Goofy stuff

  • Note: I wrote the following story for the Smarter Artist Pity Par-tay Flash Fiction Contest. It’s a silly story involving some of the people from the Smarter Artist Summit (April 26-27, 2017), and involving a mashup of an item chosen from each of two columns. Apologies in advance to everyone whose name appears… of course this is […]

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  • Portland by night

    Automatticians and a Portland Brewcycle tour of three craft breweries, followed by a trip to Rogue Brewery and Voodoo Donuts. Really, does anything else need to be said?    

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  • This holiday thing is great. My mom got to spend extra time playing with me and letting me snuggle on her lap and watch Netflix with her. I also got lots of things to play with. My favorite was the box. It was awesome! When mom opened it there was a whole bunch of useless […]

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  • Beauty is where you find it

  • Grandfather where art thou?

    Grandfather Clock by Maarten Baas, at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam

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  • Flying Squirrel Feces

    While I’m actually not surprised that it could have some sort of beneficial effect, I’m trying to work out how they discovered this was medicinal. Imagine the person 2000 years ago who stumbled upon flying squirrel feces laying around and thought to himself, hmm, let me taste this and see if it’s good for me. […]

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  • Happiness… in a bottle?