The ramblings of an comic / sci -fi / programmer / sociology geek.
Jeez, if 2020 was a shit show of a year 2021 was the year of monumental change. I know a lot people are doing that right now. People have moved, made big career decisions, started families, and so I’m in the same boat as many other people. The year felt shorter than the last year and I don’t know why though. The pandemic just feels like it’s ongoing forever but at least I feel things ...(Read More)
In case we haven’t talked about it I’ve been doing my daily journal for almost 10 years now. The entry is done at the end of the day and it’s been pretty consistent. Sometimes entries are small, sometimes they’re huge. But it’s been a useful tool for me to write down my thoughts at the end of the day. I mostly keep my journal as two things: A source of what happened that day. A ...(Read More)
I was talking recently about the future and dealing with the unknown unknowns involving buying real estate and realized that Mel didn’t know about the concept. So I decided to write a little blog post about it since I thought it might be fun (also NYE resolution on writing). This is a concept I’ve used in tech when covering specifications about projects and estimating times. I give buffer for things that I don’t know about ...(Read More)
Ooooh man. 2020 was a shit show of a year. The pandemic caused huge shock waves throughout all our lives and the entire year has been a clusterfuck. At least the Democrats have the White House so no more Trump news for the next 4 years (at least not just him complaining or something). We had a whole trip to Japan canceled but otherwise I’m lucky that I didn’t lose my job or get sick ...(Read More)
Prop 22 These are all my views and not that of Lyft just to be clear. I’m not also going to give real numbers but approximations for everything since information is confidential. I’ve had a few people ask me about my thoughts on this and I figured I’d just write it out instead. This is not a post trying to convince you of any position or the other just my thoughts on the matter. If ...(Read More)