• Hacking up a standing desk

    For me, the key to workplace comfort is changing it up — sitting for a while, standing for a while, taking a break and going for a walk…. So I found an inexpensive way to turn my desk at GameHouse into a standing workstation. I was inspired by this design...
  • EMP Art of Video Games exhibit disappoints like a mass market tomato

    You know how tomatoes are bred these days for durability during shipping at the expense of flavor? The same problem afflicts the Art of Video Games exhibit at EMP, and so many other traveling exhibits I’ve seen in recent years. It’s a bunch of kiosks, each containing an old game...
  • How Amazon can disrupt the smartphone AND payment businesses

    Chris Devore got my brain juices going with his piece on how Amazon could (and probably will) take on Apple and Google in a big (and uniquely Amazonian) way. Well worth reading.  One word Chris used a couple times really stuck in my head: wallet. Amazon is all about being where...
  • I hope the Sinking Ship garage is never torn down

    What? Bob, how could you say such a thing about that ugly monstrosity? They tore down a beautiful old hotel to build it, an event that so horrified Seattle that it kicked off the preservation movement that led to the protection of Pioneer Square. Why, because it’s such an perfect...
  • Top Pot Is Stalking Me

    My job at Intersect had the major perk of being on the same block as Top Pot’s Belltown cafe. Yum! Then they opened a shop in Wedgwood, about a mile from my house. Hot damn! Doughnuts coming and going! It’s been 18 months since I moved to a new job,...