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Nov 2, 2024: A perfect fall evening on the University of Washington campus, looking south from Red Square at Mt. Rainier in the distance.
Jul 1, 2024: This is sad: the Living Computer Museum is closing for good. This was such a great place, filled with everything from old mainframes to Apple IIs to …
Jun 11, 2024: Information Architecture in the Age of AI, Part 4: The IA-powered AI Future or: I, For One, Welcome Our New Robot Overlords This is the fourth in a four-part series of posts on IA and AI, mainly inspired by talks at IAC24. …
Jun 3, 2024: The Onion, natch: Biden Signs Executive Order To Deport All 340 Million Americans And Start From Scratch
Jun 3, 2024: Information Architecture in the Age of AI, Part 3: The Problems With GenAI (Image by DALL-E. Prompt: An impressionistic image representing ‘the problems of generative AI.’ The colors are dark and muted, creating a moody and …
May 30, 2024: Information Architecture in the Age of AI, Part 2: The Benefits of Generative AI (Image by DALL-E. Prompt: Create an image representing the concept “the benefits of generative AI.” The style should be semi-realistic. Colors should …
May 28, 2024: Information Architecture in the Age of AI, Part 1: The Many Faces of AI (Image by DALL-E) I’m not sure where I am in the race to be the last person to write about IAC24, but I have to be pretty close to leading the pack …
Aug 2, 2023: Are Generative AIs just really expensive Ouija boards? I wonder if Generative AIs are like Ouija boards. Every time I hear someone get freaked out about something that an AI wrote, they ascribe human …
Jul 4, 2023: Just bought my first carbon removal offsets on nori.com/. It was super easy, and I wish I had done it sooner.
Jun 25, 2023: Well, I’ve done it: I finished my Sustainability Certificate from UCLA Extension. I enrolled in it because the climate crisis felt so huge that I …
Jun 22, 2023: Ecological tipping points could occur much sooner than expected, study finds “More than a fifth of ecosystems worldwide, including the Amazon …
Jun 17, 2023: ♻️ A promising development in plastic recycling: Scientists convert everyday plastics into fully recyclable and potentially biodegradable materials If …
Jun 3, 2023: Just getting the word out there: A lot of us support climate change policies… “Research published in 2022 in Nature Communications showed that …
May 30, 2023: Boy… losing Mrs. Maisel, Barry, and Ted Lasso in the same week has me a bit emotional. Three great shows with crackerjack writing and exceptional …
May 10, 2023: A factoid I read tonight and can’t get out of my head: In 1978, there were 4 billion people on earth. Today there are over 8 billion. By 2100, there …
Apr 29, 2023: Congratulations to the Toronto Maple Leafs for getting their first Round One playoff win in nearly 20 years. And big cheers to my Tampa Bay Lightning, …
Apr 25, 2023: And that’s it for the climate quiz. Hope you enjoyed it. Remember: climate change is real and scary, but it’s not hopeless. Lots of people are working …
Apr 25, 2023: Microscopic fossil shells can reveal climatic conditions by the amount and type of calcium carbonate in their shells. CarbonBrief.org has a great …
Apr 25, 2023: You’re familiar with paleoproxies if you’ve ever heard of studying tree rings to understand historic periods of drought, pests, or fire. Evidence of …
Apr 25, 2023: Today’s answer: By studying “paleoproxies” such as ocean sediments and sedimentary rocks, we can study ocean and atmospheric temperature from as many …
Apr 25, 2023: Sooo… How far back can we measure ocean and atmospheric temperatures? a) Hundreds of years b) Thousands of years c) Hundreds of thousands of years d) …
Apr 24, 2023: Climate.gov has a great dashboard of climate indicators so that you can check out some of this evidence for yourself. Just take a look at some of the …
Apr 24, 2023: … more things you can measure to look for evidence of climate change: 6. Strengthening mid-latitude westerly winds 7. Fewer extreme cold events / more …
Apr 24, 2023: Things you can measure to look for evidence of climate change include: Surface, oceanic, and atmospheric temperatures Ice melt Sea level rise Storm …
Apr 24, 2023: Next question: What types of physical evidence could you look at to understand whether climate is changing? What could you measure?
Apr 24, 2023: Okay, let’s check your answers: Aside from methane and carbon dioxide, natural greenhouse gases include: water vapor, nitrous oxide, ozone Synthetic …
Apr 22, 2023: Okay, next climate question: Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, obvs. Methane is another. Name a third.
Apr 22, 2023: By the way, if you want to read a really good book about the role of Carbon Dioxide in climate change, I highly recommend CO2 Rising, by Tyler Volk. …
Apr 22, 2023: Basically, putting greenhouse gases into the atmosphere is like putting a blanket on the Earth. The more of those gases are in the atmosphere, the …
Apr 22, 2023: The greenhouse effect is the overall warming of the Earth’s lower atmosphere mainly due to carbon dioxide and water vapor, which permit the …
Apr 21, 2023: Next question: What’s the greenhouse effect? Again, the point is to answer these without looking anything up. It’s interesting to see what facts or …
Apr 21, 2023: Note that all the answers I’ll provide are my interpretation of material compiled by my instructor, Therese Zarlengo, for the course “Climate Change, …
Apr 21, 2023: The American Meteorological Society defines climate as “the slowly varying aspects of the atmosphere, hydrosphere, land, and surface systems.” …
Apr 21, 2023: Okay, y’all are smart. Lots of good answers to the difference between climate and weather. I think everyone got that weather is what’s happening now …
Apr 20, 2023: First question: What’s the difference between climate and weather?
Apr 20, 2023: I had to write a climate quiz for a class project. The small group I gave it to did pretty well, so I thought I’d ask the questions here, too. I’ll …
Mar 12, 2023: Capturing online course content using Audio Hijack and MacWhisper I’m almost 4/5 of the way through my Sustainability Certificate, and have hit on a new way to process and review the instructor’s weekly lectures. I’m …
Feb 19, 2023: The Climatebase Fellowship is accepting applications to their 3rd cohort. As a 2nd cohort fellow, I can recommend the experience wholeheartedly. …
Feb 8, 2023: ♻️ If this pans out, it would be a big deal. Wind turbine blades wear out and need to be replaced periodically. They’re made of epoxy, which means …
Oct 12, 2022: A friend of mine has put together a project to help the folks in her homeland of Ukraine. If you’re a yoga teacher or student, check out …
Sep 5, 2022: Well, we’ve had a busy weekend. We put a deposit down on a fully loaded Chevy Bolt EUV, and sold our gas-guzzler. (The CarMax selling process was a …
Feb 6, 2022: Want to read: The Upcycle by William McDonough 📚 Just added this to my queue after watching this video where McDonough talks about the philosophy and …
Jan 2, 2022: Finished reading: The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin 📚 A rich and absorbing novel, with an impressively detailed world. The “trick” of the novel’s …
Nov 3, 2021: I’ve been reading a lot about sports psychology lately to figure out how to improve my mental game, so I found this post very interesting. Being a …
Oct 24, 2021: Went to the Seattle Kraken’s first home game last night at Climate Pledge Arena. What a great facility! A win would have been nice, but it was still a …
Oct 18, 2021: 3d-printed Lincoln.
Aug 4, 2021: I don’t mind dealing with the delta variant, but I am not paying a monthly subscription for delta+.
Jul 21, 2021: Got a decent view of the stage for the Seattle Kraken expansion draft announcement. And just found out that the draft list was leaked. I’ll try to act …
Jul 4, 2021: Passed by Lady Liberty on our Circle Line Cruise yesterday and she said to tell you all “Happy Independence Day!”
Jun 27, 2021: Finished reading: Killing Floor (Jack Reacher, No. 1) by Lee Child 📚
Jun 7, 2021: Finished reading: The Quiet Boy by Ben H. Winters 📚 I didn’t quite buy a couple of critical story hooks, but found myself engrossed …
Jun 5, 2021: Finished reading: All the Ugly and Wonderful Things: A Novel by Bryn Greenwood 📚 A remarkable book. Challenging, sweet, disturbing, romantic, and …
Oct 31, 2020: Many years ago, I was an Improvisor at SAK Comedy Lab in Orlando. Several of my friends are still there, and I have thought about them often during …
Oct 23, 2020: Well, this is a beautiful sight. Dropped in the replacement power supply and the MK3S is in business! Just needed a few tweaks to get the filament to …
Oct 23, 2020: Great article by a medical expert on the use cases (not many) and accuracy (pretty good, under some circumstances) of the blood oxygen sensor in the …
Oct 4, 2020: Nearly there. Electronics are all hooked up, wires are managed, initial checks check out. Now to see if it actually works…
Oct 4, 2020: Heat bed and power supply are installed. My able assistant is taking a nap in the background.
