Generated by All in One SEO v4.9.7.2, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # Sunil Sebastian I Make Things Go ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://sunilsebastian.com/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Posts - [Reorganization](https://sunilsebastian.com/2014/04/04/reorganization/) - Reorganizations are just part of the landscape for a consultant. Birds migrate, bees buzz and clients reorganize. As an auxiliary to the client's team, sometimes we help, but mostly we just ride out the chaos doing the good work that made the client want or need us in the first place. Eventually reality will stabilize, - [Bury me Rite! (Right?)](https://sunilsebastian.com/2013/03/14/bury-me-rite-right/) - To my dear family, With the extended illness of my recently departed uncle, with my transition to "middle age," with my mother's sudden health anomaly, my thoughts keep coming back to what happens when I'm gone. Not in an existential way, mind, you, I'm actually just noodling on basic mechanics: Whoops, sorry, I seem to - [Asked: How do I fix my recording speed?](https://sunilsebastian.com/2012/12/02/asked-how-do-i-fix-my-recording-speed/) - My cousin is doing interviews for her classes, and recording them on her phone. Most of the time, this works just fine, but every once in a while, the result comes out sounding too fast, like cartoon characters, or chipmunks. The basic problem in my cousin’s case is that her phone recording has lost the - [DRM-Free Matters to Me](https://sunilsebastian.com/2012/05/24/drm-free-matters-to-me-3/) - If I buy an ebook from Amazon, I can read it anywhere I can get Kindle software. Which is a *lot* of platforms, desktops, most mobile and tablet platforms. And the hardware kindle readers. But not the Nook because that's Barnes & Noble's hardware, and Amazon doesn't care about playing nice there. In fact all - [Philosophy and Bloggery](https://sunilsebastian.com/2011/10/23/philosophy-and-bloggery/) - The debaters are professionals, representing curiously consanguine divisions of the large corporation, yet the argument is over one of the more basic questions of life: Is the reward worth the risk? That's not how they're framing the question though. Instead it was a conflict of perspective. Lost opportunity versus bad opportunity. Weirdly enough, the debate - [@zoecello @toronto](https://sunilsebastian.com/2011/06/09/zoecello-toronto/) - "The concert was amazing," the paragraph starts and already I'm second guessing because I don't think I've said much if anything about the fact that I was going to a concert and that means I'm starting from the end without knowing just how far back to how much of a beginning that I need to - [They call me Mr Glass](https://sunilsebastian.com/2011/06/01/they-call-me-mr-glass/) - When you get right down to it, an Archnemesis is a hell of a lot like a little brother. Not that I have any siblings. (Anymore! [evil laugh goes here]) But then I don't have an Archnemesis anymore either, so accept that I may be more qualified to speak on this than I might initially - [Media Martial Law](https://sunilsebastian.com/2011/05/26/media-martial-law/) - I've been on top of my newsreader for about 4 years now, despite the rapid increases in content, and the decreases in my free time. Sure, every once in a while, work or life would interrupt and I'd fall behind, but with some judicious resetting, I was always able to catch up. Until this year - [So Silver, Toasted](https://sunilsebastian.com/2011/05/17/so-silver-toasted/) - I got home from work Monday night tired and hungry, and with my mind filled with questions about just what snack I was going to have. To my surprise, there was another package I’d forgotten about, and this one was full of goodness. And not just because I suddenly knew what my snack was going - [The APSidental Tourist](https://sunilsebastian.com/2011/04/13/the-apsidental-tourist/) - Just to try something different, I'm going to start with the punchline. I've got a bunch of APS film canisters and I'd like to scan them. There are various options available to me, but in the end, I've decided that I'd like to see if I can rig a homebrew film scanner. The rest of - [Holy Existentialism, Batman!](https://sunilsebastian.com/2011/04/06/holy-existentialism-batman/) - The question of what to do with this blog has come up before. A few months ago, an old friend and I were in the middle of our typical banter when the conversation turned to nameplate websites and privacy and Google. My friend is a private guy, and like me, he's put careful effort into - [Well of course it's about me](https://sunilsebastian.com/2011/03/31/well-of-course-its-about-me/) - We lost a family friend a few weeks ago. My mother and him were neighbors as kids, and then they grew up and started lives in Canada. For me, he was an uncle; I didn't know we weren't related till much later. He was family, and his two sons were fondly welcome playmates growing up. - [Boxing Loves](https://sunilsebastian.com/2010/08/23/boxing-loves/) - That’s right.  