#journal

most…wonderful places of the world were not made by architects, but by the people.

Out of boredom have sprung many of my projects and hobbies.

I had this encounter in October of 2022, almost two years ago.

That’s her! There she is, my sweetheart!

Traveling, furnishing, reading, writing, and more.

Compared to The Village Vanguard, The Blue Note was a bit embarrassing.

One of our intentions for visiting NYC was to test our interest in moving there.

During the week that Z & I were there, we saw friends, shopped, attended comedy & jazz shows, visited museums, drank lots of coffee, ate lots of pizza, walked, biked, rode the subway, took the ferry, and wondered where in the city we might want to live.

Snowboarding, walking, Vieux Farka Touré, hoverboxes, and more.

As I walk through cities nowadays I try to look through a Jane Jacobian lens at the diversity of enterprise and use about.

Walking on a late evening on my own I passed a theatre I knew nothing about.

I first read about Hailu Mergia in Pitchfork’s The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s, which listed his 2018 album Lala Belu at 185th.

My path into software engineering, continued.

Log of concerts I’ve attended.

Soccer, hockey, Muze Radio, Cormac McCarthy, David Lynch, The Wire, True Detective, and more.

I liked analyzing the game’s tactics and patterns from my ignorant perspective.

Hunched against the cold in our hotel bathrobes and slippers we crunched over the snow between the pools, looking for the hottest one.

At my soccer game recently there was a middle-aged man recording the game from the sidelines with a camera mounted on a tall tripod.

Muze Radio, Stephen King, Poor Things, and more.

Losing weight, playing soccer, developing this site, reading books, and more.

My path into software engineering.

The two young guys standing at the counter brought in an old Honda Civic for a pre-purchase inspection, and Amir had found several issues with it.

It seemed, until the very last moment, that the seat to my right would be empty.

As Daudi Abe tells in his 2020 book, Emerald Street: A History of Hip Hop in Seattle, the city’s black folks first set down roots in Central District (the CD) in the late 1880s.

Notes about style and process of writing how to work #2.

As we are finishing our meals, the waiter comes over. It’s not to ask us anything, but to bless us with the news that we have completed our time in purgatory and earned our time to ascend. The speakeasy awaits.

In elementary school I chose my outfits for one thing: recess.

Notes on style and process of writing The Virtual Book.

Notes about style and process of writing how to work.

This year felt like the right time to escape the present. And so, I ditched hip hop, neo-soul, and modern R&B and journeyed back to the 60s and 70s.

To my delight, there is a wealth of curated lists of great music from the last year, spanning across genres and levels of popularity.