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Thanks for visiting! You'll find a bunch of musings I've been writing around these parts since the early 2000's. Lately, I've been reviewing a lot of books. But I also write about code and my experiments using generative AI. But really, you're just here to see pictures of Benson.

Blog Posts

Posting My Resume Online

Hopefully everything looks okay! I’m very interested in a community manager position for a social media or networking website.

My resume.

Interesting side note: I’m using Google’s Grand Central for the public posting of my phone number on the internet. It was free when I signed up for their service last year.

What does this sound mean?

Whenever my 2-year old MacBook Pro is idling, the hard drive makes this faint, but suspicious clicking sound. It’s been doing it for quite awhile now.

Does this mean my hard drive is dying?

[audio:http://daveschumaker.net/audio/harddrive.mp3]

(Note the sound is very faint and you have to turn your speakers up a bit)

If you can’t see flash player above, here is a link to the mp3.

Evening Photos

My cousin, Dan, was here this weekend. We went down to explore some of San Francisco’s waterfront as the sun set.

Sunset by the Bay

Palace of Fine Arts
Palace of Fine Arts

Video from the First Photo Safari

Here is video I put together from Photojojo’s first photo safari in San Francisco. The second one is this weekend!

The San Francisco Tea Party

Who makes a coffee mug out of glass?

I pour hot tea into the mug and start walking to my room, only to have the thing explode in my hand!

Not cool.

Hot Tea Fail

Hot Tea Fail

Conversation with my roommate about the situation:

Convo w/ roommate about coffee mug

Bill O’Reilly is a Fucking Asshat

Really? Can anyone tell me one true thing they said about San Francisco in this “documentary?”

(What is an asshat?)

Here’s something I wrote on another website:

Another interesting thing this piece fails to mention, is how moderate San Francisco actually is (contrary to popular belief): In this last election, we voted against decriminalizing prostitution, against various green energy / self-sufficient energy initiatives, we voted for bringing the ROTC back to campuses and against renaming our sewage plant after G.W. Bush.

Of course when you talk about “San Francisco values,” no one mentions these things.

Access Denied!

My friend Christina works as a science teacher in the East Bay. She sent me this email that shows what happened when she tried to access my website in her classroom. Amazing!

It’s kind of flattering even.