Chronicles

There’s a darkly hilarious truth about working in web development — the guy who builds and maintains everyone else’s websites never has time to fix his own. After neglecting my company site since 2014 and accidentally crashing it while poking around the backend, I finally did what any responsible developer would do… I launched the new one that had been sitting 90% finished on my server.

Watching How to Train Your Dragon completely backwards led to an unexpected realization — I don’t want a war dragon like the ones from Game of Thrones. I want Toothless. The emotionally supportive, flight-capable, plasma-breathing house cat we all deserve.

What started as a quiet breakfast at my girlfriend’s house turned into an unexpected tech-support intervention when a coffee-soaked HP laptop entered the room. I expected catastrophic hardware failure — what I found instead was a machine brought to its knees by preloaded antivirus and OEM software bloat. A funny, ridiculous, and painfully relatable look at modern laptops, trialware, and why removing McAfee sometimes fixes more than espresso ever breaks.

Living with cerebral palsy means living with nonstop muscle spasms — and the only thing keeping mine under control is a surgically implanted baclofen pump. Every three months it has to be refilled or things get medically dangerous fast. What should be routine maintenance turned into a road trip, a rental billing mess, hospital bureaucracy, and a transportation system that wasn’t even sure a wheelchair user qualified for a wheelchair van. If I don’t laugh about it… I’m going to punch somebody.

Disabled athletes are competing at elite, full-contact levels — from wheelchair rugby to sled hockey — yet the sports world continues to ignore them. Even moments that should have changed everything, like the Murderball documentary, faded back into silence. With the Paralympics pushed to the margins of broadcast coverage, this post takes an angry, unfiltered look at why adaptive sports are still treated like an afterthought instead of world-class competition.

I’ve never really been a console gamer. Between accessibility, twitch-heavy modern games, and a lifetime of DOS classics, I decided to build the ultimate retro gaming computer—modern hardware dedicated to old-school games, a 40-inch wall-mounted monitor, and zero apologies.

How many drummers are also the voice of the band? Fewer than you think. From Phil Collins to Don Henley and beyond, drummer–vocalists occupy one of the rarest seats in music, shaping songs from the rhythm section outward in ways most frontmen never could.

Iron Eagle turning 40 years old shouldn’t be possible — and yet here we are. Rewatching the film now turns into a full-blown time warp, packed with jet fuel, an iconic soundtrack, forgotten cameos, and the uncomfortable realization that something from your childhood is suddenly very, very old.

My body figured out I was getting older years ago. My brain didn’t. Turning 48 forced a reckoning—an honest inventory of what I’ve done, what I missed, and how fast time moves when you’re not paying attention.