I love boxes. You have a problem with that? In fact, it's not just boxes that I like, but tins (*LOVE*), pouches, bags, blister packs (Most of them are outright evil, I usually hit a well-designed one just before I reach the homicidal stage of accumulated frustration). It's gone beyond the childhood magic - [Asked: Can I use 2 USB disk drives at the same time?](https://sunilsebastian.com/2010/03/16/asked-can-i-use-2-usb-disk-drives-at-the-same-time/) - Yes. But, Be Careful. I killed a computer that way. Yes USB is designed to let you use 127 devices per controller, and most computers have one controller per port. Which means that hooking up 2 drives (or more) isn’t going to be a problem for your operating system. Most of the time. But… You - [Goofball to Enterprise](https://sunilsebastian.com/2010/03/12/goofball-to-enterprise/) - So faced with a need to rent a car, I thought I’d price a few options, and one of the places I checked out was Enterprise Rent-A-Car, who presented me with one of the better prices I saw in my traverse. But then I started clicking around and caught a little bit of fine print - [Why the book had to die](https://sunilsebastian.com/2009/08/05/why-the-book-had-to-die/) - It occurred to me that I have a blog. Go figure. And when I came to look at it, it was in the middle of something. How embarrassing. But I’m here. A little. First, the thing that wasn’t ready, previously, well, it’s done, public, old news. But I went back and looked, and it may - [i can haz BOOK!!](https://sunilsebastian.com/2009/06/29/i-can-haz-book/) - I don’t actually know how this happened, but I appear to be the first person checking in with Lisa having gotten a bit of mail today. It’s screwy. I never get mail this fast. I got the shipment notice on Friday. We don’t even have mail on the weekend. Saturday pickup is all. But today, - [Something is rotten in the state of Denmark](https://sunilsebastian.com/2009/07/08/something-is-rotten-in-the-state-of-denmark/) - I know everybody is really excited about the debut of Lisa Mantchev's “Eyes Like Stars,” but there's been something weighing heavily on my conscience and I can no longer stay silent. I’m amazed how easily a pure heart and good intentions can be lead astray. I hope that fragility will be taken into account as - [Strawed in, Weighed and Sourced Out](https://sunilsebastian.com/2009/05/04/strawed-in-weighed-and-sourced-out/) - Since setting out as an independent contractor, I've been noticing a lot of personal growth. Emotional and spiritual growth, certainly, but the one that's got me concerned is the physical growth. My most recent travels seem to have expanded my horizons, starting at my diameter. I've tried to find the time and energy to get - [Mindmapping the Desert](https://sunilsebastian.com/2009/03/06/mindmapping-the-desert/) - After writing the tasklist thing, I sat down to brainstorm my life and realized that the brilliant idea I'd had, of sharing my process, came into direct conflict with my rather critical need to respect a few confidentiality agreements. So I've been waiting for a task that wasn’t covered by non-disclosure agreements and I think - [Slaying the Creativity Dragon](https://sunilsebastian.com/2009/06/19/slaying-the-creativity-dragon/) - Creativity is a skill. And skills can be learned, it’s always a matter of learning a few techniques and getting practice so you’re comfortable using them. But there isn’t a lot of room for creativity in the education system, and because we don’t value it as much as a culture, I think it’s left underdeveloped - [Asked: Why is it called D-Day?](https://sunilsebastian.com/2009/06/10/asked_why_is_it_called_d_day/) - On June 6th, 1944, approximately a 150,000 soldiers poured out of boats and through the meat-grinder of German defenses on the beaches of France in a somewhat desperate attempt to turn back the tide of oppression, fascism and all those other things that some truly bad people were trying to push on the rest of - [Lunch Experiment: Lentil Salad](https://sunilsebastian.com/2009/05/25/lunch-experiment-lentil-salad/) - I’ve been working at this client site for 6 out of the last 10 years. I have sampled the available cuisine in walking distance and the places we usually drive to are tasty grease pits that I just don’t want to eat at anymore. These days I’m almost willing to skip lunch just for the - [I hate my blog](https://sunilsebastian.com/2009/05/23/i-hate-my-blog/) - I do. I look at it with frustration. Here’s why: I hate the word First and foremost I'm finding that while I can refer to your blog without any issue whatsoever, acknowledge this site as my blog makes my muscles tense like I've just been punched in the stomach. I hate the look Which is - [Some Moron Cooking](https://sunilsebastian.com/2009/03/24/some-moron-cooking/) - I thought it would be fun to post the pictures of chocolate goodness I had taken. I’m a photographer, and there is something just sensual about that chocolaty goodness. I didn’t even think to post the recipe, because I was working from a book and I wasn’t sure about how to do it. And more - [Sometimes you get the elevator](https://sunilsebastian.com/2009/03/20/sometimes-you-get-the-elevator/) - Sometimes you get the molten-chocolate-centered, chocolate cupcakes. So I’ve got the cousins over for the tail end of their winter break from school. And after a brutal shopping session discovering that post massive propane explosion in the city’s west end had resulted in the shut down down all the gas station propane filling stations, and - [Review: Eyes Like Stars — Lisa