Archives for 2014
This was from my first year of trying to consistently blog. It wasn't always great, but I was reasonably consistent for the first part of the year before sputtering out around October during my trip to Serbia.
It was kind of all over the map. My most popular posts by far were:
- Why I chose Swig over Jade templates for my Node+Express project
- How to make a bicycle briefcase
- Building better websites 4 U with Prince
- How I use Digital Ocean for work and play
- I want a cork globe
- The Pennies Project
December 2014
Musical Reunions: Video Proof
Kim Kardashian Christmas Cookies
Music, Muscle-Memory and Reunion
When in Doubt do Yoga
How to Emulate Liquid's Offset & Limit Filters in Twig
Little Reasons I Like Jekyll
Another Switch: From Coffee to Tea
I've Switched My Blog to Jekyll
October 2014
September 2014
Dos Goykos
Sunday nights in Serbia: "This is Mr. Putin's favorite song."
Smokva means fig
Tavaszi szél vizet áraszt, Subotica and a universe devoid of randomness
The Great Market Hall in Budapest
Arriving in Budapest and Staples of Ottoman influence
Swiss Francs are not hot dogs
Running the Friends of Mt. Tabor 10k / Maze / Torture Chamber
A reminder that we are all renters in the cloud
Thoughts on using HTML5 app manifest to speed up stuff
A cup of ☕️ with your URLs
August 2014
I got... two tickets to Budapest!
Not so slow as I feel @ the Laurelhurst $5 5k
Building better websites 4 U with Prince
Weird jazz sounds better in 1000% humidity
Things I've enjoyed the past couple weeks
July 2014
My Etsy shop for curiosities
Some definition of growing older
Taking a break from blogging & state of the union
Things I enjoyed LAST week (July 13th-ish)
A recipe for food
The Stark Street Viaduct
Better than a to-do list
How I use DigitalOcean for work & play
Two simple things to encourage anonymity on the web
I feel like an unlikely yogi
The Acropolis from Uncommon Angles
Sunsets and super moons
Things I enjoyed this week (July 6th)
Serbian trumpet festivals
Basketball games
My carbon footprint after a year of travel and 25+ flights
Yoga practice, fake buddha quotes & emotional accuracy
The kindness of strangers and their umbrellas
My Briggs Myers type (INFP)
Things I enjoyed this week (June 29th)
Casting your net far, wide and shallow
Flying out to Detroit
Blurry sunrises in Brazil
Adventures in making hummus
June 2014
Clever problem solver for hire
Things I enjoyed this week (June 22nd)
Measuring a moment
The lengthy time involved and unsatisfying pay-off with Twitter performance art
Making custom wedding cufflinks
The most useful item any traveler can bring on an extended trip
Writing everyday
Dinners in Nairobi
Goes together like ice cream and asparagus
Things I enjoyed this week (June 15th)
Friday-night 5ks, glow sticks and 2nd place finishes
Doing the opposite
One-month and a half
Joan Jett covers and other music in Penang
Lazy reading, the World Cup & Buckminster Fuller
Things I enjoyed this week (June 8th)
Observations on a moderately successful garage sale
How to ruin a puzzle in Chinese
Figured out where all the bears were
A healthy smoothie recipe
My half-baked Kickstarter idea
32nd
Things I enjoyed this week (June 1st)
Challenging yourself, an addendum of sorts
How to make simple things hard and hard things harder-still
Meeting of the Spirits is the greatest song ever
Pizza Frisbees & the Secret of Life
Every breath you take in Thailand
Serbian Hoop Dreams
Running to welcome June
May 2014
Things I enjoyed this week (May 24th)
The Loprinzi Special
$32.52 for your thoughts; updates on my penny project
My favorite green tea
Music I enjoy: Marc Ribot & Ceramic Dog
Penny pitches; literal pennies for thoughts
Breakfast in Bulgaria
Things I enjoyed this week (May 17th)
The madness of the movie rental biz
Moving at different paces
Elks, Bears and Strippers Oh My
Backpacking in Olympic National Park
How to automate blog posts with IFTTT
My super-simple email system
Things I enjoyed this week (May 10th)
On trains
How to register an Icelandic domain outside of Iceland
How to make Zanzibar Soup
Left long enough...
