After reading Matt Haughey’s tale of buying an electric VW van in Texas, and driving it home to Oregon, it occurred to me that the 6th anniversary of my own EV purchase must be coming up. Turns out ...

As such, learning that the singer-songwriter Donavan Woods releases a yearly ranking of the Great Lakes was of particular interest to me. My own ranking would differ significantly: ...

A side-benefit of all of this is that, per DNSC ontrol’s founding principle number one, DNS should be treated like code. This ...

The post Fifteen Edwardian Views of Queen’s Square is of particular interest, given that I look out my front window at Queens ...

The highlight for me was learning to make Arroz Mexicano (Mexican Rice), the basics of which I captured in my sketch book: I ...

When we were in Mexico City last month we wanted to visit the pyramids at Teotihuacan, but we didn’t want to take an ...

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Words of the late Frank Gehry, from an interview with Sydney Pollack, in his film Sketches of Frank Gehry. To learn more ...

To learn more about me, read my /now , look at my bio, listen to audio I’ve posted, read presentations and speeches I’ve written, or get in touch ( [email protected] is the quickest way). I have been ...

One of them said, “Wow. No one’s ever done this before. Thank you.” I worked weekly with Jonathan for about 9 months, two years ago; that work had a lot of impact on me. Radical Aliveness might not be ...

“Low Road buildings are low-visibility, low-rent, no-style, high-turnover,” Brand wrote. “Most of the world’s work is done in Low Road buildings, and even in rich societies the most inventive ...

Speaking of which; the last thing my father told me was to go fuck myself. This happened on the phone a few years ago, during a call with my mother. I heard her turn away from the phone and ask him if ...