Oct 4, 2020: Holy moly… 65 steps later, and the extruded is assembled. Eight Haribo consumed. (Plus a bonus Haribo at the half-way point.) Everything’s …
Oct 4, 2020: Z-Axis assembly complete! We’re cookin’ with gas now.
Oct 4, 2020: The Prusa MK3S upgrade kit comes with a pack of Haribo gummy bears, to be eaten in proscribed amounts at the end of each assembly step. Finishing the …
Oct 4, 2020: The upgrade of the Prusa MK2S to the MK3S has begun. Y-Axis assembly is complete. The manual said it should take 2 hours; it took more like 5. But …
Oct 1, 2020: Do not throw away your shot: youtu.be/YMmkXAIRX…
Apr 1, 2020: Cherry blossoms!? More like cheery blossoms, amirite?
Mar 21, 2020: 🏒🎬 While I wait for the world to return to normal and for the NHL season to return, this documentary about the history of black hockey players helps …
Nov 9, 2019: An answer to one of life’s little mysteries: Why do the British drive on the left? – The Straight Dope
Nov 9, 2019: Sweet Pea LOVES when it’s time to make the bed.
Sep 14, 2019: The ceiling of the Great Court at the British Museum.
Sep 8, 2019: Camden Market, London.
Sep 6, 2019: Different eras. Camden Market, London.
Sep 5, 2019: Flowers at Camden Market, London.
Sep 5, 2019: A horse head carving from one of the stalls at Camden Market, London.
Sep 3, 2019: Saw “As You Like It” at Shakespeare’s Globe tonight. Loved the production, and what a great place to see a play. I’ve attended as a groundling, but …
Sep 2, 2019: When you take a walk in the countryside in the UK, the public walkway sometimes goes right through someone’s field. Growing up in the US, it’s so …
Sep 2, 2019: Walking alongside a canal near Melbourne, Derbyshire, UK.
Aug 18, 2019: We discovered Jameson Black Barrel during our trip to Ireland last year and have been enjoying it ever since. It’s got a caramel-vanilla quality and a …
Aug 4, 2019: A year ago today, I went with my friend Coco to watch the Blue Angels from the observation deck of Columbia Tower in Seattle. I wasn’t quick enough to …
Jul 15, 2019: With Descript, transcribing audio can be -- dare I say it ? -- fun! Every once in a while I do a project that requires transcribing recorded audio. It’s never something I look forward to, because creating the …
Jul 14, 2019: 📺 Damn. HBO’s Chernobyl is good. I mean, really good. Great writing, terrific score, sharp performances, outstanding direction and production …
Jul 13, 2019: My friends and I used to quote so many of Artie’s lines from the “Party” episode of The Larry Sanders Show. Rip Torn’s performance still makes me …
Jul 6, 2019: Finished reading: Arbitrary Stupid Goal by Tamara Shopsin 📚
Jun 12, 2019: Congrats to the St. Louis Blues, 2019 Stanley Cup Champions! That was a hell of a series. Two really good teams left it all on the ice, all seven …
Jun 7, 2019: This review of John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum pretty much echoes my own feelings, especially this bit: “But as masterfully executed as the …
May 26, 2019: I don’t care for most of the armchair Game of Thrones analyses, but this piece by Matt Yglesias at Vox is the smartest take I’ve seen. He …
Apr 21, 2019: Wine Cork Designs I hadn’t really looked at the designs on wine corks before. Most of them are pretty functional, but some are surprisingly intricate, or whimsical, or …
Apr 20, 2019: Started cleaning out the garage today and sorted through all my corks for recycling. I might have a drinking problem. Or a cork hoarding problem. Or …
Apr 18, 2019: OH: Somebody meeting your kids is way worse than someone seeing your CD collection.
Apr 16, 2019: Tampa not even being able to take a game in the series really hurts. Full credit to Columbus. From the second period of Game 1 on, they dominated the …
Apr 14, 2019: Well, going down three games in the series really sucks. If there’s a bright spot, it’s that the Lightning played their best period of the series so …
Apr 14, 2019: Huh… Guess I haven’t been paying enough attention to the Islanders. They’ve got the Pens down 3-0 in the series so far. Good on ‘em. 🏒
Apr 13, 2019: A nervous Tampa Bay fan reflects on the post-season so far My beloved Tampa Bay Lightning are down 2-0 in their series with the Columbus Blue Jackets, losing both their games on home ice. For a team that tied …
Apr 13, 2019: There’s nothing like Stanley Cup hockey. The intensity, the speed, the emotion, the physicality, the quality of play… it all goes up …
Mar 22, 2019: IBM Chairman, President and CEO Ginni Rometty says “You will never have AI without IA.” Check it out at ~00:04:25 here: www.ibm.com/events/th…
Mar 5, 2019: Plaaaaay with meeeeeee!!!
Mar 4, 2019: Possible fix for Plex remote access trouble: log in to Plex.tv Bottom Line: If you are having trouble getting your Plex server’s remote access to work, try logging into Plex.tv. It took me an embarrassingly …
Mar 3, 2019: Here’s something I learned from my ophthalmologist: The lens in your eye is made, essentially, out of hair cells. You still have hair cells in …
Mar 2, 2019: Rediscovered this mug in my cupboard today. I’m toasting with my morning tea to the memories of Spirit and Opportunity. Long live Curiosity! It still …
Feb 24, 2019: Congratulations to the organizers of World IA Day Seattle 2019. What a fantastic gathering. The speakers were especially thoughtful and inspiring; …
Feb 18, 2019: Also, “pinky finger” is from the Dutch word “pink” for “little finger”. Thumb is from “tum”, a …
Feb 18, 2019: Apropos of absolutely nothing, I woke up today with this question on my mind: Why is it called an “index finger”? (Turns out, it’s …
Feb 16, 2019: Finished reading: How To Write Groundhog Day by Danny Rubin 📚
Feb 10, 2019: » More Seattle Snow a-comin' Light snow will start between 4 PM and 7 PM today. Light, powdery snow will fall on a cold surface, so melting will be minimal. With salt, plowing, …
Feb 10, 2019: I’ve decided to fully transfer my two main sites to micro.blog. I’ve enjoyed WordPress, but I’m getting tired of keeping up with the …
Feb 9, 2019: North Seattle Snowfall We’ve gotten about 6 inches of snowfall so far here in northeast Seattle. It’s unusual for this city to get that much snow at once, and even more …
Feb 4, 2019: It sure is lovely when it snows in Seattle.
Jan 30, 2019: Connecting flight was canceled after 4 hours. Gotta say, though: Delta is crushing the service design. I got updates on all schedule changes, …
Jan 30, 2019: Of all the weeks to travel to Michigan, I had to pick the coldest one in 20 years. I’m waiting for my connection to Grand Rapids, and even the DTW …
Jan 21, 2019: The Dangers of Overpersonalization Personalization isn’t very personal. In a nutshell… (1) users see the same type of content again and again, …
Jan 13, 2019: 🎬**Crazy Rich Asians (2018) - IMDb** Fun romcom with great characters and performances. We enjoyed this one from beginning to end. Rating: 7/10
Jan 13, 2019: Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) - IMDb Great: Rami Malek’s performance, Queen’s music, and the excuse to watch a ton of Freddy Mercury videos on …
Jan 6, 2019: We took what will probably be our last drive on the Alaskan Way Viaduct before they start tearing it down. I will not miss praying there’s not an …
Dec 4, 2018: Hockey is coming (back) to Seattle! Today, the National Hockey League's Board of Governors voted to approve Seattle as the 32nd NHL Franchise for the 2021-22 season. -NHL SEATTLE Hot …
Nov 25, 2018: Finished reading: Lethal White by Robert Galbraith 📚
Oct 22, 2018: So, we were just going to start looking for a new cat to keep our other cat company. And we were definitely not going to get a kitten. And it needed …
Sep 11, 2018: Steve Yzerman steps down in Tampa, fueling speculation of him landing in Seattle This is mere speculation, but I completely condone it. As much as I …
Aug 26, 2018: The cashier at Trader Joe’s said to me, “You’re a very organized shopper.” Made my flippin’ day.
