Orienteering, Monkey Brains, and the Dopamine Economy
I'm a big fan of orienteering, which is the sport of racing using navigation skills and a map and compass. At a recent orienteering...
Whatever Floats Your Boat
Gabe got a $25 Craigslist canoe with somewhat dubious claims of hull integrity. Before trusting his gear and personal safety to the craft...
Weeds: It's What's for Dinner
Every season or so a group of like-minded friends gathers together for a unique shared meal. We call ourselves the Foragers Dinner...
Meet the Neighbors! Then spin them around and on to the next!
Over the weekend I got to play music for a monthly square dance at a nearby cafe. It's a good example of a community social dance, which...
A Sick River Offers Its Medicine: Paddling the Duwamish
These February days have been unnaturally bright and mild, inciting the early bloom of cherry blossoms, the early buzzing of bumblebees,...
A bit of hygge, seasoned with shinrin-yoku. And also board game suggestions!
I think we know a real thing when we meet it, even if we can't quite figure out how to describe it exactly. That feeling you have while...
Tools, HoloLens, Disposable Reality, and Homo erectus
Old Tools I've been pretty happy to get back into building things. Before my stint in the world of technology I took a turn as a...
Music By the People, For the People
On Tuesday nights in the North Seattle neighborhood of Wedgwood the backroom of the Wedgwood Alehouse is taken over by an Old Time jam. ...
Working up a Sweat
I was feeling old in December. Not "wise" old, not "old soul" old, but "everything hurts" old. I think part of this stems from a return...
Getting Jiggy
It's 1:30am, and though I've been out dancing and socializing all night there is dark work yet to do. The squid are running, and Gabe...
