Month: January 2018

  • Five Points – 9

    Paying for estimates & bids — I pay for estimates and bids.  Rob Knox first turned me on to the idea and it has proven to be an extremely valuable practice, whether doing home repairs or working toward building a new piece of software. Contractors (plumbers to graphic designers to software developers) have to submit multiple bids […]

  • Five Points – 8

    Grow with Google — I get asked about how one might get started in working in technology pretty frequently. More often than not, I advise for someone to build something.  Scratch your own itch and develop a solution to a problem that you are having.  However, it’s not lost on me that that could be […]

  • Five Points – 7

    Groundwater and Regolith of Fairview, TN — The deep freeze that hit the US over the last few weeks has had me play hour by hour water input v output musical chairs.  My home gets it’s water from a spring on the property, which gravity feeds a 500 gallon cistern, which is finally pumped into the […]

  • Five Points – 6

    Crurio.io — “Writing worth listening to” and “Listen to the world’s best journalism anytime, anywhere.” are their tag lines.  Speakers and narrators read compelling articles and news such that you can listen on the go.  It’s curated to the left, investigative, and science/fact based. Download it at your favorite app store or visit curio.io. Where do champagne […]