About This Site

Why Is The Site Named Flirting with Neutrality?

Many (many) years ago, my hour-long daily commute time was taken up listening to CNBC's Squawk Alley morning market coverage (yes, in the car, we DID have satellite radio in those days ;-). When markets were essentially unchanged (or flat in the vernacular), Bertha Coombs opined once that markets were "flirting with neutrality".

I noted this wonderful aphorism at the time and it came back to me in our current climate. In my case, it succinctly describes a predilection to holding socially liberal but economically conservative views. Thus, not easily fitting anywhere on the classic Republican-Democratic spectrum (albeit leaning heavily small and large "D" democratic for the majority of policy issues).

Thus, Flirting With Neutrality it is!

Why now?

I've never "blogged" before but upon retirement and watching the world go by, this seems as good a time as any to get started.

About Me

My Detailed Resumé/Curriculum Vitae

Platform(s)

I tried Nikola, Hugo, Pelican and Jekyll but either couldn't "grok" their mental models (or got caught in Ruby, gem, bundle installation hell for you_know_who).

Conversely, Publii gave me a wonderful user-interface to edit content (in either various Markdown editors) and create a site interactively. However, this makes particular automation tasks essentially impossible.

MkDocs represents the perfect balance between enough granularity to create a customised site while staying at a command-line and editing with Emacs.