Uncategorized Rad dreams If you were a BMXer in the 1980s that also hated prom and popular kids the super cheesy dance scene in 1986's RAD was a fantasy ripped right out of your own mind. It could just be me. Someday I hope to convey how much wish fulfillment was
Uncategorized New Nike line I'm kinda into this new Nike line for "health goths" I saw in a newsletter. Pretty cool set of streetwear basics but with technical features, fabrics and build quality.
Uncategorized Getting back to RSS Here's my exported Newsblur RSS feed list. It's mostly everything I was following until the day Google Reader died. Of these couple hundred feeds, only a couple dozen are regularly updating these days and I'm slowly pruning out old dead ones that turn into
Uncategorized This is fine. A smart home, internet-of-things WiFi-enabled full-length mirror meant to be used while naked? WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?
Uncategorized Back to bollards Yesterday, I was reminded that those pylon things are called bollards and their history of protecting from attacks goes way back. It also reminds me of two depressing moments of realization during Obama's presidency. One was when I too noticed the paper lid on Obama's glass
Uncategorized Super chill dystopia I love this super chill dystopia aesthetic. The Salesforce tower and transbay terminal in SF have these pylons incorporated into their layouts and you quickly forget they're there. The pylons are specifically there to prevent a car bomb from getting close enough to murder thousands and destroy landmark
Uncategorized In—[ad]—sta—[ad]—gram I love it when I get ads for things I recently purchased because it’s like the company is paying a fraction of a cent each time to remind me.
Uncategorized Choose wisely I love the elevator controls in the lobby of my hotel because one button calls you an elevator and the other button immediately below it calls the fire department.
movies Demi is amazing, part #2,148 Every alt-weekly newspaper in America should simply pay Demi Adejuyigbe for the chance to reprint his Letterboxd reviews word for word as their film critic/review column. Follow Demi over there if you don't already. And follow him on Instagram and Twitter and everywhere else he writes because
design Lyft iOS redesign I'm legitimately impressed with the recent Lyft app redesign on my iPhone. Somehow they collapsed the entire process of calling a car into just a couple screens, without making those screens feel overcrowded or overwhelming. On the contrary, the type is big and the copy is friendly and
crazy shit off the top of my head Pink (I just found this post in my blog's drafts. I wrote it one night in 2010, just edited it again and decided to post it today. I have no idea why I didn't post it back then, it was a fun memory of a night I
movies TTSP Time to Statham Punch still exists, and I updated it for The Meg (he was arm's length from the megashark at one point and doesn't punch him, wtf?!)
personal Vacay I just realized I went almost a year without taking vacation and it was the stupidest thing I've done in my career. Thanks to a couple trips this month it turns out I'm only working half of August and I'm feeling way less burnt
podcasts New podcast: Surprisingly Problematic It started as some jokey posts on Twitter, but lots of my fellow Gen-Xers have experienced rewatching an old 1980s movie they loved, only to find out it had a lot more casual homophobia and misogyny or awkward nakedness or generally just didn't hold up when viewed today.
Uncategorized Imagine there’s no Twitter it’s easy if you try Honestly the greatest moment after you deactivate your twitter account is seeing total silence when you refuse to log back into their apps.
blogging More Wordpress gripes I've kept a running list of more head scratcher moments with Wordpress. Returning to using Wordpress daily after years away, I'm seeing these things with fresh eyes again. I'll probably be adding more to this post over the next few weeks. The idea of
food Leslie Harpold’s Banana bread recipe Leslie Harpold was a magnificent person famous for lots of great things on the early internet and many people know her as the person that wrote the definitive Thank You Note how-to as well as her annual advent calendars each year. I was lucky enough to know her a bit
Uncategorized Things that baffle me about Wordpress in 2018 So I'm back blogging! And I haven't used wordpress.com in ages, but I wanted to share my running list of WTF moments over the past week of using the site and service, both at work (we just moved our blog!) and here. I'm
Uncategorized My own reasons for leaving Twitter I explained to some friends why I gave up on Twitter, and since there's a lot more to say about it from a personal perspective, I realized I might as well share it in public too. After a great deal of reflection, Twitter had three main problems for
Uncategorized Stargazing Drove out to an open space 20mi south of Bend, Oregon to look up at the skies last night. It was dark enough that the Milky Way was clearly in view and we saw tons of meteors. There was one annoyingly bright star above the horizon, so I used an