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2019
/ Mar 2019

American healthcare still sucks

I picked up my prescriptions yesterday and my new health plan gave me a 90 day supply of pills. This
2019
/ Mar 2019

Stubborn thinking

There's a glorious plan for a rails-to-trails project in my neck of the woods in Oregon. It'
2019
/ Mar 2019

Snowy morning

2019
/ Mar 2019

Optimizing for outrage

I'm dismayed to see Twitter and Quora optimizing for outrage lately in their quests to keep users engaged
2019
/ Feb 2019

Content moderation has no easy answers

This morning I read Casey Newton's expose of Facebook moderation problems at the Verge. Let me be clear
2019
/ Feb 2019

Two months with Blue Apron

I'm coming to around to meal kits about five years too late, but in an effort to help
2019
/ Feb 2019

A stupid Internet of Things story

Recently my Nest thermostat started getting aggressive about going into Eco or Away mode to save energy. Normally, it'
2019
/ Feb 2019

One Moto

I went to the One Motorcycle Show in Portland this past weekend. It was an interesting mix of bikes of
2019
/ Feb 2019

Emoji magic

This Emoji Mosaic site is really incredible. I don't know how someone on a free github install created
2019
/ Jan 2019

Cars are boring af now

At the Portland Auto Show last night, I spent hours jumping into and out of pretty much every car on
2019
/ Jan 2019

Advanced operators, still useful in this day and age

While Google increasingly tries to guess at what you're searching for, it's good to be reminded
2019
/ Jan 2019

The sharing economy

I stayed in my first airbnb in SF last night (hotels were sold out because of a urology conference) Thoughts
2019
/ Jan 2019

My year in movies

Late in 2017 I remembered I'd always had an account at Letterboxd, but I barely used it in
2019
/ Jan 2019

How are stories kept a mystery in your mind?

I woke up from a nightmare where my daughter was injured and it “shocked” me awake. I was having a
2019
/ Jan 2019

A visit to the Olympic Peninsula

I've lived in Oregon for over 15 years now, and I realized in all my trips to Seattle,
2018
/ Dec 2018

X-treme BMX Mary Poppins

The new Mary Poppins has been out for a week so I'm gonna talk about the only WTF
2018
/ Dec 2018

The Great War

I saw Peter Jackson’s WWI movie They Shall Not Grow Old where they restored clips frame-by-frame and colorized them,
2018
/ Dec 2018

hashtag rich guy goals

Lately I've thought of all the ways my life would change if I ever became a rich guy.