Hal Stern's thoughts on sports, work, technology, food, and life in New Jersey
From the category archives:
I am a visual learner and continue to use the school calendar image for thinking about times and dates. You know the calendar setup: it’s two rows of months, September to February on top and March to August on the bottom; our parents had them in planners and wall calendars in the 1970s. To [...]
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The content import from my work blog to my more lifestyle, food and sports oriented life over here is about halfway done. Gentle readers will notice heavy music and strong words categories, mostly delving into prog rock, sci-fi and intersections of the two (like Avatar).
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I’m moving all of the non-work related content from my Sun Microsystems blog over to the Snowman, mostly to separate personal stuff and give it a long-term home. So you’ll see about 300 new blog entries show up, but none of them very recent — search, category results, tag results, and some cross-references will [...]
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Local tragedies have a way of uniting us globally. I was first made aware of this when Roberto Clemente, much beloved Pittsburgh Pirate, was killed in a post-earthquake aid and goodwill ambassador role in his native Nicaragua. All of baseball mourned #21, who was just responding through the goodness of his heart.
This week’s [...]
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About a month ago, I started going to yoga classes with my wonderful wife in an attempt to regain some flexibility, perhaps slowly get back into “skating shape” and just enjoy a little adult time with my spouse. It’s been fun, mostly because our yoga instructor is patient, tolerates my constant chatter, and will [...]
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It’s that time of year again. And what a long, strange trip of a year it’s been. Some thoughts from 2009:
Work moment.Trip to India in April, at the tail end of a tour that took me to Mexico City, Johannesburg, Mumbai and Bangalore. While meeting with the technical managers in the [...]
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The holiday season is now in full tilt, with last minute shopping and shipping, final touches to decorations, parties, and either dread or hopeful expectations of time with our families. My own interpretation of this feeling is that captured in the shehecheyanu, the Hebrew prayer said the first time you do something each [...]
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It’s marathon weekend in New York. Thanksgiving is on the horizon. Daylight savings time ends tonight. All harbingers of extreme numbers of tourists in the Big Apple. I’ll set the record straight up front: Tourists fuel a good part of the retail economy in New York. Come here, spend [...]
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I’ll be at WordCamp NYC on November 14-15, helping out, handing out t-shirts, and generally saying “hi” to other WordPress bloggers and developers. I’m hoping to have a sample chapter or three of the upcoming WordPress book I’m co-authoring with Brad Williams of WebDevStudios and Dave Damstra. In the meantime, make sure [...]
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I am breaking a few self-enforced “work rules” this morning, and I feel no shame or guilt about it. I have the television in my office turned on to watch the inaugural proceedings, sound turned down, but a distraction anyway. I should be preparing for an upcoming conference call, but I’m blogging because [...]
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