Aug 25, 2018: Finished reading: Vacationland by John Hodgman 📚
Aug 18, 2018: Okay, now I’m getting excited for our trip to Ireland. Just booked tickets for the Guinness Storehouse and tour. There’s a theatre festival while …
Aug 18, 2018: My favorite fantasy hockey podcast hosts are recording their first “audio almanac”, a series of one-hour podcasts about each NHL …
Jul 21, 2018: Well, the Mariners did not, in fact, rally. I hear they’ve been winning a lot this season. I just haven’t been able to verify that fact with my own …
Jul 21, 2018: Perfect night for a game at Safeco Field. Will be even more perfect if the M’s can come back from a 4-run deficit in the bottom of the 7th. Rally caps …
Jul 7, 2018: Finished reading: Hamilton: The Revolution 📚
Jul 1, 2018: Remembering Leo He adopted us. We came around the side of our apartment building on Alki one early summer evening to find him on the walkway. He jumped three feet off …
Jun 30, 2018: Harlan Ellison was a powerful, virtuosic writer with razor sharp clarity and wit. As an adolescent, I couldn’t help but find that attractive. At …
Jun 24, 2018: Good marketing.
Jun 18, 2018: 📚_Theory of Bastards_, by Audrey Schulman. ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ A book that’s hard to explain. Part love story, part science explainer, part character …
Jun 18, 2018: Had a lovely walk tonight around the small lake near our house. Saw lots of ducks, robins, squirrels, and other wildlife. Chatted with the neighbors. …
Jun 16, 2018: Glasgow Jewel Goes Up in Flames for Second Time in 4 Years - The New York Times Glasgow Jewel Goes Up in Flames for Second Time in 4 Years - The New York Times. A large fire ripped through the Glasgow School of Art in Scotland …
Jun 11, 2018: That feeling when you’re absolutely certain that the modem died because you power cycled it and it was completely dead and you spent 24 hours …
Jun 8, 2018: Coupla good short articles from Vox about Anthony Bourdain: Anthony Bourdain quotes show why he was beloved around the world - Vox Anthony Bourdain …
Jun 8, 2018: www.vox.com Anthony Bourdain, chef, memoirist, and TV host, is dead at 61 years old Well, this is very sad news to wake up to. Bourdain’s shows were …
Jun 7, 2018: The Cup goes to the Caps Well, it was a hell of a game, but congratulations to the Washington Capitals. I was really pulling for Vegas, but the Caps dominated four top-notch …
May 28, 2018: Day One: The Cutting It was the first day of work on my staycation project. Lots of rip cuts and cross cuts today. Tomorrow, it’s detailing and probably a lot of priming. …
May 23, 2018: Bolts out of the Cup race Well, the Lightning made it a series, but congratulations to the Washington Capitals on taking the Eastern Conference title. They put together four …
May 21, 2018: Welp, I’m not surprised to see this series go to 7, but I sure wish it wasn’t. The Bolts just seemed flat tonight. They gotta get that jump back on …
May 20, 2018: Congrats to Vegas! Helluva win. Really hoping Tampa can close out their series tomorrow and join the Knights in the finals. 🏒
May 18, 2018: I really like watching this Vegas team. They work hard, they take care of the puck, and they look like they’re having fun. It’s going to be a shame to …
May 16, 2018: Great day to be at Safeco Field watching the Mariners with my team. And great seats! I literally almost got hit in the face with a foul ball. Kid …
May 15, 2018: Will Alsop, 70: British architect’s ‘flying tabletop’ changed Toronto | The Star Will Alsop, 70: British architect’s ‘flying tabletop’ changed Toronto | The Star. Though often dismissed as lacking seriousness, especially by other …
May 13, 2018: Much better opening period for the Lightning. They had jump, they were winning puck battles, and they were shooting the puck. They’re not dominating …
May 13, 2018: This was one of my projects for the weekend, along with putting in my application for the local tool library, researching Kreg jigs and joinery …
May 11, 2018: Well, that was a disappointing game. Shades of the series with Boston. The good news is that Tampa doesn’t usually have two bad games in a row. There …
May 11, 2018: So excited for the start of the Tampa / Washington series. Let’s go, Bolts! I want to see physical play, high tempo, lots of shots. Let’s get this …
May 6, 2018: Boom! The Bolts get a victory in Tampa and a convincing series win to advance. The Bruins were a team that scared me coming into the playoffs. Nice to …
May 5, 2018: Familiar and inspiring We went to see the playFamiliar by Danai Gurira, last night at Seattle Rep. (Very good play and production; emotional, funny, cathartic.) At the end …
May 2, 2018: Now, that’s more like it! Two straight wins, two good, physical games where the Lightning shut down the Bruins’ top scoring line and controlled the …
Apr 28, 2018: Well, that was ugly. It’s way too early to count the Bolts out of this series, but that game didn’t give me a lot of confidence, I was concerned about …
Apr 22, 2018: Boy… you gotta respect the Penguins during the playoffs. They’re so talented and they make you pay for every mistake. The Flyers gave …
Apr 21, 2018: Way to go, Lightning! 4 wins down, 12 to go. This series was never really in doubt. Next series (likely against Boston) will be the real test. If …
Apr 19, 2018: I came within an inch of changing my task management system. But then I hit on a new organization and prioritization method that I like a lot better. …
Apr 13, 2018: Note to self: Enterprise rental car shuttles run every 10 minutes at LAX. They do not necessarily stop every 10 minutes. Sometimes they keep running …
Mar 24, 2018: ias18 is like a movable feast. I can drift from person to person and have equally exquisite and geeky conversations about deeply weedy stuff. Quite a …
Mar 23, 2018: Dan Zollman and his awesome nonsense poster at #ias18.
Mar 21, 2018: Capped off the first day of #IAS18 by having dinner at Mercat a la Planxa with our first cohort of IA Summit Student Scholars. The food was …
Mar 19, 2018: Just landed in Chicago. Now starts the final prep for #IAS18. Keeping my fingers crossed for folks on the east coast that their travel won’t be …
Mar 17, 2018: That feeling when... From my theatre days, I know the different kinds of feelings you can get before opening a show. Sometimes you know nothing is quite working and the …
Mar 10, 2018: It’s a good morning. I’ve got my cup of tea, the cats are lounging in the sunshine, I’m working on lA Summit stuff on the computer, …
Mar 4, 2018: I’m just dipping my toes into Letterboxd for keeping my ratings and watchlists, but I’m not totally convinced I want to switch. For those …
Mar 4, 2018: 🎬 The Shape of Water (2017) A fairy tale for grown ups. A beautiful film with a lovely story and fine performances all around. Michael Shannon is …
Mar 1, 2018: This article reminds me of what it was like to follow the Tampa Bay Lightning in the early days. For years, every time you went to a game, it seemed …
Mar 1, 2018: Got ‘em! Two season ticket deposits for an NHL expansion team in Seattle: acquired. Now all we need is an actual team. Pff… Details.
Feb 24, 2018: Here’s @andybywire getting the troops ready for World IA Day Seattle. We are expecting 100+ IAs in a short while. I think we’re ready. #WIADseattle
Feb 21, 2018: I have missed Last Week Tonight sooooo much!
Feb 21, 2018: How do I know I’m not a bot?
Feb 18, 2018: Oh, man… I squeaked into the division playoffs of my fantasy hockey league. Had a weak draft, and haven’t really been able to stay on top of my …
Feb 17, 2018: Picked up a couple of Pacific Northwest essentials tonight: snowshoes and hiking boots. Gotta get out and enjoy the snow while it lasts.
