Annual Self-Portrait (2020)

It's A Binary World 2.0

Insights on fatherhood, technology, culture, photography, and politics

  • About Advertisements
  • About Me
  • Blog Post Series
  • Comment Policy
  • Completed Projects
  • Current Desktop Screenshots
    • Cinnamon 2016
    • Fluxbox 2006 and Earlier
    • Gnome 2010-2014
    • Gnome 2015
    • Gnome 2016
    • i3 2016
    • KDE 2015-2016 (KDE 5.x)
    • KDE 2017
    • KDE 2019
    • KDE 2020
    • KDE 2021
    • LXDE 2010
    • MATE 2016
    • Windows 10 2015
      • Windows 7 2015 and Earlier
      • Windows XP
    • Xfce 2014 and Earlier
    • Xfce 2015-2016
    • KDE 2010-2015 (KDE 4.x)
    • KDE 2007 and Earlier (KDE 3.x)
    • Gnome 2009 and Earlier
  • Current Projects
  • drop the bomb productions
    • dtbp: Advocacy
  • Essays
  • Fedora RPMs
  • Legal
  • My Boxen
  • My Other Sites
  • My Software Code
  • My VM Host
  • Photography
  • Where I’ve Been
  • Others are also excited about Obojima Tales

    Others are also excited about Obojima Tales

    I’ve been backing a few different D&D 5e adventures on kickstarter, but the one I’m most excited about getting fulfillment on is Obojima: Tales from the Tall Grass. It’s so freakin’ beautiful that I had to hold myself back from getting the package that came with everything. But I’m not the only one excited bout…

    September 24, 2023
  • Another Reason to be Glad I attend small concerts?

    Another Reason to be Glad I attend small concerts?

    I like listening to NPR’s It’s Been a Minute and today’s episode was a real doozy. Here’s the descriptive paragraph from the NPR page for the episode: Every couple of weeks there’s a new story of a fan at a concert misbehaving. One fan threw ashes at Pink, another hit Drake with a cellphone, Miranda…

    September 19, 2023
  • Thoughts on the Red Hat Source Issues

    Thoughts on the Red Hat Source Issues

    Now that we’ve had a few months to consider Red Hat’s new course code policy, I wanted to share my thoughts since I’ve been a user of Red Hat’s Fedora since it started back in 2003. I’ve also made heavy use of CentOS and am currently running a server using one of the free RHEL…

    September 17, 2023
  • This Blog is Now On Mastodon/Fediverse

    You can now follow the blog on Mastodon by searching for: blog@www.ericsbinaryworld.com Then you can follow and see all of the blog’s posts. There is a bit of an error with my author posts, but since I’m the only author on this blog (I think there are maybe 2 posts by my brother), it’s not…

    September 17, 2023
  • Miscellanea: D&D, Disney, and French Browser Proposals

    Miscellanea: D&D, Disney, and French Browser Proposals

    This post contains my thoughts on a few stories I’ve been saving up that don’t merit a post on their own. D&D Romance Just a day after posting about my kids getting into D&D, I came across this article on Tor.com about The Golden Age of D&D Romance. I had no idea it was a…

    September 9, 2023
  • Howard County, Zum, and Industry Disruption being Disruptive

    Howard County, Zum, and Industry Disruption being Disruptive

    Last week was the first week of school in Howard County, Maryland. It was a chaotic week for transportation and, I think it was caused in large part by contractor issues. In the USA we tend to believe that privatizing everything makes it better. But, in fact, all it does is create an extra layer…

    September 4, 2023
  • How My Kids Got into Dungeons and Dragons

    How My Kids Got into Dungeons and Dragons

    Two years ago, while spending time with my brothers, I played Dungeons and Dragons for the first time ever. David had been introduced to D&D by a coworker during COVID. Tony and Alex apparently had played in high school. I’m not sure when David’s wife started playing, but she joined us that night, too. David…

    August 7, 2023
  • Bad Time Records 2023 Concert: We Are the Union, Catbite, and Kill Lincoln

