Jeff’s Blog

Just posting from my phone. Got the first speeding ticket of my life in Bellingham for $175. Got stopped for secondary inspection at the border. We’re here though and ready to ring in the new year.

So I went ice skating for the first time in my life today up in Shoreline with Marc, Sage, Doug and some of their friends. I was pretty nervous about going at first, but it turned out to not be so difficult. I didn’t even fall That said, my ankles [...]

Today on the front page of slashdot, I ran across this ad:

If you understand the irony of this, I think it’s safe to say you’re geeky enough.
The ad links to Microsoft’s View<myWorld> site, which appears to be targeted squarely at your average slightly anti-Microsoft, techie slashdot reader. Interesting.

It’s been a while since I last posted. I guess the business of the holidays lead me to forget about writing here.
Anyhow, this year’s trip to southern California for Christmas was probably the shortest one I’ve done in a long time. I flew out on Sunday afternoon from Seatac and came back Tuesday [...]

I’m sure somebody is getting rich off the caterwauling and drumming that’s all the rage this holiday season, but I’m thankful I have internet radio and speakers that get loud enough to drown it out. There’s something odd about incessant drumming and out of key falsetto crooning coming through your office walls in the [...]

On Saturday afternoon, Cliff put together a trip to Sam’s Gun Shop and Range in Everett for his birthday. That definitely wins most original birthday idea of the year. He hired some officially certified trainers from the Boeing Gun Club to teach us basic gun safety and do some coaching. The guys [...]

On Thursday night, a group of us went to see Dina Martina’s Christmas show at Re-bar. I had never seen one of her shows before, so it was quite the experience. I’m pretty sure I laughed almost the entire show. What goes on in the mind of this performer is decidedly odd [...]

Lately I feel like my life is once again in transition, although this time it’s a different kind of transition. I’m not particularly feeling the urge to run away to some new city or start a career or even figure big personal issues out. Part of it comes from spending a decent amount [...]

This evening I went with Marc, Doug, Jeff and Derek to Sage’s figure skating performance up in Shoreline.

I don’t think I’d ever even been to an ice rink before and I’ve certainly never skated before. So on that front, there was definitely some novelty. Marc asked me if it was what I expected [...]

Almost as soon as I became the OutVentures webmaster last year, I started thinking about redoing the website. While the current site gets the job done, it is pushing 4 years old and has many limitations. I decided that this winter, I’d work on redoing the site as a volunteer contribution to the [...]