Feb 17, 2018: ★ Thoughts on my micro.blog publishing workflow I’ve been thinking a lot lately about my personal publishing empire. I’m really liking micro.blog. I like the community, I like the philosophy behind …
Feb 16, 2018: Tonight when we placed our order at our usual Friday night Thai restaurant, we were told they were out of spring rolls. When we got home, what did we …
Feb 15, 2018: ★ 15/02/2018, 19:49 Oh, yeah. Come to papa. “A group led by billionaire David Bonderman and Hollywood producer Jerry Bruckheimer on Tuesday filed an application for an …
Feb 13, 2018: ★ 13/02/2018, 18:26 ? Every time this song comes up in my queue, I just have to stop and listen. So beautiful. Mariachi Cobre: Estrellita
Feb 11, 2018: ★ 11/02/2018, 20:35 I’m sure there’s another German word for when you’re using a service and the free plan is super useful but the paid plans are too expensive for your …
Feb 11, 2018: ★ 11/02/2018, 20:32 I’m sure there’s a German word for the feeling you get when you’re on the free Slack plan and there’s a great conversation and the …
Feb 9, 2018: ★ 09/02/2018, 20:56 I’m lucky to work from home most Fridays. The only downside is that my home office is filled with very relaxed co-workers who make it hard to stay …
Feb 7, 2018: ★ A micro.blog mea culpa I’ve really been enjoying reading my micro.blog timeline since I joined up months ago. It’s a high-signal, low-noise environment, with a lot of …
Feb 3, 2018: ★ 04/02/2018, 01:44 The Disaster Artist (2017) Franco is fantastic as Tommy Wiseau, and the story and relationships are well drawn. Rating: 7/10
Jan 28, 2018: ★ 29/01/2018, 01:08 Ultimate Team Modes in 2018: What We Want More and Less Of I play a lot of NHL18 in Ultimate Team mode and found myself agreeing with nearly all of …
Jan 27, 2018: ★ SaneBox I think I’m sold on SaneBox. I’m a week into my trial period and really appreciate how quiet and focused my inbox feels. I’d love to …
Jan 17, 2018: ★ Downsizing Downsizing (2017) This movie won’t be everyone’s cup of tea, but it sure was mine. A subtle and skillfully crafted movie that’s both …
Jan 14, 2018: ★ 14/01/2018, 20:43 Found a really weird bug in the “Post to WordPress” action in Workflow. If I try to post to my blog with a particular workflow, I end up …
Jan 13, 2018: ★ Lady Bird Lady Bird (2017) At turns warm, heartbreaking, cringe-inducing, sweet, and really funny. The acting is great from top to bottom. Liked this one a lot. …
Jan 11, 2018: Are you a UX professional in the Seattle area? You need to know about this spiffy new resource for finding events, groups, freelancers, education, and …
Jan 6, 2018: ★ Glasgow School of Art coming back bit by bit The 2014 fire in the Glasgow School of Art was devastating, physically and spiritually. It’s heartwarming to see pieces of the school starting …
Jan 1, 2018: ★ 02/01/2018, 00:33 I watched App: The Human Story on the plane back home yesterday. I really liked it. It’s a thoughtful movie with beautiful photography. I noticed that …
Dec 27, 2017: ★ 27/12/2017, 18:20 Doc Searls has been telling us for over a decade that “ free customers are more valuable than captive ones”. He’s on the cusp of proving his point. …
Dec 26, 2017: Think navigation’s not important for driving user experience? Survata asked customers to name the most common reason they start product searches …
Dec 25, 2017: ★ 25/12/2017, 10:01 We have a about an inch or so of snow outside. First white Christmas that I can remember in Seattle for many years. Had some friends over for dinner, …
Dec 16, 2017: ★ 16/12/2017, 19:29 www.vox.com CDC banned from using 7 words, including “science-based,” in budget documents Also banned: evidence-based vulnerable entitlement …
Dec 5, 2017: ★ 05/12/2017, 19:40 With the city council approving a deal to renovate Key Arena, it looks like a very real possibility that Seattle will get an NHL team in the next …
Nov 26, 2017: ★ 26/11/2017, 11:22 Futuro house at Marché aux Puces, Paris’s biggest flea market. The stuff I can afford here I don’t like; and the stuff I like, I really can’t afford.
Nov 19, 2017: ★ 19/11/2017, 20:17 Did I mention that I can’t get the songs from Hamilton out of my head? Saw it weeks ago and it’s still resonating. I want to go again.
Nov 18, 2017: ★ 19/11/2017, 04:09 I’m really looking forward to vacation, but every time I get ready for a trip I can’t help but feel like staying home and not working would also be …
Nov 17, 2017: ★ 18/11/2017, 01:28 @douglane Thanks so much for putting together the photo challenge. I’ve been inspired to see if I can get my Daily Blogger pin. 7 days down…
Nov 17, 2017: ★ 18/11/2017, 01:22 Micro.blog Photo Challenge Day 6: Shadow.
Nov 16, 2017: ★ 17/11/2017, 02:20 Micro.blog Photo Challenge Day 6: Seasonal An autumn branch.
Nov 15, 2017: ★ 16/11/2017, 04:07 Micro.blog Photo Challenge Day 5: Liquid.
Nov 14, 2017: ★ 14/11/2017, 23:01 Micro.blog Photo Challenge Day 4: Up Close. There’s nothing more calming than a cat fast asleep on your lap.
Nov 14, 2017: ★ 14/11/2017, 18:02 With my vacation starting in a few days, Andy Weir’s new book, Artemis, couldn’t have dropped at a better time. It’s already loaded on my …
Nov 13, 2017: ★ 14/11/2017, 01:23 Micro.blog Photo Challenge Day 3: On the move. Major wind storm today in Seattle. Everything that isn’t nailed down is moving around.
Nov 12, 2017: ★ 13/11/2017, 04:39 Micro.blog Photo Challenge Day 2: Tasty. Winner, winner, chicken dinner.
Nov 11, 2017: ★ 11/11/2017, 18:33 Micro.blog Photo Challenge Day 1: Squares. Sexy, sexy squares. (cc: @douglane)
Oct 31, 2017: ★ 01/11/2017, 02:29 I’m reprising my role as the creepy cyborg this Halloween. The eye is animated, which really freaks the kids out.
Oct 28, 2017: ★ 28/10/2017, 20:28 I just canceled my Comcast service and it was surprisingly easy. I was prepared for a fight, but I just said we didn’t want the service anymore …
Oct 27, 2017: ★ 27/10/2017, 07:10 Got one.
Oct 14, 2017: ★ 15/10/2017, 02:29 And capped off the weekend with pizza at Lou Malnati’s with some new friends — local IAs who are going to help show our attendees a great time.
Oct 14, 2017: ★ 15/10/2017, 02:26 And the food… my god, the food. Paul introduced us to Portillo’s. I had a dipped Italian beef. To die for. <img …
Oct 14, 2017: ★ 15/10/2017, 02:25 We had some fun, too. Had to check out the city, so we took an architecture boat tour.
Oct 14, 2017: ★ 15/10/2017, 02:23 We have been hard at work this weekend checking out the Hilton Chicago, home of #IAS18. It’s beautiful and grand. They don’t make ‘em like this …
Oct 12, 2017: ★ 13/10/2017, 00:20 In Chicago for conference planning, but also really for this. So, so psyched to finally see the show.
Sep 30, 2017: ★ NFL protest video I completely agree with this Vox.com headline: “This video is the best 5 minutes you will see on the NFL protests. Seriously, watch it.”
Sep 29, 2017: ★ 30/09/2017, 05:23 Seeing Ben Folds in Seattle tonight. So great to finally see him in concert. First half was a mix of old and new stuff. Second half is all audience …
Sep 23, 2017: ★ The Big Sick (2017) - IMDb We watched The Big Sick last night. What a charming movie – a romcom without schmaltz or sappiness… just a real good, funny movie. It …
Sep 15, 2017: ★ Cassini I watched Cassini’s launch at Cape Canaveral in 1997 with @marsroverdriver. What a remarkable mission it had. …
Sep 12, 2017: ★ 12/09/2017, 18:19 The iPhone X video is starting. My credit card just jumped out of my wallet and landed on top of my computer. This is not going to end well.
Sep 12, 2017: ★ 12/09/2017, 18:14 That AR game demo on the iPhone 8 was amazing. Want!
