Hollow Rock Nature Park Birding

We add some gorgeous birds to our life list in this small gem of Durham's Hollow Rock Nature Park.

German Vegetable Soup with Bacon

Kat made the following recipe for a Soup-er Bowl party and it came out really well! Here's the original recipe. And if you don't read German, here's what Apple Translate did with that photo above.

Burns After Reading: Volume 7

I set a goal to be a better person, then fail at that goal. You can read my thoughts on the Cary Town Manager scandal, the books I've read, or the songs I've listened to this month.

Asparagus Bane

I was describing Spargelfest in Germany to a friend and they asked me, "What makes white asparagus different?" I said, "They take a Bane approach. It's cultivated in darkness." Oh, you think darkness is your ally? You merely adopted the dark. I was born

Burns After Reading: Volume 6

I hate read The Fountainhead and discover I'm one of Weakened Friends' biggest fans.

2025 Summary

I'm doing this again. A year in review for 2025. If you want to catch last year's, you can find 2024 here. Pray that brevity finds me, for your sake. 2025 brought new challenges and plenty of adventure. Challenges Psychic Damage The first challenge of 2025

A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall

Sometimes you want to post an AIM status update with lyrics of your current mood. Well, I've got a publishing platform, so here goes.

Burns After Reading: Volume 5

I learn there is less distinction between poetry and music than I'd imagined, watch Christmas movies, and dream about flying airplanes.

Debian 13 Trixie Upgrade

One Weird Trick to make Linux distro upgrades easy on your critical services. Upgrading from Debian 12 to 13 on a Docker host.

Burns After Reading: Volume 4

I discuss updating Debian and all the TV shows I've watched instead of reading books or writing blogs.

Air-Gapped Cyber Resilient Infrastructure

During Nutanix .NEXT 2025 in Washington, DC, I had the honor of presenting a main stage demo to ~4,000 attendees. I can write a bit more about what it took to get this demo ready, but for now I'm just happy to share that the presentation is

Bliss Alta Motionblinds Home Assistant Integration

Do you have a Bliss Automation - Alta Window Fashions roller shade or other device that you'd like to add into Home Assistant? Then this is the place for you! Background Part of de-Amazon-ing my house, or "un-Bezo-ing?", "de-Jeff-ing?" is to control all my