a manager who had been in operations when I had been cocky, I ended up switching roles and working as a UNIX Administrator for a while. Eventually I was a team lead over the operations team that I had previously worked in.<br><br>Then, after a rather scary change of management at that company, I decided to move to another state (the company closed 5 months later). I had done a lot to train in one of the operations guys to do a lot of the UNIX Admin job that I was also doing, and recommended him as my replacement on the way out the door. That guy got the job, for the little time the company lasted.<br><br><b>Legitimate Work</b><br><b><br></b>I had spent my first five+ professional years at a company where a friend of a friend worked. Even my getting the programming job over the other guys could have been, at least partly, because of that nepotism. I wasn't fully sure of myself, but I knew in my heart that I had some legitimate skills. So, when I found myself in a new state, and a new market, I was worried. I stayed unemployed for over six weeks, and finally got a contracting job running Linux systems (1,600 Linux systems), and I did fine. I was there for 5 months (and I often don't list this on my CV).<br><br>At the end of that contract, I found a new job doing HP/UX administration and software support. After six months, I started repairing laptops and picking up the rest of the IT admin work at this company (their only IT support was in another country). I had one of those tough negotiations with my manager, and got the title IT Manager after 8 months. While I was there, only sometimes with part-time employees, I started using Perl to do automation work. I also did Oracle DBA work, and became certified in Progress 9 (another database).<br><br>At the end of my time there, the comptroller let me know that they were looking to outsource my job to an external IT contractor (I wasn't actually making that much, but they were looking to sell, and wanted to cut down the salary base pre-sale). I was at this company for over six years, ending as the Director of IT. Just before my end-date, I found a contract job as a Perl programmer.<br><br>At the end of a six month contract as a Perl programmer, I was hired full-time. My job was Technical Team Leader. I was a Technical Team Leader with teams of 1 to 4 people for five years, and then was promoted to Development manager. I don't program or administer anything anymore. It's been 21 years since this tale began, and I'm happy that I've made it to management. Strangely, while I miss being "close to the metal" and doing stuff, I can also tell ... I'm slow and sloppy now. Maybe I'm just out of practice. Or maybe, it's the slow that was creeping up on Norm all those years back. I'll never be sure.<br><br><b>Fin.</b><br><br><br><br><br></div></div><footer class=post-footer><ul class=post-tags><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/blog/>blog</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/personal/>personal</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/work/>work</a></li></ul><nav class=paginav><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2014/10/electronics-mod-ensoniq-ks-32/><span class=title>« Prev</span><br><span>Electronics Mod: Ensoniq KS-32</span></a>
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I'm still thankful for the great deal I got on it. I'm also greatful that the guy I bought it from didn't break my leg, since I didn't finish paying that really good price for 3 years. Despite some harrowing times (orange juice dumped into it), it still functions to this day.\n\nOne note about the KS-32, is that the settings are stored on-board in RAM, or Random Access Memory. This not not the much better version, NVRAM, where NV stands for Non-Volatile. This means, if there's no power to the memory, the settings are gone. To prevent the settings from being gone every time the KS-32 is powered off, or unplugged, there is a 3-Volt battery onboard. The battery is a fairly common CR2032.\nThere are three problems with this.\nThe battery only lasts between 5 and 7 years. The battery is located inside the chassis (six screws, and an internal ribbon cable to deal with). The battery is soldered directly to the main computer board. About 2 years ago, after having lost all of my settings, track presets and sequences, I opened it up, removed the old battery (with flat wire-cutters), and put in a new battery, soldered to some lead wires. All good and well, I was able to save settings, and track presets, and everything was happy. Then, last year, there was some major re-arranging of the room where I keep the keyboard, and I had to unplug it, and put it away (in its hard case, into the closet). When the keyboard moved, happened, the battery moved around on its wires, and shorted itself out ... probably not for long (it still has a charge now), but for long enough that the keyboard lost all of its settings. Well, when I set the keyboard up, and realized that it had lost its settings again (I have a SysEx backup this time), I decided I needed to do something smarter with the battery situation. So I did some research on CR batteries, and decided to go bigger. The Mod Parts list CR2450 button battery 2450 button battery holder x2 3 x1.5 inch circuit board from radio shack Red and Black wire spools Electrical Tape Nuts and bolts (x4) Washers (x16) 3 x 2 inch piece of plexiglass. Thin cable tie Tools Soldiering iron Dremel Tool Screwdrivers Pliers Wire cutters. Multi-Meter I soldered the two button battery holders onto the circuit board (buy more than you need, they can break in shipping). I connected them in parallel, and then connected 6 inch extension leads to both sides, soldiering everything in place. I then checked the connections end-to-end with the ohm setting of the multimeter, to make sure the connections were good. I used the Dremel tool to dig through the plexiglass so that I could screw the circuit board to it. Lining up the plexiglass with the four pre-drilled holes of the circuit board, I drilled the first four holes. This way the back of the circuit board (where my solder points are) can't short out on the metal case of the KS-32. I also added a fifth hole on one side of the plexiglass so that I can loosely attach the entire thing to the inside of the KS-32 (to not stress any connections). Once the holes were drilled, I put the 4 bolts through the plexiglass holes. Stacked 4 washers on each bolt (as a stand-off ... other solutions would work just as well), and fed the circuit board (which has four pre-drilled screw holes already) on top. The nuts are added on top of that. Pliers and screwdriver are used to tighten the circuit board to the plexiglass. I added some electrical tape to cover the bolt heads, just in case they make contact with the back of one of the circuit boards inside the KS-32. Next, I removed the old battery (from the leads that I had put in earlier), though, the leads can be attached directly to the original battery mounts. Then I soldered the leads together. I cannot stress enough to make sure that battery + matches circuit-board +, and that battery - matches circuit board -. I used red and black insulated wires to indicate polarity at every step. Once everything is soldered in place, do one more multi-meter check to verify that the connections on the battery holder terminals reach all the way to the circuit board. Then I electrical-taped the movable solder connections on the lead wires. I then took a thin cable tie, and fed it around a stand-off on the upper circuit board assembly, then through the fifth hole on the plexiglass. I closed it only to the point where it started to click (not tight). Finally, I put one battery into one battery holder (it doesn't matter which one - but it does matter how the battery goes in). Aside, If you made it this far, you must be really into mod projects without pictures, or you are board. I appreciate it either way. I closed the KS-32, turned it on ... set some settings, saved some preferences, and then turned it off and unplugged it. After a few minutes, I plugged it back in, turned it on, and verified that the settings were saved. Success. The other battery holder is fully connected, and ready to receive a second battery. I've set a reminder to put a second battery in, after four years. I then plan to replace one of the batteries every four years until something else goes wrong, and the keyboard dies. 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I'm still thankful for the great deal I got on it. I'm also greatful that the guy I bought it from didn't break my leg, since I didn't finish paying that really good price for 3 years. Despite some harrowing times (orange juice dumped into it), it still functions to this day.<br><br><a name=more></a><br>One note about the KS-32, is that the settings are stored on-board in RAM, or Random Access Memory. This not not the much better version, NVRAM, where NV stands for Non-Volatile. This means, if there's no power to the memory, the settings are gone. To prevent the settings from being gone every time the KS-32 is powered off, or unplugged, there is a 3-Volt battery onboard. The battery is a fairly common CR2032.<br><br>There are three problems with this.<br><br><ol style=text-align:left><li>The battery only lasts between 5 and 7 years.</li><li>The battery is located inside the chassis (six screws, and an internal ribbon cable to deal with).</li><li>The battery is soldered directly to the main computer board.</li></ol><div>About 2 years ago, after having lost all of my settings, track presets and sequences, I opened it up, removed the old battery (with flat wire-cutters), and put in a new battery, soldered to some lead wires. All good and well, I was able to save settings, and track presets, and everything was happy.</div><div><br></div><div>Then, last year, there was some major re-arranging of the room where I keep the keyboard, and I had to unplug it, and put it away (in its hard case, into the closet). When the keyboard moved, happened, the battery moved around on its wires, and shorted itself out ... probably not for long (it still has a charge now), but for long enough that the keyboard lost all of its settings.</div><div><br></div><div>Well, when I set the keyboard up, and realized that it had lost its settings again (I have a SysEx backup this time), I decided I needed to do something smarter with the battery situation. So I did some research on CR batteries, and decided to go bigger.</div><div><br></div><h3 style=text-align:left><span style=font-weight:400>The Mod</span></h3><div>Parts list</div><div><ol style=text-align:left><li>CR2450 button battery</li><li>2450 button battery holder x2</li><li>3 x1.5 inch circuit board from radio shack</li><li>Red and Black wire spools</li><li>Electrical Tape</li><li>Nuts and bolts (x4)</li><li>Washers (x16)</li><li>3 x 2 inch piece of plexiglass.</li><li>Thin cable tie</li></ol><div>Tools</div><div><ol style=text-align:left><li>Soldiering iron</li><li>Dremel Tool</li><li>Screwdrivers</li><li>Pliers</li><li>Wire cutters.</li><li>Multi-Meter</li></ol></div><div>I soldered the two button battery holders onto the circuit board (buy more than you need, they can break in shipping). I connected them in parallel, and then connected 6 inch extension leads to both sides, soldiering everything in place. I then checked the connections end-to-end with the ohm setting of the multimeter, to make sure the connections were good.</div></div><div><br></div><div>I used the Dremel tool to dig through the plexiglass so that I could screw the circuit board to it. Lining up the plexiglass with the four pre-drilled holes of the circuit board, I drilled the first four holes. This way the back of the circuit board (where my solder points are) can't short out on the metal case of the KS-32. I also added a fifth hole on one side of the plexiglass so that I can loosely attach the entire thing to the inside of the KS-32 (to not stress any connections).</div><div><br></div><div>Once the holes were drilled, I put the 4 bolts through the plexiglass holes. Stacked 4 washers on each bolt (as a stand-off ... other solutions would work just as well), and fed the circuit board (which has four pre-drilled screw holes already) on top. The nuts are added on top of that. Pliers and screwdriver are used to tighten the circuit board to the plexiglass. I added some electrical tape to cover the bolt heads, just in case they make contact with the back of one of the circuit boards inside the KS-32.</div><div><br></div><div>Next, I removed the old battery (from the leads that I had put in earlier), though, the leads can be attached directly to the original battery mounts. Then I soldered the leads together. I cannot stress enough to make sure that battery + matches circuit-board +, and that battery - matches circuit board -. I used red and black insulated wires to indicate polarity at every step.</div><div><br></div><div>Once everything is soldered in place, do one more multi-meter check to verify that the connections on the battery holder terminals reach all the way to the circuit board. Then I electrical-taped the movable solder connections on the lead wires.</div><div><br></div><div>I then took a thin cable tie, and fed it around a stand-off on the upper circuit board assembly, then through the fifth hole on the plexiglass. I closed it only to the point where it started to click (not tight).</div><div><br></div><div>Finally, I put one battery into one battery holder (it doesn't matter which one - but it does matter how the battery goes in). Aside, If you made it this far, you must be really into mod projects without pictures, or you are board. I appreciate it either way.</div><div><br></div><div>I closed the KS-32, turned it on ... set some settings, saved some preferences, and then turned it off and unplugged it. After a few minutes, I plugged it back in, turned it on, and verified that the settings were saved. Success.</div><div><br></div><div>The other battery holder is fully connected, and ready to receive a second battery. 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<span style="background-color:#fff;color:#222;font-family:arial unicode ms,Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:16px;text-align:left">Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection</span>
<span style=font-size:12.8000001907349px> (SUB 0184)</span></td></tr></tbody></table><a href=https://ephemeralnewyork.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/brklynmuseumold.jpg imageanchor=1 style=clear:right;float:right;margin-bottom:1em;margin-left:1em><br></a><div style=text-align:left>Looked up some history, and found it - sadly, can't find it without the context being construction of the subway. A two story grand stairway used to lead up to the front doors. The crazy modern entrance was added in 2004, but it turns out the stairs were removed way back in 1934 (only 10 some years after the museum's original construction plans were completed). It's heartening to think that even back then the museum board was thinking of things like accessibility.</div><table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 class=tr-caption-container style=float:left;margin-right:1em;text-align:left><tbody><tr><td style=text-align:center><a href=http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/about/images/08-335.jpg imageanchor=1 style=clear:left;margin-bottom:1em;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto><img border=0 src=/img/brooklyn-museum_3_08-335.jpg height=142 width=200></a></td></tr><tr><td class=tr-caption style=text-align:center>Source: Brooklyn Museum</td></tr></tbody></table><div style=text-align:left>Honestly, I think this site would have shocked me even more. It is ugly. It seems that even in the 1930s there could have been a more creative way to make the building accessible from the ground floor. However, it seems that this is the way the building was presented to visitors between 1934 and 2004.</div><div style=text-align:left><br></div><div style=text-align:left>There's a parking lot in the back, there must have been an accessible doorway back there. How else would big statues come in and out?</div><div style=text-align:left><br></div><div style=text-align:left><br><table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 class=tr-caption-container style=float:right;margin-left:1em;text-align:right><tbody><tr><td style=text-align:center><a href=http://cdn.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/heels/images/pl084_EL129.076_Louboutin_Printz_Jay_Zukerkorn_photograph_edited_428W.jpg imageanchor=1 style=clear:right;margin-bottom:1em;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto><img border=0 src=http://cdn.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/heels/images/pl084_EL129.076_Louboutin_Printz_Jay_Zukerkorn_photograph_edited_428W.jpg height=200 width=194></a></td></tr><tr><td class=tr-caption style=text-align:center><span style=font-size:12.8000001907349px>Source: Brooklyn Museum</span></td></tr></tbody></table>Once inside, I was quite surprised at how much stuff was there. I've been in plenty of very big looking museums where there was very little space actually available for public view, and this museum is definitely not like that. All five floors have areas that are open to the public.</div><div style=text-align:left><br></div><div style=text-align:left>We did not plan for a full day, and we should have. We will definitely be going back to see the majority of the museum that we didn't get to see.</div><div style=text-align:left><br></div><div style=text-align:left>If you are, or have ever been fascinated by high heeled shoes, I seriously suggest checking out the <a href=http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/heels/ target=_blank>Killer Heels</a> exhibition, which closes on March 1.</div><div style=text-align:left><br></div><table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 class=tr-caption-container style=float:left;margin-right:1em;text-align:left><tbody><tr><td style=text-align:center><a href=http://cdn.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/luce/images/Luce-Signature_428-wide.jpg imageanchor=1 style=clear:left;margin-bottom:1em;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto><img border=0 src=http://cdn.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/luce/images/Luce-Signature_428-wide.jpg height=134 width=200></a></td></tr><tr><td class=tr-caption style=text-align:center><span style=font-size:12.8000001907349px>Source: Brooklyn Museum</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style=text-align:left>Another thing to point out (I was greatly impressed by this) is a room on the fifth floor called the <a href=http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/luce/ target=_blank>Visible Storage Study Center</a>. It is basically a glass cased warehouse of stuff that wouldn't fit in the rest of the museum. There are iPads and hanging catalogs instead of individual placards. If I see something I like, I type the catalog number into an iPad, and the details come up. To me this felt more interactive, even though a lot of the collection couldn't even be seen very well (like items on high shelves).</div><div style=text-align:left><br></div><div style=text-align:left>Anyway, I'm impressed. Be sure to add it to your list if you are a Museum buff.</div><div style=text-align:left><br></div></div></div><footer class=post-footer><ul class=post-tags><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/blog/>blog</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/history/>history</a></li></ul><nav class=paginav><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2015/01/late-night-meeting-restless/><span class=title>« Prev</span><br><span>Late Night Meeting ... Restless</span></a>
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Anyway, it's a lot of words, and not a lot of specifics.\nJust got off a meeting, kicking off the third phase of a project that I've been working on for 22 months. This is the phase where I hand off management to someone else, and I stay around to help .. answer questions, but mostly try to stay out of the way. Enable confidence in the person taking over, instead of deference.\n\nI asked for someone else to take over. Partly, because the next phase deals with databases that are not directly in my management chain, and partly because two years on a single project is starting to burn me out. My final phase isn't quite over, but it is quickly coming to a close.\n22 months ago, I was named as the delivery manager, and a handful of the best engineers we could gather came together in St. Paul to kick off a major change to the way our databases accept and distribute data changes out to products. The project started with some very lofty, but loose goals, and in two weeks, we all turned those goals into requirements, and from requirements, we came up with a fresh framework ... a fresh approach. We all scattered back to our corners of the world, and further refined the plan. I did my best to break down the approach into the smallest possible chunks, and estimated the overall project at 24 months.\nManagement, stakeholders, development team managers and developers further refined the project plans, and did everything possible to squeeze down the timelines. Eventually, we were approved to start with an unheard-of 18 month plan for phase 1. Projects rarely get approved if they cannot complete in the current fiscal year. But the goals are strategic, and everyone in the management chain above me did their best to sell the benefits.\nI remember reading a very-long time ago that most software projects that are estimated at more than 1 year of work ultimately fail. I took this to heart, very early, and have always done everything in my power to take this project in small parts.\nThis project is something that I'm extremely proud of, and I brought the first phase to completion within 2 months of the original 18 month goal. Through these related software projects, the database that was updated has seen an amazing doubling of delivery times, without an underlying hardware update. Plus opening up possibilities for many new projects. Not all of the original lofty goals could be met, but this project leaves us in a fully functional state where the roadmap to those other goals are obvious.\nAs phase 2 started, without any time to really sit back and figure out what to improve from phase 1, I started making notes about all of the side projects that had come up. Legacy things we had to fix, and get out of the way to make the new software succeed. Without the benefit of doing those side projects BEFORE phase 2, I'm starting to see some of the same dependency delays in phase 2, as I had in phase 1.\nWith this phase 3 kick-off, I have presented these side projects as pre-requisites. Individual stand-alone projects that can be completed within the older infrastructure software that will make the conversion to the new software a lot easier.\nNow that phase 1 is done, and I've really had time to dissect the things that could have been better, I think the separation of those parts, those sub-projects, should have been more formal, earlier. Teams ended up specializing on each project, but there was a /lot/ of places where cross-influence was not controlled in a formal manner. Frankly, I think that I was lucky that there was no part of the process that went wrong while my attention was on something else. Lucky that the team is so mature, and that there are plenty of senior developers who understood the goals and the principles that were set out for this project.\nMake no mistake. Failures happened in phase 1. Major failures in design that could have caused some potential major service issues have had to be flagged and fixed. There were team members who put in some extremely serious hours fixing things ... sometimes because my own advice was followed and wrong. Yet, despite the set-backs, the team succeeded.\nAs phase 2 wraps up, I'm taking this time to look back on what was accomplished, and hope that we continue to see successful completion of the future phases that I now pass on to my colleague.\nIn a very real way, I'm also sad that I'm handing this off to someone else. Yet, I know that there are new challenges to lead, and I'm anxious to help figure out what's next. 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Restless</h1><div class=post-meta><span title="2015-01-28 00:26:00 -0500 -0500">28 Jan 2015</span> · 5 min · Gary Allen Vollink</div></header><div class=post-content><div dir=ltr style=text-align:left trbidi=on>I'm not sure who the audience for this is supposed to be. Just like the blog entry I left about adding a battery holder to my 1990s era MIDI workstation, I think it's mostly just a sounding board, and notebook for myself. Maybe some of the people who work on this project will read this, maybe not. Anyway, it's a lot of words, and not a lot of specifics.<br><br>Just got off a meeting, kicking off the third phase of a project that I've been working on for 22 months. This is the phase where I hand off management to someone else, and I stay around to help .. answer questions, but mostly try to stay out of the way. Enable confidence in the person taking over, instead of deference.<br><br><a name=more></a><br>I asked for someone else to take over. Partly, because the next phase deals with databases that are not directly in my management chain, and partly because two years on a single project is starting to burn me out. My final phase isn't quite over, but it is quickly coming to a close.<br><br>22 months ago, I was named as the delivery manager, and a handful of the best engineers we could gather came together in St. Paul to kick off a major change to the way our databases accept and distribute data changes out to products. The project started with some very lofty, but loose goals, and in two weeks, we all turned those goals into requirements, and from requirements, we came up with a fresh framework ... a fresh approach. We all scattered back to our corners of the world, and further refined the plan. I did my best to break down the approach into the smallest possible chunks, and estimated the overall project at 24 months.<br><br>Management, stakeholders, development team managers and developers further refined the project plans, and did everything possible to squeeze down the timelines. Eventually, we were approved to start with an unheard-of 18 month plan for phase 1. Projects rarely get approved if they cannot complete in the current fiscal year. But the goals are strategic, and everyone in the management chain above me did their best to sell the benefits.<br><br>I remember reading a very-long time ago that most software projects that are estimated at more than 1 year of work ultimately fail. I took this to heart, very early, and have always done everything in my power to take this project in small parts.<br><br>This project is something that I'm extremely proud of, and I brought the first phase to completion within 2 months of the original 18 month goal. Through these related software projects, the database that was updated has seen an amazing doubling of delivery times, without an underlying hardware update. Plus opening up possibilities for many new projects. Not all of the original lofty goals could be met, but this project leaves us in a fully functional state where the roadmap to those other goals are obvious.<br><br>As phase 2 started, without any time to really sit back and figure out what to improve from phase 1, I started making notes about all of the side projects that had come up. Legacy things we had to fix, and get out of the way to make the new software succeed. Without the benefit of doing those side projects BEFORE phase 2, I'm starting to see some of the same dependency delays in phase 2, as I had in phase 1.<br><br>With this phase 3 kick-off, I have presented these side projects as pre-requisites. Individual stand-alone projects that can be completed within the older infrastructure software that will make the conversion to the new software a lot easier.<br><br>Now that phase 1 is done, and I've really had time to dissect the things that could have been better, I think the separation of those parts, those sub-projects, should have been more formal, earlier. Teams ended up specializing on each project, but there was a /lot/ of places where cross-influence was not controlled in a formal manner. Frankly, I think that I was lucky that there was no part of the process that went wrong while my attention was on something else. Lucky that the team is so mature, and that there are plenty of senior developers who understood the goals and the principles that were set out for this project.<br><br>Make no mistake. Failures happened in phase 1. Major failures in design that could have caused some potential major service issues have had to be flagged and fixed. There were team members who put in some extremely serious hours fixing things ... sometimes because my own advice was followed and wrong. Yet, despite the set-backs, the team succeeded.<br><br>As phase 2 wraps up, I'm taking this time to look back on what was accomplished, and hope that we continue to see successful completion of the future phases that I now pass on to my colleague.<br><br>In a very real way, I'm also sad that I'm handing this off to someone else. Yet, I know that there are new challenges to lead, and I'm anxious to help figure out what's next.</div></div><footer class=post-footer><ul class=post-tags><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/blog/>blog</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/work/>work</a></li></ul><nav class=paginav><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2015/02/manhattan-flagship-stores-are-not-for-me/><span class=title>« Prev</span><br><span>Manhattan Flagship Stores Are Not For Me</span></a>
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<span class=s1>despite my affinity to a brand, make me feel <i><b>unwelcome</b></i>. Thing is, one of the best things about being a grown-up with a desk-job is that I am usually exactly the demographic that most companies want. I get it, fashion is different. I can deal with some parts of that. Maybe it's just that I've n</span>
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I know in the last few years tickets have been harder and harder to get, and I figured my chances were not going to be very good.\nIf this is too long one can safely scroll down to the Conclusion at the bottom.\nI tried to buy tickets to NYCC the minute they went on sale.","keywords":["blog","it","media","shopping"],"articleBody":"I already have tickets for two other conventions this year, but NYCC is the big one that happens in the city where I live and work. I know in the last few years tickets have been harder and harder to get, and I figured my chances were not going to be very good.\nIf this is too long one can safely scroll down to the Conclusion at the bottom.\nI tried to buy tickets to NYCC the minute they went on sale. Tickets went on sale at noon, here's how it went.\nStarted with a friendly, Virtual Queue, page talking about how a cookie has been set to reserve my place in line, no need to refresh frantically - everything will be handled in the right order, followed by a warning: if you refresh too much, you will be banned for abuse. Six minutes later, I'm looking at a browser error screen:\n408 Request Time-out Your browser didn't send a complete request in time. It takes 30 full seconds for each 408 error to appear, exactly the same - every time. I refresh, once every 30 seconds for about 20 minutes, and get back to the Virtual Queue page. This pattern repeats for almost 90 minutes.\nI finally get to the order page, some types are already sold out, including the 3 day, so I select 4 day tickets (you have to take off Thursday AND Friday to use these fully). The max is set to 4, I need 2. Click next. 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I'm back at the order screen, the drop down only goes to 1. Like a troll cartoon singing, \"you are meant to be alone.\"\n408 408 408 I get back to the cart with counting clock thinking, and 1 ticket. I stare at my screen in disbelief for a minute with the clock counting down. Finally, I close my browser, realizing that I wasn't going to spend that kind of money and risk the possibility of trying to go through it again and having only one ticket, while trying to go through the whole thing again. So, I closed my browser and read the Twitter #NYCC and #NYCCTix tags about a whole lot of scalpers who were DDOSing (Distributed Denial of Service - overwhelming a resource by making requests from a large number of other computers) the system so that they could sell as many as possible of the $104 tickets for $500 or more. 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This follows the exact same pattern as a bully playing keep away with a much smaller child. At the end of this I was emotionally exhausted and feeling anger about the unfairness of things.\nTo the programmers and admins who look over the logs, if they find my session and follow it, I have no doubt that what they'll see is some idiot who got into a cart, selected two tickets and refused to fill out the survey. Then selected one ticket, and then never came back. They'll probably try to eliminate my behavior, as just some troll who just put tickets in reserve for a while. And, to me, that is the real saddest part of this. In the end, I look like the problem user they need to fix.\nBut just look at me, how pathetic, feeling inferior to my bully. 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I know in the last few years tickets have been harder and harder to get, and I figured my chances were not going to be very good.<br><br>If this is too long one can safely scroll down to the Conclusion at the bottom.<br><br>I tried to buy tickets to NYCC the minute they went on sale. Tickets went on sale at noon, here's how it went.<br><br>Started with a friendly, Virtual Queue, page talking about how a cookie has been set to reserve my place in line, no need to refresh frantically - everything will be handled in the right order, followed by a warning: if you refresh too much, you will be banned for abuse. Six minutes later, I'm looking at a browser error screen:<br><blockquote class=tr_bq><span style=font-size:large><b>408 Request Time-out</b></span><br>Your browser didn't send a complete request in time.</blockquote>It takes 30 full seconds for each 408 error to appear, exactly the same - every time. I refresh, once every 30 seconds for about 20 minutes, and get back to the Virtual Queue page. This pattern repeats for almost 90 minutes.<br><br>I finally get to the order page, some types are already sold out, including the 3 day, so I select 4 day tickets (you have to take off Thursday AND Friday to use these fully). The max is set to 4, I need 2. Click next. Wait for the full 30 seconds...<br><br><blockquote class=tr_bq><b>408</b></blockquote><br>Try again,<blockquote class=tr_bq><b><br class=Apple-interchange-newline>408</b></blockquote><div><b><br></b></div>...try again,<blockquote class=tr_bq><b><br class=Apple-interchange-newline>408</b></blockquote><div><b><br></b></div>...try again,<br><blockquote class=tr_bq><b><br class=Apple-interchange-newline>408</b></blockquote>...tickets are in cart. And there's a completion clock already ticking down. Select delivery, Next. Another 30 seconds which always precedes another.<br><blockquote class=tr_bq><br class=Apple-interchange-newline><b>408</b></blockquote><div><blockquote class=tr_bq><br class=Apple-interchange-newline><b>408</b></blockquote></div><div><blockquote class=tr_bq><br class=Apple-interchange-newline><b>408</b></blockquote></div><div><br></div>Mandatory survey with 6 minutes to go. Gender, Age Range, Three ranked, Why do you do put up with this? Something else, and click agree on a zero tolerance harassment policy. Next.<br><blockquote class=tr_bq><br class=Apple-interchange-newline><b>408</b></blockquote><div><blockquote class=tr_bq><br class=Apple-interchange-newline><b>408</b></blockquote></div><div><blockquote class=tr_bq><br class=Apple-interchange-newline><b>408</b></blockquote></div><div><br></div>Mandatory survey with 4 minutes to go. Nothing stayed with the refresh. Fill out again, Next.<br><blockquote class=tr_bq><br class=Apple-interchange-newline><b>408</b></blockquote><div><blockquote class=tr_bq><br class=Apple-interchange-newline><b>408</b></blockquote></div><div><br></div>Mandatory survey with 1 minute to go. I christmas tree it as fast as I can. Next.<br><br>The browser spins as the clock reaches zero.<br><blockquote class=tr_bq><br class=Apple-interchange-newline><b>408</b></blockquote><div><br></div>I'm back at the order page. There are even more things sold out, but there's still a drop down for what I want. The drop down doesn't go to 4 anymore, it only goes to two, but that's all I wanted.<br>Select, Next.<br>No 408 this time.<br><blockquote class=tr_bq>There are not that many bundles available, select again.</blockquote>I'm back at the order screen, the drop down only goes to 1. Like a troll cartoon singing, "you are meant to be alone."<br><blockquote class=tr_bq><b>408</b></blockquote><div><blockquote class=tr_bq><br class=Apple-interchange-newline><b>408</b></blockquote></div><div><blockquote class=tr_bq><br class=Apple-interchange-newline><b>408</b></blockquote></div><div>I get back to the cart with counting clock thinking, and 1 ticket. I stare at my screen in disbelief for a minute with the clock counting down. Finally, I close my browser, realizing that I wasn't going to spend that kind of money and risk the possibility of trying to go through it again and having only one ticket, while trying to go through the whole thing again.</div><div><br></div><div>So, I closed my browser and read the Twitter #NYCC and #NYCCTix tags about a whole lot of scalpers who were DDOSing (Distributed Denial of Service - overwhelming a resource by making requests from a large number of other computers) the system so that they could sell as many as possible of the $104 tickets for $500 or more.</div><br><b>Conclusion</b><br><br>So for over two hours of my time, in the end I didn't purchase anything, and I won't be going.<br><br>At first I railed against all the scalpers who were basically using farming operations (rows of users and computers, manually DDOSing the systems to get as many tickets as possible) to scoop their own illicit profit from something that has consistently sold out year on year. And while this is what likely caused the 408 error itself, the Virtual Queue system still kept that from killing the experience.<br><br>With the clarity of sleep, it's the 408 errors, and the unfairness of putting a cart clock onto a system that is fraught with internal timeouts that was the real problem. Each 408 repeating like Poe's The Raven, making me question my browser, my computer, my internet connection ... my own self worth? The system taunts me to keep trying.<br><blockquote class=tr_bq><span style=font-size:large><b>408 Request Time-out</b></span><br>Your browser didn't send a complete request in time.</blockquote>This follows the exact same pattern as a bully playing keep away with a much smaller child. At the end of this I was emotionally exhausted and feeling anger about the unfairness of things.<br><br>To the programmers and admins who look over the logs, if they find my session and follow it, I have no doubt that what they'll see is some idiot who got into a cart, selected two tickets and refused to fill out the survey. Then selected one ticket, and then never came back. They'll probably try to eliminate my behavior, as just some troll who just put tickets in reserve for a while. And, to me, that is the real saddest part of this. In the end, I look like the problem user they need to fix.<br><br>But just look at me, how pathetic, feeling inferior to my bully.</div></div><footer class=post-footer><ul class=post-tags><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/blog/>blog</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/it/>it</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/media/>media</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/shopping/>shopping</a></li></ul><nav class=paginav><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2015/09/geek-authban-4-years-later/><span class=title>« Prev</span><br><span>[Geek] Authban : 4 Years Later</span></a>
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At the time, the script (and my home web host) was running on an Ubuntu virtual server. The name, Authban, surfaced in early 2011, as I organized the script to do more than just block ssh.<br><br><b>The First Rewrite</b><br><b><br></b>Since writing the initial introduction, my home web site was ported to Mac OS X, and along with it, Authban.<br><br>The first thing that had to change is that I no longer had iptables available, so the way my script was blocking IP addresses was no longer available, the Apple world prefers the BSD program pf (packet filter). With this came a very large number of little changes in many places. At that point (2013), the Authban script became a full OO Perl application module set, in which, PfCtl.pm is one piece. It also has a full test suite, and I did a very large number of upgrades to the threat vector detection. Another upgrade I did at that time was to database the blocked IP addresses directly into mysql.<br><br><b>The Second Rewrite</b><br><br>I was contacted by the administrator of a honey-pot aggregator about two months ago, after I did some maintenance on the <a href=https://twitter.com/volIPBan target=_blank>volIPBan</a> Twitter account. Despite my running a production system (and not a honey-pot), I was asked to contribute my threats. Seems legit enough (and no harm, even if it isn't), but I realized that this would be the right opportunity to fix one of the problems that has long plagued my little project: Slow run time.<br><br>I'm currently on the ninth running version of the second re-write, and I have a LOT more to do. However, as of today, I should be contributing my threats as promised. The aggregator takes some pains to not reveal the IPs or locations of the contributors, but since I'm running a web site and would rather be black-listed as a honey-pot, I'm happy to mention it here.<br><br><b>Still to come</b><br><br>Some of the other upgrades I'm doing has to do with ramping up my use of MySql, not only to store threats already blocked, but to store tallies on all IP addresses that contact my site for any reason. This will help me detect attacks that happen slowly, over weeks (and over log rotations) that I might now always pick up, currently. Also, by keeping these sorts of statistics, I'll also be able to scan all the various log files from the place I last left off, instead of the current method of reading every log file from the beginning. I try to run 3 times per minute, and if the log rotation wheels are against me, I can sometimes go a week where the run-time consistently lasts longer than 20 seconds. By the time I'm done with the second rewrite, I want to see this additional database functionality working.<br><br>I still have multiple modules (like the one that does twitter) that includes embedded authentication information. I also do not have all of the threat vectors that I have defined put into an external configuration file. Both of these prevent me from publishing this little work somewhere. Maybe this won't happen as part of the second rewrite, but I do plan to get this done at some point.</div></div><footer class=post-footer><ul class=post-tags><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/blog/>blog</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/geek/>geek</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/tech/>tech</a></li></ul><nav class=paginav><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2015/11/blog-the-sad-state-of-3d-on-a-pc/><span class=title>« Prev</span><br><span>BLOG: The Sad State of 3D on a PC</span></a>
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What I'm talking about here is PC gaming in stereoscopic 3D. This is gaming that not only depicts a 3D play environment, but also looks 3D to the player's eyes.\n I remember that Descent came out in 1995, and it had support for a virtual reality headset called the Forte VFX-1. That's 20 years ago. There were a few 3D games before that, and several have come out since. Immersive 3D worlds have become common-place in video games. Recently, everyone has been talking about Oculus Rift, the new VR headset that's supposed to show up for retail next year. With that in mind, I didn't research much, I assumed that 3D was already a thing on PC. I am very much a fan of flight simulation and flying games in general. I have a decent HOTAS (Hands-On Throttle and Stick) as well as a very nice set of rudder pedals. As such, I'll talk about flight simulation first. The most common and popular software for this is Microsoft's Flight Simulator series that has been around for a VERY long time. It was the first of the programs to let us fly around the actual world that we know in real life. I remember trying to land on the simplistic Brooklyn Bridge using Flight Simulator in the early 1990s. I clearly remember there was some fanfare about Flight Simulator 2004 supporting stereoscopic 3D. The latest (and last) version of Flight Simulator that was actually made by Microsoft was Flight Simulator X that came out in 2010. So, I turn on Flight Simulator X with the nVidia 3D Vision enabled and everything seems to go quite well. The spinning aircraft in the Free Flight setup window shows up in actual 3D. So, I select a nice scenic area, and a fairly simple aircraft and launch the game. After a quarter second of scary black screen, everything sync's up, and the world looks perfect. Look around everything is where I expect it in space. Until... I see any lighting of the airport itself. I don't know how to describe this except to say that it seems like airport lighting is an afterthought. Once they've rendered the 3D world using the Video Card hardware for what it does best, it seems that the lighting is added to the screen. This means that the lighting is sitting at screen depth. This also means that as your eyes line up the far away background, the screen-depth lighting appears to show up twice... or, if you focus on the lights, the background becomes double. Sigh. That means Flight Simulator looks great as long as you never go towards an Airport. I really like to finish a session with a decent landing, and, well, this makes that pretty impossible. Turn off the 3D, and I'm happy with my setup with this game. The Microsoft folks never said they supported NVidia's 3D Vision with Flight SImulator X (which surprised me), but it was worth a try. I look around at other options, and figure I'll start with the nVidia site. They have a handy list of games that are certified as 3D Vision Ready. I drop down the selector and see a Genre for Flight Sim. Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X. 2 is the only game listed. Okay, so, I go to the site for the game itself, and they don't even have a trailer. It came out 5 years ago in 2010. There are a couple of pictures, but it's not clear if it is a mock up of the world, or if it's something from a cut scene, or is it from game-play? The smallest and crappiest image on the whole site seems to be from game-play, and I got to say, that's not encouraging. Maybe I'll buy this, but not without at least finding a decent review. So, what about non certified? Pretty much anybody says that the best flight simulator software out there is X-Plane 10 (warning that link has an auto-play video). X-Plane runs on all three popular Operating Systems. I go check out the forums, and no. It will not do stereoscopic 3D at all. NVidia's 3D drivers only support games written in DirectX, not OpenGL. That makes sense, I suppose, from a development stand-point (and their competition holds the same limitation), but there are a lot of games out there that use OpenGL. I will be buying a copy of this anyway, since it's basically the only new non-combat Flight Sim out there at all. I like racing games, too. Same place, drop down the Genre box to Racing. There are two titles, but neither are for sale anymore. GT Legends and rFactor 2. Supposedly these were great games. I note that most reviews I can find of 3D gaming, screenshots of GT Legends are usually prominent. Fair, but both of these games came out 10 years ago. I think I can still find a copy of one or both on Steam, but I didn't buy a new gaming rig to play stuff that my old rig could have played, but now in 3D. The newest games officially supported are not that new. Since, supposedly, MS Flight Simulator 2004 actually works, and I have a dusty copy, I might try the even older version of FS for 3D compatibility, but as I said, I didn't buy this rig to play games my old one could have played (and in this case, DID play). I will note that almost any game that came out under the game engine Unreal 3 might work, since Unreal 3, itself, did support nVidia 3D vision (and several of the 2011 titles with official nVidia support were coded using Unreal 3). This brings me to the title that I am most excited (after 20 years) to play. Descent is being recoded and re-released as a prequel. Descent: Underground is currently in Beta, and was coded using the Unreal 4 engine. In the Microsoft-like tradition of Flight Simulator 2004 to X, Unreal dropped support for NVidia 3D Vision. That means that the new generation of games coming have almost zero chance of 3D support. Further, Descent: Underground is supposed to support the Oculus Rift, but there are problems with that, too. So, that's where we are? There are only a handful of titles that support stereoscopic 3D viewing that have come out in the last 3 years, and none of them excite me. Meanwhile, I think I'll watch 3D Blu-Ray movies on my rig, because those actually do work quite flawlessly. I'm glad I decided to build my rig with an actual Blu-Ray drive, so the 3D stuff doesn't feel like a complete waste of money. 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What I'm talking about here is PC gaming in stereoscopic 3D. This is gaming that not only depicts a 3D play environment, but also looks 3D to the player's eyes.<br><br></div><div style=font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small></div><div style=font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small>I remember that Descent came out in 1995, and it had support for a virtual reality headset called the Forte VFX-1. That's 20 years ago. There were a few 3D games before that, and several have come out since. Immersive 3D worlds have become common-place in video games. Recently, everyone has been talking about <a href=https://www.oculus.com/en-us/rift/ target=_blank>Oculus Rift</a>, the new VR headset that's supposed to show up for retail next year. With that in mind, I didn't research much, I assumed that 3D was already a thing on PC.</div><div style=font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small></div><div style=font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small><br>I am very much a fan of flight simulation and flying games in general. I have a decent HOTAS (Hands-On Throttle and Stick) as well as a very nice set of <a href=http://mfg.simundza.com/products target=_blank>rudder pedals</a>. As such, I'll talk about flight simulation first. The most common and popular software for this is Microsoft's Flight Simulator series that has been around for a VERY long time. It was the first of the programs to let us fly around the actual world that we know in real life. I remember trying to land on the simplistic Brooklyn Bridge using Flight Simulator in the early 1990s. I clearly remember there was some fanfare about Flight Simulator 2004 supporting stereoscopic 3D. The latest (and last) version of Flight Simulator that was actually made by Microsoft was Flight Simulator X that came out in 2010.</div><div style=font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small></div><div style=font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small>So, I turn on Flight Simulator X with the nVidia 3D Vision enabled and everything seems to go quite well. The spinning aircraft in the Free Flight setup window shows up in actual 3D. So, I select a nice scenic area, and a fairly simple aircraft and launch the game. After a quarter second of scary black screen, everything sync's up, and the world looks perfect. Look around everything is where I expect it in space. Until... I see any lighting of the airport itself.</div><div style=font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small></div><div style=font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small><br>I don't know how to describe this except to say that it seems like airport lighting is an afterthought. Once they've rendered the 3D world using the Video Card hardware for what it does best, it seems that the lighting is added to the screen. This means that the lighting is sitting at screen depth. This also means that as your eyes line up the far away background, the screen-depth lighting appears to show up twice... or, if you focus on the lights, the background becomes double. Sigh. That means Flight Simulator looks great as long as you never go towards an Airport. I really like to finish a session with a decent landing, and, well, this makes that pretty impossible. Turn off the 3D, and I'm happy with my setup with this game. The Microsoft folks never said they supported NVidia's 3D Vision with Flight SImulator X (which surprised me), but it was worth a try.</div><div style=font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small></div><div style=font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small><br>I look around at other options, and figure I'll start with the <a href=https://www.nvidia.com/object/3d-vision-games.html target=_blank>nVidia site</a>. They have a handy list of games that are certified as 3D Vision Ready. I drop down the selector and see a Genre for Flight Sim. Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X. 2 is the only game listed. Okay, so, I go to the site for the game itself, and they don't even have a trailer. It came out 5 years ago in 2010. There are a couple of pictures, but it's not clear if it is a mock up of the world, or if it's something from a cut scene, or is it from game-play? The smallest and crappiest image on the whole site seems to be from game-play, and I got to say, that's not encouraging. Maybe I'll buy this, but not without at least finding a decent review.</div><div style=font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small></div><div style=font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small><br>So, what about non certified? Pretty much anybody says that the best flight simulator software out there is <a href=http://www.x-plane.com/desktop/home/ target=_blank>X-Plane 10</a> (<i>warning that link has an auto-play video</i>). X-Plane runs on all three popular Operating Systems. I go check out the forums, and no. It will not do stereoscopic 3D at all. NVidia's 3D drivers only support games written in DirectX, not OpenGL. That makes sense, I suppose, from a development stand-point (and their competition holds the same limitation), but there are a lot of games out there that use OpenGL. I will be buying a copy of this anyway, since it's basically the only new non-combat Flight Sim out there at all.</div><div style=font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small></div><div style=font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small><br>I like racing games, too. Same place, drop down the Genre box to Racing. There are two titles, but neither are for sale anymore. GT Legends and rFactor 2. Supposedly these were great games. I note that most reviews I can find of 3D gaming, screenshots of GT Legends are usually prominent. Fair, but both of these games came out 10 years ago. I think I can still find a copy of one or both on Steam, but I didn't buy a new gaming rig to play stuff that my old rig could have played, but now in 3D. The newest games officially supported are not that new.</div><div style=font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small><div></div><div>Since, supposedly, MS Flight Simulator 2004 actually works, and I have a dusty copy, I might try the even older version of FS for 3D compatibility, but as I said, I didn't buy this rig to play games my old one could have played (and in this case, DID play).</div><div></div><div><br>I will note that almost any game that came out under the game engine Unreal 3 might work, since Unreal 3, itself, did support nVidia 3D vision (and several of the 2011 titles with official nVidia support were coded using Unreal 3). This brings me to the title that I am most excited (after 20 years) to play. Descent is being recoded and re-released as a prequel. <a href=http://descendentstudios.com/ target=_blank>Descent: Underground</a> is currently in Beta, and was coded using the Unreal 4 engine. In the Microsoft-like tradition of Flight Simulator 2004 to X, Unreal dropped support for NVidia 3D Vision. That means that the new generation of games coming have almost zero chance of 3D support. Further, Descent: Underground is <i>supposed</i> to support the Oculus Rift, but there are problems with that, too.</div><div></div><div><br>So, that's where we are? There are only a handful of titles that support stereoscopic 3D viewing that have come out in the last 3 years, and none of them excite me.</div><div></div></div><div style=font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small><br>Meanwhile, I think I'll watch <a href="http://www.windvdpro.com/en/products/windvd/pro/?storeKey=us&pid=prod4090069" target=_blank>3D Blu-Ray</a> movies on my rig, because those actually do work quite flawlessly. I'm glad I decided to build my rig with an actual Blu-Ray drive, so the 3D stuff doesn't feel like a complete waste of money.</div></div></div><footer class=post-footer><ul class=post-tags><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/blog/>blog</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/tech/>tech</a></li></ul><nav class=paginav><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2016/10/misplaced-pride-and-getting-over-it/><span class=title>« Prev</span><br><span>Misplaced Pride - and Getting Over It</span></a>
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Sometimes, I'm faking it until I figure it out. That is, though, the part of management where owning the solution to a problem requires compromise, and no single answer is obvious. These are the times I weigh the experiences and warnings of my team and stakeholders and make a decision. Ultimately, the important part is that I am willing to be responsible for the decisions that I've made. Now, I look back and realize that I've been doing that part for 20 years. It's still the hardest part of the job. It's no longer the most stressful part, but it is still the hardest part.\nWell, maybe the hardest part is realizing that when others talk about me openly and honestly, I should probably listen instead of getting defensive. Misplaced pride doesn't help anyone. 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Now you are."</i><br><br>Someone said this to me who had heard the same from someone else. This comes from about three years ago, and was said in the context of my then current role (having moved from process and supervisory management to direct people management). It bothered me.<br><br>I first got to be in management, some 20 years ago. That was the first time I was given a supervisory role (one person!) and primary responsibility for a set of machines. I had worked as a developer and IT systems administrator for a few years before I got that role. I left that first professional job at the end of 1998. I was super young, and I was family-in-law of the CTO, so I didn't really think the supervisory experience would count for much.<br><br>I got another job as a non-manager doing IT and customer support. This was the first job where I didn't know <i>anybody</i>. I was at that company for just over 6 years. Within the first full year of working there, I was given an IT Manager title. Why? I advocated for myself, and pointed out that I was <i>doing that job already</i>. I had learned to take responsibility of things, <i>processes,</i> the way a manager would. The year I first got that "Manager" title was 2000. By the time I left that company, I was the Director of IT (I think that happened in 2003 or 2004). That company decided to outsource the IT department in preparation for selling out to another entity. It was a pretty small company, and I never had any direct reports (I had people I could borrow for IT projects, but that was the extent of it). So, as far as people go, it was also a supervisory role. I didn't really think it would count for much. But ... I <i>wanted </i>it to count.<br><br>This brings us to the company I work for now, March of 2006. I found myself a job doing computer programming, as a contractor. I did that for six months, and then was hired full time by the same company as a development team lead in September of 2006 (which is another supervisory / management role).<br><br>Getting back to the point, someone - at some point during my early time at this company - took my early talk about past management as <i>wanting to be one so badly</i>. As if <i>I had zero experience</i>. Which may mean that someone might have thought they were taking a huge risk on putting me in a management role. I was insulted by that three years ago.<br><div><br></div>I surely let that person know that my management role wasn't a fluke, and pointed out that I've started as a non-manager at three companies, and in all three reached some level of management. It was almost like I was trying to get him to relay this to whomever he initially heard it from. Ultimately, I was only bothered by it because <i>they were right</i>. I had only been a <i>people</i> manager at that point for a little over a year. I was only a few months past having to fire an entire development team (project cancelled). My lack of experience bothered me, so it bothered me more that my lack of experience would also be something others would talk about with someone else.<br><br>I've been promoted several times in the 10 years since I've started working in my current company. I'm not Director level again, but the manager title I have feels like it means more in the huge company I work for than it did in the relatively tiny company I worked for then. People management has a lot to do with that.<br><br>When I started at the current company, I was partly ashamed that I used to be a Director, and now I'm only a programmer, then team lead, process manager, engagement manager. I was even more ashamed that I had no experience with direct reports ... supervisory experience counts, but not as much as having to make hiring and firing decisions.<br><br>I've never stopped learning about being a manager. Sometimes, I'm faking it until I figure it out. That is, though, the part of management where owning the solution to a problem requires compromise, and no single answer is obvious. These are the times I weigh the experiences and warnings of my team and stakeholders and make a decision. Ultimately, the important part is that I am willing to be responsible for the decisions that I've made. Now, I look back and realize that I've been doing that part for 20 years. It's still the hardest part of the job. It's no longer the most stressful part, but it is still the hardest part.<br><br>Well, maybe the hardest part is realizing that when others talk about me openly and honestly, I should probably listen instead of getting defensive. 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There are certain hot-takes that basically suggest that the world will drown in 3, 2...
There are certain hot-takes that basically suggest that we are aligned with Syria by doing this. (There are those that mention Nicaragua, but that country's non-participation is much more complicated)."><script type=application/ld+json>{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Posts","item":"https://blog.vollink.com/post/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Tired of Panic - Paris Climate Accord Edition","item":"https://blog.vollink.com/post/2017/06/tired-of-panic-paris-climate-accord-edition/"}]}</script><script type=application/ld+json>{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BlogPosting","headline":"Tired of Panic - Paris Climate Accord Edition","name":"Tired of Panic - Paris Climate Accord Edition","description":"The President of the US, Donald Trump, has decided to push for the US to leave the Paris Climate Accord. \u0026nbsp;The world is imploding! \u0026nbsp;Well, looking at Twitter it seems the world is imploding.\nThere are certain hot-takes that basically suggest that the world will drown in 3, 2...\nThere are certain hot-takes that basically suggest that we are aligned with Syria by doing this. \u0026nbsp;(There are those that mention Nicaragua, but that country's non-participation is much more complicated).","keywords":["blog","politics"],"articleBody":"The President of the US, Donald Trump, has decided to push for the US to leave the Paris Climate Accord. The world is imploding! Well, looking at Twitter it seems the world is imploding.\nThere are certain hot-takes that basically suggest that the world will drown in 3, 2...\nThere are certain hot-takes that basically suggest that we are aligned with Syria by doing this. (There are those that mention Nicaragua, but that country's non-participation is much more complicated).\nFor the things noted above, sigh, I don't care because they are bull excrement (yes, figuratively).\n\nWithin the Paris Accord, the US voluntarily set some goals about reducing emissions. The US is currently near on track to meet those goals. Further, many, if not most, heavy industries will - purely for commercial/marketing reasons - continue to support those goals within the US. Then, a number of US Cities, followed by US States have pledged, individually, to support these goals, too. I have serious doubts about whether this national action is actually going to change the emissions trends. Emissions progress could slow down, but if so, I think it was probably going to slow down anyway. There may even be enough idiots \"blowing coal\" to slow progress. Ultimately, the accord had zero penalties for missed goals.\nAlso within the Paris Accord, the US pledged a fairly large sum of money to help developing countries reach their own goals. This one does matter, or - well - it did until former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg offered to pay this himself. It totally sucks that he had to do that, but it takes away the financial consequence.\nHere's my \"hot take\". Bloomberg paying this bill on behalf of the US makes this a victory for Trump. The federal government saves some money, and nobody is really hurt. That is, the conservative argument about such things has always been around letting the market decide. Well, Bloomberg wanted this enough that he decided to pay for it. The free market wins.\nThere's something much more subtle here that isn't mentioned with quite the flourish and panic, but it is the one thing that really does bother me. The US is a major leader in clean energy initiatives and technologies. The US leadership in the Paris Climate Accord is a big selling point for that new and flourishing industry. Those industries no longer get that marketing \"win\". That could have serious financial consequences in an industry that employs far more people than the coal industry.\nIt could be argued that China was going to surpass us in this industry anyway, but that has been true of computer parts for a long time, and Apple still does just fine ... in partnership with Chinese manufacturing. In this case, it seems quite likely that China will be able to use this as a pivot to show that they don't need US partnership to build out clean energy infrastructure and sell those components to others.\nI think that this marketing spin has a huge amount to do with which cities and states signed on to carry on the Paris Accord... These are the places where clean industries have a foot print. So, maybe those California based industries (like Apple has long done) will simply say \"Designed in California\", and everyone will know that California was one of the first US states to reject the federal decision, and support the Paris Accords anyway. 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The world is imploding! Well, looking at Twitter it seems the world is imploding.<br><br>There are certain hot-takes that basically suggest that the world will drown in 3, 2...<br><br>There are certain hot-takes that basically suggest that we are aligned with Syria by doing this. (There are those that mention Nicaragua, but that country's non-participation is <i>much more</i> complicated).<br><br>For the things noted above, sigh, I don't care because they are bull excrement (yes, figuratively).<br><br><a name=more></a><br>Within the Paris Accord, the US voluntarily set some goals about reducing emissions. The US is currently <i>near</i> on track to meet those goals. Further, many, if not most, heavy industries will - purely for commercial/marketing reasons - continue to support those goals within the US. Then, a number of US Cities, followed by US States have pledged, individually, to support these goals, too. I have serious doubts about whether this national action is actually going to change the emissions trends. Emissions progress could slow down, but if so, I think it was probably going to slow down anyway. There may even be enough idiots "blowing coal" to slow progress. Ultimately, the accord had zero penalties for missed goals.<br><br>Also within the Paris Accord, the US pledged a fairly large sum of money to help developing countries reach their own goals. This one does matter, or - well - it did until former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg offered to pay this himself. It totally sucks that he had to do that, but it takes away the financial consequence.<br><br>Here's my "hot take". Bloomberg paying this bill on behalf of the US makes this a victory for Trump. The federal government saves some money, and nobody is really hurt. That is, the conservative argument about such things has always been around letting the market decide. Well, Bloomberg wanted this enough that he decided to pay for it. The free market wins.<br><br>There's something much more subtle here that isn't mentioned with quite the flourish and panic, but it is the one thing that really does bother me. The US is a major leader in clean energy initiatives and technologies. The US leadership in the Paris Climate Accord is a big selling point for that new and flourishing industry. Those industries no longer get that marketing "win". That could have serious financial consequences in an industry that employs far more people than the coal industry.<br><br>It could be argued that China was going to surpass us in this industry anyway, but that has been true of computer parts for a long time, and Apple still does just fine ... in partnership with Chinese manufacturing. In this case, it seems quite likely that China will be able to use this as a pivot to show that they don't need US partnership to build out clean energy infrastructure and sell those components to others.<br><br>I think that this marketing spin has a huge amount to do with <i>which</i> cities and states signed on to carry on the Paris Accord... These are the places where clean industries have a foot print. So, maybe those California based industries (like Apple has long done) will simply say "Designed in California", and everyone will know that California was one of the first US states to reject the federal decision, and support the Paris Accords anyway.</div></div><footer class=post-footer><ul class=post-tags><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/blog/>blog</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/politics/>politics</a></li></ul><nav class=paginav><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2017/10/agile-development-on-infrastructure/><span class=title>« Prev</span><br><span>Agile Development on Infrastructure</span></a>
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History and some details below.<br><br><a name=more></a><br>Jen and I moved to New York in July of 2011, and we've lived in the same apartment ever since. A two bedroom, one bath apartment that is quite comfortable in a relatively well maintained building in the Bay Ridge neighborhood in Brooklyn.<br><br>Back in June of 2015, Jen landed a Librarian job in the New York Public Library system at a branch way up in the Bronx. Jen's commute since that time has been approximately 2 hours ... each way. Back in May of 2017, my son, Chris, moved into the second bedroom. This was mostly fine, but it squeezed our stuff, and made bathroom scheduling a bit more difficult. In November, our landlord (who had not given us a new lease since 2014) started talking about giving me a lease starting in the new year, wanting to raise our rent.<br><b><br></b>Jen had long been looking (on and off) for a new place to live, closer to her work. At the start of December (2017), Jen stumbled upon an impossible listing for New York City, only about $400 more per month. 3 Bedrooms, two full bathrooms, 120 square feet of attic storage, dishwasher, and a washer/dryer in the unit, decent residential neighborhood, and only about 30 minutes from the Library branch that she's been working at for 2 and a half years. Also, the heat is individual to the apartment : we get to set our own temperature. The listing was already several weeks old, and we were both convinced that it was a dead listing and was already gone.<br><br>Jen left a message for the realtor without much hope, and the realtor got back to us the next day. The apartment was still available, and though it took about a week for us to schedule a viewing, by December 18, we were signing a lease to move in on 1 January. Because we needed 30 days notice to our current landlord, we are lucky that we ended up with a full month overlap with both addresses.<br><br>Starting New Year's Eve, we rented a truck for four days and started moving boxes in on 1 January. When we started bringing things in, something was wrong. The place was cold. Only 47 degrees F inside. I went to the master bedroom, and a wall-unit A/C had been left on, so I turned it off, and didn't really think anything else of it.<br><br>Jen had to work early on 2 January, so she had come prepared to spend the night. The temperature never went higher than 48 degrees all night. We were hoping that maybe things would resolve the next day, but they didn't. The radiator froze from the cold of the A/C blowing outside air in. We let the landlord know that the heat was not working, and ... went back to sleeping in Brooklyn, with most of our stuff in the Bronx, and living out of boxes.<br><br>Over the next weeks, Jen would come with a heavy sleeping bag and spend nights when she had the worst commute -- closing one day, opening the next. Also, knowing we'd have to move anyway by the end of January, we would occasionally bring a few fragile things by hand, via subway.<br><br>On 15 January, the outside temperature had been above freezing for several days, and whatever had frozen started working again. We booked another rental truck for the last full week of January, and booked some loading/unloading help on each end.<br><br>Status as of today, Monday, 22 January, is that there are about four or five boxes worth of last minute stuff left to pack before moving day. That said, Jen has to work early today, so we slept the night in the Bronx and won't be back to Bay Ridge until Tuesday evening.<br><br>Assuming all goes well, on the 25th day of January we'll finally complete the move we had started 24 days before, and Jen gains 3 hours of her life back <b><i>every </i></b>working day.</div></div><footer class=post-footer><ul class=post-tags><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/blog/>blog</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/personal/>personal</a></li></ul><nav class=paginav><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/06/oracle-year/><span class=title>« Prev</span><br><span>[Book] Oracle Year by Charles Soule (No-Spoilers)</span></a>
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There are people who have magical abilities and a larger group of people who don't. Within magic users, there are different types of magic users. There are kingdoms and politics, palace intrigue, roving gangs, sailing ships, petty rivalries and fierce prejudices. Though the story is quite different, the emotional feel of the world is similar to the book Steeplejack by A.J. Hartley. Take that basic world with its gritty dangers, add magic and remove the detailed economic modelling. None of this would be interesting without a good story to go with it.<br><br>The story is very action packed, every chapter switching back and forth between the perspective of the two main characters, Jayin and Maddix, and the author does this very well. The book starts off establishing Maddix, and throwing him in front of very powerful magic. This quick action sets the pace for the rest of the book.<br><br>This is the first book in a series, which I say because I wasn't actually aware of it when I read this. If you want a book to have a climax, this book delivers. If you want a book to have a resolution, THAT part is probably found in book two. I was much more disappointed by this when I expectantly turned the page to find the heading ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS than I am now, a few days later. Now, honestly, I'm just looking forward to the next book.<br><br>Nitty gritty: There was one important thing that was introduced in the middle of the story that I missed. I think I missed it because it was introduced in the middle of fast paced action scenes. I tell myself this often, but I need to slow down and read carefully. I also spotted at least two places where it seemed like a negative was missing, which had me re-reading and hunting context to make sure I understood correctly what was going on. 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Appropriate to the character - for the parts where we are following his narrative - the story is jumping back and forth between his past and present with no direct warning in-between, full of non-sequiturs, and frankly - hard to follow.","keywords":["book-review","drama"],"articleBody":" Book Cover This follows four main characters who had gone to high school together back in the early 2000s, and on one night in 2013, all came back home to their hometown of New Canaan, Ohio.\nAfter the prelude, the first section of the book follows Bill Ashcraft, a drifter who is loaded up on drugs. Appropriate to the character - for the parts where we are following his narrative - the story is jumping back and forth between his past and present with no direct warning in-between, full of non-sequiturs, and frankly - hard to follow. In my Advanced Reader's Copy, this section is a quarter of the book, and there were several times during this part in which I came close to giving up entirely on the book. I'm saying it was well written, but purposely hard to follow in places.\nThe rest of the book is much more straight forward. We are re-introduced to several characters that appeared in the Bill section, with mostly overlapping timelines. The story still switches between past and present with little warning, but because the narrative is sober, there is easier context to follow. I found myself quite eager to continue once the drugged part of the narrative was over.\nThe past... the parts where these characters are recalling the things that happened in high school reminded me of watching Riverdale, but darker and way more adult. There is a lot of things going on, gossip, love, infatuation, cheating, and conspiracy.\nThere are politics and diverse political viewpoints throughout this book from many different characters. The most obvious view of a die-hard liberal is the drug addled Bill Ashcraft, who comes off as more an anarchist than a liberal. While the many views of core conservatives included a deeply racist, radical that got his start from family money; an assistant pastor who quotes Leviticus to his gay sister and Rick Brinklan who puts patriotism and following a Republican president above all other political considerations. The political alignments on these character's other traits felt like caricature instead of character, which is sad because its the only other aspect (after the drugged narrative) that took me out of the story. There's a lot of politics in this story for it not to be about politics, and the static nature here is offset by the personal relationships.\nThere are friendships, loves, love affairs, fights, hugs, rape and lots of consensual sex. While it felt like a lot of sex (especially during the high-school years), the inter-personal relationships were dynamic, complex, and the emotions were nuanced. Relationships affected other relationships, affairs had consequences. Rape is not glorified but brutal, and the explanations, excuses and rumors felt all so real.\nWhile there aren't a lot of action sequences, the ones that exist were surprisingly easy to follow. I, as a reader, often have trouble following fast paced action sequences, and even the ones that occurred during the drugged narrative were crisp and clear, and I felt I understood what was happening the whole time.\nUltimately, this book explores the ripples that happen because of loss. A job, a whole factory, a lover gone away without explanation or a friend lost to war. Innocence less lost, but enthusiastically tossed aside, with the emotional consequences no less for irreverence. This exploration of loss is the theme within this book that really resonates with me. There's also a plot-line of this book that is a mystery, which will satisfy those who enjoy some mystery as well.\nI haven't figured out where to go with the actual rating of books on this blog. Despite my criticism, the overall story works, and I'm glad I stuck it out.\nI received the Advanced Reader's Copy of this book on the first day of BookExpo 2018, where it was one of the upcoming editor selections. For some reason, the one I grabbed had been signed by the Author \"for Kara\".\nOhio\nSimon \u0026 Schuster\nDrama\nExpected Release: 21 Aug 2018\nHardcover, 496 pages.\n ","wordCount":"669","inLanguage":"en","datePublished":"2018-06-27T12:00:00.001-04:00","dateModified":"2019-01-06T21:56:18.611-05:00","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Gary Allen Vollink"},"mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/06/ohio/"},"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"On My Mind...","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://blog.vollink.com/favicon.ico"}}}</script></head><body id=top><script>localStorage.getItem("pref-theme")==="dark"?document.body.classList.add("dark"):localStorage.getItem("pref-theme")==="light"?document.body.classList.remove("dark"):window.matchMedia("(prefers-color-scheme: dark)").matches&&document.body.classList.add("dark")</script><header class=header><nav class=nav><div class=logo><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/ accesskey=h title="Home (Alt + H)"><img src=https://blog.vollink.com/AllenWrench.gif alt=logo aria-label=logo height=35>Home</a>
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Appropriate to the character - for the parts where we are following his narrative - the story is jumping back and forth between his past and present with no direct warning in-between, full of non-sequiturs, and frankly - hard to follow. In my Advanced Reader's Copy, this section is a quarter of the book, and there were several times during this part in which I came close to giving up entirely on the book. I'm saying it was well written, but <i>purposely</i> hard to follow in places.<br><br>The rest of the book is much more straight forward. We are re-introduced to several characters that appeared in the Bill section, with mostly overlapping timelines. The story still switches between past and present with little warning, but because the narrative is <i>sober</i>, there is easier context to follow. I found myself quite eager to continue once the drugged part of the narrative was over.<br><br>The past... the parts where these characters are recalling the things that happened in high school reminded me of watching Riverdale, but darker and way more adult. There is a lot of things going on, gossip, love, infatuation, cheating, and conspiracy.<br><br>There are politics and diverse political viewpoints throughout this book from many different characters. The most obvious view of a die-hard liberal is the drug addled Bill Ashcraft, who comes off as more an anarchist than a liberal. While the many views of core conservatives included a deeply racist, radical that got his start from family money; an assistant pastor who quotes Leviticus to his gay sister and Rick Brinklan who puts patriotism and following a Republican president above all other political considerations. The political alignments on these character's other traits felt like caricature instead of character, which is sad because its the only other aspect (after the drugged narrative) that took me out of the story. There's a lot of politics in this story for it not to be about politics, and the static nature here is offset by the personal relationships.<br><br>There are friendships, loves, love affairs, fights, hugs, rape and lots of consensual sex. While it felt like a lot of sex (especially during the high-school years), the inter-personal relationships were dynamic, complex, and the emotions were nuanced. Relationships affected other relationships, affairs had consequences. Rape is not glorified but brutal, and the explanations, excuses and rumors felt all so real.<br><br>While there aren't a lot of action sequences, the ones that exist were surprisingly easy to follow. I, as a reader, often have trouble following fast paced action sequences, and even the ones that occurred during the drugged narrative were crisp and clear, and I felt I understood what was happening the whole time.<br><br>Ultimately, this book explores the ripples that happen because of loss. A job, a whole factory, a lover gone away without explanation or a friend lost to war. Innocence less lost, but enthusiastically tossed aside, with the emotional consequences no less for irreverence. This exploration of loss is the theme within this book that really resonates with me. There's also a plot-line of this book that is a mystery, which will satisfy those who enjoy some mystery as well.<br><br>I haven't figured out where to go with the actual rating of books on this blog. Despite my criticism, the overall story works, and I'm glad I stuck it out.<br><br><br><a name=more></a><i>I received the Advanced Reader's Copy of this book on the first day of BookExpo 2018, where it was one of the upcoming editor selections. For some reason, the one I grabbed had been signed by the Author "for Kara".</i><br><br><a href=https://smile.amazon.com/dp/1501174479 target=_blank>Ohio</a><br>Simon & Schuster<br>Drama<br>Expected Release: 21 Aug 2018<br>Hardcover, 496 pages.<br><br></div></div><footer class=post-footer><ul class=post-tags><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/book-review/>book-review</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/drama/>drama</a></li></ul><nav class=paginav><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/07/eye-marty/><span class=title>« Prev</span><br><span>[Book] eyE Marty by Marty Feldman</span></a>
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It is supposed to be released in September 2018, but that is preliminary, and the date could slip.</i><br><br><table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 class=tr-caption-container style=float:right;margin-left:1em;text-align:right><tbody><tr><td style=text-align:center><a href=https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51QDoMdirjL._SX329_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg imageanchor=1 style=clear:right;margin-bottom:1em;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto><img border=0 data-original-height=499 data-original-width=331 height=320 src=/img/the-real-lolita_1_51QDoMdirjL._SX329_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg width=212></a></td></tr><tr><td class=tr-caption style=text-align:center>Book cover</td></tr></tbody></table>I don't usually read true-crime genre books. If I had never read the Nabokov fiction, Lolita, I would have never been interested enough in this book to read The Real Lolita by <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Weinman target=_blank>Sarah Weinman</a>.<br><br><b>A note about Lolita</b><br><b><br></b>It's been a few years, but I have always been uncomfortable with the book, Lolita. It didn't present to me in the same way it presented to so many other people. To me, it was a beautifully written tragedy in which the narrator has circumstances that show him in a better light, but we can't trust the narrator. I have said to people that I regret having read that book.<br><br><b><a href=https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062661920/the-real-lolita/ target=_blank>The Real Lolita</a></b><br><br>This book contrasts the journey of Vladimir Nabokov and his wife Véra while Nabokov wrote his controversial book, Lolita, with the journey of Sally Horner who was kidnapped in 1948 and taken across country herself. In some ways the book is a little game of what did Nabokov know about Horner, and when did he know it.<br><br>I feel better about having subjected to myself to the fictional Lolita after reading this book. I say this because this book points out the things that made me most uncomfortable about Lolita, and in some ways sets them right.<br><br>Ultimately, though this is a true crime story about an 11 year old Sally Horner and her abductor Frank LaSalle. While I can't recommend the fictional Lolita, I absolutely can recommend The Real Lolita to anyone who has read the fiction, or who is interested in true crime stories. This book is very well written, and given it still has an edit pass or two to go, I am sure it will be even better in its final version.<br><br><a name=more></a><a href=https://smile.amazon.com/dp/0062661922 target=_blank>The Real Lolita</a><br><div>Ecco Press, an imprint of HarperCollins.</div><div>True Crime</div><div>Planned Release: 11 September, 2018<br>Hardcover, 320 pages</div></div></div><footer class=post-footer><ul class=post-tags><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/book-review/>book-review</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/nonfiction/>nonfiction</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/short-book-reviews/>short-book-reviews</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/true-crime/>true-crime</a></li></ul><nav class=paginav><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/06/catching-stars/><span class=title>« Prev</span><br><span>[Book] Catching Stars by Cayla Keenan</span></a>
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Pizzaniste had really good pizza. Gourmet, all fresh ingredients, coal fired, whole-wheat crust as an option; even gluten free as an option. Partly because they also made custom fresh salads, there were some unexpected ingredients: Real anchovies, fresh basil, artichokes, black beans, corn, cilantro, carrots, chickpeas, eggplant, hard-boiled egg, zucchini and two types of olives to choose from (along with all the other things you might expect every pizza place to have)."><meta property="og:type" content="article"><meta property="og:url" content="https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/07/food-homage-to-pizza-gone-by/"><meta property="article:section" content="post"><meta property="article:published_time" content="2018-07-07T12:00:00-04:00"><meta property="article:modified_time" content="2018-07-07T12:00:19-04:00"><meta property="og:site_name" content="On My Mind..."><meta name=twitter:card content="summary"><meta name=twitter:title content="[Food] Homage to Pizza Gone By"><meta name=twitter:description content="Gone Not too far from where I live is a "turn key fully equipped restaurant" for lease. The restaurant that was there until a few weeks ago was called Pizzaniste.
