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By the time I came back and started writing again, I realized my last post (around 13 years ago) may have been around when Blogger stopped actively tending to the platform as much.

I started using Last.fm in 2006 to log the songs I listened to, and was so in love with the data aggregation I'd write "what I listened to this year" posts to close out each year (like this one).

This is part 2 in a pair of posts about building a heavy metal search bar; part 1 is here.

Metal Archives is like a wiki for heavy metal, and I use it for exactly one thing: looking up bands.

This was going to be a different type of post - a show & tell of spreadsheets I've made over the years to optimize cognitive load out of my life.

I’ve been using the Kokuyo Jibun Techo planner system for five+ years, and most of that time never knew what to do with one of the spreads towards the front - two tiny rectangles for every single day of the year.

Just read an interview with Mike Daisey in this week's New York Magazine; this part was my favorite: He dabs his sweaty forehead, just like onstage, and pulls out what I at first take to be a pencil.

I got an email a couple of months ago from a girl called Allison Morris, who stumbled upon my post on muscle memory and piano playing.

I just read a super interesting article on Urban Omnibus -- Living Lofts: The Evolution of the Cast Iron District.

Sometimes it's ok to make an app that is a little piece of beautiful candy.

For anyone new to this blog or who doesn't know, I have two mild forms of synesthesia: sound color (I see colors when I hear certain sounds, notes or songs) and lexical gustatory (tasting certain things, or craving tastes, when I hear certain sounds or wo…

I had heard about the epidemic of Tide thefts over the past couple of weeks, but finally read this article about it.

Until tonight, I had never read anything by Elizabeth Wurtzel.

I got one of these Design House Stockholm block lamps four years ago; for three of those years, it sat in pieces in a corner.

Heard this morning on a recent episode of Radiolab: Bliss is the taste of hot pastrami at Katz's Deli in the Lower East Side of New York City.

If you have ever been a fan of Oliver Sacks, give this New York Magazine article from November a read.

Project 366.

Looking at my Last.fm charts is one of my favorite things to do - especially at the end of a year.

Well, it's after Christmas and I'm only getting around to this.

I am building someone a portable iPhone charger for Christmas.

Yesterday I took a class at 3rd Ward called Solar Engines.

Julie and I hadn't done an EFIT in two years, so she pinged me about a weekend one.

I wrote a post for the UC blog this week about something that I've been mulling over for a while.

I was having a conversation today about what my top 5 male and female singers were.

I finally watched Moonrise Kingdom on my flight back from Stockholm two weeks ago.