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Forget STEM, the future needs THEM

When I started writing this piece, I began with a long and artful intro trying to compare the future of coding to being a coal miner; A fledgling, flailing, and failing endeavor that pays horribly and probably kills you. I eventually scrapped the idea, though I still like it, because…

STEM

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Forget STEM, the future needs THEM
Forget STEM, the future needs THEM

Feb 5, 2021

An insider threat program by any other name

TLDR; I hobbled together the Insider Threat Program Name Generator because I’m mostly tired of this debate. The name of the program is irrelevant as long as you are transparent about the program itself. …

Security

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An insider threat program by any other name
An insider threat program by any other name

Published in a wisp of smoke

·Aug 9, 2019

The One That Got Away

There was a story here but it up and left without saying goodbye. So instead, we are left with this fleeting memory of what it was supposed to be: A post-modern nihilistic interpretation of the Aristocrats ending with a painfully smug joke about cat fur on a cream colored couch. Welcome home.

Fiction

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Mar 8, 2017

Who’s Coming for Dinar?

Why Iraq was removed from Trump’s amended travel ban — On March 6, 2017, President Donald J. Trump announced his revised travel ban, to much continued consternation. Notable among the changes was the removal of Iraq as one of the seven predominately Muslim countries whose citizens were temporarily barred from entering the U.S. The New York Times reported that the…

Trump

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Who’s Coming for Dinar?
Who’s Coming for Dinar?

Mar 3, 2017

How to Survive an Online Master’s Degree

Tips for the Academic Nomad — The 2015 Survey of Online Learning conducted by the Babson Survey Research Group found 5.8 million students taking at least one distance/online course in 2015, with 2.8 million of those being exclusively online. That’s a lot, and it’s continually growing. …

Education

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How to Survive an Online Master’s Degree
How to Survive an Online Master’s Degree

Feb 24, 2017

6 Fitbit Alternatives I’m Still Waiting For

I went through two Fitbit’s in less than two years. They’re fun little devices, but in hindsight I don’t feel they encouraged any life altering changes on my part. While your mileage may vary, and I’m sure it does, there has been recent research suggesting the same. If you look…

Humor

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6 Fitbit Alternatives I’m Still Waiting For
6 Fitbit Alternatives I’m Still Waiting For

Published in a wisp of smoke

·May 4, 2013

Lorem Ipsum

Lorem Ipsum was only good at filling the space between people. He had no talents, no interests, no particular skills of any measurable worth beyond simply occupying the various voids that occurred throughout life. Sometimes he sat in the seat between two large people on the subway. Other times he would find himself queued up for services he didn’t even need or at banks with which he held no accounts. When nobody volunteered for the dunking booth at the town fair, Lorem Ipsum was selected for the honor. When a women was left sitting alone at a table in a restaurant, Lorem Ipsum was always found himself across her table. When the marriage of his mother and father had grown cold and distant, Lorem Ipsum was born to satiate the growing rift between them.

Short Story

1 min read


Published in a wisp of smoke

·May 2, 2013

Online Dating

It was with great desperation for companionship that I had decided to turn toward online dating. My crippling social anxiety had made meeting women in my everyday life woefully unsuccessful, and once illegal. The holidays were fast approaching, and I so longed for the touch of another by a warm…

Short Story

3 min read


Published in a wisp of smoke

·Aug 24, 2012

The Joys of Marriage

It is a stale and balmy Sunday in Ashford as I am in attendance for the marriage of Charles and Daphne Krump at the Royal Estates Country Club just outside of town. Their garden nuptials are rather beautiful and seem to be moving along just as anticipated before a gigantic…

Short Story

2 min read


Published in a wisp of smoke

·Jul 18, 2012

A Nightmare Vacation

A long overdue vacation is abruptly cut short when the captain of my cruise ship announces that we are sinking. He explains the situation is a result of navigational error and his troubled youth. A brief counseling session is held to return the captain’s spirits, and he orders his crew…

Short Story

2 min read

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