Nerdlife

Yes, Mr. Jobs, I am still alive. There are three things that I discovered to be true about leaving Silicon Valley and going back to CMU:

1. I lose interest in startupy (still a real word) things
2. I run out of free time for blog posts
3. I have less time for browsing the net randomly

With that in mind, I do like keeping a blog, so rather than my usual habit of killing my blog and starting over, I’m going to just go back to updating this one. It’s only been what, 3 months?

Since I’m home for Turkey Day, I am back on my family’s wifi connection for a while. It’s funny that I’ve been home so little over the last year and a half that I forgot something I did before going off to college…I switch my family’s router over to OpenDNS. Seeing as how they didn’t even notice, I’d say that they’re definitely doing they’re primary job: being a DNS. I don’t use any of the special features, and neither do my parents, but I suspect with the proper training I could learn to utilize it for things like fixing my accidental clicks of shift+enter after entering a .com site (corollary: www.com.net could make a lot of money selling subdomain redirects).

Bottom line: it works, it’s neat, it’s worth a try.

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So it just occurred to me that one may have no idea what the point of the blog is. NerdLife is a relatively vague reference, which is mostly intentional. I’m going to go ahead and lump myself with the great website xkcd with the idea that you can’t really define NerdLife or what it encompasses. You can get a slight grasp of the concept, but anything further must be left up to the imagination.

In short: I have no clue, we’ll figure it out as we go along…

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Well, it’s high time I give this whole “blogging” thing another shot. Why? Two reasons:

1. I’m going to be in a Yodel Anecdotal podcast, and I may as well have a place to link all those unique users too (hi dozen-or-so blog readers who actually follow author links)
2. I just installed Linux on my Sony laptop (more of a challenge than you’d expect), so I’m in the nerdy mode, may as well futz around with WordPress while I’m at it

We’ll see if I can keep it going this time (no promises)…I suspect for the summer at least I should be posting fairly consistently considering how boring life is in California during off time, 3,000-some-odd miles away from friends and family.

I would normally put some kind of “About me” thing here too, but I’d rather leave it up to you guys to figure me out through my posts.

For now, peace out.

P.S.-Bonus points to whoever can figure out the title…

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