I have pretty much no idea what business I have writing a blog. I have a terrible attention span to writing. I think it looks really tacky when a blog goes weeks or months in between posts. To make matters worse, I’m not super thrilled with my choice of domain (on the .us TLD), but there was a $3.99 sale at name.com and I felt like it was a decent price. It gives me a little bit of a playground to play in without shelling out a dozen bucks for a “real” .com website.

Getting Octopress set up was in and of itself an endeavor, but I’ll get the hang of it as time goes on. The host I’m using only lets me use static HTML files so Octopress was a very ideal system. It took maybe 16 hours to get the whole thing together. I had major issues with Ruby installation and raking files correctly. I’m pretty sure I still hate the command bundle install. I highly recommend those following in my footsteps to use yari.

One of the other things that attracted me to a blog was being able to publish code snippets in Markdown. Since I’ve gotten into using Markdown for my text files, I’ve started to enjoy just… writing Markdown. It’s kind of fun, and everything comes out looking so nice. Seth and I want to port our chapter’s bylaws to Markdown so they’re not mired in the bullshit .docx they’re languishing in now. Not to say we’ll be publishing LaTeX in fraternity bylaws, but the Office format bothers me. A lot.

Speak Softly, and carry Big Data.

As for the blog, I’m only here to talk about things that I’m really passionate about. Yes, a lot of that will come from my professional work. Expect lots of statistics, math, some physics, and tons of programming thrown in. But I’ll also be here to write about some of the stuff I get engaged with, and probably mention a lot of the Sigma Chi stuff I get involved in.

What else could be more important?