Volunteer Habitat For Humanity - Argentina My daughter and I are preparing for an upcoming trip to Bahia Blanca, Argentina, to participate in a Habitat For Humanity project. Along the way we'll spend a few days in Uruguay and
Volunteer Startup Week San Diego I helped coordinate ~500 volunteers over the course of five days at Startup Week San Diego for the Startup San Diego organization. We used VolunteerLocal for all the volunteer signups and scheduling but
The Red Car Car mystery I showed Tony from Autobahn Interiors a picture of my car's doors and he immediately said "That's a 1966." We bought the car in about 1993 and always knew it as
Luftgekühlt 2018 Just came back from Luftgekühlt 2018 (#LUFT5) and boy are my eyes tired. It was insane. So many beautiful and well used cars. A museum where most people drive the exhibits right on
The Red Car Red Car Clutch Replacement The "wrenching" gene came from my dad - I'm glad I have it. Replacing the clutch - hopefully everything will be back together for a drive this weekend. Pictures of progress.
Zion / Orchard Canyon on Oak Creek / Grand Canyon Pictures from our recent trip to Zion National Park, Utah, then down to Prescott, Arizona.
YOLO Favorite Paper I now have a new favorite paper. This technical report. Read it all the way through, it is amazing. The author's resumé is pretty tight too.
Sad and Angry I am so sad and so angry that this keeps happening. We have failed. These kids and teachers were slaughtered. The only things that worked well this day was the weapon and the
xkcd choropleth I love this. Such a better way of showing distributions. https://xkcd.com/1939/ p.s. From my computer's dictionary: choropleth map | ˈkôrəˌpleTH ˌmap | noun a map that uses differences in shading, coloring,
Code Data Center Optimization Project This was an assignment for an optimization (COMP 671) course I took in 2012. Word's translation from .docx to .html looked OK but oh my the html itself was ugly. This is being
Code R Wide to long Here's another note to self on how to do something I do frequently enough to need to document but not often enough to memorize - transforming data from "wide" to "
Concert Xmas Danya's Xmas present to me was tickets to go see X, Meat Puppets, and Mike Watt. The concert was last night (Dec 22, 2017) at The Observatory in North Park, San Diego. What
IT Leadership Leadership: Mission Statement Mission Statement Teams often struggle with creating a Mission Statement. Too much over-think it, analysing every word and trying to cover every corner case. It shouldn't be that difficult. As I went from
Code Visualization: multipass This sketch was for a potential client that was trying to decide if COTS program was needed. I got an idea of what they were looking for and created this sketch. It uses
IT Leadership Management Style: Easy Sailing The wind and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigator.Edmund Gibbon I love sailing. I've spent many hours blasting across Mission Bay. It's the perfect sport for someone
IT Leadership Management Motivation I'm continuing to write about my "management style." This post is the second one about what I look for when considering transitioning someone from individual contributor to manager. It's closely related
IT Leadership Management Calling Management is a calling. Your leads should be compelled by internal motivations to lead. There's a lot going on behind all the glamour (ha!) of management that many people aren't aware of. Beyond
Thoughts Social Media I realized is every single bad thing you've read about social media is true. The fake news, the trolls, the uninformed outrage, the bubbles, the "being the product, not the customer,"
IT Leadership Leadership Style: Another AFROTC Lesson A leader makes sure that everyone on their team understands what "the mission" is and how every individual has a critical role in accomplishing that mission. When I was on active
IT Leadership Leadership Style: From The Air Force I enlisted in the Air Force and then went from active duty into AFROTC at San Diego State University. ROTC teaches cadets leadership principles and military skills. ROTC taught me quite a bit
IT Leadership Leadership Style I was recently asked "What's your leadership style?" and I got tongue-tied because I don't know. I'm not sure if I have a leadership style. And I tend to think of
Eulogy for RadioShack Oh my gosh, this is the saddest thing I've read in a long time. A eulogy for RadioShack, the panicked and half-dead retail empire
Code Network I wrote about how I had in mind a loosely connected graph as the background of one of the pages I recently created. The idea wouldn't leave my head so I created a
Thoughts Cosmononplusation Day February 4, 2009 at 3:36am In 1988 I invented a holiday called "Cosmononplusation Day" and I've observed it faithfully since. Cosmononplusation day is every February 29th. What is Cosmononplusation Day?
Code d3 animation -> gif I created a logo for my consulting website. When I started I originally figured I'd have a small, loosely connected force-directed graph bouncing across the screen as it would represent the work that