Unconventional

What fun! The interesting twist is that I wasn't gaming! I did it for software development! It's probably not a new concept, but I came about the idea of streaming my coding sessions while talking with my wife about my presentations and community involvement. A really good friend of mine streams his League of Legends sessions and seems to have a lot of fun doing it.  The sensation I got was similar to back in my early internet-faring days as I became aware of the breadth of people online. My project of choice for this is kind of nice because it plays back into the streaming audience interest. Obviously to stream, you have to run some kind of source on your machine and the biggest game in town is something called OBS Studio . One neat feature of OBS Studio is that it allows you to configure a web-browser based overlay for your stream that simply inlines a web page into your stream. This has caused a proliferation of web-based stream widget providers all vying for stream...

I never had the chance to be ungrateful, the new splash pad at Kildare and Wabasha isn't a splash pad at all.  It was taken away from us and replaced with an "aquatic park" , a little bit of wordsmithing designed to gloss over the fact that an open piece of our community has been replaced with yet another closed gate. As I write this post now, I can hear it already:  "Taken away, what?! It's a new water park, you're so..." Sure, some might reach for that tired recrimination, which is why I started this blog post by dismissing such a premise.  To be fair however, I offer the response: Don't spoil this discussion with nonsense. You see, I was grateful before the renovations happened .  The communal service on offer was adequate and I never complained about it or saw it as flawed.  Don't believe me? Here, this is a cute google-generated animation of my son enjoying the splash pad in 2014. Weeeeeeee! Today we took the kids to see if we coul...