Pizzaniste had really good pizza. Gourmet, all fresh ingredients, coal fired, whole-wheat crust as an option; even gluten free as an option. Partly because they also made custom fresh salads, there were some unexpected ingredients: Real anchovies, fresh basil, artichokes, black beans, corn, cilantro, carrots, chickpeas, eggplant, hard-boiled egg, zucchini and two types of olives to choose from (along with all the other things you might expect every pizza place to have)."><script type=application/ld+json>{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Posts","item":"https://blog.vollink.com/post/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"[Food] Homage to Pizza Gone By","item":"https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/07/food-homage-to-pizza-gone-by/"}]}</script><script type=application/ld+json>{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BlogPosting","headline":"[Food] Homage to Pizza Gone By","name":"[Food] Homage to Pizza Gone By","description":"Gone Not too far from where I live is a \"turn key fully equipped restaurant\" for lease.\u0026nbsp; The restaurant that was there until a few weeks ago was called Pizzaniste.\nPizzaniste had really good pizza.\u0026nbsp; Gourmet, all fresh ingredients, coal fired, whole-wheat crust as an option; even gluten free as an option.\u0026nbsp; Partly because they also made custom fresh salads, there were some unexpected ingredients: Real anchovies, fresh basil, artichokes, black beans, corn, cilantro, carrots, chickpeas, eggplant, hard-boiled egg, zucchini and two types of olives to choose from (along with all the other things you might expect every pizza place to have).","keywords":["blog","restaurant review"],"articleBody":" Gone Not too far from where I live is a \"turn key fully equipped restaurant\" for lease. The restaurant that was there until a few weeks ago was called Pizzaniste.\nPizzaniste had really good pizza. Gourmet, all fresh ingredients, coal fired, whole-wheat crust as an option; even gluten free as an option. Partly because they also made custom fresh salads, there were some unexpected ingredients: Real anchovies, fresh basil, artichokes, black beans, corn, cilantro, carrots, chickpeas, eggplant, hard-boiled egg, zucchini and two types of olives to choose from (along with all the other things you might expect every pizza place to have). The place also had the look of a high-end juice-bar. Tile and wood, clean glass in front of the food prep area. Ingredients in refrigerated buckets easily seen and identifiable by the consumer.\nPizzaniste was also surprisingly inexpensive (which may be part of their demise). They made these 12\" personal pizzas, and their specialty vegetarian, \"Veg Out\" was $11.95. Less than $1 per inch. They had this huge bowl of Minestrone soup that they sold for $4.95. This place was excellent, and I would have paid half-again the price for anything I ordered there it was that good.\nHowever, it wasn't greasy New York street-style pizza. The first thing I learned about this neighborhood is that the best rated pizza place around here is a place that absolutely specializes in street-pizza. At Louie \u0026 Ernie's Pizza, orange grease runs freely from a bent slice (no pepperoni required), just like they make it for the two buck slices in \"the city\". Street-pizza has its place, but I'm not in my 20s anymore, so I have to come at that sparingly. This neighborhood loves Louie \u0026 Ernie.\nIn their last week, one of their employees pulled me aside and said that I was the only customer who noticed that they were about to close. The signs were piling up fast. Early in the year, there were several weeks where several fountain drink flavors ran out. That was isolated, and eventually fixed, but ... a bad sign. About a month before they closed, their customer WiFi stopped working, then their branded cups ran out, replaced by cheap purple-green blotch design cups. I mentioned my suspicion to that employee, and he put on his best face, \"they are on order\". When their web-site went offline with no sign of returning, I was deeply concerned. The last time I went in, and they were out of Parmesan cheese I moaned at everyone, \"Oh... it's really over.\" That's when he took me aside to tell me that they would be closing as soon as Thursday or Friday. They were already gone on Thursday evening.\nMy wife and I miss you, Pizzaniste.\n ","wordCount":"457","inLanguage":"en","datePublished":"2018-07-07T12:00:00-04:00","dateModified":"2018-07-07T12:00:19.124-04:00","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Gary Allen Vollink"},"mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/07/food-homage-to-pizza-gone-by/"},"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"On My Mind...","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://blog.vollink.com/favicon.ico"}}}</script></head><body id=top><script>localStorage.getItem("pref-theme")==="dark"?document.body.classList.add("dark"):localStorage.getItem("pref-theme")==="light"?document.body.classList.remove("dark"):window.matchMedia("(prefers-color-scheme: dark)").matches&&document.body.classList.add("dark")</script><header class=header><nav class=nav><div class=logo><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/ accesskey=h title="Home (Alt + H)"><img src=https://blog.vollink.com/AllenWrench.gif alt=logo aria-label=logo height=35>Home</a>
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The restaurant that was there until a few weeks ago was called Pizzaniste.<br><br>Pizzaniste had really good pizza. Gourmet, all fresh ingredients, coal fired, whole-wheat crust as an option; even gluten free as an option. Partly because they also made custom fresh salads, there were some unexpected ingredients: Real anchovies, fresh basil, artichokes, black beans, corn, cilantro, carrots, chickpeas, eggplant, hard-boiled egg, zucchini and two types of olives to choose from (along with all the other things you might expect every pizza place to have). The place also had the look of a high-end juice-bar. Tile and wood, clean glass in front of the food prep area. Ingredients in refrigerated buckets easily seen and identifiable by the consumer.<br><br>Pizzaniste was also surprisingly inexpensive (which may be part of their demise). They made these 12" personal pizzas, and their specialty vegetarian, "Veg Out" was $11.95. Less than $1 per inch. They had this huge bowl of Minestrone soup that they sold for $4.95. This place was excellent, and I would have paid half-again the price for anything I ordered there it was that good.<br><br>However, it wasn't greasy New York street-style pizza. The first thing I learned about this neighborhood is that the best rated pizza place around here is a place that absolutely specializes in street-pizza. At Louie & Ernie's Pizza, orange grease runs freely from a bent slice (no pepperoni required), just like they make it for the two buck slices in "the city". Street-pizza has its place, but I'm not in my 20s anymore, so I have to come at that sparingly. This neighborhood loves Louie & Ernie.<br><br>In their last week, one of their employees pulled me aside and said that I was the only customer who noticed that they were about to close. The signs were piling up fast. Early in the year, there were several weeks where several fountain drink flavors ran out. That was isolated, and eventually fixed, but ... a bad sign. About a month before they closed, their customer WiFi stopped working, then their branded cups ran out, replaced by cheap purple-green blotch design cups. I mentioned my suspicion to that employee, and he put on his best face, "they are on order". When their web-site went offline with no sign of returning, I was deeply concerned. The last time I went in, and they were out of Parmesan cheese I moaned at everyone, "Oh... it's really over." That's when he took me aside to tell me that they would be closing as soon as Thursday or Friday. 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<span style=background-color:#444;color:#444>burns down his house, kills his parents and starts chasing Quinn</span>
. His father had told Quinn to get to the city of Three Rivers. Everything after that is Quinn's adventure with Jack, unsure of where he is going, and trying to evade the group that is hunting him.<br><br>This is a <i>little</i> scary of a beginning for very young readers but the drawn violence is limited. I will note that there is one place in issue 10 where there is a literal puddle of blood under a someone making gurgling noises... which may push this out of all-ages for some parents.<br><br>Here's the thing, the story is very well written, and the ending (issue 10) - while a <i>little</i> rushed is very well done with a much needed nod to Jeremy Dale at the end. If this is a book or digital that you can get hold of, I do recommend it.<br><br><br><br><a name=more></a><i>At this time, I have seen no plans to sell these outside of the long expired Kickstarter, but if that changes, I'll link it in an update to this post. </i><br><div><i><br></i></div><a href=https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/271738900/jeremy-dale-skyward-omnibus target=_blank>Skyward</a><br>All-Ages Adventure (Graphic Novel/Collected Comic Issues)<br>Action Labs<br>Released: 7 July 2018<br>Hardcover, 304 pages, Full Color</div></div><footer class=post-footer><ul class=post-tags><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/book-review/>book-review</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/comic-book/>comic-book</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/fantasy/>fantasy</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/recommend/>recommend</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/sff/>sff</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/short-book-reviews/>short-book-reviews</a></li></ul><nav class=paginav><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/08/she-would-be-king/><span class=title>« Prev</span><br><span>[Book] She Would Be King by Wayétu Moore</span></a>
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Her parents are a little more used to the idea that she has super abilities, but are still nervous parents. Her Best Human Friend Forever (BHFF), Ana Sofia, is also a friend of Thor, and Agents of SHIELD show up. Her Best Squirrel Friend Forever (BSFF), Tippy Toe, also joins in to help her solve the big mystery. So, Marvel's comic universe is in full swing in this delightful return to young Squirrel Girl adventures.<br><br>For those who don't already know: Squirrel Girl has a tail like a Squirrel (but human sized) that she stuffs into her pants to pass as "normal", she can talk to squirrels, and she has the proportional strength of a squirrel. Squirrel Girl, while super strong, always tries to use her wit and intelligence before resorting to an actual fight.<br><br>Doreen Green is just trying to navigate middle school as a normal kid while her super-hero persona, Squirrel Girl is so-popular the other students have set up a fan club that goes out on patrols to try to see Squirrel Girl in action. Everyone is excited about a new mall opening near town, but before the mall opens, Squirrel Girl needs to deal with LASER LADY.<br><br>Bonus: There's a sub-plot here that feels like a nod to Jason Reynolds' book Miles Morales: Spider-Man, while taking the story in a very different direction. This may not have been on purpose, but I like to think that it was.<br><br>In case it isn't clear, I highly recommend this book. I also suggest picking up <a href=https://smile.amazon.com/dp/1484781546 target=_blank>the first book</a>, but there's no references to the first book that are not explained in this second book.<br><br><br><a name=more></a><i>I bought this book at Forbidden Planet in Manhattan (after finding that The Strand didn't carry it). I got the original Unbeatable Squirrel Girl: Squirrel Meets World at Book Expo May 2016 (Chicago). I was also a regular reader of the Unbeatable Squirrel Girl comic series by Tom Taylor, art by Erica Henderson. I also admit that I stopped being a regular reader of the series when Erica Henderson stopped doing the internal art.</i><br><br><a href=https://smile.amazon.com/dp/1368011268 target=_blank>The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl: 2 Fuzzy, 2 Furious</a><br>Marvel Press<br>Young Adult / Super-Hero<br>Released 6 March 2018<br>Hardcover, 336 pages</div></div><footer class=post-footer><ul class=post-tags><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/book-review/>book-review</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/recommend/>recommend</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/science-fiction/>science-fiction</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/sff/>sff</a></li></ul><nav class=paginav><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/07/skyward-omnibus/><span class=title>« Prev</span><br><span>[Book] Skyward (Omnibus) by Jeremy and Kelly Dale</span></a>
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There's a lot of back and forth between the present and flashbacks. Always done at page gaps or chapter breaks, but it sometimes takes a page to figure out the timeline context. In the case of \"Grandpa\" it is present time, but it took me over half the book to figure that out.\nThe book stops telling a story, but I would call the ending an anti-climax. There were many sub-plots that were not properly wrapped up, and there was ongoing action that hadn't yet resolved. I'd go so far as to say the book ended with a soap-opera style cliffhanger, which is super out-of-place in a book that was otherwise well layered with action.\nThe last page, called Author's Note, basically just asks the readers to forgive the abrupt ending, claims that the next book will not wrap up any of the plot, but teases the next book anyway. That next book is called Moons of Jupiter, I own a copy, but given the Author's Note warning, I doubt I'm going to read it. The type of this book is almost twice as dense as any other book I've read published this century. The margins are smaller, the lines are packed tighter and the font point is smaller. There are no blanks in its 346 pages. This is the sort of book that a professional editor would have forced some major fixes on, and the book would have been SO much better for it. In the beginning of this book, I was confused by the introduction of words without context or definition. Here are several examples... Dragon \u0026 Ship (used interchangeably) leaves the impression that maybe they just call spaceships dragons, and that smaller ships that launch from the large ship are just called Fledgling simply because they are like the aircraft of a carrier. I went four pages not sure if the narration was talking about a seafaring vessel or a space craft. It took near a quarter of the book before it became clear that these spaceships are actual living beings, but have been fitted with interface equipment. Fieldpack, in this book, is a device that creates an atmospheric field around the user. I went through a quarter of the book thinking it was a military pack with mission necessary equipment, but that is what this book calls a flight bag. Jordan, in this book, is a designation for a dragon pilot, but not the pilot of the big dragon, that person is a captain. Dimlight, on the other hand, was introduced and explained through some really awkward dialog on page 9. Then on page 10, it was explained again with more detail (the lights dim at regular intervals to help with people's circadian rhythms - thus it is a Sci-Fi stand-in for \"day\"). Engineer, as if it should be obvious, is an elf that has kinetic abilities with metals. Basically the superpower of Marvel comics' Magneto without the evil intent or any of the action. I'm not sure why we were introduced to this character having to study star maps. Maybe he was originally going to be a navigator? I don't know, but I again appreciate the job a good editor does. Finally, I read the whole book, and I'm still not sure if a Troll is a living being or just a helper-droid with advanced AI. The frustrating thing is that the writing style itself is quite engaging. I never felt lost in the narrative, just lost on words and terms. Bottom line, I cannot recommend this book unless you really, really think that everything I described above sounds like the kind of ride you want. I purchased this book from the Author at Dragon Con in Atlanta back in 2015. \n Drawing the Dragon Self Published Science Fiction Released: 1 February 2011 Paperback, 346 pages. 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The dragons are spaceships, a bit like the galactic whale from Jim Henson's Farscape. Instead of Battlestar's Cylons, we have Constructs, which are a bit closer to the Nexus of Bladerunner fame.<br><br>Scarlett, Jade and Blue are elite pilots of young dragons on the cruiser known as the Opal Dragon. Calyph is the engineer of the Opal.</div><div dir=ltr><br></div><div dir=ltr>There's a lot of back and forth between the present and flashbacks. Always done at page gaps or chapter breaks, but it sometimes takes a page to figure out the timeline context. In the case of "Grandpa" it is present time, but it took me over half the book to figure that out.<br><br>The book stops telling a story, but I would call the ending an anti-climax. There were many sub-plots that were not properly wrapped up, and there was ongoing action that hadn't yet resolved. I'd go so far as to say the book ended with a soap-opera style cliffhanger, which is super out-of-place in a book that was otherwise well layered with action.<br><br>The last page, called Author's Note, basically just asks the readers to forgive the abrupt ending, claims that the next book will not wrap up any of the plot, but teases the next book anyway. That next book is called Moons of Jupiter, I own a copy, but given the Author's Note warning, I doubt I'm going to read it.</div><div dir=ltr><br></div><div dir=ltr>The type of this book is almost twice as dense as any other book I've read published this century. The margins are smaller, the lines are packed tighter and the font point is smaller. There are no blanks in its 346 pages. This is the sort of book that a professional editor would have forced some major fixes on, and the book would have been SO much better for it. In the beginning of this book, I was confused by the introduction of words without context or definition. Here are several examples...</div><div dir=ltr><br></div><div dir=ltr><i>Dragon </i>& <i>Ship </i>(used interchangeably) leaves the impression that maybe they just call spaceships dragons, and that smaller ships that launch from the large ship are just called <i>Fledgling </i>simply because they are like the aircraft of a carrier. I went four pages not sure if the narration was talking about a seafaring vessel or a space craft. It took near a quarter of the book before it became clear that these spaceships are actual living beings, but have been fitted with interface equipment.</div><div dir=ltr><br></div><div dir=ltr><i>Fieldpack</i>, in this book, is a device that creates an atmospheric field around the user. I went through a quarter of the book thinking it was a military pack with mission necessary equipment, but that is what this book calls a flight bag.</div><div dir=ltr><br></div><div dir=ltr><i>Jordan</i>, in this book, is a designation for a dragon pilot, but not the pilot of the big dragon, that person is a captain. <i>Dimlight</i>, on the other hand, was introduced and explained through some really awkward dialog on page 9. Then on page 10, it was explained again with more detail (the lights dim at regular intervals to help with people's circadian rhythms - thus it is a Sci-Fi stand-in for "day").</div><div dir=ltr><br></div><div dir=ltr><i>Engineer</i>, as if it should be obvious, is an elf that has kinetic abilities with metals. Basically the superpower of Marvel comics' Magneto without the evil intent or any of the action. I'm not sure why we were introduced to this character having to study star maps. Maybe he was originally going to be a navigator? I don't know, but I again appreciate the job a good editor does.</div><div dir=ltr><br></div><div dir=ltr>Finally, I read the whole book, and I'm still not sure if a <i>Troll</i> is a living being or just a helper-droid with advanced AI.</div><div dir=ltr><br>The frustrating thing is that the writing style itself is quite engaging. I never felt lost in the narrative, just lost on words and terms. 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A quote from the Author's Note (before the book even begins):<br><blockquote class=tr_bq>{Gbessa is pronounced "Bessah"}</blockquote>The first book is the story of three characters, each from different places and backgrounds. Gbessa is exiled from her African village as a witch. June escapes slavery from a plantation in Virginia. Norman escapes his scientist father in Jamaica. This follows each of their journeys up to their first meeting. The second book pulls them apart again, as they each journey to the American colony at Monrovia.<br><br>All of the book and dialog is presented in English, though the characters are not always speaking English. Whenever a character is speaking a non-English language, the words are shown in a unique dialect, where each is unique to the language being presented. In the beginning, with only the first language presented, this was difficult to read. When other non-English languages started showing up, though, I came to appreciate the effort the author took to create readable dialects that were both new and distinct from each-other. This helped me easily recognize who could understand what dialog.<br><br>This book is in the Alt-History category, as some characters have super-human powers. This book made me curious enough about Monrovia and Liberia that I did a bit of reading of the history. Many of the surnames used in the book are surnames from Liberian history, though (I've not done enough reading to verify the timelines) I suspect that the names were plucked from throughout early Liberian history.</div><div><br>If you enjoy Alt-History with a whisper of super-powers, I highly recommend this. If you are uncomfortable with the brutality of American and European history where it collides with Africa, then this is going to be outside your comfort zone, but I still recommend it.</div><div><br></div><div><a name=more></a><a href=https://smile.amazon.com/dp/1555978177 target=_blank>She Would Be King</a></div><div><a href=http://www.graywolfpress.org/books/she-would-be-king target=_blank>Graywolf Press</a></div><div>Alt-History/Fantasy</div><div>Planned Release: 11 Sept 2018</div><div>Hardcover, 312 pages</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div><footer class=post-footer><ul class=post-tags><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/book-review/>book-review</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/fantasy/>fantasy</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/recommend/>recommend</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/sff/>sff</a></li></ul><nav class=paginav><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/08/uprooted/><span class=title>« Prev</span><br><span>[Book] Uprooted by Naomi Novik</span></a>
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I categorize this book as a Memoir, mostly because it follows the narrative flow of a memoir. It starts out introducing the reader to Michael Bennett's childhood on a rural farm in the South, into college through the NFL, and discusses his own discovery of the importance of both support and activism on a number of issues of equality."><meta property="og:type" content="article"><meta property="og:url" content="https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/08/things-that-make-white-people-uncomfortable/"><meta property="article:section" content="post"><meta property="article:published_time" content="2018-08-29T12:00:00-04:00"><meta property="article:modified_time" content="2019-01-06T21:50:44-05:00"><meta property="og:site_name" content="On My Mind..."><meta name=twitter:card content="summary"><meta name=twitter:title content="[Book] Things That Make White People Uncomfortable by Michael Bennett and Dave Zirin"><meta name=twitter:description content="Book cover "We have got to make the white population uncomfortable, because that is the only way to get their attention." That quote at the start of this book is from Bill Russell in 1964. He was a Basketball player, but also a civil rights activist.
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That quote at the start of this book is from Bill Russell in 1964. He was a Basketball player, but also a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJp9y1-schc" target=_blank>civil rights activist</a>.<br><br>I categorize this book as a Memoir, mostly because it follows the narrative flow of a memoir. It starts out introducing the reader to Michael Bennett's childhood on a rural farm in the South, into college through the NFL, and discusses his own discovery of the importance of both support and activism on a number of issues of equality.<br><br>However, the point of the book is mostly to openly and honestly talk about racism and equality. The key places where that racism presented itself in Micheal Bennett's life are chronicled here, and show that - instead of <i>just</i> getting angry or jaded, he also evolved and became more inclusive in his activism.<br><br>The narrative comes from a real place, it feels honest. The most useful parts of this to me were where the author calls himself out. He passes these self-reflections on, as olive branches to the reader; a note that mistakes are learning moments.<br><br>I must note that socially, I come from a liberal viewpoint already. There is nothing in this book that I disagreed with, and no major concept that I wasn't already aware of. This book definitely filled me in on a number of details, but didn't have to convince me of a point of view. I could not care much less for sports than I do, but besides that, this book is aimed squarely at me and where I am in life. That is, I care from over here, but I am not an active agent for change.<br><br>I have enjoyed this book better than I have any piece of non-fiction in a very long time. It didn't make me uncomfortable, but certainly gives me some pause to think about where I should fit into the scale between caring and actually helping.<br><br><br><br><a name=more></a><i>I got this book last year at the publisher's booth at BookExpo America. 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The story focuses on a peaceful valley with little villages nestled along the Spindle river, but a dark forest grows nearby. Corrupted creatures come from the forest late at night and attack human, livestock or both. Or worse, a cloud of pollen might come in and corrupt a neighbor where they stand, turning them.<br><br>With leave of the king, the wizard named Dragon rules the valley and lives at the head of the valley. The Dragon protects the villages from the forest, but is also feared more than appreciated as once every ten years, the Dragon demands his pick of a lady born in the valley from October to October and is in her 17th year. The previous woman is released, and goes home, but doesn't belong anymore, and ends up moving to a city.<br><br>Agnieszka { ag-NYESH-kah } and Kasia are friends who live in the village called Dvernik, one town in from the edge of the valley where the evil forest looms. They both have spent their lives knowing they were born in the year that the Dragon would pick from. From one end of the valley to the other, though, Kasia is the prettiest, and everyone assumes the Dragon will choose to take her back to his tower.<br><br><b><span style=color:#ff0>2015 Nebula Award winner for best novel.</span></b><br><br>It has been such a huge pleasure reading this novel. There are two characters who both do magic together throughout this book, and the relationship is like a cook who doesn't understand the precision of baking and baker who has never known or understood cooking. They both get magic done, but they are both frustrated by the way they each get there. The relationship between the two is amusing in its absolute believability.<br><div><br></div>The writing is engaging and descriptive, without bogging down in needless detail or needlessly skipping detail for a quick turn. It is also a stand-alone story that has both a climax and a resolution (I've read so many books without a resolution lately that this basic building block of story-telling is actually note-worthy). The build-up I describe above is all covered within the first half of the first chapter, which is to say - there's a lot going on in this story and the pacing is brisk.<br><br>Unless the description above sounds like misery to you, then chances are you will love this book. I highly recommend it.<br><br><br><a name=more></a><a href=https://smile.amazon.com/dp/0804179050/ target=_blank>Uprooted</a><br><a href=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/236925/uprooted-by-naomi-novik/9780804179058 target=_blank>Del Rey</a> imprint of Penguin Random House<br>Fantasy<br>Released: 19 May 2015<br>Paperback, 464 pages</div></div><footer class=post-footer><ul class=post-tags><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/book-review/>book-review</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/fantasy/>fantasy</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/recommend/>recommend</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/sff/>sff</a></li></ul><nav class=paginav><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/08/norse-mythology/><span class=title>« Prev</span><br><span>[Book] Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman</span></a>
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This book does have a narrative flow, better that a lot of the fiction books I've already reviewed, but it is the narrative flow of a documentary, moving from subject to subject, building knowledge.<br><br>Neil deGrasse Tyson is one of the top science communicators alive today. And this book, physically small, is only about half the reading of another book with the same number of pages. It took me about a week to complete, and I definitely read non-fiction books much, much slower than I read fiction. This is as close to a page-turner of a non-fiction book as I've read since I read the <a href=https://smile.amazon.com/dp/0805072535/Quark-Jaguar-Adventures-Simple-Complex target=_blank>Quark and the Jaguar</a>, around 7 years ago.<br><br>This book starts with chapters titles that invoke biblical parallels. Chapter one, The Greatest Story Ever Told, covers the big bang, introducing Plank and leaving me with many, many questions about the speed of light and how it's rules applied to the earliest moments of the universe.<br><br>The book then covers Isaac Newton's discoveries about gravity, and specifically the universality of gravity throughout the solar system, but thankfully avoids describing calculus itself. Moving back to the forming of the early universe, it covers the Cosmic Microwave Background and its origins.<br><br>The next three chapters cover the space between galaxies first establishing the basics then introducing us to Dark Matter and then Dark Energy. At the point where I was reading about these, my questions surrounding the limitations on the speed of light were still reeling in my head, and all this measured "extra" is a lot for my little brain to take in.<br><br>Chapter seven, The Cosmos on the Table, explores the stellar origins of the elements (those of the Periodic Table), which for me was a very welcome break from the abstract. Though not repeated in this book, it reminds me of the Carl Sagan quote, "We are all made of star stuff."<br><br>The next two chapters talk about Spheres and Invisible light. The stability of spheres as well as how rotation has a tendency to flatten a sphere into an oblong spheroid seems meant to explain the general shape of galaxies. Invisible light is a useful introduction to the instruments of modern astronomy beyond the visible-light telescope, including how each was discovered and how they are used.<br><br>Between the Planets, the 10th Chapter, tries to put into perspective how little the constituent parts of our solar system are in comparison to the Sun while Chapter 11, Exoplanet Earth, explores what our planet would look like from other stars and what methods might be used to figure out that there is life here.<br><br>In the 12th and final chapter, Reflections on the Cosmic Perspective, Tyson clearly shows that he is a disciple of Carl Sagan, linking the study of the Cosmos to the importance of stewardship of our tiny and fragile planet, while fostering a hopeful view on what we could accomplish. This is a very good round-up of the book.<br><br>Overall, I recommend this book if you found this review itself to be interesting. If, on the other hand, you generally find space to be an invitation to sleep, then it's okay to skip. I am glad I read it.<br><br><br><a name=more></a><i>Note to my readers (all three of you). Summer (and summer reading) is over, and I'm going to do my best to keep up this blog, but I'm moving to an every-other-week schedule. The next book review, North American Lake Monsters, will be posted on Wednesday, 3 October 2018.</i><br><br><a href=https://smile.amazon.com/dp/0393609391/Astrophysics-People-Hurry-deGrasse-Tyson target=_blank>Astrophysics for People in a Hurry</a><br>Non-fiction, Science<br><a href=http://books.wwnorton.com/books/Astrophysics-for-People-in-a-Hurry/ target=_blank>W. W. 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This tale is, all at once, heartbreaking, terrifying, uncomfortable, troubling with a tiny bit of hopeful mixed in. Trigger warnings would be helpful here: racism, suicide, sexual predation, sexual bigotry, bullying, alcoholism, violence (both human and animal), parental abandonment, and smoking."><meta property="og:type" content="article"><meta property="og:url" content="https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/09/home-after-dark/"><meta property="article:section" content="post"><meta property="article:published_time" content="2018-09-08T12:00:00-04:00"><meta property="article:modified_time" content="2019-01-06T22:00:17-05:00"><meta property="og:site_name" content="On My Mind..."><meta name=twitter:card content="summary"><meta name=twitter:title content="[Book] Home After Dark by David Small"><meta name=twitter:description content="Book cover Bonus review this week (because this book comes out on the 11th), and I finally figured out what to say about it.
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Because it is non-linear, it is not obvious when switching between past, one of two screenplays and the present. One has to carefully pay attention to the cast of characters to help determine *when* one is in the storyline. This is not terribly difficult, but I had trouble getting back into the story when I paused for 48 hours around the middle of the book. There are many Filipino references that subtly suggest this book isn't meant for me. I don't mean to say that it is exclusionary, but it is definitely written in a way to not bother to introduce most words, phrases and Filipino cultural norms that I am not familiar with. I feel like - to get the full experience - I should read it with Google open nearby, or - more naturally - be from the Philippines. I read a lot, but I'm not that kind of advanced reader, so I just let the things I don't know wash over me in the comfort of knowing I don't need to know everything. Here's the thing - when I'm in a chapter (as opposed to the jarring start of a chapter, where I haven't figured out where or when I am) - the writing is very engaging, and the characters feel very natural for who and where (or what) they are. That said, the whole book is comprised of two parallel stories in two diverging and emerging screenplays of those stories, wrapped in a story of the two authors. Put another way, it's meta, sometimes self-referentially meta. It is also steeped in more than a little actual history of the islands, which is the part that most interested me (that is, the oldest, lowest level story).\nNow that I've finished reading this book, it started to make a lot of sense. I definitely feel it would all make sense if I read it a second time. That said... there's a lot of books in this world, and I'm not going to make the tiniest dent by revisiting this one. This is probably a great book to read while on the beach on a Philippines vacation, or if you live or have lived there. It is a decent book if you like to read about the ripple effects that historic events have on lives and cultural perception over time. If everything I wrote above gives you a headache, it's okay to skip this one. I came really close to giving up more than once, but I'm glad I read it. This is an advanced readers copy from BookExpo America, 2018. There are two things stamped on my copy that make me cautious about publishing a review. First are the words, \"ADVANCE UNCOPYEDITED EDITION\". Second is, \"do not quote from this galley\". No quotes are used so I hope it's Okay. 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The book starts, like a 1970s movie, listing the cast of characters in the approximate order in which the characters appear. It's a story about two people, writing screenplays that are not exactly about the same thing, but are derived from a shared starting point and past.</div><div><br></div><div>Because it is non-linear, it is not obvious when switching between past, one of two screenplays and the present. One has to carefully pay attention to the cast of characters to help determine *when* one is in the storyline. This is not terribly difficult, but I had trouble getting back into the story when I paused for 48 hours around the middle of the book.</div><div><br></div><div>There are many Filipino references that subtly suggest this book isn't meant for me. I don't mean to say that it is exclusionary, but it is definitely written in a way to not bother to introduce most words, phrases and Filipino cultural norms that I am not familiar with. I feel like - to get the full experience - I should read it with Google open nearby, or - more naturally - be from the Philippines. I read a lot, but I'm not that kind of advanced reader, so I just let the things I don't know wash over me in the comfort of knowing I don't need to know everything.</div><div><br></div><div>Here's the thing - when I'm in a chapter (as opposed to the jarring start of a chapter, where I haven't figured out where or when I am) - the writing is very engaging, and the characters feel very natural for who and where (or what) they are. That said, the whole book is comprised of two parallel stories in two diverging and emerging screenplays of those stories, wrapped in a story of the two authors. Put another way, it's meta, sometimes self-referentially meta. It is also steeped in more than a little actual history of the islands, which is the part that most interested me (that is, the oldest, lowest level story).<br><br>Now that I've finished reading this book, it started to make a lot of sense. I definitely feel it would all make sense if I read it a second time. That said... there's a lot of books in this world, and I'm not going to make the tiniest dent by revisiting this one.</div><div><br></div><div>This is probably a great book to read while on the beach on a Philippines vacation, or if you live or have lived there. It is a decent book if you like to read about the ripple effects that historic events have on lives and cultural perception over time. If everything I wrote above gives you a headache, it's okay to skip this one. I came really close to giving up more than once, but I'm glad I read it.</div><div><br></div><div><a name=more></a><i>This is an advanced readers copy from BookExpo America, 2018. </i><i>There are two things stamped on my copy that make me cautious about publishing a review. First are the words, "ADVANCE UNCOPYEDITED EDITION". Second is, "do not quote from this galley". 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It takes place during Leia Organa's 16th year. I would like to say that familiarity with the Star Wars universe isn't absolutely necessary, but I cannot be sure of that. It is, at its base, an exhilarating and sometimes sad, coming of age story, where we see Leia grow from a teen who thinks she's all grown up, to a woman who knows she isn't quite there.<br><br>I will warn that there is a LOT of Star Wars style galactic politics in this book. There are many examples of the Empire creeping further and further into totalitarian rule, and - given the present climate of politics in the USA - some of that can be a bit hard to read. It is important to the overall story, informing both Leia's choices in this story, but also foreshadowing the choices she will make later in her life.<br><br>This story has castles, swamps, mountains, oceans, space-ships, action, danger, spy-craft and romance, and a pretty good mix. I laughed out loud a few times, and I cried once.<br><br>For the Star Wars fan, we get to see Leia meet Grand Moff Tarkin and R2D2 for the first time. We get to see her form a friendship with Mon Mothma. We get to see Leia use the Tantive IV without her father for the first time. We get to really experience some of the personality of Bail and Breha Organa, and the beauty of Alderaan.<br><br>I try to keep these reviews from spoilers. Anyone familiar with the Star Wars movies will be able to automatically know where some plot-points are headed. I really want to talk about what happens in this book because I just finished it, but I may have said too much for some already.<br><div><br></div>I really enjoy this book, and I felt invited into the worlds it described easily. Of course, I'm also aware that I grew up with the Star Wars movies, and I also enjoyed Rogue One and the other recent Star Wars films, so my easy enjoyment with this book may not be true for everyone. If you don't know or like Star Wars, maybe this book isn't for you. If, like me, you enjoy the franchise, and especially if you wanted to know a lot more about Leia, then read this book.<br><br><a name=more></a><a href=https://smile.amazon.com/dp/1484780787/Journey-Star-Wars-Princess-Alderaan target=_blank>Leia, Princess of Alderaan</a><br>Disney Lucasfilm Press<br>Science Fiction<br>Released: 1 September 2017<br>Hardcover, 416 pages</div></div><footer class=post-footer><ul class=post-tags><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/book-review/>book-review</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/fantasy/>fantasy</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/recommend/>recommend</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/sff/>sff</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/space-fantasy/>space-fantasy</a></li></ul><nav class=paginav><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/09/tech-pc-virtualbox-windows-7-and-a-new-cpu/><span class=title>« Prev</span><br><span>[Tech/PC] VirtualBox, Windows 7 and a new CPU</span></a>
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However, maybe someone else hits the same problem, and finds my blog via search.</i><br><i><br></i>About a month back, the new nVidia 2080 Ti card was announced. I decided to hit up eBay to see if anyone was selling off a 1080 Ti, and I was not disappointed in the price drops. So, I upgraded my graphics to the 1080 Ti.<br><i><br></i>Similarly, Intel just dropped the new 8th Generation of Core i7 processors. Last weekend, I upgraded my system from a Core i7-6700k CPU to a newer i7-7700k. Now that the 8th gen 8700k is out, the 7700k became more affordable AND my existing motherboard already supports it.<br><br>I was hoping it would be more noticeable in actual use. My benchmarks are slightly better as I expected. I have - though - life extended this another year or two into the future.<br><br>----------<br><br><b>VirtualBox & Windows 7</b> (which I run for work reasons)<br><br>When I started my Windows 7 virtual machine, I got a notification from the Operating System that some Windows Updates would stop being delivered because Windows 7 doesn't support my CPU. Knowing that VMs can fudge this data, I went searching. After pages and pages of VERY complex commands, I found <a href="https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=81600" target=_blank>a comment from 2010</a> pointing at experimental "Processor Templates". With all VirtualBox components shut down, I ran the following:<br><br>cd '\Program Files\Oracle VirtualBox'<br>.\VBoxManage.exe modifyvm "Win7 x64" --cpu-profile "Intel Core i7-6700K"<br><br>Restarted the VM and everything is happy again.<br><br><b>NOTE:</b><br><br><span style="font-family:courier new,courier,monospace;font-size:x-small">VBoxManage modifyvm "<vm name>" --cpu-profile "Intel Xeon X5482 3.20GHz"</span><br><span style="font-family:courier new,courier,monospace;font-size:x-small">VBoxManage modifyvm "<vm name>" --cpu-profile "Intel Core i7-2635QM"</span><br><span style="font-family:courier new,courier,monospace;font-size:x-small">VBoxManage modifyvm "<vm name>" --cpu-profile "Intel Core i7-3960X"</span><br><span style="font-family:courier new,courier,monospace;font-size:x-small">VBoxManage modifyvm "<vm name>" --cpu-profile "Intel Core i5-3570"</span><br><span style="font-family:courier new,courier,monospace;font-size:x-small">VBoxManage modifyvm "<vm name>" --cpu-profile "Intel Core i7-5600U"</span><br><span style="font-family:courier new,courier,monospace;font-size:x-small">VBoxManage modifyvm "<vm name>" --cpu-profile "Intel Core i7-6700K"</span><br><br><pre>----------</pre><br><b>Current PC Spec</b></div><br><span style="font-family:Courier New,Courier,monospace;font-size:x-small">Intel Core i7-7700K Kaby Lake Quad-Core 4.2 GHz LGA 1151 91W BX80677I77700K Desktop Processor</span><br><span style="font-family:Courier New,Courier,monospace;font-size:x-small">GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Turbo 11GD, GV-N108TTURBO-11GD</span><br><span style="font-family:Courier New,Courier,monospace;font-size:x-small">ASUS WiFi Dual Band Wireless (Intel AC 8260 chipset)</span><br><span style="font-family:Courier New,Courier,monospace;font-size:x-small">SAMSUNG 950 PRO M.2 512GB PCI-Express 3.0 x4 Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) MZ-V5P512BW</span><br><span style="font-family:Courier New,Courier,monospace;font-size:x-small">CORSAIR Vengeance LPX 32GB (4 x 8GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 2133 (PC4 17000) CMK32GX4M4A2133C13</span><br><span style="font-family:Courier New,Courier,monospace;font-size:x-small">ASUS Z170-A LGA 1151 Intel Z170 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.1 USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard</span><br><span style="font-family:Courier New,Courier,monospace;font-size:x-small">CORSAIR HXi HX750i CP-9020072-NA 750W ATX12V / EPS12V 80 PLUS PLATINUM Certified Full Modular Power Supply</span><br><span style="font-family:Courier New,Courier,monospace;font-size:x-small">Corsair Carbide Series 100R Silent Edition CC-9011077-WW Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case ATX (not included) Power Supply</span><br><span style="font-family:Courier New,Courier,monospace;font-size:x-small">Noctua NH-L12 120mm & 92mm SSO Bearing PWM Fans CPU Cooler</span><br><span style="font-family:Courier New,Courier,monospace;font-size:x-small">Noctua NF-S12A PWM 120mm Case Fan</span><br><span style="font-family:Courier New,Courier,monospace;font-size:x-small">Samsung SSD 850 EVO 2TB <i>(Added mid 2016)</i></span><br><br><b>Original Parts replaced from 2015 November build</b><br><br><span style="font-family:Courier New,Courier,monospace;font-size:x-small">EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 06G-P4-4991-KR 6GB GAMING w/ACX 2.0+, Whisper Silent Cooling Graphics Card</span><br><span style="font-family:Courier New,Courier,monospace;font-size:x-small">Intel Core i7-6700K 8M Skylake Quad-Core 4.0 GHz LGA 1151 95W BX80662I76700K</span><br><span style="font-family:Courier New,Courier,monospace;font-size:x-small">Intel 7260HMWDTX1 Dual Band Wireless-AC 7260 <i>(Died April 2018)</i></span></div></div><footer class=post-footer><ul class=post-tags><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/blog/>blog</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/geek/>geek</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/it/>it</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/virtualization/>virtualization</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/work/>work</a></li></ul><nav class=paginav><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/09/astrophysics-for-people-in-a-hurry/><span class=title>« Prev</span><br><span>[Book] Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson</span></a>
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This review isn't that. I liked the book, Leia; Princess of Alderaan by Claudia Gray so much that when I found out she had another book in the Star Wars universe, I bought it right away. I really like to keep these reviews spoiler-free, and if I really enjoy a book, I actually have a much harder time writing about it, because - well - everything I enjoy about a book seems like a possible spoiler.</i><br><br>As per the cover of the book, this book happens "In the years before Star Wars: The Force Awakens". This book starts at a slower pace than <i>Leia,</i> but unlike Leia, this book is bridging a lot of history after the Battle of Endor, and it really sets the stage for The Force Awakens. The first half of this book is mostly driven by politics, most of the scenes take place in the Galactic Senate chamber.<br><br>Wait, keep reading! I know that if I read the above, I'd have never even picked up this book. Here's the thing, the author kept it interesting, and more important ... relevant to the plot! All the political infighting is what gets Leia herself to head up an investigation that gets her both out of the senate and into some real action.<br><br>Also, just like <i>Leia</i>, this book has lots of characters show up from movies and other stories. There were less of these than in <i>Leia</i>, but still, C3PO is present throughout, Han Solo and Chewbacca show up, Snap Wexley shows up, too.<br><br>If you have not seen Star Wars: The Force Awakens, then the part below the cut could seem like a spoiler. Also, that is another reason why politics were so important to this story. Without the detailed politics, there would be a major plot hole. I'd go so far as to say that this covers some plot-holes in The Force Awakens.<br><br>Read this book if you liked The Force Awakens. Also read this book if you wanted to like The Force Awakens, but felt it seemed too disconnected from the rest of the Star Wars history. Read this book if you want to hear Leia's voice clearly (Claudia Gray clearly gets the Leia character very well). On the other hand, if Star Wars isn't your thing (that's okay), then it's possible that the references and history won't mean anything to you. Myself, though, I highly recommend this book.<br><br><br><a name=more></a><br><br>One of the first things that struck me about The Force Awakens was how the New Republic leadership could exist but yet never know that a force as huge as The First Order had been gathered against them, without them knowing. <i>Bloodline</i> does a really good and convincing job of describing how the government stayed blind to it.<br><br><br><a href=https://smile.amazon.com/dp/1101885262/Bloodline-Star-Wars-Claudia-Gray/ target=_blank>Bloodline</a><br>Science Fiction<br>Disney Press/DelRey<br>Released: 31 January 2017<br>Softcover, 432 pages<br><br></div></div><footer class=post-footer><ul class=post-tags><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/book-review/>book-review</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/fantasy/>fantasy</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/recommend/>recommend</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/sff/>sff</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/space-fantasy/>space-fantasy</a></li></ul><nav class=paginav><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/10/next-career-move/><span class=title>« Prev</span><br><span>Next Career Move</span></a>
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hear about it.\u0026nbsp; Well, for the stories that I actually like, I still try to keep them a little spoiler free, but the first story ... that one I lay out ALL the main points.","keywords":["blog","book-notes","spoiler"],"articleBody":"The book, North American Lake Monsters, is a collection of short stories that I reviewed here. Read that first, without it, this will have little context.\nSeriously, the following is absolutely full of spoilers, and I don't want to hear about it. Well, for the stories that I actually like, I still try to keep them a little spoiler free, but the first story ... that one I lay out ALL the main points.\n\nYou Go Where It Takes You is the first story in the collection. It was both a monster as excuse and a first chapter. We follow a waitress and single mom. Our monster is this guy, when we first meet is described as ugly, that has the ability of changing skins, just pulling off his old skin and putting on another person. The monster is polite and honest. The waitress, overworked and stressed uses the trauma of watching this guy change skins to literally run away and dump her kid at a roadside rest. It threw me for a loop because there wasn't a warning that she was already that cracked.\nI am reminded of that moment in the first Men In Black movie at the first firing range test (( I found it )), where the Hero simply recognizes the aliens as just doing their thing. The presented monster is actually polite and simply weird, so I guess I saw him as red herring. The \"monster\" didn't convince her to run away from her life, she wasn't infected by something. That monster could have been a crack rock, and she'd have done the same. Maybe that is why I have so little patience for this story.\nIt was also a premise, a first chapter in that this could make a great larger story arc in so many directions. What happens to the child left behind? What other adventures does the skin changing monster have? When does the run-away mom find her past has caught up with her? We'll never know.\nI read this story in 2014, threw the book on a shelf and only recently picked it back up. I was THAT disappointed by the first story. Thing is, monster as red herring or MacGuffin, sets the tone for several other stories in this book.\nThe next story, Wild Acre, was definitely more of a thriller. It starts off as a werewolf story. A guy and his two employees sit at a construction site, staying in wait for vandals that had been breaking things at night. This guy goes into the woods to take care of personal business, and sees a kid turn into a werewolf, then kill his employees. He runs away in his truck, not even trying to use the gun he has on him. This happens at the very start of the story. The rest of the story is the spiral of PTSD this guy goes down and how he becomes a human monster. Unlike the first story, there was an evil trauma he witnessed. I didn't love it, but it didn't turn me off, and this is what got me to force myself to read the rest of the stories.\nS.S. is a story about a young man being recruited by a group of white supremacists and the very human need to belong. This story hits another one of my sour notes... when I cannot empathize with any of the main characters, I'm literally trying to figure out something to care about. The mother is a very interesting character who I would enjoy hearing a deeper story about, instead, she was a tertiary character at most.\nThe Crevasse, co written with Dale Bailey, brings the stress and wonder of a Lovecraft's Cthulu without the breaking of physics. Of all the stories, this one has the most impact on me. As with most of the stories here, I was left wanting to know more about the story, and what else happens to the people who we're introduced to, but the ending wasn't brutally cold (well, then again, it is set in Antarctica).\nThe award winning story, The Monsters of Heaven, was really not for me. Lack of empathy for the characters strikes again. I will give it this, it was disturbing in that I've thought of this story more than any other, and in this case it is straight up feeling bad for the monster.\nSunbleached is a vampire story, a story of loss, hubris and the angst of youth. This story sticks out as having a powerful ending. I liked this one a lot. This was scary like a movie. It had a Creepshow vibe.\nThe title story, North American Lake Monsters, similar to the first story, felt like a beginning of a premise instead of a fully realized story. I suppose these types of endings are supposed to leave me feeling haunted, but instead I feel like I lost out on hearing more. This was also a case of having no empathy for the main character, and I recognized him as waiting to be sprung. The monster, in this case, infected him, but somehow didn't seem to affect his daughter who first came into its contact.\nThe Way Station, is a very interesting story. It is about being haunted in a way that the haunting manifests itself into the real world. This story is a bit drunk and drug addled, and in this case the monster is human, actually a predator, AND not the main character.\nThe last story was The Good Husband. This was depressing. Wife kills herself, her husband finds her in time, but with this being the fourth attempt, he just wanders away and goes back to sleep. How's that for an empathetic character? When she comes down from the bathroom in the morning, asking for coffee, bloodless and cold things get weirder. The ending of this one was also cold and abrupt. There's really no resolution here, and I had no empathy for anyone but their daughter who was away at college.\nSo, there we go, a deep spoilery dive on what didn't work for me. Let me know if you want to see more of this. 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Read that first, without it, this will have little context.<br><br>Seriously, the following is absolutely full of spoilers, and I don't want to hear about it. Well, for the stories that I actually like, I still try to keep them a little spoiler free, but the first story ... that one I lay out ALL the main points.<br><br><br><a name=more></a><br><br><b>You Go Where It Takes You</b> is the first story in the collection. It was both a monster as excuse and a first chapter. We follow a waitress and single mom. Our monster is this guy, when we first meet is described as ugly, that has the ability of changing skins, just pulling off his old skin and putting on another person. The monster is polite and honest. The waitress, overworked and stressed uses the <i>trauma</i> of watching this guy change skins to literally run away and dump her kid at a roadside rest. It threw me for a loop because there wasn't a warning that she was already that cracked.<br><br>I am reminded of that moment in the first Men In Black movie at the first firing range test (( <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRXNNqNfQBs" target=_blank>I found it</a> )), where the Hero simply recognizes the aliens as just doing their thing. The presented monster is actually polite and simply weird, so I guess I saw him as red herring. The "monster" didn't convince her to run away from her life, she wasn't infected by something. That monster could have been a crack rock, and she'd have done the same. Maybe that is why I have so little patience for this story.<br><br>It was also a premise, a first chapter in that this could make a great larger story arc in so many directions. What happens to the child left behind? What other adventures does the skin changing monster have? When does the run-away mom find her past has caught up with her? We'll never know.<br><br>I read this story in 2014, threw the book on a shelf and only recently picked it back up. I was THAT disappointed by the first story. Thing is, monster as red herring or MacGuffin, sets the tone for several other stories in this book.<br><br>The next story, <b>Wild Acre</b>, was definitely more of a thriller. It starts off as a werewolf story. A guy and his two employees sit at a construction site, staying in wait for vandals that had been breaking things at night. This guy goes into the woods to take care of personal business, and sees a kid turn into a werewolf, then kill his employees. He runs away in his truck, not even trying to use the gun he has on him. This happens at the very start of the story. The rest of the story is the spiral of PTSD this guy goes down and how he becomes a human monster. Unlike the first story, there was an evil trauma he witnessed. I didn't love it, but it didn't turn me off, and this is what got me to force myself to read the rest of the stories.<br><br><b>S.S.</b> is a story about a young man being recruited by a group of white supremacists and the very human need to belong. This story hits another one of my sour notes... when I cannot empathize with any of the main characters, I'm literally trying to figure out something to care about. The mother is a very interesting character who I would enjoy hearing a deeper story about, instead, she was a tertiary character at most.<br><br><b>The Crevasse</b>, co written with <a href=http://dalebailey.com/ target=_blank>Dale Bailey</a>, brings the stress and wonder of a Lovecraft's Cthulu without the breaking of physics. Of all the stories, this one has the most impact on me. As with most of the stories here, I was left wanting to know more about the story, and what else happens to the people who we're introduced to, but the ending wasn't brutally cold (well, then again, it is set in Antarctica).<br><br>The award winning story, <b>The Monsters of Heaven</b>, was really not for me. Lack of empathy for the characters strikes again. I will give it this, it was disturbing in that I've thought of this story more than any other, and in this case it is straight up feeling bad for the monster.<br><br><b>Sunbleached</b> is a vampire story, a story of loss, hubris and the angst of youth. This story sticks out as having a powerful ending. I liked this one a lot. This was scary like a movie. It had a Creepshow vibe.<br><br>The title story, <b>North American Lake Monsters</b>, similar to the first story, felt like a beginning of a premise instead of a fully realized story. I suppose these types of endings are supposed to leave me feeling haunted, but instead I feel like I lost out on hearing more. This was also a case of having no empathy for the main character, and I recognized him as waiting to be sprung. The monster, in this case, infected him, but somehow didn't seem to affect his daughter who first came into its contact.<br><br><b>The Way Station</b>, is a very interesting story. It is about being haunted in a way that the haunting manifests itself into the real world. This story is a bit drunk and drug addled, and in this case the monster is human, actually a predator, AND not the main character.<br><br>The last story was <b>The Good Husband</b>. This was depressing. Wife kills herself, her husband finds her in time, but with this being the fourth attempt, he just wanders away and goes back to sleep. How's <i>that</i> for an empathetic character? When she comes down from the bathroom in the morning, asking for coffee, bloodless and cold things get weirder. The ending of this one was also cold and abrupt. There's really no resolution here, and I had no empathy for anyone but their daughter who was away at college.<br><br><i>So, there we go, a deep spoilery dive on what didn't work for me. Let me know if you want to see more of this.</i></div></div><footer class=post-footer><ul class=post-tags><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/blog/>blog</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/book-notes/>book-notes</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/spoiler/>spoiler</a></li></ul><nav class=paginav><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/10/bloodline/><span class=title>« Prev</span><br><span>[Book] Bloodline by Claudia Gray</span></a>
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that was also out-of-time order, but at least it was a single voice and viewpoint. This book left me with a mess of details, and I'd bet that two people could read this book at the same time, and come away to tell their own version of the story of Bowie in multiple ways, depending on which vignettes resonated with each reader.\nI tried to force myself through this book, but have put it down several times to read other things that have a straight forward narrative. This book forces you to pay attention, and I wouldn't call it a good summer read (that is, I actually started this book in mid-July). I got about half-way through this book before deciding I'd read enough of it to publish this review.\nSkip it even if you are seeking a narrative walk-through of Bowie's life. Read this if you are obsessed with all things David Bowie, and really want to get a very in-depth view from a lot of different voices.\nMy mother is a David Bowie fan, which means that I grew up with David Bowie albums being played. I am an admirer of Bowie's music, and made a habit of pointing out Bowie songs in public spaces to my wife, who once said that she didn't know any Bowie songs - now she knows that she'd always heard them. She bought me this book as a gift, and I feel bad that I don't love it. \nNote: the paperback and Kindle edition of this book is subtitled An Oral History, but it is the same book.\nDavid Bowie: A Life\nBiography\nCrown Archetype imprint of Penguin Random House\nReleased: 12 September 2017\nHardcover, 544 pages ","wordCount":"766","inLanguage":"en","datePublished":"2018-10-31T12:00:00-04:00","dateModified":"2018-10-31T12:00:00.584-04:00","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Gary Allen Vollink"},"mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/10/david-bowie-a-life/"},"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"On My Mind...","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://blog.vollink.com/favicon.ico"}}}</script></head><body id=top><script>localStorage.getItem("pref-theme")==="dark"?document.body.classList.add("dark"):localStorage.getItem("pref-theme")==="light"?document.body.classList.remove("dark"):window.matchMedia("(prefers-color-scheme: dark)").matches&&document.body.classList.add("dark")</script><header class=header><nav class=nav><div class=logo><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/ accesskey=h title="Home (Alt + H)"><img src=https://blog.vollink.com/AllenWrench.gif alt=logo aria-label=logo height=35>Home</a>
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Jarringly, there are places where David Bowie's own statements are included. All of these vignettes are presented each in whole, collected into chapters into an approximate order as to when the main point of each vignette happened. Each vignette starts with a name followed by a parenthetical as to what this person is in relation to Bowie. Very sparingly, there will be fully italic paragraphs where the author actually writes some narrative framework. Pointing out things that are important, but not illustrated in the vignettes. It took me until chapter 3 until I realized that this is what the italic sections were for.<br><br>The first chapter of vignettes was very difficult to read. Of course, the youngest part of anybody's life is the hardest to keep interesting. "<b>Nick Kent </b>(journalist)", who hadn't met Bowie, but saw him on TV at 17 representing, The Society of the Prevention of Cruelty to Long-Haired Men, said "...I remember thinking, Now, this fellow we'll probably be seeing again." At this, it was really hard to keep my eyes from rolling out the back of my head. There were even vignettes that simply talked about a neighborhood where he was living, without any direct connection to Bowie himself. Nothing much here but color commentary.<br><br>Starting in the second chapter, there are more vignettes from musicians who actually worked with Bowie, and those start to get interesting. Rick Wakeman, of Yes fame, is a stand-out for good short stories, and though his stories start in Chapter 1, they don't get good until Chapter 2, when he's talking about things that he was part of.<br><br>Another thing that goes on through these vignettes that overlap in time is that often two or three recollections of a person or event in Bowie's life will contradict each-other. Where this happens, there is no narrative interlude to give more information, just the confusion that we don't really know.<br><br>Bowie's first wife, Angie, was either "a snotty bitch" and "her own worst enemy" or "... if he hadn't met Angie, David might have continued as a sort of Bob Dylan type..." and "part angel" who "did more than her share of domestic chores". All I can get from this is that she rubbed some people the wrong way, and - more likely - people who liked her then came to dislike her after the divorce. Ultimately, I found the Angie bashing to be distracting more than enlightening, and it is just one early example of narrative contradictions.<br><div><br></div>Because the vignettes overlap in time, and often contradict each other in detail, the book is very hard to follow in a narrative sense. This is actually worse than the <a href=http://blog.vollink.com/2018/07/eye-marty-marty-feldman.html target=_blank>eyE Marty</a> autobiography; that was also out-of-time order, but at least it was a single voice and viewpoint. This book left me with a mess of details, and I'd bet that two people could read this book at the same time, and come away to tell their own version of the story of Bowie in multiple ways, depending on which vignettes resonated with each reader.<br><br>I <i>tried</i> to force myself through this book, but have put it down several times to read other things that have a straight forward narrative. This book forces you to pay attention, and I wouldn't call it a good summer read (that is, I actually started this book in mid-July). I got about half-way through this book before deciding I'd read enough of it to publish this review.<br><br>Skip it even if you are seeking a narrative walk-through of Bowie's life. Read this if you are obsessed with all things David Bowie, and really want to get a very in-depth view from a lot of different voices.<br><br><a name=more></a><i>My mother is a David Bowie fan, which means that I grew up with David Bowie albums being played. I am an admirer of Bowie's music, and made a habit of pointing out Bowie songs in public spaces to my wife, who once said that she didn't know any Bowie songs - now she knows that she'd always heard them. She bought me this book as a gift, and I feel bad that I don't love it. </i><br><br>Note: the paperback and Kindle edition of this book is subtitled An Oral History, but it is the same book.<br><br><a href=https://smile.amazon.com/dp/045149783X/David-Bowie-Life-Dylan-Jones target=_blank>David Bowie: A Life</a><br>Biography<br><a href=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/547491/david-bowie-by-dylan-jones/ target=_blank>Crown Archetype</a> imprint of Penguin Random House<br>Released: 12 September 2017<br>Hardcover, 544 pages</div></div><footer class=post-footer><ul class=post-tags><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/biography/>biography</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/book-review/>book-review</a></li></ul><nav class=paginav><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/11/google-cardboard-is-a-terrible-experience/><span class=title>« Prev</span><br><span>Google Cardboard is a Terrible Experience</span></a>
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Several of the stories introduce a monster, but the monster itself is inactive ... in one case, already dead, leaving these stories to be more about the evil we bring with us where the monster is just a catalyst or even excuse for some all-too-human transition into bad behavior."><script type=application/ld+json>{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Posts","item":"https://blog.vollink.com/post/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"[Book] North American Lake Monsters by Nathan Ballingrud","item":"https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/10/north-american-lake-monsters/"}]}</script><script type=application/ld+json>{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BlogPosting","headline":"[Book] North American Lake Monsters by Nathan Ballingrud","name":"[Book] North American Lake Monsters by Nathan Ballingrud","description":"Book cover North American Lake Monsters is a collection of short horror or at least suspense stories.\u0026nbsp; One short, The Monsters of Heaven,\u0026nbsp;won the Shirley Jackson Award, and this book is on its third printing.\nSeveral of the stories introduce a monster, but the monster itself is inactive ... in one case, already dead, leaving these stories to be more about the evil we bring with us where the monster is just a catalyst or even excuse for some all-too-human transition into bad behavior.","keywords":["book-review","horror","short-stories"],"articleBody":" Book cover North American Lake Monsters is a collection of short horror or at least suspense stories. One short, The Monsters of Heaven, won the Shirley Jackson Award, and this book is on its third printing.\nSeveral of the stories introduce a monster, but the monster itself is inactive ... in one case, already dead, leaving these stories to be more about the evil we bring with us where the monster is just a catalyst or even excuse for some all-too-human transition into bad behavior.\n I'm still pretty new at this, but it feels that; to be honest about this review, I have to take a minute to talk about me and where I come from. I was around a lot of drug abuse in my younger years, and maybe this leaves me with little patience or even empathy for a person who brings their own evil, using something external as an excuse. There are many stories that centered around this, and those just left me feeling uncomfortable, and sad. Not horrified, scared, or even worried. When I recognize these patterns at the beginning of the story, then I already have my guard up. I cannot empathize with these characters. The turns, in these stories, felt like the inevitable. I say this with the highest compliment I can muster: I recognize these patterns, they ring true to real life, which means that the bored tropes of my own experience with the worst traits of humanity may indeed make wonderful fodder for those unfamiliar and seeking horror. Even so, some of the stories in this book feel like a premise has been introduced, but not fully explored. All short stories can feel this way, but -- reading over my own reviews -- I have little patience for when a story lacks a full narrative arc, and there were some stories where I felt like I read a promising chapter one, leaving me cold.\nInside here, I disliked these stories: You Go Where It Takes You, S.S., The Monsters of Heaven, North American Lake Monsters and The Good Husband. This story was interesting, but not great: Wild Acre.\n Read this for The Crevasse, Sunbleached and Way Station if you find this collection on sale. As I note above, maybe the rest of this is exactly the kind of thing a horror fan might look for. At the same time, so many of these stories introduce something very strange or very interesting, steer the story around and away from that thing, while the short format doesn't allow those things to be expanded upon. Overall, I don't recommend this book.\n I'm actually quite tempted to do a spoilers version of this review to explain more on each of these stories from my perspective. Leave a comment if you are interested, or would rather I leave it spoilers completely off this blog. North American Lake Monsters\nSmall Beer Press\nShort Horror Collection\nReleased: 16 July 2013\nPaperback, 300 pages\n ","wordCount":"490","inLanguage":"en","datePublished":"2018-10-03T12:00:00-04:00","dateModified":"2019-01-06T21:48:59.338-05:00","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Gary Allen Vollink"},"mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/10/north-american-lake-monsters/"},"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"On My Mind...","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://blog.vollink.com/favicon.ico"}}}</script></head><body id=top><script>localStorage.getItem("pref-theme")==="dark"?document.body.classList.add("dark"):localStorage.getItem("pref-theme")==="light"?document.body.classList.remove("dark"):window.matchMedia("(prefers-color-scheme: dark)").matches&&document.body.classList.add("dark")</script><header class=header><nav class=nav><div class=logo><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/ accesskey=h title="Home (Alt + H)"><img src=https://blog.vollink.com/AllenWrench.gif alt=logo aria-label=logo height=35>Home</a>
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One short, <i>The Monsters of Heaven,</i> won the Shirley Jackson Award, and this book is on its third printing.<br><br>Several of the stories introduce a monster, but the monster itself is inactive ... in one case, already dead, leaving these stories to be more about the evil we bring with us where the monster is just a catalyst or even excuse for some all-too-human transition into bad behavior.<br><div><br></div><div><i>I'm still pretty new at this, but it feels that; to be honest about this review, I have to take a minute to talk about me and where I come from. I was around a lot of drug abuse in my younger years, and maybe this leaves me with little patience or even empathy for a person who brings their own evil, using something external as an excuse. There are many stories that centered around this, and those just left me feeling uncomfortable, and sad. Not horrified, scared, or even worried. </i><i>When I recognize these patterns at the beginning of the story, then I already have my guard up. I cannot empathize with these characters.</i><i> The turns, in these stories, felt like the inevitable. I say this with the highest compliment I can muster: I recognize these patterns, they ring true to real life, which means that the bored tropes of my own experience with the worst traits of humanity may indeed make wonderful fodder for those unfamiliar and seeking horror.</i></div><div><br></div><div>Even so, some of the stories in this book feel like a premise has been introduced, but not fully explored. All short stories can feel this way, but -- reading over my own reviews -- I have little patience for when a story lacks a full narrative arc, and there were some stories where I felt like I read a promising chapter one, leaving me cold.<br><br>Inside here, I disliked these stories: You Go Where It Takes You, S.S., The Monsters of Heaven, North American Lake Monsters and The Good Husband.</div><div><br>This story was interesting, but not great: Wild Acre.<br><br></div>Read this for The Crevasse, Sunbleached and Way Station if you find this collection on sale. As I note above, maybe the rest of this is exactly the kind of thing a horror fan might look for. At the same time, so many of these stories introduce something very strange or very interesting, steer the story around and away from that thing, while the short format doesn't allow those things to be expanded upon. Overall, I don't recommend this book.<br><br><div><i>I'm actually quite tempted to do a spoilers version of this review to explain more on each of these stories from my perspective. 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Merlin in fantasy old England, complete with a mention of King Arthur's Court. This has nothing to do with the map, and that gave me the hope to keep reading. This turns out to tell the story of the birth of the actual main character, Morlock Ambrosius, son of Merlin Ambrosius and Nimue Viviana.\nThe book divides itself into four parts. The first part explains how the main character comes to be in, and introduces us to the world that the map describes... a world that is not fantasy old England or even Earth. At part two, we leave back-story and really get into the main part of the story. Dwarves, Wizards and, yes, dragons.\nThe world building is important to this story, but it's also good. Despite the Merlin reference, this is not a reused fantasy world of others. The dragons are not friendly or even sympathetic. The dwarves are not overly talkative. There are no elves in this story. The dragon lore in this book is a very interesting take, and I find that I'm quite fond of this version. I'll note that guile is used as a collective noun, as a herd of cows or murder of crows, but also implies a social structure.\nAfter finishing the book and preparing this review, I found out that Morlock is a main character in some of James Enge's other books as well, meaning that this book is an origin story. Here's the cool thing, besides being disappointed with the Merlin / Arthur tie-in, I didn't notice this was an origin story (and those are the best kind).\nThere are definitely parts of the story that are left unexplained. Not plot holes, but points of resolution that I wish had been further explained. Knowing that this character appears in other books, I find myself wondering if these are story points in other books, or things specifically being left for future books to explore. It's a suspicion I would not have if this were a stand-alone book, but I feel it, so I felt I should mention it.\nThere is exactly one passage in this book that allows it to pass the Bechdel test, and it's singularity stuck out to me. I don't think that I usually notice these things, but the one passage was distinct enough that it stuck out as being too lonely among many great opportunities for - you know - more simple exposition between two women.\nRead this book if you are looking for a different fantasy space, and a male point of view. Skip this book if an overly male point of view bothers you. Honestly, this is the reason I'm not likely to seek out more books from this author. The story telling is great, but it's almost all guys.\nI bought this from a Pyr Publisher's booth at some convention in 2012 or '13. I really can't remember which, but I do remember that one of the Publisher's reps recommended this book to me after asking me what other books I've liked. It's been at least 5 years... 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It offers a map. All of my favorite fantasy novels have included a map, and this leaves me excited for a tale with some traveling. The first very short chapter introduces some world building back-story, a short story about gods. Then, on page 19 (or the third page of story) the novel lands in a fantasy space that I find very overused and tired... Merlin in fantasy old England, complete with a mention of King Arthur's Court. This has nothing to do with the map, and that gave me the hope to keep reading. This turns out to tell the story of the birth of the actual main character, Morlock Ambrosius, son of Merlin Ambrosius and Nimue Viviana.<br><br>The book divides itself into four parts. The first part explains how the main character comes to be in, and introduces us to the world that the map describes... a world that is not fantasy old England or even Earth. At part two, we leave back-story and really get into the main part of the story. Dwarves, Wizards and, yes, dragons.<br><br>The world building is important to this story, but it's also good. Despite the Merlin reference, this is not a reused fantasy world of others. The dragons are not friendly or even sympathetic. The dwarves are not overly talkative. There are no elves in this story. The dragon lore in this book is a very interesting take, and I find that I'm quite fond of this version. I'll note that guile is used as a collective noun, as a herd of cows or murder of crows, but also implies a social structure.<br><br>After finishing the book and preparing this review, I found out that Morlock is a main character in some of James Enge's other books as well, meaning that this book is an origin story. Here's the cool thing, besides being disappointed with the Merlin / Arthur tie-in, I didn't notice this was an origin story (and those are the best kind).<br><br>There are definitely parts of the story that are left unexplained. Not plot holes, but points of resolution that I wish had been further explained. Knowing that this character appears in other books, I find myself wondering if these are story points in other books, or things specifically being left for future books to explore. It's a suspicion I would not have if this were a stand-alone book, but I feel it, so I felt I should mention it.<br><br>There is exactly one passage in this book that allows it to pass the <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bechdel_test target=_blank>Bechdel test</a>, and it's singularity stuck out to me. I don't think that I usually notice these things, but the one passage was distinct enough that it stuck out as being too lonely among many great opportunities for - you know - more simple exposition between two women.<br><br>Read this book if you are looking for a different fantasy space, and a male point of view. Skip this book if an overly male point of view bothers you. Honestly, this is the reason I'm not likely to seek out more books from this author. The story telling is great, but it's almost all guys.<br><br><br><a name=more></a><i>I bought this from a Pyr Publisher's booth at some convention in 2012 or '13. I really can't remember which, but I do remember that one of the Publisher's reps recommended this book to me after asking me what other books I've liked. It's been at least 5 years... I have so many books I haven't yet read.</i><br><i><br></i><a href=https://smile.amazon.com/dp/1616146281/Guile-Dragons-Tournament-Shadows-Book/ target=_blank>A Guile of Dragons</a><br>Fantasy<br><a href=http://pyrsf.com/ target=_blank>Pyr imprint of Prometheus Books</a><br>Released: 24 August 2012<br>Softcover, 279 pages</div></div><footer class=post-footer><ul class=post-tags><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/book-review/>book-review</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/fantasy/>fantasy</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/recommend/>recommend</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/sff/>sff</a></li></ul><nav class=paginav><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/11/i-am-not-famous-anymore/><span class=title>« Prev</span><br><span>[Book] I Am Not Famous Anymore by Erin Dorney</span></a>
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Take something that seems like it should be relatively common: VR video. Go into cardboard (the app), request the VR video channel. Find a video. Start that video. THEN hit the cardboard icon that will put it into cardboard mode. Then pause it. Put my phone into the cardboard-compatible viewer and hope it doesn't touch anything on the way in."><meta property="og:type" content="article"><meta property="og:url" content="https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/11/google-cardboard-is-a-terrible-experience/"><meta property="article:section" content="post"><meta property="article:published_time" content="2018-11-10T12:00:00-05:00"><meta property="article:modified_time" content="2018-11-10T16:39:36-05:00"><meta property="og:site_name" content="On My Mind..."><meta name=twitter:card content="summary"><meta name=twitter:title content="Google Cardboard is a Terrible Experience"><meta name=twitter:description content="Every time I ever try to do anything with Google cardboard - apart from the demo itself - the entire thing is a horrible experience.
