According to my math, we’re going on 2.5 weeks of sunshine and temperatures between 75* and 85* here in Portland. Don’t tell anyone though. We like that people think it rains all the time here. I haven’t even turned on the air conditioning yet this summer. One weird thing about me. Far and away my [...]

This blog has been down over the past few days to make quite a few changes to the look and function within it. Paul Bae has been a rock star coder for me and he came up with the new look of the blog. If you’re reading this in an email or RSS reader head [...]

Growing up in Salem/Keizer, Oregon I remember driving past one of the State Penitentiaries plenty of times. It’s on the outskirts of the city but along a major highway as well. As a kid I didn’t know any better, so I thought everyone in there was hell-bound. To me (as a child), the people in [...]