hiatus
We're in the unplugging season. It occurred to be briefly to just turn this off alongside a bunch of services billed monthly, but I bought...
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2024
Conflagrations leap out of every poor furnace
I came across someone on a site I follow who's very much just themselves in the face of a lot of potential blowback. Some people...
Eugene Weekend
Atlas Pizza
Scribbles YT embeds?
Oh, hey. Scribbles is testing embeds, so let's test with this awesome Mutoid Man show. [YouTube Video] Highlights: • "Date with the Devil" at 9:00...
Software suffering
I have had an Evernote account for a very long time. It was my everything box for a number of years, and even though I...
Several weeks on a 6-speed Brompton C-Line
I bought a six-speed Brompton C-Line several weeks ago, replacing a Zizzo Forté. I like having a non-electric "get around" bike, and I like having...
The imposter director revisits the cradle
It isn't something I really emphasize on my résumé or in interviews, but for a spell (more than a year? Less than two?) I was...
re: RMS/FSF
Regarding The Stallman Report, which I tried to discuss in a single toot but couldn't: I owe my career and life as I know it...
Goodbye, Pranayama
I sold a few boards this week, including this Pantheon Pranayama. As much as I admired the design, with its super narrow tolerances for such...
On Metal
Before deciding I was a punk guy in high school, I was a jazz guy. I was rescued from staying that way by the guy...
Zizzo Folder Notes
I met some friends up on Burnside last night, and planned to ride home with Al from there, so I decided to take my Zizzo...
Dialing in the ADV 1.1, getting the Forte out of storage
I got a bike fitting at Pedal PT for my new Co-Op ADV 1.1 two weeks ago. We didn't end up changing much: The seat...
M43 wasn't on my list of things to appreciate in 2024
I took my OM-5 (with the kit 12-45 zoom) along for our coast trip. I liked what I got from the combo, especially considering the...
Down the Southern Oregon Coast
We took a trip down the Southern Oregon Coast for Al's birthday this year, staying in Gold Beach but ranging as far down as Brookings...
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Co-Op ADV 1.1
More for purposes of a placeholder than even a preliminary review: My friend Patrick mentioned doing the Reach the Beach ride in May. You never...
Kinds of builders
After a few years at a startup I started slipping two of my own questions into the interview plans I was handed, regardless of why...
Long Haul Day and a Meditation on Meat Crayons
I put a lot of miles on the Haul today: Two runs to Johnson Creek after I left my wallet at home, then one up...
Specialized Globe Haul ST
I ended my cargo bike search with a Specialized Globe Haul ST. It's basically replacing three other vehicles: A car I seldom drive if I...
How do you know anything?
Lots of crowing and the eventual deletion of a comment calling for journalists to be "curb stomped" for their inadequacies. And if we set the...
