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2015

/ Nov 2015

TIL: Web 1.0 Hackdays are pretty great

I just got home from the Web 1.0 Conference run by Amber Case and Kyle Drake, and I had a blast. I got to spend 8 uninterrupted hours…

2015

/ Oct 2015

Austin Bat Cruise

I’m in Austin, Texas for An Event Apart, and the organizers booked a lovely sunset dinner cruise for all the speakers. We got some good…

2015

/ Sep 2015

Day 6: Off the grid in Joseph

My Cycle Oregon week ended up being only about 275 miles of riding and 12,000' of climbing. If the week had gone as planned, it would have…

2015

/ Sep 2015

Day 5: 51 miles, Huntington to Baker City

After a third night of rain and having to pack up a wet tent, we decided to think of other plans once we got back to the start. The Cycle…

2015

/ Sep 2015

Day 4: 54 miles, Cambridge, ID to Huntington, OR

We set off from Idaho to retrace our steps back to the start over the course of the next two days.

2015

/ Sep 2015

Day 3: 50 miles, Cambridge, ID to Hell’s Canyon and back

It’s kind of amazing to learn in 28 years of Cycle Oregon, they’ve never had to reroute or cancel any part of the ride until this year and…

2015

/ Sep 2015

Day 2: 54 mi, Huntington, OR to Cambridge, ID

Last night was a new moon and by 9pm we wandered down to the banks of the Snake River and were treated to the most awesome stars I’ve ever…

2015

/ Sep 2015

Day 1: 64 miles, Baker City to Huntington, Oregon

Today was a relatively quick ride. After some fitful sleep, at 6am the sounds of zippers all around roused me from the tent. After a full…

2015

/ Sep 2015

Day 0: Cycle Oregon

I forget how wide Oregon is. For the first day I just had to pick up Chris and Thom and get our gear to Baker City, but it’s nearly 400…

2015

/ May 2015

Introducing the Panoselfie

A couple weeks ago, Colin Devroe, a friend from Twitter introduced me to the concept of a panoselfie when he created a Flickr group for it…

2015

/ May 2015

The Big Lebowskemoji

The annotated Big Lebowskemoji

2015

/ May 2015

Romantic Comedy love scene in 2015

…as their bodies became one, they simultaneously raised their left wrists and said “hey Siri, new message to my beloved”

2015

/ Apr 2015

My rocky first 24hrs with the ᴡᴀᴛᴄʜ

I’m an insufferable asshole, and I’m here to complain about my brand new $350 luxury watch that so far hasn’t lived up to my insanely high…

2015

/ Apr 2015

Lessons learned from a month of EV ownership

If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to live with an electric vehicle (EV), here’s a list of things I’ve learned since taking the plunge.

2015

/ Mar 2015

I love my cats but they are assholes

On conditional love

2015

/ Feb 2015

Riding the Pacific Northwest Coast in January

Winter in Oregon is my least favorite time of year, because we tend to have gray, foggy, rainy days from November clear through April. When…

2015

/ Jan 2015

Designing Software for Altruism

How can we design software that promotes random acts of kindness? Plus, a proposed product feature that enables altruism.

2015

/ Jan 2015

More on Podcasting’s past/future

As an update to my previous post on the past and potential future of podcasting