Our High on Fire Trip
High on Fire played in Bremerton, WA over the weekend as part of a little tour of the PNW. We drove up the day before...
Life
2025
The trouble with the Oregonian
I used to be in web publishing, did it for a while, and know a thing or two about the kind of pressure website producers...
Your friends on Substack are not okay
By bolting on an algorithmic feed, Substack is trying to make a vertical. There was a brief window where the Notes feed felt sort of...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Carver Store, Carver, OR
We drove into Carver from Metzler Park in Clackamas, Co. The Carver Store is a few aisles wide and probably sells more drinks than anything,...
Yo La Tengo at Pioneer Courthouse Square
Wow, they just settled in and went.
The AI Poop Ouroboros
Today one of my IT customers pinged me asking if I could help with a quality-of-life issue in one of our apps. They had a...
Bridge Pedal
We got up early and rode our bikes across town to do the Bridge Pedal. Getting there and back plus the route itself, plus a...
Cabin in the Snow
I was in Fred Meyer tonight for camping groceries, and passed by the wine section. I idly wondered if they had any sake at all,...
"... just a scratchy throat. A nap will fix it."
That was me on Tuesday, finding it a little hard to get through a lot of meetings. By the end of the day I knew...
The other thing I've been curious about
Al and I went to a sushi restaurant a few weeks ago, and they were offering sake flights. Since they included a little bit of...
Dental work
I had to do an emergency dental appointment today. It boiled down to "chunk of a filling went missing, and another tooth decided to light...
About the smashing
I once had a friend who hated Apple in a way I had never come across before. At first I confused it with the recreational...