Asides
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A Sad Small Story
Yesterday evening after finishing dinner, I stood up and looked out my dining room window. Along the edge of our property there was a man kneeling and digging with hand tools near a large tree. I was curious1. Why was this man digging? He continued for several minutes and was digging along the roots in… ➡️
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Facebook Buys Giphy
If you would have told me in 2005 that GIFs would be huge, I would have laughed at you. Absolutely absurd. GIFs were the bane of personal websites in the late 90s and early 2000s. But as media has evolved, bandwidth increased, and now we all have mini-computers in our pockets, GIFs have been an… ➡️
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What I’ve Been Playing: March 2018
In the immortal words of Garth Algar, “I like to play.” ➡️
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Auditory Creative Endeavors
I dislike Winter very much. I never have inspiration to do anything creative even though I’m indoors for most of the season. Now cut to Spring, my favorite season, and the choice season for critics alike1. I’ve felt reinvigorated to start some new things and start creating. So I have. Podcasting Shawn and I have… ➡️
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RIP NES Classic Edition
Nintendo has decided to discontinue the NES Classic Edition. Supply never met demand, often selling out on sites within 10-15 minutes. I really wanted to gift these out during Christmas. I thought it was a great toy, and a good trip down nostalgia lane for my gamer friends, and retired-gamer friends. Unfortunately I wasn’t able… ➡️
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Lateral Technology
An excerpt from Super Mario Bros. 2 (Boss Fight Books Book 6) by Jon Irwin: Each of these advances in business strategy relied on the same simple idea: building something new from old parts. Yokoi called it the philosophy of seasoned—or lateral—technology. State-of-the-art didn’t necessarily equal innovation and wonder. But find a clever way to… ➡️
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Predicting a Robust Sunset
Sunsets happen everyday. The most beautiful ones are harder to predict. Until now. ➡️
