Category Archives: Life

The Avengers’ “Adopted” Joke

Posted on May 13, 2012 by romkey

There are a lot of people who are angry about a joke in The Avengers. If you don’t want to know anything about the movie (it’s probably a little too late for that already, right?) then you might not want … Continue reading →

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I Hadn’t Expected It To Be So Dusty

Posted on August 30, 2011 by romkey

Although I hadn’t expected a flood, either. I usually think of hurricanes sitting off the coast and dumping on Cape Cod and Boston (if they ever get that far). I don’t think of them as chewing their way up through … Continue reading →

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I’m a Finalist in a Fitness Contest

Posted on May 18, 2011 by romkey

I had the most amazing news today: I’m a finalist in a fitness contest. That’s something I would never have expected to be writing. From August 2010 through January 2011, I participated in Precision Nutrition’s online “Lean Eating” program. I’ve … Continue reading →

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Welcome to dot-dot-romkey

Posted on September 2, 2008 by romkey

And the environment that I work in has changed and become much more complex… where two decades ago a piece of software most likely ran from the command-line, now it may need to live in a networked environment and work with a web server and talk to other pieces of software in order to do anything remotely interesting. … I’ve run three blogs for a while – The Apocalypse Blog , because I find the subject the ‘apocalypse’ rather fascinating; Shiny Things , which I started because friends would ask me for computer and gadget recommendations; and Blue Forest Blog , which I intended as a development blog for my software company, Blue Forest Research. … I’ll be cross-posting articles on dot-dot-romkey to my LiveJournal in order to make it easier for friends to follow it if they want. … I am bowing to practicality and will still have a sidebar which will only provide some assistance with navigating this blog, and pointers to my activity on a few other sites that are a part of my regular online life and may be of some interest or use to you, my reader. Continue reading →

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