Since it's the first day of my winter break, I thought I'd post a short note to wish anyone still reading a happy holiday season.  I hope you get an opportunity to rest, recharge your batteries, and greet 2026 with optimism and a renewed energy for doing good in this world. Here's to hoping for some snow in the next three weeks 🌲☃️❄️

Another smartwatch bites the dust....  About three years ago I replaced my Sony Smartwatch 3 with a TicWatch Pro 3.  I would have loved to have kept onto the Sony smartwatch, but the band had rotted away after 5 years of daily use, and the MacGyver method of 3D printing a holder to get a generic band only worked so long (the holder itself broke after a while).  The battery also barely

While I think of gamification, I usually think about it in a teaching and learning context.  It hasn't always been the case, but, with the exception of achievements on the xbox, or on other gaming platforms, gamification for every day tasks has been on my back back back burner.  This past Halloween, Yahoo! decided to dust off ye olde gamification tactics to encourage users to delete unwanted

This is my other November binge on Netflix ;-) I am a huge fan of the Splinter Cell series and got excited when this was announced earlier this year (a game that picks up after Blacklist would be nice, but I guess we'll take this for now!)In this series, the story finds an older Sam Fisher living in isolation in rural Poland, having left the world of espionage behind. His quiet life is interrupted

This was my November binge. It was a short series, so it was a short two week binge, but still a binge. Having played some of Cyberpunk on the xbox one at some point this year, I thought I'd give this a try.  The game was fine, but I was having a hard time getting into it. Maybe the pacing was off, maybe I was too impatient, but I got stuck somewhere early on in the game (after you learn