2021-01-07: Dear Reps Jacobs, Malliotakis, Stefanik, and Zeldin of New York Dear Reps. Jacobs, Malliotakis, Stefanik, and Zeldin – As a citizen of the United States and …
2021-01-02: Issue #3 of my music newsletter One Last Wish is out today! I look back at my first rock album, …
2020-12-27: Awesome family hike today! So beautiful out.
2020-12-25: Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!
2020-12-24: Awesome Chadwick Boseman tribute in Jingle Jangle on Netflix.
2020-12-19: Without saying your age, post 4 albums that came out when your were 14.
2020-12-18: Our weekly make pizza and watch the Mandalorian came to an awesome end this week. 🤯. We want to …
2020-12-18: Poor puppers is tired and sore from dental surgery yesterday.
2020-12-09: Lap puppers
2020-12-09: The December edition of One Last Wish is out now. I take a look at my top 20 albums from 2020, …
2020-12-08: The second issue of One Last Wish – my music newsletter is going out soon! Subscribe now to …
2020-12-01: Narrowed down my 2020 Best Albums list to 55. See who made my cut here: …
2020-11-30: November was busy! I kicked off two projects and would be honored if you checked them out: Mindful …
2020-11-26: Happy Thanksgiving! Thankful for a low key day, a delish and easy meal, and most importantly: …
2020-11-24: Back in the 90s I loved making zines on the hardcore music scene… today I am kicking off a …
2020-11-23: Any micro.bloggers interested in a fantasy basketball league? I am working on starting a dynasty …
2020-11-22: $5 gigs, not $10m deals: the story of US punk label Dischord Records | Music - The Guardian → …
2020-11-20: Watson’s DNA test came back. 81% American Staffordshire Terrier, 13% American Bulldog, 4% …
2020-11-17: File this in the “surprised I didn’t pay more attention to this band” category: …
2020-11-02: Follow Your Nose -- a choose your own musical adventure I love this idea from Merlin Mann and Do By Friday: the “Follow Your Nose” …
2020-10-31: Pumpkin carving complete.
2020-10-26: Voting early for the first time ever.
2020-10-25: Weekend getaway to Allegany State Park
2020-10-20: 🎵 The Breeders - Pod
2020-10-19: beabadobee - Fake It Flowers Live #livestream - YouTube → If you are a sucker for …
2020-10-19: Some puppy is tired this AM. Some owner is too. 😴
2020-10-13: A Day in the Life - Buffalo, NY - 6:20pm ET Amherst Girls Hockey practice.
2020-10-12: Enjoyed the beautiful weather this weekend. First hike with Watson!
2020-10-10: 🎵 Slow Pulp - Moveys Super good.
2020-10-07: Two buddies
2020-10-01: Finally best buds
2020-09-29: Someone is comfortable in his new house. 🥰
2020-09-28: Meet our new puppers, Watson
2020-09-22: 🎵 Fleet Foxes - Shore
2020-09-19: Not sure there is a better example of white privilege than Mitch McConnell moving the goal posts in …
2020-09-03: 🎧 Now listening: Frosting on the Beater by The Posies
2020-08-30: Pigs and pug
2020-08-24: Growing up and living next to the Canadian border has a lot of benefits, one of which is being …
2020-08-22: Currently reading: Recursion by Blake Crouch 📚
2020-08-18: Some photos from our camping trip to the Adirondacks.
2020-08-11: QAnon, Conspiracy Theories, and the Rise of Magical Thinking → Very good explainer on …
2020-08-11: A Record 76% of Americans Can Vote by Mail in 2020 - The New York Times → Come on New York. We …
2020-08-07: Family getaway today!
2020-08-07: What ARGs Can Teach Us About QAnon – mssv → QAnon fascinates me (and confounds and scares me), …
2020-07-29: Run The Jewels Return! - Broken Record with Rick Rubin → A super good conversation.
2020-07-28: Currently reading: 1776 by David McCullough 📚
2020-07-28: Stella Immanuel, Trump’s New COVID-19 Doctor, Believes in Alien DNA, Demon Sperm, and …
2020-07-28: Finally ditched Amazon Prime. We will see how long this lasts.
2020-07-24: Parenting win: Stella (bass) and Lucy (drums) are jamming Another One Bites the Dust in basement.
2020-07-23: Kate Tempest – People’s Faces Lyrics → I learned of Kate Tempest through Joe …
2020-07-20: 🎵 Blu & Exile - Miles SO good.
2020-07-16: Almost one-third of Florida children tested are positive for the coronavirus | TheHill → “They …
2020-07-09: 🎵 Garden Variety - Knocking the Skill Level (Remastered 2020) Finally on streaming! One of my …
2020-07-08: Miles Beckett on Twitter: “Why are COVID cases increasing while deaths are decreasing? The …
2020-07-08: Would really like a micro.blog plugin to match the Last.fm display @smith implemented on his new …
2020-07-08: Is free speech under threat from ‘cancel culture’? Four writers respond - The Guardian …
2020-07-08: Bully - Every Tradition - YouTube → Another new one from Bully. So good.
2020-07-08: Reopening Schools in NJ- Educator Concerns → An even larger list of questions from teachers. SO …
2020-07-08: Teaching with Jillian Starr on Twitter: “A Thread: America’s teachers have a lot of …
2020-07-08: Free Speech ending the charade – Fredrik deBoer → So how can someone object to an endorsement of free speech …
2020-07-06: BALLEY TV - Episode 3 with Billy Bragg & Arlo Parks → A great episode of Joe Talbot’s …
2020-07-06: Schools in the Fall As I was listening to the Daily podcast today, I couldn’t help but think how dangerous the …
2020-07-06: Dirty Projectors: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert : NPR → The new songs are so good!
2020-07-06: RIP Laverne. You will be missed. Such a sweet pig. 😞
2020-07-05: A collection of thoughts from our weekend outdoors Here are my thoughts from this weekend’s camping trip to Stony Brook and. Watkins Glen: Not …
2020-07-05: Trip to Stony Brook and Watkins Glen Friday Saturday
2020-06-30: Local educators urge their peers to be actively anti-racist - buffalonews.com → The kids and I …
2020-06-25: 🎵 Hum - Inlet
2020-06-25: Lest We Forget the Horrors: A Catalog of Trump’s Worst Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and …
2020-06-21: Great Father’s Day weekend at Evangola State Park.
2020-06-19: 🎵 Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher So freaking good. In the running for my album of the year.
2020-06-17: HEY after 24 Hours My initial thoughts on HEY after 24 hours: the workflows and UX are pretty great, as mentioned by …
2020-06-16: IDLES - GROUNDS (Official Video) - YouTube → So good. Perfect soundtrack for 2020. Can’t …
2020-06-15: That time when a beekeeper shows up in your neighborhood to collect a bee swarm.
2020-06-15: 🎵 Ned’s Atomic Dustbin - God Fodder
2020-06-09: Police: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) - YouTube → Crucial. Watch the whole episode. …
2020-05-30: George Floyd, Minneapolis Protests, Ahmaud Arbery & Amy Cooper | The Daily Social Distancing …
2020-05-16: Hike at Zoar Valley today. Beautiful day.
2020-05-13: Survivor finale is so good. Definitely my favorite season so far. #TeamNat
2020-05-13: Senate Votes to Allow FBI to Look at Your Web Browsing History Without a Warrant - VICE → …
2020-05-08: Proof of life. And it snowed today. 🧐
2020-05-08: Avenue 5 - Airlock Scene - YouTube → Pretty much America right now.
2020-05-07: The girls took the pigs for a walk today.
2020-05-06: Seminal punk label Dischord’s entire catalog is now free online → “Free” is a bold …
2020-05-06: The pigs are out getting some sun today! Including my wife’s classroom pig, Suzanne. Coco and …
2020-05-05: We may not always have control over our options, but we do have control over how we choose among …
2020-05-04: Going the full Whitman this summer.
2020-05-04: “In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully …
2020-05-02: Also, officially sucked into Animal Crossing. Friend me up on the Switch!
2020-05-02: Family mural adventure.
2020-04-29: Our oldest put together a presentation to convince the rest of the family to read Percy Jackson and …
2020-04-29: Michigan Family Declares the Sidewalk In Front of Their Home as a Monty Python ‘Ministry of …
2020-04-29: Spring time cherry blossoms. Definitely a mood lifter for our daily walks.
2020-04-27: Back on micro.blog hosting! The ease of posting, the community, and not having to manage an install …
2020-04-07: Countertops are in finally! Final touches should be done next week.
2020-03-31: Amazing to overhear @Mammals_Suck give a March Mammal Madness @2020MMMletsgo masterclass to all of …
2020-03-19: Isolation bass lessons in our “almost complete” new kitchen. Stay healthy and safe!
2020-03-01: February Photoblogging Challenge: Day 30 Vision Some intense lighting effects at Interpol really …
2020-02-29: February Photoblogging Challenge: Day 29 Leap The Lady Knights took a huge leap forward this season. …
2020-02-28: February Photoblogging Challenge: Day 28 Below From our trip to Mammoth Cave last summer.
2020-02-27: February Photoblogging Challenge: Day 27 Together The kitchen is coming together. Cabinets and …
2020-02-26: February Photoblogging Challenge: Day 26 Escape A nice little escape: last summer in Long Beach, NY
2020-02-25: February Photoblogging Challenge: Day 25 Hurdle Another hurdle done: walls painted and flooring in. …
2020-02-24: February Photoblogging Challenge: Day 24 Double The twins. Double trouble.
2020-02-23: February Photoblogging Challenge: Day 23 Station One of our favorite family trips: visiting the …
2020-02-22: February Photoblogging Challenge: Day 22 Spectacle All three daughters sitting next to each other …
2020-02-22: Product Launch: Relic Scout We launched a brand new version of Relic Scout today! Relic Scout is perfect for collectors and …
2020-02-21: February Photoblogging Challenge: Day 21 Progress. Dry wall up, paint and flooring purchased.
2020-02-20: February Photoblogging Challenge: Day 21 Scale
2020-02-19: February Photoblogging Challenge: Day 19 Space
2020-02-18: February Photoblogging Challenge: Day 18 Oppose
2020-02-17: February Photoblogging Challenge: Day 17 Cool Up front for Band of Horses.
2020-02-16: February Photoblogging Challenge Day 16: Rest Can’t believe how fast time passes. Stella five …
2020-02-15: February Photoblogging Challenge Day 15: Balance
2020-02-14: Gift from the Mrs. #pitterpatter
2020-02-14: February Photoblogging Challenge Day 14: Warmth Eternal Flame, Chestnut Ridge Park (Orchard Park, …
2020-02-13: February Photoblogging Challenge Day 13: Rise
2020-02-12: February Photoblogging Challenge Day 12: Attachment Erie County Fair 2015
2020-02-11: February Photoblogging Challenge Day 11: There’s nothing plain about these three.
2020-02-10: February Photoblogging Challenge Day 10 We just booked our summer camping trip in the Adirondacks, …
2020-02-09: February Photoblogging Challenge: Day 9 There may be a lull in the work this weekend, but we took …
2020-02-08: February Photoblogging Challenge Day 8: Contrast Downtown Buffalo in the theatre district.
2020-02-07: February Photoblogging Challenge Day 7: Above Guaranty Building, Buffalo, NY
2020-02-06: A winter storm is hitting the area, so I am dreaming about spring. Today’s Photoblogging …
2020-02-05: February Photoblogging Challenge Day 4: Hide
2020-02-05: Day two complete! via Flickr
2020-02-04: February Photoblogging Challenge: Day 4 One big spot of snow left from the storm.
2020-02-03: February Photoblogging Challenge: Day 3 Today’s word: Reflect From our trip to Old Sturbridge …
2020-02-03: Day one complete! Exciting progress. via Flickr
2020-02-03: Day one complete! Exciting progress. via Flickr
2020-02-03: Kitchen remodel day one: dining room before
2020-02-03: Kitchen remodel day one: old kitchen, new appliances
2020-02-03: Kitchen remodel day one; old kitchen, new appliances
2020-02-03: Kitchen remodel day one: old kitchen, new appliances
2020-02-03: Kitchen remodel day one: kitchen in the living room and dust wall 😄
2020-02-03: Kitchen remodel day one: dining room before
2020-02-03: Kitchen remodel day one: dining room before
2020-02-03: I created a Flickr album to track the progress on our kitchen and dining room remodel. Follow along!
2020-02-02: The sight we’ve been waiting for… kitchen and dining room remodel starts tomorrow! (For …
2020-02-01: I really want to particpate in @macgenie’s photoblogging challenge for this month. I am going …
2020-01-30: The Case Against Impeachment Has Nothing to Do With Impeachment - The Atlantic → An excellent …
2020-01-29: Nova (from Panic) beta time! So excited.
2020-01-29: Now that the Iowa caucuses are close, I see it’s become “scare people away from Bernie” season …
2020-01-29: I am really digging the design of Fantastical 3. Not entirely sold on the subscription, but I am …
2020-01-29: Bon Iver tickets at Art Park acquired! Going to be another anniversary concert with the Mrs. One of …
2020-01-22: OK, Twitter hiatus commencing (again)… too stressful, too much of a time suck. If I ever go …
2020-01-22: As Fast as Her - Chicago Blackhawks - YouTube → This is Zoey’s fifth year playing …
2020-01-21: Thanks to everyone who shared the “subscribe to YouTube” in RSS tips over the last few …
2020-01-21: Beyond Fracking: Oil-and-Gas Industry’s Toxic Waste Is Radioactive - Rolling Stone → …
2020-01-18: Me and the Mrs out for some meat raffle fun.
2020-01-18: First win of the season for these ladies!
2020-01-16: Ian MacKaye: Full Interview (AUDIO ONLY) - House Of Strombo - YouTube → Such a good …
2020-01-15: How IDLES Singer Joe Talbot Challenges Masculinity With Punk - NowThis →
2020-01-13: Dave Winer on Bernie Sanders: Sanders is a nice guy for sure, but he can't do the organizing we need …
2020-01-12: Couple firsts for me this past week: Made my first donation to a presidential campaign and did my …
2020-01-06: The New Mutants - Official Trailer → Comes out April 3rd. I dig it.