Take something that seems like it should be relatively common: VR video. Go into cardboard (the app), request the VR video channel. Find a video. Start that video. THEN hit the cardboard icon that will put it into cardboard mode. Then pause it. 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Go into cardboard (the app), request the VR video channel. Find a video. Start that video. THEN hit the cardboard icon that will put it into cardboard mode. Then pause it. Put my phone into the cardboard-compatible viewer and hope it doesn't touch anything on the way in. If anything touches the screen in the wrong place the phone jumps back to full screen. That means, remove the phone again, re-queue the entire thing and try again. Finally, I can strap the thing onto my head and if everything went just right, I can hit play and watch that video... at least until it's over.<br><br><div style=text-align:center><span style=text-align:left><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;font-size:large">"If anything touches the screen<br>in the wrong place the phone<br>jumps back to full screen."</span></span></div><br>When the video is over, YouTube does what YouTube always does. It randomly queues another video that is subject related to the one previous. Normally, this could be okay, but I've tried this multiple times and the next video has never been a 360 experience. There is no way within the limited cardboard interface of YouTube to go back in and select a different 360 video. That means, remove the phone and do the whole thing over again to get back into a 360 video.<br><br>I played around with an Android app called Cosmic Roller Coaster. There's no back in the interface. Done with the "free" experience, my only option was to remove the phone from the cardboard and hit the Android back button to get back to the main menu within the app. I then promptly uninstalled Cosmic Roller Coaster.<br><br>Google Earth, launched from within the cardboard demo environment is the only decent experience that I've found. Why is this the only thing I've tried that gives me good feelings about VR as an experience? Everything else I've tried is mostly a frustration at some point.<br><div><br></div>Here's the thing. I love 3D. I love VR. I am geeky enough to understand the interface problems and all the steps necessary to overcome them. Good or bad, Google Cardboard via smart-phone is the first most people will ever get to try VR, and even though it's been around for years, the experience is pretty bad. I look at the fairly sad sales of the higher-end VR gear (Vive, Oculus or the Microsoft AR vendors), and I can't help but wonder if the underwhelming experience under Google Cardboard isn't part of why there hasn't been more adoption in this market.<br><br>I've done some playing with an Oculus and that experience is mind-blowing. Comparative, Google Earth on both is about the right experiential jump between a phone to a PC hosted app. That is the only place where Google Cardboard doesn't feel like a complete waste.<br><br>Am I missing something? 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From Bears to Bowdlerism"><script type=application/ld+json>{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Posts","item":"https://blog.vollink.com/post/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"[Book] Euphemania by Ralph Keyes","item":"https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/12/euphemania/"}]}</script><script type=application/ld+json>{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BlogPosting","headline":"[Book] Euphemania by Ralph Keyes","name":"[Book] Euphemania by Ralph Keyes","description":"Book Cover I love puns, and this is a book about the grandfather of puns... the good ole euphemism.\u0026nbsp; This book moves smoothly from subject to subject bringing up lots of history.\u0026nbsp; It is sometimes funny, but it doesn't overplay.\u0026nbsp; Overall, it's a pretty serious book about the very human desire to avoid talking directly about certain subjects.\nChapter Listing\nMincing Words\nFrom Bears to Bowdlerism","keywords":["book-review","knowledge","nonfiction","recommend"],"articleBody":" Book Cover I love puns, and this is a book about the grandfather of puns... the good ole euphemism. This book moves smoothly from subject to subject bringing up lots of history. It is sometimes funny, but it doesn't overplay. Overall, it's a pretty serious book about the very human desire to avoid talking directly about certain subjects.\nChapter Listing\nMincing Words\nFrom Bears to Bowdlerism\nSpeaking of Sex\nAnatomy Class\nSecretions and Excretions\nUnder the Weather and In the Ground\nComestibles\nShow Me the Liquidity\nWords of War\nBrave New Words\nWhy We Euphemize\nI found the chapter on sex to be the most interesting. I'd go so far as to say that the whole book is worth it for Speaking of Sex and Secretions and Excretions. I learned a huge amount that I never even suspected, having grown up with so many euphemisms as \"normal\" speech. Even the \"proper\" terms that I've been taught are usually euphemisms from another language. I also find myself much more accepting of curse words after reading this book.\nOne aspect of this book that surprised me is that there are sprinkled references to euphemisms in other languages. In retrospect, it is clear that euphemisms often jump from one language to another, and morph slightly as they go from language to language. I found these parts to be fascinating none-the-less, and really makes me wish I had the patience to really learn more than just English.\nBottom line is that I found this book to be delightfully charming. I learned a lot (and have already forgotten far more). As usual, I'll include the escape reasons... If you are bored by puns, have no interest in etymology, or just don't want to think about language now that English class isn't mandatory in your life, I won't think less of you for skipping this one.\nMy wife bought me this book because she knows I love language.\nEuphemania\nLinguistics\nLittle, Brown and Company\nReleased: 14 December 2010\nHardcover: 288 pages ","wordCount":"335","inLanguage":"en","datePublished":"2018-12-26T21:32:00-05:00","dateModified":"2019-01-06T22:21:08.583-05:00","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Gary Allen Vollink"},"mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/12/euphemania/"},"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"On My Mind...","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://blog.vollink.com/favicon.ico"}}}</script></head><body id=top><script>localStorage.getItem("pref-theme")==="dark"?document.body.classList.add("dark"):localStorage.getItem("pref-theme")==="light"?document.body.classList.remove("dark"):window.matchMedia("(prefers-color-scheme: dark)").matches&&document.body.classList.add("dark")</script><header class=header><nav class=nav><div class=logo><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/ accesskey=h title="Home (Alt + H)"><img src=https://blog.vollink.com/AllenWrench.gif alt=logo aria-label=logo height=35>Home</a>
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This book moves smoothly from subject to subject bringing up lots of history. It is sometimes funny, but it doesn't overplay. Overall, it's a pretty serious book about the very human desire to avoid talking directly about certain subjects.<br><br><b>Chapter Listing</b><br>Mincing Words<br>From Bears to Bowdlerism<br>Speaking of Sex<br>Anatomy Class<br>Secretions and Excretions<br><i>Under the Weather </i>and <i>In the Ground</i><br>Comestibles<br>Show Me the Liquidity<br>Words of War<br>Brave New Words<br>Why We Euphemize<br><br>I found the chapter on sex to be the most interesting. I'd go so far as to say that the whole book is worth it for <i>Speaking of Sex</i> and <i>Secretions and Excretions</i>. I learned a huge amount that I never even suspected, having grown up with so many euphemisms as "normal" speech. Even the "proper" terms that I've been taught are usually euphemisms from another language. I also find myself much more accepting of curse words after reading this book.<br><br>One aspect of this book that surprised me is that there are sprinkled references to euphemisms in other languages. In retrospect, it is clear that euphemisms often jump from one language to another, and morph slightly as they go from language to language. I found these parts to be fascinating none-the-less, and really makes me wish I had the patience to really learn more than just English.<br><br>Bottom line is that I found this book to be delightfully charming. I learned a lot (and have already forgotten far more). As usual, I'll include the escape reasons... If you are bored by puns, have no interest in etymology, or just don't want to think about language now that English class isn't mandatory in your life, I won't think less of you for skipping this one.<br><br><a name=more></a><i>My wife bought me this book because she knows I love language.</i><br><br><a href=https://smile.amazon.com/dp/0316056561/Euphemania-Our-Love-Affair-Euphemisms target=_blank>Euphemania</a><br>Linguistics<br><a href=https://www.littlebrown.com/titles/ralph-keyes/euphemania/9780316121958/ target=_blank>Little, Brown and Company</a><br>Released: 14 December 2010<br>Hardcover: 288 pages</div></div><footer class=post-footer><ul class=post-tags><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/book-review/>book-review</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/knowledge/>knowledge</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/nonfiction/>nonfiction</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/recommend/>recommend</a></li></ul><nav class=paginav><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/01/hotel-on-the-corner-of-bitter-and-sweet/><span class=title>« Prev</span><br><span>[Book] Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford</span></a>
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Every character in this book is a Native American either from or converging on Oakland California. There is a lot of exploration, especially among the young characters, of what it means to be Native in the city."><meta property="og:type" content="article"><meta property="og:url" content="https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/12/there-there/"><meta property="article:section" content="post"><meta property="article:published_time" content="2018-12-12T12:00:00-05:00"><meta property="article:modified_time" content="2019-01-06T21:56:18-05:00"><meta property="og:site_name" content="On My Mind..."><meta name=twitter:card content="summary"><meta name=twitter:title content="[Book] There There by Tommy Orange"><meta name=twitter:description content="Book cover I will start by noting that this book started slow for me. It took me over two weeks to read the prologue up through the fourth chapter. Once I passed that, I read the next 80% of the book in two days finishing on a third.
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<span class=logo-switches><button id=theme-toggle accesskey=t title="(Alt + T)"><svg id="moon" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentcolor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round"><path d="M21 12.79A9 9 0 1111.21 3 7 7 0 0021 12.79z"/></svg><svg id="sun" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentcolor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round"><circle cx="12" cy="12" r="5"/><line x1="12" y1="1" x2="12" y2="3"/><line x1="12" y1="21" x2="12" y2="23"/><line x1="4.22" y1="4.22" x2="5.64" y2="5.64"/><line x1="18.36" y1="18.36" x2="19.78" y2="19.78"/><line x1="1" y1="12" x2="3" y2="12"/><line x1="21" y1="12" x2="23" y2="12"/><line x1="4.22" y1="19.78" x2="5.64" y2="18.36"/><line x1="18.36" y1="5.64" x2="19.78" y2="4.22"/></svg></button></span></div><ul id=menu><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/ title=Posts><span>Posts</span></a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/ title=Tags><span>Tags</span></a></li><li><a href=https://home.vollink.com/ title=home.vollink.com><span>home.vollink.com</span></a></li></ul></nav></header><main class=main><article class=post-single><header class=post-header><div class=breadcrumbs><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>Home</a> » <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/>Posts</a></div><h1 class=post-title>[Book] There There by Tommy Orange</h1><div class=post-meta><span title="2018-12-12 12:00:00 -0500 -0500">12 Dec 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</div></header><div class=post-content><div dir=ltr style=text-align:left trbidi=on><table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 class=tr-caption-container style=float:right;margin-left:1em;text-align:right><tbody><tr><td style=text-align:center><a href=https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AO3R5J1GJmA/W8aYeMd2ShI/AAAAAAAAHgA/siZtA_YxIlsbvyeBTgW4dGJXrNY-KDSvwCLcBGAs/s1600/There_There.jpg imageanchor=1 style=clear:right;margin-bottom:1em;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto><img border=0 data-original-height=499 data-original-width=331 height=320 src=/img/there-there_1_There_There.jpg width=212></a></td></tr><tr><td class=tr-caption style=text-align:center>Book cover</td></tr></tbody></table>I will start by noting that this book started slow for me. It took me over two weeks to read the prologue up through the fourth chapter. Once I passed that, I read the next 80% of the book in two days finishing on a third.<br><br>Every character in this book is a Native American either from or converging on Oakland California. There is a lot of exploration, especially among the young characters, of what it means to be Native in the city. A native away from the things externally associated with being Native.<br><br>I loved this book, but I feel I should not have liked it at all. This book has most of the things that I've complained about in reviews past. The book is non-linear. The book retells the same scenes from different perspectives, sometimes many chapters apart. The book jumps between grandmother to grandchild without reminding us of the shared relationship.<br><br>Yet, the details emerge. The memories re-ignite. Not the way I expect them to, but there is always enough there that I'm not left confused and angry. Chapter headings are helpful here. They name the character that the chapter will focus on. The perspectives are amazing in how different each character sees the world. Which things energize and which things turn off.<br><br>The author does an amazing job really pushing the personality drivers of each person, making families familiar in a way that is obvious, while making each character a fully believable individual. There are multiple people in this book that I wish I could just sit down with an have a conversation with, or just share a meal.<br><br>By just about the middle point of the book, it becomes clear that these individual pieces of story are all converging. More and more, the life stories that are being told are intersecting in place and time. In this, all of the exploration, the meaning, are all in service of the overall story-arc. The shifts in place and time, are to help us avoid spoilers for what is to come, and it is done very well.<br><br>This is a book I'm recommending without reservation. I don't do that very often.<br><br>There is violence, gang, domestic and sexual, though the sexual violence is not described in graphic detail.<br><br><br><a name=more></a><a href=https://smile.amazon.com/dp/0525520376/There-novel-Tommy-Orange target=_blank>There There</a><br>Novel<br><a href=http://knopfdoubleday.com/2018/05/03/there-there-by-tommy-orange/ target=_blank>Knopf</a><br>Released: 5 June 2018<br>Hardcover, 304 pages<br><br></div></div><footer class=post-footer><ul class=post-tags><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/book-review/>book-review</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/drama/>drama</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/historic-fiction/>historic-fiction</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/recommend/>recommend</a></li></ul><nav class=paginav><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/12/euphemania/><span class=title>« Prev</span><br><span>[Book] Euphemania by Ralph Keyes</span></a>
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The Difference Between Science Fiction and Fantasy To me, science fiction means that a story element that exists outside of the mundanely possible is specifically there to frame or force a change in the society portrayed in that story. Where I see fantasy as having extra-existent elements that are used as a backdrop and plot devices to move the story forward. This can be a thin line, which is why the two are often bundled under a single header. Star Wars, to me, is a fantasy. There are Jedi-Knights who can dabble in magic and fight with \"laser swords\". With some minor exceptions in the prequels, this magic isn't used as a way to show a societal shift, or show us what dilemmas might exist because such a thing exists. Instead, it is used as a plot device. Something for the hero to obtain on the hero's journey. With the exception of minor mentions in Rogue One, the terrible weaponry of the Death Star isn't explored in its affect on society, but as a weapon to be defeated before it causes more harm. Even mass cloning is mostly used to distance the audience from the number of deaths, not as an exploration of the moral implications of cloning itself. Star Wars doesn't directly face the societal implications of magic or cloning. It sure could have done a lot of exploration of the implications of a weapon that is able to destroy an entire planet, and why it is imperative to dismantle such things - no matter who has such a thing. In the middle of the Cold-War, maybe this was supposed to be an obvious connection, but nothing really talks to these parallels. It was not a moral choice about the weapon itself as much as it was a survival imperative to defeat the enemy by defeating the enemy's weapon. Oppositely, the movie Dragon Heart represents what I expect from Science Fiction. In that world, dragons exist, but have been hunted near extinction, mostly due to a misguided ruler. The movie shows a societal mirror to our own hunting of predator species like sharks or wolves, reflected in the Dragon's pleas to the benefits that dragons had brought. The hero of the movie is forced to face his own bias, and befriend the last dragon on earth, which is also a regular science fiction reflection on racism. Romantic \n Romantic does not necessarily mean romance. That is, none of the books I've so far reviewed include love triangles, but romance - or missed romance - is a major element of the plot. Missing \n If I'm missing a genre that would make it easier to sort through my reviews, leave a comment! If you think I should read a book that fits a genre that you want me to review, leave a comment! What I'm trying to say is... Never be shy about leaving a comment! 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That is, if I'm telling you what I think about a book, it is a book review. There are also <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/search/label/short-book-reviews target=_blank>short-book-reviews</a> on some.<br><br>If my general impression of a book is that I enjoyed it, I've included the tag, <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/search/label/recommend target=_blank>recommend</a>.<br><br><b>Genre categories</b> - if you want to discuss these, see below:<br><br><ul style=text-align:left><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/search/label/book-reviews+childrens target=_blank>childrens</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/search/label/book-reviews+young-adult target=_blank>young-adult</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/search/label/book-reviews+nonfiction target=_blank>nonfiction</a></li><ul><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/search/label/book-reviews+knowledge target=_blank>knowledge</a> (science or language)</li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/search/label/book-reviews+current%20events>current events</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/search/label/book-reviews+business target=_blank>business</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/search/label/book-reviews+true-crime target=_blank>true-crime</a></li></ul><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/search/label/book-reviews+biography target=_blank>biography</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/search/label/book-reviews+memoir target=_blank>memoir</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/search/label/book-reviews+historic-fiction target=_blank>historic-fiction</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/search/label/book-reviews+drama target=_blank>drama</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/search/label/book-reviews+romantic target=_blank>romantic</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/search/label/book-reviews+poetry target=_blank>poetry</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/search/label/book-reviews+steampunk target=_blank>steampunk</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/search/label/book-reviews+science-fiction target=_blank>science-fiction</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/search/label/book-reviews+fantasy target=_blank>fantasy</a></li><ul><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/search/label/book-reviews+space-fantasy target=_blank>space-fantasy</a> (so far, this means Star Wars).</li></ul><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/search/label/book-reviews+horror target=_blank>horror</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/search/label/book-reviews+comic-book target=_blank>comic-book</a> (includes graphic novels)</li></ul><div><br></div><div>Genre notes, additions and debate are welcome, there are a few things that I am not likely to budge on...</div><div><br></div><div><b>The Difference Between Science Fiction and Fantasy</b></div><div><br></div><div>To me, science fiction means that a story element that exists outside of the mundanely possible is specifically there to frame or force a change in the society portrayed in that story. Where I see fantasy as having extra-existent elements that are used as a backdrop and plot devices to move the story forward. This can be a thin line, which is why the two are often bundled under a single header.</div><div><br></div><div>Star Wars, to me, is a fantasy. There are Jedi-Knights who can dabble in magic and fight with "laser swords". With some minor exceptions in the prequels, this magic isn't used as a way to show a societal shift, or show us what dilemmas might exist because such a thing exists. Instead, it is used as a plot device. Something for the hero to obtain on the hero's journey. With the exception of minor mentions in Rogue One, the terrible weaponry of the Death Star isn't explored in its affect on society, but as a weapon to be defeated before it causes more harm. Even mass cloning is mostly used to distance the audience from the number of deaths, not as an exploration of the moral implications of cloning itself.</div><div><br></div><div>Star Wars doesn't directly face the societal implications of magic or cloning. It sure could have done a lot of exploration of the implications of a weapon that is able to destroy an entire planet, and why it is imperative to dismantle such things - no matter who has such a thing. In the middle of the Cold-War, maybe this was supposed to be an obvious connection, but nothing really talks to these parallels. It was not a moral choice about the weapon itself as much as it was a survival imperative to defeat the enemy by defeating the enemy's weapon.</div><div><br></div><div>Oppositely, the movie Dragon Heart represents what I expect from Science Fiction. In that world, dragons exist, but have been hunted near extinction, mostly due to a misguided ruler. The movie shows a societal mirror to our own hunting of predator species like sharks or wolves, reflected in the Dragon's pleas to the benefits that dragons had brought. The hero of the movie is forced to face his own bias, and befriend the last dragon on earth, which is also a regular science fiction reflection on racism.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Romantic</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div>Romantic does not necessarily mean romance. That is, none of the books I've so far reviewed include love triangles, but romance - or missed romance - is a major element of the plot.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Missing</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div>If I'm missing a genre that would make it easier to sort through my reviews, leave a comment! If you think I should read a book that fits a genre that you want me to review, leave a comment! 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It has four main arcs, The Chosen One (issues 1 - 6), The Dying Light (7-10) The Burning Seas (13-17) and Fortress Vader (19-25).<br><br>This is a comic book run, so I need to take a moment to really appreciate how well done the art is on this whole book from Giuseppe Camuncoli's layouts, the finishes of Cam Smith then Daniele Orlandini, colors by David Curiel and Dono Sanchez-Almara, and the Lettering by Joe Caramagna. The cover shown to the right was done by Jim Cheung and Matthew Wilson (with other cover artists throughout the run). For any run to go this long with so few personnel changes seems like an accomplishment these days. The art is a very cinematic take, like most of the Star Wars comics, making the characters in the books look very similar to the actors that play them in the movies, which makes characters from the Rebels cartoon series seem more real, in a way.<br><br>I disliked Star Wars Episode 1 so much that I'd never seen Clone Wars or Revenge of the Sith. I've literally seen everything else that the franchise has to offer, and this comic run has been amazing. It actually has me thinking that I should be willing to watch those other prequel movies. Maybe that is a mistake, but before this, I really didn't care about Vader and his origin story. Now I do. I don't like everything that Charles Soule writes, but when he is in my lane, he is a great writer.<br><br>Read this if you want to know more about this story. Like the other Star Wars books I've written about, if you aren't into Star Wars, feel free to skip this.<br><br><br><a name=more></a><i>I have read this book, issue by issue as it came out from initial release, monthly until the last issue, #25. </i> Note: <i>I finally did watch the second and third Prequels on New Year's Day.</i><br><br><a href=https://smile.amazon.com/dp/1302907441/Star-Wars-Darth-Imperial-Machine/ target=_blank>Star Wars: Darth Vader</a><br>Fantasy Comic Book<br><a href=https://www.marvel.com/comics/issue/63169/darth_vader_2017_1 target=_blank>Marvel Comics</a> in association with Disney and Lucasfilm<br>Released: June 7, 2017<br>Softcover, 25 issues (or 4 graphic novel volumes)</div></div><footer class=post-footer><ul class=post-tags><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/book-review/>book-review</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/comic-book/>comic-book</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/fantasy/>fantasy</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/recommend/>recommend</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/sff/>sff</a></li></ul><nav class=paginav><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/02/ball-lightning/><span class=title>« Prev</span><br><span>[Book] Ball Lightning by Cixin Liu</span></a>
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This book follows the protagonist, Henry Lee both as a 13 year old in 1943, and an adult in 1986. If you have been reading my reviews for a while, you'll note that I get picky when time starts jumping around, and I'm really happy to say that this book gets this simple detail absolutely right: Every chapter title includes the year."><meta property="og:type" content="article"><meta property="og:url" content="https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/01/hotel-on-the-corner-of-bitter-and-sweet/"><meta property="article:section" content="post"><meta property="article:published_time" content="2019-01-09T12:00:00-05:00"><meta property="article:modified_time" content="2019-01-09T12:00:00-05:00"><meta property="og:site_name" content="On My Mind..."><meta name=twitter:card content="summary"><meta name=twitter:title content="[Book] Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford"><meta name=twitter:description content="Book cover Seems an appropriate way to start off the first book review of 2019 with a book that came out in 2009. On top of that, it's a book that I really, really enjoyed reading.
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On top of that, it's a book that I really, really enjoyed reading.<br><br>This book follows the protagonist, Henry Lee both as a 13 year old in 1943, and an adult in 1986. If you have been reading my reviews for a while, you'll note that I get picky when time starts jumping around, and I'm really happy to say that this book gets this simple detail absolutely right: Every chapter title includes the year. No guesswork, no wondering, just four extra characters makes so much difference.<br><br>In 1986, Henry's wife, Ethel, is dying of cancer. Henry's son, Marty is in college and the two have trouble communicating as Ethel declines. This brings Henry to explore the parallels between himself and his own father, who died well before Marty was born.<br><br>In 1943, Henry's parents, through great sacrifice, send Henry to an all-white, private school, where he gets picked on mercilessly. His only friend is a busker named Sheldon who plays Jazz saxophone. That is, until a Japanese girl named Keiko shows up to school, too. Tragic-romance style, Henry's father absolutely hates all Japanese people, but Henry falls in love with Keiko anyway. Japanese Internment and Henry's father both get in the way.<br><br>This book has a wide cast of outstanding characters, and I will say, the night after I finished this book, I actually had a dream where I was trying to cast this book for a movie (So many great Asian actors come to mind, even while I'm awake). I liked this book so much, that I'm planning on reading and reviewing Jamie Ford's <a href=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/234461/love-and-other-consolation-prizes-by-jamie-ford/9780804176774 target=_blank>more recent novel</a>, too.<br><br>Really, the book title is a little too on the nose. This book is both heartbreaking and hopeful. I really loved it, and I strongly recommend it. 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The fantastic element in science fiction is usually both a catalyst for the story itself as well as a way to explore the reactionary side of society. Where in fantasy, the fantastic element is simply present. Used as a tool, maybe even explored in depth, but isn't the main goal.<br><br>For example, I think of Star Wars as a fantasy story, not science fiction at all. It does have a classically science-fiction aesthetic. Yet, boiling it down, Jedi are wizards, space ships are little different from ocean vessels, and the story is pushed forward by that war part of the name.<br><br>This book sits on the knife-edge between the two for me. There is nothing about the nature of ball lightning itself in this story that is necessary to push the main plot. There is some exploration at the individual, moral level, which to my view, is this books one link to science fiction from pure fantasy.<br><br>The theme of this book is the destructive nature of obsession, and the destructive nature of those who are obsessed with something. There are numerous characters, including Chen, who are obsessed with various things, and the destructive nature of their interactions are compelling, and a little sad. So, in this way, this book almost feels like a dramatic fantasy story.<br><div><br></div>The Prelude of this book begins with the main character, Chen, on his 14th birthday, witnessing both of his parents dying from Ball Lightning. This sets Chen on a life fascinated by this natural phenomenon, hoping to understand this force that killed his parents. The book sweeps through his collage years and into a professional life where he meets other people who have also been obsessed with ball lightning, and also other people with intersecting obsessions.<br><br>Two things of note, this book occurs in the same universe as the Three Body problem (which is fully science fiction by my definition), though it takes place before most of the events of that first book. Second, though part of both stories do share one character, the story has no relation to the subject of <i>The Three Body Problem</i>.<br><div><br></div>I liked the book, and recommend it as a good dramatic <i>human</i> story. It certainly has a science-fiction aesthetic. If you are really into modern science-fiction, this book isn't it. <br><br><a name=more></a><i>Cixin Liu is the author of </i>The Three Body Problem<i> and the trilogy that that book started. I loved that series (I read it a few years before I started writing book reviews) and was very excited when I saw that Cixin Liu had a newly translated book. I purchased this book at a Barnes and Noble.</i><br><div><br></div><a href=https://smile.amazon.com/dp/0765394073/Ball-Lightning-Cixin-Liu target=_blank>Ball Lightning</a><br>Science Fiction<br><a href=https://www.tor.com/2016/09/13/cover-reveal-ball-lightning-cixin-liu/ target=_blank>Tor</a><br>Released: 14 August 2018<br>Hardcover, 384 pages</div></div><footer class=post-footer><ul class=post-tags><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/book-review/>book-review</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/recommend/>recommend</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/science-fiction/>science-fiction</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/sff/>sff</a></li></ul><nav class=paginav><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/02/catch-22/><span class=title>« Prev</span><br><span>[Book] Catch-22 by Joseph Heller</span></a>
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I usually don't go back to old books to add to my reviews, but this is a touch-stone. It's a book that a LOT of folks have read, and I hope it might help someone who also read this book tune in on where I'm coming from. I read this book several years ago, and though I flipped through it to refresh my mind for this entry, I didn't just read it again in full. The tag label on this blog says book-notes instead of book-reviews.<br><br>The main character, or at least the character that starts and ends the book is Yossarian. Yossarian is a pilot during World War 2, and as best as I can tell, spends the bulk of the book trying to get out of doing more of it, while also dealing in the black market with military supplies.<br><br>I say above, 'as best as I can tell' because everything is out of order. Wait, that's not quite fair. The stuff that happens in the 1944 narrative is mostly in order. Two major sections of the book are also in flashback, and those are definitely not in order.<br><br>Each part of the story is retold from the perspective of someone else, and some of the basic facts don't line up. This, I am told - over and over again - by well meaning friends and acquaintances, is entirely the genius of the book. It's a masterpiece because of the very ways it doesn't make sense.<br><br>Here's the thing, I can see how the absurdity of war plays out here. I can even see how the best of that old show M.A.S.H. was probably influenced by this book, but I am a reader that needs a solid narrative. I actually think this book is something I'd even enjoy if someone simply put it all into a single timeline order.<br><br>I'm here to stand on this imaginary hill and say that it is perfectly fine to hate this book for all of the reasons your friends think its great. I certainly do.<br><br>Content warnings for violence and rape. 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Subtitled Trump in the White House, Fear is about the presidency of Donald Trump and written by the Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward."><script type=application/ld+json>{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Posts","item":"https://blog.vollink.com/post/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"[Book] Fear by Bob Woodward","item":"https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/03/fear/"}]}</script><script type=application/ld+json>{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BlogPosting","headline":"[Book] Fear by Bob Woodward","name":"[Book] Fear by Bob Woodward","description":"Book cover I haven't been sleeping well.\u0026nbsp; A good friend of mine suggested that my reading this book may be one of the reasons.\u0026nbsp; I can't dispute that directly.\u0026nbsp; As I write this, right before New Year's 2018, I'm actively looking for employment, and that is stressful, but this book definitely hasn't helped.\n\nSubtitled Trump in the White House, Fear is about the presidency of Donald Trump and written by the Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward.","keywords":["book-review","current events","nonfiction","recommend"],"articleBody":" Book cover I haven't been sleeping well. A good friend of mine suggested that my reading this book may be one of the reasons. I can't dispute that directly. As I write this, right before New Year's 2018, I'm actively looking for employment, and that is stressful, but this book definitely hasn't helped.\n\nSubtitled Trump in the White House, Fear is about the presidency of Donald Trump and written by the Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward. The book is separated into 42 numbered but untitled chapters which are mostly organized by time, though not entirely. Each chapter reads like two or three long, stand-alone articles about some set of probably related events or issues during the early parts of Trump's presidency, though I often missed how or why each is grouped together in the same chapter.\nThe book is well written, and seems to take great pains to state things that happened without editorializing. This is old-school reporting, which is a difficult style to get used to again, now that I've been living in the modern age of commentary-instead-of-news. There's a lot of stuff described here.\nEmotionally, though, I found the whole book to be exhausting. Sometimes, because I disagree with what Trump did or tried to do. Sometimes, because I disagree with things people on Trump's staff did to prevent Trump from doing something. That is, regardless of whether a reader is a Trump supporter, there's a lot to feel exhausted about.\nI almost didn't have the energy to finish this book, and there are a lot of valid reasons to skip it; emotional stamina being near the top. I read the paper regularly, so there wasn't a lot of major events recounted here that were new to me, though the described machinations of how the White House runs under Trump was enlightening. Read this book if, like me, you are a politics junkie.\nFear\nCurrent Events\nSimon \u0026 Schuster\nReleased: 11 September 2018\nHardcover, 448 pages ","wordCount":"327","inLanguage":"en","datePublished":"2019-03-06T12:00:00-05:00","dateModified":"2019-03-06T12:00:03.791-05:00","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Gary Allen Vollink"},"mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/03/fear/"},"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"On My Mind...","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://blog.vollink.com/favicon.ico"}}}</script></head><body id=top><script>localStorage.getItem("pref-theme")==="dark"?document.body.classList.add("dark"):localStorage.getItem("pref-theme")==="light"?document.body.classList.remove("dark"):window.matchMedia("(prefers-color-scheme: dark)").matches&&document.body.classList.add("dark")</script><header class=header><nav class=nav><div class=logo><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/ accesskey=h title="Home (Alt + H)"><img src=https://blog.vollink.com/AllenWrench.gif alt=logo aria-label=logo height=35>Home</a>
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If a process is broken throw it in the trash and start over. Nothing is set in stone. The simplicity of the tweet is absolutely true. It totally reminded me of a problem I've seen multiple times though. The process is rarely the difficult part of fixing a problem.
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The simplicity of the tweet is absolutely true.\u0026nbsp; It totally reminded me of a problem I've seen multiple times though.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;The process is rarely the difficult part of fixing a problem.\nA long time ago, when I was a team lead, the group I worked with had an automated build system that was extremely complicated, built entirely in-house, and didn't follow the conventions of any of the standard build-systems that exist.","keywords":["blog","human nature","management","work"],"articleBody":"I was reading my twitter feed, when I stumbled upon this:\nIf a process is broken throw it in the trash and start over. Nothing is set in stone. The simplicity of the tweet is absolutely true. It totally reminded me of a problem I've seen multiple times though. The process is rarely the difficult part of fixing a problem.\nA long time ago, when I was a team lead, the group I worked with had an automated build system that was extremely complicated, built entirely in-house, and didn't follow the conventions of any of the standard build-systems that exist. There was a steep learning curve to get new software packages into the system, and most developers never learned to do it. This also meant that when someone needed to introduce a project that didn't exist already, they'd often work-around the need instead of waiting for someone with knowledge to help.\nAt some point, the group hired a published tech-author who was a big open source advocate, and quite outspoken. Upon trying to interface with the build system, they loudly declared it broken, and suggested it should be fixed. Management above me said a very smart thing, \"Okay, fix it.\"\nMany months later, that person left the group, and the same build system was still there and there were not even any modifications done. Let me unwind what went wrong.\nBy most metrics, if a process is that hard, then it is objectively broken. That new employee was absolutely correct in the assessment. However, the process doesn't care. This group had over 200 distinct, but interrelated projects, which means that any replacement system would need to be configured for all of them. The process also had a custom syntactical structure to deal with a number of edge cases. This is both what made it maddeningly difficult to work with, but also what made it work well in that environment.\nThe process, like most, was built and maintained by people, most of whom were still sitting in that office. Generally, everyone who understood the custom build process deeply appreciated the many, many things it accomplished. Those who didn't need to learn the complexity of adding a new project didn't have a reason to care, but that also meant that those people weren't useful allies, since they didn't understand the full extent of what the process did.\nThis new person basically started by angering the very people who maintained this process. Those were the only people with the knowledge of the complexities that a new system would need to mitigate or replace. Once this person started working in earnest to replace the system, the complexities showed themselves randomly, and the original maintainers just stood back, waiting for the inevitable failure.\nHere is the lesson I learned from watching this happen.\nTo affect change, you must acknowledge a process' power, and demonstrate understanding of its complexity before the process guardians will trust you to replace it.\n If a process accomplishes nothing, it would have already been replaced. If a process exists at all, it accomplishes something, and it is probably there for a reason. Sometimes a strange or ugly process simply exists because of somebody who did something really dumb. As in, don't be the person who makes us write a rule.\nIf a process is terrible, ask open questions about why it is built the way it is. Most likely it is still there because it solves problems that other tools (even if they are newer) don't already solve. This is especially true when those processes bridge multiple other systems. Avoid criticizing a process, but ask pointed questions about the parts that are ugly.\nOn multiple occasions in the many years since, I've been able to use these lessons to fix or replace multiple processes in multiple places. In no case has the problem been a technical hurdle, but a problem of finding those who protect the process, and getting them on-board with fixing the deficiencies (even if they don't need to do the fixing, but just stop being protective). Sometimes this means a whole process replacement, but most often it has meant paying off technical debt (like major code refactoring or updating dependent systems), and implementing new interfaces into the existing processes. 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Nothing is set in stone.</a></blockquote>The simplicity of the tweet is absolutely true. It totally reminded me of a problem I've seen multiple times though. The process is rarely the difficult part of fixing a problem.<br><br>A long time ago, when I was a team lead, the group I worked with had an automated build system that was extremely complicated, built entirely in-house, and didn't follow the conventions of any of the standard build-systems that exist. There was a steep learning curve to get new software packages into the system, and most developers never learned to do it. This also meant that when someone needed to introduce a project that didn't exist already, they'd often work-around the need instead of waiting for someone with knowledge to help.<br><br>At some point, the group hired a published tech-author who was a big open source advocate, and quite outspoken. Upon trying to interface with the build system, they loudly declared it broken, and suggested it should be fixed. Management above me said a very smart thing, "Okay, fix it."<br><br>Many months later, that person left the group, and the same build system was still there and there were not even any modifications done. Let me unwind what went wrong.<br><br>By most metrics, if a process is that hard, then it is objectively broken. That new employee was absolutely correct in the assessment. However, the process doesn't care. This group had over 200 distinct, but interrelated projects, which means that any replacement system would need to be configured for all of them. The process also had a custom syntactical structure to deal with a number of edge cases. This is both what made it maddeningly difficult to work with, but also what made it work well in that environment.<br><br>The process, like most, was built and maintained by people, most of whom were still sitting in that office. Generally, everyone who understood the custom build process deeply appreciated the many, many things it accomplished. Those who didn't need to learn the complexity of adding a new project didn't have a reason to care, but that also meant that those people weren't useful allies, since they didn't understand the full extent of what the process did.<br><br>This new person basically started by angering the very people who maintained this process. Those were the only people with the knowledge of the complexities that a new system would need to mitigate or replace. Once this person started working in earnest to replace the system, the complexities showed themselves randomly, and the original maintainers just stood back, waiting for the inevitable failure.<br><br>Here is the lesson I learned from watching this happen.<br><br><b>To affect change, you must acknowledge a process' power, and demonstrate understanding of its complexity before the process guardians will trust you to replace it.</b><br><div><br></div>If a process accomplishes nothing, it would have already been replaced. If a process exists at all, it accomplishes something, and it is probably there for a reason. Sometimes a strange or ugly process simply exists because of somebody who did something really dumb. As in, don't be the person who makes us write a rule.<br><br>If a process is terrible, ask open questions about why it is built the way it is. Most likely it is still there because it solves problems that other tools (even if they are newer) don't already solve. This is especially true when those processes bridge multiple other systems. Avoid criticizing a process, but ask pointed questions about the parts that are ugly.<br><br>On multiple occasions in the many years since, I've been able to use these lessons to fix or replace multiple processes in multiple places. In no case has the problem been a technical hurdle, but a problem of finding those who protect the process, and getting them on-board with fixing the deficiencies (even if they don't need to do the fixing, but just stop being protective). Sometimes this means a whole process replacement, but most often it has meant paying off technical debt (like major code refactoring or updating dependent systems), and implementing new interfaces into the existing processes.</div></div><footer class=post-footer><ul class=post-tags><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/blog/>blog</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/human-nature/>human nature</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/management/>management</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/work/>work</a></li></ul><nav class=paginav><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/04/creativity-inc/><span class=title>« Prev</span><br><span>[Book] Creativity Inc. by Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace</span></a>
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This takes some self-discipline that doesn't come easy, especially during an urgent investigation.<br><h3>Here's that one weird trick:</h3>I do the depth of reading myself. If I see multiple threads, I'll read all of them. Then I will write as short a summary of all of the facts that I can. Re-summarizing all of the relevant facts that have been shared, pointing out the places where multiple people or departments have a differing view of the facts, and sometimes suggesting a list of questions that should be put back to the customer (the person who is reporting the problem), will usually refocus and reinvigorate the investigation.<br><h3 style=text-align:left>Wait what?</h3>When something goes wrong, e-mails have a tendency of getting very long reply chains as people add a few sentences and add more people who might be able to help. This is pretty normal, and isn't actually a terrible way to go about finding a problem solution. The urgency is obvious, so most people just skim the top-most e-mails, and keep the chain moving.<br><br>On a normal day, few people will read e-mails beyond about two pages worth of text (some report as little as a paragraph). During a difficult or urgent problem, depth of reading is not likely to get better. I'm not here to lament this, it is just a fact about humans.<br><h3 style=text-align:left>Why?</h3>I started doing this back when I did product support (so long ago it doesn't even hit my resume anymore). It came from a place of wanting to be able to contribute even when I didn't know the answer myself. Sometimes by writing the summary, I would be able to see the actual problem and just answer with a solution. Most often, though, the questions I would come up with would lead directly to a solution. Frankly, it might be one of the things that I did that helped others think that I should be a manager.<br><br>Now, as a manager, I know that I am rarely going to have the answer, so it seems natural to continue doing the depth of reading and actually contributing back a summary and a few questions. That is, to me, the very act of trying to write a summary of a problem naturally leads to important insights into a problem.<br><h3 style=text-align:left>Problem space</h3>It would seem that the people who have been on the thread since the beginning would be annoyed at seeing all the things they already said be repeated. This has happened twice that I know of over the last 20 years. It has never happened when the summary also brings up a disparity of reported facts. In any case, I've taken to explicitly starting with a line similar to this, "I am summarizing this thread to clarify my understanding of what is going on here, and to introduce the problem to those recently added." I also find it very important to end with something like this, "If I have anything wrong, or I missed an important detail, please let me know."<br><br>Every time I've done this, it has led to immediate changes. First, it is a point where a large number of people can legitimately leave the investigation (even if they can just start ignoring the thread). That is, some folks who know they have nothing to do with the problem are literally only hanging on to make sure that their one piece of input was heard. Especially in cases where I am pointing out a dispute in the facts, a number of people will re-investigate the dispute. About half of the time, the problem itself lies within the dispute.<br><h3 style=text-align:left>Feedback</h3><div>Please ask questions if you have them. Also feel free to let me know if there's anything above that I should add. I wish to improve this if I can. 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Picking up the pieces of the technology that was left behind, London was put onto treads, run by steam, so that it find and consume other towns for resources and, ultimately, more fuel to keep moving.<br><br>Over time, other towns and cities did the same, while another group, called the Anti-Traction League, created a defensive wall across the only pass in a mountain range to keep these traction cities at bay on the other side. This gives the background of how steam is the primary driver while other technology - well past steam - is also present.<br><br>By putting steampunk over 1000 years into the future, this book represents one of the best thought-out steampunk universes I've ever read. The social constructs around living on - or avoiding, predatory cities are incredibly well thought out. That is, this presents as a plausible future.<br><br>The story is mostly told from the perspective of Thomas, a young Londoner who is a "Third-class apprentice at the Museum of London". The hero of this story is a young woman named Hester, who is trying to avenge the murder of her parents. The first action of this story is Thomas preventing Hester from killing her target, and subsequently falling off of London with her.<br><br>In the best science fiction tradition, this ornate, fantastical background is a perfect set-up to reflect our present back on ourselves. At its core, this book is about learning to accept that heroes may be false and that a character's society, itself, might be built upon evil.<br><br>The story is incredibly well done, though there are a few parts where the dialog between people is a little flat. The masterful pacing and very well described action more than makes up for the places where odd dialog momentarily bumped me out of the story.<br><br>If you plan on reading the book and seeing the movie, I recommend watching the movie first. The stories hit the same core-points, though the movie is much more of an action adventure than well balanced action and story. For me, at least, the book fills in large amounts of detail, some of which was hinted at through movie dialog.<br><br>If you like Sci-Fi or Steampunk, I highly recommend this book. Trigger warnings for slavery and extreme violence. 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The movie starts his career with a children's show that he produced before Neighborhood, the Children's Corner, though skips his earliest work for NBC.<br><br>Won't you be my neighbor is a very well paced, carefully timed, and beautifully edited documentary. It took a relatively small number of interviews with people from his show and life, a healthy portion of interviews from Mister Rogers himself, and a lot of footage from his shows along with just a touch of vacation footage. I learned a lot more than I thought I would.<br><br>Watch this movie if you grew up watching this show. Watch this movie if you want to know and understand the link between Public Broadcasting, Children's programming, and Fred Rogers, specifically. Skip it if Mister Rogers' is nothing more than a meme for you. Not everybody watched it, and a lot of recent adults never got a chance to watch it.<br><br><br><a name=more></a><br><i>I grew up watching the Mister Rogers' Neighborhood show, but it wasn't until his death that I actually started learning anything about Fred Rogers, the person, and I really didn't have the capacity to think about it. I grew up watching his show, and I really didn't know how to deal with the loss. Frankly, I knew it made me sad, but I never knew I actually needed to deal with the loss. I watched this movie on the first weekend in March, and I bawled my eyes out. 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This book is not about success, at least not an initial success. Instead, this book is about continuing to succeed after that initial success. It does this by talking very candidly about narrowly averting complete failure.<br><br>The very beginning of this book does capture the early history of Pixar up through the release and success of Toy Story. The only management lesson I think it was trying to tell is something like this: <i>Get a group of talented people together, give them the honest mandate that quality is priority and you have a gamble. Maybe magic will happen, maybe everything flails around and nothing gets built.</i> Like I said, this book isn't about that initial success.<br><br><i>When a book talks about something I know about, in this case management, I look for it to help me put a name or framework to practices that I have found successful. I often know something works and can usually replicate it, but - when I don't fully understand something, I find myself repeating a ritual, instead of understanding the essential steps.</i><br><br><i>When I read How to Make Friends and Influence People, for example, I learned a lot about what I already did right, but I learned even more about the essentials. I was able to demystify the things I did right, and stop wasting effort on things that were needless parts of my repeated ritual ... things that most likely annoyed people.</i><br><br>Creativity, Inc. was written to let me know that the rituals I repeat to try to repeat a successful behavior may be more harmful that helpful, with examples (and a lot of them). There are absolutely successful behaviors described here, but the big theme is learning to find balance in agility. That is, change is necessary while stagnation is certain death. Yet, change without balance is chaos. Creativity without deadline is unlikely to ever complete, yet deadline without flexibility will lead to rote repetition, burnout or both. Trust your people, but hold them accountable. Accountability means that they must have the power of open and constructive input.<br><br>This book has a very clever style of writing. It talks about a number of management strategies illustrated through a memoir style, <i>The Making Of ...,</i> most of Pixar's movies. That is the story of how Toy Story 2 was made is also a cautionary tale of employee burnout. The making of Inside Out is a tale about how constructive feedback works, while the making of a story that ended up cancelled entirely is a tale about how to feedback done wrong, or too little, does lead to failure. There is also a bit of interesting insight into Steve Jobs in here.<br><br>Yes, I recommend this book if you, like me, are really into Pixar. Definitely read this if you are a Steve Jobs completist. I recommend this book if you want to read good narrative advice about running a creative and productive team. Skip it if neither management nor animation are of interest to you. Yet, even from a story perspective, a good half of this book is great narrative storytelling wrapping around a lesson on team management.<br><br><a name=more></a><i>I received this book as a Christmas gift from my son, who knows how much I love Pixar.</i><br><br><a href=https://smile.amazon.com/dp/0812993012/Creativity-Inc-Overcoming-Unseen-Inspiration target=_blank>Creativity Inc</a><br>Business Management<br><a href=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/216369/creativity-inc-by-ed-catmull-with-amy-wallace/9780812993011 target=_blank>Random House</a><br>Released: 8 April 2014<br>Hardcover, 368 pages</div></div><footer class=post-footer><ul class=post-tags><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/book-review/>book-review</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/business/>business</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/memoir/>memoir</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/nonfiction/>nonfiction</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/recommend/>recommend</a></li></ul><nav class=paginav><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/04/predators-gold/><span class=title>« Prev</span><br><span>[Book] Predators Gold by Philip Reeve</span></a>
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to my review of book 1, Mortal Engines, which I posted a month ago.</i><br><br>I'm going to start this review with a note about a changed name. The books were originally released in the UK with a character named Shrike. For the initial US release of the books, that character was renamed to Grike. I didn't run into this during the first book because the post-movie release of Mortal Engines had renamed Grike back to his original name, Shrike, to match the movie. The version of book 2 I read hasn't been reverted, and I was legitimately dismayed that the name of the character had changed. One I looked it up online, it made sense, but it was a bit distracting.<br><br>Very early in the book, we are introduced to a character named Nimrod Pennyroyal who is described as an adventurer and autobiographer of his adventures, and the reader is also given clues that Pennyroyal is not actually an adventurer at all. By the fourth chapter, I was annoyed by the parallels of this character to Gilderoy Lockhart, the autobiographer character from the second Harry Potter book, <i>Chamber of Secrets</i>, and that annoyance never fully left me. The overall plots are different enough, that I was able to enjoy the twists and turns along the way, and by the 2/3 point of the book, I was invested in the ending despite the book's OTHER major flaw.<br><br>Hester, who was introduced in book 1 as a self-actualized, scrappy adventurer, was arguably the main character of that book. For this book, she is reduced to a collection of petty jealousies. It feels like the character became a shadow of her former self, and worse, this jealousy is used as a major driver of the plot.<br><br>Ultimately, the first book was sold in the US as a Young Adult adventure, but it didn't feel like it was conceived or written for a young adult audience, which was part of its magic. Sadly, this second book definitely feels like it was written with a young-adult audience in mind. Not that it was written for young adults, but written for what someone thinks YA fiction should look like.<br><br>That said, the world building is still first rate. Outside of Pennyroyal, the villains are believable and even sympathetic. It's the heroine that becomes hard to sympathize with. Like I mentioned above, I was eventually invested in the story, but I can't recommend this book. As a complete-ist, I will probably read the other two books, and maybe even write about them here, but I'm not in a hurry to run out and find the next book in the series.<br><br><a name=more></a><a href=https://smile.amazon.com/dp/1338201131/Predators-Gold-Mortal-Engines-Book/>Predators Gold</a><br>YA Science-Fiction, Steampunk<br><a href=https://www.scholastic.com/kids/book/predator-cities-2-predator-s-gold-by-philip-reeve/>Scholastic</a><br>Released: August 31, 2003<br>Softcover, 336 pages</div></div><footer class=post-footer><ul class=post-tags><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/book-review/>book-review</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/science-fiction/>science-fiction</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/sff/>sff</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/steampunk/>steampunk</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/young-adult/>young-adult</a></li></ul><nav class=paginav><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/05/spinning-silver/><span class=title>« Prev</span><br><span>[Book] Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik</span></a>
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I recommend not reading Defy The Worlds until Defy The Stars has already been read. Like most sequels, this book could stand-alone, but there is not as much exposition and recap as I'm used to reading in sequels."><meta property="og:type" content="article"><meta property="og:url" content="https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/06/defy-the-worlds/"><meta property="article:section" content="post"><meta property="article:published_time" content="2019-06-26T12:00:00-04:00"><meta property="article:modified_time" content="2019-06-26T12:00:00-04:00"><meta property="og:site_name" content="On My Mind..."><meta name=twitter:card content="summary"><meta name=twitter:title content="[Book] Defy The Worlds by Claudia Gray"><meta name=twitter:description content="Book cover This is book 2 of the Defy the Stars trilogy. I recommend first reading my review of Defy the Stars before diving headlong into this review. Also, there may be mild spoilers of the first book in this review. I'm not sure that can be helped.
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I cannot review this book without noting that Fred Rogers means a lot to me, as I watched his show regularly for many years."><meta property="og:type" content="article"><meta property="og:url" content="https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/06/the-good-neighbor/"><meta property="article:section" content="post"><meta property="article:published_time" content="2019-06-12T12:00:00-04:00"><meta property="article:modified_time" content="2019-06-12T12:00:06-04:00"><meta property="og:site_name" content="On My Mind..."><meta name=twitter:card content="summary"><meta name=twitter:title content="[Book] The Good Neighbor by Maxwell King"><meta name=twitter:description content="Book cover Subtitled, The Life and Work of Fred Rogers, this is a biography of a man that most Americans over 30 grew up watching as children on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, which is a show that ran on US public television stations (PBS) for 31 years (1968-2001).
