E-Z Bake

Do you miss your Easy-Bake oven? Me too, man. I was always more of a scientist running food-related experiments than a master chef, but still. Here’s what we’re gonna do. Get a lot of different kinds of cheeses, just go ahead and spend your whole tax...
Goals Suck

Goals Suck

I hate goals. I have a million of them. An application that does bicycle related math. Fixing the oil leak in my car… making rideable and selling one or more of the busted bikes in my house. Lots and lots of blog posts that I thought about, then got self...

This is an Apollo Criterium

Before today, it was impossible to Google the phrase ‘apollo criterium’ and get useful results. I am the change I want to see in the world.   This is a 10-speed road bike from the 70s or 80s. I think it was moderately high end, based on its weight and...

Getting Your First Job After Graduation

I arrived at Malcolm’s house in Sunnyvale, California, by bike, in early March 2011. I had a bad cough and was saddle-sore from riding down from San Francisco on bumpy residential roads (I didn’t know about the bike route at the time). He made dinner,...

Living some stories

Life is lived through the stories you tell. As much fun as it is to wake up in a foreign house in Langford and spend the day trying to figure out how to get home, it’s more fun to tell the story later, preferably in the middle of an even worse adventure....

On being a one-armed coder

To pay the rent while looking for a job in programming, I took a job washing cars. It’s easy work and I’m good at it, but on the third day I broke my elbow. It happened at bike polo that night. After colliding with 2 guys in a scrum and hitting the ground...