Surfing in Kansas

What they didn't teach me in college

2009 November 10

Updated at the bottom of the post.

Warning: This is a bit of a brain dump.

In the software industry there is a lot of back and forth about the value of a college degree. This post won't go into that too much, I just want to talk about ...

Luck and a New Life in Lawrence

2008 November 21

Note: This isn't a technical post. If you don't want to be getting posts like this, you can sign up for just my Django feed. This is my personal blog, so stuff like this pops up from time to time :).

Most people believe ...

The importance of not deleting blog posts (read: ideas)

2008 November 12

A lot of the time I start a blog post as a sentence. It is something that strikes me and I don't really know what I think about it. It is a moment of thought that needs to be revisited, but cannot yet be expounded upon.

A while ago ...

All majors are the same

2008 March 14

Had an interesting conversation with my roomate Mike last night. It helped me clarify something I have always understood, but never found a good way to say. This is probably going to be another failed attempt, but here goes.

All majors in college are generally the same. You are learning ...

Writing Advice?

2007 November 14

The story starts out unusually. One of my friends is trying to write a very important letter to a family member. He doesn't know how to write it. He has the outline, but is very worried about the implied psychological impact. They worry about the reader thinking too much ...

Fall is coming (and good content)

2007 November 04

It's almost daylight savings time, this weekend. That makes me sad, I hate it getting dark at 5pm. It will make work much more manageable though. My current schedule is working 2-8 Monday's and Wednesdays. I adopted this schedule to make sure that I actually got some hours ...