laze.net
laze.net
Ryan M
laze.net is where I write about things that interest me. Try not to be shocked at the level of innovation! The site's history goes all the way back to December of 1994 when I launched a personal home page on my college's web server. It was only the second student site on the server and would eventually go on to eclipse the college's main page in terms of traffic. It also drew the ire of a politician in Richmond because I linked to "The Butt Page."
Latest Posts
Every so often I’ll search for a rare album and find a link to a Bandcamp page and get momentarily excited about it. But, sadly, it’s clear upon clicking the page that the page is a garbage spam page that has no actual music, no...
Following Robert Birming’s lead, for the month of June I’ll be maintaining a list of posts that I’ve enjoyed. I’m shooting to have a list of 30 by the end of the month, but they may not match one-to-one for the day that I find them. I’m...
I’m at the stage of life that I definitely don’t shoot for “productive” weekends as much as I do “relaxing” ones with lots of downtime. But, every so often, a productive weekend isn’t so bad and helps get the following week off to a good...
Cross your fingers for me this weekend as I attempt a supposedly “easy” fix of the lid switch on our 26-year-old washing machine. I tried one super-simple tip involving zip ties that, sadly, did not fix our problem, but fully replacing...
This week I read Ben Lerner’s new book Transcription, a fictional dive into the early days of the pandemic, technology, and the effect of both on memory and experience. One particular sentence (actually, just a part of a sentence) late...
I was 20 years old–a college sophomore–and civil rights leader/anti-gangster rap activist C. Delores Tucker was coming to speak at my school. I wrote a piece for the school paper about her forthcoming visit: *Mary Washington College...
My company’s new health plan covers an online personal trainer, so for the first time, I’m giving it a shot. For all the running I’ve done over the last bunch of years, I’ve neglected any strength training and done only very little...
Our internet bill was too high. It had gone beyond the promotional contract period and the triple-play bundle for 300/300 net, medium-level TV package, and home phone (yes, a landline!) was just too much considering that we almost never...
I once again have a functioning 8-track player, so now I can play my grandfather’s old Sons of the Pioneers1 cartridges as well as knock off Monkees and Beatles groups doing covers. Yay! It involved opening up my Lear Jet H-300, poking...
It’s been a while since I’ve posted an #ArchiveTheUnimportant item. Today’s is a 28-page paper newsletter from April 1990 that I found in the basement. Used Computer Locator billed itself as “The National Guide to Used Computers and...
Richard MacManus wrote a piece last year titled “Replanting Articles: Bring Legacy Posts to Your Website” and it resonated with me before I even got to the text. It’s exactly what I’ve been doing since relaunching my site last year. In...
Sometimes catching someone else up on your life (or writing such a blog post) is like those weekly status calls at work where it feels like you’re justifying your continued employment to your co-workers. Kinda weird, right? Instead of...
Quiet days are a must. Days where you don’t foist the “need-to-dos” on yourself. Days where moments of sitting outside and listening to the birds or feeling the wind blow make up the majority of the day. When reading a book or listening...
The 25th weeknote is a bit short and uneventful. No real reason other than I’m just in a bit of a creative funk for the moment and wading through some general Life Overwhelm (which I feel like needs to be a Slack status or something)....
A few things I’ve learned in the last few weeks: Good stress is still stress. The way car insurance operates makes very little sense to the average person (me). Almost everything you’d think works one way, works another. (Also: if your...