Category: Life

Here’s the challenge. Endless.com is having some sort of sale. They sell shoes and handbags. I don’t really know a nice shoe from, well, poo, so if you want me to wear tolerable shoes, now is your chance to vote for which pair I should buy. Should you choose to work with me in this [...]

I see people here and there talking about all of Amazon’s Web services and how spiffy they are and A9 Search and OMG Seattle rocks and books and Web 2.0 and and, but, really, as a boring old end user all I want WANT WANT is a bloody RSS feed of my Wish List. If [...]

I managed to get some photos of my house–but I didn’t take them. They’re from Art-First, a site my friend Sean happened upon (presumably while researching exterior house painting). Turns out they use my house as one of their sample houses for what they can do. Before and after! Obviously, my house is not salmon [...]

Yup, had to move lyza.com again. This time I hope permanently. I was tempted to wait until I’d modified WordPress to my heart’s content, making it awesome and all that, but I really need to get my ass in gear, so you’ll likely see stuff blinking and changing and breaking occasionally. That’s what makes it [...]

I have no religion but I tend to have a sympathy for the philosophy that pride is not an ideal life force. I am going to confess, then, my little pride problem with my house, of which I was reminded this morning. I was unlatching my front gate to begin my morning walk to work [...]

For the past several months, there’s been various adulations around the Interweb about Inbox Zero, the somewhat ninja-like discipline of maintaining complete mastery over one’s email life, with the emphasis on the “zero.” That is: Get everything out of your inbox with speed like cheetah. The gist of some of this is simple: get mail [...]

I like books, as you know. I don’t have a collector’s personality, but I collect books like old women collect Hummel figurines and Kinkaide paintings. It’s a somewhat shameful, obsessive thing. I get away with it fiscally because I never buy any clothes. That’s sort of the trade-off. Some people like going into their greenhouses [...]

Driving home from a doctor’s appointment today, I saw this construction going on in the parking lot of a modern strip mall that also houses the overrated Portland powerhouse restaurant Nostrana. WINE! 2 blocks from my house! WOOOOOOP.

Cool stuff. You can watch David and I bottling our Pinot noir that we’ve been working on for a year or so. Enjoy!

Every day on my walk to work, I walk past a soundstage. Sometimes the big doors will be open and I can see them building sets or spraypainting things or detailing a new car under chimera soft lights. Turns out the place, Euro RSCG Tyee MCM (I had to make a mnemonic to even remember [...]