The big thing this year was my internet provider, web host provider, and personal website were crushed when John Ogden shuttered SpiritOne. I started with SpiritOne back in the 90’s on dial up when I was on a Mac and a few other local ISPs told me they didn’t support Macintosh connections. I had stopped …
Uncle Josh Gets a New Toy
Several years ago I wanted to try my hand at robotics. I picked up a multi meter, bread board, wires, buzzers, and a book on making robotics that was easy enough to understand but I failed miserably at understanding and manipulating an integrated circuit. Once again we have the robot-toy-bug in our house and the …
Uncle Josh Peeks In At His Other Selves
Background: I picked up a very common Gmail address on the day Gmail went live back in 2004, and had to abandon it because it gets used everywhere. I haven’t looked at Alt-Josh in a while, I thought I would check in. I created an account at TeachItGeography.co.uk. Pretty harmless. I was invited to a …
Uncle Josh Autopsies NaNoWriMo 2018
I “lost” 2018. Am I upset? Kind of. Did I have “unusual circumstances”? No more so than usual. My wife having a trip to the Emergency Room and then surgery the Monday before Thanksgiving were tough things to bear at the time, but in the end they shouldn’t have affected my writing schedule all that …
Uncle Josh on the Thirteenth Doctor (Part 1 of ?)
I finally watched “The Witchfinder” and read the review on io9 and the comments. I cannot comment there for various troublesome login reasons, so I thought I would blather over here. The io9 review points out that this is the first story where the now-female Doctor is being held back because of her gender. There …
Uncle Josh on the Challenges of Gifts
The following is a short undated journal entry torn out of one the few billion Moleskin notebooks I have purchased over the years. The first challenge of having a gift is accepting it. The second challenge is accepting acknowledgment for those gifts. The third is the challenge of feeling the gift abandon you in the …
Uncle Josh Ponders Portland Measure 26-200
The basics: Limits contributions to $500 per individual, $5,000 loan balance from candidate, with no limits from small donor committees (which are capped at $100 per individual). I usually scan the number of arguments in favor and opposition to these measures. There are 18 arguments in favor, and only 5 in opposition. Oddly, both sides …