cyberhobo – There's always a place to go, and a way to get there…

I thought I’d try to pluck one small thing from my past year to share. What came to mind is a little shift that happened in my taste for stories that might reflect a cultural shift. For most I’ve my life I’ve gravitated toward hero stories, which I recognized...

We’ve knowingly consented to the use of disinformation to gain power. I’ve been bewildered by this since the 2016 election. Being a technologist by trade I pondered ways to use technology to counter disinformation, but my thinking has changed. I now...

This year was stressful in ways that I’d rather not share. Rest assured the reasons are personal and mundane, and not life-threatening. At the risk of promoting an over-idealized internet version of my life, I thought I’d just share some nice things...

It’s been a transformative year for me. I feel like a different person in many ways. There were a lot of challenges and I hope to share some of the things that helped me get through them.
It was my last year with my father Daniel, much different from any other. At the end of May I went to Phoenix where we packed up a rental trailer and moved Dad to a room in Park Place, an assisted living home near me in Reno. With over a dozen medications...