The first time I met Lacy, it was in a PetSmart downtown. My wife had been looking at dogs online for days, and asked if we could “just meet this one”. I reluctantly agreed, on the understanding th...
A partial list of things Lacy ate (by the evidence left behind)
One pit (6 avocados) Shredded cardboard (a family-sized box of granola bars) The zipper part of a zip-lock bag (a gallon ziplock of cookies) Shredded cardboard (an entire sleeve of Saltine...
October 2024 Roundup
Below are things I’ve learned or found interesting in the past month: This 2017 blog post, Reality has a Surprising Amount of Detail. Per this map by Mark Lotto, only 13 states a...
The Scruffles Saga
April 2024. I’m picking up my son from track practice when we spot a small white ball of fur on the sidewalk. It’s a dog. A small thing, not big like Lacy. The kind of dog you could carry in your a...
2 and 1: Tech
Two pieces of technology that I love, and one that I do not. I am not affiliated with any of the below products or companies. We use pieces of technology every day. The best ones are entirely inv...
Video Game Ratings
In 2018, I decided to start keeping track of the video games I had played. I believe I did this because my memory was faulty. Someone would ask me about a game, and I’d remember that I’d played it,...
Saying goodbye to my friend
We put my dog down last week. My friend Rachel came over once we knew it was the day. I was volunteering at my son’s school when my wife called in tears. Lacy wouldn’t stop throwing up. I drove ...
Things I love 2
Board Games Decrypto For a quick minute, Codenames was the hot party game on the block. You’ve got a pattern of words, and you give a clue to your partner(s) to try and have them guess as many as...
Please steal this: reusable items
I want items to matter. The default way of looking at items comes from video games like Final Fantasy. You buy a bunch of potions, then glug them down after (or during!) a hard fight. You pick up ...
August Roundup
Below are things I’ve learned or found interesting in the past month: Late because I forgot the month rolled over! The standardization of political colors in the US (with democrats being b...