2020-01-04: Girls got their first non-loss of the season. They’ve improved so much. A win is just around the …
2020-01-03:
Volume 1, Issue 1: Run-DMC’s Raising Hell
Note: This post was published elsewhere initially. I am moving my 7-Day Music Club efforts from …
2020-01-02: Writing Feeling Into Song With Sharon Van Etten (Rebroadcast) - 1A → Great interview. This …
2019-12-24: Merry Christmas!
2019-12-22: KEXP just posted a live performance from Hatchie – #4 on my 2019 list. Watch below or view …
2019-12-21: Ice skating with these ladies tonight.
2019-12-20: Let’s make 2020 the year we all get off Instagram and move back to Flickr: The world’s most-beloved, …
2019-12-20: My Fave Albums from 2019 I’ve finally narrowed my list of favorite music releases of 2019 to 22. I tried my hardest to …
2019-12-17: Why the Clash’s ‘London Calling’ Still Matters - The Ringer → One of my fave albums of all …
2019-12-05: My Apple Music Replay for 2019
2019-11-22: Sacha Baron Cohen Uses ADL Speech to Tear Apart Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook → The ultimate …
2019-11-05: The 2010s Have Broken Our Sense Of Time → Or more simply, the algorithm: You can find yourself …
2019-10-21: Enjoyed a Beauts OT win on Saturday and a Bills ugly win on Sunday. Let’s go Buffalo.
2019-10-16: “There Is Definite Hanky-Panky Going On”: The Fantastically Profitable Mystery of the Trump Chaos …
2019-10-08: Another music nugget: it took me 3 albums but I finally get Angel Olsen. Her new album All Mirrors …
2019-10-08: Video: Watch Sharon Van Etten Play The Tiny Desk : NPR → SO good. I don’t know how she …
2019-10-02: Song Exploder Episode 169: Clairo Clairo talks about the story behind Alewife and recording with Rostam. (PSA: suicide is a main …
2019-10-01: The Delusion and Danger of Infinite Economic Growth - The New Republic → Extreme weather …
2019-09-28: The Consumerism Curse – On my Om → “Fundamentally, it is a business model that is flawed —- …
2019-09-28: How Politics Can Make You Sick - Elemental → Just as an official impeachment inquiry of …
2019-09-26: Created an iOS shortcut to take a phone number from the clipboard and look it up on Robokiller. Way …
2019-09-25: The oral history of Veruca Salt’s American Thighs — The A.V. Club → This took me back to …
2019-09-23: Greta's message Greta Thunberg had a powerful message at the United Nations Climate Action Summit. I hope world …
2019-09-18: Clairo performs ‘Bags’ on Ellen: Love her debut album Immunity.
2019-09-13: Picked up the new Bon Iver and Physical Graffiti yesterday. Zeppelin is getting a ton of play. That …
2019-09-11: We got to witness a spider catch a fly in it’s web, wrap it in silk, and eat it this AM. …
2019-09-09: Nothing better than rocking my Pre-season Champions hoodie to celebrate a Bills win.
2019-09-07: First two games of the season in the books. #AmherstKnights #girlshockey via Flickr …
2019-09-06: EARTHGANG’s new album Mirrorland is so good. A definite OutKast vibe, though with their own …
2019-09-06: Apple Music → Apple Music launches on the web! Pretty solid for a first release and way faster than …
2019-09-05: Back at it! #hockey #travelhockey #hockeygirls
2019-08-26: Introducing ‘1619,’ a New York Times Audio Series - The New York Times → Crucial listening. …
2019-08-22: Trump’s Tax on the National Psyche - The New Republic So on point. Ready for this timeline to be …
2019-08-22: I’ve really been digging the new Bon Iver and this episode on Holyfields makes it even more …
2019-08-18: Quick stop over to the beach in Long Beach (NY) before we drove back to Buffalo.
2019-08-13: Maiden!
2019-08-11: Picked this cool little Kodak Printomatic for my 15-year work anniversary gift.
2019-08-06: Interpol was amazing tonight.
2019-08-05: Stella’s b-day present finally came!
2019-08-02: 🎵 Digging: Immunity by Clairo
2019-07-27: Cleveland has been pretty fun! We enjoyed wandering around and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame today.
2019-07-27: Zoey’s day was made: front row at the Snail Mail concert, then got her guitar pick and set list …
2019-07-14: Had our first casual get together of the hockey season today. The girls were more than excited to …
2019-07-13: Back to coding the next version of Relic Scout! It’s been a few months, but all of that comic …
2019-07-11: First summer trip of the year is in the books: some 1600 miles and 34+ hours in the car, 7 states, 2 …
2019-07-09: Had to check out the guinea pig exhibit at the Nashville Zoo. Kids are in love! They miss their …
2019-07-06: Mammoth Cave was pretty amazing!
2019-07-04: Hello, Louisville! Have a perfect view for fireworks tonight.
2019-06-25: Going to give the new Reminders a shot for a few weeks.
2019-06-22: Awesome day for a ride! Our first Ride for Roswell was amazing. We will be back.
2019-06-19: My last week in music. On a Middle Kids kick! Also check out Truth Club’s new album.
2019-06-18: One of the most important rock bands today: Idles
2019-06-17: Ok got my new iPad Air. Should I buy Things for iPad or wait to check out Reminders in the Public …
2019-06-16: Super relaxing trip away this weekend for Father’s Day! We went to Golden Hill on Lake Ontario to …
2019-06-13: Thanks @Burk for the sticker!
2019-06-13: I know we’ve had a lot of rain, but Dark Sky seems to be rubbing it in today.
2019-06-12: We made a launch mistake with 7-Day Music Club! Substack limits community comments to paying …
2019-06-11: All of the coverage of iPadOS inspired me to get back on the iPad train. New iPad Air, keyboard, and …
2019-06-11: The first issue of 7-Day Music Club is live and written by me… all about my first cassette …
2019-06-09: My wife got me a penguin encounter for my birthday! I loved penguins growing up — especially after …
2019-06-06: Love music? Vinyl? Our very first 7-Day Music Club newsletter is almost ready – with the first …
2019-06-05: The Mrs. won Educator of the Year at her school. So proud!
2019-06-02: Our favorite Girl Scout event: marching the Buffalo Pride with our troop. So much fun, so positive. …
2019-05-22: Got one of my faves! Swervedriver’s Mezcal Head on vinyl.
2019-05-20: Lucy scored her first soccer goal tonight! So exciting.
2019-05-14: Birthday records came! Still have Swervedriver and Joy Division coming.
2019-05-13: Sadly the multiple payment methods doesn’t seem to be implemented the way I hoped. You can’t easily …
2019-05-13: When did Apple add multiple payment methods in iOS? Been on my wishlist for a long time.
2019-05-06: Just backed Bokeh on Kickstarter – excited to see where Tim takes this…
2019-05-04: Cherry blossom festival
2019-04-30: Vampire Weekend tonight in Buffalo. Great show!
2019-04-28: 88 Important Truths I’ve Learned About Life → Super good list.
2019-04-25: NFL Draft night! My fave options for Bills: T.J. Hockensen (TE) Ed Oliver (DT) Trade down in 1st …
2019-04-25: Family tickets for Endgame purchased. First Marvel movie all of us have been excited for at release. …
2019-04-21: Current status.
2019-04-19: 🎵 Wand - Laughing Matter Really digging this new album. For fans of older, fuzzy Radiohead.
2019-04-17: A Message From the Future With Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez → Visit for the amazing art, stay for …
2019-04-13: Record Store Day pick ups!
2019-04-11: How to take a picture of a black hole | Katie Bouman - YouTube → So awesome.
2019-04-09: First night of indoor soccer. All on the same team!
2019-04-09: Subscription Hostages - Signal v. Noise → This is one of the main reasons I enjoy subscriptions on …
2019-04-09: Adding pagination to the Hyde theme (Micro.blog) I finally sat down and took a look at Hugo themes last night to add pagination to the …
2019-04-08: George Lakoff: Don’t Think of an Elephant - YouTube → Excellent and insightful talk. Via: Do …
2019-04-08: Zoey was so excited to get her braces off today!
2019-04-07: Picked up another all-time fave: Ctrl by SZA
2019-04-06: Finally saw Captain Marvel today with the family. We loved it and my geek heart exploded with every …
2019-04-06: Announcing 7-Day Music Club I’m pleased to announce a new project I am launching with a few long-time music loving …
2019-04-04: Song Exploder: Sharon Van Etten → Such a great episode from one of my favorite artists.
2019-04-02: Americans Borrowed $88 Billion to Pay for Health Care Last Year, Survey Finds → I’m not …
2019-03-31: The Mrs. and I saw Rent for the first time today. The second act was top notch!
2019-03-29: Just another Friday night selling Girl Scout cookies. Thankful it’s the last weekend for another …
2019-03-29: Our first experience with travel hockey tryouts is in the books after four years of house hockey. My …
2019-03-28: Got my copy of 3 Feet High and Rising today. So amazing! Transported back to my early teenage years …
2019-03-27: 🎵 Nilüfer Yanya - Miss Universe So good.
2019-03-27: Ok, I created a Shortcut that you can use from within Apple News to create a markdown link of the …
2019-03-26: The danger of ‘I already pay for Apple News+’ - TechCrunch → A good counterpoint to …
2019-03-26: Congrats to @Agiletortoise on the release of Drafts on the Mac. Just imported my Bear notes, …
2019-03-26: re: Apple News vs. RSS – Snakes and Ladders Apple News vs. RSS – Snakes and Ladders → Guess what you see when you look at your RSS reader? …
2019-03-22: Today’s pickup: Broken Social Scene. One of my all-time favorites.
2019-03-10: Last fall my father-in-law was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Our entire family, including his …
2019-03-10: First time record shopping in probably 15 years! Picked up Sharon Van Etten and Fugazi, two of my …
2019-03-08: I’m really digging a couple new albums from today: Part 1 Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost …
2019-03-04: Signed up for Vinyl Me, Please to grab De La’s 3 Feet High and Rising. I’ve wanted that record for …
2019-03-03: Second to last skate of the season.
2019-02-27: Saw Angela Davis at UB tonight. So smart and thought provoking.
2019-02-27: Trying to stay warm today.
2019-02-13: The Mrs. and I took a glass blowing class last night at The Foundry. So much fun!
2019-02-12: About one-third of Americans say using blackface is acceptable - Pew Research Center → How can …
2019-02-12: Earth Crisis at Kendzies in Lockport. Probably 1996.
2019-02-11: H2O at Blind Mellon’s in 1996-ish: think they opened for Sick of it All. So good!
2019-02-11: Hot Water Music: Cleveland Hardcore Fest ‘95. Blew me away.
2019-02-11: Head over to @noechodotnet today to see a collection of my photos from the 90s hardcore scene. …
2019-02-11: 90s Hardcore Photo Party (Upstate New York Edition) - No Echo → Check out some of my photos …
2019-02-09: Hoover Middle School’s production of Alice in Wonderland. Last performance is today at 1pm!
2019-02-06: Another fave from the 90s: Mineral at the Detroit Hardcore Fest (1996?)
2019-02-06: Yeah Amherst Girls! Zoey in the gray helmet along the wall with her team. They got to skate during a …
2019-02-05: Our precious Earth and the lunar far side – Dwingeloo Radio Telescope - CAMRAS → Awesome …
2019-02-05: Maggie Rogers | House Of Strombo - YouTube → Great interview and a couple acoustic songs, …
2019-02-04: Added some new photos to my band photo Flickr album. Most are mid to late 90s punk and hardcore …
2019-02-04: Shift - Showplace Theatre in the late 90s
2019-02-02: Spent 7 hours working on set design with Stella today to support the middle school’s production of …
2019-02-02: Browsing the photo box: @itinerantprinter and I, high school graduation 1994.
2019-02-01: Chet enjoying today’s sun.
2019-02-01: ‘This is Not the End’ by Spielbergs → Musical crush for the day.
2019-01-31: Trades like the Porzingis deal are a big reason I love the NBA. Deals like this very rarely happen …
2019-01-30: Today and tomorrow: Blizzard warning and -20s wind chill. Next week: 50s. Totally normal Buffalo …
2019-01-30: My top 16 songs from the last week are showing a little obsession!
2019-01-30: On Maggie Rogers’s Inescapable Aura, Debut Album ‘Heard It in a Past Life’ - The Ringer → Love the …
2019-01-29: Accidental twinning! Lucy wasn’t digging it — especially since mom is a teacher at her school.
2019-01-29: Daring Fireball: TechCrunch: Facebook Pays Teenagers to Install VPN That Spies on Them → …
2019-01-29: Wow, our schools just canceled for Wednesday and Thursday! Brrrr. Ready for winter to be over …
2019-01-28: Les Savy Fav brought the full crazy to Elsewhere (pics, video, setlist) → Probably my favorite …
2019-01-27: Celebrated the first half of the school year by taking the kids to 5 Wits for an escape room and …
2019-01-24: All this Blot.im talk… had to jump in! Posting to Git repo via Working Copy on iOS is pretty …
2019-01-24: New album from Conor Oberst and Phoebe Bridgers. So so good.
2019-01-23: Amazon’s Wish List with Stacy Mitchell — Why Is This Happening? with Chris Hayes — Overcast → …
2019-01-21: Zoey bought a guinea pig grooming set today. Both are in heaven!
2019-01-20: Had my first Impossible burger today. So frickin good. Best veggie burger by far.
2019-01-15: Maggie Rogers - Light On (La Blogothèque – Live in Paris) → I like this version better than the …
2019-01-14: Jawbox announce 2019 reunion tour → YES. Please come to Buffalo!
2019-01-12: Sadly I needed to bribe Lucy to go see Into the Spider-verse with me today, but also finally going …
2019-01-11: Operation ‘replace swollen battery and upgrade to SSD in my old 2009 MacBook’ with Stella is …
2019-01-10: Outkast’s Aquemini is 20 years old and still amazing. Changed my mood today. Much appreciated.
2019-01-09: Today’s New Comic Book Day pickups. And I finally set up a pull list at the LCS three blocks from my …
2019-01-09: Giving Day One another chance for journaling… have a daily gratitude prompt, IFTTT for my …
2019-01-05: Intermission shoot out for these ladies at the Beauts game today!
