Sep
26
2017
I went on an night stroll through my neighborhood recently, in addition to the exercise and fresh air, I find it to be a great time to be alone and think. On this stroll I paid particular attention to...
Aug
27
2017
During a bout of unproductive, yet informative and fun web surfing today, I learned more about the Brooklyn Bridge. Thought I'd share this great site and video from the History Channel. It's a good warm up to the much...
Aug
22
2017
I spent August 21, 2017 experiencing a total eclipse of the sun with 70,000 of my closest friends in Madras, Oregon. It was truly an otherworldly experience. I highly recommend seeing the totality if you can. Traffic might have...
Jun
27
2017
This is a pretty amazing short film that the great designer and filmmaker Saul Bass created to pitch his idea to redesign the Bell Systems logo. It's a relic from a different time, but it is completely correct in...
Jun
05
2017
This short video is well worth your time: A Tale of Momentum & Inertia from Portland's amazing animation studio HouseSpecial.
Jun
01
2017
A while ago I saw a very sad sight, the removal of the trolley from inside the Seattle Waterfront's Old Spaghetti Factory. I work nearby and we were all sad to see the place go. I have memories of...
May
29
2017
As something of a student of the Stoic Philosophers, I found this nice recording of audio Discourses of Epictetus by Julien Villeneuve on the great site archive.org. I recommend you check it out, it's very worthwhile.
Listen to it or...
Feb
01
2017
Nostalgia is a form of depression." - Abbie Hoffman
I was goofing about on the internet and saw this cool video of 1,000 people playing Nirvana's classic "Smell's Like Teen Spirit." I really dug it and was jamming to it....
Jan
19
2017
When I was in high school, a couple of decades ago, one of the major influences for my friends and I was the science fiction genre of cyberpunk. We ate that stuff up. The neon hued disutopias of William...
Jan
16
2017
Let freedom ring... It's more important now that ever to remember Martin Luther King Jr. and his legacy.