Sep 10, 2017: ★ Woody There’s a lot of truth to this article. And yet, I have a more positive view of some of Allen’s later films than the article’s author. Allen has …
Sep 3, 2017: ★ 03/09/2017, 18:53 I think I might have made a bit of a mess out of my 3D printer. The black plastic I was printing melted into the black plastic printer parts. Oh vey.
Aug 26, 2017: ★ How to design a library I just love this video. Great story about the evolution of a creative idea. via Swiss Miss
Aug 21, 2017: ★ Eclipse watching Eclipse watching party at REI HQ. Image credit: @RyanRicketts
Aug 19, 2017: ★ 19/08/2017, 20:08 Exhausted but happy during a day of hiking on Mt. Rainier. #reiemployee #yayday
Aug 5, 2017: What is Information Architecture? Looking for a comprehensive overview of information architecture? Look no further. This curated list of articles and resources from the fine folks at …
Aug 5, 2017: ★ 05/08/2017, 20:31 Watching an F-22 perform aerobatics over Lake Washington. Wow.
Jul 29, 2017: ★ Of course, there is no rebuild coming This post is chilling in its matter-of-factness. We can slap on all the duct tape we want `[on our infrastructure]`, but it’s rebuild time. Eh… …
Jul 21, 2017: ★ Amazon Spark Re Amazon Spark, is “finding more of what you like” a problem for a lot of people? Seems like every ecommerce company (including my employer) is …
Jul 18, 2017: Balenciaga One of my IA students pointed me to this site: https://www.balenciaga.com Just take a quick look. Your browser isn’t broken… that’s the site. It’s a …
Jul 9, 2017: Clever header This is really clever: a global navigation header that doubles as a progress indicator for the current article. Neat! Check it out live at CNAS.org.
Jul 1, 2017: ★ There is a 73% chance my cat is plotting to kill me. Link
Jul 1, 2017: ★ The Foreigner This movie can’t come out soon enough: The Foreigner, starring Jackie Chan Take my money. Just take it. Via kottke.org
Jun 29, 2017: ★ 30/06/2017, 06:13 IMG_0001 … My first iPhone photo, 10 years ago today.
Jun 28, 2017: Dewey's biased decimal system Check out this week’s Every Little Thing podcast. It’s nominally about the Dewey Decimal System, but it’s really about the political nature of …
Jun 25, 2017: Miller's Law isn't for IAs Here’s an article that busts the myth that Miller’s 7 +/-2 concept has any bearing on navigation design. Read it, learn it, love it.
Jun 20, 2017: ★ 21/06/2017, 05:35 I’m just watching a replay of game 6 of the cup finals. What a bad break for the Preds. They had the Pens on their heels for most of the third, …
Jun 20, 2017: ★ Buzzkill tick This is, like, my worst nightmare: A tick bite that makes you deathly allergic to meat. And the tick’s territory is spreading. Gah. (via qz.com)
Jun 19, 2017: ★ Power Causes Brain Damage This is fascinating and slightly depressing: Power Causes Brain Damage Explains rather a lot, actually.
Jun 17, 2017: ★ Random Lists God bless the internet. This is the most useless / useful thing I’ve ever run across: https://www.randomlists.com
Jun 10, 2017: ★ 11/06/2017, 03:48 Spent the afternoon at the Norton Simon in Pasadena with @marsroverdriver, @marssciencegrad, and @louisemxl. What a gem of a museum. Wonderful …
Jun 9, 2017: ★ 09/06/2017, 22:00 Oh, does this tickle me: Redditors design worst volume sliders possible - Designer News …
Jun 8, 2017: ★ Remains of the Opening Statement This is brilliant: Excerpts from James Comey’s Opening Statement to the Senate Intelligence Committee or from Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains Of The Day? …
Jun 7, 2017: ★ 07/06/2017, 22:55 KeyArena in Seattle is getting an big renovation that could make it suitable for an NHL franchise. Do you have any idea how happy that would make me? …
Jun 4, 2017: ★ 05/06/2017, 03:43 The latest post from Cliff Mass seems like a pragmatic take on the Paris Accord. In particular, I agree with this re Trump: “Stop giving him what he …
Jun 3, 2017: ★ 04/06/2017, 03:14 Way to go, Preds. That was a helluva game. No doubt the Pens will come back strong, but Nashville looked up to the task tonight. This one could go 7 …
Jun 1, 2017: ★ 02/06/2017, 06:44 The other thing I noticed at the LCML was just how far we’ve come with user interface design. Like, there was no obvious way to close a window …
Jun 1, 2017: ★ 02/06/2017, 06:33 Visited the Living Computer Museum & Labs today. I keep thinking about it. It’s just so cool that you can go up and start typing on an IBM …
May 25, 2017: ★ Pen Spreads You couldn’t ask for anything more out of a Game 7. Congrats to the damn Penguins. It’s going to be a Pens / Preds matchup for the cup. Or, as I call …
May 25, 2017: ★ Senguins Can’t wait for tonight’s Senators / Penguins game (or, as I call it, Senguins). If the Bolts aren’t in the playoffs, I root for a) triple overtime; b) …
May 25, 2017: ★ Senguins Can’t wait for tonight’s Senators / Penguins game (or, as I call it, Senguins). If the Bolts aren’t in the playoffs, I root for a) triple overtime; b) …
May 22, 2017: ★ Duck spreads Got home in time to see the last half of the Ducks / Preds game. (Or, as I call it, duck spreads.) C’mon Predators! Finish ‘em off!
May 22, 2017: YADIA: “IA defines spatial relationships and organizational systems, and seeks to establish hierarchies, taxonomies, vocabularies, and …
May 21, 2017: Glushko's definition of IA Yet Another Definition of IA (YADIA): “The activity of Information Architecture [is] designing an abstract and effective organization of information …
May 20, 2017: ★ 21/05/2017, 01:14 Man, this Preds/Ducks series is just brutal. Anaheim seems to be getting the bigger hits in this game, but not by much. Whatever team comes out of …
May 17, 2017: ★ 18/05/2017, 02:07 Pollinator.
May 13, 2017: ★ Slow TV Slow TV: Train Ride Bergen to Oslo is on in the background while I’m puttering on the computer. I’m about 3 hours in to the 7-hour trip. It’s oddly …
May 10, 2017: ★ 10/05/2017, 17:15 Ahhh, spring.
May 9, 2017: Breadcrumbs Yes, you need breadcrumbs on your ecommerce site. You need location breadcrumbs, which show your position in the hierarchy. Because they reveal the …
May 8, 2017: ★ Silicon Valley Oh, man… Silicon Valley has gotten so good. The characters and relationships are so sharp, and the writing is impeccable. I can’t wait …
May 8, 2017: Deeper T So excited for Vanessa Foss & @magshanley’s new venture Deeper T. Their first round of UX workshops look amazing: deeper-t.com
May 8, 2017: ★ Here Lies Love: impressive, but weak on story We went to see the David Byrne / Fatboy Slim musical “Here Lies Love” this weekend at Seattle Repertory Theatre. As a piece of spectacle, it was a …
May 5, 2017: ★ Moms Who Swear This made me laugh hard: https://www.popsugar.com/moms/Alternative-Curse-Words-Moms-Who-Swear-43499465
May 3, 2017: ★ New password guidelines The new password guidelines from NIST seem eminently sensible: 1) No periodic password changes; 2) No imposed complexity; 3) Disallow weak passwords. …
Apr 30, 2017: ★ Looking forward to watching the Ducks / Oilers game this afternoon. Or, as I call it, duck soilers.
