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2019
/ Apr 2019
We have liftoff

We have liftoff

Everything since October 1957, when Sputnik streaked across the sky, has led to where we are today. Sputnik led to
2019
/ Apr 2019

NG-11 space launch trip: day 1

Yesterday, I flew to Washington DC, then drove about 3.5 hours to get near NASA's flight facility
2019
/ Apr 2019

The wisdom of the twitter crowds

After years of putting it off, yesterday I finally rounded up all the change we leave around the house in
2019
/ Apr 2019

Converting phone lines to ethernet in newer homes

I live in a house built in 2005, and when we got rid of our landline around 2012, I knew
2019
/ Apr 2019

Empathy and Invisibilia

The new episode of Invisibilia is at times both incredible but ultimately, frustrating to me. It starts with an interesting
2019
/ Apr 2019

Woodburn Oregon Tulip Festival 2019

This morning I got up around 5:30AM to get to the Woodburn Tulip Festival around 7AM to try and
2019
/ Apr 2019

A glorious pi hole

I recently heard about an intriguing project called pi-hole. You use a cheap tiny raspberry pi computer that runs on
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