Rocketships, Inc.

Writing about what I’ve learned

In Starbucks Next Week

This story is about kombucha. The first time I ever played bike polo was winter 2010... I think. I played 2 matches on my front suspension, department store mountain bike, then sat down in exhaustion. A man named Fish, who had a handlebar mustache, started talking to...

Small Talk

A facebook friend felt ranty and posted this: "You know what? Small talk can just fuck off and go away forever. Why do we do this shit? We all have the same issues, why can't we share them? Why can't we connect on a deeper level, like... a fundamental animalistic...

Variations of 2048

Variations of 2048

The original: http://gabrielecirulli.github.io/2048/ You will never be as great as Gabriele, because he is the original. Doge: http://doge2048.com/ Such numbers, very combine. Fibonacci: http://www.crazygames.com/game/2584-fibonacci It's harder, because you don't...

Choose Your Books Carefully

Books can make us do odd things. There's a passage in The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul, I think, where the god Odin is in a nursing home. His thunder and lightning days are done, he's old and tired. Odin doesn't want to do anything but sleep, and his only passion is...

What if we just give the bikes away?

Recyclistas is a bike shop that takes donated bikes and salvages them into cheap commuters. It's located at the junction of three major cycling routes and has an open-plan workshop where people come for classes and shop time. It was originally instituted as a co-op,...

What exactly is a polo bike, anyway?

... as young men often ask me, as they struggle to maintain interest while I spin off on a bike related tangent. Well, I'll tell you. A polo bike is a rough looking, scratched up, bomb proof, 90's style rigid mountain bike with a few modifications that make it easier...

You can use recursion in real life!

They make you learn recursion during first-year intro to programming courses. Some people get fed up at that point and drop out to become car salesmen or Liberal Arts majors instead. Some people never quite get it, but bodge their way through another four years of...

Vitamins and Anarchy

With Archer on winter hiatus, I started watching Call the Midwife. Set in 1950’s Britain, it follows the struggles of a group of young nurses, employees of Britain’s infant National Health Service, as they deliver babies in the poorest neighbourhood of London. An...

Happy New Year

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. Kurt Vonnegut said that. This year I'm going to pretend to be a good person. I'm going to be less sarcastic, listen better, and build others up. I hope I haven't wasted too much time...