Murf’s “favors” sometimes register as tough love, especially when he’s trying to protect students from recklessness. “When kids come in on their 21st birthdays asking for shots, I don’t do it. I’ll make them a drink, but I won’t pour them shots.” In Murf’s view, shots are for “getting stupid,” and he won’t allow Notre…
After blogging for over 13 years on this site and having a personal web presence (“being my own webmaster” as I imagine cool kids said back then) for years before that, I have rode a wave of how much to make your site an expression of yourself and how much to make it something for…
Sometimes, I try something that I can just work harder at, spend more time practicing, and reach a level where I’m happy with myself. Sometimes, I am not so sure it is worth it. I wanted to pick up Dvorak. I really wanted to. I like being an edge case. I like that I run a…
After running HHVM with a PHP 5.6 fallback for about six months, I switched over to PHP 7. Initially, left HHVM on as a fallback to PHP (ha), but after a week, Nginx never attempted to use HHVM. Checking the average memory consumption, on an average day, never-used HHVM was using more memory than serving-everything PHP…
This week’s Picture of the Week is of Teresa trying on football shoulder pads. The Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum had a special exhibit from the NFL Pro Football museum. The museum does a good job of trying to balance having things that both adults and children would enjoy. In particular, they had a…
When we use food to define culture, we declare that those who can’t eat the way we do are no longer part of that tribe. Source: Turning cupcakes into compassion My eldest suffers from food allergies. Originally, she was allergic to milk and all dairy (including casein, often found in “alternative ” cheeses), eggs, tree…
