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Favorite things of 2013
Bonanza had a stellar holiday season this year, and the team just finished up a well-deserved week of holiday time to cap it off. For my part, I accidentally worked almost every vacation day. My...
View ArticleMaybe this is why I should start a tumblr
Just spent 30 minutes meticulously assembling the playlist for work tomorrow (usually improvised). Seymour would be proud. I heard about “shining your shoes for the fat lady” in high school. Franny...
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Bill Harding: The Most Interesting Man in the World
A couple years ago, on some hazy evening, I had the great idea to befriend as many “Bill Hardings” as I could find on Facebook. As a result of my ingenuity, I earned Bill Harding’s friendship (the most...
View ArticleAngeles, Etc.
Damn, it’s been more than a year since I posted my last favorite Elliott Smith cover. I think it’s that time again folks: Since I can’t find my last post, let’s roll that footage back: And now that...
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Come back to me, follower
Once upon a time I dreamt of conquering the blogosphere. Then I got over it. It wasn’t so much that I stopped craving the attention of Google and the travelers it brings; I still need my fix of that...
View ArticleTravel Log Pt. 1
Given how much traveling I’ve had the opportunity to do over the past year, I’ve done precious little documentation of such trips. I’m intend to use this sunny morning to amend that, at least in part,...
View ArticleTop Albums of 2014
You know the rules. 10. Jesca Hoop – The House that Jack Built. This album carried a lot of plays by virtue of Ode to Banksy, which kept me addicted during an entire Freedom February. It has good...
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Superintelligent AI: believable? Inevitable?
I recently finished reading Tim Urban’s depressingly believable analysis of how computers will soon rule us all. If you haven’t read it, do so now (or better: next time you have 45 mins), as it is the...
View ArticleCloud Memory
The benefit of having 1,000 notes in the cloud is that you can keep lists on the most esoteric shit imaginable. Some of my note (/list) titles include: Shirt size. A note that has the size shirt I...
View ArticleTravel Rankings
For reasons I’ll probably never understand, my brain is wired with an insatiable craving to stack rank all things subjective. Seldom is this predilection more active than on trips abroad, where every...
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Monthly Modifications
Apropos to nothing, I was thinking recently of a dude (Matt Cutts), who used to (and maybe still does?) set a goal for each month and blog about the outcome. I’ve since decided that this idea might...
View ArticleBest Music of 2015
Oh my, it’s half way through January and I have failed to beam my tuneful vicissitudes out to the universe. This can not stand. My favorite albums from this trip around the sun: 10. Sufjan Stevens,...
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Hashtag Janbrewary
If you brew Seattle beers, I have crafted an opinion on your craft beer. These rash opinions did not come easy. At the beginning of January, I was 20 breweries away from having completed the set. But...
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Want to start a company with me?
Let’s get this straight right away: the last thing I ought to do – or want to do – is start another company. Bonanza has grown to 40 strong including our off-site help, and 2016 will net eight-digit...
View ArticleOn Genius and Celebrity
The tortured genius and the celebrity recluse are two archetypes by which the popular imagination appears incurably enthralled. They occupy extreme but ambiguous positions in the social firmament,...
View ArticleHow to deliver a well-rendered compliment
I have a well–chronicled history of trying (unsuccessfully) to convince others that a well-rendered compliment can be one of the fastest paths to satisfaction. If you know what you’re doing, it takes...
View ArticleHow to receive a compliment
When I first had the idea of writing a blog post about “how to receive a compliment,” it was part of a joke (to myself [1]) about how distressed I was going to make friends who were unaccustomed to...
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