Personal blogs

One of the interesting things that has happened since my return to Asia is the return of PauseTalk. As I wrote in detail in this post, when I left Tokyo back in 2015 I also …

Last Thursday the US Department of Justice announced it was suing Apple for monopolizing smartphone markets within the United States. I’ve spent the last few days trying to wrap my head around how much of …

Just over a year ago today I blogged that a change is as good as a rest as I confirmed that I’d be taking on a part time role with a local agency in addition …

What comes after Twitter and Meta? The next great social network is just the Web.

Hōkio fresh fig festival

機械翻訳された日本語の記事にアクセスするにはここをクリックする。 Finally the third part of my eighth week in Japan. Yes, I really did A LOT in a span of 7 days, so much so that I really felt it was necessary to split …

As a family, we don’t get McDonald’s that often, mainly because I think it’s shit and there are better life choices to be made, but occasionally it will magically appear at our door, often when …

After watching the total solar eclipse from Newport, Oregon back in 2017, I was determined to make it to this eclipse. If for no other reason depending on where I went I would get a …

March is over. Then the kids had a week of spring break - which included the April 8th Total Solar Eclipse. Now it’s time for my monthly book reading list. I ended up reading ten …

My pal Zach has this ritual when we play D&D - before we start, he rolls the D20. Over and over and over again.

A friend on a mailing list pointed to the massive palindromic story “2002” by Nick Montfort and William Gillespie, posted on Feb. 20. 2002, AKA 20-02-2002. It’s 2002 words long. And while it’s not exactly …

Because venom is complex and differs from species to species, there’s no broad treatment for snakebite: only various monovalent and polyvalent antivenoms that target a single species or group (e.g. similar snakes by region, like …

This is intended as a quick guide for anyone who comes on as a Friday night Song Swap guest, but anyone who’s thinking of using Zoom (or doing their own streams) to share music with …

How to celebrate the 30th anniversary of a personal web site? I considered this morning as I fashioned a three-legged stool over my morning ritual oracular vapors. I thought it would be good to have …

Yo, check it. Friday May 17th. That's right, we're doing another CYBERDELIA. As per longstanding tradition, we are dressing up DNA Lounge as Cyberdelia, the club from the movie HACKERS! This means a 90s cyberpunk …

I don’t generally get excited about purchases of any kind, but this grinder from Fellow had me checking the FedEx website a few times. After seasoning the burrs, I haven’t had a bad cup of …

This is part 3 in my “Software and its Discontents” series. This series is the product of speaking with a range of folks in the industry over several months about the sense that something about …

an 8 min sketch, from memory. a page from my visual diaries.istanbul, spring yesterday at 8am, while walking Luna, I watched a cat chase a crow from the thin branches of a tree. it was …

Happy first-use-of-AC-in-2024 day for those who celebrate.