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Small Ribbons of Wild in the City
In the far northwest corner of Portland lies one of the largest urban parks in the United States—Forest Park. Years ago, I was fortunate enough to live right on the edge of this tree-covered paradise. Out the back door of our apartment, a trail led straight into the park, where countless other trails branched and […]
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Furniture should play a larger role in homes. It has, for perhap’s it’s entire history, been relegated to being isolated objects to fill our empty living areas, utilized for creating places to sit, store things, to hold other pieces of furniture. It has been used to fill space, when in fact it should be used […]
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I like the morning after a long exhausting day. I slept really hard overnight and I like the feeling after that type of rest (the night before I woke up at 5am and didn’t get tons of sleep, then drove down California). I’m even wondering if I should routinely just see if I can recreate the setup, perhaps wake up early on a Friday so I’m pretty tired by the time Friday evening comes around, and then just have a blissful, hard sleep Friday night into Saturday.
Whenever I’m in Bend, I always get the sense that I’m doing life wrong. The only fix is to move to Bend.
I didn’t get in nearly as much riding as I was hoping for, but I do like looking in the rearview mirror and seeing my bike back there looking all cool and stuff.
Sunday Strolls
It’s been a pretty wet and rainy weekend. But you take what you can get and since I already had campground reservations at Iron Creek in the Washington Cascades, I just rolled with it. I played around with my new tarp, worked on some various apps and web-based side projects, and just tried to enjoy […]
Read MoreSometimes it’s just really nice to work in the car, out random backroads. Getting things accomplished, but being able to look out the window, seeing trees, hearing the birds, …
I went ahead and tried a variant of my normal pizza dough recipe over the weekend. Went with a 40% bread flour, 60% 00 flour instead of my usual 100% 00 flour (which is just a Neapolitan style, although I add olive oil, so it’s not really Neapolitan). I think it’s super-promising. I lowered the temperature — about 675 degrees. I was able to still get some leopard spotting on the crust (not as good as straight Neapolitan), but was also able to get more of a crunch on the bottom of the pizza.
Lost another of the covid-era outdoor dining patios that took over a couple of street parking spots. I’ve seen a couple disappear over the past couple of months, which fills me with a little bit of dread that we’ll lose more. So now, instead of a nice spot for people to eat and to heighten the overall street atmosphere, we have space for two more cars to sit, taking up space.
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A Few San Diego Bakeries to Try: Wayfarer (Bird Rock), Izola (Downtown), Bonjour Patisserie (Little Italy), Secret Sister (South Park)
It’s always just been a part of capitalism, basically the notion that if I run a company with employees, I’m potentially profiting quite a bit off their work. Sure, they’re being compensated, but as the employer, I’ll take my cut — sometimes a very large cut. It’s always on some level, bugged me a little. Perhaps a bright spot of AI is that there is a potential to move beyond that necessary bit of exploitation.
I keep forgetting that May and June in San Diego, with the gray skies and drizzle, is the time of year for soups, chili, pot pies, and other fall meals.
Got that hit of caffeine this morning and now the ideas are running wild in my head. Must move faster on things. Maybe AI can help.