    Bad Time Records 2023 Concert: We Are the Union, Catbite, and Kill Lincoln

    As I mentioned during my 2022 Music Wrap-Up, I got back into modern ska via Bad Time Records. So when Bad Time Records announced their Bad Time Records Tour 2023 featuring We Are the Union, Kill Lincoln, and Catbite – it was a no-brainer to buy the tickets. As a bonus, they’re also filming a…

    July 16, 2023
  • Review: Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 107, April 2019

    Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 107, April 2019 by John Joseph Adams My rating: 4 of 5 stars SCIENCE FICTIONThe Archronology of Love (Caroline M. Yoachim) – This short story involves an interesting idea where an alien race has created a VR history, but to make an analogy with archeology, when you view part of the history,…

    June 8, 2023
  • Review: Come Tumbling Down

    Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire My rating: 4 of 5 stars This book has a more straight-forward narrative style rather than the more poetic one of the last few stories. Chronologically, it takes place after the events of Beneath the Sugar Sky. Books 4 and 4.5 are prequel novellas. In addition to completing (maybe?)…

    June 7, 2023
  • Review: Juice Like Wounds

    Juice Like Wounds by Seanan McGuire My rating: 4 of 5 stars This is a short story that was posted to Tor.com that fills in a key story that was briefly mentioned in In an Absent Dream. Even though it was a key plot point in that book, it makes a lot of sense to…

    June 6, 2023
  • Review: Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 106, March 2019

    Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 106, March 2019 by John Joseph Adams My rating: 4 of 5 stars SCIENCE FICTION The Synapse Will Free Us from Ourselves (Violet Allen) – a story that seems (however horrifying) even more likely now than it did when this issue was first printed. I don’t want to give anything away so…

    June 5, 2023
  • Review: In an Absent Dream

    In an Absent Dream by Seanan McGuire My rating: 5 of 5 stars Another prequel entry in the Wayward Children series. I read this almost entirely in one sitting because I was transfixed. I love logic fantasy worlds and I loved the idea of this one where the world enforces a sense of balance and…

    June 4, 2023
  • Review: Beneath the Sugar Sky

    Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire My rating: 4 of 5 stars This book continues the story from book 1, not book 2. (Which makes sense since Down Among the Sticks and Bones was a prequel) We’re introduced to some new characters and get a little more background on some of the others. I…

    June 3, 2023
  • Review:  Down Among the Sticks and Bones

    Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire My rating: 5 of 5 stars This book serves as a prequel to Every Heart a Doorway but should definitely be read after that book in order not to spoil any plot points. The book elicits an incredible amount of emotion and I believe this is…

    June 2, 2023
1 2 3 … 256
Next Page→

It's A Binary World 2.0

Proudly powered by WordPress

  • Mastodon
  • Flickr

Latest Comments

  1. Eric Mesa on Dunedin Rotary Triathlon (May 2023)2 Jun 2023

    No clips yet. Will probably be in the budget for next year.

  2. Dan on Dunedin Rotary Triathlon (May 2023)30 May 2023

    I can’t say for sure what equipment your biking competition was using, but for sure you’ll see a large jump…

  3. Dunedin Rotary Triathlon (May 2023) – It's A Binary World 2.0 on Columbia Gateway Duathlon April 202330 May 2023

    […] expected, based on last month’s duathlon, everyone passed me during the bike portion. I’m not quite sure why, but…

  4. End of Year Review: Running 2021 and 2022 – It's A Binary World 2.0 on Ted Corbitt 15k 202219 Dec 2022

    […] least I was able to do the final NYRR race I wanted to do this year, the Ted Corbitt…

  5. Programming Update: Aug – It's A Binary World 2.0 on Course Review: Modern APIs with FastAPI, MongoDB and Python31 Aug 2022

    […] took an awesome class (and wrote up a review) where I learned a lot about how to work with…

Latest Posts

  • Others are also excited about Obojima Tales
  • Another Reason to be Glad I attend small concerts?
  • Thoughts on the Red Hat Source Issues
  • This Blog is Now On Mastodon/Fediverse
  • Miscellanea: D&D, Disney, and French Browser Proposals