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YouTube Doesn’t Care About Original Indie Content
Yesterday I uploaded the video below to YouTube. It’s just a simple amateur recording I shot of the Fountains of Bellagio last week while I was in Las Vegas. Shortly after it finished uploading to...
View ArticleSome Kinda Big News Guy or Something
Thanks to my weird real estate fetish, I’ve been in newspapers, magazines, radio, and television more times than I can even remember. Even so, I’ve never had a week quite like this one. Tuesday: Quoted...
View ArticleMint.com staff have a reading comprehension problem.
I’ve been a Mint.com user since early 2009. Unfortunately, almost a year ago Mint.com inexplicably stopped supporting Prevail Credit Union, where I keep my main checking and savings accounts, basically...
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Can Seattle Support Six Major Pro Sports Teams?
I was reading an article in today’s Seattle Times about a Metropolitan King County Council hearing on the Seattle arena proposal to build yet another sports arena in SoDo, when this bit stuck out to...
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PuffTris: Most Insane Tetris Clone Ever
Behold the most insane Tetris clone you will ever play: PuffTris The more lines you match the more wildly the game board swings around in all three dimensions. It gets even more insane than you can see...
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All-Mail Elections Need to Go
As another Election Day trudges along, I would like to take a few moments to rant about an incredibly stupid aspect of election administration here in Washington State: The all-mail election. There are...
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Why do most microwaves have such a terrible user interface?
Most microwaves that you find in the store have a user interface that is so terrible, I can only assume that it was designed by a committee of middle managers who don’t even know the meaning of the...
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1000Bulbs vs. Amazon: A Tale of Two Orders
The Need After 3,723 hours of service, the lamp in my projector literally exploded one Friday night (01/25) a few weeks ago in the middle of 30 Rock (okay, technically I think it actually imploded)....
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Wallet Overload on Kickstarter
I’ve become quite a fan of Kickstarter over the past year, having backed 26 projects since joining a year ago. One of the projects I backed last month was a modern, leather minimalist wallet, the...
View ArticleThe 100 Peeps Challenge: “How can something so simple be so delicious?”
Time to share another of my favorite scenes from one of my favorite television shows of all time, Malcolm in the Middle, in which Francis takes on the 100 Peeps challenge (okay technically they’re...
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LA Man Collects Data on 6,000+ Chinese Restaurant Visits
I love stories of people or companies using data in interesting ways, and today I came across a great one. From the Los Angeles Times: 6,297 Chinese restaurants and hungry for more [Los Angeles...
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Salmon, Sun-Dried Tomatoes, & Eggs – Tim’s Daily Paleo Breakfast
For most of this year I’ve been making the same Paleo breakfast every morning when I get to work. During that time, I’ve been asked some variation of “What are you making?” or “That smells delicious,...
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Sharknado: Has the “Shark Genre” Reached its Logical Conclusion? NOPE.
Today on a group chat at work, the topic of “Sharknado” came up. Because of course it did. In said chat, someone linked to an article in which the writer of “Sharknado” claims that “the shark genre has...
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“Double Stuf” Oreos Actually Only “1.89x Stuf”
Here’s another great story about data, this time on a small scale. Dan Anderson is a high school math teacher. As part of a class exercise, he had his kids measure the “stuf” content of regular Oreo...
View ArticleVideo Games + Home Improvement = Porch Launch
In honor of the launch home improvement network Porch (my employer), I created this Internet-meme-ish slideshow that ties together video games and home improvement. Enjoy… OR ELSE. P.S. – I also posted...
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The Incredible Shrinking PAX Medals
A few weeks ago I attended my eighth consecutive PAX Prime. While there are many things to love about PAX, one of my personal favorites has become the PAX medals. All weekend long there are various...
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The Amazing ’80s Technology Gems of the Markline Catalog
A few months ago one of my coworkers at Redfin unearthed a long-lost treasure lurking in his garage: The Fall 1983 Markline Catalog. This amazing book contains a cornucopia of cutting edge technology...
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Kickstarter Idea Generator
Dying to cash in on the Kickstarter craze, but can’t come up with a compelling idea? I have hand-crafted just the thing for you! Behold: Kickstarter Design Project Idea Generator You’re welcome. The...
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Don Adams, 86 in Get Smart & Inspector Gadget
I got the recently (finally) released “Inspector Gadget Megaset” for Christmas, and I noticed a familiar number on the box… Don Adams’ “Get Smart” character Maxwell Smart was Agent 86. Don Adams’...
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