My favorite oatmeal recipe
Things I enjoyed this week (May 3rd)
A silly kitchen hack for making spices
A short but meaningful life
Twig + WordPress = Timber
A year ago today; Iceland, agates and other things on the shore
Two new pages added the book of unsustainable ventures
How many rings do shower curtains have?
On running, resolutions, buddhism and other things best done in groups
Things I enjoyed this week (April 26th)
Damian Lillard: Clutchest Blazer ever
Bicycle-oriented projects and my Fridays
April 2014
Random Travels: The Mercury House in Zanzibar
Crushing the Ever-Loving Shit Out of an Image with WebP
Removing the social sharing links from my blog
Picture of a pig roast
Things I enjoyed this week (April 19th)
Go Blazers!
Podcasts I enjoy
Digital spring cleaning: open-sourcing my 'sweeties' web-app
My grandfather's YouTube video circa 1954
Neanderthal quotients and my DNA song
A year measured in sounds (part 1, noodles)
Things I enjoyed this week (April 12th)
Soundtrack to the Hong Kong Science Museum
Afro-pop makes my heart sing
The Louvre out of context
Life-lessons from yoga
Happy birthday to my mom
Band photos for a pretend-jazz duo
Things I enjoyed this week (April 5th)
Continuing to say yes
When Michael Hurley sings I hear truth there
International graffiti; a year measured in street art and messages
Heartbleed, OpenSSL and upgrading Apache & Ubuntu all at once
Georgi Glouchkov — Bulgarian basketball sensation
Monthly running, slowly but surely
Things I enjoyed this week (March 30)
Nattō beans and green tea
Sentō, silence, vending machines and the retro-future promises of Tokyo
How to make a 5-ton golden buddha
Rite of Spring in time for spring
March 2014
A rickety bridge and less-ancient ruins in Bulgaria
The secret of life, James Taylor and landords
Things I enjoyed this week (March 23)
Squirrel Food, Running and Istanbul
Green pants means it's spring, circa Paris 2013
Nearly full-screen web pages for mobile Safari
Alas, no NYC Marathon for me this year. Unless...
One year ago today; pitaya e caqui giombo
Belated birthday, the beginning of spring, my secret coffee place
The surprising history behind The Lion Sleeps Tonight
Secret dinner gigs
Found sounds from Zanzibar
So your country has blocked Twitter
My year condensed into 11 minutes
iTunes-style color schemes for WordPress
International standards for rating bathroom cleanliness
Saying Yes
Saturday rambling: Shamrock run tomorrow; my musical weekend continues.
Music I enjoy here in Portland, Oregon
Casapueblo, Uruguay and Carlos Páez Vilaró
The sandboxed filesystem on iOS drives me nuts; enjoy an analogy involving a weird-ass butler.
A year measured in exercise
Carl Sagan is my spirit animal
My irrational choice to go back to school
Thoughts on apartment hunting
Metropolis and music
A half-ass primer to coffee roasting at home
Sports talk
Improving on well-known word games
Faster NodeJS development with nodemon
A month of blogging
February 2014
Retro travel journal: Cuzco, Peru; avalanches, ruins and unexpected friendships
I want a cork globe
"I've got blisters on my fingers!"
A year in haircuts and the worst haircut ever
Why Icelandic naming conventions make cemeteries confusing
Retro travel journal: Skagaströnd and Sundays
The wacky world of Amazon product suggestions
Why I chose Swig over Jade templates for my Node+Express project
Arts, letters, numbers and ethnomusicology; my very liberal arts education
Autocorrection vs typos
Homemade Cufflinks
Another startup falls with Editorially
Retro travel journal: Blowing out the candles for Agios Ilias in Athens
My square business cards
Love songs for Valentine's Day
Topical Christmas Cookies; A Tradition
Turning obstacles into opportunities.
Anatomy of fixing a hacked WordPress website
A year measured in kitchen destruction
To WordPress or not to WordPress?
Chromecast — initial thoughts on my new toy
Meaningful runs, broken things & Fanconi anemia this Valentine's day
How to make a bicycle briefcase
Advancements in hirsute basketball analysis
Everpix and the ephemeral nature of startups
On buying a suit
Snowshoeing near Snoqualmie Pass
Face to face to face
Retro travel journal: on empathy and language