I'm a developer designer data nerd Texan based in New York.
Latest writing on or off-topic
- Design
I love a fast food mascot that admonishes you.
There's something so very Québec about the rooster mascot for the chain restaurant "St-Hubert" - that finger wagging could be for any number of reasons, all fixable by excessive regulation.
- New York
Prognoses for NYC from an outsider looking inward.
New York CIty of today? Still the biggest, singular superpower in a large cohort of global cities, but in a very slow decline.
- Design
The first and last annual License Plate Awards
This is my list of the best and worst license plates, for various reasons, and some are simply ones I love to hate.
- Personal
I guess he’d rather be in Colorado
I am spending some time in Denver before heading all of the way west. To that end, I would rather live in the imagined Denver that never was.
- Music
Sledgehammer: A self-help motivator in the form of a pop song
The video to "Sledgehammer" reads like Teletubbies on angel dust, or a kindergarten K hole. But the lyrics of the song are inspiring and a call to arms for someone who's down on their luck.
- Family, Nostalgia
Memory lane rabbit hole: photos from my childhood
I had some foresight to scan many of my childhood and family photos, before they were stolen out of my car.
MIXTAPES curated musical journeys
Empire State Human
Sage comme une image
Theoretical China (理论中国)
Untergang des Abendlandes
Strawberry girls & Banana split ladies
Quiet Storms & Basic Women
Themes for great cities
ABBA Obscura
SCRAPBOOK stuff worth saving