2019-01-03: One music list to rule them all – The Outline → An aggregated Album-of-the-Year analysis. …
2019-01-02: Just got Stella excited to help out with a battery and SSD hard drive upgrade to make my 2009 …
2019-01-01: Recent Comic Pickups I recently scored some good deals on a few comic investments: Paper Girls #1 (CGC 9.8), Monstress #1 …
2018-12-31: My 2018 in Pictures Some of my favorite moments from 2018. Some highlights: visiting Hogwarts at Universal Studios, …
2018-12-31: My 2018 in Media Some of my favorite things from 2018 in no order… Music Releases Snail Mail - Lush Shame - …
2018-12-31: Possible cool Micro.blog app idea: viewing a post from MB user in browser, hit MB share extension …
2018-12-28: Dinner and ice cream fun with the girls.
2018-12-23: Zoey earned the ‘A’ after today’s 3-2 win. Lots of hard work and effort! So proud.
2018-12-23: The tale of girls house hockey.
2018-12-21: shame - Full Performance (Live on KEXP) - YouTube → Love Songs of Praise – it’s one …
2018-12-12: My new pickups from the local comic shop.
2018-12-12: Dirty Projectors: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert - YouTube → So good. If I was a talented …
2018-12-10: watch Ben Gibbard, Julien Baker, Craig Finn, Kevin Devine, Aaron Dessner at Frightened Rabbit …
2018-12-05: Picked up a few books at the LCS today. Loved Firefly. Digging into the others later!
2018-12-05: Finally scheduled out my remaining days off. Only 8 full work days left in 2018! Which means I have …
2018-12-02: Such a great group of young ladies.
2018-12-01: Impromptu dance party after A Charlie Brown Christmas at the Theatre of Youth.
2018-11-29: Finally gave in and got an Instant Pot. What recipe should I try first?
2018-11-22: Cousins on Thanksgiving 🦃
2018-11-17: Saw The Crimes of Grindelwald tonight with the family — so good!
2018-11-16: New .Paak is so good.
2018-11-14: Here are the most infuriating details of Amazon’s HQ2 deals → If this deal goes through in NY, …
2018-11-13: Laverne and Cocoa officially live together! Last night was their final “get to know you” and move …
2018-11-10: Main Street, Buffalo
2018-11-09: Dreaming up a plan for the House If I were the Democrat leadership in the House, my plan would be to come out the gate fast and pass …
2018-11-09: Re-joined Flickr Pro! I’ve been using the site in one way or another since 2005 and I am very …
2018-11-07: If you are on Mastodon, you can follow my blog using @jason@endonend.org
2018-11-06: Watch The Deadly Class trailer: assassin academy for teens - Polygon → Can’t wait for …
2018-11-03: Fun night at Misuta Chows with the Mrs. and some good friends. Arcade and great Japanese food.
2018-11-03: Stella and her friends finished up their mural at Buffalo Arts Studio. So cool!
2018-11-03: Stella and her friends finished up their mural at Buffalo Arts Studio. So cool!
2018-11-02: Friday night lights. Sort of…
2018-11-01: Over at Relic Scout, I shared my pull list and most anticipated comic books for November.
2018-11-01: NFL teams aren’t even trying that hard to justify keeping Kap off a team. Here’s my hometown Bills. …
2018-10-31: Finished: Marvel’s Daredevil 📺 So good. Loved Fisk (again), Bullseye, and Nadeem. Hopefully …
2018-10-31: This kid. Who wants to be a cactus with a mustache?😂
2018-10-30: Laverne got a young new companion today: Cocoa. Super fluffy and soft! @macgenie
2018-10-30: My latest comic issue recommendation over at Relic Scout: Speculator’s Corner: Volume 2, Issue …
2018-10-29: A Joyous Cover of Love Will Tear Us Apart Again? - kottke.org → So good!
2018-10-29: So glad I looked through the JetPens planner section for the 100th time! I found this, which is …
2018-10-27: Yuno (Live on KEXP) - YouTube → One of my favorite albums of 2018. A perfect blend of indie, hip …
2018-10-26: Over on Relic Scout, I shared My Comic Collecting Origin Story – how I got started reading and …
2018-10-25: Three perspectives
2018-10-25: Comic collectors! While we re-factor the Relic Scout app to include more buying tools, the main …
2018-10-24: Finished: Marvel’s Luke Cage📺 – Hoping for a Heroes for Hire team-up!
2018-10-20: Cousins weekend!
2018-10-16: It’s a Tragically Hip kind of day.
2018-10-15: Ok, a second watching of Annihilation left a better taste in my mouth. As a movie, it is visually …
2018-10-13: Watched: The Man in the High Castle 📺 Finished season three this week. So good. Pretty telling most …
2018-10-13: Watched: Annihilation (2018) directed by Alex Garland - Letterboxd 🎥 Feel like I need to watch this …
2018-10-13: Some couch time with Laverne.
2018-10-13: What I Can Control swissmiss – What I Can Control → Absolutely love this… I made and printed out a …
2018-10-10: Posted a rough draft of a new song. I am liking this one a lot more than my last. Hopefully I can …
2018-10-09: Saba: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert - YouTube → Saba’s Care for Me is one of my …
2018-10-07: That’s a win!
2018-10-07: Almost game time!
2018-10-04: In Praise of Mediocrity - The New York Times → Tim Wu on having hobbies: Lost here is the …
2018-10-04: A few weeks ago I asked if anyone ever deleted their entire Apple Music collection and started over. …
2018-10-03: Don’t Miss This: “Redlands” by Jordie Bellaire and Vanesa Del Rey – Multiversity Comics → So …
2018-10-02: I Know Brett Kavanaugh, but I Wouldn’t Confirm Him - The Atlantic →
2018-10-02: If the Point of Capitalism is to Escape Capitalism, Then What’s the Point of Capitalism? → The …
2018-09-28: Exciting start to the hockey season! Zoey’s team got off to a 2-0 lead and the other team battled …
2018-09-25: J. Cole was so good. Put on an awesome show!
2018-09-25: J. Cole - Album Of The Year - Freestyle - YouTube → Seeing J. Cole tonight! So excited.
2018-09-23: Lol. What 17 year old has an underage drinking party on their calendar, much less one from 36 years …
2018-09-22: Watching: Maniac (Netflix) 📺
2018-09-21: Bully at Mohawk Place. So good!
2018-09-21: Bully - Full Performance (Live on KEXP) - YouTube → Seeing Bully tonight – so excited!
2018-09-21: Has anyone ever done a hard reset of Apple Music? (Delete all and start over?) Between iCloud Music …
2018-09-20: Brie Larson Was Told to Smile in ‘Captain Marvel,’ So She Put Smiles onto Marvel Dudes …
2018-09-20: The Siri Shortcuts implementation has me looking at Things again… Shortcuts could be used to …
2018-09-19: Here’s a simple Siri Shortcut to subscribe to the current site in Feedbin
2018-09-19: Made a playlist of some of my favorite indie/alt-rock songs from the 90s. If you are on Apple music, …
2018-09-19: SPACE ALERT™ – An Apple Shortcuts Text Adventure – UARRR.org → This is pretty amazing and a …
2018-09-19: 60 minutes proving De La Soul is one of hip-hop’s greats—but its legacy is in danger → Truth.
2018-09-18: The Captain Marvel movie can’t come soon enough.
2018-09-18: Captain Marvel’s helmet/mohawk movie costume is the result of a bet - Polygon → Love …
2018-09-18: Morning walk before a six consecutive hour meeting.
2018-09-18: Still have Things installed on my iPhone and really impressed with the build-your-own implementation …
2018-09-18: Marvel Studios’ Captain Marvel - Official Trailer - YouTube → YES.
2018-09-17: Created my first Shortcut! Made a menu & dialer workflow that calls the correct phone conference …
2018-09-17: It’s time!
2018-09-17: Thinking about Attention — CGP Grey → Found myself nodding in agreement throughout the 11+ …
2018-09-16: Lucy and her fellow Girl Scout Cadettes rode 24 miles on their bikes to raise awareness for their …
2018-09-15: Watching: Ready Player One (2018) - IMDb 🎥
2018-09-15: Got the 30-day blogging pin! ✍🏼 Thanks to @manton and everyone on Micro.blog for making blogging …
2018-09-15: Took a 10-day break from running due to knee issues but got back on the treadmill today. …
2018-09-14: I’ve been playing the Switch almost exclusively, so I forgot how long it takes to download and …
2018-09-14: Getting excited for hockey season so going to dig into NHL 19 tonight. I’m EndOnEnd on XBOX …
2018-09-14: Liked: The Fast and Frugal Needs of the Online Reader - Hapgood → Check for other coverage, …
2018-09-14: Liked: Forget the new iPhones, Apple’s best product is now privacy →
2018-09-14: After some reflection and reading posts from @patrickrhone, @chet, and others, I am feeling grateful …
2018-09-14: Well, it’s been a hard week for the kids: Lucy’s hamster passed away last night. Two …
2018-09-13: Nintendo Entertainment System – Nintendo Switch Online → Super excited to be able to play some …
2018-09-13: During lunch, I recorded a 90’s emo-ish breakdown at the end of my song. Version 3 up on …
2018-09-13: Ugh. My iPhone X eBay purchase fell through. At least the seller did some leg work before shipping …
2018-09-13: I’ve been working on this song for the last couple months. I recently made some improvements …
2018-09-12: The House that Came in the Mail - 99% Invisible → This is a pretty cool story. Our house was …
2018-09-12: OK, made my iPhone upgrade decision. Grabbed an excellent condition X off eBay for $250 less than …
2018-09-12: Almost Apple time! Looking to upgrade from my 7 Plus to some variant of the iPhone X series this …
2018-09-11: An Avalanche of Speech Can Bury Democracy - POLITICO Magazine → It’s not speech per se that …
2018-09-11: Another side effect of deactivating Twitter: I’ve posted at least one blog post a day since …
2018-09-11: Zines How to make a one-page zine → I haven’t made a paper zine in over 20 years, but this looks …
2018-09-10: The ladies are almost home from school. Have my hugs ready. Thanks to all for the kind words and …
2018-09-10: Rest in Peace Shirley. What a rough way for the kiddos to start their day. Heartbreaking.
2018-09-09: Now watching: Mayans M.C. - Perro/Oc. S01E01 📺
2018-09-09: Well, the Bills certainly hold the record for fastest “lose interest in the game and season” for me. …
2018-09-08: Intolerant of intolerance Should have know there was a paradox for this, as it has always thrown me for a loop. Popper’s …
2018-09-08: WNY Llamafest
2018-09-08: WNY Llamafest was a hit.
2018-09-08: Hockey season AND embarrassing dad season again.
2018-09-08: Apple Music Gains Better Organization of Releases on Artist Pages – MacStories → Lots of …
2018-09-07: Just noticed this in Apple Music: upcoming releases at the top of an artist’s page. Awesome!
2018-09-07: Fully switched to OmniFocus on iOS yesterday and got the Mac beta invite today! Good timing. Going …
2018-09-07: Alex Jones and Infowars banned from Twitter permanently - Vox → I’d bet Twitter was looking …
2018-09-06: Day #1 of moving back to Omnifocus (and) moving my full blog to Micro.blog. I liked my WordPress …
2018-09-05: Yup it’s hot outside. Feel for all the kids and teachers back in school! Thankfully tomorrow will …
2018-09-05: Death Cab for Cutie cover Frightened Rabbit’s “Backwards Walk” (listen) → A very nice tribute …
2018-09-04: Well, it looks like my experiment with Evernote lasted a little over a week. The latest news does …
2018-09-04: Snail Mail - Full Performance (Live on KEXP) - YouTube One of my favorite bands and favorite releases from 2018 so far:
2018-09-04: Sunlit 2.2 is here → Congrats @manton! Sunlit is how I post photos to my blog and now we get an …
2018-09-04: Fifth, sixth, seventh, fifth. First day of school year!
2018-09-04: First day of school. First time all four are going to the same school. First time the Mrs has been …
2018-09-03: Been a while since I did a Micro Monday post, but Micro.blog has been awesome lately. I will give a …
2018-09-03: Relic Scout Development Journal (S1E2): Hit List As I mentioned in my last Relic Scout post, I am going to document my progress with launching new …
2018-09-03: With school starting tomorrow, we’re looking ahead to spring break and making plans. This year …
2018-09-03: “White Fragility 101” | Crooked Media → A great episode and reminder: regardless of …
2018-09-02: Enjoyed Annihilation so much I grabbed the hardcover collection this weekend. 📚
2018-09-01: Now reading: Leviathan Wakes by James Corey 📚
2018-09-01: The news of Reeder going free (and Reeder 4 coming later this year) got me to re-download the app. …
2018-09-01: Micro.blog + MarsEdit Tips I added a few more Micro.blog shortcuts to my MarsEdit setup. To add these, open up the New Post …
2018-08-31: Every single emotion → It’s high drama all the time. So true. Even more so with three daughters!
2018-08-31: New album from one of my favorites! Definitely see Saintseneca live if you ever have the chance.
2018-08-31: Free Speech Is Not the Same As Free Reach (WIRED) → The best solution to that is to increase …
2018-08-30: Here’s a pig pile for @macgenie!
2018-08-30: Three amigos.
2018-08-29: The world is a terrible place right now, and that’s largely because it is what we make it. | WIL …
2018-08-29: Also just set up some Micro.blog tagmoji as formatting macros in MarsEdit. Now I just need to …
2018-08-29: If you are on Apple Music, give me a follow and I will follow back: @endonend at Apple Music – …
2018-08-28: Finished Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer. Definitely had a LOST vibe to it. Got my wife interested …
2018-08-27: Episode 75: I Set Up a Fake Child – AppStories: I love Merlin’s take on our hangups with …
2018-08-27: The Other Side of “Broken Windows” | The New Yorker: Who could have predicted focusing on the cause, …
2018-08-26: Almost hockey season again! Got Zoey back out on the ice after a 4 month break.
2018-08-26: Any recommendations for Nintendo Switch news/game review sites to follow? Looking to add a couple to …
2018-08-26: Slow Change how change happens – Snakes and Ladders: It’s too late to avert Trump, of course. But we damn well …
2018-08-26: For National Dog Day: Chet, our pug, has been a huge part of our family over the last 4 years!
2018-08-25: Block party fun. And yeah I hurt myself. Lol.
