Descending in a blizzard My friend Daryl and I climbed the highest peak in Oregon (11,250 ft) for the first time. It was as epic, and more dangerous than I had imagined. Gear… Thermal top and bottom base layer Breathable long sleeve T Waterproof windbreaker Columbia Sportswear Outdry puffy Marmot puffy …

Building Bots in 2011 — In 2011, Chirpify was born. We invented conversational commerce, enabling people to pay each other, and buy things, with a single comment across Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. It started as a P2P payments mechanism — A way for people to send money to each other, simply by tweeting at them…

Tired of divisiveness crippling every aspect of society? In our political duopoly, polarization is a feature, not a bug, and your continued support of either party makes you complicit. Duopolies split people into partisan tribes to serve shareholders and stifle competition. MasterCard and Visa, McD and BK, Apple and Android…

A list of paying jobs I’ve held. 1. Dishwasher 2. Line Cook 3. Bus Boy 4. Host 5. Bouncer 6. Waiter 7. Bartender 8. Bar Back 9. Car Salesman — Holyoke Mall 10. Victoria Secret Stock Boy 11. Landscaper 12. House Painter 13. Paper Boy 14. Web Designer/Flash Designer/Webmaster 15. Telemarketer 16. Personal Trainer 17. Gym Membership Salesman 18. Alcohol Anonymous Front Desk Person 19. Gas Line Tester/Maintenance…

Second protest march out my front door, from Alberta Park to downtown. Impressive turnout. I don’t suspect the numbers will diminish. My east coast homies, and the rest of the country want to know what’s up with Portland. They heard the entire city is on fire, and anarchy is…

Let me know if I missed anything, but I didn’t. The virus originated in China at one of those nasty outdoor marketplaces. It was created in a lab. At the marketplace lab a bat bit someone. No, it was a pangolin. This all happened in November of 2019. Actually, it…

With day over day fatality growth rate slightly slowing, it’s time we heard leadership’s plan how society should re-emerge. In the absence of one, society will re-emerge on its own. I’m positive our leaders have one in the works, right? Without comprehensive testing, we have no idea the scale of…

Salvatore entered the world at 12:50 on a Friday morning, in a hospital room, in the middle of a global pandemic. He’s one of the first Coronials™, a generation that will grow up learning from parents of the unique, sad, and chaotic time in which they arrived. For two trimesters…

We have confused compassion with enablement. The state of homelessness in Portland, as with most west coast cities, is a well-documented disaster for all involved. The response by the city, or lack thereof, is inhumane at best, and perhaps criminal at worst. …