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Because of this, I find his life interesting... possibly more than most. Then again, <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/2018/10/david-bowie-by-dylan-jones.html target=_blank>David Bowie</a> means a lot to me too, and I didn't review that book well at all.<br><br>The narrative line of this book is solid. There is very little jumping around in time, and there are few narrative conflicts (and those that happen, are explained as conflicts in a straight forward manner). There were some chapters dedicated to explaining the times he was in, people he worked with, and the beginnings of the Television Industry, in which he was an early entrant. Some of these chapters didn't make sense to me until I saw how that background became important in the following chapters.<br><br>There was one chapter that was filled with religious references, and comparing Fred Rogers to revered religious figures. That was awkward for me to read, and I think I would have gotten the same thing out of the book, had I skipped the rest of that chapter once I felt awkward. Overall, after the first quarter of the book, I found myself crying pretty regularly.<br><br>In any case, if you grew up watching Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, or you have a friend who won't shut up about him, or even if you saw the 2018 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/2019/03/movie-wont-you-be-my-neighbor-2018.html target=_blank>documentary</a> and want to know more, I highly recommend this book (it covers so much more than the documentary). Like any biography, it probably won't be interesting if you don't know who this is.<br><br><br><a name=more></a><a href=https://www.amazon.com/dp/1419727729/Good-Neighbor-Life-Work-Rogers/ target=_blank>The Good Neighbor</a><br>Biography<br><a href=https://www.abramsbooks.com/product/good-neighbor_9781419727726/ target=_blank>Abrams Press</a><br>Released: 4 September 2018<br>Hardcover, 416 pages</div></div><footer class=post-footer><ul class=post-tags><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/biography/>biography</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/book-review/>book-review</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/recommend/>recommend</a></li></ul><nav class=paginav><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/06/defy-the-worlds/><span class=title>« Prev</span><br><span>[Book] Defy The Worlds by Claudia Gray</span></a>
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the world-building and the world is built along with the story.\u0026nbsp; Each chapter is unusually episodic, in that some small part of the last scene of a previous chapter will be often be repeated at the beginning of the next.","keywords":["book-review","recommend","science-fiction","sff","young-adult"],"articleBody":" Book cover This short book (novella) is the first in the trilogy. Binti is the name of the main character. This book starts on a distant future (unspecified timeline) Earth where humans are now space-faring, and alien races are known.\nThere is a lot to unpack in the world-building and the world is built along with the story. Each chapter is unusually episodic, in that some small part of the last scene of a previous chapter will be often be repeated at the beginning of the next. This took a little getting used to, but I imagine is much easier for readers who are going to read one chapter, and put the book down for a day or two.\nLike much of my my favorite Sci-Fi, this book explores racial tensions and cultural wounds through the lens of the far off and vastly different. The character Binti's understanding of mathematics and electronics is described as magical, as if some humans evolved to be able to create and control electrical currents in their mind. It does a great service to explaining how distant future culture and humans have become from what we are used to now.\nThis is a great story, but is very brief, and suspect the book may have been better had it been a little bit longer. More world-building could have dropped in the first few chapters before the story really got going. The strength of this story is Binti's internal monologue, and how she navigates through harrowing tragedy and survival itself. I look forward to reading Binti: Home, the second book in the trilogy.\n Book 2 Cover Trigger warnings for terrorist violence and detailed gore. Read this if you like space-drama and stories that don't feature a love triangle (as so much YA does). Skip if Sci-Fi really isn't your thing.\n-----------\nBinti: Home Binti: Home picks up nearly a year after the end of the first book, and follows Binti and Okwa (her Alien friend) on a visit back to Earth. The book is much longer than the first, and it does not have the episodic repeating of the last scene that the first book occasionally had.\nThere are seeds from book 1 that are mined and expanded, but the style of world building as the story unfolds is very useful as new elements are revealed and used as the story expands. This book continues to follow Binti's internal monologue and highlights the amount of change in who Binti is after the trauma of book 1.\nThe themes from book 1 are still there, but this book's theme seems to focus more on family bonds (and family fractures). This book ends on a very dramatic cliff-hanger, and really does not feel like a complete story.\nWhile it is possible to read book 1, and be satisfied with a story I don't recommend reading book 2 unless you are committed to also reading book 3, and ... maybe read my review of book 3 (just below).\n Book 3 Cover ----------\nBinti: The Night Mascarade\nBinti: The Night Masquerade picks up a heartbeat after Binti: Home, and Binti is still on Earth, but as she joins the tribe of her paternal grandmother, her nuclear family is in dire trouble. This third book is over twice as long as the first novella.\nThe first half of this book (maybe a little more than half) feels like the conclusion of Binti: Home. The second half feels like a different short story. I suspect that this book is delineated in the way it is because the theme focus is on intersectionality (and how much heartbreak comes from those who do not understand).\nI would have been more satisfied with the story had this book ended in the middle. The second half felt a little too much like it was pushing for a happy ending, and maybe in sensing that it was going too far, ended on a bittersweet note.\nAfter three books, this universe seems very ripe and full of subtleties. I really enjoy Binti's personality, but I feel like I was done with Binti's story in the middle of this book. That is, I would live to read about other characters in this universe. I want to know of the adventures of other alien races, some of which were even hinted about in these stories.\nOverall, I'm happy I read these books, but I can't say I recommend the second two as much as I'd highly recommend book 1. I think, perhaps, I feel the second half of this book really needed some technological foreshadowing. This is a place where the unfolding of world building along side the plot does a disservice to the reader. For me, at least, there is a point in the book that broke my suspension of disbelief.\nBinti\nScience Fiction, Young Adult\nTor Publishing\nReleased, 22 September 2015\nSoftcover, 96 pages\nBinti: Home\nScience Fiction, Young Adult\nTor Publishing\nReleased, 31 January 2017\nSoftcover, 166 pages\nBinti: The Night 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Binti is the name of the main character. This book starts on a distant future (unspecified timeline) Earth where humans are now space-faring, and alien races are known.<br><br>There is a lot to unpack in the world-building and the world is built along with the story. Each chapter is unusually episodic, in that some small part of the last scene of a previous chapter will be often be repeated at the beginning of the next. This took a little getting used to, but I imagine is much easier for readers who are going to read one chapter, and put the book down for a day or two.<br><br>Like much of my my favorite Sci-Fi, this book explores racial tensions and cultural wounds through the lens of the far off and vastly different. The character Binti's understanding of mathematics and electronics is described as magical, as if some humans evolved to be able to create and control electrical currents in their mind. It does a great service to explaining how distant future culture and humans have become from what we are used to now.<br><br>This is a great story, but is very brief, and suspect the book may have been better had it been a little bit longer. More world-building could have dropped in the first few chapters before the story really got going. The strength of this story is Binti's internal monologue, and how she navigates through harrowing tragedy and survival itself. I look forward to reading Binti: Home, the second book in the trilogy.<br><br><table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 class=tr-caption-container style=float:right;text-align:right><tbody><tr><td style=text-align:center><a href=https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XkzI1O5YXTA/XJhy4PyJX_I/AAAAAAAAHts/PvRAzWLbYRkOK5JHH9UTmVNUgfQjmxdfgCLcBGAs/s1600/BintiHome.jpg imageanchor=1 style=clear:right;margin-bottom:1em;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto><img border=0 data-original-height=1360 data-original-width=850 height=320 src=/img/binti-trilogy_2_BintiHome.jpg width=200></a></td></tr><tr><td class=tr-caption style=text-align:center>Book 2 Cover</td></tr></tbody></table>Trigger warnings for terrorist violence and detailed gore. Read this if you like space-drama and stories that don't feature a love triangle (as so much YA does). Skip if Sci-Fi really isn't your thing.<br><br>-----------<br><h3 style=text-align:left>Binti: Home</h3><div><br></div>Binti: Home picks up nearly a year after the end of the first book, and follows Binti and Okwa (her Alien friend) on a visit back to Earth. The book is much longer than the first, and it does not have the episodic repeating of the last scene that the first book occasionally had.<br><br>There are seeds from book 1 that are mined and expanded, but the style of world building as the story unfolds is very useful as new elements are revealed and used as the story expands. This book continues to follow Binti's internal monologue and highlights the amount of change in who Binti is after the trauma of book 1.<br><br>The themes from book 1 are still there, but this book's theme seems to focus more on family bonds (and family fractures). This book ends on a very dramatic cliff-hanger, and really does not feel like a complete story.<br><br>While it is possible to read book 1, and be satisfied with a story I don't recommend reading book 2 unless you are committed to also reading book 3, and ... maybe read my review of book 3 (just below).<br><br><table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 class=tr-caption-container style=float:right;margin-left:1em;text-align:right><tbody><tr><td style=text-align:center><a href=https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9umUVbklsiQ/XJh_FojOz3I/AAAAAAAAHt4/ODdDY7J_cXkgEoDAVPaAETvtQnA2A3d8wCLcBGAs/s1600/BintiMasq.jpg imageanchor=1 style=clear:right;margin-bottom:1em;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto><img border=0 data-original-height=1360 data-original-width=850 height=320 src=/img/binti-trilogy_3_BintiMasq.jpg width=200></a></td></tr><tr><td class=tr-caption style=text-align:center>Book 3 Cover</td></tr></tbody></table>----------<br><h3 style=text-align:left>Binti: The Night Mascarade</h3><br>Binti: The Night Masquerade picks up a heartbeat after Binti: Home, and Binti is still on Earth, but as she joins the tribe of her paternal grandmother, her nuclear family is in dire trouble. This third book is over twice as long as the first novella.<br><br>The first half of this book (maybe a little more than half) feels like the conclusion of Binti: Home. The second half feels like a different short story. I suspect that this book is delineated in the way it is because the theme focus is on intersectionality (and how much heartbreak comes from those who do not understand).<br><br>I would have been more satisfied with the story had this book ended in the middle. The second half felt a little too much like it was pushing for a happy ending, and maybe in sensing that it was going too far, ended on a bittersweet note.<br><br>After three books, this universe seems very ripe and full of subtleties. I really enjoy Binti's personality, but I feel like I was done with Binti's story in the middle of this book. That is, I would live to read about other characters in this universe. I want to know of the adventures of other alien races, some of which were even hinted about in these stories.<br><br>Overall, I'm happy I read these books, but I can't say I recommend the second two as much as I'd highly recommend book 1. I think, perhaps, I feel the second half of this book really needed some technological foreshadowing. This is a place where the unfolding of world building along side the plot does a disservice to the reader. For me, at least, there is a point in the book that broke my <a href=https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief target=_blank>suspension of disbelief</a>.<br><br><br><a name=more></a><a href=https://smile.amazon.com/dp/0765385252/Binti-Nnedi-Okorafor/ target=_blank>Binti</a><br>Science Fiction, Young Adult<br><a href=https://www.tor.com/2015/08/17/excerpts-binti-nnedi-okorafor/ target=_blank>Tor Publishing</a><br>Released, 22 September 2015<br>Softcover, 96 pages<br><br><a href=https://smile.amazon.com/dp/0765393115/Binti-Home-Nnedi-Okorafor/ target=_blank>Binti: Home</a><br>Science Fiction, Young Adult<br><a href=https://www.tor.com/2017/01/24/excerpts-binti-home-nnedi-okorafor/ target=_blank>Tor Publishing</a><br>Released, 31 January 2017<br>Softcover, 166 pages<br><br><a href=https://smile.amazon.com/dp/0765393131/Binti-Night-Masquerade-Nnedi-Okorafor/ target=_blank>Binti: The Night Masquerade</a><br>Science Fiction, Young Adult<br><a href=https://www.tor.com/2017/11/21/excerpts-binti-the-night-masquerade-nnedi-okorafor/ target=_blank>Tor Publishing</a><br>Released, 16 January 2018<br>Softcover, 208 pages</div></div><footer class=post-footer><ul class=post-tags><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/book-review/>book-review</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/recommend/>recommend</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/science-fiction/>science-fiction</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/sff/>sff</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/young-adult/>young-adult</a></li></ul><nav class=paginav><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/07/treasure-island/><span class=title>« Prev</span><br><span>[Book] Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson</span></a>
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It has many, many other components though. It is partly a memoir of the author's career. It is partly a book about management, especially the end of Chapter 4 which covers delegation and the importance of communication. It is also very instructional, in that it prescriptively lays out a number of best practices for making, along with illustrative stories of why these practices are so important.<br><br>This book wouldn't be what it is if it were not for who the author is. Adam Savage is best known as the more approachable co-host of Mythbusters, that aired for 14 seasons, but he is also a set designer, prop maker and miniature model builder on <a href=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0767234/#visual_effects target=_blank>several movies</a>. Mythbusters was recently rebooted as Mythbusters Jr., and Adam Savage can regularly be seen answering questions and making things on <a href=https://www.tested.com/ target=_blank>tested.com</a> and <a href=https://www.youtube.com/user/testedcom target=_blank>YouTube</a>.<br><br>To help show how the book is organized, here is the chapter listing:<br><br>Dig Through The Bottom of The Rabbit Hole<br>Lists<br>Checkboxes<br>Use More Cooling Fluid<br>Deadlines<br>Drawing<br>Increase Your Loose Tolerance<br>Screw > Glue<br>Share<br>See Everything, Reach Everything<br>Cardboard<br>Hammers, Blades, and Scissors<br>Sweep Up Every Day<br>Acknowledgements<br>Sketchbook<br><br>The very beginning of this book defines making as any creative activity. That includes sewing or coding, woodworking or electronics, writing or drawing, in virtual spaces or meat space. To get down to it, I highly recommend this book for a maker (no matter how one defines it) or anyone who really likes Adam Savage. If building stuff is not an interest, then maybe this book isn't either. Reading this book has pushed me back towards making more things (which includes pre-publishing a number of book reviews (I was running low), but also doing some work on my personal web site.<br><br>---------------<br><br>To my readers (between 4 and 20 of you), feel free to send me a note or leave a comment if you have ideas about things I should add to my reviews, or even if you have a strong opinion about a book that you want me to read and review.<br><br><br><a name=more></a><br><i>I checked this book out in hardcover from the New York Public Library. This is the first time I've put a brand new book on hold, and ended up getting it in the first round.</i><br><br><a href=https://smile.amazon.com/dp/1982113472/Every-Tools-Hammer-Life-What target=_blank>Every Book's A Hammer</a><br>Instructional<br>Atria Books imprint of <a href=https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Every-Tools-a-Hammer/Adam-Savage/9781982113476 target=_blank>Simon and Schuster</a><br>Released: 7 May 2019<br>Hardcover, 288 Pages</div></div><footer class=post-footer><ul class=post-tags><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/book-review/>book-review</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/management/>management</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/memoir/>memoir</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/nonfiction/>nonfiction</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/recommend/>recommend</a></li></ul><nav class=paginav><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/08/peter-pan/><span class=title>« Prev</span><br><span>[Book] Peter Pan by J. 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We are presented with a wide array of new characters on this new world, like the Jedi Rael Averross, who has been the regent of Pijal for the last 8 years, and the escaped slave Rahara Wick.","keywords":["book-review","fantasy","recommend","science-fiction","sff","space-fantasy"],"articleBody":" Book cover Set before the first prequel movie, this book follows Jedi Master, Qui-Gon Jinn, and his Jedi Apprentice, Obi-Wan Kenobi, on a diplomatic mission set forth by the Jedi council. They are sent to a planet, Pijal, that we haven't seen before, which really is a great way to see the author's creativity. We are presented with a wide array of new characters on this new world, like the Jedi Rael Averross, who has been the regent of Pijal for the last 8 years, and the escaped slave Rahara Wick. Count Dooku, Qui-Gon's former master also makes some important appearances in this story, which broadens the sense of the Title as well. There is a strong theme around slavery in the Star Wars universe throughout this novel which is a fairly major plot point within the story and is shown as a shining red flag on the corruption within the late republic. I feel I could write a lot about the dynamics of this theme, but it's better to simply suggest; pick up this book. As in her previous Star Wars novels, Claudia Gray is a master at weaving the deep politics of Star Wars into the story. To me, politics was the primary thing the prequels were not very good at showing in a compelling way. Here, the politics really bring the Star Wars story out of space fantasy and firmly back into what science fiction is best at. Here is a mirror to our current selves. It turns out that Claudia Gray has become my favorite author. I await each book that comes out. Read this book if you like Star Wars and want more stories about the background of Qui-Gon or Obi-Wan. I do not think it is necessary to know the characters before reading this book, as the movies did a poor job of really exploring their personalities anyway. It is okay to skip this book if you aren't a fan of Star Wars. That said, even though I'm not in love with the prequels, I thoroughly enjoyed this book and recommend it as a good piece of science fiction. 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They are sent to a planet, Pijal, that we haven't seen before, which really is a great way to see the author's creativity.</div><div><br></div><div>We are presented with a wide array of new characters on this new world, like the Jedi Rael Averross, who has been the regent of Pijal for the last 8 years, and the escaped slave Rahara Wick. Count Dooku, Qui-Gon's former master also makes some important appearances in this story, which broadens the sense of the Title as well.</div><div><br></div><div>There is a strong theme around slavery in the Star Wars universe throughout this novel which is a fairly major plot point within the story and is shown as a shining red flag on the corruption within the late republic. I feel I could write a lot about the dynamics of this theme, but it's better to simply suggest; pick up this book.</div><div><br></div><div>As in her <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/2018/10/bloodline-by-claudia-gray.html target=_blank>previous</a> Star Wars <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/2018/09/leia-by-claudia-gray.html target=_blank>novels</a>, Claudia Gray is a master at weaving the deep politics of Star Wars into the story. To me, politics was the primary thing the prequels were not very good at showing in a compelling way. Here, the politics really bring the Star Wars story out of space fantasy and firmly back into what science fiction is best at. Here is a mirror to our current selves.</div><div><br></div><div>It turns out that Claudia Gray has become my favorite author. I await each book that comes out. Read this book if you like Star Wars and want more stories about the background of Qui-Gon or Obi-Wan. I do not think it is necessary to know the characters before reading this book, as the movies did a poor job of really exploring their personalities anyway. It is okay to skip this book if you aren't a fan of Star Wars. That said, even though I'm not in love with the prequels, I thoroughly enjoyed this book and recommend it as a good piece of science fiction.</div><div><br></div><div><a name=more></a><a href=https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B07FLMK31J/Master-Apprentice-Star-Wars-Claudia-ebook/ target=_blank>Master and Apprentice (Star Wars)</a></div><div>Science Fiction</div><div><a href=http://www.randomhousebooks.com/books/574531/ target=_blank>Del Rey Random House</a></div><div>Released: 16 April 2019</div><div>eBook, 337 pages</div></div></div><footer class=post-footer><ul class=post-tags><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/book-review/>book-review</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/fantasy/>fantasy</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/recommend/>recommend</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/science-fiction/>science-fiction</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/sff/>sff</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/space-fantasy/>space-fantasy</a></li></ul><nav class=paginav><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/07/every-tool-s-a-hammer/><span class=title>« Prev</span><br><span>[Book] Every Tool's A Hammer by Adam Savage</span></a>
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Something that some of my readers are likely to have read themselves. I do this, mostly, to help readers calibrate my taste... That is, it seems likely enough that some readers are likely to disagree with everything I like, and might find it compelling to read a book that I really didn't like.</i><br><i><br></i><i>In this case, the publisher link below points to Project Gutenberg, which has free downloads, in multiple formats, for this fiction which is long in the public domain.</i><br><br>The story is set in the mid 18th century starting in for the first sections, but becomes a sea-faring story in the Caribbean. The narrator (with the exception of two chapters), Jim Hawkins, is a boy or young man (the book doesn't make his age clear), though it is made clear that he is not grown to the size of a man, and lacks the strength of the adults around him.<br><br>Since this story has been in the public domain for many years, I found that every major turn of the story was predictable as I read it, as the story in whole and in parts has been used many times in many, many other stories. That said, the world building is outstanding. The topography, flora and fauna of Treasure Island was very carefully described making the island truly feel like a real place. One quirk of this book, which authors typically try to avoid, is that there are three characters named Tom, and three named John, which I sometimes found to be a little confusing.<br><br>Overall, I'm very glad to have read this book, even though the story itself was familiar from other sources. This book is the original origin of that now clichéd pirate with one leg and a parrot, and treasure maps with the treasure trove marked on the map. It is a wonderfully told story and the language was wholly accessible.<br><br>Recommended for those that want a swashbuckling nostalgia trip ... due to the familiarity of story ... told in vivid details. Skip it if a pirate fantasy just doesn't sound interesting. 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There are probably mild spoilers for the first and one major spoiler for the second book in this review of book three, so please proceed with that in mind.<br><br>As I wrote in my review of Defy the Worlds, I do not recommend diving into this book without reading the previous two first. While this book could stand alone, it does not include as much exposition about the previous events as I'm used to (in other serial novels). Also, to be honest, the other books were great, and it would be a shame to skip them just to get to the end.<br><br>This book starts with Noemi fatally injured, and in a stasis chamber to keep her alive while Abel makes a plan to save her life, but trading his own in the process. This self-sacrificing cross-plan is a trope, even within these novels, but I cannot pretend that real people don't often repeat the same patterns. It was, however, the one painfully predictable point in an otherwise great story arc.<br><br>Meanwhile, in retaliation against Earth, some of the leadership of Genesis have hatched a secret plan to defeat Earth once and for-all, but one of the members of this plan commits treason and reveals the plan to... Not going to spoil that bit. Finally, there was one technical hurdle that was described in some depth during book 2 about how tricky it is to land on Haven. That was, well, completely ignored (or forgotten) in book 3, and that also bothered me.<br><br>I liked this book the least of the three, but I still enjoyed it a lot. Overall, this is the ending that the series needs, and I liked a lot more about it than my two nit-picks. That is, I recommend the whole series.<br><br><br><a name=more></a><a href=https://smile.amazon.com/dp/0316440752/Defy-Fates-Stars-Claudia-Gray/ target=_blank>Defy The Fates</a><br>Science Fiction, Young-Adult<br><a href=https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/claudia-gray/defy-the-fates/9780316440721/ target=_blank>Little, Brown and Company</a> imprint of Hachette Group<br>Released: 2 April 2019<br>Hardcover, 480 pages<br><br></div></div><footer class=post-footer><ul class=post-tags><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/book-review/>book-review</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/recommend/>recommend</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/science-fiction/>science-fiction</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/sff/>sff</a></li></ul><nav class=paginav><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/08/the-adventures-of-tom-sawyer/><span class=title>« Prev</span><br><span>[Book] The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain</span></a>
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While recapping the story of Disney's Frozen, it is a combination of pointing out leadership traits within the story, and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGF6mc7bu_U" target=_blank>pop-up video</a> style call-outs to movie related facts. Because this is an educational title riding on top of the fictional story of Frozen, it is categorized as a non-fiction book.<br><br>Even trying to keep in mind the young audience that this book is for, I felt that the book was very light on leadership itself, and was much better at other real-life tie-ins. For example, one pop-up suggests that the animators learned a lot about meteorology for the movie. Another pop-up describes the career choice of "Doctor" (in relation to a healer Troll). There is a very short glossary on the back page which includes; Architect, Candidate, Confidence, Coronation, Kingdom, Meteorology and National Park (only one of these being a leadership related trait).<br><br>So, while I don't recommend this book specifically for leadership information, I genuinely enjoy the story, illustrations and pop-up facts that go along with it. It is also difficult to read out loud, because to read the pop-up information, you have to temporarily drop the narrative. There's not an obvious place to pause and read the extra word-bubble.<br><br>Get this if you want a Frozen book for a Frozen-obsessed kid, and you want it to offer more than a recap the story: That is the sweet spot for this book. 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A fairly large area of Disney's Magic Kingdom is dedicated to this book; one of my favorite places to hang out for an hour. Yet, nothing of the story was spoiled for me.<br><br>First and foremost, the "n word" appears nine times through the text, four of them clustered together in two adjacent paragraphs of dialog. Frankly, it sucks, and really does sully the experience of the book as well as my opinion of the Author. There are a few black slave characters in the book, but none are given depth or consideration. As I also said in my review of Peter Pan, the slur was as much a disservice to black Americans then (only a decade from emancipation) as it is today.<br><br>The villain of the novel is Injun Joe, referred to as half-breed without explanation as best as I recall. Not quite as painful as Peter Pan, but still several "Indian" stereotype checkboxes are used for this character.<br><br>A modern reader literally has to "get over" both of these things to be able to see the story. Yet, this story has both of these things, and I suddenly understand why I've never heard the story before. It is an archive of prejudices that went out of style for mainstream America before I was born, featuring the title character lying, skipping school, stealing, running away, smoking tobacco and somehow, ending up without lasting consequence.<br><br>Past the prejudices, the writing is good, and mostly everything feels like it could have happened. The first half of the book drags on, and there isn't much adventure, mostly endless mischief. Tom Sawyer does grow some in the book, but not as much as I'd expect. This book kept my interest, but mostly because of the historic context. This is, in part, how children acted in the 1830s, and what a small Missouri town about a mile off the Mississippi river was like. Many of the places written about are real, and I'm fond of history.<br><br>Ultimately, I cannot recommend the book. There were parts of it that I enjoyed, but the parts that made me uncomfortable pretty much outweigh the overall experience. If you've read the book, and think I have it wrong, let me know... 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The story follows a boy from 18 months old when his whole family is murdered and he wanders off into the night through his childhood as he is raised in a graveyard by two ghosts and a vampire as guardian (who supplies physical things, like food and clothes). At one point, we meet a werewolf and ghouls as well.\nWe never learn the boy's birth-name, so the ghosts of the graveyard named him Nobody, which gets shortened to Bod. As an accepted member of the graveyard, Bod gets to use many powers of the dead - but only in the graveyard.\nThe story is paced very well, and the chapters are also individual stories that make the book easy to pick back up. Yet, I found it compelling enough that I read the whole thing in two sittings (and within 24 hours).\nYoung adult books are absolutely best when they don't feel like books written for a teenage audience, and this book fits right in there. There is light romance, a lot of death (not just the already dead) and a whole lot of action.\nI didn't realize until organizing my thoughts for this review: This book has a lot of parallels with Harry Potter. Anyone who has moral issues with the Harry Potter series would probably have the same problems with this book. Also, being raised by those who are already dead, Bod has a bit of a different morality about death itself. That is, I can totally see some folks thinking that this book might not be suitable for their children.\nTo me, though, the moral ambiguity and the very different magic of the dead made this book feel like an introduction to a whole new, very believable universe. For that, I definitely recommend this book. It also makes a really great Halloween read (I read this book and wrote the first draft of this review just after Halloween, 2018).\n\nThe Graveyard Book\nYoung Adult Fantasy\nHarper Collins\nReleased: 30 September 2008\nPaperback, 368 pages\n ","wordCount":"347","inLanguage":"en","datePublished":"2019-09-18T12:00:00-04:00","dateModified":"2019-09-18T12:00:02-04:00","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Gary Allen Vollink"},"mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/09/the-graveyard-book/"},"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"On My Mind...","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://blog.vollink.com/favicon.ico"}}}</script></head><body id=top><script>localStorage.getItem("pref-theme")==="dark"?document.body.classList.add("dark"):localStorage.getItem("pref-theme")==="light"?document.body.classList.remove("dark"):window.matchMedia("(prefers-color-scheme: dark)").matches&&document.body.classList.add("dark")</script><header class=header><nav class=nav><div class=logo><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/ accesskey=h title="Home (Alt + H)"><img src=https://blog.vollink.com/AllenWrench.gif alt=logo aria-label=logo height=35>Home</a>
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The story follows a boy from 18 months old when his whole family is murdered and he wanders off into the night through his childhood as he is raised in a graveyard by two ghosts and a vampire as guardian (who supplies physical things, like food and clothes). At one point, we meet a werewolf and ghouls as well.<br><br>We never learn the boy's birth-name, so the ghosts of the graveyard named him Nobody, which gets shortened to Bod. As an accepted member of the graveyard, Bod gets to use many powers of the dead - but only <i>in</i> the graveyard.<br><br>The story is paced very well, and the chapters are also individual stories that make the book easy to pick back up. Yet, I found it compelling enough that I read the whole thing in two sittings (and within 24 hours).<br><br>Young adult books are absolutely best when they don't <i>feel</i> like books written for a teenage audience, and this book fits right in there. There is light romance, a lot of death (not just the already dead) and a whole lot of action.<br><br>I didn't realize until organizing my thoughts for this review: This book has a lot of parallels with Harry Potter. Anyone who has moral issues with the Harry Potter series would probably have the same problems with this book. Also, being raised by those who are already dead, Bod has a bit of a different morality about death itself. That is, I can totally see some folks thinking that this book might not be suitable for their children.<br><br>To me, though, the moral ambiguity and the very different <i>magic</i> of the dead made this book feel like an introduction to a whole new, very believable universe. For that, I definitely recommend this book. It also makes a really great Halloween read (I read this book and wrote the first draft of this review just after Halloween, 2018).<br><br><br><a name=more></a><br><a href=https://smile.amazon.com/dp/0060530928/Graveyard-Book-Neil-Gaiman/ target=_blank>The Graveyard Book</a><br>Young Adult Fantasy<br><a href=https://www.harpercollins.com/9780060530921/the-graveyard-book/ target=_blank>Harper Collins</a><br>Released: 30 September 2008<br>Paperback, 368 pages<br><br></div></div><footer class=post-footer><ul class=post-tags><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/book-review/>book-review</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/fantasy/>fantasy</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/recommend/>recommend</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/sff/>sff</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/young-adult/>young-adult</a></li></ul><nav class=paginav><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/10/the-snow-queen/><span class=title>« Prev</span><br><span>[Book] The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen</span></a>
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<span class=a-size-large id=productTitle>The Battle to Save America's Middle Class. This is a book about politics, personal history of the author and the economic history of the country along with ample explanation of why the past matters today. This book does not shy away from discussing racial economic disparity. Though, I definitely feel it could have gone much deeper into those subjects (as I don't think that past is well understood by most).</span><br><span class=a-size-large id=productTitle><br></span><span class=a-size-large id=productTitle>Overall, this is about the author trying to sell us her plan for the future, and it lays out a good narrative that moves between individual voters that the author has talked to, and how the economic changes of the past have directly affected those people. This is then followed up with political policy statements. Often, this is re-instating protections that have eroded in the last 50 years, but with modifications that acknowledge racial and gender disparities of those past policies.</span><br><span class=a-size-large id=productTitle><br></span><span class=a-size-large id=productTitle>Personally, I have found this book to be quite compelling, and to my mind, Elizabeth Warren is the front-runner. That said, this is mostly because she has actually put in the time to make actual policy statements, and directly talk about the plans that she would support. Most other candidates aren't to that point yet (and some may never get there). She's done her homework, and is serious.</span><br><span class=a-size-large id=productTitle><br></span><span class=a-size-large id=productTitle>Recommended: assuming you can deal with some politics. There are enough personal touch-points in here to keep my attention (which is rare with a political book). Skip it if you just don't have the emotional bandwidth for this sort of thing. There are certainly many things pointed out about the current state of this country that had me feeling quite angry, and I totally get that not everyone can handle reading a deep dive on all the things that have gone awry on our way to this point.</span><br><span class=a-size-large id=productTitle><br></span><span class=a-size-large id=productTitle></span><br><a name=more></a><a href=https://smile.amazon.com/dp/1250155037/This-Fight-Our-Battle-Americas target=_blank>This Fight is Our Fight</a>
<span class=a-size-large id=productTitle></span><br><span class=a-size-large id=productTitle>Politics and Sociology</span><br><span class=a-size-large id=productTitle><a href=https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250155030 target=_blank>Picador</a> imprint of Macmillan Publishers</span><br><span class=a-size-large id=productTitle>Released: 29 May 2018</span><br><span class=a-size-large id=productTitle>Softcover, 368 pages</span></div></div><footer class=post-footer><ul class=post-tags><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/book-review/>book-review</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/memoir/>memoir</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/nonfiction/>nonfiction</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/politics/>politics</a></li></ul><nav class=paginav><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/09/the-graveyard-book/><span class=title>« Prev</span><br><span>[Book] The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman</span></a>
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My wife is a librarian, and when I started this blog, it was partly a way for me to share something about the numerous pre-release books that she and I would get when we went to book events. Also, when I started, doing this was fun, and I figured that if I were any good at it, maybe I would reach other readers."><script type=application/ld+json>{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Posts","item":"https://blog.vollink.com/post/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Stopping Regular Book Blog","item":"https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/10/stopping-regular-book-blog/"}]}</script><script type=application/ld+json>{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BlogPosting","headline":"Stopping Regular Book Blog","name":"Stopping Regular Book Blog","description":"For over a year, I have published a book review every other week, on Wednesday, at noon.\u0026nbsp; Every week in the middle of both summers.\nReading for review\nMy wife is a librarian, and when I started this blog, it was partly a way for me to share something about the numerous pre-release books that she and I would get when we went to book events.\u0026nbsp; Also, when I started, doing this was fun, and I figured that if I were any good at it, maybe I would reach other readers.","keywords":["blog","meta","personal"],"articleBody":"For over a year, I have published a book review every other week, on Wednesday, at noon. Every week in the middle of both summers.\nReading for review\nMy wife is a librarian, and when I started this blog, it was partly a way for me to share something about the numerous pre-release books that she and I would get when we went to book events. Also, when I started, doing this was fun, and I figured that if I were any good at it, maybe I would reach other readers. That maybe someone might reach out to talk about a book I reviewed that we both read.\nHowever, in the last year, my wife has only gone to one book event. I've covered some classics, and even purchased a few books for review purposes. I've heard directly from exactly one reader, one time, so it mostly feels like I'm typing into the void at this point. That means that this is no longer fun. I realize that reading with the knowledge that I'll be writing a review, has become a chore.\nReadership\nEach post gets up to 19 readers. Typical, though, is much closer to 8. I don't even know if the (as little as 3) readers are regular readers, or just folks who stumble onto the blog through search, looking for information about a book I reviewed.\nMy style of review does not lend itself to Amazon/Goodreads (where I can just add my stars to the pile). I try to pull out the things that might make a book worth reading, and the reasons someone might want to skip a book. To me, this is the type of review I like to read and find most useful.\nThat's the rule of creative work anyway, right? Create the thing you wish existed.\nFuture\nI will still write reviews, but they won't be regular. As far as my thoughts are today, I have already written and scheduled a review for late January for a book that is releasing in February (2020).\nTo those few of you who have come along with me on this journey, thank you. ","wordCount":"355","inLanguage":"en","datePublished":"2019-10-06T00:00:00-04:00","dateModified":"2019-10-06T00:00:04.232-04:00","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Gary Allen Vollink"},"mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/10/stopping-regular-book-blog/"},"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"On My Mind...","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://blog.vollink.com/favicon.ico"}}}</script></head><body id=top><script>localStorage.getItem("pref-theme")==="dark"?document.body.classList.add("dark"):localStorage.getItem("pref-theme")==="light"?document.body.classList.remove("dark"):window.matchMedia("(prefers-color-scheme: dark)").matches&&document.body.classList.add("dark")</script><header class=header><nav class=nav><div class=logo><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/ accesskey=h title="Home (Alt + H)"><img src=https://blog.vollink.com/AllenWrench.gif alt=logo aria-label=logo height=35>Home</a>
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Imagine the movie Crazy Rich Asians, but teenagers at a boarding school in the mountains outside of Aspen, with a broadly international cast. Main point: pretty much everybody is insanely rich.<br><br>The main character, Jaya Rao, is a princess from an old kingdom of India who is literally there to break someone's heart. That someone is Gray Emerson, Lord Northcliffe, who hails from a British Colonist family that had been a rival of the Rao family for six generations. The problem is that he's a recluse who neither likes nor trusts people. There's also a thing about an ancient curse (like the title suggests). Of course, family obligations and family business are never left far behind in any of this.<br><br>The pacing of this book was excellent, the characters all felt believable, and mostly sympathetic. I guessed a fairly major plot point very early in the story, though the writing was compelling enough that I wasn't disappointed that I had guessed correctly.<br><br>I feel that the book is written with a PG-13 rating in mind, so some swear words, emotional abuse, and a side of bullying, and it feels like the book did suffer in places because of that. The version I read was a very early advanced readers copy (ARC/Galley) that very specifically states that it hasn't been publication proofed yet, so the few places where I felt the wording was particularly awkward may be changed prior to final publication.<br><br>Read this book for the light, fun romance that it is. There's nothing deeply complicated, no deep thought, but it was not boring in any way. Skip it if you are the type of person who doesn't feel they have time for something without deep meaning.<br><br><a name=more></a><a href=https://smile.amazon.com/dp/1534417540/Curses-Kisses-Sandhya-Menon target=_blank>Of Curses and Kisses</a><br>Young-Adult Romance<br><a href=https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Of-Curses-and-Kisses/Sandhya-Menon/St-Rosettas-Academy/9781534417540 target=_blank>Simon Pulse</a> (Imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing<br>Planned Release Date: 18-Feb-2020<br>Hardcover, 384 Pages</div></div><footer class=post-footer><ul class=post-tags><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/book-review/>book-review</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/recommend/>recommend</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/romantic/>romantic</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/young-adult/>young-adult</a></li></ul><nav class=paginav><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2021/11/linux-command-prompt-in-color/><span class=title>« Prev</span><br><span>Linux Command Prompt in Color</span></a>
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@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ user@host:/home/user$ tput setaf 1
</span></span><span class=line><span class=cl><span class=nv>PS1</span><span class=o>=</span><span class=s2>"</span><span class=si>${</span><span class=nv>_PS_GR</span><span class=si>}</span><span class=s2>\u</span><span class=si>${</span><span class=nv>_PS__</span><span class=si>}</span><span class=s2>@</span><span class=si>${</span><span class=nv>_PS_BL</span><span class=si>}${</span><span class=nv>_PS_BOLD</span><span class=si>}</span><span class=s2>\h</span><span class=si>${</span><span class=nv>_PS__</span><span class=si>}</span><span class=s2>:</span><span class=si>${</span><span class=nv>_PS_TL</span><span class=si>}</span><span class=s2>\w</span><span class=si>${</span><span class=nv>_PS__</span><span class=si>}</span><span class=s2>\$ "</span>
</span></span></code></pre></div><p>There’s a repeating <code>sed</code> command here. What this does is it takes any escape characters in the output, and replaces them with an escaped octal for the escape key. This means that one can still echo $PS1 and see what the codes actually look like.</p><pre tabindex=0><code class=language-terminal data-lang=terminal>[32musername[0m@[34mhostname[0m:[36m/home/username[0m$
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@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ into others. 24-bit color support never existed in hardware terminals, but has
spread to become fully supported across a wide number of terminals. “Set the Window
title” was made available on xterm on a few UNIX systems, and has become available on
almost every terminal in use now. Command marks (shell integration) were introduced
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These span a wide swath of methods from very obvious paywalls to deeply obfuscated Terms of Use clauses, and they are dangerous for businesses specifically because some programmer who uses one of these technologies at home on an open source project often won’t think twice about installing the same on a business supplied computer to get their job’s work done…...</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2024-04-03 17:31:21 -0400 -0400">3 Apr 2024</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Open Source Does NOT Mean Free" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2024/04/open-is-not-always-free/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Your Terminal Emulator Is Wrong</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Introduction At this point, there are hundreds of graphical terminal emulators out there. Every single one that I have run into pretends like it is some varient of a hardware terminal made by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) from their Video Terminal (VT) line of products, from 1978’s VT100 through 1993’s VT525.
-A reader might chime in here and say, no MY TERMINAL thinks it is an xterm, but alas xterm pretends to be a VT420 (xterm can actually pretend it is many different terminals, so even if you DO use THE xterm software I doubt your computer is actually set up to most efficiently talk to it, I’ll talk about that later )....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2023-09-21 21:10:00 -0400 -0400">21 Sep 2023</span> · 10 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Your Terminal Emulator Is Wrong" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2023/09/standards-what-standards/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>The Anime I Like</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Why I Won’t Admit to Liking Anime When talking to someone who likes Anime, the first thing to come up is usually a show like Dragonball Z or Baruto. Some fighting is fine if the story requires it, but I don’t want to watch a single fight that lasts most of an episode. I want story to develop in every episode, not just exposition hidden in re-used fight sequences. At worst, I might stick with something that has a long fight in one or two episodes within a ten plus episode season....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2022-08-23 23:41:12 -0400 -0400">23 Aug 2022</span> · 6 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to The Anime I Like" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2022/08/anime/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=next href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/page/2/>Next »</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+A reader might chime in here and say, no MY TERMINAL thinks it is an xterm, but alas xterm pretends to be a VT420 (xterm can actually pretend it is many different terminals, so even if you DO use THE xterm software I doubt your computer is actually set up to most efficiently talk to it, I’ll talk about that later )....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2023-09-21 21:10:00 -0400 -0400">21 Sep 2023</span> · 10 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Your Terminal Emulator Is Wrong" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2023/09/standards-what-standards/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>The Anime I Like</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Why I Won’t Admit to Liking Anime When talking to someone who likes Anime, the first thing to come up is usually a show like Dragonball Z or Baruto. Some fighting is fine if the story requires it, but I don’t want to watch a single fight that lasts most of an episode. I want story to develop in every episode, not just exposition hidden in re-used fight sequences. At worst, I might stick with something that has a long fight in one or two episodes within a ten plus episode season....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2022-08-23 23:41:12 -0400 -0400">23 Aug 2022</span> · 6 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to The Anime I Like" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2022/08/anime/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=next href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/page/2/>Next »</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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https://blog.vollink.com/p/book-review-introduction.html</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-03-02 12:00:00.001 -0500 -0500">2 Mar 2019</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Book Reviews Introduction Page" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/03/book-reviews-introduction-page/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Catch-22 by Joseph Heller</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book Cover This is a different form than my normal reviews. I usually don't go back to old books to add to my reviews, but this is a touch-stone. It's a book that a LOT of folks have read, and I hope it might help someone who also read this book tune in on where I'm coming from. I read this book several years ago, and though I flipped through it to refresh my mind for this entry, I didn't just read it again in full....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-02-20 12:00:00 -0500 -0500">20 Feb 2019</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Catch-22 by Joseph Heller" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/02/catch-22/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Ball Lightning by Cixin Liu</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover I have a fairly particular view of science-fiction and how it is different from fantasy. The fantastic element in science fiction is usually both a catalyst for the story itself as well as a way to explore the reactionary side of society. Where in fantasy, the fantastic element is simply present. Used as a tool, maybe even explored in depth, but isn't the main goal....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-02-06 12:14:00 -0500 -0500">6 Feb 2019</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Ball Lightning by Cixin Liu" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/02/ball-lightning/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Comic] Darth Vader 1-25 by Charles Soule, art: Giuseppe Camuncoli</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Issue 1 cover If you read my review of the book, Oracle Year, I mentioned that Charles Soule writes for comic books, this is one of them that I've kept up on, and have read from start to finish, as this run ends at #25, though Charles Soule will have more to write for Marvel in the Star Wars world.
This series starts moments after the end of Star Wars episode 3, Revenge of the Sith, and tells the story of both Darth Vader becoming the Dark Jedi Master under Palpatine, but also tells of the growth of the Empire during that time....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-01-23 12:00:00 -0500 -0500">23 Jan 2019</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Comic] Darth Vader 1-25 by Charles Soule, art: Giuseppe Camuncoli" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/01/comic-darth-vader-1-25-by-charles-soule-art-giuseppe-camuncoli/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/page/9/>« Prev</a>
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From Bears to Bowdlerism...</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-12-26 21:32:00 -0500 -0500">26 Dec 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Euphemania by Ralph Keyes" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/12/euphemania/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] There There by Tommy Orange</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover I will start by noting that this book started slow for me. It took me over two weeks to read the prologue up through the fourth chapter. Once I passed that, I read the next 80% of the book in two days finishing on a third.
Every character in this book is a Native American either from or converging on Oakland California. There is a lot of exploration, especially among the young characters, of what it means to be Native in the city....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-12-12 12:00:00 -0500 -0500">12 Dec 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] There There by Tommy Orange" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/12/there-there/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/page/10/>« Prev</a>
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Take something that seems like it should be relatively common: VR video. Go into cardboard (the app), request the VR video channel. Find a video. Start that video. THEN hit the cardboard icon that will put it into cardboard mode. Then pause it. Put my phone into the cardboard-compatible viewer and hope it doesn't touch anything on the way in....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-11-10 12:00:00 -0500 -0500">10 Nov 2018</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Google Cardboard is a Terrible Experience" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/11/google-cardboard-is-a-terrible-experience/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] David Bowie: A Life by Dylan Jones</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book sleeve cover The author of this book took a huge amount of time to collect together statements and interviews from a vast array of people who knew or in some cases even briefly met David Bowie. Jarringly, there are places where David Bowie's own statements are included. All of these vignettes are presented each in whole, collected into chapters into an approximate order as to when the main point of each vignette happened....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-10-31 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">31 Oct 2018</span> · 4 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] David Bowie: A Life by Dylan Jones" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/10/david-bowie-a-life/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/page/11/>« Prev</a>
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Seriously, the following is absolutely full of spoilers, and I don't want to hear about it. Well, for the stories that I actually like, I still try to keep them a little spoiler free, but the first story ... that one I lay out ALL the main points....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-10-13 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">13 Oct 2018</span> · 5 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book Spoiled] North American Lake Monsters" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/10/book-spoiled-north-american-lake-monsters/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/page/12/>« Prev</a>
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Several of the stories introduce a monster, but the monster itself is inactive ... in one case, already dead, leaving these stories to be more about the evil we bring with us where the monster is just a catalyst or even excuse for some all-too-human transition into bad behavior....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-10-03 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">3 Oct 2018</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] North American Lake Monsters by Nathan Ballingrud" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/10/north-american-lake-monsters/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover Since this is a non-fiction and educational book, I'm not going to worry about inadvertent spoilers as I usually do with fictional, or even narrative true-stories. This book does have a narrative flow, better that a lot of the fiction books I've already reviewed, but it is the narrative flow of a documentary, moving from subject to subject, building knowledge.
Neil deGrasse Tyson is one of the top science communicators alive today....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-09-19 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">19 Sep 2018</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/09/astrophysics-for-people-in-a-hurry/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Tech/PC] VirtualBox, Windows 7 and a new CPU</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>As I've done from time to time, this blog serves as a bit of a bench-notes of what I did. However, maybe someone else hits the same problem, and finds my blog via search.
About a month back, the new nVidia 2080 Ti card was announced. I decided to hit up eBay to see if anyone was selling off a 1080 Ti, and I was not disappointed in the price drops....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-09-15 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">15 Sep 2018</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Tech/PC] VirtualBox, Windows 7 and a new CPU" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/09/tech-pc-virtualbox-windows-7-and-a-new-cpu/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Leia, Princess of Aderaan by Claudia Gray</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover This book is a Star Wars story. It takes place during Leia Organa's 16th year. I would like to say that familiarity with the Star Wars universe isn't absolutely necessary, but I cannot be sure of that. It is, at its base, an exhilarating and sometimes sad, coming of age story, where we see Leia grow from a teen who thinks she's all grown up, to a woman who knows she isn't quite there....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-09-12 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">12 Sep 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Leia, Princess of Aderaan by Claudia Gray" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/09/leia-princess-of-aderaan/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/page/13/>« Prev</a>
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I categorize this book as a Memoir, mostly because it follows the narrative flow of a memoir. It starts out introducing the reader to Michael Bennett's childhood on a rural farm in the South, into college through the NFL, and discusses his own discovery of the importance of both support and activism on a number of issues of equality....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-08-29 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">29 Aug 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Things That Make White People Uncomfortable by Michael Bennett and Dave Zirin" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/08/things-that-make-white-people-uncomfortable/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Shopping] eBuyer Beware</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I know this. Read the fine print. I didn't do that. The rest is geeky details having to do with rack-mountable servers.
I have a 12U rack. Sort-of an end-table next to the couch. I have two servers. One of them is happily racked. The other one is awkwardly sitting sideways across the top of the rack.
I jumped on eBay a week ago, looking to find the rails I need....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-08-25 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">25 Aug 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Shopping] eBuyer Beware" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/08/shopping-ebuyer-beware/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/page/14/>« Prev</a>
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Scarlett, Jade and Blue are elite pilots of young dragons on the cruiser known as the Opal Dragon....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-08-22 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">22 Aug 2018</span> · 4 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Drawing The Dragon by April Adams" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/08/drawing-the-dragon/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover According to the preface, this book is a carefully researched retelling of surviving stories of the Nordic gods, Odin, Thor, Loki, Freya and others. Where surviving versions of a story differ, artistic license allows for the best of each to be used. First and foremost, these are Nordic tales. If you are familiar with these characters from Marvel comics or movies, be prepared to relearn a lot of what you thought you knew....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-08-15 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">15 Aug 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/08/norse-mythology/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Uprooted by Naomi Novik</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover The descriptions of the country, fashions and even the names of characters channels Poland of the 1500s or 1600s. The story focuses on a peaceful valley with little villages nestled along the Spindle river, but a dark forest grows nearby. Corrupted creatures come from the forest late at night and attack human, livestock or both. Or worse, a cloud of pollen might come in and corrupt a neighbor where they stand, turning them....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-08-08 12:00:00.003 -0400 -0400">8 Aug 2018</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Uprooted by Naomi Novik" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/08/uprooted/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] She Would Be King by Wayétu Moore</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book Cover (from publisher) This is divided into two books, THE THREE and SHE WOULD BE KING. A quote from the Author's Note (before the book even begins):
{Gbessa is pronounced "Bessah"} The first book is the story of three characters, each from different places and backgrounds. Gbessa is exiled from her African village as a witch. June escapes slavery from a plantation in Virginia....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-08-01 12:00:00.001 -0400 -0400">1 Aug 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] She Would Be King by Wayétu Moore" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/08/she-would-be-king/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/page/15/>« Prev</a>
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I met Jeremy Dale with Kelly by his side on several occasions at various comic book conventions. I am always on the lookout for a well written all-ages comic book story, and I found Jeremy and Skyward when there were only two issues, self-published and in black and white. Later, I saw him at a different convention and got issue 3, and he said that issue 4 should be out by NYCC....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-07-25 12:00:00.001 -0400 -0400">25 Jul 2018</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Skyward (Omnibus) by Jeremy and Kelly Dale" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/07/skyward-omnibus/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Unbeatable Squirrel Girl: 2 Fuzzy, 2 Furious by Shannon Hale and Dean Hale</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover Fourteen year-old Doreen Green is back in this second adventure of Squirrel Girl. Her parents are a little more used to the idea that she has super abilities, but are still nervous parents. Her Best Human Friend Forever (BHFF), Ana Sofia, is also a friend of Thor, and Agents of SHIELD show up. Her Best Squirrel Friend Forever (BSFF), Tippy Toe, also joins in to help her solve the big mystery....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-07-18 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">18 Jul 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Unbeatable Squirrel Girl: 2 Fuzzy, 2 Furious by Shannon Hale and Dean Hale" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/07/unbeatable-squirrel-girl-2-fuzzy-2-furious/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover (paperback) This is the 1989 book that later became a movie (which I never saw). This won the Booker Prize. We follow a quintessential British Butler named Stevens sometime after World War 2 on a journey to look up an ex-employee. The journey itself is beautifully and descriptively written.
While the main thread is the journey, the bulk of the story is Stevens' recollection of his past....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-07-11 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">11 Jul 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/07/the-remains-of-the-day/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Food] Homage to Pizza Gone By</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Gone Not too far from where I live is a "turn key fully equipped restaurant" for lease. The restaurant that was there until a few weeks ago was called Pizzaniste.
Pizzaniste had really good pizza. Gourmet, all fresh ingredients, coal fired, whole-wheat crust as an option; even gluten free as an option. Partly because they also made custom fresh salads, there were some unexpected ingredients: Real anchovies, fresh basil, artichokes, black beans, corn, cilantro, carrots, chickpeas, eggplant, hard-boiled egg, zucchini and two types of olives to choose from (along with all the other things you might expect every pizza place to have)....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-07-07 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">7 Jul 2018</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Food] Homage to Pizza Gone By" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/07/food-homage-to-pizza-gone-by/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/page/16/>« Prev</a>
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After the prelude, the first section of the book follows Bill Ashcraft, a drifter who is loaded up on drugs. Appropriate to the character - for the parts where we are following his narrative - the story is jumping back and forth between his past and present with no direct warning in-between, full of non-sequiturs, and frankly - hard to follow....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-06-27 12:00:00.001 -0400 -0400">27 Jun 2018</span> · 4 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Ohio by Stephen Markley" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/06/ohio/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Catching Stars by Cayla Keenan</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover The world building is probably the thing I liked the most about Catching Stars. There are people who have magical abilities and a larger group of people who don't. Within magic users, there are different types of magic users. There are kingdoms and politics, palace intrigue, roving gangs, sailing ships, petty rivalries and fierce prejudices. Though the story is quite different, the emotional feel of the world is similar to the book Steeplejack by A....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-06-20 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">20 Jun 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Catching Stars by Cayla Keenan" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/06/catching-stars/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] The Real Lolita by Sarah Weinman</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I got an advanced readers copy of this book from the first day of BookExpo. It is supposed to be released in September 2018, but that is preliminary, and the date could slip.
Book cover I don't usually read true-crime genre books. If I had never read the Nabokov fiction, Lolita, I would have never been interested enough in this book to read The Real Lolita by Sarah Weinman....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-06-13 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">13 Jun 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] The Real Lolita by Sarah Weinman" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/06/the-real-lolita/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/page/17/>« Prev</a>
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15 days without heat. 25 days to complete a delayed move, because we really couldn't live without heat. History and some details below.
Jen and I moved to New York in July of 2011, and we've lived in the same apartment ever since. A two bedroom, one bath apartment that is quite comfortable in a relatively well maintained building in the Bay Ridge neighborhood in Brooklyn....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-01-22 08:30:00 -0500 -0500">22 Jan 2018</span> · 4 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to The Agony of No Heat" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/01/the-agony-of-no-heat/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Agile Development on Infrastructure</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>After a friend asked about using agile, I started thinking about the skateboard to car drawing. The author of this, Henrik Kniberg, wrote a really good blog breaking this down, called Making sense of MVP (Minimum Viable Product). This model is absolutely important, and makes a very good case for going about building something brand new.
I've spent most of my post-Agile time doing infrastructure projects. I'm not building a product for end-users....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2017-10-21 13:43:00.002 -0400 -0400">21 Oct 2017</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Agile Development on Infrastructure" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2017/10/agile-development-on-infrastructure/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/page/18/>« Prev</a>
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This service was always free, for me, as I signed up before the free-tier was cancelled in December of 2012. I even bought my wife, Jen, a domain and set is up on G Suite before then (neiher of us could remember which year), as we were just dating at the time....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2022-05-28 15:39:33 -0400 -0400">28 May 2022</span> · 5 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Switching This Blog to Self Hosting" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2022/05/switch-to-self-host/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Terminal Colors with Highlight.js</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>This is another post where I’m working on Hugo capabilities. This time, though, I’m mostly dealing with expanding highlight.js, which is the highlighting tool used by the PaperMod theme.
Terminal in color This shows my terminal prompt in approximately the colors that I see.
[92mgvollink@javavm[0m [GIT: (✅) [92mmaster[0m]:0 [36mðŸ /src/web/hugo-blog[m$ The above, in source, has embedded ANSI escape codes. To do this I created a language called terminal for highlight.js and an accompanying PlugIn....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2022-05-25 20:45:29 -0400 -0400">25 May 2022</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Terminal Colors with Highlight.js" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2022/05/hugo-term-color/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/>« Prev</a>
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Someone said this to me who had heard the same from someone else. Â This comes from about three years ago, and was said in the context of my then current role (having moved from process and supervisory management to direct people management). Â It bothered me.
I first got to be in management, some 20 years ago....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2016-10-14 18:21:00 -0400 -0400">14 Oct 2016</span> · 4 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Misplaced Pride - and Getting Over It" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2016/10/misplaced-pride-and-getting-over-it/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>BLOG: The Sad State of 3D on a PC</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>This month, I built myself a new gaming PC, and decided to spend just a little extra money for the nVidia 3D Vision 2 package with a pair of shutter glasses and a USB controlled IR timing transmitter.  What I'm talking about here is PC gaming in stereoscopic 3D. This is gaming that not only depicts a 3D play environment, but also looks 3D to the player's eyes.
I remember that Descent came out in 1995, and it had support for a virtual reality headset called the Forte VFX-1....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2015-11-14 18:57:00.001 -0500 -0500">14 Nov 2015</span> · 6 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to BLOG: The Sad State of 3D on a PC" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2015/11/blog-the-sad-state-of-3d-on-a-pc/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/page/19/>« Prev</a>
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If this is too long one can safely scroll down to the Conclusion at the bottom.
I tried to buy tickets to NYCC the minute they went on sale....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2015-05-14 10:06:00 -0400 -0400">14 May 2015</span> · 5 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to NYCC : Horrible Shopping Experience" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2015/05/nycc-horrible-shopping-experience/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Manhattan Flagship Stores Are Not For Me</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Manhattan shopping. In the story below, I'm NOT saying the brand or the nam e of the store. I don't want to throw rage at one tiny example of something that ex i sts throughout Manhattan, especially at the brand-name stores that call themsel v es A Flagship Store.                                        There are multiple stores in Manhattan that are not externally identified as Fla g ship but are....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2015-02-01 22:57:00.003 -0500 -0500">1 Feb 2015</span> · 6 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Manhattan Flagship Stores Are Not For Me" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2015/02/manhattan-flagship-stores-are-not-for-me/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Late Night Meeting ... Restless</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I'm not sure who the audience for this is supposed to be.  Just like the blog entry I left about adding a battery holder to my 1990s era MIDI workstation, I think it's mostly just a sounding board, and notebook for myself.  Maybe some of the people who work on this project will read this, maybe not.  Anyway, it's a lot of words, and not a lot of specifics.
Just got off a meeting, kicking off the third phase of a project that I've been working on for 22 months....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2015-01-28 00:26:00 -0500 -0500">28 Jan 2015</span> · 5 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Late Night Meeting ... Restless" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2015/01/late-night-meeting-restless/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/page/20/>« Prev</a>
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For most of my professional life, I've been a computer programmer or computer administrator.  This is my story....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2014-07-21 18:35:00.002 -0400 -0400">21 Jul 2014</span> · 11 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Professional Autobiography" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2014/07/professional-autobiography/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Team Building Tips for Managers from Agile</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I wrote the following, originally, for an ideas post at work.  Then I cleaned it up a little to take out some "my company" specific examples and posted it on Linked-In.
Then I remembered that I don't post enough content to my blog anymore, so here's a post with a link to a post.
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Jenn Gabriel-Powell had an accident yesterday, suffered a subdural hematoma, and never recovered....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2014-03-30 14:56:00.002 -0400 -0400">30 Mar 2014</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Goodbye to Jenn Gabriel-Powell" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2014/03/goodbye-to-jenn-gabriel-powell/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Stone, Surgery and Recovery</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>This tale starts in late June with extreme abdominal pain that, for at least four hours, I was convinced was just severe gas pain. I was sweating and shaking and curled up in a ball, and eventually asked Jen to get me to the emergency room. Well, x-rays, urine samples, and a contrast CAT scan later, and I was told that I had a Kidney stone descending into my bladder. That was 4mmx2mm, and too small for them to try to do anything specifically for....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2013-10-21 18:00:00 -0400 -0400">21 Oct 2013</span> · 6 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Stone, Surgery and Recovery" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2013/10/stone-surgery-and-recovery/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>NSA and Security, Again</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Or: What I knew, what I thought I knew, and what I really didn't know.
I have, since at least 1999, worked with companies that are internationally distributed.  This means, I regularly have correspondence with people in Australia, China, France, Germany, India, Israel, Poland, Singapore and the United Kingdom.  Some of these folks, I have become friends with, so I have had personal correspondence with people in these countries, both paper and electronic....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2013-07-03 21:13:00.001 -0400 -0400">3 Jul 2013</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to NSA and Security, Again" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2013/07/nsa-and-security-again/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2013-07-02 13:18:00 -0400 -0400">2 Jul 2013</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2013/07/fourth-amendment-to-the-united-states-constitution/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/page/22/>« Prev</a>
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There had been a low battery warning for, probably the last 10 years or so.  My response was to just never turn it off, which worked until I had to turn it off for a while....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2012-10-13 01:52:00.001 -0400 -0400">13 Oct 2012</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Syntaur Doing It Right" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2012/10/syntaur-doing-it-right/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>I Did NOT Subscribe, and Why</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Dear magazine publisher.
I was thinking that it would be awesome to sign up for your magazine for a year, try it out.  So, I went to your site, and started to fill out the information that you asked.  When it came to pay you, though, you have told me that by signing up now, I agree that you'll AUTOMATICALLY bill me again, every year, from now until I actually remember to go out of my way to cancel....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2012-04-30 13:18:00 -0400 -0400">30 Apr 2012</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to I Did NOT Subscribe, and Why" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2012/04/i-did-not-subscribe-and-why/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>SOPA/PIPA (Protect IP)</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I am your constituent and I never miss a vote.  I want to make clear, that there are already laws and international treaties in place to protect from online piracy.  If those are not working, using Chinese style censorship methods to block foreign sites makes me wonder what happened to freedom, and I will remember those in congress who agreed with a minority of struggling entertainment concerns that Chinese style internet totalitarianism is the best answer....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2012-01-18 10:56:00 -0500 -0500">18 Jan 2012</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to SOPA/PIPA (Protect IP)" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2012/01/sopa-pipa-protect-ip/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/page/23/>« Prev</a>
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To someone who needs to go through Times Square multiple times per day, tourists are painful, literally....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2011-08-28 15:15:00.001 -0400 -0400">28 Aug 2011</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to About Times Square" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2011/08/about-times-square/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Earthquake</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>New York City - Midtown
On Tuesday morning, Jen and I were both in the office and something seemed strange.
If you've ever been in the upper floors of a tall building during sustained winds, you can feel the building swaying. It felt just like that.  Jen says, "Is the building moving?"  "Yes," as I realize that I shouldn't feel wind movement from the third floor.  Still not really sure what's going on, I say, "...</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2011-08-24 08:41:00 -0400 -0400">24 Aug 2011</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Earthquake" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2011/08/earthquake/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/page/24/>« Prev</a>
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I've heard various things about the Government bail-outs of banks, auto makers and mortgages.  So, I did a quick search, and found a really great article over at ProPublica.  This is a list of who still has money, and who paid money back already....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2011-04-08 11:05:00 -0400 -0400">8 Apr 2011</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Government Bail Out vs. Shut Down" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2011/04/government-bail-out-vs-shut-down/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Go Read Joe</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Joe Klein is usually liberal, and always hopes to find the best in people, and frankly, I think we could all learn from people like him. Last night, I read an article in Time Magazine by him called, Palestinian People Power (annoyingly, Time changes the article titles on-line).
It talks about how a small, and steadily growing group of young activists in the Palestinian (Isreali Occupied) regions of Isreal are working towards political goals by using peaceful protests, sit-in vigils, and demonstrations....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2011-04-08 10:30:00 -0400 -0400">8 Apr 2011</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Go Read Joe" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2011/04/go-read-joe/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>The World vs America: Why the USA is Easy to Hate</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Because of the places I've worked, and the jobs I have had while at those places, I've been able to travel to other countries.  While in these places, I've had countless hours of conversations with people from those places, most of whom have never traveled outside of their own countries.  These conversations, frequently, are about America.
Today's blog started with me reading something that someone in the UK posted online after a rock concert....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2011-03-19 21:02:00 -0400 -0400">19 Mar 2011</span> · 8 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to The World vs America: Why the USA is Easy to Hate" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2011/03/the-world-vs-america-why-the-usa-is-easy-to-hate/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/page/25/>« Prev</a>
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You know all those e-mails that get sent around with some heart-felt story about some child who is in dire need, and if you just forward the e-mail, you could help save that child's life?  Well, the overwhelming majority of those e-mails don't actually have a link that they want you to send along with that e-mail.  A link where people who actually have the means can drop a dollar, or twenty....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2011-01-06 10:53:00 -0500 -0500">6 Jan 2011</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Spreading the Word For Simon" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2011/01/spreading-the-word-for-simon/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Apple Admits iPhone Can't Compete, Targets Android with Patent Suits</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Admitting that the iPhone can no longer feature compete with the fast moving open source platform, Android, Apple Inc dusts off some patents that could be stretched to cover some Android features and starts filing lawsuits.
Gone are the days when Apple could just tell people to use their phone and the difference in quality would be obvious.  These days, even the new Windows phones are better than iPhones, so to try to save it's market share, Apple has decided to sue instead of compete....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2011-01-03 10:04:00 -0500 -0500">3 Jan 2011</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Apple Admits iPhone Can't Compete, Targets Android with Patent Suits" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2011/01/apple-admits-iphone-can-t-compete-targets-android-with-patent-suits/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Facebook 101</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Collected from recent FaceBook 101 updates of a friend of mine.
Keep your personal drama problems off of Facebook. Do not write an ambiguous post just so the first commenter will have to ask, "What do you mean?" Learn how to use the privacy features of Facebook and DO NOT leave your profile open to the public. Do not post or comment if it will get you in trouble with your significant other; Offending others is OK, if you are really prepared for the backlash....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2010-12-22 22:14:00.001 -0500 -0500">22 Dec 2010</span> · 4 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Facebook 101" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2010/12/facebook-101/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/page/26/>« Prev</a>
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Christmas time is nigh...</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2010-12-07 21:33:00 -0500 -0500">7 Dec 2010</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Christmas Time Is Nigh" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2010/12/christmas-time-is-nigh/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Quasimodo says, &quot;The Horns, The Horns&quot;</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I'm on my second day where I feel relatively jet-lag free.  This is as good a time as any, to mention what is different about Traffic in Bangalore.  There seems to be a whole new (but not all new to my experience) rules for traffic navigation.
Despite what the numerous signs and dotted lines suggest, lanes are defined by the width of the vehicles next to you right now. Traffic signal lights are suggestions, that you follow only so far as someone in the other direction is tired of waiting for a green and is willing to put the front of their vehicle in front of your movement....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2010-11-11 05:34:00 -0500 -0500">11 Nov 2010</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Quasimodo says, &quot;The Horns, The Horns&quot;" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2010/11/quasimodo-says-the-horns-the-horns/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>What's My Beef with Bangalore?</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>So, I have been in Bangalore now for five days, but something happened two days ago, that I was a bit surprised by...
I've eaten at several places since I've been here, though, only one place would I consider having what I'm guessing is actual Indian food.  Which is to say, I've mostly eaten at hotels, or foreign Restaurants.  My room rate, at the hotel I'm staying in, comes with free Breakfast, so that's the one meal I will always eat at the hotel....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2010-11-11 04:39:00.001 -0500 -0500">11 Nov 2010</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to What's My Beef with Bangalore?" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2010/11/what-s-my-beef-with-bangalore/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/page/27/>« Prev</a>
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My job title is Technical Team Leader, but up to now, I've been dealing primarily with projects. During this project work, I've had between 1 and 5 people who are working on those projects. The guy I work for directly managed the people, while I just gave technical direction (leadership?...</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2010-09-14 20:22:00 -0400 -0400">14 Sep 2010</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Another Big Change; At Work" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2010/09/another-big-change-at-work/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Watch Out! Child Playing in the Street! No, A Speed Device</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Via PhysOrg.com [0], The City of West Vancouver, Canada, has unveiled the latest technology to get drivers to slow down.  A photo-realistic image of a little girl grabbing a ball, that is stretched long and flat to give the optical illusion that she is real, when viewed from a distance.  (Image from CTV, after the break.)
This particular experiment has been installed near a primary school, and only be in place for a week, and there are special signs and extra patrols in the area during this period....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2010-09-11 10:00:00.001 -0400 -0400">11 Sep 2010</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Watch Out! Child Playing in the Street! No, A Speed Device" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2010/09/watch-out-child-playing-in-the-street-no-a-speed-device/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/page/28/>« Prev</a>
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my $test = MyStuff->new(); if ( ! $test ) { printf {*STDERR} "Error.\n"; } Final Thoughts It took me over a week to figure out how to extract what I needed from my old Google blogger account, and now that I’ve done that, I’m … happy enough … with the results....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2022-05-16 21:52:30 -0400 -0400">16 May 2022</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Trying Hugo" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2022/05/trying-hugo/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Linux Command Prompt in Color</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>In this modern world, basically every terminal is compatible with VT-52 terminal sequences. These includes Windows Terminal (free from Microsoft on the Microsoft Store), Terminal.app (on macOS) and most terminals available under Linux. Further, most of these support emoji and 256 colors.
Yet, most of the advice out there on how to deal with this suggests hard-coding these escape sequences directly into your prompt. This is great, and probably will work just fine, but I find it to be painful....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2021-11-19 04:21:00.001 -0500 -0500">19 Nov 2021</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Linux Command Prompt in Color" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2021/11/linux-command-prompt-in-color/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Of Curses and Kisses by Sandhya Menon</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover I usually don't do the comparative thing, but this one stuck me pretty directly. Imagine the movie Crazy Rich Asians, but teenagers at a boarding school in the mountains outside of Aspen, with a broadly international cast. Main point: pretty much everybody is insanely rich.
The main character, Jaya Rao, is a princess from an old kingdom of India who is literally there to break someone's heart....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2020-01-22 12:00:00 -0500 -0500">22 Jan 2020</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Of Curses and Kisses by Sandhya Menon" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2020/01/of-curses-and-kisses/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/page/2/>« Prev</a>
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Shorter YouTube version too...</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2010-09-09 18:40:00 -0400 -0400">9 Sep 2010</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Video: Cruise Ship In Heavy Seas" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2010/09/video-cruise-ship-in-heavy-seas/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>St. Paul Sink Hole</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>There was a sink-hole in St. Paul this-morning.
Ever since I heard this story about a woman who fell through a grate in Manhattan, I've been worried about sidewalk grates. Â I just can't function if I have to worry about whole sidewalks, too!
Someone I know sent me a PDF file that had some pictures.  This is a really huge hole.  When I first heard about it, I was thinking man-hole cover size, not SUV size....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2010-09-07 18:26:00.001 -0400 -0400">7 Sep 2010</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to St. Paul Sink Hole" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2010/09/st-paul-sink-hole/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Big Change</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I just got off the phone with my girlfriend, J.  It was one of those marathon chats that go on and on, but we didn't really say much.  It's Labor day today, so we chatted about that.  I mentioned that I saw a tree on Friday that had half it's leaves brown already.  Fall is closing in early.  She mentioned some of the things she is doing where she is....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2010-09-06 17:58:00 -0400 -0400">6 Sep 2010</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Big Change" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2010/09/big-change/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/page/29/>« Prev</a>
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I read the article above*, and couldn't help but notice that this was the very same analysis that so many had about the Green Party during the G.W.Bush years. The whole idea, then, was that the Green party, by both attracting Democrats, and then also endorsing occasional bat-shit-crazy candidates basically imploded the realistic chances of either party. *The Headline is different in the print edition: Mark Halperin's Take: How the Tea Party Is a Mixed Blessing</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2010-07-19 12:35:00.001 -0400 -0400">19 Jul 2010</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Tea Party : The Republican Green?" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2010/07/tea-party-the-republican-green/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Crazy Morning, Getting Better</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>It's raining in St. Paul today.  I had an overnight guest, family of a friend*, who was planning to get into work early, and didn't quite make it in early.  To put it lightly, my overnight guest had a really bad morning.  I got up just in time to see her off, and decided to make some eggs as she left.  I just finished making breakfast when I got the phone call....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2010-06-08 11:53:00 -0400 -0400">8 Jun 2010</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Crazy Morning, Getting Better" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2010/06/crazy-morning-getting-better/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Password Retention Policies</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>It never used to bother me, but now it does.
Every time I hear about one of those laptops stolen with secrets, but "no secure password", I believe that corporate password retention policies are to blame.
I have now come to the point, where I work, that the various password systems, with their vastly different password policies, have collided to make it impossible for me to keep up anymore. I will now be one of the countless hoardes that puts my passwords on a sticky note above my notebook's keyboard....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2009-05-02 16:40:00 -0400 -0400">2 May 2009</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Password Retention Policies" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2009/05/password-retention-policies/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/page/30/>« Prev</a>
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I've been very busy with work and friends lately. I also don't have an internet connection at home, so I've been neglecting this blog. It's not that I haven't seen anything of interest lately, and it's not that I've had nothing to say. I've just been busy.
First -- I lost my TV. Not really that I lost a TV. I don't have one, but I did have a TV capture card, and I was able to get over-the-air signals with it....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2009-03-16 19:55:00 -0400 -0400">16 Mar 2009</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Spring and It's Been a While" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2009/03/spring-and-it-s-been-a-while/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Revisit: 'Attack and Muder at the Drum Tower' [Updated]</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Back in August, I wrote a blog entry about the attack that occurred in the second level of the Beijing drum tower.
I received a comment on that story that I deeply hope is true, but ... partly because it was anonymous (see update), and mostly because there have been no further news reports that I've been able to find, I have no way of being sure. Here is a copy of that comment:...</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-12-08 11:19:00 -0500 -0500">8 Dec 2008</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Revisit: 'Attack and Muder at the Drum Tower' [Updated]" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/12/revisit-attack-and-muder-at-the-drum-tower-updated/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Christmas Meme</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>So my mother sent me this set of questions in e-mail. Like all internet memes, the idea is to copy the questions, and fill in your own answers, and send that out to all the people you know. I don't often do these, but it's Christmas time, so I figured it's good enough to go up on my blog (and, by extension, Facebook). So, here are the questions with my answers:...</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-12-02 15:16:00 -0500 -0500">2 Dec 2008</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Christmas Meme" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/12/christmas-meme/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/page/31/>« Prev</a>
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I spotted it up ahead, and grabbed my camera. It's just an unusual thing to see...
I was traveling across the Minnesota River's Bloomington Ferry Bridge, and decided to take pictures while I could. He was going pretty slow....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-10-25 22:40:00 -0400 -0400">25 Oct 2008</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Driving Aircraft (part 2) [Updated]" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/10/driving-aircraft-part-2-updated/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Saturday's Day Trip</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I couldn't have asked for better weather. Sure, it's Minnesota and it's getting cool, but there was barely a cloud in the sky...
Darwin and Ray are some co-workers who are in town for a month, and this is their last full weekend in Minnesota. I had offered earlier to take them to see Lake Superior. Darwin, in particular, had mentioned how much he wanted to see the great lakes... so I figured I'd do the best I could, and show him the big one that's only a few hours drive from here....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-10-05 19:05:00 -0400 -0400">5 Oct 2008</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Saturday's Day Trip" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/10/saturday-s-day-trip/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/page/32/>« Prev</a>
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http://picasaweb.google.com/gary.vollink/NewYorkTrip</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-09-10 00:43:00 -0400 -0400">10 Sep 2008</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Back From New York" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/09/back-from-new-york/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Bad Speling Iz Ok Now?</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>This article has been in the back of my head, bugging me since I first read it. Mind, it's not the article itself that bothers me, it's the assertion that is being made in the article. Bad Spelling should be acceptable at the college level.
Spelling "truely atrosious," says academic (sic)
I've been mulling this over for weeks, and I've heard a few people make the argument that standardized spelling is a relatively new construct from a historic perspective....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-08-25 20:15:00 -0400 -0400">25 Aug 2008</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Bad Speling Iz Ok Now?" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/08/bad-speling-iz-ok-now/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Beijing : Attack and Murder at the Drum Tower</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I feel that I should begin by expressing how safe I felt while I was in Beijing. I felt safer in every part of Beijing than I do in downtown Minneapolis. The news outlets don't really say that enough while sharing this bit of news. Actual physical attacks on foreigners are very unusual in Beijing. Like any large city, crimes of opportunity are common, but confrontational attacks against foreigners are incredibly rare....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-08-09 21:01:00 -0400 -0400">9 Aug 2008</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Beijing : Attack and Murder at the Drum Tower" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/08/beijing-attack-and-murder-at-the-drum-tower/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/page/34/>« Prev</a>
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Snowy Egret
Woodstork w Roseate Spoonbill</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-08-02 20:46:00 -0400 -0400">2 Aug 2008</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Florida Bird Photos from Today." href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/08/florida-bird-photos-from-today/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Spotted This -- had to link it.</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p></p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-07-30 22:09:00 -0400 -0400">30 Jul 2008</span> · 0 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Spotted This -- had to link it." href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/07/spotted-this-had-to-link-it/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Just a Joke</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>The joke below was e-mailed to me recently, and I've entered it with the text that I received in the e-mail. However, it seems that the more popular version of the joke has the gender of the characters switched.
A man was leaving a convenience store with his morning coffee when he noticed a most unusual funeral procession approaching the nearby cemetery. A long black hearse was followed by a second long black hearse about 50 feet behind the first one....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-07-30 19:30:00 -0400 -0400">30 Jul 2008</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Just a Joke" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/07/just-a-joke/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/page/35/>« Prev</a>
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Quite unexpected. That's all I'm saying.</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-07-24 21:39:00 -0400 -0400">24 Jul 2008</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Strange Helicopter Transportation (photo)" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/07/strange-helicopter-transportation-photo/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>For My Floridian Friends</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>http://xkcd.net/453/
Upcoming Hurricanes The XKCD web comic is one of my favorites.</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-07-23 20:03:00 -0400 -0400">23 Jul 2008</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to For My Floridian Friends" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/07/for-my-floridian-friends/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Me and My Enneagram [Updated]</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>This is a bit of a meme that's been going around one of my circles of friends. It's this Enneagram test. So, after putting it off for a week, I finally decided to take the first (and longer) of the two tests presented at the link above.