2018-08-24: Making Unconscious Rules Conscious | onfocus: I don’t perfectly execute these unconscious …
2018-08-24: So, does anyone still use Evernote? Saw the new version featured in the Mac app store, so I gave it …
2018-08-23: Current home screen.
2018-08-22: The wife and I joined the local Planet Fitness three weeks ago and today I ran my first 5k distance …
2018-08-21: Tonight’s reading material: Pearl #1, The Seeds #1, and Death or Glory #4.
2018-08-21: Read: Elizabeth Warren’s speech unveiling new anti-corruption bill - Vox → Between this and the …
2018-08-21: What a perfect cover for the current state of Mister Miracle.
2018-08-21: "Funny Is How We Got Here: When Journalists Amplify Hate” | Crooked Media: A good conversation …
2018-08-21: Relic Scout Development Journal (S1E1): Kickoff In an effort to hold myself more accountable to making progress on Relic Scout, I am going to start …
2018-08-20: New Nintendo eShop indie games available now through early 2019 - Polygon: So many games, so little …
2018-08-20: OK, I took a pass at my comics pull list, categorizing by current, ending/ended, evaluating, and …
2018-08-20: Trade: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) - YouTube Well done and incredibly hilarious. (Which means our country is screwed.)
2018-08-19: Making nightly attempts to catch up on comics. Tonight: Analog, Black Hammer, Mister Miracle
2018-08-19: Almost 20 years later. Still relevant, still powerful.
2018-08-18: Currently reading: Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
2018-08-18: Anyone interested in a fantasy basketball league? I thought it would be cool to do a league along …
2018-08-17: Hello Weather on iOS keeps getting better and better – today’s radar update is so good! …
2018-08-17: I set up a Mastodon account (@endonend@mastodon.social), but so far I’ve only followed familiar …
2018-08-17: Just deactivated my Twitter account for #deactiday. It will be interesting to see how much I want to …
2018-08-14: Commentary: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez becomes the Sarah Palin of the Left - CBS News → I wish …
2018-08-14: We Want Comics: LOST – Multiversity Comics → WANT. I loved LOST so much – probably the …
2018-08-13: #DeactiDay and embracing IndieWeb A couple of weeks ago I deactivated my Facebook account, citing Facebook’s long standing history …
2018-08-11: I picked up Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove for the Switch on sale. Super fun! Definitely brings back …
2018-08-11: Beautiful day for a paddle.
2018-08-11: Paddlin’
2018-08-08: Band of Horses was super good.
2018-08-08: Band of Horses and Bonny Doon tonight at Town Ballroom. Great show!
2018-08-08: First visit to the comic shop in a while. Picked up Black Badge by Matt Kindt and the Kirby variant …
2018-08-08: Own your content Manton Reece - Infowars and the reluctance to curate → Manton hits the nail on the head: …
2018-08-03: More than 20 years ago I took Melisa on our first date to see the Descendents. Tonight, on our 16th …
2018-07-26: Seattle venue Showbox may be torn down for apartments → Bummed for the Seattle music scene! My …
2018-07-25: Sharon Van Etten | Soirée de Poche #24 Beautiful:
2018-07-23: Micro Monday - Episode 19: @endonend → My first podcast! A little nervous to listen, though I …
2018-07-23: DEADLY CLASS | Official Trailer #1 | SYFY SYFY released the first trailer for the upcoming season of Deadly Class – looks awesome:
2018-07-17: Just noticed this on iOS 12 public beta… is Apple updating stock apps via AppStore now?
2018-07-17: Former President Barack Obama Delivers Speech At 16th Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture | TIME - YouTube I joined the live stream about half way through, but what I heard was extremely refreshing after …
2018-07-17: Guest on a podcast ✔
2018-07-17: Some reflections on my roadtrip across the western United States This world is all we have, and the more we see of it, the better we can make it. Our two …
2018-07-16: Putin’s playbook for discrediting America and destabilizing the West Ukraine, Brexit, Syria, Trump, promotion of fascist candidates in European elections (Le Pen in …
2018-07-15: Snail Mail and Katie Crutchfield cover Sheryl Crow Two of my favorite musicians:
2018-07-14: Picked this up at Target. Can’t wait to play with the family tomorrow.
2018-07-13: Doing this on Twitter now. Ruby app makes it super easy: Unfollowing Everybody
2018-07-09: Our annual five days in the Adirondacks. Totally magical. Spent time in Lake Placid, hiked Mt. …
2018-07-09: Five days in ADK. Amazing as usual. #lakemeacham #mountregis
2018-07-04: Yep.
2018-07-01: Our hike yesterday in Chestnut Ridge Park to see the eternal flame.
2018-07-01: Super bummed my Apple Watch decided to stop tracking for a few hours yesterday and I didn’t realize …
2018-06-29: My favorite Apple Music change for iOS 12: the ‘For You - New Releases’ page is now …
2018-06-27: Two new members of the family. Meet Laverne & Shirley.
2018-06-26: One of 150 some photos left on my phone when I wasn’t looking. At least they are cute and loving …
2018-06-26: First full day on iOS 12 public beta. Time limits for social media is refreshing.
2018-06-25: Preview of Sunlit 2.2 | Manton Reece→ I am so excited for the next version of Sunlit. Exactly …
2018-06-22: Such a gentleman.
2018-06-22: Such a gentleman.
2018-06-22: Rough draft of a new song Been playing around with a catchy riff, inspired by my love of 90’s indie rock.
2018-06-21: My Music Diet: Five New(ish) Releases Here are five of my favorite albums from the last month or so: Yuno - Moodie EP (Sub Pop Records) …
2018-06-20: Last night’s post-musical practice sunset. Glorious.
2018-06-19: Last day of elementary school for these two.
2018-06-17: Letchworth in all it’s glory.
2018-06-17: Letchworth in all it’s glory.
2018-06-17: Hiking with my ladies at Letchworth.
2018-06-15: Sunlit 2.2 looks awesome. Exactly what I was hoping for, direction-wise, when 2 came out. Nice work …
2018-06-15: Zoey’s Father’s Day card. Complete with 50 pocket cargo pants. So cute.
2018-06-12: Undemocratic Voter fraud is rare to nonexistent, yet there are ongoing attempts by a certain party to limit the …
2018-06-11: What Happens When a Bad-Tempered, Distractible Doofus Runs an Empire? | The New Yorker History repeating itself: One of the many things that Wilhelm was convinced he was brilliant at, …
2018-06-10: A good boy.
2018-06-08: My graduate!
2018-06-04: King Kendrick last night. So good. Schoolboy Q killed it too.
2018-06-04: King Kendrick
2018-06-03: What a day. Pride Parade with the Girls Scouts during the day. Kendrick Lamar at night.
2018-06-03: Happy Pride! Faith renewed in humanity
2018-06-01: Moment of the day: my wife presenting my daughter with two middle school science awards: one for her …
2018-05-31: Zoey’s self portrait. So cute.
2018-05-31: Daring Fireball: 10 Strikes and You’re Out — the iOS Feature You’re Probably Not Using But Should …
2018-05-31: Life's Defaults Patrick Rhone shared a great story On Accepting Defaults: The truth is, this is not just about our …
2018-05-18: Manchester Orchestra cover Frightened Rabbit to honor Scott (watch) → Beautiful.
2018-05-14: DEADLY CLASS | First Look | SYFY - YouTube → So excited for this… one of my all-time …
2018-05-12: Lucy scored two new Lumberjanes books and autographs today at Toronto Comic Arts Festival. Thanks to …
2018-05-10: Still reeling from the news on Scott Hutchison. Hope he turns up safe. Such a big part of my life …
2018-05-09: PSA: Kindt/Lemire comics sale on comiXology. Black Hammer, Mind MGMT, Dept H, more: …
2018-05-09: Song Exploder | Liz Phair → Liz Phair and Brad Wood take a look at Divorce Song.
2018-05-08: Loving the renewed interest in Flickr. Hope it lasts! If you are back on Flickr, send me your …
2018-05-04: So proud of Lucy. She was very nervous to go to middle school, but she’s absolutely excelling. …
2018-05-03: Snail Mail on Audiotree Live (Full Session) Totally digging Snail Mail lately:
2018-04-25: Loving the NBA playoffs this year. Rooting for the Jazz and 76ers. Probably the Raptors too since TO …
2018-04-24: Built to Spill, Afghan Whigs, and Rituals of Mine tonight.
2018-04-24: The Last Conversation You’ll Need to Have About Eating Right To sum up: eat whole, minimally processed foods with an emphasis on vegetables, fruits, whole …
2018-04-24: Deepfakes and fake media are coming for our memories - Vox Scary.
2018-04-23: The NFL Draft, the Bills, and the QB class It’s finally NFL draft week! Buffalo sports radio has been talking about this Thursday for …
2018-04-21: On Analog Social Media - Cal Newport Cal Newport sums up the key takeaway from his digital declutter experiment: Focusing on the most …
2018-04-20: SmugMug snaps up Flickr photo service from Verizon's Oath Such awesome news. I just connected my blog to Flickr so photo blog posts get auto-posted to Flickr. …
2018-04-20: Picked up this Fender Squier Bullet Telecaster today. Plays great and feels super solid for the …
2018-04-15: Beyond #DeleteFacebook: More Thoughts on Embracing the Social Internet Over Social Media - Study Hacks - Cal Newport I need to do more of Cal’s ‘slow social media’ approach, especially in conjunction …
2018-04-12: Youth baseball coaches allegedly planned to bean girl These are the kind of parents that raise the kids that lead me to write You Can’t.
2018-04-11: A Guide to Micro.blog For People Who Have A Love/Hate Relationship With Twitter I’m a proud Kickstarter backer and user of Micro.blog. Highly recommend the site. Follow me: …
2018-04-09: [gallery ids=“5279,5280,5281,5282,5283,5284,5285,5286,5287,5288,5289,5290,” …
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2018-04-09: Got my MIND MGMT fix from Matt Kindt today. Absolutely beautiful.
2018-03-28: Hot Water Music in Worcester, MA - hate5six One of my favorite bands from that era of the punk/hardcore scene.
2018-03-24: Science museum fun.
2018-03-22: The Gigantic Legacy of the Pixies’ ‘Surfer Rosa' This week, Surfer Rosa turned 30 An all-time favorite album.
2018-03-20: Michael B Jordan on Black Panther: ‘We’re giving black people power’ | British GQ
2018-03-20: Bill Sienkiewicz's Mutants and Moon Knights Artifact Edition Coming This Summer OMG YES.
2018-03-18: Sun means family walk time!
2018-03-18: ‘I made Steve Bannon’s psychological warfare tool’: meet the data war whistleblower | News | The Guardian Not exactly sure why this is coming out now, as I wrote about it last February. I imagine it’s …
2018-03-18: “Adversary” Examines Trump’s Mini-Me Carl Paladino — And How to Beat Trumpism My buddy Scott directed the film featured on The Intercept today. A look into the scourge that is …
2018-03-08: Palak paneer, chicken makhni, and samosas at Clay Handi in Kenmore.
2018-03-06: The data proves that school segregation is getting worse - Vox More on school segregation. A follow-up on a previous post.
2018-03-06: The Tyranny of Convenience Tim Wu writes on The Tyranny of Convenience in the New York Times: However mundane it seems now, …
2018-03-02: Donald Glover Can’t Save You | The New Yorker A long read, but an awesome in-depth profile of Donald Glover (aka Childish Gambino and creator of …
2018-03-02: The Lottery Hackers - The Huffington Post Fascinating story.
2018-03-01: Attempting a monthly(ish) newsletter for my blog using Revue. First issue just went out: …
2018-02-28: Ta-Nehisi Coates: Why I'm Writing 'Captain America' - The Atlantic Excited for this.
2018-02-24: artisanal bread making class with the Mrs.
2018-02-23: 2nd Black Panther viewing. This time with the kids!
2018-02-22: Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson scores the shootout winner | NBC Olympics So tired today, but seeing this nasty goal and the US women’s hockey team bring home the gold …
2018-02-22: So glad I stayed up to watch the women’s gold medal hockey game. Great game. Go …
2018-02-21: Black Panther's Director Ryan Coogler Breaks Down a Fight Scene | Notes on a Scene | Vanity Fair - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch So awesome.
2018-02-19: Feist on La Blogothèque - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch Feist and crew rocks the unique setting La Blogothèque provides artists. So …
2018-02-18: Ibeyi: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert youtu.be/GeApLkyH8… So good.
2018-02-18: “Black Panther” and the Invention of “Africa” | The New Yorker
2018-02-17: Awesome date night with my wife: fancy dinner and Black Panther.
2018-02-14: The Smart Speaker Battle Joe Cieplinski hits the nail on the head with his look at the smart speaker battle in Good vs. …
2018-02-13: Madlib Teases New Black Star Album | Pitchfork
2018-02-13: The first date I went on with my wife 21+ years ago was to see the Descendents at the Showplace in …
2018-02-12: “Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?” with Stella
2018-02-12: 4 of 5 sick family members (and both parents) means Instacart grocery shopping. So convenient and …
2018-02-12: Apple HomePod - The Audiophile Perspective + Measurements! : audiophile The HomePod is 100% an Audiophile grade Speaker.
2018-02-11: HomePod Two Days With the HomePod – Jack Baty Early reviews raved about the HomePod’s sound quality, and …
2018-02-09: Only had HomePod for 5 hours but initial tests of music genres (indie, hip hop, jazz) were great, …
2018-02-06: Working on re-working my Live Music Log to organize by year vs. alpha order. It’s been fun to …
2018-02-06: Zoey’s squirt hockey team won their first game last night! Super fun to watch the team play so well …
2018-02-05: How Martin Luther King Jr. really felt about advertising The worst commercial aired during last night’s handegg match was this Dodge Ram ad featuring a …
2018-02-02: Concussions and the NFL Yesterday, the Intercept posted The Film the NFL Doesn’t Want You to See, a clip reel of the 281 …
2018-02-01: Why Micro.blog is Not Another App.net (Or Twitter or Facebook or Instagram.)
