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2015 August – sogrady.org

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Whatever it is i do in my spare time. I Have Squandered My Days With Plans of Many Things. As usual, my summer vacation was a mixed bag. In the world at large, as is typical when I’m out of the office, things went completely bonkers. Google reorganized itself and became Alphabet. Pivotal got a new Chief Executive. And a bunch of tech companies lost a fifth of their value in a matter of minutes when the market imploded. Let me explain why i suck at vacation: pic.twitter.com/ldtPM6fjEJ. While we couldn&#82...

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I Remember Books – sogrady.org

https://sogrady.org/2014/05/02/books

Whatever it is i do in my spare time. The last physical book I read was a well worn 1978 paperback copy of Stephen King’s short story collection Night Shift on January 2nd. Of this year. The fact that I can tell you this says more than I’d like it to about my changing relationship with books. My problem isn’t that I don’t love books. It’s that convenience kills. Books, though, held out. There’s no getting around it: audiobooks and ebooks are simply more convenient than their physical counterparts&#...

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Travel – sogrady.org

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Whatever it is i do in my spare time. 35 Things That Make Travel Suck Less. Anyway, for those of you who don’t travel much some of these may be useful. For my fellow frequent travelers, a lot of these will be obvious, but there may be a few things in here you missed. Either way, I share these in the hope that someone, somewhere, finds at least one of them useful. Don’t Travel with Me. 8221; into YouTube and take your pick. Don’t Check Bags. Store Glasses in Your Shoes. Invest in Organization Gear. Speaki...

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How to Build a Woodshed – sogrady.org

https://sogrady.org/2015/08/03/how-to-build-a-woodshed

Whatever it is i do in my spare time. How to Build a Woodshed. Into an existing thermostat system, they’re not quite ready in our eyes. We’ll probably go down the heat pump route eventually, but only when they’re guaranteed to play nicely with our Nest units. Like every other heat source, wood comes with environmental tradeoffs, but it’s the best choice for us at present. What Does it Mean to Heat with Wood? In years past we’ve made do with makeshift wood racks that consist of two metal frames that...

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2015 February – sogrady.org

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Whatever it is i do in my spare time. Goodbye, Penryn Way. You can probably see where this is going. On the way home, my father was apoplectic. As my brother tells the story, he was so angry he issued the following edict: “We will never laugh about this. Ever.” When we got back to the Rockport House on Penryn Way, I disappeared up to the attic for three days, coming down only for meals. All these years later, we still laugh about that story. And its twin lights. It was our YouTube. On the way back from t...

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Three Days in Dublin – sogrady.org

https://sogrady.org/2015/07/12/three-days-in-dublin

Whatever it is i do in my spare time. Three Days in Dublin. It was an especially interesting visit for me, because the last time I was in the city – aside from stopovers at the airport – was as a student. One summer in college, I was over for six weeks to take a course at Trinity on Irish history. Unsurprisingly, I loved my time in Dublin. The class, too. Here are a few of the things Kate and I saw while we were over. Turning around, we headed over to see the book of Kells. The picture’s terrible, ...

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Books: Fall 2014 – sogrady.org

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Whatever it is i do in my spare time. I was not an English major, however, so take the following for whatever it’s worth. Angelmaker, Nick Harkaway. This was a good book. As reviews state, Harkaway occasionally gets a little self-indulgent with his prose (though not nearly so much as in his debut the Gone Away World) and would benefit from a stronger willed editor – his father. The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Neil Gaiman. The Martian, Andy Weir. American Gods, Neil Gaiman. 8211; but becomes fractally s...

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My 2014 in Pictures – sogrady.org

https://sogrady.org/2015/01/01/my-2014-in-pictures

Whatever it is i do in my spare time. My 2014 in Pictures. If for no other reason than as a concise summary for my future self, it’s time for my now annual tradition of a wrap up post. As with last year’s edition, I’ll walk through the events of the calendar year via pictures along with the occasional tweet or screenshot. I write less words that way, which is less words for you to read. A win/win, in other words. Before we get to the pictures, a quick look at some of the data that describes my 2014.

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Uncategorized – sogrady.org

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Whatever it is i do in my spare time. Call me marty mcfly. A photo posted by stephen ogrady (@stephenogrady) on. Jun 10, 2016 at 3:31pm PDT. Friday afternoon, I got out of work a couple hours early and bought a truck. Or more accurately, I leased a truck, but I’ll come back to that. A lot of people have had questions about the truck, beginning with: why did you get a truck? So that seems like a good place to start. A truck, then, is something we’ll get a lot of use out of. Having sadly failed t...Theoret...

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2015 July – sogrady.org

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Whatever it is i do in my spare time. Three Days in Dublin. It was an especially interesting visit for me, because the last time I was in the city – aside from stopovers at the airport – was as a student. One summer in college, I was over for six weeks to take a course at Trinity on Irish history. Unsurprisingly, I loved my time in Dublin. The class, too. Here are a few of the things Kate and I saw while we were over. Turning around, we headed over to see the book of Kells. The picture’s terrible, ...