I will not pretend that I've actually read through what this means or what it might mean, but - generally - I have a tendency of being very central on most personality tests, so -- I've linked the whole result set, with all of the scores, so that you can see the whole picture....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-07-23 10:27:00 -0400 -0400">23 Jul 2008</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Me and My Enneagram [Updated]" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/07/me-and-my-enneagram-updated/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/page/36/>« Prev</a>
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Get a First Life</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-07-17 19:30:00 -0400 -0400">17 Jul 2008</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to First Life" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/07/first-life/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Opinion: VMWare Server 2.0 Beta [Updated]</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I've used VMWare Server 2.0 Beta for about three solid hours now...
Things I like.
Virtual Hardware v. 7 with USB 2.0 support. Tomcat based VM monitoring, is pretty responsive. Does NOT request or attempt to "require" IIS. The Server interface, while different, remains similar.Technical -- I've loaded VMWare-Server beta on two separate Windows XP host systems (I have an Ubuntu as well, but I've had problems in the past loading both "...</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-07-17 10:20:00 -0400 -0400">17 Jul 2008</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Opinion: VMWare Server 2.0 Beta [Updated]" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/07/opinion-vmware-server-2-0-beta-updated/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Flamingo Hand</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>This came from one of those e-mails that people send around. It was a collection of "hand art". One that I'm sure has an online source somewhere, and if I find it, I'll link to that ... but, I thought this was interesting enough, so .. check it out.</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-07-16 00:50:00 -0400 -0400">16 Jul 2008</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Flamingo Hand" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/07/flamingo-hand/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/page/37/>« Prev</a>
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After several years of tension, and many attempts by various colony-side groups to get the British parliament to listen to basic grievances, conflict arose.
The Colonists and the British Army started shooting on 19 April 1775 at Lexington - just outside of Boston. On 11 June 1776, more than a year after the war had begun, the delegates to the Continental Congress appointed a committee of five, and they got started on the serious work of making a formal declaration of Independence....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-07-04 16:51:00 -0400 -0400">4 Jul 2008</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Happy Independence Day" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/07/happy-independence-day/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>SmokeStack Gone : The Video</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>So, here is the video that I took of the St Paul Smoke Stack falling...
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My wife is a librarian, and when I started this blog, it was partly a way for me to share something about the numerous pre-release books that she and I would get when we went to book events. Also, when I started, doing this was fun, and I figured that if I were any good at it, maybe I would reach other readers....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-10-06 00:00:00 -0400 -0400">6 Oct 2019</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Stopping Regular Book Blog" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/10/stopping-regular-book-blog/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Title Illustration I read somewhere that the story of Disney's Frozen was based on this book, so I decided to read and review it for this blog.  I want to be clear that there is almost nothing that the story of Frozen has left in common with this original fairytale, except for a talking reindeer. This is a short read, and I've linked to the full text via Project Gutenberg in the book information block below....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-10-03 01:36:00 -0400 -0400">3 Oct 2019</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/10/the-snow-queen/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover The Graveyard Book isn't a horror novel, but it is absolutely goth and macabre. The story follows a boy from 18 months old when his whole family is murdered and he wanders off into the night through his childhood as he is raised in a graveyard by two ghosts and a vampire as guardian (who supplies physical things, like food and clothes). At one point, we meet a werewolf and ghouls as well....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-09-18 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">18 Sep 2019</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/09/the-graveyard-book/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] This Fight Is Our Fight by Elizabeth Warren</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book Cover Elizabeth Warren is running for president, and pretty much every candidate writes a book prior to running.  It's a good way to let folks know where they are coming from, and do so in a long format, unfiltered by the journalist's desire to pare things down into sound-bites. This book is subtitled: The Battle to Save America's Middle Class. This is a book about politics, personal history of the author and the economic history of the country along with ample explanation of why the past matters today....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-09-04 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">4 Sep 2019</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] This Fight Is Our Fight by Elizabeth Warren" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/09/this-fight-is-our-fight/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/page/3/>« Prev</a>
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I went to a great summer solstice party last night, one of those parties where I only knew one person, but absolutely everybody was cool and easy to talk to. Had a wonderful time, and I got home really late.</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-06-22 17:50:00 -0400 -0400">22 Jun 2008</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Summertime" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/06/summertime/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/page/39/>« Prev</a>
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I firmly believe that most people are either, pretty much O.K. with the way most things are, or so apathetic to the possibility of change that they don't care.
Of this great majority, there is no reason to stand up and demand that things stay pretty much the same. Who would bother getting out of the house to vote for someone who doesn't think there's much to do....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-06-20 03:03:00 -0400 -0400">20 Jun 2008</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Why Most Politics Is Radical" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/06/why-most-politics-is-radical/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Web Ads</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>A few times in the last few months, I've thought to actually go out of my way and click on a Web Ad. In every case, the web ad was non-traditional and insisted on doing something which got it blocked. Seems that web ads would be much more successful if they didn't demand dumb user behavior...
Middle Click
-In all latest version graphical web browsers, a middle button mouse click is available to open the link in a new tab....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-06-15 13:40:00 -0400 -0400">15 Jun 2008</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Web Ads" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/06/web-ads/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[In China... Moved]</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Since I'm not in China anymore, that blog moved here.</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-06-15 13:35:00 -0400 -0400">15 Jun 2008</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [In China... Moved]" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/06/in-china-moved/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/page/40/>« Prev</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+In all latest version graphical web browsers, a middle button mouse click is available to open the link in a new tab....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-06-15 13:40:00 -0400 -0400">15 Jun 2008</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Web Ads" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/06/web-ads/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[In China... Moved]</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Since I'm not in China anymore, that blog moved here.</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-06-15 13:35:00 -0400 -0400">15 Jun 2008</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [In China... Moved]" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/06/in-china-moved/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/page/40/>« Prev</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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First and foremost, the "...</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-08-21 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">21 Aug 2019</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/08/the-adventures-of-tom-sawyer/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Defy the Fates by Claudia Gray</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book Cover This is the final book of the Defy the Stars trilogy (start with reviews of book one and two). There are probably mild spoilers for the first and one major spoiler for the second book in this review of book three, so please proceed with that in mind.
As I wrote in my review of Defy the Worlds, I do not recommend diving into this book without reading the previous two first....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-08-14 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">14 Aug 2019</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Defy the Fates by Claudia Gray" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/08/defy-the-fates/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover Originally a play, then released in book form as Peter and Wendy, this book is the basis of Disney's cartoon movie, Peter Pan. The movie is surprisingly faithful to the book with the exception that Disney's version doesn't portray deaths that the book does.
Problematic doesn't begin to describe this experience. Like a lot of classic literature, defenders will point out that this is a product of its time....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-08-07 00:05:00 -0400 -0400">7 Aug 2019</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/08/peter-pan/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/page/4/>« Prev</a>
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There is a lot to unpack in the world-building and the world is built along with the story. Each chapter is unusually episodic, in that some small part of the last scene of a previous chapter will be often be repeated at the beginning of the next....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-07-10 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">10 Jul 2019</span> · 4 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Binti Trilogy by Nnedi Okorafor" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/07/binti-trilogy/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/page/5/>« Prev</a>
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I cannot review this book without noting that Fred Rogers means a lot to me, as I watched his show regularly for many years....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-06-12 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">12 Jun 2019</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] The Good Neighbor by Maxwell King" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/06/the-good-neighbor/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Defy The Stars by Claudia Gray</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>This is book one of a three book series (the third book came out earlier this month), and since I've already had good reviews of two other books by this author, I decided to pick up this series as well to see what she had done outside of the Star Wars universe.
Book cover Through a ring of stabilized wormholes, large enough for whole ships to pass through, Earth expanded to five other planets....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-05-29 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">29 May 2019</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Defy The Stars by Claudia Gray" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/05/defy-the-stars/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Maid by Stephanie Land</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover Start from one mistake, one that is tragically common - becoming a parent a little to young. From that point, almost everything that can go wrong in someone's life while still making the best possible choice for the circumstance is laid out in the first four chapters of this book. This beginning is a treatise on despair and government anti-poverty programs.
The arc doesn't exactly get better from there, but it starts to be framed in a way that shows gratitude for the things that haven't gone completely wrong, though things do continue to go wrong....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-05-15 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">15 May 2019</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Maid by Stephanie Land" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/05/maid/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/page/6/>« Prev</a>
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The very beginning of this book does capture the early history of Pixar up through the release and success of Toy Story....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-04-03 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">3 Apr 2019</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Creativity Inc. by Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/04/creativity-inc/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Fixing the Broken</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I was reading my twitter feed, when I stumbled upon this:
If a process is broken throw it in the trash and start over. Nothing is set in stone. The simplicity of the tweet is absolutely true. It totally reminded me of a problem I've seen multiple times though.  The process is rarely the difficult part of fixing a problem.
A long time ago, when I was a team lead, the group I worked with had an automated build system that was extremely complicated, built entirely in-house, and didn't follow the conventions of any of the standard build-systems that exist....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-03-30 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">30 Mar 2019</span> · 4 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Fixing the Broken" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/03/fixing-the-broken/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/page/7/>« Prev</a>
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Won't you be my neighbor is a very well paced, carefully timed, and beautifully edited documentary....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-03-09 12:00:00 -0500 -0500">9 Mar 2019</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Movie] Won't You Be My Neighbor (2018)" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/03/movie-won-t-you-be-my-neighbor-2018/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Managing Difficult Problems</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I can no longer count the number of times that I've been able to re-invigorate a problem investigation, even if I have zero visibility on the actual problem. This takes some self-discipline that doesn't come easy, especially during an urgent investigation.
Here's that one weird trick:I do the depth of reading myself. If I see multiple threads, I'll read all of them. Then I will write as short a summary of all of the facts that I can....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-03-09 12:00:00.001 -0500 -0500">9 Mar 2019</span> · 4 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Managing Difficult Problems" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/03/managing-difficult-problems/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Fear by Bob Woodward</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover I haven't been sleeping well. A good friend of mine suggested that my reading this book may be one of the reasons. I can't dispute that directly. As I write this, right before New Year's 2018, I'm actively looking for employment, and that is stressful, but this book definitely hasn't helped.
Subtitled Trump in the White House, Fear is about the presidency of Donald Trump and written by the Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-03-06 12:00:00 -0500 -0500">6 Mar 2019</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Fear by Bob Woodward" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/03/fear/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/page/8/>« Prev</a>
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I spotted it up ahead, and grabbed my camera. It's just an unusual thing to see...
-I was traveling across the Minnesota River's Bloomington Ferry Bridge, and decided to take pictures while I could. He was going pretty slow....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-10-25 22:40:00 -0400 -0400">25 Oct 2008</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Driving Aircraft (part 2) [Updated]" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/10/driving-aircraft-part-2-updated/></a></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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-A reader might chime in here and say, no MY TERMINAL thinks it is an xterm, but alas xterm pretends to be a VT420 (xterm can actually pretend it is many different terminals, so even if you DO use THE xterm software I doubt your computer is actually set up to most efficiently talk to it, I’ll talk about that later )....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2023-09-21 21:10:00 -0400 -0400">21 Sep 2023</span> · 10 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Your Terminal Emulator Is Wrong" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2023/09/standards-what-standards/></a></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+A reader might chime in here and say, no MY TERMINAL thinks it is an xterm, but alas xterm pretends to be a VT420 (xterm can actually pretend it is many different terminals, so even if you DO use THE xterm software I doubt your computer is actually set up to most efficiently talk to it, I’ll talk about that later )....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2023-09-21 21:10:00 -0400 -0400">21 Sep 2023</span> · 10 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Your Terminal Emulator Is Wrong" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2023/09/standards-what-standards/></a></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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I cannot review this book without noting that Fred Rogers means a lot to me, as I watched his show regularly for many years....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-06-12 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">12 Jun 2019</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] The Good Neighbor by Maxwell King" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/06/the-good-neighbor/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Movie] Won't You Be My Neighbor (2018)</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Movie poster This is a documentary film about Fred McFeely Rogers, who was on a popular children's program called Mister Rogers' Neighborhood from 1968 through 2001. The movie starts his career with a children's show that he produced before Neighborhood, the Children's Corner, though skips his earliest work for NBC.
-Won't you be my neighbor is a very well paced, carefully timed, and beautifully edited documentary....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-03-09 12:00:00 -0500 -0500">9 Mar 2019</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Movie] Won't You Be My Neighbor (2018)" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/03/movie-won-t-you-be-my-neighbor-2018/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] David Bowie: A Life by Dylan Jones</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book sleeve cover The author of this book took a huge amount of time to collect together statements and interviews from a vast array of people who knew or in some cases even briefly met David Bowie. Jarringly, there are places where David Bowie's own statements are included. All of these vignettes are presented each in whole, collected into chapters into an approximate order as to when the main point of each vignette happened....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-10-31 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">31 Oct 2018</span> · 4 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] David Bowie: A Life by Dylan Jones" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/10/david-bowie-a-life/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] eyE Marty by Marty Feldman</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover Marty Feldman is probably most famous for playing Igor in the 1974 Mel Brooks movie, Young Frankenstein. He died in 1982, and his autobiography sat in the attic of his widow's home until her death in 2010 when it was discovered by Mark Flanagan. Flanagan had it transcribed, exactly as it was found, including photo inserts and published without further editing. This book is in desperate need of editing....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-07-04 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">4 Jul 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] eyE Marty by Marty Feldman" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/07/eye-marty/></a></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+Won't you be my neighbor is a very well paced, carefully timed, and beautifully edited documentary....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-03-09 12:00:00 -0500 -0500">9 Mar 2019</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Movie] Won't You Be My Neighbor (2018)" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/03/movie-won-t-you-be-my-neighbor-2018/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] David Bowie: A Life by Dylan Jones</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book sleeve cover The author of this book took a huge amount of time to collect together statements and interviews from a vast array of people who knew or in some cases even briefly met David Bowie. Jarringly, there are places where David Bowie's own statements are included. All of these vignettes are presented each in whole, collected into chapters into an approximate order as to when the main point of each vignette happened....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-10-31 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">31 Oct 2018</span> · 4 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] David Bowie: A Life by Dylan Jones" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/10/david-bowie-a-life/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] eyE Marty by Marty Feldman</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover Marty Feldman is probably most famous for playing Igor in the 1974 Mel Brooks movie, Young Frankenstein. He died in 1982, and his autobiography sat in the attic of his widow's home until her death in 2010 when it was discovered by Mark Flanagan. Flanagan had it transcribed, exactly as it was found, including photo inserts and published without further editing. This book is in desperate need of editing....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-07-04 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">4 Jul 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] eyE Marty by Marty Feldman" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/07/eye-marty/></a></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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<!doctype html><html lang=en dir=auto><head><meta charset=utf-8><meta http-equiv=x-ua-compatible content="IE=edge"><meta name=viewport content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1,shrink-to-fit=no"><meta name=robots content="index, follow"><title>blog | On My Mind...</title><meta name=keywords content><meta name=description content="Gary Allen's Blog"><meta name=author content="Gary Allen Vollink"><link rel=canonical href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/blog/><link crossorigin=anonymous href=/assets/css/stylesheet.min.043dbe50dd3b5aeece8e1fd6b52fdb9ce2bb5c714d321cc709b5e740e61345eb.css integrity="sha256-BD2+UN07Wu7Ojh/WtS/bnOK7XHFNMhzHCbXnQOYTRes=" rel="preload stylesheet" as=style><link rel=icon href=https://blog.vollink.com/favicon.ico><link rel=icon type=image/png sizes=16x16 href=https://blog.vollink.com/favicon-16x16.png><link rel=icon type=image/png sizes=32x32 href=https://blog.vollink.com/favicon-32x32.png><link rel=apple-touch-icon href=https://blog.vollink.com/apple-touch-icon.png><link rel=mask-icon href=https://blog.vollink.com/safari-pinned-tab.svg><meta name=theme-color content="#2e2e33"><meta name=msapplication-TileColor content="#2e2e33"><link rel=alternate type=application/rss+xml href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/blog/index.xml><noscript><style>#theme-toggle,.top-link{display:none}</style><style>@media(prefers-color-scheme:dark){:root{--theme:rgb(29, 30, 32);--entry:rgb(46, 46, 51);--primary:rgb(218, 218, 219);--secondary:rgb(155, 156, 157);--tertiary:rgb(65, 66, 68);--content:rgb(196, 196, 197);--hljs-bg:rgb(46, 46, 51);--code-bg:rgb(55, 56, 62);--border:rgb(51, 51, 51)}.list{background:var(--theme)}.list:not(.dark)::-webkit-scrollbar-track{background:0 0}.list:not(.dark)::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb{border-color:var(--theme)}}</style></noscript><meta property="og:title" content="blog"><meta property="og:description" content="Gary Allen's Blog"><meta property="og:type" content="website"><meta property="og:url" content="https://blog.vollink.com/tags/blog/"><meta property="og:site_name" content="On My Mind..."><meta name=twitter:card content="summary"><meta name=twitter:title content="blog"><meta name=twitter:description content="Gary Allen's Blog"></head><body class=list id=top><script>localStorage.getItem("pref-theme")==="dark"?document.body.classList.add("dark"):localStorage.getItem("pref-theme")==="light"?document.body.classList.remove("dark"):window.matchMedia("(prefers-color-scheme: dark)").matches&&document.body.classList.add("dark")</script><header class=header><nav class=nav><div class=logo><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/ accesskey=h title="Home (Alt + H)"><img src=https://blog.vollink.com/AllenWrench.gif alt=logo aria-label=logo height=35>Home</a>
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These span a wide swath of methods from very obvious paywalls to deeply obfuscated Terms of Use clauses, and they are dangerous for businesses specifically because some programmer who uses one of these technologies at home on an open source project often won’t think twice about installing the same on a business supplied computer to get their job’s work done…...</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2024-04-03 17:31:21 -0400 -0400">3 Apr 2024</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Open Source Does NOT Mean Free" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2024/04/open-is-not-always-free/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Your Terminal Emulator Is Wrong</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Introduction At this point, there are hundreds of graphical terminal emulators out there. Every single one that I have run into pretends like it is some varient of a hardware terminal made by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) from their Video Terminal (VT) line of products, from 1978’s VT100 through 1993’s VT525.
-A reader might chime in here and say, no MY TERMINAL thinks it is an xterm, but alas xterm pretends to be a VT420 (xterm can actually pretend it is many different terminals, so even if you DO use THE xterm software I doubt your computer is actually set up to most efficiently talk to it, I’ll talk about that later )....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2023-09-21 21:10:00 -0400 -0400">21 Sep 2023</span> · 10 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Your Terminal Emulator Is Wrong" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2023/09/standards-what-standards/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>The Anime I Like</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Why I Won’t Admit to Liking Anime When talking to someone who likes Anime, the first thing to come up is usually a show like Dragonball Z or Baruto. Some fighting is fine if the story requires it, but I don’t want to watch a single fight that lasts most of an episode. I want story to develop in every episode, not just exposition hidden in re-used fight sequences. At worst, I might stick with something that has a long fight in one or two episodes within a ten plus episode season....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2022-08-23 23:41:12 -0400 -0400">23 Aug 2022</span> · 6 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to The Anime I Like" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2022/08/anime/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=next href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/blog/page/2/>Next »</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+A reader might chime in here and say, no MY TERMINAL thinks it is an xterm, but alas xterm pretends to be a VT420 (xterm can actually pretend it is many different terminals, so even if you DO use THE xterm software I doubt your computer is actually set up to most efficiently talk to it, I’ll talk about that later )....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2023-09-21 21:10:00 -0400 -0400">21 Sep 2023</span> · 10 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Your Terminal Emulator Is Wrong" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2023/09/standards-what-standards/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>The Anime I Like</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Why I Won’t Admit to Liking Anime When talking to someone who likes Anime, the first thing to come up is usually a show like Dragonball Z or Baruto. Some fighting is fine if the story requires it, but I don’t want to watch a single fight that lasts most of an episode. I want story to develop in every episode, not just exposition hidden in re-used fight sequences. At worst, I might stick with something that has a long fight in one or two episodes within a ten plus episode season....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2022-08-23 23:41:12 -0400 -0400">23 Aug 2022</span> · 6 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to The Anime I Like" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2022/08/anime/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=next href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/blog/page/2/>Next »</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140701163145-41328787-team-building-tips-for-managers-from-agile?trk=mp-reader-card</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2014-07-03 16:38:00.002 -0400 -0400">3 Jul 2014</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Team Building Tips for Managers from Agile" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2014/07/team-building-tips-for-managers-from-agile/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Goodbye to Jenn Gabriel-Powell</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I'm in a hotel in Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom.  I'm in the UK on a four week business trip.  I have exactly one friend in Devon who is not from work, and I had plans to hang out with her, and meet her husband today.
I guess I should say that I had one friend in Devon who is not from work.
Jenn Gabriel-Powell had an accident yesterday, suffered a subdural hematoma, and never recovered....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2014-03-30 14:56:00.002 -0400 -0400">30 Mar 2014</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Goodbye to Jenn Gabriel-Powell" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2014/03/goodbye-to-jenn-gabriel-powell/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Stone, Surgery and Recovery</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>This tale starts in late June with extreme abdominal pain that, for at least four hours, I was convinced was just severe gas pain. I was sweating and shaking and curled up in a ball, and eventually asked Jen to get me to the emergency room. Well, x-rays, urine samples, and a contrast CAT scan later, and I was told that I had a Kidney stone descending into my bladder. That was 4mmx2mm, and too small for them to try to do anything specifically for....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2013-10-21 18:00:00 -0400 -0400">21 Oct 2013</span> · 6 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Stone, Surgery and Recovery" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2013/10/stone-surgery-and-recovery/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/blog/page/9/>« Prev</a>
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I have, since at least 1999, worked with companies that are internationally distributed.  This means, I regularly have correspondence with people in Australia, China, France, Germany, India, Israel, Poland, Singapore and the United Kingdom.  Some of these folks, I have become friends with, so I have had personal correspondence with people in these countries, both paper and electronic....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2013-07-03 21:13:00.001 -0400 -0400">3 Jul 2013</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to NSA and Security, Again" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2013/07/nsa-and-security-again/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2013-07-02 13:18:00 -0400 -0400">2 Jul 2013</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2013/07/fourth-amendment-to-the-united-states-constitution/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>No Project Without A Tweet</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>You should be able to describe your business project in 140 characters or less. I don't have more time than that.  -- @GAVollink I've been following along with a pilot training program that was recently launched where I work.  One section of it is on a project definition framework.  I have never liked this framework, and only today - while responding to the trainer on another inquiry, did I finally understand why....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2013-02-22 13:25:00.003 -0500 -0500">22 Feb 2013</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to No Project Without A Tweet" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2013/02/no-project-without-a-tweet/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Syntaur Doing It Right</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I have an Ensoniq KS-32 keyboard that was released 20 years ago.  I think that mine is only 17 years old, though (I'm the third owner, but I have owned it since 1998).  Anyway, it's a great board, and it has treated me very well for a very long time.
There had been a low battery warning for, probably the last 10 years or so.  My response was to just never turn it off, which worked until I had to turn it off for a while....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2012-10-13 01:52:00.001 -0400 -0400">13 Oct 2012</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Syntaur Doing It Right" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2012/10/syntaur-doing-it-right/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/blog/page/10/>« Prev</a>
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I was thinking that it would be awesome to sign up for your magazine for a year, try it out.  So, I went to your site, and started to fill out the information that you asked.  When it came to pay you, though, you have told me that by signing up now, I agree that you'll AUTOMATICALLY bill me again, every year, from now until I actually remember to go out of my way to cancel....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2012-04-30 13:18:00 -0400 -0400">30 Apr 2012</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to I Did NOT Subscribe, and Why" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2012/04/i-did-not-subscribe-and-why/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>SOPA/PIPA (Protect IP)</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I am your constituent and I never miss a vote.  I want to make clear, that there are already laws and international treaties in place to protect from online piracy.  If those are not working, using Chinese style censorship methods to block foreign sites makes me wonder what happened to freedom, and I will remember those in congress who agreed with a minority of struggling entertainment concerns that Chinese style internet totalitarianism is the best answer....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2012-01-18 10:56:00 -0500 -0500">18 Jan 2012</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to SOPA/PIPA (Protect IP)" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2012/01/sopa-pipa-protect-ip/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Geek] The Ubiquitous Computer Mouse</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Xerox Alto Mouse (1973) The computer mouse has been a basic part of computing for about 20 years now (25 if you were a Mac early-adopter, and even longer if you are a Xerox Alto power-user).  Up until recently, innovations with mouses have been about adding more buttons, and scroll wheels.  Now, with Smart-Phones becoming more and more popular, things like multi-touch and gestures are being added too....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2011-09-17 22:38:00 -0400 -0400">17 Sep 2011</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Geek] The Ubiquitous Computer Mouse" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2011/09/geek-the-ubiquitous-computer-mouse/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Geek] Attack Vectors and Twitter</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I wrote a script some time ago, that basically parsed the auth logs on my web server looking for IP addresses that try, and fail, to log in, multiple times.  Over the years, I've continued to expand what it does, and what it could do. At first, it would note something, and send me an e-mail, and I'd get to it, and it would continue to e-mail me once every hour until I did....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2011-09-17 01:15:00 -0400 -0400">17 Sep 2011</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Geek] Attack Vectors and Twitter" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2011/09/geek-attack-vectors-and-twitter/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/blog/page/11/>« Prev</a>
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I use Google Apps for Domains. Â This allows me to do all sorts of things with vollink.com. Â However, Google hasn't opened Google+ up for domains accounts yet.
I /could/ use a Google account that isn't already associated with my domains account.  However, with a domains account, Google tracks my login across the browser, which means to use a different Google account, I either have to use a different browser for the other account, or I would have to log out of all Google services first....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2011-07-23 18:08:00 -0400 -0400">23 Jul 2011</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Google+ or Not" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2011/07/google-or-not/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Government Bail Out vs. Shut Down</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>It looks like we're going to have a Newt Gingrich style government shut-down this weekend.  A friend of mine, who will be affected by this if it happens, mentioned that it seems like this is fall-out for the bail-outs.
I've heard various things about the Government bail-outs of banks, auto makers and mortgages.  So, I did a quick search, and found a really great article over at ProPublica.  This is a list of who still has money, and who paid money back already....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2011-04-08 11:05:00 -0400 -0400">8 Apr 2011</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Government Bail Out vs. Shut Down" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2011/04/government-bail-out-vs-shut-down/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/blog/page/12/>« Prev</a>
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It talks about how a small, and steadily growing group of young activists in the Palestinian (Isreali Occupied) regions of Isreal are working towards political goals by using peaceful protests, sit-in vigils, and demonstrations....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2011-04-08 10:30:00 -0400 -0400">8 Apr 2011</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Go Read Joe" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2011/04/go-read-joe/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>The World vs America: Why the USA is Easy to Hate</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Because of the places I've worked, and the jobs I have had while at those places, I've been able to travel to other countries.  While in these places, I've had countless hours of conversations with people from those places, most of whom have never traveled outside of their own countries.  These conversations, frequently, are about America.
Today's blog started with me reading something that someone in the UK posted online after a rock concert....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2011-03-19 21:02:00 -0400 -0400">19 Mar 2011</span> · 8 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to The World vs America: Why the USA is Easy to Hate" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2011/03/the-world-vs-america-why-the-usa-is-easy-to-hate/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>From Top Down to Agility</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I am a Technical Team Leader.  I have some developers reporting to me.  So let me say this; Regulated, Regimented development.  That's what I try to use most of the time.  Yes, really.  It is extremely important to start a project with good specifications.  First, this means that I have had several conversations with my customers about what they are expecting to get out of the project, and how they expect to interact with it before anybody starts coding....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2011-01-24 18:00:00.005 -0500 -0500">24 Jan 2011</span> · 4 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to From Top Down to Agility" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2011/01/from-top-down-to-agility/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Spreading the Word For Simon</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Please help make 2011 Simon's year.
You know all those e-mails that get sent around with some heart-felt story about some child who is in dire need, and if you just forward the e-mail, you could help save that child's life?  Well, the overwhelming majority of those e-mails don't actually have a link that they want you to send along with that e-mail.  A link where people who actually have the means can drop a dollar, or twenty....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2011-01-06 10:53:00 -0500 -0500">6 Jan 2011</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Spreading the Word For Simon" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2011/01/spreading-the-word-for-simon/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/blog/page/13/>« Prev</a>
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Let me explore this a little bit (with the help of The Telegraph Timeline Reference)....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2010-12-09 18:48:00.024 -0500 -0500">9 Dec 2010</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to What Crime Was Committed?" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2010/12/what-crime-was-committed/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Christmas Time Is Nigh</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Just a quick note to say a few minor things.
I'm back from Bangalore. Â I had a great trip. Â Saw some cool things, met many cool people. Â I will, eventually, get around to posting photos.
Christmas time is nigh...</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2010-12-07 21:33:00 -0500 -0500">7 Dec 2010</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Christmas Time Is Nigh" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2010/12/christmas-time-is-nigh/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/blog/page/14/>« Prev</a>
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Despite what the numerous signs and dotted lines suggest, lanes are defined by the width of the vehicles next to you right now. Traffic signal lights are suggestions, that you follow only so far as someone in the other direction is tired of waiting for a green and is willing to put the front of their vehicle in front of your movement....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2010-11-11 05:34:00 -0500 -0500">11 Nov 2010</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Quasimodo says, &quot;The Horns, The Horns&quot;" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2010/11/quasimodo-says-the-horns-the-horns/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>What's My Beef with Bangalore?</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>So, I have been in Bangalore now for five days, but something happened two days ago, that I was a bit surprised by...
I've eaten at several places since I've been here, though, only one place would I consider having what I'm guessing is actual Indian food.  Which is to say, I've mostly eaten at hotels, or foreign Restaurants.  My room rate, at the hotel I'm staying in, comes with free Breakfast, so that's the one meal I will always eat at the hotel....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2010-11-11 04:39:00.001 -0500 -0500">11 Nov 2010</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to What's My Beef with Bangalore?" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2010/11/what-s-my-beef-with-bangalore/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Bangalore and Rain</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Went for a walk (more on that after the jump).  So, back in the hotel... watching TV.  There's an advertisement for a women's beauty product that seems to promise itself as a skin lightener.  I thought of this as crazy (even though Indian friends of mine have mentioned this before), so while writing this paragraph, I found a blog describing skin lightening products for men.  Of course, products that market to a 'better self-esteem' are popular everywhere, but ....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2010-11-07 06:04:00 -0500 -0500">7 Nov 2010</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Bangalore and Rain" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2010/11/bangalore-and-rain/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Among The Indians</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>For the first time, I'll be going to India soon. I leave at the end of this week, and I'll be back just before Thanksgiving. I'm very excited and very nervous about this trip. It seems that this will be a major part of my career development. It will also be chaotic working hours, as I'll be meeting with different departments that work all different hours of the day. Many are suggesting that I try to work UK hours, due to the natural overlap that GMT possesses, but alas, I'm already in meetings that will start at 9:30 local time, so ....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2010-11-03 15:10:00.001 -0400 -0400">3 Nov 2010</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Among The Indians" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2010/11/among-the-indians/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/blog/page/15/>« Prev</a>
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This particular experiment has been installed near a primary school, and only be in place for a week, and there are special signs and extra patrols in the area during this period....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2010-09-11 10:00:00.001 -0400 -0400">11 Sep 2010</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Watch Out! Child Playing in the Street! No, A Speed Device" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2010/09/watch-out-child-playing-in-the-street-no-a-speed-device/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Getting Rid Of Old Technology</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Today, I gave away a second phonograph player that I own.  I've owned two phonograph players for at least 15 years.  Neither of them are "DJ units", just standard home units manufactured in '87 and '91.  The one I gave away isn't as good as the other one, but I had bought it myself.  The better one, that I still use, was given to me.  But one day, maybe I would need the other unit....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2010-09-10 09:00:00.002 -0400 -0400">10 Sep 2010</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Getting Rid Of Old Technology" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2010/09/getting-rid-of-old-technology/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Video: Cruise Ship In Heavy Seas</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>From the folks at BoingBoing, this is awe inspiring in a really, really scary way.
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/07/cruise-ship-chaos-vi.html
Shorter YouTube version too...</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2010-09-09 18:40:00 -0400 -0400">9 Sep 2010</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Video: Cruise Ship In Heavy Seas" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2010/09/video-cruise-ship-in-heavy-seas/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/blog/page/16/>« Prev</a>
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[Update]:
Ha!  Technically, I just figured out how to import my old blog into this one.  So, now everything is all in one place.</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2010-09-03 15:49:00.001 -0400 -0400">3 Sep 2010</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to New Start" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2010/09/new-start/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Tea Party : The Republican Green?</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,2003079,00.html
I read the article above*, and couldn't help but notice that this was the very same analysis that so many had about the Green Party during the G.W.Bush years. The whole idea, then, was that the Green party, by both attracting Democrats, and then also endorsing occasional bat-shit-crazy candidates basically imploded the realistic chances of either party. *The Headline is different in the print edition: Mark Halperin's Take: How the Tea Party Is a Mixed Blessing</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2010-07-19 12:35:00.001 -0400 -0400">19 Jul 2010</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Tea Party : The Republican Green?" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2010/07/tea-party-the-republican-green/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/blog/page/17/>« Prev</a>
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CHAIR is an offset platform for programming, which is specifically made to support a programmer's approach to offset horizontal surface interfacing to tables. It does not qualify as a fully integrated development environment, but instead is a purpose built platform for supporting a programmer without getting in the way of what the programmer does best! As a programming platform CHAIR is already proven to lead to greatly reduced project timelines when compared to similar projects done without the CHAIR Platform....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2009-03-31 19:31:00 -0400 -0400">31 Mar 2009</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [dev] CHAIR Programming Platform 3.0" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2009/03/dev-chair-programming-platform-3-0/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Spring and It's Been a While</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Hello everyone.
I've been very busy with work and friends lately. I also don't have an internet connection at home, so I've been neglecting this blog. It's not that I haven't seen anything of interest lately, and it's not that I've had nothing to say. I've just been busy.
First -- I lost my TV. Not really that I lost a TV. I don't have one, but I did have a TV capture card, and I was able to get over-the-air signals with it....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2009-03-16 19:55:00 -0400 -0400">16 Mar 2009</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Spring and It's Been a While" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2009/03/spring-and-it-s-been-a-while/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/blog/page/18/>« Prev</a>
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This service was always free, for me, as I signed up before the free-tier was cancelled in December of 2012. I even bought my wife, Jen, a domain and set is up on G Suite before then (neiher of us could remember which year), as we were just dating at the time....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2022-05-28 15:39:33 -0400 -0400">28 May 2022</span> · 5 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Switching This Blog to Self Hosting" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2022/05/switch-to-self-host/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Terminal Colors with Highlight.js</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>This is another post where I’m working on Hugo capabilities. This time, though, I’m mostly dealing with expanding highlight.js, which is the highlighting tool used by the PaperMod theme.
Terminal in color This shows my terminal prompt in approximately the colors that I see.
[92mgvollink@javavm[0m [GIT: (✅) [92mmaster[0m]:0 [36mðŸ /src/web/hugo-blog[m$ The above, in source, has embedded ANSI escape codes. To do this I created a language called terminal for highlight.js and an accompanying PlugIn....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2022-05-25 20:45:29 -0400 -0400">25 May 2022</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Terminal Colors with Highlight.js" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2022/05/hugo-term-color/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/blog/>« Prev</a>
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I never saw anybody attempt to turn left at this point, and I'm glad for that.</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-11-21 18:31:00 -0500 -0500">21 Nov 2008</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to China Memories" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/11/china-memories/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>New Address</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I have a new place. I now live in Downtown St. Paul, MN at an apartment that is skyway connected. I have a 12 minute walk to work through the skyway, and I don't really need to drive much anymore.
This will be convenient in the winter, and even more when there's a snow storm.
I don't have an Internet connection at my apartment. I will, but not this month. Someday....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-11-15 17:46:00 -0500 -0500">15 Nov 2008</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to New Address" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/11/new-address/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/blog/page/19/>« Prev</a>
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Darwin and Ray are some co-workers who are in town for a month, and this is their last full weekend in Minnesota. I had offered earlier to take them to see Lake Superior. Darwin, in particular, had mentioned how much he wanted to see the great lakes... so I figured I'd do the best I could, and show him the big one that's only a few hours drive from here....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-10-05 19:05:00 -0400 -0400">5 Oct 2008</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Saturday's Day Trip" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/10/saturday-s-day-trip/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Eight Percent Lost</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Washington DC
As the House of Representatives are pandering to the most resentful and least educated of their respective constituents, the economists on Wall Street started another sell off.
The results, about 8% loss. Of course, this depends on what index you are looking at, but 8% seems to be right about in the middle. The Dow is down 777 points or 6.98%. The Russel 1000 is down 8.69%. Nasdaq Composite is down 199 points or 9....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-09-29 18:30:00 -0400 -0400">29 Sep 2008</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Eight Percent Lost" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/09/eight-percent-lost/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/blog/page/20/>« Prev</a>
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The Great Gig in the Sky</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-09-15 18:23:00 -0400 -0400">15 Sep 2008</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Pink Floyd Keyboardist, Richard Wright..." href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/09/pink-floyd-keyboardist-richard-wright/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>This Day in Gary's History...</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>September 11, 2001 I was on a consulting assignment to help install and configure a web based software product at Caterpillar in Pontiac, Illinois. I arrived at the Bloomington, IL airport on the morning of September 10th, and was asked to visit the headquarters in East Peoria on September 11th. To save the customer money, another consultant agreed to lend me his pickup truck for the drive to East Peoria (on the other end of the state)....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-09-11 19:36:00 -0400 -0400">11 Sep 2008</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to This Day in Gary's History..." href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/09/this-day-in-gary-s-history/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/blog/page/21/>« Prev</a>
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Spelling "truely atrosious," says academic (sic)
I've been mulling this over for weeks, and I've heard a few people make the argument that standardized spelling is a relatively new construct from a historic perspective....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-08-25 20:15:00 -0400 -0400">25 Aug 2008</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Bad Speling Iz Ok Now?" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/08/bad-speling-iz-ok-now/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Beijing : Attack and Murder at the Drum Tower</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I feel that I should begin by expressing how safe I felt while I was in Beijing. I felt safer in every part of Beijing than I do in downtown Minneapolis. The news outlets don't really say that enough while sharing this bit of news. Actual physical attacks on foreigners are very unusual in Beijing. Like any large city, crimes of opportunity are common, but confrontational attacks against foreigners are incredibly rare....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-08-09 21:01:00 -0400 -0400">9 Aug 2008</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Beijing : Attack and Murder at the Drum Tower" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/08/beijing-attack-and-murder-at-the-drum-tower/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Javascript Toolkits; Web Programming</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>So I've started working with the Dojo Toolkit -- mostly because I ran the demo for it, and I was impressed by what it could do out of the box. It does have a very nicely featured demonstration set.
I've mentioned this to some friends and colleagues, and instead of thoughts or experiences with this toolkit, I got back a whole bunch of comments about why I chose to work with Dojo and not "...</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-08-06 22:00:00 -0400 -0400">6 Aug 2008</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Javascript Toolkits; Web Programming" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/08/javascript-toolkits-web-programming/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/blog/page/22/>« Prev</a>
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Since then, I've been following the blog of James Fallows who also has been posting photos for comparison.
In the last several days -- China has done several things to try to improve the air quality for the Olympics.
Temporarily shutting down most factories East of Beijing Even-Odd car restrictions...</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-07-28 10:45:00 -0400 -0400">28 Jul 2008</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Beijing 2008 - Olympics In The Air" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/07/beijing-2008-olympics-in-the-air/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/blog/page/23/>« Prev</a>
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Upcoming Hurricanes The XKCD web comic is one of my favorites.</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-07-23 20:03:00 -0400 -0400">23 Jul 2008</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to For My Floridian Friends" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/07/for-my-floridian-friends/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Me and My Enneagram [Updated]</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>This is a bit of a meme that's been going around one of my circles of friends. It's this Enneagram test. So, after putting it off for a week, I finally decided to take the first (and longer) of the two tests presented at the link above.
I will not pretend that I've actually read through what this means or what it might mean, but - generally - I have a tendency of being very central on most personality tests, so -- I've linked the whole result set, with all of the scores, so that you can see the whole picture....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-07-23 10:27:00 -0400 -0400">23 Jul 2008</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Me and My Enneagram [Updated]" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/07/me-and-my-enneagram-updated/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Song In My Head</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>First, it's a really good song. Musically complex, and very heart-felt. I would link to it here, but I didn't find a source that has a copy.
However, for two days I've had this same song going through my head. I've LISTENED to the song at least 12 times trying to satisfy whatever is making this song run through my head. It hasn't helped. So, I figure I'll try to give it to someone else, maybe the song will leave me alone for a while....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-07-19 01:56:00 -0400 -0400">19 Jul 2008</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Song In My Head" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/07/song-in-my-head/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/blog/page/24/>« Prev</a>
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Twitview uses the web server (vollink.com) to pull my twitter data feed. Once pulled, I turn links into links.
The twittering view at the right side of this blog now uses twitview, as does the open-social app that I wrote for my iGoogle. I also added twitview to my main homepage.
Another advantage of this, is that my twitter feed is now also proxied, so will be visible in places where twitter may become blocked or banned....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-07-13 03:04:00 -0400 -0400">13 Jul 2008</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Twitter by Proxy" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/07/twitter-by-proxy/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/blog/page/25/>« Prev</a>
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The Colonists and the British Army started shooting on 19 April 1775 at Lexington - just outside of Boston. On 11 June 1776, more than a year after the war had begun, the delegates to the Continental Congress appointed a committee of five, and they got started on the serious work of making a formal declaration of Independence....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-07-04 16:51:00 -0400 -0400">4 Jul 2008</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Happy Independence Day" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/07/happy-independence-day/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>SmokeStack Gone : The Video</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>So, here is the video that I took of the St Paul Smoke Stack falling...
Wait for it to load - Action starts during minute 5, so forward to there (half-way point). I haven't had a chance to edit it down.</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-06-28 14:16:00 -0400 -0400">28 Jun 2008</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to SmokeStack Gone : The Video" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/06/smokestack-gone-the-video/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>SmokeStack Gone.</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Well -- it was a crazy minute, but the Smoke Stack at the Mississippi River at the St. Paul High Bridge came falling down. It was described in the article as an implosion, but the way the video is shown, it seems very likely that they meant for it to tumble like a felled tree, as it did.
The smoke stack held a falcon box for several years, but that box was removed in January before the falcons returned from their winter journey....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-06-28 10:07:00 -0400 -0400">28 Jun 2008</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to SmokeStack Gone." href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/06/smokestack-gone/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/blog/page/26/>« Prev</a>
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I went to a great summer solstice party last night, one of those parties where I only knew one person, but absolutely everybody was cool and easy to talk to. Had a wonderful time, and I got home really late.</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-06-22 17:50:00 -0400 -0400">22 Jun 2008</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Summertime" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/06/summertime/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Why Most Politics Is Radical</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Status Quo
I firmly believe that most people are either, pretty much O.K. with the way most things are, or so apathetic to the possibility of change that they don't care.
Of this great majority, there is no reason to stand up and demand that things stay pretty much the same. Who would bother getting out of the house to vote for someone who doesn't think there's much to do....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-06-20 03:03:00 -0400 -0400">20 Jun 2008</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Why Most Politics Is Radical" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/06/why-most-politics-is-radical/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/blog/page/27/>« Prev</a>
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A very brave woman at work once asked me if she could show me around to some sights. So, this Friday we agreed to meet on Saturday morning, and she would show me around the area of the Lama Temple.
Morning Meeting November 10, 2007
We agreed to meet at a KFC (not “the KFCâ€, but one a block away) between 10:30 and 10:45. She arrived about 10 minutes after I did apologizing that she was very late....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2007-11-11 14:00:00 +0800 +0800">11 Nov 2007</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to YongHeGong, Lama Temple" href=https://blog.vollink.com/in-china/2007/11/yonghegong-lama-temple/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/blog/page/28/>« Prev</a>
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Yet, most of the advice out there on how to deal with this suggests hard-coding these escape sequences directly into your prompt. This is great, and probably will work just fine, but I find it to be painful....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2021-11-19 04:21:00.001 -0500 -0500">19 Nov 2021</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Linux Command Prompt in Color" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2021/11/linux-command-prompt-in-color/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Stopping Regular Book Blog</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>For over a year, I have published a book review every other week, on Wednesday, at noon. Every week in the middle of both summers.
Reading for review
My wife is a librarian, and when I started this blog, it was partly a way for me to share something about the numerous pre-release books that she and I would get when we went to book events. Also, when I started, doing this was fun, and I figured that if I were any good at it, maybe I would reach other readers....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-10-06 00:00:00 -0400 -0400">6 Oct 2019</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Stopping Regular Book Blog" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/10/stopping-regular-book-blog/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/blog/page/2/>« Prev</a>
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October 31, 2007
From both my work friends and my hotel friends, there were a lot of questions about Halloween that I was not able to answer at a deep enough level. Just the cursory stuff that everyone can easily look up. Of course, what everyone was looking for was a way for me to communicate the “experience†of Halloween. To my mind, this isn’t really possible. I hope my reluctance to share hasn’t been taken as rude… it’s just not easy to express…...</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2007-11-04 12:00:00 +0800 +0800">4 Nov 2007</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to My Halloween" href=https://blog.vollink.com/in-china/2007/11/my-halloween/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Food Impressions</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Bread I think of bread as being anywhere between San Fransisco sourdough to rye to Wonder white. Potato Bread, cottage, Italian sesame loaf, split top country, English muffins, bagels; hard or soft, biscuits; dropped or cut. Even the low carb options that are not really bread at all would be much appreciated in this place of rice and noodles.
Wait though, it’s not that bread doesn’t exist. There’s a lot of bread here....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2007-10-29 14:00:00 +0800 +0800">29 Oct 2007</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Food Impressions" href=https://blog.vollink.com/in-china/2007/10/food-impressions/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/blog/page/29/>« Prev</a>
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The kid behind the counter looks at me like I’m an idiot and says, “Yeah, you want two… I get itâ€, in a perfect ’lost youth’, American accent....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2007-10-28 12:00:00 +0800 +0800">28 Oct 2007</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to How Time Does Fly" href=https://blog.vollink.com/in-china/2007/10/how-time-does-fly/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Photos</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Check out my photos. Right now there aren’t that many, but the set will grow soon. Most of the posted photos have been mentioned in previous blog posts. I’m excited about getting a place to share them, so I’m posting about it before it’s well populated. I promise I’ll get more photos out there soon.
Credit Due… Special thanks to Vital Systems Support for setting up the photo hosting.</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2007-10-23 12:00:00 +0800 +0800">23 Oct 2007</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Photos" href=https://blog.vollink.com/in-china/2007/10/photos/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Friday Night Out</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>October 19
Adventures with Hairy Crab A group of people who are working in the office, none of whom are from China, decided we’d do dinner as a group. Singapore girl (whom was part of Thursday’s dinner) heard that Hairy Crab was in season and that this particular restaurant had it. A quick search on the internet wasn’t very promising, but I promised myself I’d keep an open mind. So, off we went in two cabs (there’s a four person limit per cab, and we were a party of 5)....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2007-10-20 14:00:00 +0800 +0800">20 Oct 2007</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Friday Night Out" href=https://blog.vollink.com/in-china/2007/10/friday-night-out/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/blog/page/30/>« Prev</a>
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Zhong Guan Cun District, Beijing
3:50. Really? No, can’t be. It feels like I slept all day. Yep, 4:10 AM. Still pitch dark outside. This must be that jet lag people kept warning me about.
I’m already unpacked, no chance of going back to sleep. I spend the next 45 minutes watching the end of Karate Kid 2, dubbed in Mandarin, with Chinese sub-titles. I was totally lost until the big dramatic fight scene at the end....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2007-10-15 12:00:00 +0800 +0800">15 Oct 2007</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Getting there is NOT half the fun" href=https://blog.vollink.com/in-china/2007/10/getting-there-is-not-half-the-fun/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/blog/page/31/>« Prev</a>
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I remembered to take some pictures of the Airport terminal on the way to customs.
My employer was nice enough to arrange for me, a ride from the Beijing Airport to the Hotel....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2007-10-14 12:00:00 +0800 +0800">14 Oct 2007</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Welcome To Beijing..." href=https://blog.vollink.com/in-china/2007/10/welcome-to-beijing.../></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Getting there is NOT half the fun</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>October 12 Minneapolis, MN, USA
So, I’m in China for the next few months, and getting there is not half the fun.
-Don’t get me wrong, it wasn’t an unpleasant flight - as flights go. It just wasn’t fun. 13 hours chasing the sun the whole way, and really not being able to catch any sleep. I was in a middle seat of a 747 - row 60 (only two rows from the absolute back), and even with my noise canceling headphones in, there was just too much light, and too much going on....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2007-10-14 04:00:00 +0800 +0800">14 Oct 2007</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Getting there is NOT half the fun" href=https://blog.vollink.com/in-china/2007/10/getting-there-is-not-half-the-fun/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/blog/page/32/>« Prev</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+Don’t get me wrong, it wasn’t an unpleasant flight - as flights go. It just wasn’t fun. 13 hours chasing the sun the whole way, and really not being able to catch any sleep. I was in a middle seat of a 747 - row 60 (only two rows from the absolute back), and even with my noise canceling headphones in, there was just too much light, and too much going on....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2007-10-14 04:00:00 +0800 +0800">14 Oct 2007</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Getting there is NOT half the fun" href=https://blog.vollink.com/in-china/2007/10/getting-there-is-not-half-the-fun/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/blog/page/32/>« Prev</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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Won't you be my neighbor is a very well paced, carefully timed, and beautifully edited documentary....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-03-09 12:00:00 -0500 -0500">9 Mar 2019</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Movie] Won't You Be My Neighbor (2018)" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/03/movie-won-t-you-be-my-neighbor-2018/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Managing Difficult Problems</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I can no longer count the number of times that I've been able to re-invigorate a problem investigation, even if I have zero visibility on the actual problem. This takes some self-discipline that doesn't come easy, especially during an urgent investigation.
Here's that one weird trick:I do the depth of reading myself. If I see multiple threads, I'll read all of them. Then I will write as short a summary of all of the facts that I can....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-03-09 12:00:00.001 -0500 -0500">9 Mar 2019</span> · 4 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Managing Difficult Problems" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/03/managing-difficult-problems/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Book Reviews Introduction Page</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I put up a book review introduction page:
https://blog.vollink.com/p/book-review-introduction.html</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-03-02 12:00:00.001 -0500 -0500">2 Mar 2019</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Book Reviews Introduction Page" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/03/book-reviews-introduction-page/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/blog/page/3/>« Prev</a>
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First, all book reviews (even short ones) now include the tag book-reviews. That is, if I'm telling you what I think about a book, it is a book review. There are also short-book-reviews on some.
If my general impression of a book is that I enjoyed it, I've included the tag, recommend....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-01-10 12:00:00 -0500 -0500">10 Jan 2019</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Book Review Feedback Request" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/01/book-review-feedback-request/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Google Cardboard is a Terrible Experience</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Every time I ever try to do anything with Google cardboard - apart from the demo itself - the entire thing is a horrible experience.
Take something that seems like it should be relatively common: VR video. Go into cardboard (the app), request the VR video channel. Find a video. Start that video. THEN hit the cardboard icon that will put it into cardboard mode. Then pause it. Put my phone into the cardboard-compatible viewer and hope it doesn't touch anything on the way in....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-11-10 12:00:00 -0500 -0500">10 Nov 2018</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Google Cardboard is a Terrible Experience" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/11/google-cardboard-is-a-terrible-experience/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Tech] Web Server Notes</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>This is a link to my notes on how I run my web servers at home, hosted on my home servers. https://www.home.vollink.com/gary/setup.html</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-10-30 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">30 Oct 2018</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Tech] Web Server Notes" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/10/tech-web-server-notes/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Next Career Move</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>The company I work(ed) for has been planning a division sell-off for most of the year. Weeks after that division spin-off into Private Equity, I was notified that my last day will be 29 October. The last time I was laid-off, it was similarly driven by a corporate action. Upper management had been talking about a flatter organization, and cutting out management levels, so I was well prepared mentally. I actually expected that I would take it much worse than I did....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-10-20 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">20 Oct 2018</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Next Career Move" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/10/next-career-move/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/blog/page/4/>« Prev</a>
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I have a 12U rack. Sort-of an end-table next to the couch. I have two servers. One of them is happily racked. The other one is awkwardly sitting sideways across the top of the rack.
I jumped on eBay a week ago, looking to find the rails I need....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-08-25 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">25 Aug 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Shopping] eBuyer Beware" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/08/shopping-ebuyer-beware/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Food] Homage to Pizza Gone By</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Gone Not too far from where I live is a "turn key fully equipped restaurant" for lease. The restaurant that was there until a few weeks ago was called Pizzaniste.
Pizzaniste had really good pizza. Gourmet, all fresh ingredients, coal fired, whole-wheat crust as an option; even gluten free as an option. Partly because they also made custom fresh salads, there were some unexpected ingredients: Real anchovies, fresh basil, artichokes, black beans, corn, cilantro, carrots, chickpeas, eggplant, hard-boiled egg, zucchini and two types of olives to choose from (along with all the other things you might expect every pizza place to have)....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-07-07 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">7 Jul 2018</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Food] Homage to Pizza Gone By" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/07/food-homage-to-pizza-gone-by/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/blog/page/5/>« Prev</a>
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I've spent most of my post-Agile time doing infrastructure projects. I'm not building a product for end-users....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2017-10-21 13:43:00.002 -0400 -0400">21 Oct 2017</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Agile Development on Infrastructure" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2017/10/agile-development-on-infrastructure/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Tired of Panic - Paris Climate Accord Edition</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>The President of the US, Donald Trump, has decided to push for the US to leave the Paris Climate Accord.  The world is imploding!  Well, looking at Twitter it seems the world is imploding.
There are certain hot-takes that basically suggest that the world will drown in 3, 2...
There are certain hot-takes that basically suggest that we are aligned with Syria by doing this.  (There are those that mention Nicaragua, but that country's non-participation is much more complicated)....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2017-06-03 00:40:00 -0400 -0400">3 Jun 2017</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Tired of Panic - Paris Climate Accord Edition" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2017/06/tired-of-panic-paris-climate-accord-edition/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Trump Boasts of Power Not Attraction</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Locker room talk, no it isn't necessarily a locker room.  In any place where one is surrounded by only peers, language and boasts can be sometimes be observed.  The braggadocio is always trying to make themselves seem better. In the context of sexual liaisons here are some samples of things I have heard: She was all over me She couldn’t keep her hands off me I leaned in to ask her something and she just started kissing me She couldn’t resist me...</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2016-10-15 10:42:00 -0400 -0400">15 Oct 2016</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Trump Boasts of Power Not Attraction" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2016/10/trump-boasts-of-power-not-attraction/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/blog/page/6/>« Prev</a>
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I first started running a custom script to block IP addresses that tried too many times to login to ssh back in 2010.  At the time, the script (and my home web host) was running on an Ubuntu virtual server.  The name, Authban, surfaced in early 2011, as I organized the script to do more than just block ssh....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2015-09-16 18:30:00 -0400 -0400">16 Sep 2015</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Geek] Authban : 4 Years Later" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2015/09/geek-authban-4-years-later/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>NYCC : Horrible Shopping Experience</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I already have tickets for two other conventions this year, but NYCC is the big one that happens in the city where I live and work. I know in the last few years tickets have been harder and harder to get, and I figured my chances were not going to be very good.
If this is too long one can safely scroll down to the Conclusion at the bottom.
I tried to buy tickets to NYCC the minute they went on sale....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2015-05-14 10:06:00 -0400 -0400">14 May 2015</span> · 5 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to NYCC : Horrible Shopping Experience" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2015/05/nycc-horrible-shopping-experience/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/blog/page/7/>« Prev</a>
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Just got off a meeting, kicking off the third phase of a project that I've been working on for 22 months....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2015-01-28 00:26:00 -0500 -0500">28 Jan 2015</span> · 5 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Late Night Meeting ... Restless" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2015/01/late-night-meeting-restless/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Brooklyn Museum</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Yesterday, Jen and I went to the Brooklyn Museum to see the Killer Heels exhibition.  But also to see some of the rest of the Museum.
Source: Wikipedia Neither of us had been there before, so had no idea what to expect.  First, I have to say that I was a little confused at first, then impressed.  Walking up to the building, I'm staring at this strange ultra-modern entrance where in any other museum, I'd expect to see a grand stairway....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2015-01-26 15:05:00.003 -0500 -0500">26 Jan 2015</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Brooklyn Museum" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2015/01/brooklyn-museum/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Electronics Mod: Ensoniq KS-32</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>A long, long time ago, I obtained a Midi Workstation, called an Ensoniq KS-32.  I'm still thankful for the great deal I got on it.  I'm also greatful that the guy I bought it from didn't break my leg, since I didn't finish paying that really good price for 3 years.  Despite some harrowing times (orange juice dumped into it), it still functions to this day.
One note about the KS-32, is that the settings are stored on-board in RAM, or Random Access Memory....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2014-10-23 00:47:00.001 -0400 -0400">23 Oct 2014</span> · 5 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Electronics Mod: Ensoniq KS-32" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2014/10/electronics-mod-ensoniq-ks-32/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/blog/page/8/>« Prev</a>
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-Seriously, the following is absolutely full of spoilers, and I don't want to hear about it. Well, for the stories that I actually like, I still try to keep them a little spoiler free, but the first story ... that one I lay out ALL the main points....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-10-13 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">13 Oct 2018</span> · 5 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book Spoiled] North American Lake Monsters" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/10/book-spoiled-north-american-lake-monsters/></a></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+Seriously, the following is absolutely full of spoilers, and I don't want to hear about it. Well, for the stories that I actually like, I still try to keep them a little spoiler free, but the first story ... that one I lay out ALL the main points....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-10-13 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">13 Oct 2018</span> · 5 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book Spoiled] North American Lake Monsters" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/10/book-spoiled-north-american-lake-monsters/></a></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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-The main character, Jaya Rao, is a princess from an old kingdom of India who is literally there to break someone's heart....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2020-01-22 12:00:00 -0500 -0500">22 Jan 2020</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Of Curses and Kisses by Sandhya Menon" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2020/01/of-curses-and-kisses/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Title Illustration I read somewhere that the story of Disney's Frozen was based on this book, so I decided to read and review it for this blog.  I want to be clear that there is almost nothing that the story of Frozen has left in common with this original fairytale, except for a talking reindeer. This is a short read, and I've linked to the full text via Project Gutenberg in the book information block below....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-10-03 01:36:00 -0400 -0400">3 Oct 2019</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/10/the-snow-queen/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover The Graveyard Book isn't a horror novel, but it is absolutely goth and macabre. The story follows a boy from 18 months old when his whole family is murdered and he wanders off into the night through his childhood as he is raised in a graveyard by two ghosts and a vampire as guardian (who supplies physical things, like food and clothes). At one point, we meet a werewolf and ghouls as well....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-09-18 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">18 Sep 2019</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/09/the-graveyard-book/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] This Fight Is Our Fight by Elizabeth Warren</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book Cover Elizabeth Warren is running for president, and pretty much every candidate writes a book prior to running.  It's a good way to let folks know where they are coming from, and do so in a long format, unfiltered by the journalist's desire to pare things down into sound-bites. This book is subtitled: The Battle to Save America's Middle Class. This is a book about politics, personal history of the author and the economic history of the country along with ample explanation of why the past matters today....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-09-04 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">4 Sep 2019</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] This Fight Is Our Fight by Elizabeth Warren" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/09/this-fight-is-our-fight/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=next href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/book-review/page/2/>Next »</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+The main character, Jaya Rao, is a princess from an old kingdom of India who is literally there to break someone's heart....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2020-01-22 12:00:00 -0500 -0500">22 Jan 2020</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Of Curses and Kisses by Sandhya Menon" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2020/01/of-curses-and-kisses/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Title Illustration I read somewhere that the story of Disney's Frozen was based on this book, so I decided to read and review it for this blog.  I want to be clear that there is almost nothing that the story of Frozen has left in common with this original fairytale, except for a talking reindeer. This is a short read, and I've linked to the full text via Project Gutenberg in the book information block below....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-10-03 01:36:00 -0400 -0400">3 Oct 2019</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/10/the-snow-queen/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover The Graveyard Book isn't a horror novel, but it is absolutely goth and macabre. The story follows a boy from 18 months old when his whole family is murdered and he wanders off into the night through his childhood as he is raised in a graveyard by two ghosts and a vampire as guardian (who supplies physical things, like food and clothes). At one point, we meet a werewolf and ghouls as well....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-09-18 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">18 Sep 2019</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/09/the-graveyard-book/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] This Fight Is Our Fight by Elizabeth Warren</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book Cover Elizabeth Warren is running for president, and pretty much every candidate writes a book prior to running.  It's a good way to let folks know where they are coming from, and do so in a long format, unfiltered by the journalist's desire to pare things down into sound-bites. This book is subtitled: The Battle to Save America's Middle Class. This is a book about politics, personal history of the author and the economic history of the country along with ample explanation of why the past matters today....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-09-04 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">4 Sep 2019</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] This Fight Is Our Fight by Elizabeth Warren" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/09/this-fight-is-our-fight/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=next href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/book-review/page/2/>Next »</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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I categorize this book as a Memoir, mostly because it follows the narrative flow of a memoir. It starts out introducing the reader to Michael Bennett's childhood on a rural farm in the South, into college through the NFL, and discusses his own discovery of the importance of both support and activism on a number of issues of equality....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-08-29 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">29 Aug 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Things That Make White People Uncomfortable by Michael Bennett and Dave Zirin" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/08/things-that-make-white-people-uncomfortable/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Drawing The Dragon by April Adams</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover Imagine the universe of Battlestar Galactica but add elves, trolls and dragons, remove the religious overtones entirely. The dragons are spaceships, a bit like the galactic whale from Jim Henson's Farscape. Instead of Battlestar's Cylons, we have Constructs, which are a bit closer to the Nexus of Bladerunner fame.
Scarlett, Jade and Blue are elite pilots of young dragons on the cruiser known as the Opal Dragon....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-08-22 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">22 Aug 2018</span> · 4 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Drawing The Dragon by April Adams" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/08/drawing-the-dragon/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover According to the preface, this book is a carefully researched retelling of surviving stories of the Nordic gods, Odin, Thor, Loki, Freya and others. Where surviving versions of a story differ, artistic license allows for the best of each to be used. First and foremost, these are Nordic tales. If you are familiar with these characters from Marvel comics or movies, be prepared to relearn a lot of what you thought you knew....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-08-15 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">15 Aug 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/08/norse-mythology/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Uprooted by Naomi Novik</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover The descriptions of the country, fashions and even the names of characters channels Poland of the 1500s or 1600s. The story focuses on a peaceful valley with little villages nestled along the Spindle river, but a dark forest grows nearby. Corrupted creatures come from the forest late at night and attack human, livestock or both. Or worse, a cloud of pollen might come in and corrupt a neighbor where they stand, turning them....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-08-08 12:00:00.003 -0400 -0400">8 Aug 2018</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Uprooted by Naomi Novik" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/08/uprooted/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/book-review/page/9/>« Prev</a>
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{Gbessa is pronounced "Bessah"} The first book is the story of three characters, each from different places and backgrounds. Gbessa is exiled from her African village as a witch. June escapes slavery from a plantation in Virginia....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-08-01 12:00:00.001 -0400 -0400">1 Aug 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] She Would Be King by Wayétu Moore" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/08/she-would-be-king/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Skyward (Omnibus) by Jeremy and Kelly Dale</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Before I start this:
I met Jeremy Dale with Kelly by his side on several occasions at various comic book conventions. I am always on the lookout for a well written all-ages comic book story, and I found Jeremy and Skyward when there were only two issues, self-published and in black and white. Later, I saw him at a different convention and got issue 3, and he said that issue 4 should be out by NYCC....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-07-25 12:00:00.001 -0400 -0400">25 Jul 2018</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Skyward (Omnibus) by Jeremy and Kelly Dale" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/07/skyward-omnibus/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Unbeatable Squirrel Girl: 2 Fuzzy, 2 Furious by Shannon Hale and Dean Hale</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover Fourteen year-old Doreen Green is back in this second adventure of Squirrel Girl. Her parents are a little more used to the idea that she has super abilities, but are still nervous parents. Her Best Human Friend Forever (BHFF), Ana Sofia, is also a friend of Thor, and Agents of SHIELD show up. Her Best Squirrel Friend Forever (BSFF), Tippy Toe, also joins in to help her solve the big mystery....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-07-18 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">18 Jul 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Unbeatable Squirrel Girl: 2 Fuzzy, 2 Furious by Shannon Hale and Dean Hale" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/07/unbeatable-squirrel-girl-2-fuzzy-2-furious/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover (paperback) This is the 1989 book that later became a movie (which I never saw). This won the Booker Prize. We follow a quintessential British Butler named Stevens sometime after World War 2 on a journey to look up an ex-employee. The journey itself is beautifully and descriptively written.
While the main thread is the journey, the bulk of the story is Stevens' recollection of his past....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-07-11 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">11 Jul 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/07/the-remains-of-the-day/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/book-review/page/10/>« Prev</a>
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After the prelude, the first section of the book follows Bill Ashcraft, a drifter who is loaded up on drugs. Appropriate to the character - for the parts where we are following his narrative - the story is jumping back and forth between his past and present with no direct warning in-between, full of non-sequiturs, and frankly - hard to follow....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-06-27 12:00:00.001 -0400 -0400">27 Jun 2018</span> · 4 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Ohio by Stephen Markley" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/06/ohio/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Catching Stars by Cayla Keenan</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover The world building is probably the thing I liked the most about Catching Stars. There are people who have magical abilities and a larger group of people who don't. Within magic users, there are different types of magic users. There are kingdoms and politics, palace intrigue, roving gangs, sailing ships, petty rivalries and fierce prejudices. Though the story is quite different, the emotional feel of the world is similar to the book Steeplejack by A....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-06-20 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">20 Jun 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Catching Stars by Cayla Keenan" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/06/catching-stars/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] The Real Lolita by Sarah Weinman</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I got an advanced readers copy of this book from the first day of BookExpo. It is supposed to be released in September 2018, but that is preliminary, and the date could slip.
Book cover I don't usually read true-crime genre books. If I had never read the Nabokov fiction, Lolita, I would have never been interested enough in this book to read The Real Lolita by Sarah Weinman....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-06-13 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">13 Jun 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] The Real Lolita by Sarah Weinman" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/06/the-real-lolita/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/book-review/page/11/>« Prev</a>
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First and foremost, the "...</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-08-21 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">21 Aug 2019</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/08/the-adventures-of-tom-sawyer/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Defy the Fates by Claudia Gray</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book Cover This is the final book of the Defy the Stars trilogy (start with reviews of book one and two). There are probably mild spoilers for the first and one major spoiler for the second book in this review of book three, so please proceed with that in mind.