2018-02-01: Instagram Gruber comments on the WSJ article Instagram Is Turning Into Facebook, and That’s Bad: I …
2018-01-30: Update on my Apple Music experiment… A, K, Q, U, X, Y, Z and # artists now done. (Loved 58 …
2018-01-30: St. Vincent: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
2018-01-27: Hamilton Road Trip [caption id=“attachment_5076” align=“alignnone” …
2018-01-22: Day One: Apple Music experiment As I posted this AM, I am embarking on an experiment to hopefully improve my experience with the …
2018-01-22: I came up with an experiment to help with Too Much Music. Each day for the next month I am going to …
2018-01-21: Hockey weekend almost done. Three games and two practices Friday to Monday for Zoey. Canada trip …
2018-01-20: 12 Gates Brewery. 8 for 8 - all awesome. Best Buffalo brewery we’ve been to so far.
2018-01-20: Finally received and got through all of 1-6 of Mister Miracle. So good. Highly recommended!
2018-01-20: Too Much Music Too Much Music: A Failed Experiment In Dedicated Listening : The Record : NPR The diluvial nature …
2018-01-19: Tickets to Built to Spill/Afghan Whigs show in Buffalo acquired.
2018-01-19: What Love Is Your “Love” Isn’t Love – P.S. I Love You WHAT LOVE ACTUALLY IS: An action. A decision. An …
2018-01-17: Special guests at the Kenmore-Grand Island girls varsity hockey game!
2018-01-15: In Some Countries, Facebook’s Fiddling Has Magnified Fake News But these changes can have significant consequences, like limiting the audience for nongovernmental …
2018-01-13: Zoey’s squirt team played against Hamilton today. We will be heading up north for a rematch in a …
2018-01-10: Today’s library pickup 📚: Doom Patrol omnibus. 1280 pages! (via Instagram)
2018-01-09: “Gideon Falls” Trailer by Lemire and Sorrentino – Multiversity Comics So excited for this! Jeff Lemire has been my favorite writer over the last few years. Out March 7th …
2018-01-08: Step 1 of Operation: Get Caught Up On Comics complete. “The pile” is now organized in a …
2018-01-08: Beers and a fireplace with my special lady friend last Friday. (via Instagram)
2018-01-08: My first Micro Monday shout out is @manton for making micro.blog possible – it’s the …
2018-01-08: Mapping the imaginary lines we use to segregate our schools Today, Vox posted Mapping the imaginary lines we use to segregate our schools, an excellent article …
2018-01-06: Mission complete! (minus some minor clean up work): 490 posts – the complete endonend.org …
2018-01-05: Adding old blog posts to my site, going back to 2011. A chore, but feels good to re-visit a …
2018-01-05: Getting things done Austin Kleon with great advice for a new year: And maybe stop worrying so much about productivity …
2018-01-04: Smells Like Teen Sprite Someone auto-tuned Nirvana’s Smells Like Teen Spirit in a major chord. Amazing. Nirvirna - …
2018-01-03: Picked up Mister Miracle 1-6 by Tom King and Mitch Gerads today. Excited to dig into my 3rd DC …
2018-01-03: The Better Web Om Malik has another gem, as he reminisces about the “old” web in The Internet of Love …
2018-01-03: The science is in: exercise won’t help you lose much weight - Vox But in truth, the evidence has been accumulating for years that exercise, while great for health, …
2018-01-03: Some Hope Brent Simmons has some great thoughts and recommendations of standards-based software/platforms for …
2018-01-03: Chet is not feeling the cold today. (via Instagram)
2018-01-02: Our Now Om Malik writes Our Dystopian Now: However, I often wonder why we don’t think of now as dystopian. …
2018-01-02: The IndieWeb movement feels magical when micro.blog comments flow through as regular comments on my …
2018-01-02: Homescreen - January 2018
2018-01-01: Been spending an hour or so each night working through Shawn Blanc’s Plan Your Year workbook …
2017-12-31: Hockey, Albright-Knox, summer boat ride with the Mrs, me as Logan, twins and I at the White House, …
2017-12-31: More Albright-Knox
2017-12-31: Awesome Murakami exhibit at Albright-Knox
2017-12-26: Growing up so fast.
2017-12-23: Buddha in the snow.
2017-12-17: Someone was made festive while they were sleeping.
2017-12-11: Awesome pic of Zoey by @mdettbarn #hockeygirl
2017-12-09: Pre-game stretch #ouch
2017-12-05: Kendrick Lamar to Release DAMN. Collector’s Edition With Tracklist Reversed The best way to listen …
2017-12-05: Best TV Shows of 2017 The Best TV Shows of 2017 - The Ringer 100% agree with The Leftovers and Halt and Catch Fire. …
2017-12-05: Ben Thompson Is Wrong About the Deregulation of ISPs — Pixel Envy pxlnv.com/blog/thom…
2017-12-04: Senate GOP Accidentally Killed All Corporate Tax Deductions nymag.com/daily/int…
2017-12-03: GOP Senator says it’s hard to fund $14 billion children’s health care program — then advocates for …
2017-11-28: Definitely got me considering other perspectives: Pro-Neutrality, Anti-Title II – Stratechery by Ben …
2017-11-28: I have 5 micro.blog invite codes to share. Have at them! mb-1d5057 / mb-fb93e7 / mb-68d8d7 / …
2017-11-27: Can’t wait -> Trailers for Black Mirror season four
2017-11-27: How Trump Will Turn America’s Open Internet Into an Ugly Version of China’s We don’t need hypotheticals to know what killing net neutrality can do: Do you like Pearl …
2017-11-27: The End of the Social Era Can’t Come Soon Enough Will a future generation look back in 10, 20, or …
2017-11-27: A great analysis of a page from Maus and a look into the comics/graphic novel genre as a whole: How …
2017-11-25: Finally dipped my toes in home automation and voice. Ordered an Echo Dot and Hue starter lightbulb …
2017-11-25: Happy 40th to my favorite!
2017-11-23: Someone is enjoying the Dog Super Bowl
2017-11-22: Is this the world we want to live in? Shane Patrick Boyle, a founder of Zine Fest Houston, died on …
2017-11-21: True about much more than tech: “If we only care about profit maximisation, we will go …
2017-11-19: This week going to give Firefox and Feedbin a full-time whirl. Both getting good marks on day one. …
2017-11-18: Hollywood-themed “Me and My Guy” Girl Scouts dance today with my daughters. So fun!
2017-11-17: Micro.blog Photo Challenge from @douglane — Day 7: “Shadow”
2017-11-16: Micro.blog Photo Challenge from @douglane — Day 6: “Seasonal” decay
2017-11-15: Micro.blog Photo Challenge from @douglane — Day 5: “Liquid”
2017-11-14: Really enjoying this podcast: Hurry Slowly — Overcast
2017-11-14: Love this song: Maggie Rogers - Alaska — Song Exploder — Overcast
2017-11-14: Micro.blog Photo Challenge from @douglane — Day 4: “Up close”
2017-11-13: I may be biased because it’s my first new release vinyl purchase in a long time (and first pre-order …
2017-11-13: Micro.blog Photo Challenge from @douglane — Day 3: “On the move”
2017-11-12: Micro.blog Photo Challenge from @douglane — Day 2: “Tasty” aka grocery shopping day
2017-11-12: Zoey doing her best Burns-y impersonation
2017-11-11: Micro.blog Photo Challenge from @douglane — Day 1: Squares
2017-11-10: Re-visiting RSS Reading The Case for RSS on MacSparky today, I can’t help but agree. For several years now, …
2017-11-09: Fuck Twitter from Gabe Weatherhead: Without any humor or reluctance, I can say that Twitter is not …
2017-11-09: Going to give the Micro.blog Photo Challenge a shot.
2017-11-07: YouTube’s big problem has always been its algorithm, not kids programming - Polygon …
2017-11-07: Day 3 of 7: B&W life challenge
2017-11-05: Day 2 of 7: B&W life challenge Via Instagram: [ift.tt/2y4aeFt](http://ift.tt/2y4aeFt)
2017-11-05: Day 2 of 7: B&W life challenge
2017-11-04: Day 1 of 7: B&W life challenge Via Instagram: [ift.tt/2yw00C2](http://ift.tt/2yw00C2)
2017-11-04: Day 1 of 7: B&W life challenge
2017-11-02: Jenna Abrams, Russia’s Clown Troll Princess, Duped the Mainstream Media and the World - Daily Beast …
2017-11-02: America is facing an epistemic crisis - Vox www.vox.com/policy-an…
2017-10-31: Logan noir Via Instagram: [ift.tt/2yjCqIr](http://ift.tt/2yjCqIr)
2017-10-31: Logan noir
2017-10-31: Chet is all business today. #sharkpug Via Instagram: [ift.tt/2zTGETq](http://ift.tt/2zTGETq)
2017-10-31: Chet is all business today. #sharkpug
2017-10-29: Our outdoor themed pumpkins.
2017-10-29: Breakaway goal and an assist in Zoey’s first squirts game! So exciting.
2017-10-28: Official jersey! #hockeygirls Via Instagram: [ift.tt/2zMb1LA](http://ift.tt/2zMb1LA)
2017-10-28: Bully’s second record reinforced their place as one of my fave current bands. So good. Via …
2017-10-28: Bully’s second record reinforced their place as one of my fave current bands. So good.
2017-10-25: #PMA Via Instagram: [ift.tt/2y4un2j](http://ift.tt/2y4un2j)
2017-10-25: #PMA
2017-10-23: Larry Wilmore & Ta-Nehisi Coates need a regular podcast! “Ta-Nehisi Coates and …
2017-10-22: Let’s go Bills. Via Instagram: [ift.tt/2z1Jsl2](http://ift.tt/2z1Jsl2)
2017-10-22: Let’s go Bills.
2017-10-17: First Pink Storm clinic of the season. Stella playing hockey now too!
2017-10-11: That time again. #hockey via Instagram [ift.tt/2yYth50](http://ift.tt/2yYth50)
2017-10-11: No oppression in the last 100 years Last weekend Mike Ditka dropped a hot take on the NFL player protests — one that I’ve seen many …
2017-10-04: Too poor to vote: How Alabama’s ‘new poll tax’ bars thousands of people from …
2017-10-04: Things More Heavily Regulated Than Buying a Gun in the United States - McSweeney’s …
2017-10-03: Why We Never Talk About Black-on-Black Crime: An Answer to White America’s Most Pressing Question …
2017-10-03: Reading about Infinity Pools (like Twitter) on Time Dorks & had revelation that RSS readers …
2017-10-02: I recommend “The “Burner List”—My simple, paper-based system for focused to-dos” on …
2017-09-26: NFL Bullshit I was going to write something about the NFL today, but quite honestly the four videos below did a …
2017-09-25: Well, hello. via Instagram [ift.tt/2flsv9l](http://ift.tt/2flsv9l)
2017-09-25: An amazing show by @qsnyc via Instagram [ift.tt/2xqEYTQ](http://ift.tt/2xqEYTQ)
2017-09-24: Hiking with my special lady friend via Instagram [ift.tt/2hmtJFQ](http://ift.tt/2hmtJFQ)
2017-09-16: The secret rhythm behind Radiohead’s “Videotape” - YouTube m.youtube.com/watch
2017-09-16: Beach Slang rocked the Mohawk Place. #latergram via Instagram …
2017-09-09: Right before the raft float competition. via Instagram [ift.tt/2wQSuNV](http://ift.tt/2wQSuNV)
2017-09-09: Canoeing with the girls via Instagram [ift.tt/2wR79sF](http://ift.tt/2wR79sF)
2017-09-09: Good morning from Camp Timbercrest! via Instagram [ift.tt/2xe0xGO](http://ift.tt/2xe0xGO)
2017-09-05: First day of fourth grade!