Apr 29, 2017: Join us at the next Taxonomists' Congress / Taxonomy Meetup in Seattle on May 16th at Dino’s Tomato Pie in Capitol Hill. Beer. Pizza. Nerdy talk …
Apr 28, 2017: ★ Dieter Ram updated Love this: Dieter Rams’ classic design principles updated for the tech industry Pretty much nailed it. Via Kottke
Apr 28, 2017: ★ Moar Hockey Watching the Blues/Predators playoff game. With the Lightning not making the playoffs, I always root for more hockey. Every game should go to triple …
Apr 27, 2017: Partly to test this blog’s linkage with micro.blog, I thought I’d mention that I’ve been digging back into Designing the Search …
Apr 27, 2017: ★ This week has flown by… in part, I think, because we had an incredible weekend on San Juan Island. We don’t get away for weekend …
Apr 26, 2017: ★ Microblogging fun Well, that only partly worked. IFTTT seems a bit cranky. Let’s see if it’ll pick up this post. Whee! #microblogging
Apr 26, 2017: ★ If this works, I’ve posted this message from Ulysses on the Mac to stumax.com, and it should automatically show up on micro.blog/stumax and on …
Apr 25, 2017: ★ I was at Kennedy Space Center for the launch of the Cassini spacecraft. It’s hard to believe it will end its mission in a few short months. So …
Apr 25, 2017: ★ So it looks like Ulysses will work great with my setup (thanks to some recent attention to my bug report by the Ulysses team). I will keep looking for …
Apr 25, 2017: ★ So excited to be using Micro.blog. I like the whole indie microblogging idea and I’ve been too lazy to set up a bespoke POSSE implementation. …
Apr 25, 2017: ★ From a classic car on San Juan Island.
Feb 9, 2017: ★ Hockey in Seattle? Oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please. I mean, I know it’s just the ‘Yotes, …
Jan 28, 2017: ★ Notes on the 2016 15” MacBook Pro with Touch Bar In late December, I upgraded my mid-2012 MacBook Pro to a 15” MacBook Pro with Touch Bar. It’s a definite improvement over my 2012 MBP. It’s solid and …
Jan 22, 2017: ★ Viva Amiga As much as I love my Mac, I still miss my Amiga 3000. This documentary is a trip down memory lane, a fond and wistful look back at the amazing …
Apr 2, 2016: Seth's Blog: Survey questions Seth Godin breaks down the difference between a survey and a census and why you would choose one over the other (or whether you should be conducting …
Mar 19, 2016: Information Everywhere, Architects Everywhere The following is adapted from my opening remarks at World IA Day Seattle 2016, which took place on Saturday, February 20. The theme for World IA Day …
Jan 31, 2016: ★ Link: Bettman says NHL would not take an application from Seattle This is a bit depressing. But I'm sure it's all a negotiating tactic, right? RIGHT?! Come on, Seattle. Get it together. Daddy needs an NHL franchise. …
Dec 7, 2015: ★ The BBC wants to make movies just for you I find this... a bit disturbing: The BBC wants to make videos that change to suit whoever's watching. It's exploring the idea through a research …
Dec 5, 2015: ★ A walk in the woods
Nov 19, 2015: ★ The Koch intelligence agency - POLITICO Remember when billionaires used to give back to society by building parks and libraries and stuff? Good times. While the Republican Party focuses on …
Sep 3, 2015: The Politics of Navigation podcast now available The audio of the talk I did for the 2015 IA Summit is now available on the IA Summit Library. Listening back to the talk was not nearly as …
Aug 21, 2015: Taxonomy First Great article by Seth Earley that lays out why taxonomy is fundamental to helping businesses come to grips with the complexity of the modern …
Jan 28, 2015: The Unexpected Virtue of Metadata It's really hard to get people to understand why it's worth investing in metadata and taxonomy projects. The benefits aren't immediate and the reasons …
Oct 13, 2014: The TSA really doesn't like it when you take your Nobel Prize in your carry on This may be my favorite dialogue ever: Brian Schmidt won the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on dark energy, and then he took the prize to …
Oct 12, 2014: TextExpander Abbreviations I spent some time following Zach Holmquist's lead this morning: That was all I needed to have the lightbulb go off, and to motivate me to finally …
Sep 13, 2014: A unicycle for the mind I go back and forth on the Apple Watch, but my first reaction was "I don't get it." Why would I pay $350 for something that doesn't do anything …
Sep 11, 2014: Where new ideas take root - FT.com (via Bob DuCharme on the Taxocop mailing list; free registration required to read the article on FT.com.) When you're on the inside of any system, …
Sep 2, 2014: A browser extension for color-blind users Daltonize.org: Daltonize in Google Chrome I was musing that there must be a browser extension for people who are color blind that would render a page …
Aug 30, 2014: Selling Information Architecture Smart stuff from Abby Covert: In my opinion, IA is not something that needs to be sold. IA is already inherent to whatever someone is working on or …
Aug 5, 2014: ★ Instill Confidence From Gaping Void's recent email: Instill Confidence. "I reflected that I had as yet done but little, very little, indeed, to further the happiness of …
Aug 5, 2014: Tom Brady is the loneliest quarterback on the planet We're all dorks, aren't we? We'll all find ourselves in some circumstance where coolness escapes us. If it can happen to Tom Brady...
Jul 22, 2014: ★ Self-published books nearly a third of Amazon Kindle sales Wow. According to research done by AuthorEarnings.com, self-published books account for 31 percent of Kindle electronic book sales, compared with 38 …
May 11, 2014: What Screens Want I've had this piece open in a Safari tab for months and I regret that I've taken so long to read it. Adapted by Frank Chimero from the talk he gave at …
Mar 15, 2014: ★ Using MarsEdit with the WordPress Google Authenticator plugin File this under Hashtag Facepalm. I fired up MarsEdit this morning to type up a couple of posts for this blog and found that my password kept getting …
Mar 15, 2014: ★ Options for sharing public links from Dropbox on OS X While I was searching for how to fix my missing Dropbox contextual menus yesterday, I came across these handy links: If you're a Path Finder 6 user, …
Mar 15, 2014: ★ How to restore contextual menus in Dropbox I discovered yesterday that my Dropbox contextual menus had disappeared. I have no idea when it happened. It might have been when I installed …
Mar 3, 2014: Overthinking Simplicity Via Marco Arment, I found this post by Lukas Mathis about his experience switching from an iPad to a Windows Surface tablet. The main reason he gives …
Jul 13, 2013: How Search Amplifies Enterprise Collaboration There's so much good stuff in this post by Christian Buckley. It's about enterprise collaboration, but his points apply to issues of findability …
Jul 10, 2013: ★ Link: Create In-A-Pinch Pinhole Reading Glasses with Your Fingers Amazing. This actually works: use your own fingers (or someone else's, I guess) as temporary reading glasses.
Jul 10, 2013: Glass, Home and solipsism — Benedict Evans Glass, Home and solipsism: One of the things you're supposed to work out some time in your adolescence is that though you're the star of your own …
Jun 4, 2013: Don't like Smart post by jeswin about how Facebook is broken by design. In the end, there is a lot to learn from this massive social experiment. Your friend …
Apr 27, 2013: Data, Information, Knowledge, Wisdom Data, information, knowledge, and wisdom… for all the importance these concepts take on in our lives, the terms we use to describe them are poorly …
Apr 21, 2013: Poor Richard's News - America, we need to talk about the Boston “lockdown” and manhunt for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. A thought-provoking piece about policing in the wake of the Boston bombings. What police behavior is justified in a case like this? What's over the …
Apr 21, 2013: App.Net as a proto personal cloud service and VRM accelerator Photo by Sam Howzit - http://flic.kr/p/dhu7NB If you haven't paid much attention to App.net (ADN) lately, maybe it's because it was easy to dismiss …
Apr 20, 2013: High Scalability: Scaling Pinterest Using mature, reliable, widespread tools isn’t just about scaling more easily — it’s about being as low-needs as possible so you can spend more of …
Apr 12, 2013: Video: Ship Your Pants I love K-Mart for doing this commercial.
Apr 10, 2013: Notes from the 2013 IA Summit, Baltimore, MD Last week I attended the IA Summit in Baltimore. It was my first IA Summit and I'm very glad I decided to go. I met so many intelligent, thoughtful, …
Mar 30, 2013: Review: Real Racing 3 for iOS needs to fix its payment model before it can shine | Macworld I completely agree with this Macworld review , especially the bottom line: Real Racing 3 handles like a dream and is one of the biggest, most …
Mar 29, 2013: ★ Link: Create In-A-Pinch Pinhole Reading Glasses with Your Fingers Amazing. This actually works: use your own fingers (or someone else's, I guess) as temporary reading glasses.
