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    Engineering Serendipity

    Yesterday I was watching Nina Paley speaking about her film Sita Sings The Blues at The Next Hope conference in NYC and she was talking about approach to putting her film online for free for anyone to use, and how many people did in fact...

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    24 Hours in Dublin

    Last week I jumped on a plane and flew to Dublin to drink some coffee and see some art. I took photos and wrote about it for BoingBoing if you’d like to check it out. Hope you dig it.

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    Travel Diary: Paris pt1

    This is Vincennes. It’s a suburb just outside of Paris where the family and I are going to be based for the next few months. It’s actually a lovely area with a beautiful park and a castle with a moat but no lava or dragons...

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    Travel Diary: In Between

    We are currently back in Los Angeles for a few day pit stop between the Singapore and Paris legs of this trip. The main reason for this stop over was so Ripley could see his doctor for his 4 month check up. Dude turns 4...

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  • Travel Diary: Singapore pt1

    Travel Diary: Singapore pt1

    Astute readers will know that a few weeks ago I packed up all my worldy possessions sans a suitcase or two and put them in storage. Tara did too and we gave up our lease in Venice Beach in favor of a loose 9 month...

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  • Travel Video Podcasting

    Travel Video Podcasting

    This is kind of shocking, one of those thing people always talk about doing because they think would be a good idea but then never actually do is actually getting done! Tara and I (though it’s mostly Tara doing all the hardwork) talked about and...

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  • International Introspectical

    International Introspectical

    I’ve been out of the US for a little over a week now and just now finally letting the dust settle. Tara and I got to singapore a day or so before Joi which means I didn’t have much time to put things in order...

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  • Where is “home”?

    Where is “home”?

    The idea of “home” is something I’ve been thinking about a lot recently. As a kid home was where I slept and spent most of my time when not at school, but because my family moved around a lot I didn’t have any real emotional...

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  • Traveling to the coffee wastelands

    Traveling to the coffee wastelands

    [bubblicious photo by tonx] Singapore and France. These are not countries known for their great coffee, but they are cities I’ll be spending a big chunk of the next 3 or 4 months in. You might be thinking “WTF you dumb ass, there is amazing...

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  • MultiBasing revisited

    MultiBasing revisited

    If you aren’t familiar with MultiBasing you can read more about it on my wiki. It’s a term I coined a few years back to try and describe a lifestyle that a few friends and I were increasingly inching towards where rather than living in...

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  • Long Term Travel, minimalism’s best friend

    Long Term Travel, minimalism’s best friend

    There is nothing like packing for a trip to make you stop and think about what you really need. If you are new to it or not that good at it you’ll likely end up with way too many bags, which are filled with way...

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  • 2009: The year in review, in photos

    2009: The year in review, in photos

    Since I’ve created a bit of an ongoing tradition by looking back on the photos I posted online through out the year in 2008 and 2007 I thought I’d keep it up for 2009. I feel like this is kind of a good way to...

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