2017-09-02: Cosplaying at FanExpo via Instagram [ift.tt/2vTTfDY](http://ift.tt/2vTTfDY)
2017-08-30: This middle schooler. via Instagram [ift.tt/2gqVlsL](http://ift.tt/2gqVlsL)
2017-08-24: History cruisin’ via Instagram [ift.tt/2wDbyls](http://ift.tt/2wDbyls)
2017-08-24: Me and the Mrs. via Instagram [ift.tt/2iw3gps](http://ift.tt/2iw3gps)
2017-08-24: Beautiful colors last night. via Instagram [ift.tt/2wIkZA9](http://ift.tt/2wIkZA9)
2017-08-21: Eclipse selfie. via Instagram [ift.tt/2xlPOqB](http://ift.tt/2xlPOqB)
2017-08-18: Grabbed these awesome New Mutants issues with Bill Sienkiewicz covers while traveling for work. via …
2017-08-17: Dog park tongue 👅 🐕 via Instagram [ift.tt/2wpYy1C](http://ift.tt/2wpYy1C)
2017-08-15: Syllabus for White People to Educate Themselves A “difference of opinion” is how you like your coffee, or debates over trade and economic policy. …
2017-08-15: Watch VICE News Tonight’s full episode “Charlottesville: Race and Terror” …
2017-08-05: 100 Acres at Hotel Henry for our anniversary dinner. Such an amazing place. via Instagram …
2017-08-04: This amazing beauty and I are celebrating 15 years of marriage today, as well as our 20th year …
2017-08-03: Part 1 of our father-daughter FanExpo cosplay arrived. I am going as Old Man Logan and Lucy as X-23. …
2017-07-27: Can’t think of a better message for every day life, especially with the current state of affairs. …
2017-07-25: New Pornographers killed it tonight! via Instagram [ift.tt/2vHjdvm](http://ift.tt/2vHjdvm)
2017-07-24: Native hiking pug. #pugsofinstagram via Instagram [ift.tt/2ul7NyL](http://ift.tt/2ul7NyL)
2017-07-19: Someone is recovering from 5 days at Camp Bow Wow. #pugsofinstagram via Instagram …
2017-07-19: View from last few days. ADK killed it as usual. via Instagram …
2017-07-14: Yeah the storm is just hanging out over us. Hotel for the night! via Instagram …
2017-07-13: Saintseneca at 9th Ward
2017-07-06: SZA is today’s soundtrack. via Instagram [ift.tt/2uPkSxB](http://ift.tt/2uPkSxB)
2017-07-04: Waiting for the ‘works. via Instagram [ift.tt/2tn8be5](http://ift.tt/2tn8be5)
2017-06-29: A project I’ve been working on for the better part of two years is finally live. Check it out at …
2017-06-29: (Re)Introducing Relic Scout Over two years ago, I launched a site called Relic Scout. It was my first attempt at building a site …
2017-06-23: Letchworth last weekend via Instagram [ift.tt/2s5s8ni](http://ift.tt/2s5s8ni)
2017-06-19: Why it’s so important to own and control your data –> Social Cooling …
2017-06-19: My favorite middle schooler via Instagram [ift.tt/2stuX3E](http://ift.tt/2stuX3E)
2017-06-19: Last day of school. Last day of elementary for Lucy! via Instagram …
2017-06-18: Middle Falls at Letchworth via Instagram [ift.tt/2rKrxHv](http://ift.tt/2rKrxHv)
2017-06-16: Latest ‘With Friends Like These’ podcast episode is not only great (as usual), but gives …
2017-06-09: You Can’t Having three daughters has been particularly challenging lately, as the girls move into the pre-teen …
2017-06-08: The 100 best solutions to reverse climate change, ranked kottke.org/17/06/the…
2017-06-08: My Media Diet (June 9th edition) I love Jason Kottke’s media diet posts, so I am going to bring the idea to my site. Some of my …
2017-06-04: 🌈 via Instagram [ift.tt/2qO4P1H](http://ift.tt/2qO4P1H)
2017-06-04: Happy Pride! via Instagram [ift.tt/2qUX0Xd](http://ift.tt/2qUX0Xd)
2017-06-01: This Is Insane: House Passes Law Calling For Mandatory 15-Year Prison Sentences for Half of All …
2017-05-30: Church on Danforth, TO via Instagram [ift.tt/2saPBVE](http://ift.tt/2saPBVE)
2017-05-30: Frightened Rabbit via Instagram [ift.tt/2sfOEuq](http://ift.tt/2sfOEuq)
2017-05-29: Stella, Lucy and Zoey marching with the Girl Scouts via Instagram …
2017-05-23: Artisanal, small batch lawnmower
2017-05-23: 1Password: Introducing Travel Mode: Protect your data when crossing borders …
2017-05-23: The FCC’s case against net neutrality rests on a deliberate misrepresentation of how the …
2017-05-19: Wavves! via Instagram [ift.tt/2q2iXnI](http://ift.tt/2q2iXnI)
2017-05-19: Lloyd patio weather via Instagram [ift.tt/2q5czLx](http://ift.tt/2q5czLx)
2017-05-19: Any Half-Decent Hacker Could Break Into Mar-a-Lago. We Tested It. gizmodo.com/any-half-…
2017-05-14: Last night of hockey until the fall via Instagram [ift.tt/2qi0juu](http://ift.tt/2qi0juu)
2017-05-12: Pod Save the People: BONUS POD with Edward Snowden overcast.fm/+I9KQ8XWL…
2017-05-09: A regal work buddy
2017-05-03: You’re not going to believe what I’m about to tell you - The Oatmeal (Amazing, as …
2017-05-02: 4 Misleading Things ISPs And The FCC Need To Stop Claiming About Net Neutrality – Consumerist …
2017-05-02: Looks like Comixology Unlimited added Marvel – time to try it out again? …
2017-04-30: Lazy day via Instagram [ift.tt/2qtdZ3b](http://ift.tt/2qtdZ3b)
2017-04-30: Oddisee - Like Really youtu.be/IzjuReog3…
2017-04-29: My Micro Blog Setup Now that Manton Reece has Micro.blog up and running for Kickstarter backers, it’s time to fine tune …
2017-04-28: Favorite from release day: Feist’s ‘Pleasure’. Check it!
2017-04-27: Testing out micro.blog integration with my blog at micro.endonend.org
2017-04-25: Fixing journalism This AM I backed Jimmy Wales’ WikiTribune project – a news platform that combines …
2017-04-24: Someone is sad today. Sticking his bottom lip out. A walk may fix that! via Instagram …
2017-04-24: Sebadoh at the Tralf in Buffalo
2017-04-24: Earth Day cleanup with Girl Scouts
2017-04-17: NYTimes: Living by the Girl Scout Law, Even Without a Home What a great story. www.nytimes.com/2017/04/1…
2017-04-14: I recommend “A Town Forgotten” on Medium: ift.tt/2obT7xr
2017-04-14: I recommend “Kendrick Lamar Will Never Rap Harder Than He’s Rapping on ‘Damn.’” on …
2017-04-10: DC at night via Instagram [ift.tt/2nX2TSd](http://ift.tt/2nX2TSd)
2017-04-10: An amazing memorial. via Instagram [ift.tt/2osRb5T](http://ift.tt/2osRb5T)
2017-04-09: via Instagram [ift.tt/2omBLQt](http://ift.tt/2omBLQt)
2017-04-09: via Instagram [ift.tt/2nRcf1F](http://ift.tt/2nRcf1F)
2017-03-30: Minus the Bear via Instagram [ift.tt/2ohiOQ4](http://ift.tt/2ohiOQ4)
2017-03-30: Beach Slang killing it. via Instagram [ift.tt/2ogUrll](http://ift.tt/2ogUrll)
2017-03-29: Perusing the neighborhood. #pugsofinstagram via Instagram [ift.tt/2nBot1u](http://ift.tt/2nBot1u)
2017-03-29: DeVos: Picking a school should be like... In reply to: … Pure brilliance from DeVos today… picking a school should be like …
2017-03-28: The Slippery Slope of Internet Privacy — MacSparky …
2017-03-28: On this day 20 years ago, I went on a first date with this little lady to see the Descendents. Never …
2017-03-23: Senate Republicans Vote to Allow ISPs to Sell Your Private Data - Motherboard …
2017-03-20: Somber pug via Instagram [ift.tt/2mIyOFi](http://ift.tt/2mIyOFi)
2017-03-19: Yeah @thebuffalobeauts ! Congrats. What a game. via Instagram …
2017-03-17: A trap for self-driving cars: kottke.org/17/03/a-t… (via @kottke)
2017-03-15: Snow day snuggles. via Instagram [ift.tt/2mtJEzW](http://ift.tt/2mtJEzW)
2017-03-11: This week in creative enchilada eating. "It's spicy, yo!" via Instagram …
2017-03-10: Enjoying a good belly rub. #pugsofinstagram via Instagram [ift.tt/2ma1Cq6](http://ift.tt/2ma1Cq6)
2017-03-10: Anchor.fm Anchor.fm dropped their 2.0 release on Wednesday. It looks pretty awesome – I feel like …
2017-03-10: New album (and debut) from Jay Som is pretty amazing. Released today on Polyvinyl.Check it!
2017-03-09: GOP senators’ new bill would let ISPs sell your Web browsing data | Ars Technica Can anyone explain to me how disapproving these FCC regulations will “protect consumers from …
2017-03-08: Team Clouded Leopard for tonight’s March Mammal Madness bracket battle. #2017MMM
2017-03-08: Royal City by Jeff Lemire lives up to the hype. Check it!
2017-03-04: Run The Jewels @ Terminal 5 | Pitchfork Live www.youtube.com/watch
2017-03-04: Obamacare: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) www.youtube.com/watch
2017-03-03: Who is a sportswoman? Sports culture binds us to gender binaries | Aeon …
2017-03-03: Zoey does this! –> Sleepwalking is the result of a survival mechanism gone awry | Aeon …
2017-03-02: When Punk Went CEO – Medium via @michaelsendrow medium.com/@michaels…
2017-03-01: A cognitive bias cheat sheet ift.tt/2lgyih4
2017-03-01: A warning from Bill Gates, Elon Musk, and Stephen Hawking ift.tt/2lZMPiP
2017-03-01: Paleocons for Porn ift.tt/2mc7rV1
2017-02-25: Pond hockey jamboree time. via Instagram [ift.tt/2llNytM](http://ift.tt/2llNytM)
2017-02-24: Stillness (my first song) OK, taking a leap and posting this here… I’ve always wanted to make a …
2017-02-24: Dismal Voucher Results Surprise Researchers as DeVos Era Begins - The New York Times …
2017-02-24: The Jobs Americans Do - The New York Times www.nytimes.com/2017/02/2…
2017-02-24: NYTimes: The Retraining Paradox www.nytimes.com/2017/02/2…
2017-02-22: I wish more parents taught their kids sportsmanship and being good team mates, as often and with as …
2017-02-22: North Carolina needed 6,500 farm workers. Only 7 Americans stuck it out. ift.tt/2djPGPx
2017-02-22: Could Trump Really Deport Millions of Unauthorized Immigrants? …
2017-02-21: Finally got to check out the Buddhist temple in Niagara Falls. via Instagram …
2017-02-20: How is The New York Times Really Doing? – Om Malik …
2017-02-20: Livin' large in Canada. #presidentialsuite via Instagram [ift.tt/2lfBCwa](http://ift.tt/2lfBCwa)
2017-02-18: Oddisee’s ‘The Iceberg’ Has A Trove Of Stories Beneath Its Surface - NPR …
2017-02-18: The Cognitive Bias President Trump Understands Better Than You - WIRED …
2017-02-18: How Voter ID Laws Discriminate Against Racial Minorities - The Atlantic …
2017-02-17: “Fake News” and how we are being played Fake news is one of the most dangerous concepts to come out of this election cycle. Unfortunately …
2017-02-16: Andrew Sullivan’s Delusional Dreams ift.tt/2kXhw9H
2017-02-16: Powerful video from Michael K. Williams -> Question Your Answers - The Atlantic …
2017-02-16: Media is the opposition party? They better be. If your plan is to blow up the status quo, under the shroud of secrecy, lies, conflicts of interest, …
2017-02-16: It’s official: The oceans are losing oxygen, posing growing threats to marine life - The Washington …
2017-02-14: How I Learned to Love the Tragically Hip and Still Be Punk ift.tt/2aIm6jK
2017-02-14: I recommend “Intolerant Liberals” on Medium: ift.tt/2le5RBt
2017-02-13: Hit the jackpot today. Caught Chet working his magic on the dog camp webcam. via Instagram …
2017-02-13: What amnesiac patients can tell us about how memories are made | Aeon Essays …
2017-02-12: I recommend Energy experts give Trump the hard truth: You can’t bring coal back on Medium.
2017-02-11: Zoey put in some goalie time at practice today. via Instagram …
2017-02-10: Another downside of AI and automation for society -> Tech and the Fake Market tactic - …
2017-02-10: Cozy via Instagram [ift.tt/2lzRvf9](http://ift.tt/2lzRvf9)
2017-02-10: Robots and AI are inevitable (for business) Wired featured an article today on the impact of robotics and AI on our economy. The article paints …
2017-02-10: How to Save $23 Trillion Per Year: 100% Renewable Energy for the World The plan, developed by Stanford professor Mark Jacobson would: Replace 80% of business-as-usual …
2017-02-07: Campy Creatures I just backed this amazing looking card game from Keymaster Games, called Campy Creatures. The game …
2017-02-06: These two wackos. via Instagram [ift.tt/2jVReB6](http://ift.tt/2jVReB6)
2017-02-05: Comic Book Reader Fatigue Is Real, But Reversible - CBR www.cbr.com/comic-boo… Another …
2017-02-05: I Work from Home - The New Yorker http://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/i-work-from-home …
2017-02-04: First family hockey game! via Instagram [ift.tt/2jN9Fwv](http://ift.tt/2jN9Fwv)
2017-02-02: Triple threat at dentist via Instagram [ift.tt/2l1Hjeo](http://ift.tt/2l1Hjeo)
2017-02-01: Profits over people -> Congress and Trump have begun reversing multiple Obama rules on the …
2017-01-30: This weekend’s actions: ACLU donation + NY Times subscription. Both are crucial to our …
2017-01-29: A bunch of awesome ladies. #girlshockey via Instagram [ift.tt/2k6Erxg](http://ift.tt/2k6Erxg)
2017-01-25: Please check out Countable, an app to contact your reps and influence Congress. www.countable.us
2017-01-25: Why Trump's Staff Is Lying A great analysis by Tyler Cowen on Bloomberg. I could quote multiple paragraphs, but it essentially …
2017-01-25: Every day, less like America -> Four more journalists get felony charges after covering …
2017-01-24: Our Soundtrack Despite being written in 1988, right at the end of the Reagan era, these lyrics still do a good job …
2017-01-24: Recommended on @Medium: “To Christy on Facebook, who doesn’t need the Women’s March” …
2017-01-23: The many faces of Zoey tonight: Katy Perry, cat-y purr-y, a salty baby, and an old man. via …
2017-01-23: Office pal. via Instagram [ift.tt/2jKm414](http://ift.tt/2jKm414)
2017-01-22: Hockey night! Tonawanda Pink Storm vs. Erie Lady Lions via Instagram …
2017-01-21: Welcome to End On End, micro edition Last year I moved my blog to Medium after years of WordPress usage. I really like the writing …
2017-01-21: Trump’s real war isn’t with the media. It’s with facts. - Vox t.co/Ucxyqo9GA…
2017-01-21: It’s a protest music kind of day.