Mar 24, 2013: ★ A blast from the past I'm still proud of the fact that I participated in the very first Ignite talk back in 2006. I can still remember 250 or so geeks crammed into the …
Mar 23, 2013: Video: Mind Reader Reveals his Secret Trick for Gaining Personal Info What is the source of this mind reader's amazing powers? Prepare to be blown away. Via Laughing Squid
Mar 21, 2013: Scripting News: Ignore the Bigco's. Dave Winer thinks we have a problem to solve: It's nice that the Bigco's have their business models. But that's not the point. I want to connect my …
Mar 14, 2013: ★ Video: Hitler Finds Out Google Reader is Shutting Down
Mar 14, 2013: The RSS Apocalypse My reaction to Google shutting down Reader is a lot like David Sparks': I feel a bit miffed, but I'll find alternatives. But the broader RSS-reading …
Mar 6, 2013: ★ Wealth Inequality in America - YouTube Perception, ideal, and reality compared. This should make you mad. Unless you're a CEO.
Mar 5, 2013: Technologies of Surveillance Bruce Schneier on overreaching, often ineffective security measures: For example, press reports make the gun-detection machine look good. We see …
Mar 2, 2013: ★ A Capella cover of Stevie Wonder's Wow. Just... Wow. Via Laughing Squid
Feb 19, 2013: ★ Why doesn’t anybody copy Apple? Horace Dedieu asks and answers a damn good question. But what I wonder is why there isn’t a desire to copy Apple’s product creation process. Why …
Feb 18, 2013: VRM and Information Management So I'm a wee bit late posting this, but I was working on a poster presentation for this year's IA Summit when I came across the notes I took for my …
Feb 18, 2013: ★ The I in TEAM Via Swiss Miss
Feb 16, 2013: ★ You can't always get what you want So, I spent quite a bit of time today trying to make it easier to post here. Here's what I want: I want WordPress to work like a tumblog, with …
Feb 16, 2013: ★ Barenaked Ladies... In space! ”Sweetness. Via ShortFormBlog
Feb 14, 2013: My new hero Very nice. Via John Moltz
Jan 21, 2013: ★ Quote: Doc on life as a race. A beautiful thought from Doc Searls, posted on Scripting.com.
Nov 27, 2012: ★ Serfing the Web Serfing the Web
Nov 26, 2012: ★ The (Un)Obviousness of iCloud I have to agree wholeheartedly with this piece by Chris Bowler. I'm using iCloud a lot more than I thought I would because it's just so damn easy, and …
Nov 25, 2012: Term: Information radiator So, here’s a term that’s new to me: Alistair.Cockburn.us | Information radiator: "Coined around 2000 while standing in a Thoughtworks …
Nov 25, 2012: A “clickable” world Drew Olanoff suggests that Twitter could extend the hashtag idea to make "bits and pieces of data clickable." I'm not a fan of Twitter these days, but …
Nov 24, 2012: ★ Security is Dead Matt Honan's article for Wired on why passwords can no longer protect our information is thought-provoking and a more than a little worrying.
Nov 23, 2012: ★ Impress-A-Vention Not bad... especially the Malkovich. (via Laughing Squid)
Nov 13, 2012: ★ Tyrone, you know I love to watch you work... [embed][www.youtube.com/watch](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CP-RQkeXkf8[/embed]) How could I not link to this? ESPN meets The Princess Bride: Via …
May 26, 2012: A Smart Bike This is why the future is in metadata. Phil Windley gets us thinking about what a "smart bike" might do: Imagine the bike being connected to its …
Apr 29, 2012: Book: Black Jack Justice 📚 If you're a fan of old time radio, film noir, or pulp detective novels, and you don't already know about Decoder Ring Theatre and the Black Jack …
Feb 26, 2012: Movie: Sherlock Holmes (2009) 🎬 This movie is a curious beast. There's much to like: It's beautiful, a gorgeous and gritty recreation of London of the late 1800s. The script is …
Feb 5, 2012: Movie: Moneyball 🎬 So, I watched Rise of the Planet of the Apes the other night and I thought it was good. 3.5 out of 5 stars at least. Good story, decent acting, great …
Jan 29, 2012: Information Architecture Defined I ran across this definition of information architecture at IBM's developerWorks site and thought I'd share it here: Design patterns for information …
Jan 3, 2012: Book: thinking with type, 2nd Edition 📚 Size, weight, font selection, alignment, grids, spacing, hierarchy... these are tools for conveying information through text. Each tool imparts …
Jul 4, 2011: The Overhead Implications of Relationship Management I've been invited to join Google+, but every time I try to join I get the message that Google has "temporarily exceeded our capacity." So fine. I'll …
Apr 24, 2011: Dependencies Proponents of VRM and the Personal Data Ecosystem are facing an uphill battle. In order to move the locus of power away from organizational interests …
Feb 6, 2011: The Information Management Elevator Pitch Redux I just came across some notes I took at this year's orientation for Mid-Career MSIMers. "The Question" came up, as it inevitably does in these kinds …
Apr 8, 2006: ★ Gone Fishin' (UPDATE 8/24/10: I'm posting to a new site now: The Machine That Goes Ping. I'm also in the process of revamping and updating The New Big. See you …
Nov 29, 2005: ★ Heck, I'm no expert. I just know what I like Ego alert: Dave Taylor was kind enough to include my comments as part of a blog post on del.icio.us, the hella cool social bookmarking service. I …
Nov 12, 2005: ★ The future of Stumax.com This blog is dying. This is as apparent to me as it is to anyone who may be reading it. Frankly, I'll be surprised if anyone reads this. In fact, why …
Sep 29, 2005: ★ We'll miss him... by that much Don Adams, TV's Maxwell Smart, is still alive and planning a new series starring the dim-witted secret agent. Would you believe... that Don has a …
Sep 27, 2005: ★ I'm a Coffee Session Lloyd has flattered me beyond words by making me the subject of his fourth podcast. Thanks, Lloyd. I enjoyed the hell out of our conversation.
Aug 23, 2005: ★ A personal remembrance of Bob Moog I am lucky enough to have met Robert A. Moog, the engineer who changed the world with his eponymous synthesizers. I was 12 years old, or thereabouts, …
Aug 4, 2005: ★ Why I Hate Best Buy So I left a brief comment at Lloyd's coffee blog pleading with him to never buy anything from Best Buy. He asked, of course, the obvious follow-up: …
Jul 31, 2005: ★ Quote of the Day John F. Kennedy: "We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth." Technorati Tags: Art, Quotes
Jul 31, 2005: ★ Movie Review: Must Love Dogs Short review: Must love bombs. Extended review: Must love sitting in the movie theatre gnawing your fingers off. This movie was so bad... by end of …
Jun 25, 2005: ★ Gnomedex: The intersection of passion and technology Gnomedex was amazing, and Saturday was a particularly rewarding day. Take Julie Leung's talk, for starters. She inspired me to do more than think of …
Jun 25, 2005: ★ Gnomedex: Adam Curry is recording DSC 200 live Awesome!