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There is a lot to unpack in the world-building and the world is built along with the story. Each chapter is unusually episodic, in that some small part of the last scene of a previous chapter will be often be repeated at the beginning of the next....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-07-10 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">10 Jul 2019</span> · 4 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Binti Trilogy by Nnedi Okorafor" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/07/binti-trilogy/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/book-review/page/2/>« Prev</a>
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I cannot review this book without noting that Fred Rogers means a lot to me, as I watched his show regularly for many years....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-06-12 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">12 Jun 2019</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] The Good Neighbor by Maxwell King" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/06/the-good-neighbor/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Defy The Stars by Claudia Gray</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>This is book one of a three book series (the third book came out earlier this month), and since I've already had good reviews of two other books by this author, I decided to pick up this series as well to see what she had done outside of the Star Wars universe.
Book cover Through a ring of stabilized wormholes, large enough for whole ships to pass through, Earth expanded to five other planets....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-05-29 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">29 May 2019</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Defy The Stars by Claudia Gray" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/05/defy-the-stars/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Maid by Stephanie Land</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover Start from one mistake, one that is tragically common - becoming a parent a little to young. From that point, almost everything that can go wrong in someone's life while still making the best possible choice for the circumstance is laid out in the first four chapters of this book. This beginning is a treatise on despair and government anti-poverty programs.
The arc doesn't exactly get better from there, but it starts to be framed in a way that shows gratitude for the things that haven't gone completely wrong, though things do continue to go wrong....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-05-15 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">15 May 2019</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Maid by Stephanie Land" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/05/maid/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/book-review/page/3/>« Prev</a>
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I'm going to start this review with a note about a changed name. The books were originally released in the UK with a character named Shrike. For the initial US release of the books, that character was renamed to Grike....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-04-17 16:26:00 -0400 -0400">17 Apr 2019</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Predators Gold by Philip Reeve" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/04/predators-gold/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Creativity Inc. by Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover This is a different kind of book about business management. This book is not about success, at least not an initial success. Instead, this book is about continuing to succeed after that initial success. It does this by talking very candidly about narrowly averting complete failure.
The very beginning of this book does capture the early history of Pixar up through the release and success of Toy Story....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-04-03 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">3 Apr 2019</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Creativity Inc. by Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/04/creativity-inc/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover Over a thousand years before the book's present, there was a war that effectively destroyed all of society. Picking up the pieces of the technology that was left behind, London was put onto treads, run by steam, so that it find and consume other towns for resources and, ultimately, more fuel to keep moving.
Over time, other towns and cities did the same, while another group, called the Anti-Traction League, created a defensive wall across the only pass in a mountain range to keep these traction cities at bay on the other side....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-03-20 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">20 Mar 2019</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/03/mortal-engines/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/book-review/page/4/>« Prev</a>
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Subtitled Trump in the White House, Fear is about the presidency of Donald Trump and written by the Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-03-06 12:00:00 -0500 -0500">6 Mar 2019</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Fear by Bob Woodward" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/03/fear/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Catch-22 by Joseph Heller</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book Cover This is a different form than my normal reviews. I usually don't go back to old books to add to my reviews, but this is a touch-stone. It's a book that a LOT of folks have read, and I hope it might help someone who also read this book tune in on where I'm coming from. I read this book several years ago, and though I flipped through it to refresh my mind for this entry, I didn't just read it again in full....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-02-20 12:00:00 -0500 -0500">20 Feb 2019</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Catch-22 by Joseph Heller" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/02/catch-22/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Ball Lightning by Cixin Liu</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover I have a fairly particular view of science-fiction and how it is different from fantasy. The fantastic element in science fiction is usually both a catalyst for the story itself as well as a way to explore the reactionary side of society. Where in fantasy, the fantastic element is simply present. Used as a tool, maybe even explored in depth, but isn't the main goal....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-02-06 12:14:00 -0500 -0500">6 Feb 2019</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Ball Lightning by Cixin Liu" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/02/ball-lightning/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Comic] Darth Vader 1-25 by Charles Soule, art: Giuseppe Camuncoli</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Issue 1 cover If you read my review of the book, Oracle Year, I mentioned that Charles Soule writes for comic books, this is one of them that I've kept up on, and have read from start to finish, as this run ends at #25, though Charles Soule will have more to write for Marvel in the Star Wars world.
This series starts moments after the end of Star Wars episode 3, Revenge of the Sith, and tells the story of both Darth Vader becoming the Dark Jedi Master under Palpatine, but also tells of the growth of the Empire during that time....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-01-23 12:00:00 -0500 -0500">23 Jan 2019</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Comic] Darth Vader 1-25 by Charles Soule, art: Giuseppe Camuncoli" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/01/comic-darth-vader-1-25-by-charles-soule-art-giuseppe-camuncoli/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/book-review/page/5/>« Prev</a>
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From Bears to Bowdlerism...</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-12-26 21:32:00 -0500 -0500">26 Dec 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Euphemania by Ralph Keyes" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/12/euphemania/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] There There by Tommy Orange</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover I will start by noting that this book started slow for me. It took me over two weeks to read the prologue up through the fourth chapter. Once I passed that, I read the next 80% of the book in two days finishing on a third.
Every character in this book is a Native American either from or converging on Oakland California. There is a lot of exploration, especially among the young characters, of what it means to be Native in the city....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-12-12 12:00:00 -0500 -0500">12 Dec 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] There There by Tommy Orange" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/12/there-there/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] I Am Not Famous Anymore by Erin Dorney</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Subtitled, Poems after Shia LaBeouf, this is a short volume of erasure poems lifted from interviews with Shia LaBeouf. Before this book, I had only seen erasure poetry in poster or postcard format. Kitch, at it's best. Also, I have very little patience for poetry. I've read The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, and never completely read any of the song-poems that are scattered throughout those volumes. All of this leaves me quite surprised that I really enjoyed this book....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-11-28 21:15:00 -0500 -0500">28 Nov 2018</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] I Am Not Famous Anymore by Erin Dorney" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/11/i-am-not-famous-anymore/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/book-review/page/6/>« Prev</a>
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Several of the stories introduce a monster, but the monster itself is inactive ... in one case, already dead, leaving these stories to be more about the evil we bring with us where the monster is just a catalyst or even excuse for some all-too-human transition into bad behavior....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-10-03 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">3 Oct 2018</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] North American Lake Monsters by Nathan Ballingrud" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/10/north-american-lake-monsters/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/book-review/page/7/>« Prev</a>
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Neil deGrasse Tyson is one of the top science communicators alive today....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-09-19 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">19 Sep 2018</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/09/astrophysics-for-people-in-a-hurry/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Leia, Princess of Aderaan by Claudia Gray</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover This book is a Star Wars story. It takes place during Leia Organa's 16th year. I would like to say that familiarity with the Star Wars universe isn't absolutely necessary, but I cannot be sure of that. It is, at its base, an exhilarating and sometimes sad, coming of age story, where we see Leia grow from a teen who thinks she's all grown up, to a woman who knows she isn't quite there....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-09-12 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">12 Sep 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Leia, Princess of Aderaan by Claudia Gray" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/09/leia-princess-of-aderaan/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Home After Dark by David Small</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover Bonus review this week (because this book comes out on the 11th), and I finally figured out what to say about it.
This tale is, all at once, heartbreaking, terrifying, uncomfortable, troubling with a tiny bit of hopeful mixed in. Trigger warnings would be helpful here: racism, suicide, sexual predation, sexual bigotry, bullying, alcoholism, violence (both human and animal), parental abandonment, and smoking....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-09-08 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">8 Sep 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Home After Dark by David Small" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/09/home-after-dark/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Insurrecto by Gina Apostol</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover Even though I'm reviewing an Advance copy, this story is surprisingly nonlinear, and I doubt that will change, though - really - it could. The book starts, like a 1970s movie, listing the cast of characters in the approximate order in which the characters appear. It's a story about two people, writing screenplays that are not exactly about the same thing, but are derived from a shared starting point and past....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-09-05 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">5 Sep 2018</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Insurrecto by Gina Apostol" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/09/insurrecto/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/book-review/page/8/>« Prev</a>
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Wait for it to load - Action starts during minute 5, so forward to there (half-way point). I haven't had a chance to edit it down.</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-06-28 14:16:00 -0400 -0400">28 Jun 2008</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to SmokeStack Gone : The Video" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/06/smokestack-gone-the-video/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>SmokeStack Gone.</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Well -- it was a crazy minute, but the Smoke Stack at the Mississippi River at the St. Paul High Bridge came falling down. It was described in the article as an implosion, but the way the video is shown, it seems very likely that they meant for it to tumble like a felled tree, as it did.
The smoke stack held a falcon box for several years, but that box was removed in January before the falcons returned from their winter journey....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-06-28 10:07:00 -0400 -0400">28 Jun 2008</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to SmokeStack Gone." href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/06/smokestack-gone/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>SmokeStack Implosion</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>http://www.startribune.com/local/stpaul/21868579.html
I am planning on going to the office, and filming this from the tallest building in St. Paul. I Think it will be really cool to see. It's early though. I've never seen anything like this in person though.
-I worry about "foggers and water cannons" obstructing my view though.</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-06-27 09:14:00 -0400 -0400">27 Jun 2008</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to SmokeStack Implosion" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/06/smokestack-implosion/></a></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+I worry about "foggers and water cannons" obstructing my view though.</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-06-27 09:14:00 -0400 -0400">27 Jun 2008</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to SmokeStack Implosion" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/06/smokestack-implosion/></a></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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-The very beginning of this book does capture the early history of Pixar up through the release and success of Toy Story....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-04-03 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">3 Apr 2019</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Creativity Inc. by Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/04/creativity-inc/></a></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+The very beginning of this book does capture the early history of Pixar up through the release and success of Toy Story....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-04-03 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">3 Apr 2019</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Creativity Inc. by Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/04/creativity-inc/></a></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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First and foremost, the "...</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-08-21 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">21 Aug 2019</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/08/the-adventures-of-tom-sawyer/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover Originally a play, then released in book form as Peter and Wendy, this book is the basis of Disney's cartoon movie, Peter Pan. The movie is surprisingly faithful to the book with the exception that Disney's version doesn't portray deaths that the book does.
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I received a comment on that story that I deeply hope is true, but ... partly because it was anonymous (see update), and mostly because there have been no further news reports that I've been able to find, I have no way of being sure. Here is a copy of that comment:...</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-12-08 11:19:00 -0500 -0500">8 Dec 2008</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Revisit: 'Attack and Muder at the Drum Tower' [Updated]" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/12/revisit-attack-and-muder-at-the-drum-tower-updated/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Beijing : Attack and Murder at the Drum Tower</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I feel that I should begin by expressing how safe I felt while I was in Beijing. I felt safer in every part of Beijing than I do in downtown Minneapolis. The news outlets don't really say that enough while sharing this bit of news. Actual physical attacks on foreigners are very unusual in Beijing. Like any large city, crimes of opportunity are common, but confrontational attacks against foreigners are incredibly rare....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-08-09 21:01:00 -0400 -0400">9 Aug 2008</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Beijing : Attack and Murder at the Drum Tower" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/08/beijing-attack-and-murder-at-the-drum-tower/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Beijing 2008 - Olympics In The Air</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Last October, during the beginning of my time in Beijing, I wrote this blog post that mentioned air quality with two comparative photos.
Since then, I've been following the blog of James Fallows who also has been posting photos for comparison.
In the last several days -- China has done several things to try to improve the air quality for the Olympics.
-Temporarily shutting down most factories East of Beijing Even-Odd car restrictions...</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-07-28 10:45:00 -0400 -0400">28 Jul 2008</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Beijing 2008 - Olympics In The Air" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/07/beijing-2008-olympics-in-the-air/></a></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+Temporarily shutting down most factories East of Beijing Even-Odd car restrictions...</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-07-28 10:45:00 -0400 -0400">28 Jul 2008</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Beijing 2008 - Olympics In The Air" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/07/beijing-2008-olympics-in-the-air/></a></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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<span class=logo-switches><button id=theme-toggle accesskey=t title="(Alt + T)"><svg id="moon" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentcolor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round"><path d="M21 12.79A9 9 0 1111.21 3 7 7 0 0021 12.79z"/></svg><svg id="sun" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentcolor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round"><circle cx="12" cy="12" r="5"/><line x1="12" y1="1" x2="12" y2="3"/><line x1="12" y1="21" x2="12" y2="23"/><line x1="4.22" y1="4.22" x2="5.64" y2="5.64"/><line x1="18.36" y1="18.36" x2="19.78" y2="19.78"/><line x1="1" y1="12" x2="3" y2="12"/><line x1="21" y1="12" x2="23" y2="12"/><line x1="4.22" y1="19.78" x2="5.64" y2="18.36"/><line x1="18.36" y1="5.64" x2="19.78" y2="4.22"/></svg></button></span></div><ul id=menu><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/ title=Posts><span>Posts</span></a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/ title=Tags><span>Tags</span></a></li><li><a href=https://home.vollink.com/ title=home.vollink.com><span>home.vollink.com</span></a></li></ul></nav></header><main class=main><header class=page-header><div class=breadcrumbs><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>Home</a> » <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/>Tags</a></div><h1>comic-book</h1></header><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Comic] Darth Vader 1-25 by Charles Soule, art: Giuseppe Camuncoli</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Issue 1 cover If you read my review of the book, Oracle Year, I mentioned that Charles Soule writes for comic books, this is one of them that I've kept up on, and have read from start to finish, as this run ends at #25, though Charles Soule will have more to write for Marvel in the Star Wars world.
This series starts moments after the end of Star Wars episode 3, Revenge of the Sith, and tells the story of both Darth Vader becoming the Dark Jedi Master under Palpatine, but also tells of the growth of the Empire during that time....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-01-23 12:00:00 -0500 -0500">23 Jan 2019</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Comic] Darth Vader 1-25 by Charles Soule, art: Giuseppe Camuncoli" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/01/comic-darth-vader-1-25-by-charles-soule-art-giuseppe-camuncoli/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Home After Dark by David Small</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover Bonus review this week (because this book comes out on the 11th), and I finally figured out what to say about it.
This tale is, all at once, heartbreaking, terrifying, uncomfortable, troubling with a tiny bit of hopeful mixed in. Trigger warnings would be helpful here: racism, suicide, sexual predation, sexual bigotry, bullying, alcoholism, violence (both human and animal), parental abandonment, and smoking....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-09-08 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">8 Sep 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Home After Dark by David Small" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/09/home-after-dark/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Skyward (Omnibus) by Jeremy and Kelly Dale</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Before I start this:
-I met Jeremy Dale with Kelly by his side on several occasions at various comic book conventions. I am always on the lookout for a well written all-ages comic book story, and I found Jeremy and Skyward when there were only two issues, self-published and in black and white. Later, I saw him at a different convention and got issue 3, and he said that issue 4 should be out by NYCC....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-07-25 12:00:00.001 -0400 -0400">25 Jul 2018</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Skyward (Omnibus) by Jeremy and Kelly Dale" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/07/skyward-omnibus/></a></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+I met Jeremy Dale with Kelly by his side on several occasions at various comic book conventions. I am always on the lookout for a well written all-ages comic book story, and I found Jeremy and Skyward when there were only two issues, self-published and in black and white. Later, I saw him at a different convention and got issue 3, and he said that issue 4 should be out by NYCC....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-07-25 12:00:00.001 -0400 -0400">25 Jul 2018</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Skyward (Omnibus) by Jeremy and Kelly Dale" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/07/skyward-omnibus/></a></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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<span class=logo-switches><button id=theme-toggle accesskey=t title="(Alt + T)"><svg id="moon" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentcolor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round"><path d="M21 12.79A9 9 0 1111.21 3 7 7 0 0021 12.79z"/></svg><svg id="sun" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentcolor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round"><circle cx="12" cy="12" r="5"/><line x1="12" y1="1" x2="12" y2="3"/><line x1="12" y1="21" x2="12" y2="23"/><line x1="4.22" y1="4.22" x2="5.64" y2="5.64"/><line x1="18.36" y1="18.36" x2="19.78" y2="19.78"/><line x1="1" y1="12" x2="3" y2="12"/><line x1="21" y1="12" x2="23" y2="12"/><line x1="4.22" y1="19.78" x2="5.64" y2="18.36"/><line x1="18.36" y1="5.64" x2="19.78" y2="4.22"/></svg></button></span></div><ul id=menu><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/ title=Posts><span>Posts</span></a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/ title=Tags><span>Tags</span></a></li><li><a href=https://home.vollink.com/ title=home.vollink.com><span>home.vollink.com</span></a></li></ul></nav></header><main class=main><header class=page-header><div class=breadcrumbs><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>Home</a> » <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/>Tags</a></div><h1>current events</h1></header><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Fear by Bob Woodward</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover I haven't been sleeping well. A good friend of mine suggested that my reading this book may be one of the reasons. I can't dispute that directly. As I write this, right before New Year's 2018, I'm actively looking for employment, and that is stressful, but this book definitely hasn't helped.
-Subtitled Trump in the White House, Fear is about the presidency of Donald Trump and written by the Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-03-06 12:00:00 -0500 -0500">6 Mar 2019</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Fear by Bob Woodward" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/03/fear/></a></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+Subtitled Trump in the White House, Fear is about the presidency of Donald Trump and written by the Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-03-06 12:00:00 -0500 -0500">6 Mar 2019</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Fear by Bob Woodward" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/03/fear/></a></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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[92mgvollink@javavm[0m [GIT: (✅) [92mmaster[0m]:0 [36mðŸ /src/web/hugo-blog[m$ The above, in source, has embedded ANSI escape codes. To do this I created a language called terminal for highlight.js and an accompanying PlugIn....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2022-05-25 20:45:29 -0400 -0400">25 May 2022</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Terminal Colors with Highlight.js" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2022/05/hugo-term-color/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Trying Hugo</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>This is a post where I’m literally doing nothing but testing hugo to see if it will work for what I need.
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Sub With Code Trying a sub-topic
-my $test = MyStuff->new(); if ( ! $test ) { printf {*STDERR} "Error.\n"; } Final Thoughts It took me over a week to figure out how to extract what I needed from my old Google blogger account, and now that I’ve done that, I’m … happy enough … with the results....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2022-05-16 21:52:30 -0400 -0400">16 May 2022</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Trying Hugo" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2022/05/trying-hugo/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Geek] Attack Vectors and Twitter</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I wrote a script some time ago, that basically parsed the auth logs on my web server looking for IP addresses that try, and fail, to log in, multiple times.  Over the years, I've continued to expand what it does, and what it could do. At first, it would note something, and send me an e-mail, and I'd get to it, and it would continue to e-mail me once every hour until I did....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2011-09-17 01:15:00 -0400 -0400">17 Sep 2011</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Geek] Attack Vectors and Twitter" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2011/09/geek-attack-vectors-and-twitter/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=next href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/dev/page/2/>Next »</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+my $test = MyStuff->new(); if ( ! $test ) { printf {*STDERR} "Error.\n"; } Final Thoughts It took me over a week to figure out how to extract what I needed from my old Google blogger account, and now that I’ve done that, I’m … happy enough … with the results....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2022-05-16 21:52:30 -0400 -0400">16 May 2022</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Trying Hugo" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2022/05/trying-hugo/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Geek] Attack Vectors and Twitter</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I wrote a script some time ago, that basically parsed the auth logs on my web server looking for IP addresses that try, and fail, to log in, multiple times.  Over the years, I've continued to expand what it does, and what it could do. At first, it would note something, and send me an e-mail, and I'd get to it, and it would continue to e-mail me once every hour until I did....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2011-09-17 01:15:00 -0400 -0400">17 Sep 2011</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Geek] Attack Vectors and Twitter" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2011/09/geek-attack-vectors-and-twitter/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=next href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/dev/page/2/>Next »</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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Twitview uses the web server (vollink.com) to pull my twitter data feed. Once pulled, I turn links into links.
The twittering view at the right side of this blog now uses twitview, as does the open-social app that I wrote for my iGoogle. I also added twitview to my main homepage.
Another advantage of this, is that my twitter feed is now also proxied, so will be visible in places where twitter may become blocked or banned....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-07-13 03:04:00 -0400 -0400">13 Jul 2008</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Twitter by Proxy" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/07/twitter-by-proxy/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/dev/>« Prev</a>
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-I started playing with the Open Social API today. Really simple thing -- I realized that I wanted to put some basic, static HTML in a box on both my Facebook page and to my iGoogle page....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-07-12 19:35:00 -0400 -0400">12 Jul 2008</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Google Apps, iGoogle and Facebook" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/07/google-apps-igoogle-and-facebook/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/dev/page/2/>« Prev</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+I started playing with the Open Social API today. Really simple thing -- I realized that I wanted to put some basic, static HTML in a box on both my Facebook page and to my iGoogle page....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-07-12 19:35:00 -0400 -0400">12 Jul 2008</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Google Apps, iGoogle and Facebook" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/07/google-apps-igoogle-and-facebook/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/dev/page/2/>« Prev</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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-These span a wide swath of methods from very obvious paywalls to deeply obfuscated Terms of Use clauses, and they are dangerous for businesses specifically because some programmer who uses one of these technologies at home on an open source project often won’t think twice about installing the same on a business supplied computer to get their job’s work done…...</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2024-04-03 17:31:21 -0400 -0400">3 Apr 2024</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Open Source Does NOT Mean Free" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2024/04/open-is-not-always-free/></a></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+These span a wide swath of methods from very obvious paywalls to deeply obfuscated Terms of Use clauses, and they are dangerous for businesses specifically because some programmer who uses one of these technologies at home on an open source project often won’t think twice about installing the same on a business supplied computer to get their job’s work done…...</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2024-04-03 17:31:21 -0400 -0400">3 Apr 2024</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Open Source Does NOT Mean Free" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2024/04/open-is-not-always-free/></a></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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-Won't you be my neighbor is a very well paced, carefully timed, and beautifully edited documentary....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-03-09 12:00:00 -0500 -0500">9 Mar 2019</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Movie] Won't You Be My Neighbor (2018)" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/03/movie-won-t-you-be-my-neighbor-2018/></a></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+Won't you be my neighbor is a very well paced, carefully timed, and beautifully edited documentary....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-03-09 12:00:00 -0500 -0500">9 Mar 2019</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Movie] Won't You Be My Neighbor (2018)" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/03/movie-won-t-you-be-my-neighbor-2018/></a></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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First and foremost, the "...</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-08-21 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">21 Aug 2019</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/08/the-adventures-of-tom-sawyer/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover Seems an appropriate way to start off the first book review of 2019 with a book that came out in 2009. On top of that, it's a book that I really, really enjoyed reading.
This book follows the protagonist, Henry Lee both as a 13 year old in 1943, and an adult in 1986. If you have been reading my reviews for a while, you'll note that I get picky when time starts jumping around, and I'm really happy to say that this book gets this simple detail absolutely right: Every chapter title includes the year....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-01-09 12:00:00 -0500 -0500">9 Jan 2019</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/01/hotel-on-the-corner-of-bitter-and-sweet/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] There There by Tommy Orange</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover I will start by noting that this book started slow for me. It took me over two weeks to read the prologue up through the fourth chapter. Once I passed that, I read the next 80% of the book in two days finishing on a third.
-Every character in this book is a Native American either from or converging on Oakland California. There is a lot of exploration, especially among the young characters, of what it means to be Native in the city....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-12-12 12:00:00 -0500 -0500">12 Dec 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] There There by Tommy Orange" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/12/there-there/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Insurrecto by Gina Apostol</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover Even though I'm reviewing an Advance copy, this story is surprisingly nonlinear, and I doubt that will change, though - really - it could. The book starts, like a 1970s movie, listing the cast of characters in the approximate order in which the characters appear. It's a story about two people, writing screenplays that are not exactly about the same thing, but are derived from a shared starting point and past....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-09-05 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">5 Sep 2018</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Insurrecto by Gina Apostol" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/09/insurrecto/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=next href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/drama/page/2/>Next »</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+Every character in this book is a Native American either from or converging on Oakland California. There is a lot of exploration, especially among the young characters, of what it means to be Native in the city....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-12-12 12:00:00 -0500 -0500">12 Dec 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] There There by Tommy Orange" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/12/there-there/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Insurrecto by Gina Apostol</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover Even though I'm reviewing an Advance copy, this story is surprisingly nonlinear, and I doubt that will change, though - really - it could. The book starts, like a 1970s movie, listing the cast of characters in the approximate order in which the characters appear. It's a story about two people, writing screenplays that are not exactly about the same thing, but are derived from a shared starting point and past....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-09-05 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">5 Sep 2018</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Insurrecto by Gina Apostol" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/09/insurrecto/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=next href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/drama/page/2/>Next »</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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While the main thread is the journey, the bulk of the story is Stevens' recollection of his past....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-07-11 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">11 Jul 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/07/the-remains-of-the-day/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Ohio by Stephen Markley</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book Cover This follows four main characters who had gone to high school together back in the early 2000s, and on one night in 2013, all came back home to their hometown of New Canaan, Ohio.
-After the prelude, the first section of the book follows Bill Ashcraft, a drifter who is loaded up on drugs. Appropriate to the character - for the parts where we are following his narrative - the story is jumping back and forth between his past and present with no direct warning in-between, full of non-sequiturs, and frankly - hard to follow....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-06-27 12:00:00.001 -0400 -0400">27 Jun 2018</span> · 4 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Ohio by Stephen Markley" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/06/ohio/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/drama/>« Prev</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+After the prelude, the first section of the book follows Bill Ashcraft, a drifter who is loaded up on drugs. Appropriate to the character - for the parts where we are following his narrative - the story is jumping back and forth between his past and present with no direct warning in-between, full of non-sequiturs, and frankly - hard to follow....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-06-27 12:00:00.001 -0400 -0400">27 Jun 2018</span> · 4 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Ohio by Stephen Markley" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/06/ohio/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/drama/>« Prev</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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Despite what the numerous signs and dotted lines suggest, lanes are defined by the width of the vehicles next to you right now. Traffic signal lights are suggestions, that you follow only so far as someone in the other direction is tired of waiting for a green and is willing to put the front of their vehicle in front of your movement....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2010-11-11 05:34:00 -0500 -0500">11 Nov 2010</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Quasimodo says, &quot;The Horns, The Horns&quot;" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2010/11/quasimodo-says-the-horns-the-horns/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Driving Aircraft (part 2) [Updated]</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Some of you may remember a previous post in a similar style. I saw this on Oct 22, but I didn't get a chance to post these until today...
I spotted it up ahead, and grabbed my camera. It's just an unusual thing to see...
I was traveling across the Minnesota River's Bloomington Ferry Bridge, and decided to take pictures while I could. He was going pretty slow....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-10-25 22:40:00 -0400 -0400">25 Oct 2008</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Driving Aircraft (part 2) [Updated]" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/10/driving-aircraft-part-2-updated/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Saturday's Day Trip</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I couldn't have asked for better weather. Sure, it's Minnesota and it's getting cool, but there was barely a cloud in the sky...
-Darwin and Ray are some co-workers who are in town for a month, and this is their last full weekend in Minnesota. I had offered earlier to take them to see Lake Superior. Darwin, in particular, had mentioned how much he wanted to see the great lakes... so I figured I'd do the best I could, and show him the big one that's only a few hours drive from here....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-10-05 19:05:00 -0400 -0400">5 Oct 2008</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Saturday's Day Trip" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/10/saturday-s-day-trip/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>This Day in Gary's History...</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>September 11, 2001 I was on a consulting assignment to help install and configure a web based software product at Caterpillar in Pontiac, Illinois. I arrived at the Bloomington, IL airport on the morning of September 10th, and was asked to visit the headquarters in East Peoria on September 11th. To save the customer money, another consultant agreed to lend me his pickup truck for the drive to East Peoria (on the other end of the state)....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-09-11 19:36:00 -0400 -0400">11 Sep 2008</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to This Day in Gary's History..." href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/09/this-day-in-gary-s-history/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=next href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/driving/page/2/>Next »</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+Darwin and Ray are some co-workers who are in town for a month, and this is their last full weekend in Minnesota. I had offered earlier to take them to see Lake Superior. Darwin, in particular, had mentioned how much he wanted to see the great lakes... so I figured I'd do the best I could, and show him the big one that's only a few hours drive from here....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-10-05 19:05:00 -0400 -0400">5 Oct 2008</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Saturday's Day Trip" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/10/saturday-s-day-trip/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>This Day in Gary's History...</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>September 11, 2001 I was on a consulting assignment to help install and configure a web based software product at Caterpillar in Pontiac, Illinois. I arrived at the Bloomington, IL airport on the morning of September 10th, and was asked to visit the headquarters in East Peoria on September 11th. To save the customer money, another consultant agreed to lend me his pickup truck for the drive to East Peoria (on the other end of the state)....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-09-11 19:36:00 -0400 -0400">11 Sep 2008</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to This Day in Gary's History..." href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/09/this-day-in-gary-s-history/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=next href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/driving/page/2/>Next »</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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-Quite unexpected. That's all I'm saying.</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-07-24 21:39:00 -0400 -0400">24 Jul 2008</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Strange Helicopter Transportation (photo)" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/07/strange-helicopter-transportation-photo/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/driving/>« Prev</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+Quite unexpected. That's all I'm saying.</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-07-24 21:39:00 -0400 -0400">24 Jul 2008</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Strange Helicopter Transportation (photo)" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/07/strange-helicopter-transportation-photo/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/driving/>« Prev</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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-A man was leaving a convenience store with his morning coffee when he noticed a most unusual funeral procession approaching the nearby cemetery. A long black hearse was followed by a second long black hearse about 50 feet behind the first one....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-07-30 19:30:00 -0400 -0400">30 Jul 2008</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Just a Joke" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/07/just-a-joke/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Flamingo Hand</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>This came from one of those e-mails that people send around. It was a collection of "hand art". One that I'm sure has an online source somewhere, and if I find it, I'll link to that ... but, I thought this was interesting enough, so .. check it out.</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-07-16 00:50:00 -0400 -0400">16 Jul 2008</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Flamingo Hand" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/07/flamingo-hand/></a></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+A man was leaving a convenience store with his morning coffee when he noticed a most unusual funeral procession approaching the nearby cemetery. A long black hearse was followed by a second long black hearse about 50 feet behind the first one....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-07-30 19:30:00 -0400 -0400">30 Jul 2008</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Just a Joke" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/07/just-a-joke/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Flamingo Hand</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>This came from one of those e-mails that people send around. It was a collection of "hand art". One that I'm sure has an online source somewhere, and if I find it, I'll link to that ... but, I thought this was interesting enough, so .. check it out.</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-07-16 00:50:00 -0400 -0400">16 Jul 2008</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Flamingo Hand" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/07/flamingo-hand/></a></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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On Tuesday morning, Jen and I were both in the office and something seemed strange.
-If you've ever been in the upper floors of a tall building during sustained winds, you can feel the building swaying. It felt just like that.  Jen says, "Is the building moving?"  "Yes," as I realize that I shouldn't feel wind movement from the third floor.  Still not really sure what's going on, I say, "...</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2011-08-24 08:41:00 -0400 -0400">24 Aug 2011</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Earthquake" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2011/08/earthquake/></a></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+If you've ever been in the upper floors of a tall building during sustained winds, you can feel the building swaying. It felt just like that.  Jen says, "Is the building moving?"  "Yes," as I realize that I shouldn't feel wind movement from the third floor.  Still not really sure what's going on, I say, "...</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2011-08-24 08:41:00 -0400 -0400">24 Aug 2011</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Earthquake" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2011/08/earthquake/></a></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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-Problematic doesn't begin to describe this experience. Like a lot of classic literature, defenders will point out that this is a product of its time....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-08-07 00:05:00 -0400 -0400">7 Aug 2019</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/08/peter-pan/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Master and Apprentice by Claudia Gray</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover Set before the first prequel movie, this book follows Jedi Master, Qui-Gon Jinn, and his Jedi Apprentice, Obi-Wan Kenobi, on a diplomatic mission set forth by the Jedi council. They are sent to a planet, Pijal, that we haven't seen before, which really is a great way to see the author's creativity. We are presented with a wide array of new characters on this new world, like the Jedi Rael Averross, who has been the regent of Pijal for the last 8 years, and the escaped slave Rahara Wick....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-07-24 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">24 Jul 2019</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Master and Apprentice by Claudia Gray" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/07/master-and-apprentice/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=next href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/fantasy/page/2/>Next »</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+Problematic doesn't begin to describe this experience. Like a lot of classic literature, defenders will point out that this is a product of its time....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-08-07 00:05:00 -0400 -0400">7 Aug 2019</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/08/peter-pan/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Master and Apprentice by Claudia Gray</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover Set before the first prequel movie, this book follows Jedi Master, Qui-Gon Jinn, and his Jedi Apprentice, Obi-Wan Kenobi, on a diplomatic mission set forth by the Jedi council. They are sent to a planet, Pijal, that we haven't seen before, which really is a great way to see the author's creativity. We are presented with a wide array of new characters on this new world, like the Jedi Rael Averross, who has been the regent of Pijal for the last 8 years, and the escaped slave Rahara Wick....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-07-24 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">24 Jul 2019</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Master and Apprentice by Claudia Gray" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/07/master-and-apprentice/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=next href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/fantasy/page/2/>Next »</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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A Jewish girl of about 16 named Miryam lives in a medieval small unwalled town with the name of either Pakel or Pavys, but the residents simply called it town which is a third of the way between two larger cities in the Kingdom of Lithvas....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-05-01 17:48:00 -0400 -0400">1 May 2019</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/05/spinning-silver/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Comic] Darth Vader 1-25 by Charles Soule, art: Giuseppe Camuncoli</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Issue 1 cover If you read my review of the book, Oracle Year, I mentioned that Charles Soule writes for comic books, this is one of them that I've kept up on, and have read from start to finish, as this run ends at #25, though Charles Soule will have more to write for Marvel in the Star Wars world.
This series starts moments after the end of Star Wars episode 3, Revenge of the Sith, and tells the story of both Darth Vader becoming the Dark Jedi Master under Palpatine, but also tells of the growth of the Empire during that time....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-01-23 12:00:00 -0500 -0500">23 Jan 2019</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Comic] Darth Vader 1-25 by Charles Soule, art: Giuseppe Camuncoli" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/01/comic-darth-vader-1-25-by-charles-soule-art-giuseppe-camuncoli/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] A Guile of Dragons by James Enge</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover The book starts in a very promising place. It offers a map. All of my favorite fantasy novels have included a map, and this leaves me excited for a tale with some traveling. The first very short chapter introduces some world building back-story, a short story about gods. Then, on page 19 (or the third page of story) the novel lands in a fantasy space that I find very overused and tired....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-11-14 12:00:00 -0500 -0500">14 Nov 2018</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] A Guile of Dragons by James Enge" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/11/a-guile-of-dragons/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/fantasy/>« Prev</a>
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First and foremost, these are Nordic tales. If you are familiar with these characters from Marvel comics or movies, be prepared to relearn a lot of what you thought you knew....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-08-15 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">15 Aug 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/08/norse-mythology/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Uprooted by Naomi Novik</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover The descriptions of the country, fashions and even the names of characters channels Poland of the 1500s or 1600s. The story focuses on a peaceful valley with little villages nestled along the Spindle river, but a dark forest grows nearby. Corrupted creatures come from the forest late at night and attack human, livestock or both. Or worse, a cloud of pollen might come in and corrupt a neighbor where they stand, turning them....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-08-08 12:00:00.003 -0400 -0400">8 Aug 2018</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Uprooted by Naomi Novik" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/08/uprooted/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/fantasy/page/2/>« Prev</a>
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<!doctype html><html lang=en dir=auto><head><meta charset=utf-8><meta http-equiv=x-ua-compatible content="IE=edge"><meta name=viewport content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1,shrink-to-fit=no"><meta name=robots content="index, follow"><title>fantasy | On My Mind...</title><meta name=keywords content><meta name=description content="Gary Allen's Blog"><meta name=author content="Gary Allen Vollink"><link rel=canonical href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/fantasy/><link crossorigin=anonymous href=/assets/css/stylesheet.min.043dbe50dd3b5aeece8e1fd6b52fdb9ce2bb5c714d321cc709b5e740e61345eb.css integrity="sha256-BD2+UN07Wu7Ojh/WtS/bnOK7XHFNMhzHCbXnQOYTRes=" rel="preload stylesheet" as=style><link rel=icon href=https://blog.vollink.com/favicon.ico><link rel=icon type=image/png sizes=16x16 href=https://blog.vollink.com/favicon-16x16.png><link rel=icon type=image/png sizes=32x32 href=https://blog.vollink.com/favicon-32x32.png><link rel=apple-touch-icon href=https://blog.vollink.com/apple-touch-icon.png><link rel=mask-icon href=https://blog.vollink.com/safari-pinned-tab.svg><meta name=theme-color content="#2e2e33"><meta name=msapplication-TileColor content="#2e2e33"><link rel=alternate type=application/rss+xml href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/fantasy/index.xml><noscript><style>#theme-toggle,.top-link{display:none}</style><style>@media(prefers-color-scheme:dark){:root{--theme:rgb(29, 30, 32);--entry:rgb(46, 46, 51);--primary:rgb(218, 218, 219);--secondary:rgb(155, 156, 157);--tertiary:rgb(65, 66, 68);--content:rgb(196, 196, 197);--hljs-bg:rgb(46, 46, 51);--code-bg:rgb(55, 56, 62);--border:rgb(51, 51, 51)}.list{background:var(--theme)}.list:not(.dark)::-webkit-scrollbar-track{background:0 0}.list:not(.dark)::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb{border-color:var(--theme)}}</style></noscript><meta property="og:title" content="fantasy"><meta property="og:description" content="Gary Allen's Blog"><meta property="og:type" content="website"><meta property="og:url" content="https://blog.vollink.com/tags/fantasy/"><meta property="og:site_name" content="On My Mind..."><meta name=twitter:card content="summary"><meta name=twitter:title content="fantasy"><meta name=twitter:description content="Gary Allen's Blog"></head><body class=list id=top><script>localStorage.getItem("pref-theme")==="dark"?document.body.classList.add("dark"):localStorage.getItem("pref-theme")==="light"?document.body.classList.remove("dark"):window.matchMedia("(prefers-color-scheme: dark)").matches&&document.body.classList.add("dark")</script><header class=header><nav class=nav><div class=logo><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/ accesskey=h title="Home (Alt + H)"><img src=https://blog.vollink.com/AllenWrench.gif alt=logo aria-label=logo height=35>Home</a>
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{Gbessa is pronounced "Bessah"} The first book is the story of three characters, each from different places and backgrounds. Gbessa is exiled from her African village as a witch. June escapes slavery from a plantation in Virginia....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-08-01 12:00:00.001 -0400 -0400">1 Aug 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] She Would Be King by Wayétu Moore" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/08/she-would-be-king/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Skyward (Omnibus) by Jeremy and Kelly Dale</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Before I start this:
-I met Jeremy Dale with Kelly by his side on several occasions at various comic book conventions. I am always on the lookout for a well written all-ages comic book story, and I found Jeremy and Skyward when there were only two issues, self-published and in black and white. Later, I saw him at a different convention and got issue 3, and he said that issue 4 should be out by NYCC....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-07-25 12:00:00.001 -0400 -0400">25 Jul 2018</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Skyward (Omnibus) by Jeremy and Kelly Dale" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/07/skyward-omnibus/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/fantasy/page/3/>« Prev</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+I met Jeremy Dale with Kelly by his side on several occasions at various comic book conventions. I am always on the lookout for a well written all-ages comic book story, and I found Jeremy and Skyward when there were only two issues, self-published and in black and white. Later, I saw him at a different convention and got issue 3, and he said that issue 4 should be out by NYCC....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-07-25 12:00:00.001 -0400 -0400">25 Jul 2018</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Skyward (Omnibus) by Jeremy and Kelly Dale" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/07/skyward-omnibus/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/fantasy/page/3/>« Prev</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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-I've eaten at several places since I've been here, though, only one place would I consider having what I'm guessing is actual Indian food.  Which is to say, I've mostly eaten at hotels, or foreign Restaurants.  My room rate, at the hotel I'm staying in, comes with free Breakfast, so that's the one meal I will always eat at the hotel....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2010-11-11 04:39:00.001 -0500 -0500">11 Nov 2010</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to What's My Beef with Bangalore?" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2010/11/what-s-my-beef-with-bangalore/></a></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+I've eaten at several places since I've been here, though, only one place would I consider having what I'm guessing is actual Indian food.  Which is to say, I've mostly eaten at hotels, or foreign Restaurants.  My room rate, at the hotel I'm staying in, comes with free Breakfast, so that's the one meal I will always eat at the hotel....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2010-11-11 04:39:00.001 -0500 -0500">11 Nov 2010</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to What's My Beef with Bangalore?" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2010/11/what-s-my-beef-with-bangalore/></a></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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A reader might chime in here and say, no MY TERMINAL thinks it is an xterm, but alas xterm pretends to be a VT420 (xterm can actually pretend it is many different terminals, so even if you DO use THE xterm software I doubt your computer is actually set up to most efficiently talk to it, I’ll talk about that later )....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2023-09-21 21:10:00 -0400 -0400">21 Sep 2023</span> · 10 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Your Terminal Emulator Is Wrong" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2023/09/standards-what-standards/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>The Anime I Like</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Why I Won’t Admit to Liking Anime When talking to someone who likes Anime, the first thing to come up is usually a show like Dragonball Z or Baruto. Some fighting is fine if the story requires it, but I don’t want to watch a single fight that lasts most of an episode. I want story to develop in every episode, not just exposition hidden in re-used fight sequences. At worst, I might stick with something that has a long fight in one or two episodes within a ten plus episode season....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2022-08-23 23:41:12 -0400 -0400">23 Aug 2022</span> · 6 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to The Anime I Like" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2022/08/anime/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>VM Server Upgrades?</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Computer prices are just starting to normalize. I walked into a MicroCenter store the other day, and they have stopped rationing video cards (and have plenty in stock, without crazy markups).
I’ve also been thinking a lot about upgrading my servers…
Current Server Setup Back in February of 2018, I started running my home websites on some used Rackmount servers.
-When I bought these, I really wanted to experience running enterprise level hardware and building up microservices on Docker with full failover, and freinds, that all works, and I learned a lot....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2022-06-17 18:12:34 -0400 -0400">17 Jun 2022</span> · 4 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to VM Server Upgrades?" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2022/06/to-upgrade-or-not/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=next href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/geek/page/2/>Next »</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+When I bought these, I really wanted to experience running enterprise level hardware and building up microservices on Docker with full failover, and freinds, that all works, and I learned a lot....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2022-06-17 18:12:34 -0400 -0400">17 Jun 2022</span> · 4 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to VM Server Upgrades?" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2022/06/to-upgrade-or-not/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=next href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/geek/page/2/>Next »</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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Terminal in color This shows my terminal prompt in approximately the colors that I see.
[92mgvollink@javavm[0m [GIT: (✅) [92mmaster[0m]:0 [36mðŸ /src/web/hugo-blog[m$ The above, in source, has embedded ANSI escape codes. To do this I created a language called terminal for highlight.js and an accompanying PlugIn....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2022-05-25 20:45:29 -0400 -0400">25 May 2022</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Terminal Colors with Highlight.js" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2022/05/hugo-term-color/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Test: Using a Docker image to Build This Blog</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I use Docker to run several microservices across my websites. Generally, they are standalone tools and demonstrations, mostly made to teach myself how to get these things done in microservices.
I recently came across the concept of utility containers. Up to now, all the containers I run are meant to run all the time, and be easily replaced by spinning up a replacement container. Utility containers, on the other hand, are literally containers that hold the bits needed to process input data into output data, do that process, then exit....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2022-05-21 15:34:49 -0400 -0400">21 May 2022</span> · 5 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Test: Using a Docker image to Build This Blog" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2022/05/test-docker-blog/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/geek/>« Prev</a>
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my $test = MyStuff->new(); if ( ! $test ) { printf {*STDERR} "Error.\n"; } Final Thoughts It took me over a week to figure out how to extract what I needed from my old Google blogger account, and now that I’ve done that, I’m … happy enough … with the results....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2022-05-16 21:52:30 -0400 -0400">16 May 2022</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Trying Hugo" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2022/05/trying-hugo/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Linux Command Prompt in Color</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>In this modern world, basically every terminal is compatible with VT-52 terminal sequences. These includes Windows Terminal (free from Microsoft on the Microsoft Store), Terminal.app (on macOS) and most terminals available under Linux. Further, most of these support emoji and 256 colors.
Yet, most of the advice out there on how to deal with this suggests hard-coding these escape sequences directly into your prompt. This is great, and probably will work just fine, but I find it to be painful....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2021-11-19 04:21:00.001 -0500 -0500">19 Nov 2021</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Linux Command Prompt in Color" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2021/11/linux-command-prompt-in-color/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Tech] Web Server Notes</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>This is a link to my notes on how I run my web servers at home, hosted on my home servers. https://www.home.vollink.com/gary/setup.html</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-10-30 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">30 Oct 2018</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Tech] Web Server Notes" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/10/tech-web-server-notes/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Tech/PC] VirtualBox, Windows 7 and a new CPU</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>As I've done from time to time, this blog serves as a bit of a bench-notes of what I did. However, maybe someone else hits the same problem, and finds my blog via search.
About a month back, the new nVidia 2080 Ti card was announced. I decided to hit up eBay to see if anyone was selling off a 1080 Ti, and I was not disappointed in the price drops....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-09-15 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">15 Sep 2018</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Tech/PC] VirtualBox, Windows 7 and a new CPU" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/09/tech-pc-virtualbox-windows-7-and-a-new-cpu/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/geek/page/2/>« Prev</a>
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I jumped on eBay a week ago, looking to find the rails I need....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-08-25 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">25 Aug 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Shopping] eBuyer Beware" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/08/shopping-ebuyer-beware/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Geek] Authban : 4 Years Later</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Four years ago, I wrote about a script that I had been working on called Authban (though I didn't name it at the time):
http://blog.vollink.com/2011/09/geek-attack-vectors-and-twitter.html
I first started running a custom script to block IP addresses that tried too many times to login to ssh back in 2010.  At the time, the script (and my home web host) was running on an Ubuntu virtual server.  The name, Authban, surfaced in early 2011, as I organized the script to do more than just block ssh....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2015-09-16 18:30:00 -0400 -0400">16 Sep 2015</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Geek] Authban : 4 Years Later" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2015/09/geek-authban-4-years-later/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Geek] The Ubiquitous Computer Mouse</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Xerox Alto Mouse (1973) The computer mouse has been a basic part of computing for about 20 years now (25 if you were a Mac early-adopter, and even longer if you are a Xerox Alto power-user).  Up until recently, innovations with mouses have been about adding more buttons, and scroll wheels.  Now, with Smart-Phones becoming more and more popular, things like multi-touch and gestures are being added too....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2011-09-17 22:38:00 -0400 -0400">17 Sep 2011</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Geek] The Ubiquitous Computer Mouse" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2011/09/geek-the-ubiquitous-computer-mouse/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Geek] Attack Vectors and Twitter</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I wrote a script some time ago, that basically parsed the auth logs on my web server looking for IP addresses that try, and fail, to log in, multiple times.  Over the years, I've continued to expand what it does, and what it could do. At first, it would note something, and send me an e-mail, and I'd get to it, and it would continue to e-mail me once every hour until I did....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2011-09-17 01:15:00 -0400 -0400">17 Sep 2011</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Geek] Attack Vectors and Twitter" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2011/09/geek-attack-vectors-and-twitter/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/geek/page/3/>« Prev</a>
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Gone are the days when Apple could just tell people to use their phone and the difference in quality would be obvious.  These days, even the new Windows phones are better than iPhones, so to try to save it's market share, Apple has decided to sue instead of compete....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2011-01-03 10:04:00 -0500 -0500">3 Jan 2011</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Apple Admits iPhone Can't Compete, Targets Android with Patent Suits" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2011/01/apple-admits-iphone-can-t-compete-targets-android-with-patent-suits/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Getting Rid Of Old Technology</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Today, I gave away a second phonograph player that I own.  I've owned two phonograph players for at least 15 years.  Neither of them are "DJ units", just standard home units manufactured in '87 and '91.  The one I gave away isn't as good as the other one, but I had bought it myself.  The better one, that I still use, was given to me.  But one day, maybe I would need the other unit....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2010-09-10 09:00:00.002 -0400 -0400">10 Sep 2010</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Getting Rid Of Old Technology" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2010/09/getting-rid-of-old-technology/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[dev] CHAIR Programming Platform 3.0</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>What is CHAIR?
CHAIR is an offset platform for programming, which is specifically made to support a programmer's approach to offset horizontal surface interfacing to tables. It does not qualify as a fully integrated development environment, but instead is a purpose built platform for supporting a programmer without getting in the way of what the programmer does best! As a programming platform CHAIR is already proven to lead to greatly reduced project timelines when compared to similar projects done without the CHAIR Platform....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2009-03-31 19:31:00 -0400 -0400">31 Mar 2009</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [dev] CHAIR Programming Platform 3.0" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2009/03/dev-chair-programming-platform-3-0/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Javascript Toolkits; Web Programming</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>So I've started working with the Dojo Toolkit -- mostly because I ran the demo for it, and I was impressed by what it could do out of the box. It does have a very nicely featured demonstration set.
I've mentioned this to some friends and colleagues, and instead of thoughts or experiences with this toolkit, I got back a whole bunch of comments about why I chose to work with Dojo and not "...</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-08-06 22:00:00 -0400 -0400">6 Aug 2008</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Javascript Toolkits; Web Programming" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/08/javascript-toolkits-web-programming/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/geek/page/4/>« Prev</a>
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Get a First Life</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-07-17 19:30:00 -0400 -0400">17 Jul 2008</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to First Life" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/07/first-life/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Opinion: VMWare Server 2.0 Beta [Updated]</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I've used VMWare Server 2.0 Beta for about three solid hours now...
Things I like.
Virtual Hardware v. 7 with USB 2.0 support. Tomcat based VM monitoring, is pretty responsive. Does NOT request or attempt to "require" IIS. The Server interface, while different, remains similar.Technical -- I've loaded VMWare-Server beta on two separate Windows XP host systems (I have an Ubuntu as well, but I've had problems in the past loading both "...</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-07-17 10:20:00 -0400 -0400">17 Jul 2008</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Opinion: VMWare Server 2.0 Beta [Updated]" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/07/opinion-vmware-server-2-0-beta-updated/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/geek/page/5/>« Prev</a>
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Another advantage of this, is that my twitter feed is now also proxied, so will be visible in places where twitter may become blocked or banned....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-07-13 03:04:00 -0400 -0400">13 Jul 2008</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Twitter by Proxy" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/07/twitter-by-proxy/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Google Apps, iGoogle and Facebook</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I've added Google Apps to my domain. I had already started handing pieces of my domain to Google when I started letting them host my blog. At the same time, I'm starting to take pieces back. More on that later...
I started playing with the Open Social API today. Really simple thing -- I realized that I wanted to put some basic, static HTML in a box on both my Facebook page and to my iGoogle page....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-07-12 19:35:00 -0400 -0400">12 Jul 2008</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Google Apps, iGoogle and Facebook" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/07/google-apps-igoogle-and-facebook/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Web Ads</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>A few times in the last few months, I've thought to actually go out of my way and click on a Web Ad. In every case, the web ad was non-traditional and insisted on doing something which got it blocked. Seems that web ads would be much more successful if they didn't demand dumb user behavior...
Middle Click
-In all latest version graphical web browsers, a middle button mouse click is available to open the link in a new tab....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-06-15 13:40:00 -0400 -0400">15 Jun 2008</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Web Ads" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/06/web-ads/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/geek/page/6/>« Prev</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+In all latest version graphical web browsers, a middle button mouse click is available to open the link in a new tab....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-06-15 13:40:00 -0400 -0400">15 Jun 2008</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Web Ads" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/06/web-ads/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/geek/page/6/>« Prev</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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Times Square is one of the street level places that is recognizable as obviously being in New York, and not some other city. Â As such, people who come to visit New York, at least for the first few times, feel that they must visit this space.
To someone who needs to go through Times Square multiple times per day, tourists are painful, literally....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2011-08-28 15:15:00.001 -0400 -0400">28 Aug 2011</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to About Times Square" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2011/08/about-times-square/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Saturday's Day Trip</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I couldn't have asked for better weather. Sure, it's Minnesota and it's getting cool, but there was barely a cloud in the sky...
-Darwin and Ray are some co-workers who are in town for a month, and this is their last full weekend in Minnesota. I had offered earlier to take them to see Lake Superior. Darwin, in particular, had mentioned how much he wanted to see the great lakes... so I figured I'd do the best I could, and show him the big one that's only a few hours drive from here....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-10-05 19:05:00 -0400 -0400">5 Oct 2008</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Saturday's Day Trip" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/10/saturday-s-day-trip/></a></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+Darwin and Ray are some co-workers who are in town for a month, and this is their last full weekend in Minnesota. I had offered earlier to take them to see Lake Superior. Darwin, in particular, had mentioned how much he wanted to see the great lakes... so I figured I'd do the best I could, and show him the big one that's only a few hours drive from here....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-10-05 19:05:00 -0400 -0400">5 Oct 2008</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Saturday's Day Trip" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/10/saturday-s-day-trip/></a></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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Spelling "truely atrosious," says academic (sic)
-I've been mulling this over for weeks, and I've heard a few people make the argument that standardized spelling is a relatively new construct from a historic perspective....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-08-25 20:15:00 -0400 -0400">25 Aug 2008</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Bad Speling Iz Ok Now?" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/08/bad-speling-iz-ok-now/></a></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+I've been mulling this over for weeks, and I've heard a few people make the argument that standardized spelling is a relatively new construct from a historic perspective....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-08-25 20:15:00 -0400 -0400">25 Aug 2008</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Bad Speling Iz Ok Now?" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/08/bad-speling-iz-ok-now/></a></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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-Quite unexpected. That's all I'm saying.</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-07-24 21:39:00 -0400 -0400">24 Jul 2008</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Strange Helicopter Transportation (photo)" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/07/strange-helicopter-transportation-photo/></a></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+Quite unexpected. That's all I'm saying.</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-07-24 21:39:00 -0400 -0400">24 Jul 2008</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Strange Helicopter Transportation (photo)" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/07/strange-helicopter-transportation-photo/></a></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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This book follows the protagonist, Henry Lee both as a 13 year old in 1943, and an adult in 1986. If you have been reading my reviews for a while, you'll note that I get picky when time starts jumping around, and I'm really happy to say that this book gets this simple detail absolutely right: Every chapter title includes the year....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-01-09 12:00:00 -0500 -0500">9 Jan 2019</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/01/hotel-on-the-corner-of-bitter-and-sweet/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] There There by Tommy Orange</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover I will start by noting that this book started slow for me. It took me over two weeks to read the prologue up through the fourth chapter. Once I passed that, I read the next 80% of the book in two days finishing on a third.
-Every character in this book is a Native American either from or converging on Oakland California. There is a lot of exploration, especially among the young characters, of what it means to be Native in the city....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-12-12 12:00:00 -0500 -0500">12 Dec 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] There There by Tommy Orange" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/12/there-there/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Insurrecto by Gina Apostol</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover Even though I'm reviewing an Advance copy, this story is surprisingly nonlinear, and I doubt that will change, though - really - it could. The book starts, like a 1970s movie, listing the cast of characters in the approximate order in which the characters appear. It's a story about two people, writing screenplays that are not exactly about the same thing, but are derived from a shared starting point and past....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-09-05 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">5 Sep 2018</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Insurrecto by Gina Apostol" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/09/insurrecto/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=next href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/historic-fiction/page/2/>Next »</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+Every character in this book is a Native American either from or converging on Oakland California. There is a lot of exploration, especially among the young characters, of what it means to be Native in the city....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-12-12 12:00:00 -0500 -0500">12 Dec 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] There There by Tommy Orange" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/12/there-there/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Insurrecto by Gina Apostol</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover Even though I'm reviewing an Advance copy, this story is surprisingly nonlinear, and I doubt that will change, though - really - it could. The book starts, like a 1970s movie, listing the cast of characters in the approximate order in which the characters appear. It's a story about two people, writing screenplays that are not exactly about the same thing, but are derived from a shared starting point and past....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-09-05 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">5 Sep 2018</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Insurrecto by Gina Apostol" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/09/insurrecto/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=next href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/historic-fiction/page/2/>Next »</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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-While the main thread is the journey, the bulk of the story is Stevens' recollection of his past....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-07-11 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">11 Jul 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/07/the-remains-of-the-day/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/historic-fiction/>« Prev</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+While the main thread is the journey, the bulk of the story is Stevens' recollection of his past....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-07-11 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">11 Jul 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/07/the-remains-of-the-day/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/historic-fiction/>« Prev</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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Source: Wikipedia Neither of us had been there before, so had no idea what to expect.  First, I have to say that I was a little confused at first, then impressed.  Walking up to the building, I'm staring at this strange ultra-modern entrance where in any other museum, I'd expect to see a grand stairway....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2015-01-26 15:05:00.003 -0500 -0500">26 Jan 2015</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Brooklyn Museum" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2015/01/brooklyn-museum/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Geek] The Ubiquitous Computer Mouse</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Xerox Alto Mouse (1973) The computer mouse has been a basic part of computing for about 20 years now (25 if you were a Mac early-adopter, and even longer if you are a Xerox Alto power-user).  Up until recently, innovations with mouses have been about adding more buttons, and scroll wheels.  Now, with Smart-Phones becoming more and more popular, things like multi-touch and gestures are being added too....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2011-09-17 22:38:00 -0400 -0400">17 Sep 2011</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Geek] The Ubiquitous Computer Mouse" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2011/09/geek-the-ubiquitous-computer-mouse/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>About Times Square</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I've been working at the office on Times Square (xSq) for a little less than 2 months now.
Times Square is one of the street level places that is recognizable as obviously being in New York, and not some other city. Â As such, people who come to visit New York, at least for the first few times, feel that they must visit this space.
To someone who needs to go through Times Square multiple times per day, tourists are painful, literally....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2011-08-28 15:15:00.001 -0400 -0400">28 Aug 2011</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to About Times Square" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2011/08/about-times-square/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>The World vs America: Why the USA is Easy to Hate</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Because of the places I've worked, and the jobs I have had while at those places, I've been able to travel to other countries.  While in these places, I've had countless hours of conversations with people from those places, most of whom have never traveled outside of their own countries.  These conversations, frequently, are about America.
-Today's blog started with me reading something that someone in the UK posted online after a rock concert....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2011-03-19 21:02:00 -0400 -0400">19 Mar 2011</span> · 8 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to The World vs America: Why the USA is Easy to Hate" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2011/03/the-world-vs-america-why-the-usa-is-easy-to-hate/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=next href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/history/page/2/>Next »</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+Today's blog started with me reading something that someone in the UK posted online after a rock concert....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2011-03-19 21:02:00 -0400 -0400">19 Mar 2011</span> · 8 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to The World vs America: Why the USA is Easy to Hate" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2011/03/the-world-vs-america-why-the-usa-is-easy-to-hate/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=next href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/history/page/2/>Next »</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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Due to a number of issues that are beyond my control, the possibility of me getting back to China for any length of time in the future is greatly diminished.
I consider several of the people that I met in China to be close friends of mine to this day....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-10-14 22:46:00 -0500 -0500">14 Oct 2008</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to One Year Ago" href=https://blog.vollink.com/in-china/2008/10/one-year-ago/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>This Day in Gary's History...</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>September 11, 2001 I was on a consulting assignment to help install and configure a web based software product at Caterpillar in Pontiac, Illinois. I arrived at the Bloomington, IL airport on the morning of September 10th, and was asked to visit the headquarters in East Peoria on September 11th. To save the customer money, another consultant agreed to lend me his pickup truck for the drive to East Peoria (on the other end of the state)....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-09-11 19:36:00 -0400 -0400">11 Sep 2008</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to This Day in Gary's History..." href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/09/this-day-in-gary-s-history/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Beijing : Attack and Murder at the Drum Tower</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I feel that I should begin by expressing how safe I felt while I was in Beijing. I felt safer in every part of Beijing than I do in downtown Minneapolis. The news outlets don't really say that enough while sharing this bit of news. Actual physical attacks on foreigners are very unusual in Beijing. Like any large city, crimes of opportunity are common, but confrontational attacks against foreigners are incredibly rare....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-08-09 21:01:00 -0400 -0400">9 Aug 2008</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Beijing : Attack and Murder at the Drum Tower" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/08/beijing-attack-and-murder-at-the-drum-tower/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/history/>« Prev</a>
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If I know you, you can sign up for an account, then Email me your login name. I will then enable your account to see the rest of the photo collections. This includes categories like, “Friends at Work†and “Friends at Hotelâ€.
If I don’t know you, you can still sign up for an account, but you’ll get no benefit, and will have given your Email address to another random site on the internet....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2007-11-11 12:00:00 +0800 +0800">11 Nov 2007</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Note on Photos" href=https://blog.vollink.com/in-china/2007/11/note-on-photos/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/history/page/2/>« Prev</a>
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North East Beijing Territory
Some people from work were talking about a Great Wall Hike. I was reluctantly invited to go along, after being told many times that it would be a lot of up and down, and it’s very strenuous…
Gubeikou The group starts off at a break-neck pace, and I become winded almost immediately....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2007-10-28 14:00:00 +0800 +0800">28 Oct 2007</span> · 4 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Great Wall Hike" href=https://blog.vollink.com/in-china/2007/10/great-wall-hike/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/history/page/3/>« Prev</a>
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Credit Due… Special thanks to Vital Systems Support for setting up the photo hosting.</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2007-10-23 12:00:00 +0800 +0800">23 Oct 2007</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Photos" href=https://blog.vollink.com/in-china/2007/10/photos/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Friday Night Out</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>October 19
Adventures with Hairy Crab A group of people who are working in the office, none of whom are from China, decided we’d do dinner as a group. Singapore girl (whom was part of Thursday’s dinner) heard that Hairy Crab was in season and that this particular restaurant had it. A quick search on the internet wasn’t very promising, but I promised myself I’d keep an open mind. So, off we went in two cabs (there’s a four person limit per cab, and we were a party of 5)....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2007-10-20 14:00:00 +0800 +0800">20 Oct 2007</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Friday Night Out" href=https://blog.vollink.com/in-china/2007/10/friday-night-out/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>A Note To My Readers...(from China)</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>BlogSpot and China BlogSpot and China do not appear to get along very well. This editing interface (blogger.com) works intermittently, but does work most of the time. However, my page at blogspot.com is simply not available to me.
If you are one of the nice folks whom have posted a note, I cannot reply (I only know about them because of the moderation interface) except in this very public way (or via Email)....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2007-10-20 12:00:00 +0800 +0800">20 Oct 2007</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to A Note To My Readers...(from China)" href=https://blog.vollink.com/in-china/2007/10/a-note-to-my-readers...from-china/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/history/page/4/>« Prev</a>
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Zhong Guan Cun District, Beijing
3:50. Really? No, can’t be. It feels like I slept all day. Yep, 4:10 AM. Still pitch dark outside. This must be that jet lag people kept warning me about.
I’m already unpacked, no chance of going back to sleep. I spend the next 45 minutes watching the end of Karate Kid 2, dubbed in Mandarin, with Chinese sub-titles. I was totally lost until the big dramatic fight scene at the end....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2007-10-15 12:00:00 +0800 +0800">15 Oct 2007</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Getting there is NOT half the fun" href=https://blog.vollink.com/in-china/2007/10/getting-there-is-not-half-the-fun/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Reporting for Duty</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Haidan District, Beijing There’s a building a few blocks over from my Hotel room that has strobe lights on top of it. It’s tall enough to require them if the building were in a flight path, but there are buildings as tall around it, and they don’t seem to need strobe lights. Hmph. So, I close the hotel curtains all the way. If I strain, I can still sense the strobe, but with the curtains drawn and my eyelids closed, it doesn’t exist....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2007-10-15 12:00:00 +0800 +0800">15 Oct 2007</span> · 4 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Reporting for Duty" href=https://blog.vollink.com/in-china/2007/10/reporting-for-duty/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/history/page/5/>« Prev</a>
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I remembered to take some pictures of the Airport terminal on the way to customs.
My employer was nice enough to arrange for me, a ride from the Beijing Airport to the Hotel....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2007-10-14 12:00:00 +0800 +0800">14 Oct 2007</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Welcome To Beijing..." href=https://blog.vollink.com/in-china/2007/10/welcome-to-beijing.../></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Getting there is NOT half the fun</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>October 12 Minneapolis, MN, USA
So, I’m in China for the next few months, and getting there is not half the fun.
-Don’t get me wrong, it wasn’t an unpleasant flight - as flights go. It just wasn’t fun. 13 hours chasing the sun the whole way, and really not being able to catch any sleep. I was in a middle seat of a 747 - row 60 (only two rows from the absolute back), and even with my noise canceling headphones in, there was just too much light, and too much going on....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2007-10-14 04:00:00 +0800 +0800">14 Oct 2007</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Getting there is NOT half the fun" href=https://blog.vollink.com/in-china/2007/10/getting-there-is-not-half-the-fun/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/history/page/6/>« Prev</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+Don’t get me wrong, it wasn’t an unpleasant flight - as flights go. It just wasn’t fun. 13 hours chasing the sun the whole way, and really not being able to catch any sleep. I was in a middle seat of a 747 - row 60 (only two rows from the absolute back), and even with my noise canceling headphones in, there was just too much light, and too much going on....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2007-10-14 04:00:00 +0800 +0800">14 Oct 2007</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Getting there is NOT half the fun" href=https://blog.vollink.com/in-china/2007/10/getting-there-is-not-half-the-fun/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/history/page/6/>« Prev</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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-Several of the stories introduce a monster, but the monster itself is inactive ... in one case, already dead, leaving these stories to be more about the evil we bring with us where the monster is just a catalyst or even excuse for some all-too-human transition into bad behavior....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-10-03 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">3 Oct 2018</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] North American Lake Monsters by Nathan Ballingrud" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/10/north-american-lake-monsters/></a></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+Several of the stories introduce a monster, but the monster itself is inactive ... in one case, already dead, leaving these stories to be more about the evil we bring with us where the monster is just a catalyst or even excuse for some all-too-human transition into bad behavior....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-10-03 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">3 Oct 2018</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] North American Lake Monsters by Nathan Ballingrud" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/10/north-american-lake-monsters/></a></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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-Yet, most of the advice out there on how to deal with this suggests hard-coding these escape sequences directly into your prompt. This is great, and probably will work just fine, but I find it to be painful....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2021-11-19 04:21:00.001 -0500 -0500">19 Nov 2021</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Linux Command Prompt in Color" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2021/11/linux-command-prompt-in-color/></a></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+Yet, most of the advice out there on how to deal with this suggests hard-coding these escape sequences directly into your prompt. This is great, and probably will work just fine, but I find it to be painful....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2021-11-19 04:21:00.001 -0500 -0500">19 Nov 2021</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Linux Command Prompt in Color" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2021/11/linux-command-prompt-in-color/></a></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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Terminal in color This shows my terminal prompt in approximately the colors that I see.