2016-12-31: Favorite Music from 2016 2016 might have been a horrible year in the eyes of many (and in some aspects, correctly so), …
2016-12-31: 2017 Love List At the end of each year I take some time to figure out what I want to do more of in the coming year. …
2016-12-26: The wrong side of history Even though the fear is real, it’s not an excuse. When we speak with respect and offer dignity and …
2016-11-09: What’s Next? Like many people, I woke up today in shock and still exhausted from last night’s election results. I …
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2016-10-20: Quick update on this. I ended up raising $415 through family and friends! And I ran a personal best …
2016-09-09: Run Jason, Run A few weeks ago I ran my first 5k race after “training” (read: finish about 2/3 of a couch-to-5k …
2016-07-21: Binary Thinking is the Real Problem To many, today’s social conflicts are binary. You are either pro-cop or anti-cop. You are either …
2016-06-13: Current project: repurposed tree round table Over the weekend, I finally got around to a project I’ve been wanting to do: repurpose a tree round …
2016-06-09: Poverty and the Scarcity Mentality Questions like What’s for dinner? and How will I make it to the end of the week?tax a crucial …
2016-06-08: Trumped I am to the point where I’m ready to dump anyone who endorses or votes for Trump. Why such a drastic …
2016-06-08: EndOnEnd.org, now on Medium I have a (nasty) habit of changing the CMS on my blog. WordPress, Jekyll, Anchor, Squarespace… you …
2016-05-12: Rogue Wave - Publish My Love - Live in Buffalo We saw Rogue Wave last night in Buffalo, NY. After the band completed their set, they gathered the …
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2016-03-04: An Amazing 10 Days for America Early February was an amazing time – absolutely amazing – to watch the performances from …
2016-02-25: White America’s ‘Broken Heart’ Charles M. Blow has a pretty great take on what’s driving the 2016 Presidential election: …
2016-02-20: Why I Refuse To Call My Daughter A Tomboy — Medium A great post on feminism by Catherine Connors on Medium: We used to call girls like Emilia …
2016-02-01: Tiny Challenge #1 My current Tiny Challenge for February: Goal: Complete Relic Scout 2.0 TinyChallenge version of …
2016-01-30: Thoughts About Words From Thoughts About Words by Jaimee Newberry: I shared my talk, “NoExcuses” recently, wherein I …
2016-01-30: The Great Myth About Getting in Shape (and Every Other Goal) David at Raptitude has a great take on goal/resolution setting: The great myth about goals is that …
2016-01-29: Save for Later — Medium Diana Kimball has a pretty in-depth look at bookmarking and the act of saving things for later: The …
2016-01-21:
Personal Sites
During the last quarter of 2015, I got fed up with maintaining my WordPress install and decided to …
2016-01-21: Zen Habits Trio for the New Year Leo Babauta posted three articles this month that have some great tips to start 2016 off on the …
2016-01-20:
My 2016 Love List
At the start of every year, I like to focus less on “resolutions” and more on a list of …
2016-01-20: Sylvan Esso: Coffee One of my favorite songs I stumbled upon in 2015 is ‘Coffee’ by Sylvan Esso: I …
2016-01-19:
2015 Year in Music
As I mentioned last year, I was leaning toward moving back to Beats Music. That came true in 2015 …
2016-01-17:
Time and Attention
The Back to Work episode Not My Circus, Not My Monkeys, touched on one of my absolute favorite …
2016-01-17:
Vulnerability and Enough
Vulnerability.n. Susceptibility to attack or injury; the state or condition of being weak or …
2015-12-10: Sleater-Kinney Sleater-Kinney was amazing! Hopefully I won’t have to wait 12 years to see them again.
2015-09-14: Mike Huckabee: Some Syrian refugees may have ‘nefarious purposes’ Huckabee on why we should be hesitant to accept Syrian refugees: "That's not a lack of Christian …
2015-08-20: The difference between time and attention – Signal v. Noise Jason Fried shared some great insight on time and attention today: What I don’t have – and what I …
2015-08-19: Building Better Defaults Great inspiration from Shawn Blanc: Doing a little bit on a regular basis is far more powerful than …
2015-08-19: Streaming Music is Ripping You Off A fascinating look at the payment model used by streaming services vs. the subscriber share method, …
2015-08-18:
One Year On
Prior to the previous weekend, I stumbled upon an article that mentioned the first anniversary of …
2015-08-10: Mindy Kaling's Guide to Killer Confidence Mindy Kaling’s advice is stellar: Confidence is just entitlement. Entitlement has gotten a …
2015-07-13: Freebooting: Stolen YouTube videos going viral on Facebook Via Slate.com: Freebooting, to be clear, is not the same as simply sharing a link to someone’s …
2015-07-05: A Quick Puzzle to Test Your Problem Solving - The New York Times A short game sheds light on government policy, corporate America, and why no one likes to be wrong. …
2015-07-02: Girl Scouts Reject $100K Donation Because Donor Didn’t Want It To Be Used For Trans Girls This is amazing. What a way to stand up for you convictions: A donor recently sent $100,000 to the …
2015-07-01: Apple Music: Initial Impressions Last year I experimented with the major streaming music services, with Beats narrowly winning the …
2015-06-20: The Parent I Aspire to Be Taking a cue from Leo Babauta over at Zen Habits: It’s nearly Father’s Day, and that always causes …
2015-06-19: Fight — Shawn Blanc Shawn Blanc on having the focus to build a meaningful and creative life: It’s funny. Simply doing …
2015-06-19: Jon Stewart on Charleston The whole video is worth watching, but the real heavy hitting part is this: "I honestly have nothing …
2015-06-15: Removing Yourself From the Echo Chamber Great ideas and direction from Shawn Blanc’s email newsletter: The inspiration and motivation …
2015-06-15: Permission to Let Go - The Minimalists Great, quotable post over at The Minimalists: Like your stuff? Keep it! Find value in that wardrobe …
2015-06-10: Hop Along - Powerful Man One of my new faves. Their new record, Painted Shut, just came out on Saddle Creek Records (home of …
2015-06-09: Why This Is Not the Golden Age for Photobooks From Time.com: “If we’re working in the car industry, we’d say that there’s overproduction,” adds …
2015-06-09: How to Slow Down Your Family's Schedule Becoming Minimalist has some great advice for slowing down as a family: Discern where the …
2015-06-09: Latest on Photo Project As mentioned before, I embarked on a photo-a-day project to learn my new camera. Follow along on …
2015-06-04: Jim Carrey Commencement Speech A worthwhile watch: Jim Carrey’s 2014 commencement speech at Maharishi University.
2015-03-07: Annie Clark on Empathy During her recent St. Vincent show in Rochester, Annie Clark’s between-song speech featured …
2015-02-26: Seneca on Time & Attention Our battle with time and attention spans centuries. Over 2,000 years ago, the philosopher Lucius …
2015-02-26: More on Attention Mark Manson hits the nail on the head: Limitless access to knowledge brings limitless opportunity. …
2015-02-25:
Stuck in the Bullshit Machine
Today I stumbled upon a brilliant article, The Bullshit Machine, on Medium that hits almost all of …
2015-02-04: Attention: A Muscle to Strengthen - The Atlantic Sood argues that most of us spend more than half of our mental energy flitting from thought to …
2015-02-03: Political correctness doesn't actually exist But political correctness isn't a "creed" at all. Rather it's a sort of catch-all term we apply to …
2015-02-03: Photo-a-Day 2015 These kind of projects usually start on January 1, but I recently got a new camera (Fujifilm X-A1 …
2015-01-19: The Core Curriculum — Shawn Blanc This is an awesome idea: IDEA: THE CORE CURRICULUM And so, why not put together a small notebook …
2015-01-08: Responding to Violence and Insanity Susan Piver, on the natural response of anger, blame, and hatred for those who commit horrific …
2015-01-06: How to Make a Marriage Work Leo Babauta has some great tips on making a marriage work: Learn to resolve disputes with the …
2015-01-02: Technology resolutions for 2015 - The Sweet Setup The A great post chock full of ideas (and a few must dos) for dealing with your tech in 2015. …
2015-01-01: She loves me it's not just in my head I found a relic from the first date with my wife – almost 18 years ago!
2014-12-30: Wu Wei and Effortless Action Pronounced “ooo-way”, Wu Wei is a Chinese term for “action without action”. …
2014-12-29: Practicing Slowness & Being Present Leo Babauta on being mindful and present: In our rush to get through the tasks of our day, to …
2014-12-29:
My 2015 Love List
Now that I’ve reviewed last year’s Love List, it’s time to look ahead. While I think I did well on …
2014-12-18: The Right Place
2014-12-16:
Love List: 2014 Review
Each of the last few years I’ve spent some time documenting and tracking my love list.
Love List …
2014-12-02:
My 2014 in Music
Music has been an important part of my life for as long as I can remember. From getting into rap …
2014-12-01: Against Productivity Quinn Norton went to Puerto Rico to be more productive, but instead learned the dirty secrets …
2014-11-22: The Disease of Busyness I found a great post on busyness over at OnBeing.org by Omid Safi titled The Thief of Intimacy, …
2014-11-12: Teaching Grit I was thinking some more on my common core math post from the other day. Specifically the viral …
2014-11-10: Facebook usage affected by metrics People realized when the numbers were gone, they had been using them to decide whether to like …
2014-11-07: The Myth of Read it Later I think Read Later was always a fantasy. The Read Later app genre definitely sustained that fantasy …
2014-11-06: Serial Serial is a podcast where we unfold one nonfiction story, week by week, over the course of a season. …
2014-11-05: Return of the Blog Blogging is coming back. Many OGs are starting to re-visit the craft, including Gina Trapani …
2014-11-04: The Itinerant Printer Over the past few weeks I had the pleasure of helping Chris Fritton, a good friend of over 30 …
2014-10-31: Common Core Math Explained You’ve all seen those viral posts on Facebook or Twitter: a frustrated parent writing to a …
2014-09-16: The atomic sentence At the end of each day, I write an “atomic sentence,” a single statement that summarizes the most …
2014-09-04: Secret of Adulthood: Don’t Believe Everything You Think Gretchen Rubin’s Happiness Project post hits the nail on the head. The title says it all. The …
2014-08-27: What Ferguson is really about Jon Stewart had a great segment on race during a recent show. This isn't all about just one man …
2014-08-22: The ice bucket challenge isn't a waste of water, and this chart proves it Vox.com tries to pour water on one of my complaints: I've seen a few different people criticize the …
2014-08-21: Paradox and Perspective Nick Wynja’s post on Hack/Make hits close to home: Having a trusted system means you gain the …
2014-08-20: How to Find Your Life Purpose: An Unconventional Approach Leo Babuata of Zen Habits on the benefit of going outside your personal bubble to find your purpose: …
2014-08-20: The truth about the Ice Bucket Challenge: Viral memes shouldn't dictate our charitable giving Vox.com takes a look at charitable donations: The choices we make about where to donate money for …
2014-08-19: Thoughts on Slacktivism From Seth Godin’s blog post on slacktivism: According to recent data about the ice bucket …
2014-08-12: Dogmatic vs. Practical Minimalism I aim to simplify every aspect of my life, from my closet to how many obligations I decide to take …
2014-08-11: Find that speck Almost a year ago, someone wrote to Matt Fraction (a famous comic book writer) with a question on …
2014-08-11: I Liked Everything I Saw on Facebook for Two Days. Here’s What It Did to Me Mat Honan at Wired.com recently experimented with liking everything on Facebook and had some …
2014-08-08: Buddhist economics Brain Pickings recently posted a great overview of Buddhist economics vs. Western economics from the …
2014-07-30: How much can you take? One thing I’ve been fascinated with lately, mainly due to the Supreme Court’s Hobby …
2014-07-29: Thoughts on 74 Seventy four. That’s how many school shootings have happened in the year and a half since …
2014-03-29: Compassion is Compassion com·pas·sion kəmˈpaSHən sympathetic pity and concern for the sufferings or misfortunes of others. …
2014-03-29: Tales from the Relic Scout Launch A little over a year ago, I founded Eko Wave with two friends (who also happen to be co-workers at …
2014-02-14: Make, Do and a Beautiful Woman I wrote a little bit on the concept of Make, Do last month, which centers around this basic idea: …
2014-01-31: Music Friday Today’s Music Friday selection features Daughter. First up, their Tiny Desk Concert from NPR: …
2014-01-29: Make, Do and Wabi-sabi I came across two great (and somewhat related) perspectives in a Happy Cog blog post recently, the …
2014-01-28: Numbers over people A lot of the “bullshit” I talked about in my Time and Attention post comes down to folks …
2014-01-25: My Work Life This video pretty sums up my daily work life. As a remote worker, I’m on conference calls for …
2014-01-04: Statelessness Leo at Zen Habits has a great take on the act of living in the moment. He calls it the Stateless …
2014-01-04: The Builder's High Awesome post by Rands over at Rands In Repose on focusing to build something versus being …
2014-01-03: My Love List for 2014 Love List noun A fluid list of things you want to start or spend more time doing in the new year. …
2013-12-21: The Year We Broke the Internet Luke O’Neil on media’s new business plan of viral content and how the lust for page views ruined the …
2013-12-21: My Year in Comics So this is the story where I come out and admit I am a comic book nerd. Not just any comic book nerd …
2013-12-04: What Screens Want Frank Chimero takes a fantastic look at the state of web design, the web, and technology in general. …
2013-12-03: Don’t Start a Company, Kid Some great advice on starting a company, particularly: The role of luck in success or failure is …
2013-11-22: The Necessary Art of Subtraction Great insight from Leo at Zen Habits: Subtraction is beautiful: it creates space, time, clarity. I …
2013-11-22: Music Friday Here are some of the bands catching my ear lately: The new Arcade Fire album — here’s the first …
2013-11-12: Wintersleep I was introduced to Wintersleep earlier this year when they opened for Frightened Rabbit in Toronto. …
2013-11-12: Homemade Hot Sauce I have been on a quest to make a homemade hot sauce similar to Cholula. Sure it’s easy and fairly …
2013-10-21: Question Your Certainties Great advice from Mr.Patrick Rhone: Reflect on your deepest held beliefs and convictions. Anything …
2013-10-17: You Can’t, You Won’t, You Don’t Stop An amazing talk from Pinboard creator Maciej Cegłowski at this year’s XOXO Festival. While he …
2013-10-09: How to be a man? Kottke.org linked to some serious link-bait in “How To Be A F%#king Man…” today, which purports to …
2013-08-01: Four Noble Truths of Relationships Today I listened to an amazing first podcast from Susan Piver’s Open Heart Project called The …
2013-06-16: A Secret to Dad Greatness Appreciate your child's love for you. Do this every day, whenever you see your child, and even when …
2013-05-29: Rehearsing Merlin Mann (Back to Work / Episode #120 / “Egg MacGuffin”) on rehearsing versus doing_ …
2013-05-10: This is Water If you have 10 minutes to spare today, I highly recommend viewing this video, created by …
2013-04-30: Matthew Smith on the unlimited web Matthew Smith: “I think we designed the wrong Internet. We’re creating rapidly for the …
2013-04-16: Louis C. K. on trying to make everyone happy From a great NY Times Louis C.K. interview: It's a desperate thing to need everybody to be really …
