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RIP Cohost

It's a year now that Cohost has been gone. And, holy shit I think we've learned two big lessions from that. The first one is: it's impossible to run a website that's good that also makes money or gets funding. The second one is: social…

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Baby Steps

I have been playing a lot of the recently released "Baby Steps". A game where you control the individual legs and feet of a man in order to climb a mountain. It's a game in the same vein as Getting Over It and QWOP. A…

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Pale Green Things

My father died this week. I had been out of contact with him for over 15 years. These are the kinds of words that usually start a novel, but they are reality for me. I find myself dealing with feelings that really can't be described…

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Fighting off insanity

In the days since my last Deadlock post where I complained a bunch, I started playing more Bots matches, which made playing actual matches feel less like drowning and more like swimming against a very strong current. Once you get used to the games phases…

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The Seattle Story

About a month or so ago a marina and surrounding property in Ballard got sold to a "Botique Developer". Previously the land, which includes water access along Silshole bay, had been in the same family since the late 1800's and during that time became known…

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