-[92mgvollink@javavm[0m [GIT: (✅) [92mmaster[0m]:0 [36mðŸ /src/web/hugo-blog[m$ The above, in source, has embedded ANSI escape codes. To do this I created a language called terminal for highlight.js and an accompanying PlugIn....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2022-05-25 20:45:29 -0400 -0400">25 May 2022</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Terminal Colors with Highlight.js" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2022/05/hugo-term-color/></a></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+[92mgvollink@javavm[0m [GIT: (✅) [92mmaster[0m]:0 [36mðŸ /src/web/hugo-blog[m$ The above, in source, has embedded ANSI escape codes. To do this I created a language called terminal for highlight.js and an accompanying PlugIn....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2022-05-25 20:45:29 -0400 -0400">25 May 2022</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Terminal Colors with Highlight.js" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2022/05/hugo-term-color/></a></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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A long time ago, when I was a team lead, the group I worked with had an automated build system that was extremely complicated, built entirely in-house, and didn't follow the conventions of any of the standard build-systems that exist....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-03-30 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">30 Mar 2019</span> · 4 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Fixing the Broken" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/03/fixing-the-broken/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Managing Difficult Problems</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I can no longer count the number of times that I've been able to re-invigorate a problem investigation, even if I have zero visibility on the actual problem. This takes some self-discipline that doesn't come easy, especially during an urgent investigation.
Here's that one weird trick:I do the depth of reading myself. If I see multiple threads, I'll read all of them. Then I will write as short a summary of all of the facts that I can....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-03-09 12:00:00.001 -0500 -0500">9 Mar 2019</span> · 4 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Managing Difficult Problems" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/03/managing-difficult-problems/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Bangalore and Rain</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Went for a walk (more on that after the jump).  So, back in the hotel... watching TV.  There's an advertisement for a women's beauty product that seems to promise itself as a skin lightener.  I thought of this as crazy (even though Indian friends of mine have mentioned this before), so while writing this paragraph, I found a blog describing skin lightening products for men.  Of course, products that market to a 'better self-esteem' are popular everywhere, but ....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2010-11-07 06:04:00 -0500 -0500">7 Nov 2010</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Bangalore and Rain" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2010/11/bangalore-and-rain/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Password Retention Policies</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>It never used to bother me, but now it does.
Every time I hear about one of those laptops stolen with secrets, but "no secure password", I believe that corporate password retention policies are to blame.
-I have now come to the point, where I work, that the various password systems, with their vastly different password policies, have collided to make it impossible for me to keep up anymore. I will now be one of the countless hoardes that puts my passwords on a sticky note above my notebook's keyboard....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2009-05-02 16:40:00 -0400 -0400">2 May 2009</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Password Retention Policies" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2009/05/password-retention-policies/></a></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+I have now come to the point, where I work, that the various password systems, with their vastly different password policies, have collided to make it impossible for me to keep up anymore. I will now be one of the countless hoardes that puts my passwords on a sticky note above my notebook's keyboard....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2009-05-02 16:40:00 -0400 -0400">2 May 2009</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Password Retention Policies" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2009/05/password-retention-policies/></a></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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We agreed to meet at a KFC (not “the KFCâ€, but one a block away) between 10:30 and 10:45. She arrived about 10 minutes after I did apologizing that she was very late....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2007-11-11 14:00:00 +0800 +0800">11 Nov 2007</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to YongHeGong, Lama Temple" href=https://blog.vollink.com/in-china/2007/11/yonghegong-lama-temple/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Note on Photos</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>There are many pictures that I have posted to the photos site that are not visible to the general public.
http://photos.vollink.com/
If I know you, you can sign up for an account, then Email me your login name. I will then enable your account to see the rest of the photo collections. This includes categories like, “Friends at Work†and “Friends at Hotelâ€.
-If I don’t know you, you can still sign up for an account, but you’ll get no benefit, and will have given your Email address to another random site on the internet....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2007-11-11 12:00:00 +0800 +0800">11 Nov 2007</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Note on Photos" href=https://blog.vollink.com/in-china/2007/11/note-on-photos/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=next href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/in-china/page/2/>Next »</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+If I don’t know you, you can still sign up for an account, but you’ll get no benefit, and will have given your Email address to another random site on the internet....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2007-11-11 12:00:00 +0800 +0800">11 Nov 2007</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Note on Photos" href=https://blog.vollink.com/in-china/2007/11/note-on-photos/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=next href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/in-china/page/2/>Next »</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Wait though, it’s not that bread doesn’t exist. There’s a lot of bread her
North East Beijing Territory
Some people from work were talking about a Great Wall Hike. I was reluctantly invited to go along, after being told many times that it would be a lot of up and down, and it’s very strenuous…
Gubeikou The group starts off at a break-neck pace, and I become winded almost immediately....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2007-10-28 14:00:00 +0800 +0800">28 Oct 2007</span> · 4 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Great Wall Hike" href=https://blog.vollink.com/in-china/2007/10/great-wall-hike/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/in-china/>« Prev</a>
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@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ The kid behind the counter looks at me like I’m an idiot and says, “Yeah, yo
Credit Due… Special thanks to Vital Systems Support for setting up the photo hosting.</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2007-10-23 12:00:00 +0800 +0800">23 Oct 2007</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Photos" href=https://blog.vollink.com/in-china/2007/10/photos/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Friday Night Out</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>October 19
Adventures with Hairy Crab A group of people who are working in the office, none of whom are from China, decided we’d do dinner as a group. Singapore girl (whom was part of Thursday’s dinner) heard that Hairy Crab was in season and that this particular restaurant had it. A quick search on the internet wasn’t very promising, but I promised myself I’d keep an open mind. So, off we went in two cabs (there’s a four person limit per cab, and we were a party of 5)....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2007-10-20 14:00:00 +0800 +0800">20 Oct 2007</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Friday Night Out" href=https://blog.vollink.com/in-china/2007/10/friday-night-out/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>A Note To My Readers...(from China)</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>BlogSpot and China BlogSpot and China do not appear to get along very well. This editing interface (blogger.com) works intermittently, but does work most of the time. However, my page at blogspot.com is simply not available to me.
If you are one of the nice folks whom have posted a note, I cannot reply (I only know about them because of the moderation interface) except in this very public way (or via Email)....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2007-10-20 12:00:00 +0800 +0800">20 Oct 2007</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to A Note To My Readers...(from China)" href=https://blog.vollink.com/in-china/2007/10/a-note-to-my-readers...from-china/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/in-china/page/2/>« Prev</a>
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@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ I had dinner two nights ago at this really great Korean style BBQ place. They co
Zhong Guan Cun District, Beijing
3:50. Really? No, can’t be. It feels like I slept all day. Yep, 4:10 AM. Still pitch dark outside. This must be that jet lag people kept warning me about.
I’m already unpacked, no chance of going back to sleep. I spend the next 45 minutes watching the end of Karate Kid 2, dubbed in Mandarin, with Chinese sub-titles. I was totally lost until the big dramatic fight scene at the end....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2007-10-15 12:00:00 +0800 +0800">15 Oct 2007</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Getting there is NOT half the fun" href=https://blog.vollink.com/in-china/2007/10/getting-there-is-not-half-the-fun/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Reporting for Duty</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Haidan District, Beijing There’s a building a few blocks over from my Hotel room that has strobe lights on top of it. It’s tall enough to require them if the building were in a flight path, but there are buildings as tall around it, and they don’t seem to need strobe lights. Hmph. So, I close the hotel curtains all the way. If I strain, I can still sense the strobe, but with the curtains drawn and my eyelids closed, it doesn’t exist....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2007-10-15 12:00:00 +0800 +0800">15 Oct 2007</span> · 4 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Reporting for Duty" href=https://blog.vollink.com/in-china/2007/10/reporting-for-duty/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/in-china/page/3/>« Prev</a>
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@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Looking out the windows, it wasn’t possible to see very far. This must be one
I remembered to take some pictures of the Airport terminal on the way to customs.
My employer was nice enough to arrange for me, a ride from the Beijing Airport to the Hotel....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2007-10-14 12:00:00 +0800 +0800">14 Oct 2007</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Welcome To Beijing..." href=https://blog.vollink.com/in-china/2007/10/welcome-to-beijing.../></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Getting there is NOT half the fun</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>October 12 Minneapolis, MN, USA
So, I’m in China for the next few months, and getting there is not half the fun.
-Don’t get me wrong, it wasn’t an unpleasant flight - as flights go. It just wasn’t fun. 13 hours chasing the sun the whole way, and really not being able to catch any sleep. I was in a middle seat of a 747 - row 60 (only two rows from the absolute back), and even with my noise canceling headphones in, there was just too much light, and too much going on....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2007-10-14 04:00:00 +0800 +0800">14 Oct 2007</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Getting there is NOT half the fun" href=https://blog.vollink.com/in-china/2007/10/getting-there-is-not-half-the-fun/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/in-china/page/4/>« Prev</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+Don’t get me wrong, it wasn’t an unpleasant flight - as flights go. It just wasn’t fun. 13 hours chasing the sun the whole way, and really not being able to catch any sleep. I was in a middle seat of a 747 - row 60 (only two rows from the absolute back), and even with my noise canceling headphones in, there was just too much light, and too much going on....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2007-10-14 04:00:00 +0800 +0800">14 Oct 2007</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Getting there is NOT half the fun" href=https://blog.vollink.com/in-china/2007/10/getting-there-is-not-half-the-fun/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/in-china/page/4/>« Prev</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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Despite what the numerous signs and dotted lines suggest, lanes are defined by the width of the vehicles next to you right now. Traffic signal lights are suggestions, that you follow only so far as someone in the other direction is tired of waiting for a green and is willing to put the front of their vehicle in front of your movement....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2010-11-11 05:34:00 -0500 -0500">11 Nov 2010</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Quasimodo says, &quot;The Horns, The Horns&quot;" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2010/11/quasimodo-says-the-horns-the-horns/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>What's My Beef with Bangalore?</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>So, I have been in Bangalore now for five days, but something happened two days ago, that I was a bit surprised by...
-I've eaten at several places since I've been here, though, only one place would I consider having what I'm guessing is actual Indian food.  Which is to say, I've mostly eaten at hotels, or foreign Restaurants.  My room rate, at the hotel I'm staying in, comes with free Breakfast, so that's the one meal I will always eat at the hotel....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2010-11-11 04:39:00.001 -0500 -0500">11 Nov 2010</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to What's My Beef with Bangalore?" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2010/11/what-s-my-beef-with-bangalore/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Bangalore and Rain</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Went for a walk (more on that after the jump).  So, back in the hotel... watching TV.  There's an advertisement for a women's beauty product that seems to promise itself as a skin lightener.  I thought of this as crazy (even though Indian friends of mine have mentioned this before), so while writing this paragraph, I found a blog describing skin lightening products for men.  Of course, products that market to a 'better self-esteem' are popular everywhere, but ....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2010-11-07 06:04:00 -0500 -0500">7 Nov 2010</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Bangalore and Rain" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2010/11/bangalore-and-rain/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Among The Indians</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>For the first time, I'll be going to India soon. I leave at the end of this week, and I'll be back just before Thanksgiving. I'm very excited and very nervous about this trip. It seems that this will be a major part of my career development. It will also be chaotic working hours, as I'll be meeting with different departments that work all different hours of the day. Many are suggesting that I try to work UK hours, due to the natural overlap that GMT possesses, but alas, I'm already in meetings that will start at 9:30 local time, so ....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2010-11-03 15:10:00.001 -0400 -0400">3 Nov 2010</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Among The Indians" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2010/11/among-the-indians/></a></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+I've eaten at several places since I've been here, though, only one place would I consider having what I'm guessing is actual Indian food.  Which is to say, I've mostly eaten at hotels, or foreign Restaurants.  My room rate, at the hotel I'm staying in, comes with free Breakfast, so that's the one meal I will always eat at the hotel....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2010-11-11 04:39:00.001 -0500 -0500">11 Nov 2010</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to What's My Beef with Bangalore?" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2010/11/what-s-my-beef-with-bangalore/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Bangalore and Rain</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Went for a walk (more on that after the jump).  So, back in the hotel... watching TV.  There's an advertisement for a women's beauty product that seems to promise itself as a skin lightener.  I thought of this as crazy (even though Indian friends of mine have mentioned this before), so while writing this paragraph, I found a blog describing skin lightening products for men.  Of course, products that market to a 'better self-esteem' are popular everywhere, but ....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2010-11-07 06:04:00 -0500 -0500">7 Nov 2010</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Bangalore and Rain" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2010/11/bangalore-and-rain/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Among The Indians</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>For the first time, I'll be going to India soon. I leave at the end of this week, and I'll be back just before Thanksgiving. I'm very excited and very nervous about this trip. It seems that this will be a major part of my career development. It will also be chaotic working hours, as I'll be meeting with different departments that work all different hours of the day. Many are suggesting that I try to work UK hours, due to the natural overlap that GMT possesses, but alas, I'm already in meetings that will start at 9:30 local time, so ....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2010-11-03 15:10:00.001 -0400 -0400">3 Nov 2010</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Among The Indians" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2010/11/among-the-indians/></a></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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I tried to buy tickets to NYCC the minute they went on sale....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2015-05-14 10:06:00 -0400 -0400">14 May 2015</span> · 5 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to NYCC : Horrible Shopping Experience" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2015/05/nycc-horrible-shopping-experience/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Google+ or Not</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Thanks for the invites.  I have a small collection now.
I can't use Google+, and here's why.
I use Google Apps for Domains. Â This allows me to do all sorts of things with vollink.com. Â However, Google hasn't opened Google+ up for domains accounts yet.
-I /could/ use a Google account that isn't already associated with my domains account.  However, with a domains account, Google tracks my login across the browser, which means to use a different Google account, I either have to use a different browser for the other account, or I would have to log out of all Google services first....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2011-07-23 18:08:00 -0400 -0400">23 Jul 2011</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Google+ or Not" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2011/07/google-or-not/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=next href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/it/page/2/>Next »</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+I /could/ use a Google account that isn't already associated with my domains account.  However, with a domains account, Google tracks my login across the browser, which means to use a different Google account, I either have to use a different browser for the other account, or I would have to log out of all Google services first....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2011-07-23 18:08:00 -0400 -0400">23 Jul 2011</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Google+ or Not" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2011/07/google-or-not/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=next href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/it/page/2/>Next »</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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<span class=logo-switches><button id=theme-toggle accesskey=t title="(Alt + T)"><svg id="moon" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentcolor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round"><path d="M21 12.79A9 9 0 1111.21 3 7 7 0 0021 12.79z"/></svg><svg id="sun" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentcolor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round"><circle cx="12" cy="12" r="5"/><line x1="12" y1="1" x2="12" y2="3"/><line x1="12" y1="21" x2="12" y2="23"/><line x1="4.22" y1="4.22" x2="5.64" y2="5.64"/><line x1="18.36" y1="18.36" x2="19.78" y2="19.78"/><line x1="1" y1="12" x2="3" y2="12"/><line x1="21" y1="12" x2="23" y2="12"/><line x1="4.22" y1="19.78" x2="5.64" y2="18.36"/><line x1="18.36" y1="5.64" x2="19.78" y2="4.22"/></svg></button></span></div><ul id=menu><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/ title=Posts><span>Posts</span></a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/ title=Tags><span>Tags</span></a></li><li><a href=https://home.vollink.com/ title=home.vollink.com><span>home.vollink.com</span></a></li></ul></nav></header><main class=main><header class=page-header><div class=breadcrumbs><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>Home</a> » <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/>Tags</a></div><h1>it</h1></header><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Apple Admits iPhone Can't Compete, Targets Android with Patent Suits</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Admitting that the iPhone can no longer feature compete with the fast moving open source platform, Android, Apple Inc dusts off some patents that could be stretched to cover some Android features and starts filing lawsuits.
Gone are the days when Apple could just tell people to use their phone and the difference in quality would be obvious.  These days, even the new Windows phones are better than iPhones, so to try to save it's market share, Apple has decided to sue instead of compete....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2011-01-03 10:04:00 -0500 -0500">3 Jan 2011</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Apple Admits iPhone Can't Compete, Targets Android with Patent Suits" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2011/01/apple-admits-iphone-can-t-compete-targets-android-with-patent-suits/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Password Retention Policies</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>It never used to bother me, but now it does.
Every time I hear about one of those laptops stolen with secrets, but "no secure password", I believe that corporate password retention policies are to blame.
-I have now come to the point, where I work, that the various password systems, with their vastly different password policies, have collided to make it impossible for me to keep up anymore. I will now be one of the countless hoardes that puts my passwords on a sticky note above my notebook's keyboard....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2009-05-02 16:40:00 -0400 -0400">2 May 2009</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Password Retention Policies" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2009/05/password-retention-policies/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/it/>« Prev</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+I have now come to the point, where I work, that the various password systems, with their vastly different password policies, have collided to make it impossible for me to keep up anymore. I will now be one of the countless hoardes that puts my passwords on a sticky note above my notebook's keyboard....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2009-05-02 16:40:00 -0400 -0400">2 May 2009</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Password Retention Policies" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2009/05/password-retention-policies/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/it/>« Prev</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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CHAIR is an offset platform for programming, which is specifically made to support a programmer's approach to offset horizontal surface interfacing to tables. It does not qualify as a fully integrated development environment, but instead is a purpose built platform for supporting a programmer without getting in the way of what the programmer does best! As a programming platform CHAIR is already proven to lead to greatly reduced project timelines when compared to similar projects done without the CHAIR Platform....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2009-03-31 19:31:00 -0400 -0400">31 Mar 2009</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [dev] CHAIR Programming Platform 3.0" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2009/03/dev-chair-programming-platform-3-0/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Spotted This -- had to link it.</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p></p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-07-30 22:09:00 -0400 -0400">30 Jul 2008</span> · 0 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Spotted This -- had to link it." href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/07/spotted-this-had-to-link-it/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Just a Joke</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>The joke below was e-mailed to me recently, and I've entered it with the text that I received in the e-mail. However, it seems that the more popular version of the joke has the gender of the characters switched.
-A man was leaving a convenience store with his morning coffee when he noticed a most unusual funeral procession approaching the nearby cemetery. A long black hearse was followed by a second long black hearse about 50 feet behind the first one....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-07-30 19:30:00 -0400 -0400">30 Jul 2008</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Just a Joke" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/07/just-a-joke/></a></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+A man was leaving a convenience store with his morning coffee when he noticed a most unusual funeral procession approaching the nearby cemetery. A long black hearse was followed by a second long black hearse about 50 feet behind the first one....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-07-30 19:30:00 -0400 -0400">30 Jul 2008</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Just a Joke" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/07/just-a-joke/></a></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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From Bears to Bowdlerism...</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-12-26 21:32:00 -0500 -0500">26 Dec 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Euphemania by Ralph Keyes" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/12/euphemania/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover Since this is a non-fiction and educational book, I'm not going to worry about inadvertent spoilers as I usually do with fictional, or even narrative true-stories. This book does have a narrative flow, better that a lot of the fiction books I've already reviewed, but it is the narrative flow of a documentary, moving from subject to subject, building knowledge.
-Neil deGrasse Tyson is one of the top science communicators alive today....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-09-19 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">19 Sep 2018</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/09/astrophysics-for-people-in-a-hurry/></a></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+Neil deGrasse Tyson is one of the top science communicators alive today....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-09-19 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">19 Sep 2018</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/09/astrophysics-for-people-in-a-hurry/></a></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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-These span a wide swath of methods from very obvious paywalls to deeply obfuscated Terms of Use clauses, and they are dangerous for businesses specifically because some programmer who uses one of these technologies at home on an open source project often won’t think twice about installing the same on a business supplied computer to get their job’s work done…...</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2024-04-03 17:31:21 -0400 -0400">3 Apr 2024</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Open Source Does NOT Mean Free" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2024/04/open-is-not-always-free/></a></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+These span a wide swath of methods from very obvious paywalls to deeply obfuscated Terms of Use clauses, and they are dangerous for businesses specifically because some programmer who uses one of these technologies at home on an open source project often won’t think twice about installing the same on a business supplied computer to get their job’s work done…...</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2024-04-03 17:31:21 -0400 -0400">3 Apr 2024</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Open Source Does NOT Mean Free" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2024/04/open-is-not-always-free/></a></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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History Since 2009, I have been using a Google product called G Suite, which has since been renamed to Google Apps for Domains, and most recently renamed to Google Workspace.
This service was always free, for me, as I signed up before the free-tier was cancelled in December of 2012. I even bought my wife, Jen, a domain and set is up on G Suite before then (neiher of us could remember which year), as we were just dating at the time....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2022-05-28 15:39:33 -0400 -0400">28 May 2022</span> · 5 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Switching This Blog to Self Hosting" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2022/05/switch-to-self-host/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Linux Command Prompt in Color</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>In this modern world, basically every terminal is compatible with VT-52 terminal sequences. These includes Windows Terminal (free from Microsoft on the Microsoft Store), Terminal.app (on macOS) and most terminals available under Linux. Further, most of these support emoji and 256 colors.
-Yet, most of the advice out there on how to deal with this suggests hard-coding these escape sequences directly into your prompt. This is great, and probably will work just fine, but I find it to be painful....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2021-11-19 04:21:00.001 -0500 -0500">19 Nov 2021</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Linux Command Prompt in Color" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2021/11/linux-command-prompt-in-color/></a></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+Yet, most of the advice out there on how to deal with this suggests hard-coding these escape sequences directly into your prompt. This is great, and probably will work just fine, but I find it to be painful....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2021-11-19 04:21:00.001 -0500 -0500">19 Nov 2021</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Linux Command Prompt in Color" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2021/11/linux-command-prompt-in-color/></a></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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If a process is broken throw it in the trash and start over. Nothing is set in stone. The simplicity of the tweet is absolutely true. It totally reminded me of a problem I've seen multiple times though.  The process is rarely the difficult part of fixing a problem.
A long time ago, when I was a team lead, the group I worked with had an automated build system that was extremely complicated, built entirely in-house, and didn't follow the conventions of any of the standard build-systems that exist....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-03-30 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">30 Mar 2019</span> · 4 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Fixing the Broken" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/03/fixing-the-broken/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Managing Difficult Problems</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I can no longer count the number of times that I've been able to re-invigorate a problem investigation, even if I have zero visibility on the actual problem. This takes some self-discipline that doesn't come easy, especially during an urgent investigation.
-Here's that one weird trick:I do the depth of reading myself. If I see multiple threads, I'll read all of them. Then I will write as short a summary of all of the facts that I can....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-03-09 12:00:00.001 -0500 -0500">9 Mar 2019</span> · 4 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Managing Difficult Problems" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/03/managing-difficult-problems/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=next href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/management/page/2/>Next »</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+Here's that one weird trick:I do the depth of reading myself. If I see multiple threads, I'll read all of them. Then I will write as short a summary of all of the facts that I can....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-03-09 12:00:00.001 -0500 -0500">9 Mar 2019</span> · 4 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Managing Difficult Problems" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/03/managing-difficult-problems/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=next href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/management/page/2/>Next »</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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Someone said this to me who had heard the same from someone else. Â This comes from about three years ago, and was said in the context of my then current role (having moved from process and supervisory management to direct people management). Â It bothered me.
I first got to be in management, some 20 years ago....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2016-10-14 18:21:00 -0400 -0400">14 Oct 2016</span> · 4 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Misplaced Pride - and Getting Over It" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2016/10/misplaced-pride-and-getting-over-it/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>From Top Down to Agility</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I am a Technical Team Leader.  I have some developers reporting to me.  So let me say this; Regulated, Regimented development.  That's what I try to use most of the time.  Yes, really.  It is extremely important to start a project with good specifications.  First, this means that I have had several conversations with my customers about what they are expecting to get out of the project, and how they expect to interact with it before anybody starts coding....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2011-01-24 18:00:00.005 -0500 -0500">24 Jan 2011</span> · 4 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to From Top Down to Agility" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2011/01/from-top-down-to-agility/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Another Big Change; At Work</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Big day at work today. Looks like a lot of things are changing all at once. The biggest thing about this, for me, is that I'm going to be working with a larger team.
-My job title is Technical Team Leader, but up to now, I've been dealing primarily with projects. During this project work, I've had between 1 and 5 people who are working on those projects. The guy I work for directly managed the people, while I just gave technical direction (leadership?...</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2010-09-14 20:22:00 -0400 -0400">14 Sep 2010</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Another Big Change; At Work" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2010/09/another-big-change-at-work/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/management/>« Prev</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+My job title is Technical Team Leader, but up to now, I've been dealing primarily with projects. During this project work, I've had between 1 and 5 people who are working on those projects. The guy I work for directly managed the people, while I just gave technical direction (leadership?...</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2010-09-14 20:22:00 -0400 -0400">14 Sep 2010</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Another Big Change; At Work" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2010/09/another-big-change-at-work/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/management/>« Prev</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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If my general impression of a book is that I enjoyed it, I've included the tag, recommend....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-01-10 12:00:00 -0500 -0500">10 Jan 2019</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Book Review Feedback Request" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/01/book-review-feedback-request/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>NYCC : Horrible Shopping Experience</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I already have tickets for two other conventions this year, but NYCC is the big one that happens in the city where I live and work. I know in the last few years tickets have been harder and harder to get, and I figured my chances were not going to be very good.
If this is too long one can safely scroll down to the Conclusion at the bottom.
I tried to buy tickets to NYCC the minute they went on sale....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2015-05-14 10:06:00 -0400 -0400">14 May 2015</span> · 5 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to NYCC : Horrible Shopping Experience" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2015/05/nycc-horrible-shopping-experience/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>I Did NOT Subscribe, and Why</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Dear magazine publisher.
-I was thinking that it would be awesome to sign up for your magazine for a year, try it out.  So, I went to your site, and started to fill out the information that you asked.  When it came to pay you, though, you have told me that by signing up now, I agree that you'll AUTOMATICALLY bill me again, every year, from now until I actually remember to go out of my way to cancel....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2012-04-30 13:18:00 -0400 -0400">30 Apr 2012</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to I Did NOT Subscribe, and Why" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2012/04/i-did-not-subscribe-and-why/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Geek] The Ubiquitous Computer Mouse</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Xerox Alto Mouse (1973) The computer mouse has been a basic part of computing for about 20 years now (25 if you were a Mac early-adopter, and even longer if you are a Xerox Alto power-user).  Up until recently, innovations with mouses have been about adding more buttons, and scroll wheels.  Now, with Smart-Phones becoming more and more popular, things like multi-touch and gestures are being added too....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2011-09-17 22:38:00 -0400 -0400">17 Sep 2011</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Geek] The Ubiquitous Computer Mouse" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2011/09/geek-the-ubiquitous-computer-mouse/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=next href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/media/page/2/>Next »</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+I was thinking that it would be awesome to sign up for your magazine for a year, try it out.  So, I went to your site, and started to fill out the information that you asked.  When it came to pay you, though, you have told me that by signing up now, I agree that you'll AUTOMATICALLY bill me again, every year, from now until I actually remember to go out of my way to cancel....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2012-04-30 13:18:00 -0400 -0400">30 Apr 2012</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to I Did NOT Subscribe, and Why" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2012/04/i-did-not-subscribe-and-why/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Geek] The Ubiquitous Computer Mouse</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Xerox Alto Mouse (1973) The computer mouse has been a basic part of computing for about 20 years now (25 if you were a Mac early-adopter, and even longer if you are a Xerox Alto power-user).  Up until recently, innovations with mouses have been about adding more buttons, and scroll wheels.  Now, with Smart-Phones becoming more and more popular, things like multi-touch and gestures are being added too....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2011-09-17 22:38:00 -0400 -0400">17 Sep 2011</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Geek] The Ubiquitous Computer Mouse" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2011/09/geek-the-ubiquitous-computer-mouse/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=next href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/media/page/2/>Next »</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ I use Google Apps for Domains. Â This allows me to do all sorts of things with v
I /could/ use a Google account that isn't already associated with my domains account.  However, with a domains account, Google tracks my login across the browser, which means to use a different Google account, I either have to use a different browser for the other account, or I would have to log out of all Google services first....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2011-07-23 18:08:00 -0400 -0400">23 Jul 2011</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Google+ or Not" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2011/07/google-or-not/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Go Read Joe</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Joe Klein is usually liberal, and always hopes to find the best in people, and frankly, I think we could all learn from people like him. Last night, I read an article in Time Magazine by him called, Palestinian People Power (annoyingly, Time changes the article titles on-line).
It talks about how a small, and steadily growing group of young activists in the Palestinian (Isreali Occupied) regions of Isreal are working towards political goals by using peaceful protests, sit-in vigils, and demonstrations....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2011-04-08 10:30:00 -0400 -0400">8 Apr 2011</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Go Read Joe" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2011/04/go-read-joe/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>The World vs America: Why the USA is Easy to Hate</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Because of the places I've worked, and the jobs I have had while at those places, I've been able to travel to other countries.  While in these places, I've had countless hours of conversations with people from those places, most of whom have never traveled outside of their own countries.  These conversations, frequently, are about America.
Today's blog started with me reading something that someone in the UK posted online after a rock concert....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2011-03-19 21:02:00 -0400 -0400">19 Mar 2011</span> · 8 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to The World vs America: Why the USA is Easy to Hate" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2011/03/the-world-vs-america-why-the-usa-is-easy-to-hate/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/media/>« Prev</a>
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Let me explore this a little bit (with the help of The Telegraph Timeline Reference)....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2010-12-09 18:48:00.024 -0500 -0500">9 Dec 2010</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to What Crime Was Committed?" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2010/12/what-crime-was-committed/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Video: Cruise Ship In Heavy Seas</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>From the folks at BoingBoing, this is awe inspiring in a really, really scary way.
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/07/cruise-ship-chaos-vi.html
Shorter YouTube version too...</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2010-09-09 18:40:00 -0400 -0400">9 Sep 2010</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Video: Cruise Ship In Heavy Seas" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2010/09/video-cruise-ship-in-heavy-seas/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Revisit: 'Attack and Muder at the Drum Tower' [Updated]</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Back in August, I wrote a blog entry about the attack that occurred in the second level of the Beijing drum tower.
-I received a comment on that story that I deeply hope is true, but ... partly because it was anonymous (see update), and mostly because there have been no further news reports that I've been able to find, I have no way of being sure. Here is a copy of that comment:...</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-12-08 11:19:00 -0500 -0500">8 Dec 2008</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Revisit: 'Attack and Muder at the Drum Tower' [Updated]" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/12/revisit-attack-and-muder-at-the-drum-tower-updated/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/media/page/2/>« Prev</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+I received a comment on that story that I deeply hope is true, but ... partly because it was anonymous (see update), and mostly because there have been no further news reports that I've been able to find, I have no way of being sure. Here is a copy of that comment:...</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-12-08 11:19:00 -0500 -0500">8 Dec 2008</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Revisit: 'Attack and Muder at the Drum Tower' [Updated]" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/12/revisit-attack-and-muder-at-the-drum-tower-updated/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/media/page/2/>« Prev</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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Someone said this to me who had heard the same from someone else. Â This comes from about three years ago, and was said in the context of my then current role (having moved from process and supervisory management to direct people management). Â It bothered me.
-I first got to be in management, some 20 years ago....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2016-10-14 18:21:00 -0400 -0400">14 Oct 2016</span> · 4 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Misplaced Pride - and Getting Over It" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2016/10/misplaced-pride-and-getting-over-it/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/memoir/>« Prev</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+I first got to be in management, some 20 years ago....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2016-10-14 18:21:00 -0400 -0400">14 Oct 2016</span> · 4 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Misplaced Pride - and Getting Over It" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2016/10/misplaced-pride-and-getting-over-it/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/memoir/>« Prev</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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Reading for review
My wife is a librarian, and when I started this blog, it was partly a way for me to share something about the numerous pre-release books that she and I would get when we went to book events. Also, when I started, doing this was fun, and I figured that if I were any good at it, maybe I would reach other readers....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-10-06 00:00:00 -0400 -0400">6 Oct 2019</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Stopping Regular Book Blog" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/10/stopping-regular-book-blog/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Book Review Feedback Request</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I have gone through and updated tags on all existing and future book reviews, with the hope they may be easier to find in the future.
First, all book reviews (even short ones) now include the tag book-reviews. That is, if I'm telling you what I think about a book, it is a book review. There are also short-book-reviews on some.
-If my general impression of a book is that I enjoyed it, I've included the tag, recommend....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-01-10 12:00:00 -0500 -0500">10 Jan 2019</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Book Review Feedback Request" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/01/book-review-feedback-request/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=next href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/meta/page/2/>Next »</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+If my general impression of a book is that I enjoyed it, I've included the tag, recommend....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-01-10 12:00:00 -0500 -0500">10 Jan 2019</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Book Review Feedback Request" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/01/book-review-feedback-request/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=next href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/meta/page/2/>Next »</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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-Ha!  Technically, I just figured out how to import my old blog into this one.  So, now everything is all in one place.</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2010-09-03 15:49:00.001 -0400 -0400">3 Sep 2010</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to New Start" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2010/09/new-start/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/meta/>« Prev</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+Ha!  Technically, I just figured out how to import my old blog into this one.  So, now everything is all in one place.</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2010-09-03 15:49:00.001 -0400 -0400">3 Sep 2010</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to New Start" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2010/09/new-start/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/meta/>« Prev</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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I've heard various things about the Government bail-outs of banks, auto makers and mortgages.  So, I did a quick search, and found a really great article over at ProPublica.  This is a list of who still has money, and who paid money back already....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2011-04-08 11:05:00 -0400 -0400">8 Apr 2011</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Government Bail Out vs. Shut Down" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2011/04/government-bail-out-vs-shut-down/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Eight Percent Lost</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Washington DC
As the House of Representatives are pandering to the most resentful and least educated of their respective constituents, the economists on Wall Street started another sell off.
-The results, about 8% loss. Of course, this depends on what index you are looking at, but 8% seems to be right about in the middle. The Dow is down 777 points or 6.98%. The Russel 1000 is down 8.69%. Nasdaq Composite is down 199 points or 9....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-09-29 18:30:00 -0400 -0400">29 Sep 2008</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Eight Percent Lost" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/09/eight-percent-lost/></a></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+The results, about 8% loss. Of course, this depends on what index you are looking at, but 8% seems to be right about in the middle. The Dow is down 777 points or 6.98%. The Russel 1000 is down 8.69%. Nasdaq Composite is down 199 points or 9....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-09-29 18:30:00 -0400 -0400">29 Sep 2008</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Eight Percent Lost" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/09/eight-percent-lost/></a></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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-Won't you be my neighbor is a very well paced, carefully timed, and beautifully edited documentary....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-03-09 12:00:00 -0500 -0500">9 Mar 2019</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Movie] Won't You Be My Neighbor (2018)" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/03/movie-won-t-you-be-my-neighbor-2018/></a></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+Won't you be my neighbor is a very well paced, carefully timed, and beautifully edited documentary....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-03-09 12:00:00 -0500 -0500">9 Mar 2019</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Movie] Won't You Be My Neighbor (2018)" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/03/movie-won-t-you-be-my-neighbor-2018/></a></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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Gone are the days when Apple could just tell people to use their phone and the difference in quality would be obvious.  These days, even the new Windows phones are better than iPhones, so to try to save it's market share, Apple has decided to sue instead of compete....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2011-01-03 10:04:00 -0500 -0500">3 Jan 2011</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Apple Admits iPhone Can't Compete, Targets Android with Patent Suits" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2011/01/apple-admits-iphone-can-t-compete-targets-android-with-patent-suits/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>What Crime Was Committed?</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>It appears that the politicians who are supposed to represent me are trying to convince me that a website, WikiLeaks, run primarily by a group of Australian citizens has, itself, done something illegal.
I'm usually not one to go out of my way to question things my representatives are saying, but in this case, I feel I have to.
Let me explore this a little bit (with the help of The Telegraph Timeline Reference)....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2010-12-09 18:48:00.024 -0500 -0500">9 Dec 2010</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to What Crime Was Committed?" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2010/12/what-crime-was-committed/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Watch Out! Child Playing in the Street! No, A Speed Device</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Via PhysOrg.com [0], The City of West Vancouver, Canada, has unveiled the latest technology to get drivers to slow down.  A photo-realistic image of a little girl grabbing a ball, that is stretched long and flat to give the optical illusion that she is real, when viewed from a distance.  (Image from CTV, after the break.)
-This particular experiment has been installed near a primary school, and only be in place for a week, and there are special signs and extra patrols in the area during this period....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2010-09-11 10:00:00.001 -0400 -0400">11 Sep 2010</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Watch Out! Child Playing in the Street! No, A Speed Device" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2010/09/watch-out-child-playing-in-the-street-no-a-speed-device/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=next href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/news/page/2/>Next »</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+This particular experiment has been installed near a primary school, and only be in place for a week, and there are special signs and extra patrols in the area during this period....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2010-09-11 10:00:00.001 -0400 -0400">11 Sep 2010</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Watch Out! Child Playing in the Street! No, A Speed Device" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2010/09/watch-out-child-playing-in-the-street-no-a-speed-device/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=next href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/news/page/2/>Next »</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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I received a comment on that story that I deeply hope is true, but ... partly because it was anonymous (see update), and mostly because there have been no further news reports that I've been able to find, I have no way of being sure. Here is a copy of that comment:...</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-12-08 11:19:00 -0500 -0500">8 Dec 2008</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Revisit: 'Attack and Muder at the Drum Tower' [Updated]" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/12/revisit-attack-and-muder-at-the-drum-tower-updated/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Eight Percent Lost</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Washington DC
As the House of Representatives are pandering to the most resentful and least educated of their respective constituents, the economists on Wall Street started another sell off.
The results, about 8% loss. Of course, this depends on what index you are looking at, but 8% seems to be right about in the middle. The Dow is down 777 points or 6.98%. The Russel 1000 is down 8.69%. Nasdaq Composite is down 199 points or 9....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-09-29 18:30:00 -0400 -0400">29 Sep 2008</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Eight Percent Lost" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/09/eight-percent-lost/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/news/>« Prev</a>
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-The arc doesn't exactly get better from there, but it starts to be framed in a way that shows gratitude for the things that haven't gone completely wrong, though things do continue to go wrong....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-05-15 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">15 May 2019</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Maid by Stephanie Land" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/05/maid/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=next href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/nonfiction/page/2/>Next »</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+The arc doesn't exactly get better from there, but it starts to be framed in a way that shows gratitude for the things that haven't gone completely wrong, though things do continue to go wrong....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-05-15 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">15 May 2019</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Maid by Stephanie Land" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/05/maid/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=next href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/nonfiction/page/2/>Next »</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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From Bears to Bowdlerism...</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-12-26 21:32:00 -0500 -0500">26 Dec 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Euphemania by Ralph Keyes" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/12/euphemania/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover Since this is a non-fiction and educational book, I'm not going to worry about inadvertent spoilers as I usually do with fictional, or even narrative true-stories. This book does have a narrative flow, better that a lot of the fiction books I've already reviewed, but it is the narrative flow of a documentary, moving from subject to subject, building knowledge.
Neil deGrasse Tyson is one of the top science communicators alive today....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-09-19 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">19 Sep 2018</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/09/astrophysics-for-people-in-a-hurry/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/nonfiction/>« Prev</a>
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I categorize this book as a Memoir, mostly because it follows the narrative flow of a memoir. It starts out introducing the reader to Michael Bennett's childhood on a rural farm in the South, into college through the NFL, and discusses his own discovery of the importance of both support and activism on a number of issues of equality....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-08-29 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">29 Aug 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Things That Make White People Uncomfortable by Michael Bennett and Dave Zirin" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/08/things-that-make-white-people-uncomfortable/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] The Real Lolita by Sarah Weinman</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I got an advanced readers copy of this book from the first day of BookExpo. It is supposed to be released in September 2018, but that is preliminary, and the date could slip.
-Book cover I don't usually read true-crime genre books. If I had never read the Nabokov fiction, Lolita, I would have never been interested enough in this book to read The Real Lolita by Sarah Weinman....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-06-13 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">13 Jun 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] The Real Lolita by Sarah Weinman" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/06/the-real-lolita/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/nonfiction/page/2/>« Prev</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+Book cover I don't usually read true-crime genre books. If I had never read the Nabokov fiction, Lolita, I would have never been interested enough in this book to read The Real Lolita by Sarah Weinman....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-06-13 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">13 Jun 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] The Real Lolita by Sarah Weinman" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/06/the-real-lolita/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/nonfiction/page/2/>« Prev</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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First, all book reviews (even short ones) now include the tag book-reviews. That is, if I'm telling you what I think about a book, it is a book review. There are also short-book-reviews on some.
If my general impression of a book is that I enjoyed it, I've included the tag, recommend....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-01-10 12:00:00 -0500 -0500">10 Jan 2019</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Book Review Feedback Request" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/01/book-review-feedback-request/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Next Career Move</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>The company I work(ed) for has been planning a division sell-off for most of the year. Weeks after that division spin-off into Private Equity, I was notified that my last day will be 29 October. The last time I was laid-off, it was similarly driven by a corporate action. Upper management had been talking about a flatter organization, and cutting out management levels, so I was well prepared mentally. I actually expected that I would take it much worse than I did....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-10-20 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">20 Oct 2018</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Next Career Move" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/10/next-career-move/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Shopping] eBuyer Beware</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I know this. Read the fine print. I didn't do that. The rest is geeky details having to do with rack-mountable servers.
I have a 12U rack. Sort-of an end-table next to the couch. I have two servers. One of them is happily racked. The other one is awkwardly sitting sideways across the top of the rack.
-I jumped on eBay a week ago, looking to find the rails I need....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-08-25 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">25 Aug 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Shopping] eBuyer Beware" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/08/shopping-ebuyer-beware/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=next href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/personal/page/2/>Next »</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+I jumped on eBay a week ago, looking to find the rails I need....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-08-25 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">25 Aug 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Shopping] eBuyer Beware" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/08/shopping-ebuyer-beware/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=next href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/personal/page/2/>Next »</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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For most of my professional life, I've been a computer programmer or computer administrator.  This is my story....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2014-07-21 18:35:00.002 -0400 -0400">21 Jul 2014</span> · 11 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Professional Autobiography" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2014/07/professional-autobiography/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Goodbye to Jenn Gabriel-Powell</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I'm in a hotel in Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom.  I'm in the UK on a four week business trip.  I have exactly one friend in Devon who is not from work, and I had plans to hang out with her, and meet her husband today.
I guess I should say that I had one friend in Devon who is not from work.
Jenn Gabriel-Powell had an accident yesterday, suffered a subdural hematoma, and never recovered....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2014-03-30 14:56:00.002 -0400 -0400">30 Mar 2014</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Goodbye to Jenn Gabriel-Powell" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2014/03/goodbye-to-jenn-gabriel-powell/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/personal/>« Prev</a>
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I'm back from Bangalore. Â I had a great trip. Â Saw some cool things, met many cool people. Â I will, eventually, get around to posting photos.
Christmas time is nigh...</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2010-12-07 21:33:00 -0500 -0500">7 Dec 2010</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Christmas Time Is Nigh" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2010/12/christmas-time-is-nigh/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Big Change</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I just got off the phone with my girlfriend, J.  It was one of those marathon chats that go on and on, but we didn't really say much.  It's Labor day today, so we chatted about that.  I mentioned that I saw a tree on Friday that had half it's leaves brown already.  Fall is closing in early.  She mentioned some of the things she is doing where she is....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2010-09-06 17:58:00 -0400 -0400">6 Sep 2010</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Big Change" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2010/09/big-change/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Crazy Morning, Getting Better</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>It's raining in St. Paul today.  I had an overnight guest, family of a friend*, who was planning to get into work early, and didn't quite make it in early.  To put it lightly, my overnight guest had a really bad morning.  I got up just in time to see her off, and decided to make some eggs as she left.  I just finished making breakfast when I got the phone call....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2010-06-08 11:53:00 -0400 -0400">8 Jun 2010</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Crazy Morning, Getting Better" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2010/06/crazy-morning-getting-better/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/personal/page/2/>« Prev</a>
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<span class=logo-switches><button id=theme-toggle accesskey=t title="(Alt + T)"><svg id="moon" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentcolor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round"><path d="M21 12.79A9 9 0 1111.21 3 7 7 0 0021 12.79z"/></svg><svg id="sun" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentcolor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round"><circle cx="12" cy="12" r="5"/><line x1="12" y1="1" x2="12" y2="3"/><line x1="12" y1="21" x2="12" y2="23"/><line x1="4.22" y1="4.22" x2="5.64" y2="5.64"/><line x1="18.36" y1="18.36" x2="19.78" y2="19.78"/><line x1="1" y1="12" x2="3" y2="12"/><line x1="21" y1="12" x2="23" y2="12"/><line x1="4.22" y1="19.78" x2="5.64" y2="18.36"/><line x1="18.36" y1="5.64" x2="19.78" y2="4.22"/></svg></button></span></div><ul id=menu><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/ title=Posts><span>Posts</span></a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/ title=Tags><span>Tags</span></a></li><li><a href=https://home.vollink.com/ title=home.vollink.com><span>home.vollink.com</span></a></li></ul></nav></header><main class=main><header class=page-header><div class=breadcrumbs><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>Home</a> » <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/>Tags</a></div><h1>personal</h1></header><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>China Memories</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>This was continuously one of my favorite spots on the road in China... It's not easy to see the street painted arrows below, but it mirrors the sign above.
I never saw anybody attempt to turn left at this point, and I'm glad for that.</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-11-21 18:31:00 -0500 -0500">21 Nov 2008</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to China Memories" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/11/china-memories/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>New Address</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I have a new place. I now live in Downtown St. Paul, MN at an apartment that is skyway connected. I have a 12 minute walk to work through the skyway, and I don't really need to drive much anymore.
This will be convenient in the winter, and even more when there's a snow storm.
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There are certain hot-takes that basically suggest that the world will drown in 3, 2...
There are certain hot-takes that basically suggest that we are aligned with Syria by doing this.  (There are those that mention Nicaragua, but that country's non-participation is much more complicated)....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2017-06-03 00:40:00 -0400 -0400">3 Jun 2017</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Tired of Panic - Paris Climate Accord Edition" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2017/06/tired-of-panic-paris-climate-accord-edition/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Trump Boasts of Power Not Attraction</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Locker room talk, no it isn't necessarily a locker room.  In any place where one is surrounded by only peers, language and boasts can be sometimes be observed.  The braggadocio is always trying to make themselves seem better. In the context of sexual liaisons here are some samples of things I have heard: She was all over me She couldn’t keep her hands off me I leaned in to ask her something and she just started kissing me She couldn’t resist me...</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2016-10-15 10:42:00 -0400 -0400">15 Oct 2016</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Trump Boasts of Power Not Attraction" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2016/10/trump-boasts-of-power-not-attraction/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>NSA and Security, Again</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Or: What I knew, what I thought I knew, and what I really didn't know.
-I have, since at least 1999, worked with companies that are internationally distributed.  This means, I regularly have correspondence with people in Australia, China, France, Germany, India, Israel, Poland, Singapore and the United Kingdom.  Some of these folks, I have become friends with, so I have had personal correspondence with people in these countries, both paper and electronic....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2013-07-03 21:13:00.001 -0400 -0400">3 Jul 2013</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to NSA and Security, Again" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2013/07/nsa-and-security-again/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=next href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/politics/page/2/>Next »</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+I have, since at least 1999, worked with companies that are internationally distributed.  This means, I regularly have correspondence with people in Australia, China, France, Germany, India, Israel, Poland, Singapore and the United Kingdom.  Some of these folks, I have become friends with, so I have had personal correspondence with people in these countries, both paper and electronic....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2013-07-03 21:13:00.001 -0400 -0400">3 Jul 2013</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to NSA and Security, Again" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2013/07/nsa-and-security-again/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=next href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/politics/page/2/>Next »</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2013-07-02 13:18:00 -0400 -0400">2 Jul 2013</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2013/07/fourth-amendment-to-the-united-states-constitution/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>SOPA/PIPA (Protect IP)</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I am your constituent and I never miss a vote.  I want to make clear, that there are already laws and international treaties in place to protect from online piracy.  If those are not working, using Chinese style censorship methods to block foreign sites makes me wonder what happened to freedom, and I will remember those in congress who agreed with a minority of struggling entertainment concerns that Chinese style internet totalitarianism is the best answer....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2012-01-18 10:56:00 -0500 -0500">18 Jan 2012</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to SOPA/PIPA (Protect IP)" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2012/01/sopa-pipa-protect-ip/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Government Bail Out vs. Shut Down</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>It looks like we're going to have a Newt Gingrich style government shut-down this weekend.  A friend of mine, who will be affected by this if it happens, mentioned that it seems like this is fall-out for the bail-outs.
I've heard various things about the Government bail-outs of banks, auto makers and mortgages.  So, I did a quick search, and found a really great article over at ProPublica.  This is a list of who still has money, and who paid money back already....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2011-04-08 11:05:00 -0400 -0400">8 Apr 2011</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Government Bail Out vs. Shut Down" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2011/04/government-bail-out-vs-shut-down/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Go Read Joe</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Joe Klein is usually liberal, and always hopes to find the best in people, and frankly, I think we could all learn from people like him. Last night, I read an article in Time Magazine by him called, Palestinian People Power (annoyingly, Time changes the article titles on-line).
It talks about how a small, and steadily growing group of young activists in the Palestinian (Isreali Occupied) regions of Isreal are working towards political goals by using peaceful protests, sit-in vigils, and demonstrations....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2011-04-08 10:30:00 -0400 -0400">8 Apr 2011</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Go Read Joe" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2011/04/go-read-joe/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/politics/>« Prev</a>
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I read the article above*, and couldn't help but notice that this was the very same analysis that so many had about the Green Party during the G.W.Bush years. The whole idea, then, was that the Green party, by both attracting Democrats, and then also endorsing occasional bat-shit-crazy candidates basically imploded the realistic chances of either party. *The Headline is different in the print edition: Mark Halperin's Take: How the Tea Party Is a Mixed Blessing</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2010-07-19 12:35:00.001 -0400 -0400">19 Jul 2010</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Tea Party : The Republican Green?" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2010/07/tea-party-the-republican-green/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Eight Percent Lost</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Washington DC
As the House of Representatives are pandering to the most resentful and least educated of their respective constituents, the economists on Wall Street started another sell off.
The results, about 8% loss. Of course, this depends on what index you are looking at, but 8% seems to be right about in the middle. The Dow is down 777 points or 6.98%. The Russel 1000 is down 8.69%. Nasdaq Composite is down 199 points or 9....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-09-29 18:30:00 -0400 -0400">29 Sep 2008</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Eight Percent Lost" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/09/eight-percent-lost/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/politics/page/2/>« Prev</a>
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I had been thinking for the last several months about Nixon's "Silent Majority" [1] [2].
The silent majority is usually described as the "mostly conservative" bulk of people who are not easily swayed by politics. Some discussions have suggested that this majority is simply gone, that it doesn't exist. However, I take it that - even while Nixon called them a "...</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-06-27 18:02:00 -0400 -0400">27 Jun 2008</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Remembering the Silent Majority" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/06/remembering-the-silent-majority/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Why Most Politics Is Radical</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Status Quo
I firmly believe that most people are either, pretty much O.K. with the way most things are, or so apathetic to the possibility of change that they don't care.
-Of this great majority, there is no reason to stand up and demand that things stay pretty much the same. Who would bother getting out of the house to vote for someone who doesn't think there's much to do....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-06-20 03:03:00 -0400 -0400">20 Jun 2008</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Why Most Politics Is Radical" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/06/why-most-politics-is-radical/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/politics/page/3/>« Prev</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+Of this great majority, there is no reason to stand up and demand that things stay pretty much the same. Who would bother getting out of the house to vote for someone who doesn't think there's much to do....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-06-20 03:03:00 -0400 -0400">20 Jun 2008</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Why Most Politics Is Radical" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/06/why-most-politics-is-radical/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/politics/page/3/>« Prev</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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The main character, Jaya Rao, is a princess from an old kingdom of India who is literally there to break someone's heart....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2020-01-22 12:00:00 -0500 -0500">22 Jan 2020</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Of Curses and Kisses by Sandhya Menon" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2020/01/of-curses-and-kisses/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover The Graveyard Book isn't a horror novel, but it is absolutely goth and macabre. The story follows a boy from 18 months old when his whole family is murdered and he wanders off into the night through his childhood as he is raised in a graveyard by two ghosts and a vampire as guardian (who supplies physical things, like food and clothes). At one point, we meet a werewolf and ghouls as well....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-09-18 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">18 Sep 2019</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/09/the-graveyard-book/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] How To Be A Snow Queen by Mari Schuh</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover This is a children's (6 to 10 years) book about leadership, the subtitle is Leadership With Elsa. While recapping the story of Disney's Frozen, it is a combination of pointing out leadership traits within the story, and pop-up video style call-outs to movie related facts. Because this is an educational title riding on top of the fictional story of Frozen, it is categorized as a non-fiction book....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-08-28 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">28 Aug 2019</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] How To Be A Snow Queen by Mari Schuh" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/08/how-to-be-a-snow-queen/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Defy the Fates by Claudia Gray</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book Cover This is the final book of the Defy the Stars trilogy (start with reviews of book one and two). There are probably mild spoilers for the first and one major spoiler for the second book in this review of book three, so please proceed with that in mind.
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There is a lot to unpack in the world-building and the world is built along with the story. Each chapter is unusually episodic, in that some small part of the last scene of a previous chapter will be often be repeated at the beginning of the next....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-07-10 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">10 Jul 2019</span> · 4 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Binti Trilogy by Nnedi Okorafor" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/07/binti-trilogy/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/recommend/>« Prev</a>
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I cannot review this book without noting that Fred Rogers means a lot to me, as I watched his show regularly for many years....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-06-12 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">12 Jun 2019</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] The Good Neighbor by Maxwell King" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/06/the-good-neighbor/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Defy The Stars by Claudia Gray</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>This is book one of a three book series (the third book came out earlier this month), and since I've already had good reviews of two other books by this author, I decided to pick up this series as well to see what she had done outside of the Star Wars universe.
Book cover Through a ring of stabilized wormholes, large enough for whole ships to pass through, Earth expanded to five other planets....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-05-29 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">29 May 2019</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Defy The Stars by Claudia Gray" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/05/defy-the-stars/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Maid by Stephanie Land</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover Start from one mistake, one that is tragically common - becoming a parent a little to young. From that point, almost everything that can go wrong in someone's life while still making the best possible choice for the circumstance is laid out in the first four chapters of this book. This beginning is a treatise on despair and government anti-poverty programs.
The arc doesn't exactly get better from there, but it starts to be framed in a way that shows gratitude for the things that haven't gone completely wrong, though things do continue to go wrong....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-05-15 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">15 May 2019</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Maid by Stephanie Land" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/05/maid/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/recommend/page/2/>« Prev</a>
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The very beginning of this book does capture the early history of Pixar up through the release and success of Toy Story....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-04-03 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">3 Apr 2019</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Creativity Inc. by Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/04/creativity-inc/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover Over a thousand years before the book's present, there was a war that effectively destroyed all of society. Picking up the pieces of the technology that was left behind, London was put onto treads, run by steam, so that it find and consume other towns for resources and, ultimately, more fuel to keep moving.
Over time, other towns and cities did the same, while another group, called the Anti-Traction League, created a defensive wall across the only pass in a mountain range to keep these traction cities at bay on the other side....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-03-20 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">20 Mar 2019</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/03/mortal-engines/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Movie] Won't You Be My Neighbor (2018)</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Movie poster This is a documentary film about Fred McFeely Rogers, who was on a popular children's program called Mister Rogers' Neighborhood from 1968 through 2001. The movie starts his career with a children's show that he produced before Neighborhood, the Children's Corner, though skips his earliest work for NBC.
Won't you be my neighbor is a very well paced, carefully timed, and beautifully edited documentary....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-03-09 12:00:00 -0500 -0500">9 Mar 2019</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Movie] Won't You Be My Neighbor (2018)" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/03/movie-won-t-you-be-my-neighbor-2018/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/recommend/page/3/>« Prev</a>
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Subtitled Trump in the White House, Fear is about the presidency of Donald Trump and written by the Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-03-06 12:00:00 -0500 -0500">6 Mar 2019</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Fear by Bob Woodward" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/03/fear/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Ball Lightning by Cixin Liu</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover I have a fairly particular view of science-fiction and how it is different from fantasy. The fantastic element in science fiction is usually both a catalyst for the story itself as well as a way to explore the reactionary side of society. Where in fantasy, the fantastic element is simply present. Used as a tool, maybe even explored in depth, but isn't the main goal....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-02-06 12:14:00 -0500 -0500">6 Feb 2019</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Ball Lightning by Cixin Liu" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/02/ball-lightning/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Comic] Darth Vader 1-25 by Charles Soule, art: Giuseppe Camuncoli</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Issue 1 cover If you read my review of the book, Oracle Year, I mentioned that Charles Soule writes for comic books, this is one of them that I've kept up on, and have read from start to finish, as this run ends at #25, though Charles Soule will have more to write for Marvel in the Star Wars world.
This series starts moments after the end of Star Wars episode 3, Revenge of the Sith, and tells the story of both Darth Vader becoming the Dark Jedi Master under Palpatine, but also tells of the growth of the Empire during that time....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-01-23 12:00:00 -0500 -0500">23 Jan 2019</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Comic] Darth Vader 1-25 by Charles Soule, art: Giuseppe Camuncoli" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/01/comic-darth-vader-1-25-by-charles-soule-art-giuseppe-camuncoli/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover Seems an appropriate way to start off the first book review of 2019 with a book that came out in 2009. On top of that, it's a book that I really, really enjoyed reading.
This book follows the protagonist, Henry Lee both as a 13 year old in 1943, and an adult in 1986. If you have been reading my reviews for a while, you'll note that I get picky when time starts jumping around, and I'm really happy to say that this book gets this simple detail absolutely right: Every chapter title includes the year....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-01-09 12:00:00 -0500 -0500">9 Jan 2019</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/01/hotel-on-the-corner-of-bitter-and-sweet/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/recommend/page/4/>« Prev</a>
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From Bears to Bowdlerism...</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-12-26 21:32:00 -0500 -0500">26 Dec 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Euphemania by Ralph Keyes" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/12/euphemania/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] There There by Tommy Orange</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover I will start by noting that this book started slow for me. It took me over two weeks to read the prologue up through the fourth chapter. Once I passed that, I read the next 80% of the book in two days finishing on a third.
Every character in this book is a Native American either from or converging on Oakland California. There is a lot of exploration, especially among the young characters, of what it means to be Native in the city....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-12-12 12:00:00 -0500 -0500">12 Dec 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] There There by Tommy Orange" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/12/there-there/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] I Am Not Famous Anymore by Erin Dorney</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Subtitled, Poems after Shia LaBeouf, this is a short volume of erasure poems lifted from interviews with Shia LaBeouf. Before this book, I had only seen erasure poetry in poster or postcard format. Kitch, at it's best. Also, I have very little patience for poetry. I've read The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, and never completely read any of the song-poems that are scattered throughout those volumes. All of this leaves me quite surprised that I really enjoyed this book....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-11-28 21:15:00 -0500 -0500">28 Nov 2018</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] I Am Not Famous Anymore by Erin Dorney" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/11/i-am-not-famous-anymore/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] A Guile of Dragons by James Enge</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover The book starts in a very promising place. It offers a map. All of my favorite fantasy novels have included a map, and this leaves me excited for a tale with some traveling. The first very short chapter introduces some world building back-story, a short story about gods. Then, on page 19 (or the third page of story) the novel lands in a fantasy space that I find very overused and tired....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-11-14 12:00:00 -0500 -0500">14 Nov 2018</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] A Guile of Dragons by James Enge" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/11/a-guile-of-dragons/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/recommend/page/5/>« Prev</a>
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Neil deGrasse Tyson is one of the top science communicators alive today....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-09-19 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">19 Sep 2018</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/09/astrophysics-for-people-in-a-hurry/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Leia, Princess of Aderaan by Claudia Gray</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover This book is a Star Wars story. It takes place during Leia Organa's 16th year. I would like to say that familiarity with the Star Wars universe isn't absolutely necessary, but I cannot be sure of that. It is, at its base, an exhilarating and sometimes sad, coming of age story, where we see Leia grow from a teen who thinks she's all grown up, to a woman who knows she isn't quite there....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-09-12 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">12 Sep 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Leia, Princess of Aderaan by Claudia Gray" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/09/leia-princess-of-aderaan/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Home After Dark by David Small</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover Bonus review this week (because this book comes out on the 11th), and I finally figured out what to say about it.
This tale is, all at once, heartbreaking, terrifying, uncomfortable, troubling with a tiny bit of hopeful mixed in. Trigger warnings would be helpful here: racism, suicide, sexual predation, sexual bigotry, bullying, alcoholism, violence (both human and animal), parental abandonment, and smoking....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-09-08 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">8 Sep 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Home After Dark by David Small" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/09/home-after-dark/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/recommend/page/6/>« Prev</a>
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I categorize this book as a Memoir, mostly because it follows the narrative flow of a memoir. It starts out introducing the reader to Michael Bennett's childhood on a rural farm in the South, into college through the NFL, and discusses his own discovery of the importance of both support and activism on a number of issues of equality....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-08-29 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">29 Aug 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Things That Make White People Uncomfortable by Michael Bennett and Dave Zirin" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/08/things-that-make-white-people-uncomfortable/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover According to the preface, this book is a carefully researched retelling of surviving stories of the Nordic gods, Odin, Thor, Loki, Freya and others. Where surviving versions of a story differ, artistic license allows for the best of each to be used. First and foremost, these are Nordic tales. If you are familiar with these characters from Marvel comics or movies, be prepared to relearn a lot of what you thought you knew....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-08-15 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">15 Aug 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/08/norse-mythology/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Uprooted by Naomi Novik</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover The descriptions of the country, fashions and even the names of characters channels Poland of the 1500s or 1600s. The story focuses on a peaceful valley with little villages nestled along the Spindle river, but a dark forest grows nearby. Corrupted creatures come from the forest late at night and attack human, livestock or both. Or worse, a cloud of pollen might come in and corrupt a neighbor where they stand, turning them....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-08-08 12:00:00.003 -0400 -0400">8 Aug 2018</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Uprooted by Naomi Novik" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/08/uprooted/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] She Would Be King by Wayétu Moore</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book Cover (from publisher) This is divided into two books, THE THREE and SHE WOULD BE KING. A quote from the Author's Note (before the book even begins):
{Gbessa is pronounced "Bessah"} The first book is the story of three characters, each from different places and backgrounds. Gbessa is exiled from her African village as a witch. June escapes slavery from a plantation in Virginia....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-08-01 12:00:00.001 -0400 -0400">1 Aug 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] She Would Be King by Wayétu Moore" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/08/she-would-be-king/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/recommend/page/7/>« Prev</a>
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I met Jeremy Dale with Kelly by his side on several occasions at various comic book conventions. I am always on the lookout for a well written all-ages comic book story, and I found Jeremy and Skyward when there were only two issues, self-published and in black and white. Later, I saw him at a different convention and got issue 3, and he said that issue 4 should be out by NYCC....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-07-25 12:00:00.001 -0400 -0400">25 Jul 2018</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Skyward (Omnibus) by Jeremy and Kelly Dale" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/07/skyward-omnibus/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Unbeatable Squirrel Girl: 2 Fuzzy, 2 Furious by Shannon Hale and Dean Hale</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover Fourteen year-old Doreen Green is back in this second adventure of Squirrel Girl. Her parents are a little more used to the idea that she has super abilities, but are still nervous parents. Her Best Human Friend Forever (BHFF), Ana Sofia, is also a friend of Thor, and Agents of SHIELD show up. Her Best Squirrel Friend Forever (BSFF), Tippy Toe, also joins in to help her solve the big mystery....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-07-18 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">18 Jul 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Unbeatable Squirrel Girl: 2 Fuzzy, 2 Furious by Shannon Hale and Dean Hale" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/07/unbeatable-squirrel-girl-2-fuzzy-2-furious/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover (paperback) This is the 1989 book that later became a movie (which I never saw). This won the Booker Prize. We follow a quintessential British Butler named Stevens sometime after World War 2 on a journey to look up an ex-employee. The journey itself is beautifully and descriptively written.
While the main thread is the journey, the bulk of the story is Stevens' recollection of his past....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-07-11 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">11 Jul 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/07/the-remains-of-the-day/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Catching Stars by Cayla Keenan</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover The world building is probably the thing I liked the most about Catching Stars. There are people who have magical abilities and a larger group of people who don't. Within magic users, there are different types of magic users. There are kingdoms and politics, palace intrigue, roving gangs, sailing ships, petty rivalries and fierce prejudices. Though the story is quite different, the emotional feel of the world is similar to the book Steeplejack by A....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-06-20 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">20 Jun 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Catching Stars by Cayla Keenan" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/06/catching-stars/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/recommend/page/8/>« Prev</a>
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CHAIR is an offset platform for programming, which is specifically made to support a programmer's approach to offset horizontal surface interfacing to tables. It does not qualify as a fully integrated development environment, but instead is a purpose built platform for supporting a programmer without getting in the way of what the programmer does best! As a programming platform CHAIR is already proven to lead to greatly reduced project timelines when compared to similar projects done without the CHAIR Platform....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2009-03-31 19:31:00 -0400 -0400">31 Mar 2009</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [dev] CHAIR Programming Platform 3.0" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2009/03/dev-chair-programming-platform-3-0/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Saturday's Day Trip</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I couldn't have asked for better weather. Sure, it's Minnesota and it's getting cool, but there was barely a cloud in the sky...
Darwin and Ray are some co-workers who are in town for a month, and this is their last full weekend in Minnesota. I had offered earlier to take them to see Lake Superior. Darwin, in particular, had mentioned how much he wanted to see the great lakes... so I figured I'd do the best I could, and show him the big one that's only a few hours drive from here....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-10-05 19:05:00 -0400 -0400">5 Oct 2008</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Saturday's Day Trip" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/10/saturday-s-day-trip/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Micheal Moore - Slacker Uprising</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>The movie is available for free download. The download is, supposedly, US only - - yet the movie also has an official bittorrent tracker. Last I checked, torrent doesn't care about what country you are in.
I made a copy of the tracker, here.
-Bittorrent is available for free download, too.</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-09-23 09:53:00 -0400 -0400">23 Sep 2008</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Micheal Moore - Slacker Uprising" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/09/micheal-moore-slacker-uprising/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Spotted This -- had to link it.</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p></p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-07-30 22:09:00 -0400 -0400">30 Jul 2008</span> · 0 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Spotted This -- had to link it." href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/07/spotted-this-had-to-link-it/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=next href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/relaxation/page/2/>Next »</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+Bittorrent is available for free download, too.</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-09-23 09:53:00 -0400 -0400">23 Sep 2008</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Micheal Moore - Slacker Uprising" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/09/micheal-moore-slacker-uprising/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Spotted This -- had to link it.</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p></p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-07-30 22:09:00 -0400 -0400">30 Jul 2008</span> · 0 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Spotted This -- had to link it." href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/07/spotted-this-had-to-link-it/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=next href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/relaxation/page/2/>Next »</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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However, for two days I've had this same song going through my head. I've LISTENED to the song at least 12 times trying to satisfy whatever is making this song run through my head. It hasn't helped. So, I figure I'll try to give it to someone else, maybe the song will leave me alone for a while....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-07-19 01:56:00 -0400 -0400">19 Jul 2008</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Song In My Head" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/07/song-in-my-head/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Summertime</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Well Summertime is here.
