crap i love I voted! Just turned my ballot into a box downtown. This year feels especially important, like if we get everyone we know out to vote then maybe just maybe 50.1% of the state will vote to retain our own bodily autonomy, while 49.9% vote to trample on everyone's
News Remembering Uvalde I saw this on TikTok, but an ofrenda in Uvalde, Texas this weekend representing all the students lost this year, placed on school desks, while the "Remember Me" song from Coco played kind of broke me a little bit today.
photos Fall color There’s a house down my street with an entire orchard of trees planted in neat little rows and in late October each year, in the late afternoon the setting sun hits them and just glows bright yellow. I took this shot today as it rained and it’s pretty
crazy shit off the top of my head BeReal You can tell BeReal was developed in France because people there are more likely to lead interesting lives in bustling cities bursting with activities while half my American feed (including my own daily shots!) is simply photos of one person driving a car somewhere by themselves. An American app developer
home WiFi garage door openers are some kind of magic Listen to these wise words from Nelson: The #1 upgrade you should do for an older house is a dishwasher; they got a lot better about 15 years ago. But #2 may well be the garage door opener. Nelson's Weblog: tech / good / liftmaster-87504-267 I agree with both points
blinded by science There's a sweet new Antarctic blog in town I did my undergrad in environmental science and during my senior year I did a lake water chemistry research study. During this time, a friend mentioned someone he grew up with ended up at the research station in Antarctica and had the wildest stories. It was 1995 and I was
sports Who knew doing one sit-up perfectly is harder than it looks? Lately though, he's turned his challenges to things that are much easier, things that any random person on the street might be able to do. But when you're testing average people, doing one pushup or one pull up is really quite hard. Today he released this
home Track the lifespan of your LED lightbulbs with a Sharpie I moved into a house that was built just three years ago and every light in the house is LED, but they're all generic with no brand names on the bulbs. LED bulbs typically last several years, but about every 3-4 months one of our lights go out,
crazy shit off the top of my head Elongated Muskrat Elon's antics at twitter sure do remind me of another guy with quite a personality (disorder) that never admits any of his own personal mistakes, thinks and says he is a genius, and instead of paying people what they are owed, stiffs them and waits for them to
politics A completely bonkers poll Given the results in this poll, It's a strategy (along with their own networks like Fox and right wing radio hammering it out day after day) that's obviously working for them.
sports NWSL Championship recap This is a quick update to my preview post from a few days back. The game took place last night and before I get into it, I learned it was the first women's sports championship game televised on prime time on a major network ever, for any sport.
web development Extremely tiny Wordpress improvement idea At Slack, we had an internal channel designed for posting small good ideas from employees as well as any we spotted on twitter from Slack users. Software engineers at the company would hang out in the channel and start a discussion thread on the viability of implementing any of them
youtube Things I learned after years of watching dashcam videos I have an odd nightly routine where I often grab my iPad and some headphones before bed and watch 30-60min of random YouTube stuff before I drift off to sleep. One of the oddly relaxing things I watch are dashcam videos on YouTube. If you hear that and think I
youtube 2Saxy If you enjoy brass bands and/or jazz, watching Grace Kelly and Leo P improvise as they walk around Hollywood, California for TWENTY MINUTES NON STOP is pretty friggin incredible. If you've been around the internet for a while you probably recognize the guy playing the larger sax,
sports What to watch at this Saturday's NWSL championship final match One caveat: I never really "got" team sports or understood why people base their entire personalities on them until I realized in my 30s that it's just another form of storytelling. A whole sport is like a genre of fiction, where each season is a volume
sports <strong>What every outdoor sports app gets wrong</strong> People are rejuvenated by the outdoors, and they crave any chance to spend time there. So much so that aspiration is a big part of loving the outdoors. We think of ourselves as “outdoorsy people” because we want to spend more time doing the activities we love while exploring a
Uncategorized A less exhausting guide to podcasting in 2022 Recently, I started a small casual podcast with my friend Joel about how much we love trucks (and also bikes and mass transit, but mostly off-roading). We're doing it for the hell of it, not really looking to make a big splash but what strikes me this time
Uncategorized On a long bet In early 2012, at the Webstock conference in Wellington, New Zealand, my new friend Jeremy Keith was on stage talking about the impermanence of the web and the ephemeral nature of our work and over drinks afterwards together we came up with a quick challenge for a Long Bet (update:
Uncategorized The Bose sunglasses I thought I might hate but are actually kind of great? There's a podcast run by a friend called All Consuming and the premise is fun: two people try out any weird products they get in their Instagram feed, with a full review and rating that follows. At first, the show started out mostly mocking an endless sea of
Uncategorized CarPlay is finally (just barely) good enough that you should never look at your phone while driving ever again As a person that grew up driving many hours each day in California and to a lesser extent (still more than zero) in Oregon, I take car audio seriously. I love big stereos for listening to music and these days I spend about half of my car time listening to
Uncategorized Tips on buying a used Sprinter van Sprinter vans are fun as hell, look cool and can be customized in any way you can imagine. A brand new, completely stripped cargo van from Mercedes is only about $35k-40k from the factory, but building sleeping platforms and storage and kitchens into them can easily add $100k to the
Uncategorized Getting a Brother HL-L2350DW to work Early in the 2000s, I got way into photography and soon after into inkjet printing so I could print my images at home. But after a few years of spending money on Cyan cartridges, I realized I wasted lots of money on ink printing simple pages. Soon I realized I
Uncategorized My Favorite covers I've always loved cover songs. They're a perfect combo of recognition but hearing it in a new way for the first time, and my favorite way to experience them was always at concerts, where a performer you're familiar with often has one or two
Uncategorized Daily diary for April 24, 2021 Four devices. My iPad, my phone, my kid's iPad, and then my laptop. Every morning at 5:00:01 AM I hit them all for the daily drops. Tap, tap, tap, click. Done. Then we wait. They say it's a lottery and random for anyone that