Reflecting on my life and where it is now. Turned 35 a week ago; I’m almost at the statistical halfway point until death. Sometimes I feel halfway dead already, and that’s unsettling. Starting to see further signs of growing older. As I sat down to write this entry, I cued up some music, logged in, …
Author Archives: Shawn
2,600 Hertz
Last week I took the opportunity to hang out for an evening with a guy named Emmanuel Goldstein (nee Eric Corley), the founder of the venerable 2600: The Hacker Quartely, a magazine written by and for hackers. He was in town for the technology portion of the local South By Southwest conference where a founder …
From Scratch to Soothe the Itch
It’s growing. The itch to redesign Phaysis from the ground up is growing. Not just a redesign, but a rebuilding. It’s my webspace, and I should damn-well start doing something with it. I need a blog, a gallery, a space for uploaded files, RSS feeds, some commenting code, and, among others, a method to email …
Gaslight in our Front Yard
Gaslight comes through the window of my bedroom. Its incandescent hues cast a broken square upon my wall. It makes the old paint glow a faded yellow-white. I can see the moving shadow of the curtains blowing to the beat of evening breezes. Lying in my bed, I feel so much; only a child, but …
Ciprofessional Confessional
I hate Ciprofloxacin. It’s an antibiotic, one of the harshest. Most prescriptions of the stuff last a week. My prescription, however, lasts a month, and I’ve been on it one week, long enough to have it doing its ill effects. Not my first time on it; hopefully it is my last. UTI‘s are a bitch. …