After being unsure what I was going to do with the site for a while, I decided to go back to ClassicPress and resurrect and update a WordPress theme I built back in 2009 for my site when it lived at soupnazi.org.
I’ve started playing Battlefield 5 again so maybe I’ll resume posting clips regularly again soon. Maybe the combination of that and having a fast and easy way to post will keep the site going this time. Or, maybe it won’t 🤷♂️
Ed. note: I originally wrote and published this 12 years ago in 2012. It’s now been 15 years since he passed and it still seems like just yesterday.
Three years ago tonight, at 8:30 PM Pacific Time, I was sitting on my couch playing Assassin’s Creed II. My twins were nearly 6 months old, and they were laying on the floor in front of the couch playing with some stuffed animals. Tiffany was at work. It was cold and rainy outside. My phone rang. The caller ID on my iPhone showed it was my brother, so I answered the way I usually do when he calls:
Some shots of the Aurora Borealis, captured tonight with my iPhone 16 Pro from my front porch and the steps up to my garage. Click on a thumbnail to see a larger photo.
Blake Watson is out with a new project called HTML for People. It’s an online book that teaches anyone how to create a website. From the intro:
HTML isn’t only for people working in the tech field. It’s for anybody, the way documents are for anybody. HTML is just another type of document. A very special one—the one the web is built on.
This is an excellent resource and definitely worth checking it out, especially if you’ve ever wanted to build your own website but were unsure where to start.
When Apple first announced AirPods 4, I couldn’t have clicked the pre-order button any faster than I did.
My AirPods Max — which I loved — were flaky as hell for the better part of 2 years (pretty much since AppleCare expired). They actually stopped working for about a year and then I threw them in the freezer for an hour and it brought them back to life, but that’s a different story and something that should be completely unnecessary for $549 headphones.
I’ve been trying to get this outfit forever, and I finally got it last night! The drop rate for it is insanely low—around 0.15%! 😳
After completing what felt like a million events in the Savage Divide, I finally hit the “Wasteland Lottery” and scored the outfit bundle that includes the White Powder Winter Sports jumpsuit!
The bundle also came with the Brotherhood of Steel jumpsuit and the Whitespring jumpsuit, both of which I had already bought from player vendors, along with a few other rare items. I’m so happy 😂
After running the site on Jekyll for the past 2-ish years, I’ve swicthed back to WordPress.
Long story short, I moved back because the publishing flow is so much faster. I’m old and I’m tired of putzing around with things to make them work — I just want them to work without a bunch of effort, and WordPress does just that 🤷♂️
Anyway, we’ll see how long this lasts. I’ll probably get bored and switch again at some point 😂
