80% chance of rain in Seattle
The forecast today calls for an 80% chance of rain. Traditionally this means that 80% of the time it will rain, but that there’s a 20% chance it won’t rain at all. Here in Seattle we interpret those...
View ArticlePinke: The final answer to “Pike or Pine?”
Pike or Pine? For those of us who live in Seattle, this is an eternal question. Often rhetorical. The two streets run parallel from downtown through Capitol Hill and nobody can keep them straight....
View ArticleSo you want to climb Mt. Rainier?
I’ve climbed Mt. Rainier twice now. Once in 1996 and once in 2006. (I hope in 2016 I’m still up for it!) I get a lot of questions from friends who are interested in trying the climb themselves. So I...
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Creative Traffic Controls
Hats off to the Squire Park Neighborhood Association! Not too long ago (not too recently either — I’ve been a bit of a pile about posting this) they blocked off my street for a couple weekends and...
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Buy More Stuff!
Some people complain that the holidays have become too commercial. That the holiest of christian holidays has become an excuse to accumulate material things, and that the true meaning, whatever that...
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100% Chance of Rain in Seattle
I’ve had my own system for interpreting that "chance of rain" numbers that meteorologists use to predict weather. Along the lines of how people say eskimos have 137 different words for snow, here in...
View ArticleI’m talking at Ignite Seattle
Next week I’ll be giving a talk at Ignite Seattle about Transhumanist Morality. It’s going to be a fun challenge to summarize my thoughts on the next thousand years of human history and how it forms a...
View Article20 slides for 15 seconds each!?
So I’m preparing my slides for my Ignite Seattle talk tomorrow night (tonight? Tuesday night) and I go over to my friends’ place to practice with them and I am reminded that the format is not 15 slides...
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Why only geeks and hippies can save the world
[Here is the full text of what I practiced for my talk at Ignite Seattle last night. I didn't manage to cram it all into the 5 minute presentation, largely because the audience was reacting a bit too...
View ArticleIgnite Video on Geeks & Hippies
The nice folks at Ignite posted videos for the rest of our talks from the second Ignite night, including my presentation on Why only Geeks and Hippies can save the world. Watching it, I see that it’s...
View ArticleHow to stop getting DEX phone books delivered
"The new phone books are here! The new phone books are here!" -Steve Martin in The Jerk Steve Martin was very excited to get the new phone book because his name in it meant he was somebody. But in...
View ArticleI’m talking at Ignite Seattle 4
My talk about Venture Capital Term Sheets that I mentioned earlier has been accepted for the next Ignite Seattle which is tomorrow night at the CHAC. If just you want to come hear me talk, I’ll be...
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Tagmindr: Use del.icio.us to set web-page reminders
I spent Saturday hanging out with about a dozen hackers building Tagmindr: Remember the future. Here’s the site’s self-description: Put any bookmark in a time capsule and we’ll send it to your future...
View ArticleFoster Business School
The UW Business School recently got a name: Foster. Michael G. Foster to be exact. Although just "Foster" is perhaps more fitting since 3 generations of the Foster family have contributed to making...
View ArticleSpinning Spaghetti Monster
Last week I went to a different kind of Dork Bot meeting here in Seattle called the Catastrophic Cacophony Workshop. It was a maker-style event where we broke up into teams of people and in 90...
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Bluenile Children’s Organization
Seattle Times just ran a story about a local non-profit that I’m quite fond of. Blue Nile Children’s Organization has been supporting orphans in Ethiopia for years. For $30/month donors, mostly local...
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The Paradoxes of Color Temperature
Last week I went to the Indoor Sun Shoppe in Fremont and got a couple new CF bulbs for the house. I love their selection — they have everything from tiny 7W candelabra bulbs to these massive 150W...
View ArticleOmnipotent Self-Aware Botnets
My buddy Scotto wrote a play titled “When I come to my senses, I’m alive!” which will be performed at Annex Theater on April 23 – May 22. I read an early draft of the script and am quite excited to...
View ArticleI’m speaking at django-seattle tomorrow
Tomorrow night I’m giving a presentation to the django-seattle group. If you’re interested in Django come join and meet like-minded folks. When: Tue, Dec 14th 6:00pm – 7:30pm (Meetings are on 2nd...
View ArticleMadison Market’s support of Estrella Creamery values community over health
Below is an open letter I sent to the board of directors of Madison Market, a co-op grocery store near Capitol Hill in Seattle. Hello Board of Directors, I am writing to express my deep concern with...
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