2023-01-27: I like a lot of kinds of fries — the Curly, the Waffle, the Spicy, but I’m unimpressed by the …
2023-01-20: Today I learned that the phrase “freak flag” originated in the Jimi Hendrix song ‘If 6 Was 9’, and …
2022-10-28: Deleted twitter app from my phone. Does that count as rearranging deck chairs?
2022-09-17: Todays stats Distance: 32.3 miles Time walking: 11 hours 6 minutes Total time: 13 hours 30 minutes …
2022-09-17: Mile 32.3 - Loop complete!
2022-09-17: Mile 32.1 Bothell Landing bridge at sunset.
2022-09-17: Mile 31.5 - this owl flew right in front of me and said hello
2022-09-17: Mile 19. Mountlake cut.
2022-09-17: UDistrict and Laurelhurst looking gorgeous today
2022-09-17: Breakfast at DERU Market is 💯
2022-09-17: Start of the 2022 520 bridge loop
2022-07-23: Bothell High School baseball field - right field light pole osprey nest.
2022-06-18: Happy Birthday, Macgenie! @jean
2021-09-25: Loop Complete
2021-09-25: Feeling a little dehydrated, so staying away from the beer at 192 brewery.
2021-09-25: On the home stretch. Blyth Park.
2021-09-25: The new Bothell Landing Park bridge is gorgeous
2021-09-25: Crisis! No Mile 28 beer for me at Crucible Brewing Woodinville
2021-09-25: Wilmot Gateway Park
2021-09-25: Mile 26 beer at Good Brewing Hollywood Taproom
2021-09-25: Sammamish River Valley. 18’30” pace through 24 miles, but starting to flag
2021-09-25: Walking by car dealership row in Kirkland prompts me to calculate my MPG ( miles walked per gallon …
2021-09-25: Mile 19 beer is good beer. At Chainline brewing
2021-09-25: On the Kirkland Corridor Trail
2021-09-25: Across the 520 bridge. Seaplane, setting moon and Olympic mountains
2021-09-25: 520 bridge midpoint
2021-09-25: On the 520 Bridge ramp
2021-09-25: Helpful pedestrian directions
2021-09-25: Mountlake Cut
2021-09-25: Reached 21,081 steps (@TELLJapan Step-Up Challenge) just a few seconds before reaching “Husky …
2021-09-25: Thinking of Marv and Dorothy Harshman as I walk by Hec Ed
2021-09-25: Wahkiakum Lane
2021-09-25: UW Wetlands / Union Bay Natural Area
2021-09-25: Breakfast stop at Gretchen’s place gretchens-place.hub.biz
2021-09-25: Just a glimpse of @MtRainierWA from the Burke Gilman trail
2021-09-25: Lake Washington from Kenmore
2021-09-25: This year’s #520bridgeloophike begins!
2021-01-30: I can’t explain why, but I just used the phrase ‘put the kibosh on’ for the first time ever, I …
2021-01-20: An Swift/ObjC Interoperability Wrinkle: PersonNameComponents So, I wrote a category on NSPersonNameComponents to implement some custom name-formatting logic, and …
2021-01-07: This is the quality punditry @jbrcpod can trusted to deliver.
2021-01-07: Shoutout to the engineering team behind NSPersonNameComponentsFormatter
2020-11-14: Pair programming in 2020
2020-11-12: The talented @athebler contributes some wonderful artwork to the fanzine The Loneliest Girl …
2020-11-12: Maslow's hierarchy of Political Discussions I’ve been thinking a lot the past few months about Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and how …
2020-11-01: “Outdoorphins!”
2020-10-30: Cracks me up everytime!
2020-10-30: Concurrency in swift is finally interesting Well, it has probably always been interesting, but it seems to be just now that the discussion is …
2020-09-01: My Most Recent One Star App Review Just submitted an App Store app review giving an app one star because their EULA was completely …
2020-07-25: Mile 32. Loop Complete.
2020-07-25: 22 miles. View of Juanita across the lake.
2020-07-25: 20 mile IPA is always a good IPA.
2020-07-25: 18 miles. Almost across the bridge.
2020-07-25: 15 miles. 520 Bridge View Park.
2020-07-25: 11.5 miles. First view of Seattle
2020-07-25: The DERU Market ‘AM Sandwich’ hit the spot.
2020-07-25: Eight miles.
2020-07-25: Five miles.
2020-07-25: It’s a start!
2020-07-18: Thinking of taking a little walk next Saturday. Who’s with me?
