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Socrates was famous for saying that "the unexamined life is not worth living," but the nature of capitalism discourages self-reflection beyond what products one needs to buy to be happy. To counter that, I've made a habit of looking back on my life to evaluate choices, assumptions, outcomes, et cete...

This week I learned of the passing of Jake Millett, a fixture in the local Portland Maine music scene for over 20 years as a solo artist (DJing and producing, most recently as "Roach Dad") and also as a member of Altered Gee (with Bright Boy and Teal Child). I did not know him well outside of music,...

I started dabbling in C++ in the late 90's, writing my first "hello world" program in like 1997 out of some book I bought at Border's because it included a version of Code Warrior that ran on MacOS 7.5. I thought the program was hella corny at the time ("hello world"? please...) but as I got older,...