Seven Years
Just a heads up! This will look better on my website. The more things change, the more they stay the same... seven years later, Transamerica Pyramid is still...
Completely Unknown To Even Well-Read Americans
Just a heads up! This will look better on my website. Hello hello once again. This weekend I ascended Lassen Peak — a surprisingly easy four-hour roundtrip,...
A Pretty Huge Disappointment
Just a heads up! This will look better on my website. So, I’m supposed to be finishing up the San Francisco Marathon as I write this. I’ve been training — a...
A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again
Just a heads up! This will look better on my website. So, I’ve done it. I’ve climbed Mount Infinite Jest and survived to come down the other side. It was, to...
In An Era Of Optimization and (Supposed) Self-Actualization
Just a heads up! This will look better on my website. Hello from a Twin Peaks themed writing meetup. Yes, there are donuts and strong black coffee; yes, the...
Click Through To One Of The Other Tutorials
Just a heads up! This will look better on my website. A very short newsletter this week, because I spent my time writing up a starter guide to jujutsu, an...
A Very Present-Tense Culture
Just a heads up! This will look better on my website. I just got back from a short weekend trip to Mendocino1 so this will be a short one. It’s funny how the...
A Massive, Basketball-Court-Sized Map of a Not-Quite-Fantasy World
Just a heads up! This will look better on my website. The very strange Chinese-themed room at the 134-year-old Shotwell's in the Mission District (otherwise...
A Hard-to-Describe Spark of Life Independent of the Writer
Just a heads up! This will look better on my website. So I recently put the finishing touches on the latest draft of my manuscript (!! finally!!). Now we’ll...
Soulless Hellscape Of B2B SaaS Billboards
Just a heads up! This will look better on my website. You too could make one of these! Read on! So recently I attended one of the Intro to Bookbinding...
Distraction-Free Eye-Strain-Free
Just a heads up! This will look better on my website. So last week I saw an Amazon flash sale and (being slightly tipsy at the time) decided to pull the...
Logs Thrown Overboard To Track Speed
Just a heads up! This will look better on my website. Clearly most trucks do not heed the sign... This week, prompted by a discussion at work, I decided to...
Definitely A Technical Exercise In Academic Philosophy
Just a heads up! This will look better on my website. I didn't quite get the shot I wanted here, sad. I've been happy to pick up iPhone photography again,...
Not Even Disdain, But Simply Incomprehension
Just a heads up! This will look better on my website. So this past week I finally read C.P. Snow’s “The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution”, the...
A Belief in Writing Things Down
Just a heads up! This will look better on my website. Short one this week, because I’ve a.) finally started work, for real, and need brain space for that b.)...
You Can Take My Em Dashes From My Cold, Dead Hands
Just a heads up! This will look better on my website. The Bay Area has such a rich sticker culture! But now I'm realizing... I don't actually know what these...
An Intensively Researched, Finely-Crafted Educational Program Intended To Teach Children Values Like, Say, Curiosity
Just a heads up! This will look better on my website. If necessity is the mother of invention, then what is boredom? The midwife? First and most important:...
Basically The First Building Made Primarily Of Reinforced Concrete
Just a heads up! This will look better on my website. I’ve spent the past week in Illinois, so this is going to be a lightweight (aka skippable) issue. The...
Index Full Of In-Jokes Which Most Readers Probably Skip Over
Just a heads up! This will look better on my website. A spooky stone on the Embarcadero is very San Francisco Hello all, I hope you had a lovely week. I’ve...
You Didn’t Expect a 3000 Word Post Every Week, Did You?
Just a heads up! This will look better on my website. I got to see Gelli Haha live on Thursday, before she gets famous 🥹 Freedom! Alright, I probably...