2020-07-11: "The Blind Leading the Blind" One of the rewarding parts of working in tech is being part of the Accessibility revolution. Like, …
2020-06-12: Achievement Unlocked: Found a fish on the Burke-Gilman trail
2020-05-15: Idea: “Stormtroopers!” - a first-person shooter where no player can actually hit a target, but …
2020-05-06: I love you all, too. @_RocketFM
2020-05-04: ScotusBlog has an excellent and humorous banner graphic: The Justices each dealing with remote …
2020-04-30: Hey, I'm on The April Xcoders Podcast! The April Xcoders Podcast features Tim Ekl and Jared Sorge and me talking about XcodeGen. Xcoders is …
2020-04-26: Practicing the Coding Challenges Brent Simmons (@brentsimmons) muses over the value of coding questions for software interviews here: …
2020-04-16: CaseIterable Just discovered swift's CaseIterable which makes this sweet code possible: let allCaseValues = …
2020-04-11: The Weekly Review's Accountability Segment (Context: I listen to @theweeklyreview each week as part of my aspirations to get more …
2020-04-10: Voyager Revisited @macgenie Thanks for Voyager Revisited! It's a wonderful respite from everything that's going on …
2020-04-07: Panchayat Recent bingewatching discovery: Panchayat Situation comedy where the situation is rural India. …
2020-02-18: Why doesn’t Boris Johnson like Japanese baths? だから、いい湯だなぁ
2020-02-02: The Parable of the Great Young Girl There was a young girl who was very, very concerned about climate change. She spoke out, saying that …
2019-12-28: Drama
2019-12-28: Current view
2019-10-29: Optimal desktop arrangement
2019-10-26: I think I have a new favorite whisky.
2019-08-08: “Putting the ‘protest’ back in ‘protestant’” is a pretty good slogan for the …
2019-08-03: Taking @macgenie’s advice: best way to relax after a tough day is to watch some Janeway kicking …
2019-08-03: Boom! 12 hours later, the circle is complete. Total walking time: 9 hours, 15 minutes. Total time: …
2019-08-03: Big Finn Hill Park. 23.6 miles. #520bridgeloophike
2019-08-03: 21 miles. Time for food. Legs beginning to complain. #520bridgeloophike
2019-08-03: Juanita Bay Park #520bridgeloophike
2019-08-03: 17.7 miles. I have earned a beer! #520bridgeloophike
2019-08-03: View of Seattle from Kirkland Corridor #520bridgeloophike
2019-08-03: Weatherhill Nature Preserve. #520bridgeloophike
2019-08-03: Next stop: Chainline Brewing at about 2 pm #520bridgeloophike
2019-08-03: Today I learned that aircraft can go under the Montlake bridge. #520bridgeloophike
2019-08-03: The 520 trail begins. This is approximately a 2500 smoot bridge. #520bridgeloophike
2019-08-03: Burke-Gilman Park looks like Teletubbie Land #520bridgeloophike
2019-08-03: I’m thinking Jak’s Grill for breakfast in about half an hour. #520bridgeloophike
2019-08-03: Matthews Beach Park #520bridgeloophike
2019-08-03: Mile 0? #520bridgeloophike
2019-08-03: Boom! #520bridgeloophike
2019-08-02: I’m thinking of a 520 “bridge loop” hike tomorrow, starting at Log Boom Park, …
2019-07-26: Yesterday I did a talk at our local Xcoders meetup (https://www.meetup.com/xcoders) in Redmond, …
2019-07-22: This Thursday, I’ll be speaking on “Swift Basics” at the Xcoders meeting in Redmond. let and …
2019-06-13: Today I realized: “Harry’s” is an apt name for a company that sells hair-shaving products.
2019-06-07: Today I learned: the “mut” in ”mutex” derives from “mutual” and not “mutable”. To me, “mutual” would …
2019-05-01: When did people start using the word “transparent” to mean “easy to see”?
2019-04-25: Disappointed to learn today that “Endgame” is not a film adaptation of the Samuel Beckett play.
2019-04-13: Got to see one of my favorite bands, Southern All Stars, last night in Yokohama. Lots of fun! I …
2019-04-01: Any of my tech followers in Tokyo want to meetup? I’ll be at the MacAdmins meetup at Oak …
2019-03-13: TIL: One BIG is 10 units of Large
2019-03-04: TIL who Luke Perry is
2019-02-20: New find for music to play while working: The Budos Band. All instrumental psychedelic Afro-soul. …
2019-02-18: I’ve been working on my Mac app for Atom Probe Tomography data recently, reviving it after …
2019-02-08: Yesterday’s @CliffMass forecast said snow would start falling before 1 pm, and it starting …
2019-02-07: It’s surprising that most cars don’t handle well when driving on ice, considering that …
2019-01-28: Last weekend read the wonderful Pachinko by Min Jin Lee. Highly recommended. First book in quite a …
2019-01-28: I think this HBO reboot of Sherlock is quite good: www.youtube.com/watch
2019-01-17: Sad to learn of the death of Mary Oliver. Here’s a link to my favorite Mary Oliver poem, The …
2019-01-16: This funny: “counsel representing the estate of the Duke of Buckingham referred to King Richard III …
2019-01-13: Drinking game: watching the 1956 “Around the world in 80 days”, and drinking for each instance of …
2019-01-13: Whenever we ask Siri about Uwajimaya, she thinks we are asking about Mama Bear’s Espresso.
2019-01-12: Don’t remember a 紅白 ending with this much fun and energy. サザンオールスターズ played like they are still in …
2019-01-12: Watching this year’s 紅白 — I am now a fan of Naomi Watanabe
2019-01-11: Inside every rock, hiding, waiting patiently, is a smaller rock
2018-12-31: Finishing the year right!
2018-12-29: Spent a very relaxed Saturday finishing @mattgemmell ‘s Toll. A very satisfying read — looking …
2018-11-30: Found an explanation for the Seahawks disappointing season at Microsoft’s Company Store:
2018-11-03: An interesting new phrase I heard the other day from the offspring: “sound font”. Meaning the …