π¦ Myles
One rubber duck. The American West. Every duck tells the same story. A lyric narrative following a rubber duck through Death Valley, Mono Lake, the Rubicon Trail, the Cascades, and into the Canadian Rockies. A meditation on movement, impermanence, and what objects carry that they cannot understand.
Read βWindowpane
Sonora in the mid-1980s. Benjamin Figs. The creek tunnels under downtown. A first encounter with clear gel tabs from a Dead show, and the late bus home through fields that had never looked like that before.
Read βPurple Octopus / Rainbow Pools
A shortwave radio that seemed to be talking back. Old Priest Grade at night. Coulterville frozen in amber. And the Tuolumne River at Rainbow Pools β thirty feet of air, cold water, and something luminous moving in the dark underneath.
Read βThe Midtown
A dark bar in the Lower Haight, a best friend from Groveland, cheap beer, the guy from Lucasfilm who drew the cantina aliens, and the most unresolvable argument in the galaxy.
Read βThe Night the Cow Palace Changed Everything
New Year's Eve, 1991. Four guys drove over Donner Pass in a snowstorm to see the Chili Peppers. Pearl Jam and Nirvana were opening. Nobody knew it yet, but the world was about to change.
Read βNevada Neil
UNR in the '90s. The Sundowners. The Ominous Pinniped expeditions. A Slayer show at the Westin Seattle. The kind of person who made a place and a time worth remembering.
Read βCamp Reno: Power Walkers to the Casino
My mom's house as weekend hub, a power walk to the craps table, and the night Jim rolled three 11s in ten minutes β then walked away. We did not.
Read βA Draught of the South Land
Paul Moon's meticulous account of how cartography shaped New Zealand's encounter with European powers β from the VOC's strategic maps to Cook's empirical surveys and the enduring legacy of both on modern land rights.
Read βπ¨ Stories from the Westin Seattle
Nine hundred rooms breathing. Elevators humming like they've got secrets. 21 years as bell captain β Saudi royals, live animals in freight elevators, wrestling in the cantina, and the sound the building made at 2:17 AM when the lobby went quiet and the Modest Mouse started.
Read stories βπΌ The Y2K Journal
A personal journal written at the turn of the millennium β geocaching, triathlon, the scanner, the ferrets, the Westin, the Pacific Northwest. Recovered from the Wayback Machine and archived. A time capsule of life at the edge of Y2K.
Browse archive βπ³ Recipes
A working recipe box β searchable by ingredient, cuisine, cook time, and dietary preference. Recipes extracted from URLs or text using Claude, stored in a Cloudflare Worker backend. Everything from weeknight staples to things worth making on a Saturday.
Browse recipes βCannon Beach β Tide Pools, Dogs, and the Goonies Coast
Haystack Rock at low tide. Mussels older than comprehension. A disco dog with a green light. Fort George beers in Astoria. Sitting somewhere between the tide and a new website.
Read βAll Technical Posts β
Terrain rendering with forge3d, Python environments with pixi, Sierra streamflow dashboards, COBOL in 2026, live KΔ«lauea eruption tracking, archaeoastronomy at Chaco Canyon, and more.
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