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2023

/ Feb 2023

Turntablism YouTube

I recently went a 2200 mile road trip to visit friends and family and as per usual, I caught up

2023

/ Feb 2023

Oregon's bottle law

A few years ago, Oregon upped their redemption price for beverage containers from 5¢ to 10¢, and I remembered doing

2023

/ Jan 2023

Season 3: Party Down coming February 24th

It's been about ten years since Party Down got cancelled and the new season is dropping less than

2023

/ Jan 2023

My first off roading YouTube video

During my last trip to Moab, I tried out some trails northwest of the main Arches National Park entrance. For

2023

/ Jan 2023

Blacks Beach/Torrey Pines real-time erosion

I was randomly scrolling YouTube and ended up watching about half a dozen videos capturing some landslides near San Diego,

2023

/ Jan 2023

Moab winter trip report

This week I took a quick solo road trip to Moab, Utah to explore some trails and see the southwest

2023

/ Jan 2023

Hanks for the memories

Earlier this week I listened to the Bullseye interview with Tom Hanks, and it's one of the best

2023

/ Jan 2023

First thoughts from a Rivian R1S test drive

In February of 2020, I plunked down a deposit on the Rivian R1S, a 3-row full electric SUV soon after

2023

/ Jan 2023

Belkin MagSafe monitor mount, Continuity Camera, and using your iPhone as your webcam

Last month I heard that Belkin was releasing MagSafe iPhone mounts for the MacBook and another version for Studio Displays

2022

/ Dec 2022

Surprisingly good tech: The weBoost Drive Reach cell signal booster

A couple years ago, I started seeing ads for "cell phone booster" antennas for cars and trucks around

2022

/ Dec 2022

Ice Storm fun

Last night as I was driving home on a sheet of frozen rain I saw some teens hooning it up

2022

/ Dec 2022

Google Docs gripe

(I posted this on Mastodon but I might as well share here in the off chance any Googlers still read

2022

/ Dec 2022

An interesting Instagram business model

I love seeing how people do things on the edges of what is possible. In this case, how people make

2022

/ Dec 2022

California solar is responsible for 10% of all energy production in the state?

My old pal Dinah posted this today: It's kind of an amazing stat: just 1.5 million solar

2022

/ Dec 2022

Stepside: episode 12 is up

I just uploaded the newest episode of Stepside, which is our last show of this year plus it's

2022

/ Dec 2022

The Muppet Christmas Carol, greatly improved

I had no idea the Muppet Christmas Carol movie I've probably seen a dozen times over the last

2022

/ Dec 2022

The Shitty Technology Adoption Curve

A few months ago, I read this post by Cory Doctorow about how shitty tech always tends to move upwards

2022

/ Dec 2022

Said the Gramophone's best music of 2022 is out!

Said the Gramophone is one of my favorite old school blogs that's focused on music. I wouldn'