A Little Small Talk.

Ben and Jacqueline

I’m Ben. My wife’s name is Jacqueline, and her friends call her Jacq. We both work in tech, remotely from our shared home office.

I’m the Director Of Customer Service and Support for several brands in the WordPress Space over at StellarWP.com, and Jacqueline is the Operations Manager for WPSessions.

We also have a few side hustles – WP Steward, Greenwood DJ, and Jacqueline’s blog on living life with T1 Diabetes, Sweetly Diabetic.

We’re parents of three boys, and you can likely find us chasing one of them to some sporting event these days. This site is where we like to verbally process life. If you dig back far enough here, you’ll find articles written from our time on staff with Campus Crusade for Christ, and various other stages of life.

Thanks for stopping by and checking us out. We’re glad you’re here.

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March 15, 2024March 15, 2024

Planting Flags: A Post 13 Years In The Making.

13 years ago today, I put this on the platform formerly known as Twitter: This tweet is going to be a reference point in the future for me when I recall the days I’d sleep in my car in between jobs. March 15, 2011 I would show up at 4:45 AM to open the Starbucks, …

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January 7, 2024January 24, 2024

Fun with Artificial Intelligence

Here’s the prompt I gave ChatGPT just now: I want you to pretend to be a literary critic of extreme experience who is inexplicably (but genuinely) impressed by the lyrics to “What does the fox say” and then spend at least 4 paragraphs demonstrating how it can be compared favorably to the Divine Comedy by …

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July 27, 2023December 27, 2023

Try This in a Small Town

Jason Aldean’s song “Try That In A Small Town” has the whole internet taking to their phones either in gleeful support or horror or (the version the algorithms have relentlessly pounded me with) smug talk-down-to-the-offended reactions to the reactions. I can’t help but note that this smells exactly like a genius marketing move for Mr. …

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