Jun 25, 2005: ★ Gnomedex: Chris Pirillo: release your face under Creative Commons Chris Pirillo has a great logo for Gnomedex. It's a cartoon caricature of his face, and I'm looking at it all day on the big banner hanging next to …
Jun 25, 2005: ★ Gnomedex: Julie Leung just blew me away Julie Leung just gave a very powerful talk about the social and personal aspects of blogging. I haven't read her blog before, but now I'm very much …
Jun 25, 2005: ★ Gnomedex: Mindjet is wicked cool Hobie Swan from Mindjet is demonstrating his visual outlining program. It looks wicked cool. The Mac version (and the Mac tablet?) can't come soon …
Jun 24, 2005: ★ Gnomedex: Recipe for a successful open source project Your front page has to have a Download button, screen shots, and two sentences that tell people why they have to have this software right now! And …
Jun 24, 2005: ★ Gnomedex: Citizen Media, Reporting Interesting. Dan Gilmore's suggesting making videos of community theatre and making them available on Bit Torrent. He suggests that they may find a …
Jun 24, 2005: ★ Gnomedex: Rough Quote Asa Dotzler (roughly): Given the choice between hearing what Ford Motor Company has to say about its product and what a million Ford customers have …
Jun 24, 2005: ★ Gnomedex: Roads and rails Doug Kaye made the point that iTunes is going to start launching to 100,000,000 podcast listeners. Dave Winer is arguing that we shouldn't be …
Jun 24, 2005: ★ Gnomedex: Does Microsoft subscribe to RSS? Dean's Hachamovitch from MS. Coupla good laughs early. Good work. Like the artist's rendering of Microsoft's campus (it's the Death Start II). Funny …
Jun 24, 2005: ★ Early impressions from Gnomedex I'm at Gnomedex this week. 300 geeks in a big room, 50 geeks in a smaller room, and untold numbers of geeks listening to the audio feed. I'm in …
Apr 30, 2005: ★ So long, and thanks anyway My wife and I went to see Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy last night. Some impressions: We went to the 7:00 showing at Cinerama. The house was …
Jan 28, 2005: ★ Who am I to buck a trend? Friday Catblogging... George, dreaming of furry women.[/caption] George, dreaming of furry women. George, a sweet Ragdoll with a purr that'll keep …
Oct 15, 2004: ★ Don't Blame Me for Not Doing More to Fight the Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations I drafted a post a while ago on this topic, but I've never quite finished it. I think the impulse behind it is good, so I submit the idea for your …
Oct 13, 2004: ★ 9/11 Didn't Change Everything Andrew Cline at Rhetorica writes: Last week I began to notice the assertion "everything changed on 9/11"--especially as preceded by the ad populum …
Sep 17, 2004: ★ On technology and culture shifts I was inspired by this discussion over at 2blowhards.com to leave a very long comment, which I'll repost here: Michael B., I think that it will be a …
Sep 11, 2004: ★ Three Years Later I was living in North Bend, Washington, a tiny town nestled in the foothills of the Cascades about 45 minutes east of Seattle. My friend Danielle was …
Aug 15, 2004: ★ The Old Ways Are Dead Wow. This line from gapingvoid hit me like a ton of bricks: bq. The old ways are dead. And you need people around you who concur. Yeah. You know, I …
Jul 28, 2004: O-BAM-a Damn. I just caught Barack Obama's speech from yesterday (you can watch it here Windows Real Media seems to be a more reliable feed). I teared up. …
Jul 23, 2004: ★ On Alan Moore... Okay, so commenter Robotech_Master made a fair point about Salon.com's ad policy and prompted me to go back and read the Alan Moore interview I …
Jun 24, 2004: ★ Killing time on the train from Providence. As much as I love Seattle, I do enjoy being back on the East Coast. I'll have landed in or passed through some of the greatest cities in the country …
Jun 21, 2004: ★ Del-icious Thanks to a recommendation from my good friend Jodi Chase, I had my first Del's today. Del's is a delicious frozen lemonade concoction, and it just so …
Jun 7, 2004: ★ Dutch Treat Best line of the day on Reagan, overheard on the "O'Franken Factor":www.ofrankenfactor.com (this is not a direct quote, but pretty close)... Al …
May 3, 2004: ★ Flaming Wings I haven't talked about the Stanley Cup Playoffs yet, 'cause I don't want to jinx anything. John will know what I'm talking about. But I gotta say …
Apr 20, 2004: ★ Music is Hell The Recording Industry Association of America's shrill crusade to end music piracy is making in-roads in Congress. But is the industry's war of …
Mar 28, 2004: ★ Lost in Research-tion I've been getting lost in research for "The Louverture Project":www.stumax.com/tlp for a lot of the past couple of weeks. I think 'lost' is the …
Mar 22, 2004: ★ Miserere 'We ugly! But we here!' - JAMAICAOBSERVER.COM bq. The so-called new prime minister of Haiti is one monsieur Latortue, who has a lot of chat for …
Mar 16, 2004:
★ Waking Life, Conscious Mind
In the PBS television series Cosmos, "Carl Sagan":www.carlsagan.com attempted to describe how humans are trapped into the way we think about our three …
Feb 23, 2004:
★ Funny Strange, Funny Ha-Ha
From the Probably-Nobody-Cares Department, which is right next door to the Nobody's-Reading-This-Anyways department... My roommate says it's good to …
Jan 19, 2004: ★ New Blog for Toussaint I have now created a separate blog for the Haiti- Toussaint-related posts and discussion. I feel that this will give me the opportunity to open up the …
Jan 19, 2004:
★ On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, 2004
On today, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, KUOW played a “Speech delivered by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on April 4, 1967, at a meeting of Clergy and …
Jan 16, 2004:
★ Silencing the Past
From Silencing the Past - Power and the Production of History, by Michel-Rolph Trouillot, p 25:
“For what history is changes with time and place or, …
Jan 15, 2004: ★ After the flood... Just finished reading all 250 posts to the Haiti newsgroup since I joined at the beginning of the year. Whew! My brain is on overload right now and …
Jan 10, 2004:
★ Combien c'est Louisiana?
I’m reading from Henry Adams’ “The history of the United States of America during the Administrations of Jefferson and Madison.” Zounds! In this he …
Jan 9, 2004: ★ Discoveries Did a lot of reading today about the Louisiana Purchase. I have some notes that I'll post tomorrow. I finally felt like I was getting in to the flow …
Dec 23, 2003: ★ Remembering Mary Maxwell Lombard Monday, December 22, 2003 - O'Hare International Airport, Chicago, IL Despite a threat level of Orange, a rush-hour commute, and a vacation travel …
Dec 19, 2003: ★ Vancouver Louise and I left Seattle at about 4:30 on December 16th, 2003, just in time to hit major traffic. We got to Vancouver at 8:30. Just before we got to …
Dec 12, 2003: ★ The story is about land (?) This is an intriguing idea - that the meta-meaning of the revolution was less about freedom than about land. According to Carolyn Fick, freedom to the …
Dec 11, 2003: ★ Toussint's flaws; Napoleon's designs Toussaint made a fatal error in not confiding his plans in his generals. His weaknesses seem to include love of white culture and breeding, disdain …
Dec 8, 2003: ★ Surfing the waves of change. Sometimes I can hardly believe that Toussaint accomplished what he did. His growth as a leader is nothing short of extraordinary. Once the Negroes had …
Dec 7, 2003: ★ Toussaint plays Stumbled across references to a couple of Toussaint-related productions. Danny Glover starred as TL in a production at Carnegie Hall on May 23rd of …
Dec 7, 2003: ★ RK for Sunday Korngold p 101 Speculates on Toussaint's reason for choosing the name Louverture. I would prefer to avoid speculation on such things. Who knows …
Dec 5, 2003: ★ Toussaint in from the beginning? I got my new PowerBook today, so I can hardly concentrate, but here goes... Korngold makes the astonishing claim that Toussaint was in on the …
Dec 4, 2003: ★ More from Korngold p 61 "[Toussaint} knew that the Negroes were oppressed not becase they were Negroes, but because they were weak. Epictetus and millions of other white …
Dec 4, 2003: ★ So what else is new? It's cold and rainy in Seattle today. The wind was whipping around this morning, rippling Puget Sound like a leaf blower on a puddle. I could see the …
Dec 1, 2003: ★ What the heck is this, anyway? I'm not sure what I want this site to be. I want it to track my progress with Toussaint research, yet I can see it's useful to capture other thoughts …
Dec 1, 2003: ★ Driving the Nostalgia Bus down Memory Lane I spent a couple hours sorting through the rest of the cards that I found in one of the boxes my mom sent me from my grandfather's house. I sent a lot …
Dec 1, 2003:
★ Korngold's Toussaint
I'm reading Ralph Korngold's Citizen Toussaint today. Uncle Jay says this book, published in 1944 seems to be the definitive book of Toussaint. The …
Nov 30, 2003: ★ The manila folder people loved my Grandfather I've spent the last 3 hours sorting Grandfather's Toussaint-related files. Man there's a bunch of stuff! My strategy is to separate all of …
Nov 29, 2003: ★ Two articles about Haiti My girlfriend pointed out this newspaper article to me about the horrendous living conditions of modern Haitians, who are preparing to celebrate the …
Nov 29, 2003: ★ Well, now. That was an adventure. Singed a bit, were we? I can barely believe it. I've successfully navigated through the MovableType Fire Swamp, dodging exploding configurations, …