Ron Helwig

In Norse mythology, Óðin [Odin to modern audiences]—the Allfather, god of wisdom, war, and poetry—keeps two ravens as his eyes and ears across the worlds. Their names are Huginn ("thought," from Old Norse hugr: perception, mind, intent) and Muninn ("memory," from munr: recall, affection, will, experience). Every day at dawn, they fly out over Midgard, observing everything, then return to perch on [...]

Yeah, I don't update very often. Most things happening aren't worthy of the effort to write down individually, and using Social Media for things that aren't worth a little effort is one of the reasons Social Media is retarded. But every now and then a little update might be something folks would like, and creating content just for the practice is sometimes reason enough. Anyway, here's what's on [...]

On Monday I was ending work when I tripped over a pallet in the warehouse. That was quite a shock and there was a good amount of blood. My knees took a hit, with my left knee getting a silver dollar sized bloody scrape. I got this nice gash in my left eyebrow, which was where all the blood was coming from. And my arms got pretty messed up. I didn't think it was too bad though, so I just went [...]

I just closed my LinkedIn account. I haven't been using it for looking for work and I don't intend to in the future. Their silly attempt to try to be a social network was a bad idea to begin with. I know there's a few people who I'll lose connection with, but that's life. I've owned and used this URL for around 25 years now. I've always intended this as the canonical place to find me, and this is [...]

My old webhost has been ratcheting up the cost, so I figured it was about time to switch to something cheaper. I'm no longer trying to provide web development or related services, so I just need a basic setup. In addition, I've been wanting to convert more of my economic life to using freedom money, AKA cryptocurrency. So I looked for a web host that accepts it for payment. Thankfully the domain [...]