A Requiem for Video Game Discs
Etched in my core memory, from my teenage gaming years, is The Offspring's All I Want: It's the intro loop from the arcade game Crazy Taxi. The core game and its sequels haven't seen…
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Rules of the Game
What are the rules to the game? What game are we even playing? A couple years ago, we caught the Super Bowl on TV, with the 49ers playing in the biggest sporting event of the year. As my son was…
FIREing Our Way to Financial Literacy
It seems like FIRE survived after all. The acronym stands for Financial Independence, Retire Early. It's a movement I've been following since the late 2010s, with the emphasis on financial calculations and statistical analysis tickling my…
The Linguistics of Programming
I think it was the semester's first career fair, during my sophomore year in college. A Microsoft recruiter, screening for computer science majors, pulled me aside and asked me what my "favorite language" was. I panicked,…
Moving at the Speed of Information
"The world is moving faster than ever…", and all of its paraphrased clichés, have become a personal pet peeve. It shows up in business articles, podcasts, and plenty of advertising, to trigger a sense of anxiety and uncertainty…
Our Three-Part Vacation Strategy
I've been sneaking vacation photos into my Year in Review posts, as we've had the opportunity to go farther away in recent years. The travel switch flipped when the kids got old enough to remember their…
