Reviewing one process of reviewing: Zero stars
Anyone who knows me and has had occasion to be with me in a location with no fixed address, where we split up and get together again later, has heard me sing th...
Category: tech
The dodginess of reward point systems
There’s no such thing as a free lunch, as they say. And reward card systems are no exception. I can’t speak to all of them everywhere, but can say w...
All hail guitar tabs
When I was still in public school, my dad — a guitar player for as long as I can remember — offered to teach me guitar. I was years into my life-lon...
Forward momentum
I’ve recently mentioned my looking at getting into voiceover work (he says, determined to go with one spelling for “voiceover” and stick with ...
Data privacy starts with your own choices
I was scrolling on Mastodon yesterday — the ad-free, federated social media I went to after finally leaving Twitter and Facebook for good a few years ago ...
Confidence boosts are the best
For the sake of expediency, I won’t get into the needless background details about why this came about. But let’s just say that in the last 12 hours...
Enter… Reaper
As I recently mentioned, I’m looking at getting into voice over work to help bring in some money. I did some research and got a good (used) mic and a good...
Taking better care of myself, evidently
It occurred to me that I’ve recently made a few changes that were explicitly, albeit perhaps uncharacteristically, for my own good. I hunted down a couple...
So you want to join Mastodon…
I joined the social media site Mastodon three years ago this month, having heard about it as an alternative to Facebook and Twitter, which I’d been growin...