Well, it’s that time again. It seems like every time a friend of mine gets married in Milwaukee Shiva the Destroyer reveals himself to me, casting my life into the kind of chaos and disarray from which great things can emerge.

A couple of years ago my friend Chris got married in Milwaukee. I moved to Bend less than a week before that wedding to start working for Global Strategies Int’l – an Ogilvy Company that specializes in search engine optimization (SEO) and social media integration for enterprise companies. It’s been great there. I learned an immense amount and had some stellar experiences with some stellar people. A few highlights: Continue reading →

Have you ever thought to yourself “I wish there were some place I could go to see some photos in and around Portland, OR, and the greater Pacific Northwest. Furthermore, I should hope that these photos include the likes of mud, weird hip-looking people being slightly outdoorsy, stacked chairs, random artistic compositions in a modern local organic urban landscape, and maybe some other random stuff.”

Good news!

Check out the new blog up with Portland photos by Zoe Hoeltzel. You won’t regret it… here’s a sample:

Awesomest sign ever. Saw it on our roadtrip down the Oregon Coast. We passed it, stopped, turned around, stopped, took a picture, and then continued on our southward journey. I feel confident that the transmission mechanics who worked there are not aware of how funny this is.

Happy Holidays!

Some of you might have received a holiday mix from me last year, and my intention was to do the same this year, but I was slammed and even though I got it made, I wasn’t able to distribute it like last year’s. I’m hoping this might be a one-year glitch, and I can get back on schedule for 2011, but this was a good opportunity to go digital for the first time.

So here it is – Holiday Mix 2010

It’s a .zip file, so you’ll have to decompress it and then get it into your iTunes or whatever you use. Should be pretty easy for most of you, but that will be a good test to see if I’m overestimating how easy it will be. Drop me a line if you have any problems, and happy 2010!

Track list:
[#. Track Name - Artist]

1. The Clap – Thao With The Get Down Stay Down
2. Happy Up Here – Royksopp
3. Rawnald Gregory Erickson The Second – Starfucker
4. No Shit – Eskimo & Sons
5. Make The Roady By Walking – The Menahan Street Band
6. Marshland – Breathe Owl Breathe
7. The Corner – Common
8. San Frantico – The New Mastersounds
9. Mr. Blue Sky – Electric Light Orchestra
10. I Wanna – Matt & Kim
11. ?? – Paco de Lucia
12. Tresspassers In The Stereo Field – The American Analog Set
13. If It’s True – Yo La Tengo
14. Big Things Come In Small Packages – Young Gents
15. Hanuman – Rodrigo Y Gabriela
16. When We Swam – Thao With The Get Down Stay Down
17. New Resolution – Heartless Bastards
18. Machine Gun – Commodores
19. Boom! Shake The Room – DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince
20. My Gal – Yonder Mountain String Band
21. It’s Alright, Baby – Komeda
22. Bacano – Orgone
23. Que Hay De Comer – Jaime Urrutia

Things are slightly dead here – I know. Not quite a ghost town, but still… I’ve started blogging in “The Web” section of TheFasterTimes.com. Come see me there as well. :)

Here’s the beginning of their mission statement:

The print newspaper is in trouble. A lot of journalists joke about it. We don’t think it’s funny. Most of the writers and editors at The Faster Times have written for a print newspaper. They were our livelihoods, but they were also much more than our livelihoods. They were a way of pushing back the chaos of the modern world. Things happened, and the next day you could read about those things in your morning paper. The orderliness might have been an illusion, but it was a comforting illusion.

Time is always fast, but some times are faster than others. For American journalism, these are faster times.

Read the rest of the TheFasterTimes mission statement (go to the bottom of the page).

I heard there was a new JSON validator, so I decided to try to validate a well known JSON. Turns out Calacanis is not valid… hope he won’t hold this against me. (Click for full size view)

Kanyelicio.us is a new site that everyone should have fun with for a bout 3 minutes. Just enter the full http:// address of another site at the end of the Kanyelicio.us URL (e.g. http://kanyelicio.us/http://whatsupnah.com). Here’s what I did with my 3 minutes:

The whole clan took a trip to Southeast Alaska to see some amazing nature stuffs. Mission accomplished. We also happened to have time to do a little video while we were at it, and we were lucky enough to be on the same boat as The French Naturalist – the world renowned naturalist with expertise in being French, and also in nature.  Enjoy!  (or watch it on YouTube)

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I just got an “out of the blue” Facebook note from an old friend in a “member when” style. She was wistfully (I imagine) remembering some highschool scenes, which I have long since repressed, about my brother and I. Here’s what she had to say:

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Global Strategies white boards the relationship between Lucky, Charms, and Irish: