Category: Life

I like the new site upsidedowndogs.com. It’s what it says it is. Here is my dog, upside down. Enjoy.

Earlier today I finally legalized my goal: I got my motorcycle endorsement on my license. To accomplish this, I took and passed the Team Oregon Basic Rider Skills class this past weekend on Swan Island. It was a thorough, exhausting, entertaining, informative, early (note darkness) and cold (note exhaust). Dreadful iPhone photo: I took (and [...]

Last night was neato. We filled the Mission Theater in Portland with a lot of enthusiastic debate watchers. Rep. Earl Blumenauer spoke and said nice things about us and the potentials of technology like this. Team members (including me) got a chance to take questions and show off the capabilities of the application. So, if [...]

If you live in town, please join us next Tuesday evening to celebrate the launch of the Obama ’08 iPhone and iPod Touch application and to watch the next presidential debate. We’ve reserved the Mission Theater for this event, and it is expected to hit capacity (fire code). It’s free, so get there early! Get [...]

It is with great joy that I am finally able to share with you the project that I (and a ridiculously talented small group of people) have had the good fortune to be a part of: Obama ’08, the official iPhone application for the Obama/Biden presidential campaign. Neat, huh? The amount of energy that went [...]

I’m going to try to make buying the camera a real goal. That means being fiscally creative and making some sacrifices. I still have a first-generation iPhone. I’m going to sell it. Even if I have to–gulp–do it on eBay. Let me know if you want to buy it from me before I list it. [...]

Though I’m still suffering from a surfeit of math after this summer’s calculus fest, it was interesting to hear an acapella male choir perform an interpretation of the proof of the Quadratic Formula last night at the Bagdad Theater. This was after listening to Neal Stephenson read from his new novel, Anathem, which I failed [...]

It may be a bit of a stretch to see a Web site as a metaphorical anathema to one’s philosophical bent, but there is something deeply disturbing about eBay. Something that at once makes me feel offput, angry and sad. It is unsettling to have such a personal reaction to a font of commerce. I [...]

As part of my recent explorations and readings vis-a-vis the confluence of physics and metaphysics, the realm of the acausal and the intriguing problems introduced by quantum and string theories (and how they all collide), I’ve started thinking a lot about coincidences. If, as I came upon myself (although apparently there are books and books [...]

Unexpected purchase this weekend. But a very good one. Noble replacement for Audi TT, with better gas mileage and more chances of getting myself killed.