Use Your Words

Just a quick share this week.

For the next two months, "Don't feed the troll" should be our mantra.

Explore the relationship between focal length, aperture, and depth of field.

There’s something broken in our culture when we try to make a virtue out of a lack of financial resources. We glamorize it by calling it “hustle”. We talk about everyone needing a “side hustle” that they might one day grow into a full business. In reality, though, that almost never happens. That so-called side hustle is just a second job. Maybe, if we’re lucky, it’s a second job that we can do at night or on the weekends on our own schedule.

After three weeks of pretty heavy contemplation, I thought I'd share something a bit lighter.

This year has been pretty rough for everyone.

This is the eulogy I wrote for my father and delivered at his memorial service on August 2, 2020.

I'm thinking about my father a lot lately.

William F, Hoffman, Jr., "Bill", beloved husband, father and grandfather, 91, died Tuesday, July 28, 2020 in Huntley, Illinois. He is survived by his wife of 67 years, Dorothy, his children; Bill and Karen Hoffman, Cheryl Price, Karin and Jerry Edwards and Jim and Sharon Hoffman, his grandchildren; Bill and Kara Hoffman, Rachel and Jacob Vaughn, Michael Hoffman, and John and LeeAnn Price, and a great-grandchild, John Price.

I'm anything but a professional programmer, but occasionally, I make stuff.