Poetic Musings
Thank you for taking this literary journey with me! Here I post personal thoughts on social issues, reflections about day-to-day living, and of course a healthy amount of stories inspired by the many games I’ve played over the years. I try to update several times a week, and genuinely appreciate the care and support of all who read these words, whether the post is fanciful or heartfelt.
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Covert Ops: Operation Kingslayer
We're rarely given much of a heads-up before the call to mobilize comes through, generally only enough time to grab a cup of crappy barracks coffee and make our way to the conference hall. This time though, we were pointed toward the comms tent instead, where all the...
Covert Ops: Faith
I think by this point my team must be some of the most-cursed folks on the planet. In every country on every continent we go to, we've been threatened with eternal punishment, divine condemnation, ill fortune, dark omens, medical malady, and familial trauma, including...
Public Skate Etiquette
With the winter season in full force and many seasonal or permanent rinks open to the public, it's important that everyone is able to enjoy their time on the ice. To help make sure you and others are able to stay safe, stay skating, and develop those skills, today...
Sacrificing on the Altar of Numbers
While working in the managed IT space, I encountered an enormous collection of businesses, departments, and managers who measured success by a singular metric. While that metric may change between companies—total revenue, number of IT tickets opened, number of...
Preparing a Move to Linux
For more than twenty years I've always had some flavor of Linux running in my home, whether it was the OS powering my servers, my low-powered laptops, or even as my primary work computer. Though for the past few years I have been running a stripped-down version of...
The Token Cloning Machine
In Magic: the Gathering, tokens are a special type of permanent that only exist so long as they're on the battlefield. If a token—of any kind—leaves the field of play, they cease to exist. This means that bouncing a token back to someone's hand, or killing a token...