Mantchev](https://sunilsebastian.com/2009/03/11/review-eyes-like-stars-—-lisa-mantchev/) - Disclosure: Lisa Mantchev is a friend and I've been reading drafts of this book since before she found it's name. Also, I freelance as her sidekick and occasional ninja. Yes, I am bragging. She's worth bragging about. In Eyes Like Stars, Lisa Mantchev tells a simple story, about a found orphan struggling to save her - [Subduing the Task List, Part III](https://sunilsebastian.com/2009/02/14/subduing-the-task-list-part-iii/) - After discovering that I felt like I wasn't in control of my situation (in Part I), I systematically created a task list (in Part II). Just getting to this point has a tremendous calming effect on me. The feeling of being overwhelmed seems to be connected very strongly to the sense of "I've forgotten something." - [Subduing the Task List, Part II](https://sunilsebastian.com/2009/02/12/subduing-the-task-list-part-ii/) - So Part I of this process was an exercise in identifying a problem. It's rare that I ever treat that effort formally, which is probably good for you since it left me less to talk about. And after doing that exercise, I've discovered that I think my todo list is out of control, and that's - [Review: The Giver — Lois Lowry](https://sunilsebastian.com/2009/02/16/review-the-giver-lois-lowry/) - Lois Lowry's The Giver starts out as a coming-of-age story set within a small, controlled community that has achieved happiness for all its members. From start to end, members of the community are evaluated for how they fit into the community and those who cannot fit are released. Life in the community is seen through - [Subduing the Task List, Part I](https://sunilsebastian.com/2009/02/08/subduing-the-task-list-part-i/) - So I took my new life as an independent businessman up for a maiden flight this past week. And as a kickoff, it's been somewhat undistinguished, which leaves me trying not think about the fact that the only really statistically remarkable thing about flight (and maidens) is the risk of impalement. The recurring theme of - [Random Tip: Closing a Folding Knife](https://sunilsebastian.com/2009/02/03/random-tip-closing-a-folding-knife/) - I'd like to apologize for neglecting this space. The piece that I was supposed to post last week ended up not feeling right, so I'm going to instead leap to a feature that I planned for this site, the random useful tip. Random useful tips will be little things that I've noticed help smooth the - [Exposed without Company: The Question of Insurance](https://sunilsebastian.com/2009/01/21/exposed-without-company-the-question-of-insurance/) - My final days with my employer run out and my vacation is spent preparing for the full madness of my new career as an independent contractor. And I'm suddenly very conscious of all the stuff that was invisible and taken care of for me by my former employer. It's a surprise, honestly. All this time, - [The First Timesheet](https://sunilsebastian.com/2009/01/16/the-first-timesheet/) - So I was putting together a timesheet template and coming so soon after Christmas, there are still carols leaking out of my brain. For the record, none of this is based on my current situation. Though ask me again after I start submitting these, and we'll see how it's going. To the first timesheet, the - [Exit Interview](https://sunilsebastian.com/2009/01/15/exit-interview/) - I've been working in the computer business for a lot longer than most people realize. I'm just a few months shy of 20 years since I started my first paid computer job, which my age would reveal was when I was in high school.  So of course my jobs were bounded by circumstance and school.  - [Freelancing by Dummy](https://sunilsebastian.com/2009/01/11/freelancing-by-dummy/) - So after 10 long years, in the middle of the worst economy since the 1930s (or the 1690s, if you take the Bank of England's interest rates as your indicator), I've just resigned from my position as a consultant to become a freelance something-or-other. - [Fingertap Dance](https://sunilsebastian.com/2009/01/04/fingertap-dance/) - When I started travelling as a consultant, I very quickly started to find a need for a portable "blogging" solution. I had my laptop, sure, but 10 years ago, a laptop sucked that little battery dry almost before the drink service on the flight had come out. After a few years, I had it down - [A whisper of change](https://sunilsebastian.com/2008/12/31/a-whisper-of-change/) - I had thought I'd get the habit of writing here going, as a soft-launch, before I started talking about "More Serious Things(tm)," but I'm now a victim of soft-reality. The nature of my world and work is that sometimes reality is malleable. Think of me as a spy, without the cool. I know things that - [Finally getting the theme: Just Write!](https://sunilsebastian.com/2008/12/30/the-theme-was-just-write/) - I finally figured out what was wrong with the blog theme that I've been lazily puttering with for the last two years: It wasn't writing. So that's the new theme I've chosen for the New Year: Just write. Everything else is just decoration. And this is the beginning. ## Pages - [Contact Me](https://sunilsebastian.com/contact/) - Twitter: sunilsebastian Phone (Free Call): - [In Case of Lawyers](https://sunilsebastian.com/terms/) - Run! Kidding. Mostly. 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