Believer. Husband. Adoptive Dad. Laravel Developer. Private Pilot.
Buford, GA
Joined January 2008
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The most powerful upgrade that the Apple TV could get would be a remote that is actually good
New Apple TV 4K will be more powerful upgrade than we thought, per leak 9to5mac.com/2026/09/08/new-a… by @iryantldr
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I wrote up a little bit about my first year as a private pilot:
paulbrown.us/2026/08/21/my-f…
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The RAF (Recreational Aviation Foundation) does amazing work preserving and improving airstrips. This new Fly Rocky Top network is so exciting.
youtube.com/watch?v=HiNWQdi6…
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Congrats @drew_burress08! Well-deserved.
𝐃𝐑𝐄𝐖 𝐁𝐔𝐑𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐒 𝐓𝐈𝐄𝐒 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐌 𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐃!!
@drew_burress08 delivers his 4th HR in as many games, his 13th of the season and his 57th as a Yellow Jacket!!
Tied with Jason Varitek for the most in program history!
363 ft / 97 EV / 30 degrees
📺 ACCNX
#StingEm🐝 x #WreckHavoc
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Check out this awesome tool from @mikeschmitz to plan your ideal week
Most people don't plan their week.
They triage it.
It's Sunday night. You open the calendar. You shuffle a few meetings. You push a project to Friday. You add a couple of urgent tasks from your inbox.
Twenty minutes later, you close the laptop and tell yourself you've planned the week.
You haven't.
The shape of your week was set the moment you started. By what was already on your calendar. By what landed in your inbox. By what your task manager queued up from last week.
You didn't decide what your week would look like. You just tried to cram as much as possible into the space that you had left.
This is why the things you say matter most keep getting crowded out. Nobody triages their way into deep work. Nobody "finds" time for a regular date night. The urgent defaults are loud — and the things that actually move the needle on your life tend to speak more softly.
It's a game of volume. The things that matter most lose every time.
Designing a week works differently:
→ You start with a blank grid.
→ You decide what shape the week should hold.
→ You protect that shape before any specific task or meeting gets in.
Once the shape is set, real life lives inside it. Not the other way around.
The weekly calendar template gives you structure and helps you protect time for what really matters.
I built a free tool to make this easier: idealweek.practicalpkm.com
Twenty minutes. No account required. Your week is saved in your browser, and you can export it several different ways (including a .ics file you can add to your calendar or Markdown if you want to save it in Obsidian).
@jcula1 What is your walkup song? My 11 year old son (also #2 and 2nd baseman) loves it and wants to know. We're enjoying @GTBaseball this year!
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@GTBaseball Last night seems to have been the license plate frame giveaway, but the Promo schedule shows last night should've been Teachers in Bleachers. Is there an updated Promo schedule somewhere?
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Yes please. Leave the clocks alone!
BREAKING UPDATE: Georgia State Senate passes a bill to switch Georgia to the Atlantic Time Zone. Georgia would observe year-round Daylight Saving Time and not change clocks twice a year. #gapol
House Bill 154 now goes to the State House.
Learn more here: bit.ly/4rI6DGZ
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We've made it all the way to macOS version 26, and you still cannot (natively) have separate Natural Scrolling settings for a mouse vs a trackpad.
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Finally Apple releases a phone that comes in an amazing color. That orange iPhone 17 Pro is awesome! I tend to keep my phones for several years, so I won't be upgrading, but this gives me hope for when it comes time to upgrade.
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Good people already starting to leave GTRI because @BORUSG and @SonnyPerdue can't see the forest for the trees. There will be a LOT more. Georgia will not benefit from this decision.
linkedin.com/feed/update/urn…
The recent return-to-office mandate from @BORUSG is terrible as a one-size-fits-all ruling. From what GT has told us, the policy is meant to focus on "meeting the needs of students". Where I work (GTRI), we do hire students, but >90% of our work is federal contracts.
Even before Covid (since 2010!), my department had 1 day per week to work from home. Then in 2020, those who could work from home did just that, and we report to the office when necessary, and GTRI's sponsored work has grown ~1.5x. That's a LOT of money coming into the GA economy every year.
Let's just look at this at a practical level, though. Here's a quote from @SonnyPerdue at a recent USG board meeting:
“While we had remote work as a privilege for a while, our expectation—my expectation—is when a family, a prospective student or parents or grandparents call the campus on Friday afternoon, they get an answer,” he said.
If I was a high school student and I (or my grandma) called GT on a Friday afternoon, I have no idea if the person I'm talking to is in midtown Atlanta, or in their home in Atlanta, or in their home in Colorado. The level of customer service isn't determined by where the job is done. It's determined by the quality of service alone.
IT workers like myself will now lose precious family time driving to an office, popping open my laptop, only to make a "remote" connection to a server that isn't even in the same building as me, to perform the exact same job. Make it make sense, @SonnyPerdue. @BORUSG stands to lose a lot of talent, and it will be very difficult to replace that talent because suddenly the talent pool must live within driving range of the office.
ajc.com/education/2025/05/ge…
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The recent return-to-office mandate from @BORUSG is terrible as a one-size-fits-all ruling. From what GT has told us, the policy is meant to focus on "meeting the needs of students". Where I work (GTRI), we do hire students, but >90% of our work is federal contracts.
Even before Covid (since 2010!), my department had 1 day per week to work from home. Then in 2020, those who could work from home did just that, and we report to the office when necessary, and GTRI's sponsored work has grown ~1.5x. That's a LOT of money coming into the GA economy every year.
Let's just look at this at a practical level, though. Here's a quote from @SonnyPerdue at a recent USG board meeting:
“While we had remote work as a privilege for a while, our expectation—my expectation—is when a family, a prospective student or parents or grandparents call the campus on Friday afternoon, they get an answer,” he said.
If I was a high school student and I (or my grandma) called GT on a Friday afternoon, I have no idea if the person I'm talking to is in midtown Atlanta, or in their home in Atlanta, or in their home in Colorado. The level of customer service isn't determined by where the job is done. It's determined by the quality of service alone.
IT workers like myself will now lose precious family time driving to an office, popping open my laptop, only to make a "remote" connection to a server that isn't even in the same building as me, to perform the exact same job. Make it make sense, @SonnyPerdue. @BORUSG stands to lose a lot of talent, and it will be very difficult to replace that talent because suddenly the talent pool must live within driving range of the office.
ajc.com/education/2025/05/ge…