This past weekend, I went down to Monterey Bay, CA to go out on a boat into open waters where we spread the ashes of my favorite uncle, my mom’s kid brother who was born about ten years after she was. He died pre-pandemic of an aggressive cancer that took him much too quickly, but …
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Ice Storm fun
Last night as I was driving home on a sheet of frozen rain I saw some teens hooning it up in some parking lots and woke up this morning to find every big parking lot in town has these perfect donut-shaped burnouts in them. I had to pull over and stop to take this shot …
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 a living off being viral/popular on any social network. Most networks don’t have direct mechanisms to pay users, so instead people have to improvise all sorts of other ways to try and make a living …
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 from the most marginalized groups to the more privileged and it’s a thought technology that has stuck with me. I’ve rolled it around like a smooth beach pebble in my hand for weeks and weeks …
An important verified checkmark in real life
The other day I realized (at least in Oregon) there’s a verified checkmark in real life that’s important, and it’s the one you find on exempt license plates on government vehicles. There’s no way for a civilian to get one, so they’re only found on official cars and trucks. Most often they start with a …
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US Healthcare
American healthcare is split into 2 piles: Here’s a quick FAQ/explainer: What happens if I break my leg?That’s no face hole healthcare which most people here shorten to just “healthcare.” That healthcare pays for most of your doctor visits. Talk to someone in the stethoscope and take a cast for your leg when you’re done. …
I just realized…
Gary Oldman’s name will continue getting funnier with each passing year
I’m sorry, Big Agnes
I found a store-wide discount at an outdoor brand’s shop that made really high tech stuff. I told my spouse and she said “the kids really want to get into backpacking but all we have is heavy, thick car camping stuff, or old REI backpacking stuff from the 1990s. We should use that code to …
Everyone’s a mixologist now
me last week at a bar: ugh this cocktail tastes like shit me this week after binging that netflix cocktail show: ugh this cocktail is too spirit-forward, lacks acid, tastes unbalanced and is too heavy on the pandan
I’ve yet to meet one though
Somewhere there has to be a lot of Jeoffs too, right?
A Whole Lotta Nothing 