Last week I drove down to Ventura and LA to visit with friends and family. Here are some highlights.Adamson HouseThe Adamson House is known as the "Taj Mahal of Tile" because the owners owned a nearby ceramics factory when it was being buil…
For months, I’ve heard rumblings about a cool new game coming out from the people that did the Untitled Goose Game. Last month, I was lucky enough to get to play it in a beta test version with four friends in the same room, working together…
I spent my first 30 years growing up in California, and the state abounded with great architecture, even though California isn't generally that old of a place. There is the Gamble House in Pasadena, the Case Study houses in Palm Springs, an…
A couple weeks ago I stumbled upon this woodworking guy's YouTube channel that is generally pretty silly, but he came up with a clever system to use 3D printing in a woodshop, the likes of which I've never seen before.Building a crosscut sl…
A few weeks ago, I read my friend Michael Pusateri's post on this tiny touchscreen you can buy at Aliexpress, and how he programmed it to become buttons for his Home Assistant setup, letting anyone who walks into his kitchen control the lig…
Last week, we took a quick trip to Denver to catch the Portland Thorns playing the Denver Summit at their second new stadium of the year (in May I visited their first stadium). We caught up with old friends, dined well, checked out Meow Wol…
Last fall, I started taking Zepbound and wrote about the first couple weeks and touched on it after a few months. While it was a pretty life-changing at first, as I did lose 20lbs quickly, I plateaued for the next six months. During that ti…
For the last few years, I’ve tested out the latest Mac and iOS developer beta versions, and I've had mixed experiences. Sometimes it's been rocky and I regretted doing it, other times, it wasn't bad and I enjoyed new features I've wanted to…
I've long been a big fan of over-the-ear, old-school big headphones for comfort and sound quality reasons. It's also because I generally don't like to stick things inside my ears. Apple's ear buds are mostly ok but the kinds I dislike most
It's kind of incredible that these days, barely a day goes by that I don't think about AOL Instant Messenger (or AIM, as I'll call it throughout) at some point. That statement doesn't make sense on the face of it even to me, since I only us…
I enjoy social media, and one thing I love seeing is when people play in the space and do things the tools weren't necessarily designed for. Back in good old days of Twitter (~2012-2014), people used to do things like change their display n…
My woodworking shop is coming together nicely and one benefit of having everything in the right place is that it makes completing new projects faster and easier. Last week, I decided to tackle I project I've been thinking about since Januar…