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-I went to a great summer solstice party last night, one of those parties where I only knew one person, but absolutely everybody was cool and easy to talk to. Had a wonderful time, and I got home really late.</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-06-22 17:50:00 -0400 -0400">22 Jun 2008</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Summertime" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/06/summertime/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/relaxation/>« Prev</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+I went to a great summer solstice party last night, one of those parties where I only knew one person, but absolutely everybody was cool and easy to talk to. Had a wonderful time, and I got home really late.</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-06-22 17:50:00 -0400 -0400">22 Jun 2008</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Summertime" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/06/summertime/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/relaxation/>« Prev</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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-Pizzaniste had really good pizza. Gourmet, all fresh ingredients, coal fired, whole-wheat crust as an option; even gluten free as an option. Partly because they also made custom fresh salads, there were some unexpected ingredients: Real anchovies, fresh basil, artichokes, black beans, corn, cilantro, carrots, chickpeas, eggplant, hard-boiled egg, zucchini and two types of olives to choose from (along with all the other things you might expect every pizza place to have)....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-07-07 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">7 Jul 2018</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Food] Homage to Pizza Gone By" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/07/food-homage-to-pizza-gone-by/></a></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+Pizzaniste had really good pizza. Gourmet, all fresh ingredients, coal fired, whole-wheat crust as an option; even gluten free as an option. Partly because they also made custom fresh salads, there were some unexpected ingredients: Real anchovies, fresh basil, artichokes, black beans, corn, cilantro, carrots, chickpeas, eggplant, hard-boiled egg, zucchini and two types of olives to choose from (along with all the other things you might expect every pizza place to have)....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-07-07 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">7 Jul 2018</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Food] Homage to Pizza Gone By" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/07/food-homage-to-pizza-gone-by/></a></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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The main character, Jaya Rao, is a princess from an old kingdom of India who is literally there to break someone's heart....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2020-01-22 12:00:00 -0500 -0500">22 Jan 2020</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Of Curses and Kisses by Sandhya Menon" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2020/01/of-curses-and-kisses/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover Seems an appropriate way to start off the first book review of 2019 with a book that came out in 2009. On top of that, it's a book that I really, really enjoyed reading.
This book follows the protagonist, Henry Lee both as a 13 year old in 1943, and an adult in 1986. If you have been reading my reviews for a while, you'll note that I get picky when time starts jumping around, and I'm really happy to say that this book gets this simple detail absolutely right: Every chapter title includes the year....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-01-09 12:00:00 -0500 -0500">9 Jan 2019</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/01/hotel-on-the-corner-of-bitter-and-sweet/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover (paperback) This is the 1989 book that later became a movie (which I never saw). This won the Booker Prize. We follow a quintessential British Butler named Stevens sometime after World War 2 on a journey to look up an ex-employee. The journey itself is beautifully and descriptively written.
-While the main thread is the journey, the bulk of the story is Stevens' recollection of his past....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-07-11 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">11 Jul 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/07/the-remains-of-the-day/></a></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+While the main thread is the journey, the bulk of the story is Stevens' recollection of his past....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-07-11 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">11 Jul 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/07/the-remains-of-the-day/></a></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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As I wrote in my review of Defy the Worlds, I do not recommend diving into this book without reading the previous two first....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-08-14 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">14 Aug 2019</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Defy the Fates by Claudia Gray" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/08/defy-the-fates/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Master and Apprentice by Claudia Gray</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover Set before the first prequel movie, this book follows Jedi Master, Qui-Gon Jinn, and his Jedi Apprentice, Obi-Wan Kenobi, on a diplomatic mission set forth by the Jedi council. They are sent to a planet, Pijal, that we haven't seen before, which really is a great way to see the author's creativity. We are presented with a wide array of new characters on this new world, like the Jedi Rael Averross, who has been the regent of Pijal for the last 8 years, and the escaped slave Rahara Wick....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-07-24 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">24 Jul 2019</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Master and Apprentice by Claudia Gray" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/07/master-and-apprentice/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Binti Trilogy by Nnedi Okorafor</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover This short book (novella) is the first in the trilogy. Binti is the name of the main character. This book starts on a distant future (unspecified timeline) Earth where humans are now space-faring, and alien races are known.
There is a lot to unpack in the world-building and the world is built along with the story. Each chapter is unusually episodic, in that some small part of the last scene of a previous chapter will be often be repeated at the beginning of the next....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-07-10 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">10 Jul 2019</span> · 4 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Binti Trilogy by Nnedi Okorafor" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/07/binti-trilogy/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Defy The Worlds by Claudia Gray</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover This is book 2 of the Defy the Stars trilogy. I recommend first reading my review of Defy the Stars before diving headlong into this review. Also, there may be mild spoilers of the first book in this review. I'm not sure that can be helped.
-I recommend not reading Defy The Worlds until Defy The Stars has already been read. Like most sequels, this book could stand-alone, but there is not as much exposition and recap as I'm used to reading in sequels....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-06-26 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">26 Jun 2019</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Defy The Worlds by Claudia Gray" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/06/defy-the-worlds/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=next href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/science-fiction/page/2/>Next »</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+I recommend not reading Defy The Worlds until Defy The Stars has already been read. Like most sequels, this book could stand-alone, but there is not as much exposition and recap as I'm used to reading in sequels....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-06-26 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">26 Jun 2019</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Defy The Worlds by Claudia Gray" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/06/defy-the-worlds/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=next href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/science-fiction/page/2/>Next »</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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Book cover Through a ring of stabilized wormholes, large enough for whole ships to pass through, Earth expanded to five other planets....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-05-29 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">29 May 2019</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Defy The Stars by Claudia Gray" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/05/defy-the-stars/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Predators Gold by Philip Reeve</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover This is book 2 of the Mortal Engines Quartet. For convenience, here is a link to my review of book 1, Mortal Engines, which I posted a month ago.
I'm going to start this review with a note about a changed name. The books were originally released in the UK with a character named Shrike. For the initial US release of the books, that character was renamed to Grike....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-04-17 16:26:00 -0400 -0400">17 Apr 2019</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Predators Gold by Philip Reeve" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/04/predators-gold/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover Over a thousand years before the book's present, there was a war that effectively destroyed all of society. Picking up the pieces of the technology that was left behind, London was put onto treads, run by steam, so that it find and consume other towns for resources and, ultimately, more fuel to keep moving.
Over time, other towns and cities did the same, while another group, called the Anti-Traction League, created a defensive wall across the only pass in a mountain range to keep these traction cities at bay on the other side....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-03-20 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">20 Mar 2019</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/03/mortal-engines/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Ball Lightning by Cixin Liu</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover I have a fairly particular view of science-fiction and how it is different from fantasy. The fantastic element in science fiction is usually both a catalyst for the story itself as well as a way to explore the reactionary side of society. Where in fantasy, the fantastic element is simply present. Used as a tool, maybe even explored in depth, but isn't the main goal....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-02-06 12:14:00 -0500 -0500">6 Feb 2019</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Ball Lightning by Cixin Liu" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/02/ball-lightning/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/science-fiction/>« Prev</a>
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-Scarlett, Jade and Blue are elite pilots of young dragons on the cruiser known as the Opal Dragon....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-08-22 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">22 Aug 2018</span> · 4 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Drawing The Dragon by April Adams" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/08/drawing-the-dragon/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Unbeatable Squirrel Girl: 2 Fuzzy, 2 Furious by Shannon Hale and Dean Hale</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover Fourteen year-old Doreen Green is back in this second adventure of Squirrel Girl. Her parents are a little more used to the idea that she has super abilities, but are still nervous parents. Her Best Human Friend Forever (BHFF), Ana Sofia, is also a friend of Thor, and Agents of SHIELD show up. Her Best Squirrel Friend Forever (BSFF), Tippy Toe, also joins in to help her solve the big mystery....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-07-18 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">18 Jul 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Unbeatable Squirrel Girl: 2 Fuzzy, 2 Furious by Shannon Hale and Dean Hale" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/07/unbeatable-squirrel-girl-2-fuzzy-2-furious/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Catching Stars by Cayla Keenan</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover The world building is probably the thing I liked the most about Catching Stars. There are people who have magical abilities and a larger group of people who don't. Within magic users, there are different types of magic users. There are kingdoms and politics, palace intrigue, roving gangs, sailing ships, petty rivalries and fierce prejudices. Though the story is quite different, the emotional feel of the world is similar to the book Steeplejack by A....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-06-20 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">20 Jun 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Catching Stars by Cayla Keenan" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/06/catching-stars/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Oracle Year by Charles Soule (No-Spoilers)</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I read this book in only two days, which is way shorter than I usually read, especially a book of 416 pages. I generally only read on weekends, and usually only for a few hours at a time. This book really had me hooked from start to finish. I definitely lost sleep for reading. Will Dando, a struggling New York musician, dreams up 108 predictions. A line of information and a date for each....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-06-03 18:09:00.002 -0400 -0400">3 Jun 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Oracle Year by Charles Soule (No-Spoilers)" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/06/oracle-year/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/science-fiction/page/2/>« Prev</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+Scarlett, Jade and Blue are elite pilots of young dragons on the cruiser known as the Opal Dragon....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-08-22 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">22 Aug 2018</span> · 4 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Drawing The Dragon by April Adams" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/08/drawing-the-dragon/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Unbeatable Squirrel Girl: 2 Fuzzy, 2 Furious by Shannon Hale and Dean Hale</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover Fourteen year-old Doreen Green is back in this second adventure of Squirrel Girl. Her parents are a little more used to the idea that she has super abilities, but are still nervous parents. Her Best Human Friend Forever (BHFF), Ana Sofia, is also a friend of Thor, and Agents of SHIELD show up. Her Best Squirrel Friend Forever (BSFF), Tippy Toe, also joins in to help her solve the big mystery....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-07-18 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">18 Jul 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Unbeatable Squirrel Girl: 2 Fuzzy, 2 Furious by Shannon Hale and Dean Hale" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/07/unbeatable-squirrel-girl-2-fuzzy-2-furious/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Catching Stars by Cayla Keenan</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover The world building is probably the thing I liked the most about Catching Stars. There are people who have magical abilities and a larger group of people who don't. Within magic users, there are different types of magic users. There are kingdoms and politics, palace intrigue, roving gangs, sailing ships, petty rivalries and fierce prejudices. Though the story is quite different, the emotional feel of the world is similar to the book Steeplejack by A....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-06-20 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">20 Jun 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Catching Stars by Cayla Keenan" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/06/catching-stars/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Oracle Year by Charles Soule (No-Spoilers)</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I read this book in only two days, which is way shorter than I usually read, especially a book of 416 pages. I generally only read on weekends, and usually only for a few hours at a time. This book really had me hooked from start to finish. I definitely lost sleep for reading. Will Dando, a struggling New York musician, dreams up 108 predictions. A line of information and a date for each....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-06-03 18:09:00.002 -0400 -0400">3 Jun 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Oracle Year by Charles Soule (No-Spoilers)" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/06/oracle-year/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/science-fiction/page/2/>« Prev</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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I’ve also been thinking a lot about upgrading my servers…
Current Server Setup Back in February of 2018, I started running my home websites on some used Rackmount servers.
-When I bought these, I really wanted to experience running enterprise level hardware and building up microservices on Docker with full failover, and freinds, that all works, and I learned a lot....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2022-06-17 18:12:34 -0400 -0400">17 Jun 2022</span> · 4 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to VM Server Upgrades?" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2022/06/to-upgrade-or-not/></a></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+When I bought these, I really wanted to experience running enterprise level hardware and building up microservices on Docker with full failover, and freinds, that all works, and I learned a lot....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2022-06-17 18:12:34 -0400 -0400">17 Jun 2022</span> · 4 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to VM Server Upgrades?" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2022/06/to-upgrade-or-not/></a></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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As I wrote in my review of Defy the Worlds, I do not recommend diving into this book without reading the previous two first....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-08-14 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">14 Aug 2019</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Defy the Fates by Claudia Gray" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/08/defy-the-fates/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover Originally a play, then released in book form as Peter and Wendy, this book is the basis of Disney's cartoon movie, Peter Pan. The movie is surprisingly faithful to the book with the exception that Disney's version doesn't portray deaths that the book does.
-Problematic doesn't begin to describe this experience. Like a lot of classic literature, defenders will point out that this is a product of its time....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-08-07 00:05:00 -0400 -0400">7 Aug 2019</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/08/peter-pan/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Master and Apprentice by Claudia Gray</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover Set before the first prequel movie, this book follows Jedi Master, Qui-Gon Jinn, and his Jedi Apprentice, Obi-Wan Kenobi, on a diplomatic mission set forth by the Jedi council. They are sent to a planet, Pijal, that we haven't seen before, which really is a great way to see the author's creativity. We are presented with a wide array of new characters on this new world, like the Jedi Rael Averross, who has been the regent of Pijal for the last 8 years, and the escaped slave Rahara Wick....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-07-24 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">24 Jul 2019</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Master and Apprentice by Claudia Gray" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/07/master-and-apprentice/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=next href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/sff/page/2/>Next »</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+Problematic doesn't begin to describe this experience. Like a lot of classic literature, defenders will point out that this is a product of its time....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-08-07 00:05:00 -0400 -0400">7 Aug 2019</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/08/peter-pan/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Master and Apprentice by Claudia Gray</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover Set before the first prequel movie, this book follows Jedi Master, Qui-Gon Jinn, and his Jedi Apprentice, Obi-Wan Kenobi, on a diplomatic mission set forth by the Jedi council. They are sent to a planet, Pijal, that we haven't seen before, which really is a great way to see the author's creativity. We are presented with a wide array of new characters on this new world, like the Jedi Rael Averross, who has been the regent of Pijal for the last 8 years, and the escaped slave Rahara Wick....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-07-24 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">24 Jul 2019</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Master and Apprentice by Claudia Gray" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/07/master-and-apprentice/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=next href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/sff/page/2/>Next »</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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There is a lot to unpack in the world-building and the world is built along with the story. Each chapter is unusually episodic, in that some small part of the last scene of a previous chapter will be often be repeated at the beginning of the next....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-07-10 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">10 Jul 2019</span> · 4 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Binti Trilogy by Nnedi Okorafor" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/07/binti-trilogy/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Defy The Worlds by Claudia Gray</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover This is book 2 of the Defy the Stars trilogy. I recommend first reading my review of Defy the Stars before diving headlong into this review. Also, there may be mild spoilers of the first book in this review. I'm not sure that can be helped.
I recommend not reading Defy The Worlds until Defy The Stars has already been read. Like most sequels, this book could stand-alone, but there is not as much exposition and recap as I'm used to reading in sequels....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-06-26 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">26 Jun 2019</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Defy The Worlds by Claudia Gray" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/06/defy-the-worlds/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Defy The Stars by Claudia Gray</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>This is book one of a three book series (the third book came out earlier this month), and since I've already had good reviews of two other books by this author, I decided to pick up this series as well to see what she had done outside of the Star Wars universe.
Book cover Through a ring of stabilized wormholes, large enough for whole ships to pass through, Earth expanded to five other planets....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-05-29 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">29 May 2019</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Defy The Stars by Claudia Gray" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/05/defy-the-stars/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/sff/>« Prev</a>
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A Jewish girl of about 16 named Miryam lives in a medieval small unwalled town with the name of either Pakel or Pavys, but the residents simply called it town which is a third of the way between two larger cities in the Kingdom of Lithvas....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-05-01 17:48:00 -0400 -0400">1 May 2019</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/05/spinning-silver/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Predators Gold by Philip Reeve</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover This is book 2 of the Mortal Engines Quartet. For convenience, here is a link to my review of book 1, Mortal Engines, which I posted a month ago.
I'm going to start this review with a note about a changed name. The books were originally released in the UK with a character named Shrike. For the initial US release of the books, that character was renamed to Grike....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-04-17 16:26:00 -0400 -0400">17 Apr 2019</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Predators Gold by Philip Reeve" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/04/predators-gold/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover Over a thousand years before the book's present, there was a war that effectively destroyed all of society. Picking up the pieces of the technology that was left behind, London was put onto treads, run by steam, so that it find and consume other towns for resources and, ultimately, more fuel to keep moving.
Over time, other towns and cities did the same, while another group, called the Anti-Traction League, created a defensive wall across the only pass in a mountain range to keep these traction cities at bay on the other side....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-03-20 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">20 Mar 2019</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/03/mortal-engines/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Ball Lightning by Cixin Liu</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover I have a fairly particular view of science-fiction and how it is different from fantasy. The fantastic element in science fiction is usually both a catalyst for the story itself as well as a way to explore the reactionary side of society. Where in fantasy, the fantastic element is simply present. Used as a tool, maybe even explored in depth, but isn't the main goal....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-02-06 12:14:00 -0500 -0500">6 Feb 2019</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Ball Lightning by Cixin Liu" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/02/ball-lightning/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/sff/page/2/>« Prev</a>
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This series starts moments after the end of Star Wars episode 3, Revenge of the Sith, and tells the story of both Darth Vader becoming the Dark Jedi Master under Palpatine, but also tells of the growth of the Empire during that time....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-01-23 12:00:00 -0500 -0500">23 Jan 2019</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Comic] Darth Vader 1-25 by Charles Soule, art: Giuseppe Camuncoli" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/01/comic-darth-vader-1-25-by-charles-soule-art-giuseppe-camuncoli/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] A Guile of Dragons by James Enge</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover The book starts in a very promising place. It offers a map. All of my favorite fantasy novels have included a map, and this leaves me excited for a tale with some traveling. The first very short chapter introduces some world building back-story, a short story about gods. Then, on page 19 (or the third page of story) the novel lands in a fantasy space that I find very overused and tired....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-11-14 12:00:00 -0500 -0500">14 Nov 2018</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] A Guile of Dragons by James Enge" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/11/a-guile-of-dragons/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Bloodline by Claudia Gray</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover I realize that I've read and reviewed a lot of books that I don't really like. This review isn't that. I liked the book, Leia; Princess of Alderaan by Claudia Gray so much that when I found out she had another book in the Star Wars universe, I bought it right away. I really like to keep these reviews spoiler-free, and if I really enjoy a book, I actually have a much harder time writing about it, because - well - everything I enjoy about a book seems like a possible spoiler....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-10-17 22:38:00 -0400 -0400">17 Oct 2018</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Bloodline by Claudia Gray" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/10/bloodline/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Leia, Princess of Aderaan by Claudia Gray</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover This book is a Star Wars story. It takes place during Leia Organa's 16th year. I would like to say that familiarity with the Star Wars universe isn't absolutely necessary, but I cannot be sure of that. It is, at its base, an exhilarating and sometimes sad, coming of age story, where we see Leia grow from a teen who thinks she's all grown up, to a woman who knows she isn't quite there....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-09-12 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">12 Sep 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Leia, Princess of Aderaan by Claudia Gray" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/09/leia-princess-of-aderaan/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/sff/page/3/>« Prev</a>
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Scarlett, Jade and Blue are elite pilots of young dragons on the cruiser known as the Opal Dragon....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-08-22 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">22 Aug 2018</span> · 4 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Drawing The Dragon by April Adams" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/08/drawing-the-dragon/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover According to the preface, this book is a carefully researched retelling of surviving stories of the Nordic gods, Odin, Thor, Loki, Freya and others. Where surviving versions of a story differ, artistic license allows for the best of each to be used. First and foremost, these are Nordic tales. If you are familiar with these characters from Marvel comics or movies, be prepared to relearn a lot of what you thought you knew....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-08-15 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">15 Aug 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/08/norse-mythology/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Uprooted by Naomi Novik</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover The descriptions of the country, fashions and even the names of characters channels Poland of the 1500s or 1600s. The story focuses on a peaceful valley with little villages nestled along the Spindle river, but a dark forest grows nearby. Corrupted creatures come from the forest late at night and attack human, livestock or both. Or worse, a cloud of pollen might come in and corrupt a neighbor where they stand, turning them....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-08-08 12:00:00.003 -0400 -0400">8 Aug 2018</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Uprooted by Naomi Novik" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/08/uprooted/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] She Would Be King by Wayétu Moore</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book Cover (from publisher) This is divided into two books, THE THREE and SHE WOULD BE KING. A quote from the Author's Note (before the book even begins):
{Gbessa is pronounced "Bessah"} The first book is the story of three characters, each from different places and backgrounds. Gbessa is exiled from her African village as a witch. June escapes slavery from a plantation in Virginia....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-08-01 12:00:00.001 -0400 -0400">1 Aug 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] She Would Be King by Wayétu Moore" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/08/she-would-be-king/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/sff/page/4/>« Prev</a>
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-I met Jeremy Dale with Kelly by his side on several occasions at various comic book conventions. I am always on the lookout for a well written all-ages comic book story, and I found Jeremy and Skyward when there were only two issues, self-published and in black and white. Later, I saw him at a different convention and got issue 3, and he said that issue 4 should be out by NYCC....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-07-25 12:00:00.001 -0400 -0400">25 Jul 2018</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Skyward (Omnibus) by Jeremy and Kelly Dale" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/07/skyward-omnibus/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Unbeatable Squirrel Girl: 2 Fuzzy, 2 Furious by Shannon Hale and Dean Hale</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover Fourteen year-old Doreen Green is back in this second adventure of Squirrel Girl. Her parents are a little more used to the idea that she has super abilities, but are still nervous parents. Her Best Human Friend Forever (BHFF), Ana Sofia, is also a friend of Thor, and Agents of SHIELD show up. Her Best Squirrel Friend Forever (BSFF), Tippy Toe, also joins in to help her solve the big mystery....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-07-18 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">18 Jul 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Unbeatable Squirrel Girl: 2 Fuzzy, 2 Furious by Shannon Hale and Dean Hale" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/07/unbeatable-squirrel-girl-2-fuzzy-2-furious/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Catching Stars by Cayla Keenan</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover The world building is probably the thing I liked the most about Catching Stars. There are people who have magical abilities and a larger group of people who don't. Within magic users, there are different types of magic users. There are kingdoms and politics, palace intrigue, roving gangs, sailing ships, petty rivalries and fierce prejudices. Though the story is quite different, the emotional feel of the world is similar to the book Steeplejack by A....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-06-20 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">20 Jun 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Catching Stars by Cayla Keenan" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/06/catching-stars/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Oracle Year by Charles Soule (No-Spoilers)</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I read this book in only two days, which is way shorter than I usually read, especially a book of 416 pages. I generally only read on weekends, and usually only for a few hours at a time. This book really had me hooked from start to finish. I definitely lost sleep for reading. Will Dando, a struggling New York musician, dreams up 108 predictions. A line of information and a date for each....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-06-03 18:09:00.002 -0400 -0400">3 Jun 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Oracle Year by Charles Soule (No-Spoilers)" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/06/oracle-year/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/sff/page/5/>« Prev</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+I met Jeremy Dale with Kelly by his side on several occasions at various comic book conventions. I am always on the lookout for a well written all-ages comic book story, and I found Jeremy and Skyward when there were only two issues, self-published and in black and white. Later, I saw him at a different convention and got issue 3, and he said that issue 4 should be out by NYCC....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-07-25 12:00:00.001 -0400 -0400">25 Jul 2018</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Skyward (Omnibus) by Jeremy and Kelly Dale" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/07/skyward-omnibus/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Unbeatable Squirrel Girl: 2 Fuzzy, 2 Furious by Shannon Hale and Dean Hale</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover Fourteen year-old Doreen Green is back in this second adventure of Squirrel Girl. Her parents are a little more used to the idea that she has super abilities, but are still nervous parents. Her Best Human Friend Forever (BHFF), Ana Sofia, is also a friend of Thor, and Agents of SHIELD show up. Her Best Squirrel Friend Forever (BSFF), Tippy Toe, also joins in to help her solve the big mystery....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-07-18 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">18 Jul 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Unbeatable Squirrel Girl: 2 Fuzzy, 2 Furious by Shannon Hale and Dean Hale" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/07/unbeatable-squirrel-girl-2-fuzzy-2-furious/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Catching Stars by Cayla Keenan</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover The world building is probably the thing I liked the most about Catching Stars. There are people who have magical abilities and a larger group of people who don't. Within magic users, there are different types of magic users. There are kingdoms and politics, palace intrigue, roving gangs, sailing ships, petty rivalries and fierce prejudices. Though the story is quite different, the emotional feel of the world is similar to the book Steeplejack by A....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-06-20 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">20 Jun 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Catching Stars by Cayla Keenan" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/06/catching-stars/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Oracle Year by Charles Soule (No-Spoilers)</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I read this book in only two days, which is way shorter than I usually read, especially a book of 416 pages. I generally only read on weekends, and usually only for a few hours at a time. This book really had me hooked from start to finish. I definitely lost sleep for reading. Will Dando, a struggling New York musician, dreams up 108 predictions. A line of information and a date for each....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-06-03 18:09:00.002 -0400 -0400">3 Jun 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Oracle Year by Charles Soule (No-Spoilers)" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/06/oracle-year/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/sff/page/5/>« Prev</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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I jumped on eBay a week ago, looking to find the rails I need....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-08-25 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">25 Aug 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Shopping] eBuyer Beware" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/08/shopping-ebuyer-beware/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>NYCC : Horrible Shopping Experience</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I already have tickets for two other conventions this year, but NYCC is the big one that happens in the city where I live and work. I know in the last few years tickets have been harder and harder to get, and I figured my chances were not going to be very good.
If this is too long one can safely scroll down to the Conclusion at the bottom.
I tried to buy tickets to NYCC the minute they went on sale....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2015-05-14 10:06:00 -0400 -0400">14 May 2015</span> · 5 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to NYCC : Horrible Shopping Experience" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2015/05/nycc-horrible-shopping-experience/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Manhattan Flagship Stores Are Not For Me</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Manhattan shopping. In the story below, I'm NOT saying the brand or the nam e of the store. I don't want to throw rage at one tiny example of something that ex i sts throughout Manhattan, especially at the brand-name stores that call themsel v es A Flagship Store.                                        There are multiple stores in Manhattan that are not externally identified as Fla g ship but are....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2015-02-01 22:57:00.003 -0500 -0500">1 Feb 2015</span> · 6 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Manhattan Flagship Stores Are Not For Me" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2015/02/manhattan-flagship-stores-are-not-for-me/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Syntaur Doing It Right</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I have an Ensoniq KS-32 keyboard that was released 20 years ago.  I think that mine is only 17 years old, though (I'm the third owner, but I have owned it since 1998).  Anyway, it's a great board, and it has treated me very well for a very long time.
-There had been a low battery warning for, probably the last 10 years or so.  My response was to just never turn it off, which worked until I had to turn it off for a while....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2012-10-13 01:52:00.001 -0400 -0400">13 Oct 2012</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Syntaur Doing It Right" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2012/10/syntaur-doing-it-right/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=next href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/shopping/page/2/>Next »</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+There had been a low battery warning for, probably the last 10 years or so.  My response was to just never turn it off, which worked until I had to turn it off for a while....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2012-10-13 01:52:00.001 -0400 -0400">13 Oct 2012</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Syntaur Doing It Right" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2012/10/syntaur-doing-it-right/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=next href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/shopping/page/2/>Next »</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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+I was thinking that it would be awesome to sign up for your magazine for a year, try it out.  So, I went to your site, and started to fill out the information that you asked.  When it came to pay you, though, you have told me that by signing up now, I agree that you'll AUTOMATICALLY bill me again, every year, from now until I actually remember to go out of my way to cancel....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2012-04-30 13:18:00 -0400 -0400">30 Apr 2012</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to I Did NOT Subscribe, and Why" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2012/04/i-did-not-subscribe-and-why/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/shopping/>« Prev</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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This tale is, all at once, heartbreaking, terrifying, uncomfortable, troubling with a tiny bit of hopeful mixed in. Trigger warnings would be helpful here: racism, suicide, sexual predation, sexual bigotry, bullying, alcoholism, violence (both human and animal), parental abandonment, and smoking....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-09-08 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">8 Sep 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Home After Dark by David Small" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/09/home-after-dark/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Insurrecto by Gina Apostol</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover Even though I'm reviewing an Advance copy, this story is surprisingly nonlinear, and I doubt that will change, though - really - it could. The book starts, like a 1970s movie, listing the cast of characters in the approximate order in which the characters appear. It's a story about two people, writing screenplays that are not exactly about the same thing, but are derived from a shared starting point and past....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-09-05 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">5 Sep 2018</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Insurrecto by Gina Apostol" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/09/insurrecto/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Skyward (Omnibus) by Jeremy and Kelly Dale</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Before I start this:
-I met Jeremy Dale with Kelly by his side on several occasions at various comic book conventions. I am always on the lookout for a well written all-ages comic book story, and I found Jeremy and Skyward when there were only two issues, self-published and in black and white. Later, I saw him at a different convention and got issue 3, and he said that issue 4 should be out by NYCC....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-07-25 12:00:00.001 -0400 -0400">25 Jul 2018</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Skyward (Omnibus) by Jeremy and Kelly Dale" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/07/skyward-omnibus/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=next href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/short-book-reviews/page/2/>Next »</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+I met Jeremy Dale with Kelly by his side on several occasions at various comic book conventions. I am always on the lookout for a well written all-ages comic book story, and I found Jeremy and Skyward when there were only two issues, self-published and in black and white. Later, I saw him at a different convention and got issue 3, and he said that issue 4 should be out by NYCC....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-07-25 12:00:00.001 -0400 -0400">25 Jul 2018</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Skyward (Omnibus) by Jeremy and Kelly Dale" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/07/skyward-omnibus/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=next href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/short-book-reviews/page/2/>Next »</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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While the main thread is the journey, the bulk of the story is Stevens' recollection of his past....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-07-11 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">11 Jul 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/07/the-remains-of-the-day/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] The Real Lolita by Sarah Weinman</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I got an advanced readers copy of this book from the first day of BookExpo. It is supposed to be released in September 2018, but that is preliminary, and the date could slip.
-Book cover I don't usually read true-crime genre books. If I had never read the Nabokov fiction, Lolita, I would have never been interested enough in this book to read The Real Lolita by Sarah Weinman....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-06-13 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">13 Jun 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] The Real Lolita by Sarah Weinman" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/06/the-real-lolita/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Piggy and Pug by Anne Wheaton, Illustrated by Vipin Alex Jacob (No-Spoilers)</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>This is a story about the journey that brings together Pug, who's searching for a new family, and Piggy, who's searching for a new friend. That text is lifted almost directly from the piggyandpug web site, but it's a short book, so hard to not spoil anything... This is a children's illustrated book, from Monolith Press, 32 pages. I was at BookExpo at the end of last week, and I got an opportunity to flip through this book with the book's publicist, Susan, watching me intently for reaction....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-06-06 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">6 Jun 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Piggy and Pug by Anne Wheaton, Illustrated by Vipin Alex Jacob (No-Spoilers)" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/06/piggy-and-pug/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Oracle Year by Charles Soule (No-Spoilers)</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I read this book in only two days, which is way shorter than I usually read, especially a book of 416 pages. I generally only read on weekends, and usually only for a few hours at a time. This book really had me hooked from start to finish. I definitely lost sleep for reading. Will Dando, a struggling New York musician, dreams up 108 predictions. A line of information and a date for each....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-06-03 18:09:00.002 -0400 -0400">3 Jun 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Oracle Year by Charles Soule (No-Spoilers)" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/06/oracle-year/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/short-book-reviews/>« Prev</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+Book cover I don't usually read true-crime genre books. If I had never read the Nabokov fiction, Lolita, I would have never been interested enough in this book to read The Real Lolita by Sarah Weinman....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-06-13 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">13 Jun 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] The Real Lolita by Sarah Weinman" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/06/the-real-lolita/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Piggy and Pug by Anne Wheaton, Illustrated by Vipin Alex Jacob (No-Spoilers)</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>This is a story about the journey that brings together Pug, who's searching for a new family, and Piggy, who's searching for a new friend. That text is lifted almost directly from the piggyandpug web site, but it's a short book, so hard to not spoil anything... This is a children's illustrated book, from Monolith Press, 32 pages. I was at BookExpo at the end of last week, and I got an opportunity to flip through this book with the book's publicist, Susan, watching me intently for reaction....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-06-06 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">6 Jun 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Piggy and Pug by Anne Wheaton, Illustrated by Vipin Alex Jacob (No-Spoilers)" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/06/piggy-and-pug/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Oracle Year by Charles Soule (No-Spoilers)</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I read this book in only two days, which is way shorter than I usually read, especially a book of 416 pages. I generally only read on weekends, and usually only for a few hours at a time. This book really had me hooked from start to finish. I definitely lost sleep for reading. Will Dando, a struggling New York musician, dreams up 108 predictions. A line of information and a date for each....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-06-03 18:09:00.002 -0400 -0400">3 Jun 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Oracle Year by Charles Soule (No-Spoilers)" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/06/oracle-year/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/short-book-reviews/>« Prev</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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-Several of the stories introduce a monster, but the monster itself is inactive ... in one case, already dead, leaving these stories to be more about the evil we bring with us where the monster is just a catalyst or even excuse for some all-too-human transition into bad behavior....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-10-03 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">3 Oct 2018</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] North American Lake Monsters by Nathan Ballingrud" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/10/north-american-lake-monsters/></a></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+Several of the stories introduce a monster, but the monster itself is inactive ... in one case, already dead, leaving these stories to be more about the evil we bring with us where the monster is just a catalyst or even excuse for some all-too-human transition into bad behavior....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-10-03 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">3 Oct 2018</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] North American Lake Monsters by Nathan Ballingrud" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/10/north-american-lake-monsters/></a></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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-Seriously, the following is absolutely full of spoilers, and I don't want to hear about it. Well, for the stories that I actually like, I still try to keep them a little spoiler free, but the first story ... that one I lay out ALL the main points....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-10-13 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">13 Oct 2018</span> · 5 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book Spoiled] North American Lake Monsters" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/10/book-spoiled-north-american-lake-monsters/></a></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+Seriously, the following is absolutely full of spoilers, and I don't want to hear about it. Well, for the stories that I actually like, I still try to keep them a little spoiler free, but the first story ... that one I lay out ALL the main points....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-10-13 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">13 Oct 2018</span> · 5 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book Spoiled] North American Lake Monsters" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/10/book-spoiled-north-american-lake-monsters/></a></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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I've been very busy with work and friends lately. I also don't have an internet connection at home, so I've been neglecting this blog. It's not that I haven't seen anything of interest lately, and it's not that I've had nothing to say. I've just been busy.
-First -- I lost my TV. Not really that I lost a TV. I don't have one, but I did have a TV capture card, and I was able to get over-the-air signals with it....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2009-03-16 19:55:00 -0400 -0400">16 Mar 2009</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Spring and It's Been a While" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2009/03/spring-and-it-s-been-a-while/></a></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+First -- I lost my TV. Not really that I lost a TV. I don't have one, but I did have a TV capture card, and I was able to get over-the-air signals with it....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2009-03-16 19:55:00 -0400 -0400">16 Mar 2009</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Spring and It's Been a While" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2009/03/spring-and-it-s-been-a-while/></a></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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I'm going to start this review with a note about a changed name. The books were originally released in the UK with a character named Shrike. For the initial US release of the books, that character was renamed to Grike....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-04-17 16:26:00 -0400 -0400">17 Apr 2019</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Predators Gold by Philip Reeve" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/04/predators-gold/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover Over a thousand years before the book's present, there was a war that effectively destroyed all of society. Picking up the pieces of the technology that was left behind, London was put onto treads, run by steam, so that it find and consume other towns for resources and, ultimately, more fuel to keep moving.
-Over time, other towns and cities did the same, while another group, called the Anti-Traction League, created a defensive wall across the only pass in a mountain range to keep these traction cities at bay on the other side....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-03-20 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">20 Mar 2019</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/03/mortal-engines/></a></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+Over time, other towns and cities did the same, while another group, called the Anti-Traction League, created a defensive wall across the only pass in a mountain range to keep these traction cities at bay on the other side....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-03-20 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">20 Mar 2019</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/03/mortal-engines/></a></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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I've been very busy with work and friends lately. I also don't have an internet connection at home, so I've been neglecting this blog. It's not that I haven't seen anything of interest lately, and it's not that I've had nothing to say. I've just been busy.
-First -- I lost my TV. Not really that I lost a TV. I don't have one, but I did have a TV capture card, and I was able to get over-the-air signals with it....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2009-03-16 19:55:00 -0400 -0400">16 Mar 2009</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Spring and It's Been a While" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2009/03/spring-and-it-s-been-a-while/></a></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+First -- I lost my TV. Not really that I lost a TV. I don't have one, but I did have a TV capture card, and I was able to get over-the-air signals with it....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2009-03-16 19:55:00 -0400 -0400">16 Mar 2009</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Spring and It's Been a While" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2009/03/spring-and-it-s-been-a-while/></a></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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-Take something that seems like it should be relatively common: VR video. Go into cardboard (the app), request the VR video channel. Find a video. Start that video. THEN hit the cardboard icon that will put it into cardboard mode. Then pause it. Put my phone into the cardboard-compatible viewer and hope it doesn't touch anything on the way in....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-11-10 12:00:00 -0500 -0500">10 Nov 2018</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Google Cardboard is a Terrible Experience" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/11/google-cardboard-is-a-terrible-experience/></a></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+Take something that seems like it should be relatively common: VR video. Go into cardboard (the app), request the VR video channel. Find a video. Start that video. THEN hit the cardboard icon that will put it into cardboard mode. Then pause it. Put my phone into the cardboard-compatible viewer and hope it doesn't touch anything on the way in....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-11-10 12:00:00 -0500 -0500">10 Nov 2018</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Google Cardboard is a Terrible Experience" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/11/google-cardboard-is-a-terrible-experience/></a></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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I've spent most of my post-Agile time doing infrastructure projects. I'm not building a product for end-users....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2017-10-21 13:43:00.002 -0400 -0400">21 Oct 2017</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Agile Development on Infrastructure" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2017/10/agile-development-on-infrastructure/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>BLOG: The Sad State of 3D on a PC</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>This month, I built myself a new gaming PC, and decided to spend just a little extra money for the nVidia 3D Vision 2 package with a pair of shutter glasses and a USB controlled IR timing transmitter.  What I'm talking about here is PC gaming in stereoscopic 3D. This is gaming that not only depicts a 3D play environment, but also looks 3D to the player's eyes.
I remember that Descent came out in 1995, and it had support for a virtual reality headset called the Forte VFX-1....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2015-11-14 18:57:00.001 -0500 -0500">14 Nov 2015</span> · 6 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to BLOG: The Sad State of 3D on a PC" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2015/11/blog-the-sad-state-of-3d-on-a-pc/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Geek] Authban : 4 Years Later</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Four years ago, I wrote about a script that I had been working on called Authban (though I didn't name it at the time):
http://blog.vollink.com/2011/09/geek-attack-vectors-and-twitter.html
-I first started running a custom script to block IP addresses that tried too many times to login to ssh back in 2010.  At the time, the script (and my home web host) was running on an Ubuntu virtual server.  The name, Authban, surfaced in early 2011, as I organized the script to do more than just block ssh....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2015-09-16 18:30:00 -0400 -0400">16 Sep 2015</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Geek] Authban : 4 Years Later" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2015/09/geek-authban-4-years-later/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=next href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/tech/page/2/>Next »</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+I first started running a custom script to block IP addresses that tried too many times to login to ssh back in 2010.  At the time, the script (and my home web host) was running on an Ubuntu virtual server.  The name, Authban, surfaced in early 2011, as I organized the script to do more than just block ssh....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2015-09-16 18:30:00 -0400 -0400">16 Sep 2015</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Geek] Authban : 4 Years Later" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2015/09/geek-authban-4-years-later/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=next href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/tech/page/2/>Next »</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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One note about the KS-32, is that the settings are stored on-board in RAM, or Random Access Memory....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2014-10-23 00:47:00.001 -0400 -0400">23 Oct 2014</span> · 5 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Electronics Mod: Ensoniq KS-32" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2014/10/electronics-mod-ensoniq-ks-32/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Syntaur Doing It Right</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I have an Ensoniq KS-32 keyboard that was released 20 years ago.  I think that mine is only 17 years old, though (I'm the third owner, but I have owned it since 1998).  Anyway, it's a great board, and it has treated me very well for a very long time.
-There had been a low battery warning for, probably the last 10 years or so.  My response was to just never turn it off, which worked until I had to turn it off for a while....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2012-10-13 01:52:00.001 -0400 -0400">13 Oct 2012</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Syntaur Doing It Right" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2012/10/syntaur-doing-it-right/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Geek] The Ubiquitous Computer Mouse</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Xerox Alto Mouse (1973) The computer mouse has been a basic part of computing for about 20 years now (25 if you were a Mac early-adopter, and even longer if you are a Xerox Alto power-user).  Up until recently, innovations with mouses have been about adding more buttons, and scroll wheels.  Now, with Smart-Phones becoming more and more popular, things like multi-touch and gestures are being added too....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2011-09-17 22:38:00 -0400 -0400">17 Sep 2011</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Geek] The Ubiquitous Computer Mouse" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2011/09/geek-the-ubiquitous-computer-mouse/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/tech/>« Prev</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+There had been a low battery warning for, probably the last 10 years or so.  My response was to just never turn it off, which worked until I had to turn it off for a while....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2012-10-13 01:52:00.001 -0400 -0400">13 Oct 2012</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Syntaur Doing It Right" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2012/10/syntaur-doing-it-right/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Geek] The Ubiquitous Computer Mouse</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Xerox Alto Mouse (1973) The computer mouse has been a basic part of computing for about 20 years now (25 if you were a Mac early-adopter, and even longer if you are a Xerox Alto power-user).  Up until recently, innovations with mouses have been about adding more buttons, and scroll wheels.  Now, with Smart-Phones becoming more and more popular, things like multi-touch and gestures are being added too....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2011-09-17 22:38:00 -0400 -0400">17 Sep 2011</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Geek] The Ubiquitous Computer Mouse" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2011/09/geek-the-ubiquitous-computer-mouse/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/tech/>« Prev</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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-A reader might chime in here and say, no MY TERMINAL thinks it is an xterm, but alas xterm pretends to be a VT420 (xterm can actually pretend it is many different terminals, so even if you DO use THE xterm software I doubt your computer is actually set up to most efficiently talk to it, I’ll talk about that later )....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2023-09-21 21:10:00 -0400 -0400">21 Sep 2023</span> · 10 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Your Terminal Emulator Is Wrong" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2023/09/standards-what-standards/></a></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+A reader might chime in here and say, no MY TERMINAL thinks it is an xterm, but alas xterm pretends to be a VT420 (xterm can actually pretend it is many different terminals, so even if you DO use THE xterm software I doubt your computer is actually set up to most efficiently talk to it, I’ll talk about that later )....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2023-09-21 21:10:00 -0400 -0400">21 Sep 2023</span> · 10 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Your Terminal Emulator Is Wrong" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2023/09/standards-what-standards/></a></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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-The smoke stack held a falcon box for several years, but that box was removed in January before the falcons returned from their winter journey....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-06-28 10:07:00 -0400 -0400">28 Jun 2008</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to SmokeStack Gone." href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/06/smokestack-gone/></a></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+The smoke stack held a falcon box for several years, but that box was removed in January before the falcons returned from their winter journey....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-06-28 10:07:00 -0400 -0400">28 Jun 2008</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to SmokeStack Gone." href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/06/smokestack-gone/></a></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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-Book cover I don't usually read true-crime genre books. If I had never read the Nabokov fiction, Lolita, I would have never been interested enough in this book to read The Real Lolita by Sarah Weinman....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-06-13 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">13 Jun 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] The Real Lolita by Sarah Weinman" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/06/the-real-lolita/></a></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+Book cover I don't usually read true-crime genre books. If I had never read the Nabokov fiction, Lolita, I would have never been interested enough in this book to read The Real Lolita by Sarah Weinman....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-06-13 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">13 Jun 2018</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] The Real Lolita by Sarah Weinman" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/06/the-real-lolita/></a></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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I've been very busy with work and friends lately. I also don't have an internet connection at home, so I've been neglecting this blog. It's not that I haven't seen anything of interest lately, and it's not that I've had nothing to say. I've just been busy.
-First -- I lost my TV. Not really that I lost a TV. I don't have one, but I did have a TV capture card, and I was able to get over-the-air signals with it....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2009-03-16 19:55:00 -0400 -0400">16 Mar 2009</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Spring and It's Been a While" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2009/03/spring-and-it-s-been-a-while/></a></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+First -- I lost my TV. Not really that I lost a TV. I don't have one, but I did have a TV capture card, and I was able to get over-the-air signals with it....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2009-03-16 19:55:00 -0400 -0400">16 Mar 2009</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Spring and It's Been a While" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2009/03/spring-and-it-s-been-a-while/></a></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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-Wait for it to load - Action starts during minute 5, so forward to there (half-way point). I haven't had a chance to edit it down.</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-06-28 14:16:00 -0400 -0400">28 Jun 2008</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to SmokeStack Gone : The Video" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/06/smokestack-gone-the-video/></a></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+Wait for it to load - Action starts during minute 5, so forward to there (half-way point). I haven't had a chance to edit it down.</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-06-28 14:16:00 -0400 -0400">28 Jun 2008</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to SmokeStack Gone : The Video" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/06/smokestack-gone-the-video/></a></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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When I bought these, I really wanted to experience running enterprise level hardware and building up microservices on Docker with full failover, and freinds, that all works, and I learned a lot....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2022-06-17 18:12:34 -0400 -0400">17 Jun 2022</span> · 4 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to VM Server Upgrades?" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2022/06/to-upgrade-or-not/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Tech/PC] VirtualBox, Windows 7 and a new CPU</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>As I've done from time to time, this blog serves as a bit of a bench-notes of what I did. However, maybe someone else hits the same problem, and finds my blog via search.
About a month back, the new nVidia 2080 Ti card was announced. I decided to hit up eBay to see if anyone was selling off a 1080 Ti, and I was not disappointed in the price drops....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-09-15 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">15 Sep 2018</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Tech/PC] VirtualBox, Windows 7 and a new CPU" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/09/tech-pc-virtualbox-windows-7-and-a-new-cpu/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Opinion: VMWare Server 2.0 Beta [Updated]</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I've used VMWare Server 2.0 Beta for about three solid hours now...
Things I like.
-Virtual Hardware v. 7 with USB 2.0 support. Tomcat based VM monitoring, is pretty responsive. Does NOT request or attempt to "require" IIS. The Server interface, while different, remains similar.Technical -- I've loaded VMWare-Server beta on two separate Windows XP host systems (I have an Ubuntu as well, but I've had problems in the past loading both "...</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-07-17 10:20:00 -0400 -0400">17 Jul 2008</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Opinion: VMWare Server 2.0 Beta [Updated]" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/07/opinion-vmware-server-2-0-beta-updated/></a></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+Virtual Hardware v. 7 with USB 2.0 support. Tomcat based VM monitoring, is pretty responsive. Does NOT request or attempt to "require" IIS. The Server interface, while different, remains similar.Technical -- I've loaded VMWare-Server beta on two separate Windows XP host systems (I have an Ubuntu as well, but I've had problems in the past loading both "...</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-07-17 10:20:00 -0400 -0400">17 Jul 2008</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Opinion: VMWare Server 2.0 Beta [Updated]" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/07/opinion-vmware-server-2-0-beta-updated/></a></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ I use Google Apps for Domains. Â This allows me to do all sorts of things with v
I /could/ use a Google account that isn't already associated with my domains account.  However, with a domains account, Google tracks my login across the browser, which means to use a different Google account, I either have to use a different browser for the other account, or I would have to log out of all Google services first....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2011-07-23 18:08:00 -0400 -0400">23 Jul 2011</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Google+ or Not" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2011/07/google-or-not/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Facebook 101</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Collected from recent FaceBook 101 updates of a friend of mine.
Keep your personal drama problems off of Facebook. Do not write an ambiguous post just so the first commenter will have to ask, "What do you mean?" Learn how to use the privacy features of Facebook and DO NOT leave your profile open to the public. Do not post or comment if it will get you in trouble with your significant other; Offending others is OK, if you are really prepared for the backlash....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2010-12-22 22:14:00.001 -0500 -0500">22 Dec 2010</span> · 4 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Facebook 101" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2010/12/facebook-101/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>What Crime Was Committed?</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>It appears that the politicians who are supposed to represent me are trying to convince me that a website, WikiLeaks, run primarily by a group of Australian citizens has, itself, done something illegal.
I'm usually not one to go out of my way to question things my representatives are saying, but in this case, I feel I have to.
-Let me explore this a little bit (with the help of The Telegraph Timeline Reference)....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2010-12-09 18:48:00.024 -0500 -0500">9 Dec 2010</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to What Crime Was Committed?" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2010/12/what-crime-was-committed/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=next href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/web/page/2/>Next »</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+Let me explore this a little bit (with the help of The Telegraph Timeline Reference)....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2010-12-09 18:48:00.024 -0500 -0500">9 Dec 2010</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to What Crime Was Committed?" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2010/12/what-crime-was-committed/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=next href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/web/page/2/>Next »</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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I made a copy of the tracker, here.
Bittorrent is available for free download, too.</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-09-23 09:53:00 -0400 -0400">23 Sep 2008</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Micheal Moore - Slacker Uprising" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/09/micheal-moore-slacker-uprising/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Javascript Toolkits; Web Programming</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>So I've started working with the Dojo Toolkit -- mostly because I ran the demo for it, and I was impressed by what it could do out of the box. It does have a very nicely featured demonstration set.
I've mentioned this to some friends and colleagues, and instead of thoughts or experiences with this toolkit, I got back a whole bunch of comments about why I chose to work with Dojo and not "...</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-08-06 22:00:00 -0400 -0400">6 Aug 2008</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Javascript Toolkits; Web Programming" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/08/javascript-toolkits-web-programming/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Spotted This -- had to link it.</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p></p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-07-30 22:09:00 -0400 -0400">30 Jul 2008</span> · 0 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Spotted This -- had to link it." href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/07/spotted-this-had-to-link-it/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/web/>« Prev</a>
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Temporarily shutting down most factories East of Beijing Even-Odd car restrictions...</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-07-28 10:45:00 -0400 -0400">28 Jul 2008</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Beijing 2008 - Olympics In The Air" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/07/beijing-2008-olympics-in-the-air/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>For My Floridian Friends</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>http://xkcd.net/453/
Upcoming Hurricanes The XKCD web comic is one of my favorites.</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-07-23 20:03:00 -0400 -0400">23 Jul 2008</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to For My Floridian Friends" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/07/for-my-floridian-friends/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Me and My Enneagram [Updated]</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>This is a bit of a meme that's been going around one of my circles of friends. It's this Enneagram test. So, after putting it off for a week, I finally decided to take the first (and longer) of the two tests presented at the link above.
I will not pretend that I've actually read through what this means or what it might mean, but - generally - I have a tendency of being very central on most personality tests, so -- I've linked the whole result set, with all of the scores, so that you can see the whole picture....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-07-23 10:27:00 -0400 -0400">23 Jul 2008</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Me and My Enneagram [Updated]" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/07/me-and-my-enneagram-updated/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Flamingo Hand</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>This came from one of those e-mails that people send around. It was a collection of "hand art". One that I'm sure has an online source somewhere, and if I find it, I'll link to that ... but, I thought this was interesting enough, so .. check it out.</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-07-16 00:50:00 -0400 -0400">16 Jul 2008</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Flamingo Hand" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/07/flamingo-hand/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/web/page/2/>« Prev</a>
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Another advantage of this, is that my twitter feed is now also proxied, so will be visible in places where twitter may become blocked or banned....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-07-13 03:04:00 -0400 -0400">13 Jul 2008</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Twitter by Proxy" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/07/twitter-by-proxy/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Google Apps, iGoogle and Facebook</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I've added Google Apps to my domain. I had already started handing pieces of my domain to Google when I started letting them host my blog. At the same time, I'm starting to take pieces back. More on that later...
I started playing with the Open Social API today. Really simple thing -- I realized that I wanted to put some basic, static HTML in a box on both my Facebook page and to my iGoogle page....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-07-12 19:35:00 -0400 -0400">12 Jul 2008</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Google Apps, iGoogle and Facebook" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/07/google-apps-igoogle-and-facebook/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Web Ads</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>A few times in the last few months, I've thought to actually go out of my way and click on a Web Ad. In every case, the web ad was non-traditional and insisted on doing something which got it blocked. Seems that web ads would be much more successful if they didn't demand dumb user behavior...
Middle Click
-In all latest version graphical web browsers, a middle button mouse click is available to open the link in a new tab....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-06-15 13:40:00 -0400 -0400">15 Jun 2008</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Web Ads" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/06/web-ads/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/web/page/3/>« Prev</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+In all latest version graphical web browsers, a middle button mouse click is available to open the link in a new tab....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-06-15 13:40:00 -0400 -0400">15 Jun 2008</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Web Ads" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/06/web-ads/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/web/page/3/>« Prev</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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If a process is broken throw it in the trash and start over. Nothing is set in stone. The simplicity of the tweet is absolutely true. It totally reminded me of a problem I've seen multiple times though.  The process is rarely the difficult part of fixing a problem.
A long time ago, when I was a team lead, the group I worked with had an automated build system that was extremely complicated, built entirely in-house, and didn't follow the conventions of any of the standard build-systems that exist....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-03-30 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">30 Mar 2019</span> · 4 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Fixing the Broken" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/03/fixing-the-broken/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Managing Difficult Problems</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I can no longer count the number of times that I've been able to re-invigorate a problem investigation, even if I have zero visibility on the actual problem. This takes some self-discipline that doesn't come easy, especially during an urgent investigation.
Here's that one weird trick:I do the depth of reading myself. If I see multiple threads, I'll read all of them. Then I will write as short a summary of all of the facts that I can....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-03-09 12:00:00.001 -0500 -0500">9 Mar 2019</span> · 4 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Managing Difficult Problems" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/03/managing-difficult-problems/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Next Career Move</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>The company I work(ed) for has been planning a division sell-off for most of the year. Weeks after that division spin-off into Private Equity, I was notified that my last day will be 29 October. The last time I was laid-off, it was similarly driven by a corporate action. Upper management had been talking about a flatter organization, and cutting out management levels, so I was well prepared mentally. I actually expected that I would take it much worse than I did....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-10-20 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">20 Oct 2018</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Next Career Move" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/10/next-career-move/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Tech/PC] VirtualBox, Windows 7 and a new CPU</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>As I've done from time to time, this blog serves as a bit of a bench-notes of what I did. However, maybe someone else hits the same problem, and finds my blog via search.
-About a month back, the new nVidia 2080 Ti card was announced. I decided to hit up eBay to see if anyone was selling off a 1080 Ti, and I was not disappointed in the price drops....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-09-15 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">15 Sep 2018</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Tech/PC] VirtualBox, Windows 7 and a new CPU" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/09/tech-pc-virtualbox-windows-7-and-a-new-cpu/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=next href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/work/page/2/>Next »</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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For most of my professional life, I've been a computer programmer or computer administrator.  This is my story....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2014-07-21 18:35:00.002 -0400 -0400">21 Jul 2014</span> · 11 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Professional Autobiography" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2014/07/professional-autobiography/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Team Building Tips for Managers from Agile</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I wrote the following, originally, for an ideas post at work.  Then I cleaned it up a little to take out some "my company" specific examples and posted it on Linked-In.
Then I remembered that I don't post enough content to my blog anymore, so here's a post with a link to a post.
https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140701163145-41328787-team-building-tips-for-managers-from-agile?trk=mp-reader-card</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2014-07-03 16:38:00.002 -0400 -0400">3 Jul 2014</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Team Building Tips for Managers from Agile" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2014/07/team-building-tips-for-managers-from-agile/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/work/>« Prev</a>
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To someone who needs to go through Times Square multiple times per day, tourists are painful, literally....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2011-08-28 15:15:00.001 -0400 -0400">28 Aug 2011</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to About Times Square" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2011/08/about-times-square/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Earthquake</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>New York City - Midtown
On Tuesday morning, Jen and I were both in the office and something seemed strange.
If you've ever been in the upper floors of a tall building during sustained winds, you can feel the building swaying. It felt just like that.  Jen says, "Is the building moving?"  "Yes," as I realize that I shouldn't feel wind movement from the third floor.  Still not really sure what's going on, I say, "...</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2011-08-24 08:41:00 -0400 -0400">24 Aug 2011</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Earthquake" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2011/08/earthquake/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>From Top Down to Agility</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I am a Technical Team Leader.  I have some developers reporting to me.  So let me say this; Regulated, Regimented development.  That's what I try to use most of the time.  Yes, really.  It is extremely important to start a project with good specifications.  First, this means that I have had several conversations with my customers about what they are expecting to get out of the project, and how they expect to interact with it before anybody starts coding....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2011-01-24 18:00:00.005 -0500 -0500">24 Jan 2011</span> · 4 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to From Top Down to Agility" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2011/01/from-top-down-to-agility/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/work/page/2/>« Prev</a>
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CHAIR is an offset platform for programming, which is specifically made to support a programmer's approach to offset horizontal surface interfacing to tables. It does not qualify as a fully integrated development environment, but instead is a purpose built platform for supporting a programmer without getting in the way of what the programmer does best! As a programming platform CHAIR is already proven to lead to greatly reduced project timelines when compared to similar projects done without the CHAIR Platform....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2009-03-31 19:31:00 -0400 -0400">31 Mar 2009</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [dev] CHAIR Programming Platform 3.0" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2009/03/dev-chair-programming-platform-3-0/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>One Year Ago</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>One year ago, I arrived in China. I cherish the time that I spent there, and wish I had more time to spend there.
Due to a number of issues that are beyond my control, the possibility of me getting back to China for any length of time in the future is greatly diminished.
I consider several of the people that I met in China to be close friends of mine to this day....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-10-14 22:46:00 -0500 -0500">14 Oct 2008</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to One Year Ago" href=https://blog.vollink.com/in-china/2008/10/one-year-ago/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>This Day in Gary's History...</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>September 11, 2001 I was on a consulting assignment to help install and configure a web based software product at Caterpillar in Pontiac, Illinois. I arrived at the Bloomington, IL airport on the morning of September 10th, and was asked to visit the headquarters in East Peoria on September 11th. To save the customer money, another consultant agreed to lend me his pickup truck for the drive to East Peoria (on the other end of the state)....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2008-09-11 19:36:00 -0400 -0400">11 Sep 2008</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to This Day in Gary's History..." href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2008/09/this-day-in-gary-s-history/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/work/page/3/>« Prev</a>
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http://photos.vollink.com/
If I know you, you can sign up for an account, then Email me your login name. I will then enable your account to see the rest of the photo collections. This includes categories like, “Friends at Work†and “Friends at Hotelâ€.
If I don’t know you, you can still sign up for an account, but you’ll get no benefit, and will have given your Email address to another random site on the internet....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2007-11-11 12:00:00 +0800 +0800">11 Nov 2007</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Note on Photos" href=https://blog.vollink.com/in-china/2007/11/note-on-photos/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/work/page/4/>« Prev</a>
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North East Beijing Territory
Some people from work were talking about a Great Wall Hike. I was reluctantly invited to go along, after being told many times that it would be a lot of up and down, and it’s very strenuous…
Gubeikou The group starts off at a break-neck pace, and I become winded almost immediately....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2007-10-28 14:00:00 +0800 +0800">28 Oct 2007</span> · 4 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Great Wall Hike" href=https://blog.vollink.com/in-china/2007/10/great-wall-hike/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/work/page/5/>« Prev</a>
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Credit Due… Special thanks to Vital Systems Support for setting up the photo hosting.</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2007-10-23 12:00:00 +0800 +0800">23 Oct 2007</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Photos" href=https://blog.vollink.com/in-china/2007/10/photos/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Friday Night Out</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>October 19
Adventures with Hairy Crab A group of people who are working in the office, none of whom are from China, decided we’d do dinner as a group. Singapore girl (whom was part of Thursday’s dinner) heard that Hairy Crab was in season and that this particular restaurant had it. A quick search on the internet wasn’t very promising, but I promised myself I’d keep an open mind. So, off we went in two cabs (there’s a four person limit per cab, and we were a party of 5)....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2007-10-20 14:00:00 +0800 +0800">20 Oct 2007</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Friday Night Out" href=https://blog.vollink.com/in-china/2007/10/friday-night-out/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>A Note To My Readers...(from China)</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>BlogSpot and China BlogSpot and China do not appear to get along very well. This editing interface (blogger.com) works intermittently, but does work most of the time. However, my page at blogspot.com is simply not available to me.
If you are one of the nice folks whom have posted a note, I cannot reply (I only know about them because of the moderation interface) except in this very public way (or via Email)....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2007-10-20 12:00:00 +0800 +0800">20 Oct 2007</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to A Note To My Readers...(from China)" href=https://blog.vollink.com/in-china/2007/10/a-note-to-my-readers...from-china/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/work/page/6/>« Prev</a>
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Zhong Guan Cun District, Beijing
3:50. Really? No, can’t be. It feels like I slept all day. Yep, 4:10 AM. Still pitch dark outside. This must be that jet lag people kept warning me about.
I’m already unpacked, no chance of going back to sleep. I spend the next 45 minutes watching the end of Karate Kid 2, dubbed in Mandarin, with Chinese sub-titles. I was totally lost until the big dramatic fight scene at the end....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2007-10-15 12:00:00 +0800 +0800">15 Oct 2007</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Getting there is NOT half the fun" href=https://blog.vollink.com/in-china/2007/10/getting-there-is-not-half-the-fun/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Reporting for Duty</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Haidan District, Beijing There’s a building a few blocks over from my Hotel room that has strobe lights on top of it. It’s tall enough to require them if the building were in a flight path, but there are buildings as tall around it, and they don’t seem to need strobe lights. Hmph. So, I close the hotel curtains all the way. If I strain, I can still sense the strobe, but with the curtains drawn and my eyelids closed, it doesn’t exist....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2007-10-15 12:00:00 +0800 +0800">15 Oct 2007</span> · 4 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Reporting for Duty" href=https://blog.vollink.com/in-china/2007/10/reporting-for-duty/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/work/page/7/>« Prev</a>
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I remembered to take some pictures of the Airport terminal on the way to customs.
My employer was nice enough to arrange for me, a ride from the Beijing Airport to the Hotel....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2007-10-14 12:00:00 +0800 +0800">14 Oct 2007</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Welcome To Beijing..." href=https://blog.vollink.com/in-china/2007/10/welcome-to-beijing.../></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>Getting there is NOT half the fun</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>October 12 Minneapolis, MN, USA
So, I’m in China for the next few months, and getting there is not half the fun.
-Don’t get me wrong, it wasn’t an unpleasant flight - as flights go. It just wasn’t fun. 13 hours chasing the sun the whole way, and really not being able to catch any sleep. I was in a middle seat of a 747 - row 60 (only two rows from the absolute back), and even with my noise canceling headphones in, there was just too much light, and too much going on....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2007-10-14 04:00:00 +0800 +0800">14 Oct 2007</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Getting there is NOT half the fun" href=https://blog.vollink.com/in-china/2007/10/getting-there-is-not-half-the-fun/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/work/page/8/>« Prev</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+Don’t get me wrong, it wasn’t an unpleasant flight - as flights go. It just wasn’t fun. 13 hours chasing the sun the whole way, and really not being able to catch any sleep. I was in a middle seat of a 747 - row 60 (only two rows from the absolute back), and even with my noise canceling headphones in, there was just too much light, and too much going on....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2007-10-14 04:00:00 +0800 +0800">14 Oct 2007</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Getting there is NOT half the fun" href=https://blog.vollink.com/in-china/2007/10/getting-there-is-not-half-the-fun/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/work/page/8/>« Prev</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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The main character, Jaya Rao, is a princess from an old kingdom of India who is literally there to break someone's heart....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2020-01-22 12:00:00 -0500 -0500">22 Jan 2020</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Of Curses and Kisses by Sandhya Menon" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2020/01/of-curses-and-kisses/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover The Graveyard Book isn't a horror novel, but it is absolutely goth and macabre. The story follows a boy from 18 months old when his whole family is murdered and he wanders off into the night through his childhood as he is raised in a graveyard by two ghosts and a vampire as guardian (who supplies physical things, like food and clothes). At one point, we meet a werewolf and ghouls as well....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-09-18 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">18 Sep 2019</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/09/the-graveyard-book/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover This is a book that I've known about for most of my life, and Tom Sawyer is a character that I've heard referenced through my entire life. A fairly large area of Disney's Magic Kingdom is dedicated to this book; one of my favorite places to hang out for an hour. Yet, nothing of the story was spoiled for me.
-First and foremost, the "...</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-08-21 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">21 Aug 2019</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/08/the-adventures-of-tom-sawyer/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book Cover Every once in a while, I try to get in a review of a classic. Something that some of my readers are likely to have read themselves. I do this, mostly, to help readers calibrate my taste... That is, it seems likely enough that some readers are likely to disagree with everything I like, and might find it compelling to read a book that I really didn't like....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-07-17 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">17 Jul 2019</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/07/treasure-island/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=next href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/young-adult/page/2/>Next »</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2024 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
+First and foremost, the "...</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-08-21 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">21 Aug 2019</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/08/the-adventures-of-tom-sawyer/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book Cover Every once in a while, I try to get in a review of a classic. Something that some of my readers are likely to have read themselves. I do this, mostly, to help readers calibrate my taste... That is, it seems likely enough that some readers are likely to disagree with everything I like, and might find it compelling to read a book that I really didn't like....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-07-17 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">17 Jul 2019</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/07/treasure-island/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=next href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/young-adult/page/2/>Next »</a></nav></footer></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2025 <a href=https://blog.vollink.com/>On My Mind...</a></span>
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I recommend not reading Defy The Worlds until Defy The Stars has already been read. Like most sequels, this book could stand-alone, but there is not as much exposition and recap as I'm used to reading in sequels....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-06-26 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">26 Jun 2019</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Defy The Worlds by Claudia Gray" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/06/defy-the-worlds/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Defy The Stars by Claudia Gray</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>This is book one of a three book series (the third book came out earlier this month), and since I've already had good reviews of two other books by this author, I decided to pick up this series as well to see what she had done outside of the Star Wars universe.
Book cover Through a ring of stabilized wormholes, large enough for whole ships to pass through, Earth expanded to five other planets....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-05-29 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">29 May 2019</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Defy The Stars by Claudia Gray" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/05/defy-the-stars/></a></article><article class="post-entry tag-entry"><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Predators Gold by Philip Reeve</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover This is book 2 of the Mortal Engines Quartet. For convenience, here is a link to my review of book 1, Mortal Engines, which I posted a month ago.
I'm going to start this review with a note about a changed name. The books were originally released in the UK with a character named Shrike. For the initial US release of the books, that character was renamed to Grike....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-04-17 16:26:00 -0400 -0400">17 Apr 2019</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Predators Gold by Philip Reeve" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/04/predators-gold/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/young-adult/>« Prev</a>
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