2013-04-01: The New Stability Robert Kirkman (creator of The Walking Dead and partner at Image Comics) on forging your own career …
2013-03-28: Update: 30 Day Challenge - No Facebook So, it’s been exactly 30 days since I last visited Facebook (on purpose at least – I did …
2013-03-26: Slow Company Fast Company recently interviewed Jason Fried, who is the CEO of 37signals. There are so many great …
2013-03-21: Feed Update Just wanted to post a quick note: please update your feed readers to use this new URL, instead of …
2013-03-20: We are all guilty I've been sort of following these rape news stories, because I have three little girls and it scares …
2013-03-18: Abundance is a curse I really like this: You are responsible for what you consume. If I told you that you could watch …
2013-03-08: Why do more? Because more than you need to makes it personal. Because work that belongs to you, by choice, is the …
2013-03-06: Art of Vulnerability Yesterday morning I watched a TED talk by musician Amanda Palmer, who is famous for her work with …
2013-02-28: More on that Site and Connections Today, Leo Babauta, over on Zen Habits, has a great (and timely) post on connection: We socialize …
2013-02-26: More of Less I’ve been getting this overwhelming feeling that there’s just too much …
2013-02-19: Frightened Rabbit: Acts of Man Frightened Rabbit has a brand new album out called Pedestrian Verse. Overall it’s pretty …
2013-01-17: Manti Te'o and Inspiration Stories The fact is, this story exists because sports media wanted it to exist: It’s exactly the sort of …
2013-01-16: Shittiness and Expectations Over on Deadspin.com (if you have the time, I highly recommend reading the first 9 paragraphs), Will …
2013-01-10: The Cult of Done Manifesto Brilliant. The Cult of Done ManifestoThere are three states of being. Not knowing, action and …
2013-01-03: Seth's Godin: Where does trust come from? Hint: it never comes from the good times and from the easy projects. We trust people because they …
2013-01-03: Rules to Live By A few weeks ago I posted 10 awesome life lessons from Jack Dorsey (CEO of Square and Chairman of …
2013-01-03: The Mess Patrick Rhone shares an awesome insight on the general messiness of life: The mess is something we …
2013-01-02: Dag Nasty reunion 2012 One of my favorite all time bands reunited recently to celebrate the upcoming Salad Days documentary …
2012-12-19: Love List 2013 I cannot believe 2012 is almost over. I do feel really good about what I accomplished this year. I …
2012-12-18: Life Lessons Courtesy of Jack Dorsey (chairman of Twitter and CEO of Square): Don't be a jerk Don't take anyone …
2012-12-14: Friday Song of the Day: One Last Wish "My Better Half" You probably already know I am a huge fan of Rites of Spring, so it's not a stretch for me to love …
2012-10-05: The iPhone 5 There are a ton of iPhone 5 reviews in the tech press, so I won't bore you with too many specifics, …
2012-09-18: Mitt Romney thinks you need to take responsibility for your life OK, so I lied. Just one more post on politics, since Romney is such a dick. Over at Squashed (click …
2012-09-08: Cutting the Digital Lifeline and Finding Serenity - NYTimes.com One side effect of living an always-on digital life is the tension, along with the thrill, that can …
2012-09-07: The First Day of School Today was Lucy’s first day of kindergarten! She was so excited and all business – she …
2012-09-04: Paper Faces My good friend, and fellow father of twins, Mike Rose recently kicked off a project called Paper …
2012-08-29: Skyfall A new teaser trailer came out today for Skyfall, the next Bond movie coming this November: Looks …
2012-08-28: Fact checking has jumped the shark "Fact checkers come to this with their own sets of thoughts and beliefs, and we’re not going to let …
2012-08-28: That time of the year... When it's either incredibly exciting or frustrating to be interested in Apple and tech: iPhone …
2012-08-24: Stella & Jolie Stella is so great with animals. She absolutely adores our cat Jolie. She was literally hugging the …
2012-08-22: Too Much I came across these three tips on living with less via the NY Times Bucks blog …
2012-08-20: Connecting the dots When you look back on events, it’s pretty incredible how things come together. Nothing happens …
2012-08-20: Be More Productive. Shorten the Workweek. - NYTimes When there’s less time to work, you waste less time. When you have a compressed workweek, you tend …
2012-08-20: Offline: how's it going? | The Verge The other day I was at my coffee shop, about to make an order, when I got into a conversation with …
2012-08-17: I am not busy So the final piece I have been working on is never telling people I am busy. Because no, I am not …
2012-08-17: The Great Discontent: Seth Godin I think “creativity” is better described as failing repeatedly until you get something right. I was …
2012-08-13: Future of My Love List After 6 or 7 months of posting Love List updates, I’ve decided to mix things up a little bit. …
2012-08-04: 10 years Yesterday Melisa and I renewed our vows to celebrate our 10 year marriage anniversary. I can’t …
2012-07-29: Raising Kids in 'Merica I recently stumbled upon ‘Why are American Kids so Spoiled?” in The New Yorker and have …
2012-07-16: There will always be more work In his recent post, Be Fierce With Your Time, Jonathan Fields writes: There simply aren't enough …
2012-07-13: Friday Fifteen Links: July 13th Edition Each Friday I am going to attempt to give you high quality reading material for the weekend, in the …
2012-07-11: Rev25 NYC Lineup Announced Here’s the lineup for the Revelation Records 25th Anniversary shows in NYC (Irving Plaza) this …
2012-07-09: State of the Blog - 10 month edition With 2012 half way over, I wanted to take a few minutes to post another state of the blog update. …
2012-07-09: June Love List Update Hello, July. Nice to see you again. Time for a Love List update! Last month I mentioned being …
2012-07-07: Friday Fifteen Links: July 6th Edition Each Friday I am going to attempt to give you high quality reading material for the weekend, in the …
2012-07-05: Something New I would like to try something new: a good, old fashioned newsletter. Something that doesn’t …
2012-07-03: Crazy Busy If you live in America in the 21st century you’ve probably had to listen to a lot of people tell you …
2012-06-29: Friday Fifteen: June 29th Edition Each Friday I am going to attempt to give you high quality reading material for the weekend, in the …
2012-06-22: Friday Fifteen: June 22nd Edition Each Friday I am going to attempt to give you high quality reading material for the weekend, in the …
2012-06-18: Being a Dad I feel blessed to be entering my 6th year of fatherhood. The last five years have been challenging …
2012-06-15: Friday Fifteen: June 15th Edition Each Friday I am going to attempt to give you high quality reading material for the weekend, in the …
2012-06-11: Quicksand Reunion at Rev 25 Full video of the set. So wish I was there! (Not to mention all of the other amazing bands that …
2012-06-01: Friday Fifteen: June 1st Edition Each Friday I am going to attempt to give you high quality reading material for the weekend, in the …
2012-05-30: May Love List Update So May, I feel like I barely got a chance to know you. Seriously. Where did you go? Between family …
2012-05-24: Restaurant meals are four times larger today than 1950s According to the CDC, the average restaurant meal is four times larger than the 1950s. Soda size is …
2012-05-21: The best and worst thing about the Web The World Wide Web is amazing. It’s arguably the greatest invention of the last 50 years, if …
2012-05-08: The New Reality As part of last week's job report, the NY Times gave us a little insight into why corporations and …
2012-05-07: Lessons from Sheryl Sandberg: Stop Working More Than 40 Hours a Week Apparently, up until recently,Sheryl Sandberg (COO of Facebook) felt the need to hide the fact that …
2012-05-04: Why I love Gimme Bar over Pinterest Pinterest is all the rage, but I don't use it. Sure I checked it out, but it didn't stick. Why? …
2012-05-02: Multitasking May Hurt Your Performance, But It Makes You Feel Better But one of the key findings of the study is that this multitasking didn’t do a very good job of …
2012-04-30: April Love List Update May! Is this year flying by or what? I’ve got a good feeling about May. I have my birthday …
2012-04-30: Why you should care that 70% of antibiotics go into animal feed 70 percent of the antibiotics used in this country -- 70 percent! -- go into livestock production. …
2012-04-29: Instagram, Business Models, and Expectations Instagram has been in the news a lot lately, as the service just launched an Android app. However, …
2012-04-27: The Joy of Making Last night I had the opportunity to take the Letterpress T-shirts workshop at WNYBAC with Melisa. …
2012-04-09: Facebook Buys Instagram For $1 Billion From Mashable: Facebook Buys Instagram For $1 Billion Lottery won. Queue the outrage!
2012-04-03: Voting Lucy learned about voting today in pre-school. During lunch she explained to us how it works: "You …
2012-04-01: March Love List Update March is over already? Wow. I know I said I was excited for warmer weather in my February update, …
2012-03-31: WNYBAC and the Book Fair Featured The Buffalo Small Press Book Fair and WNYBAC were featured on Artvoice TV yesterday. So cool! Last …
2012-03-30: State of the Blog - 7 month edition I’ve been doing this blog for just over 7 months now, which is amazing to me. It definitely …
2012-03-29: Expectations When we are unsatisfied with how things are, including ourselves, we make changes, but then what? We …
2012-03-28: No more yes Those of you who often over-commit or feel too scattered may appreciate a new philosophy I'm trying: …
2012-03-22: Salad Days Can't wait to see either this documentary: **Salad Days: The DC Punk Revolution** Or this one: …
2012-03-16: The Service Industry Generation From GOOD Magazine: Some depressing facts: Nearly half of people ages 16 to 29 do not have a job. A …
2012-03-16: Reasons From Yahoo! News: Women in Arizona trying to get reimbursed for birth control drugs through their …
2012-03-02: February Love List Update February is in the books. Can’t believe it’s March already. I am so excited for Spring …
2012-02-22: Tools to Manage Time, Attention, and Focus With three girls 13 total months apart (twins and an older sister), I often get asked how I keep …
2012-02-13: Fear of Starting I’ve written about starting before, most prominently in New Year, New Attitude. My favorite …
2012-02-11: Fathers as Parents Jonathan Liu, stay-at-home dad and an editor for Wired.com’s GeekDad, attacks the gender roles and …
2012-02-10: The Happy Secret to Better Work If you have 12 free minutes today, I highly recommend watching this TED talk by Shawn Achor. A key …
2012-02-10: Mindfulness “Mindfulness is the on-going process of staying awake — alert in the moment.” — …
2012-02-10: Self Assessment & Self Worth I think it’s very valuable to, every now and then, take an inventory of what you like about …
2012-02-10: The Happy Secret to Better Work If you have 12 free minutes today, I highly recommend watching this TED talk by Shawn Achor. A key …
2012-02-04: Art Class Last night, the Mrs. and I took a studio art class at Albright-Knox. The subject for the night was …
2012-01-31: Karate Karate is one of my all-time favorite bands. Here is one of the few clips of them on YouTube -- a …
2012-01-29: Markdown and WordPress I think I finally found a Wordpress setup that allows me to use Markdown for writing posts, both in …
2012-01-29: Refused Sell Out Yeah I am going there – mainly because no one else seems to be… and anyone who does …
2012-01-28: Family camping trip booked! Yesterday's love list update post inspired me to make progress on one of my items -- I booked our …
2012-01-27: January Love List Update Wow. January is almost over already! I just wanted to post a quick update on my Love List progress. …
2012-01-18: Choices There are three choices in life: You can live in the past by dwelling on the poor choices, …
2012-01-12: Bit Literacy: Productivity in the Age of Information and E-mail Overload Have a Kindle or the Kindle app on your phone/tablet? Grab this free, highly regarded book by Mark …
2012-01-11: The Little Things Recently Seth Godin took a quick look at why one of his favorite restaurants was special. He came to …
2012-01-11: The Complete Guide to Snapping the Fuck Out of It Julien Smith asks 6 great questions for the New Year: Do you know which five opinions of yours, …
2012-01-09: Better Through Less To go along with starting, I think it’s very important to decide what not to do as well. To …
2012-01-05: New Year, New Attitude So, it’s finally 2012. And this year certainly got off to an interesting start. I also spent the …
2011-12-29: My 2012 Love List Instead of new year’s resolutions, I am going to make a love list. I got the idea from the blog Be …
2011-12-28: Rules for 2012 The rules of a creator’s life. (via Creative Something)
2011-12-27: Less in 2012 I have too much stuff. Not in an excessive way — I’m not a hoarder, nor do I buy stuff that often — …
2011-12-26: Me and the Mrs on Christmas Day
2011-12-25: Christmas Eve Night I love this picture of our house on Christmas Eve -- mainly because it doesn't look like our house. …
2011-12-15: Change There’s an old adage that “people don’t change.” I’m not sure where it came from, but I do know …
2011-11-29: Planting Seeds One of the things I started doing right around the time I launched this blog (early September) was …
2011-11-11: Flow on the Web The web is vast. Billions of pages. Endless information, entertainment, opportunities… To …
2011-11-03: The Pixies I finally got to see the Pixies last night with my amazing, loving wife (and serious Pixies fan)! It …
2011-10-29: Take care of your Thoughts because they become Words. Take care of your Words because they will …
2011-10-27: The Rules of Effortless Parenting Love this post at Zen Habits , especially “you should always break rules” as a parent. So true! …
2011-10-15: The long shadow of Mt. Rainier Beautiful. I’ve flown by Mount Rainier many times, driven by it, snowshoed on it, saw it literally …
2011-09-21: Bad news, priorities and living in the moment Ever have one of those days where everything goes wrong or it’s bad news after bad news? All of us …
2011-09-10: Keep listening and keep thinking until you have something to say.” — @rands on Twitter
2011-09-07: Death By Information This time around, I selected around 15 topics I care a lot about and hand-picked the 5 best sites …
2011-09-01: On Leaving the Church So, why did I stop going to church? (Roman Catholic to be exact.) There are a couple of primary …
2011-08-29: Being Present On Saturday, Melisa attended my cousin Karen’s baby shower, so I decided to take the girls to the …
2011-08-24: You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You can find yourself by coming into the present. …
2011-08-23: Quick site update I wanted to give a quick update on all things End On End: Today, I redirected the entire …
2011-08-19: There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my …
2011-08-18: Why Buddhism? I don’t call myself a Buddhist yet, by any means, but I do think about the philosophy and principles …
2011-08-17: Where this is going To give you an idea of where I plan on going with this site, here are a few general topics …
2011-08-17: Welcome A new domain. A new blog. A new purpose. I've been blogging at end-on-end.com since at least 2004 …
2011-03-09: Eff you Lotus Notes and your 10 minute shutdown every day
2011-02-15: Z is for Zebra
2011-02-12: Stella enjoying her valentines cookie
2011-02-11: Cookie monster
2011-02-09: Stella’s smile
2011-02-06: Watching the game
2011-02-06: Zoey entertaining us during breakfast
2011-02-05: Lucy squared
2011-02-04: Lucy flying around her room