A friend owns an escape room in town and as things were transitioning to life during Covid-19, they needed some people to test their virtual version of their escape rooms. Some friends and I volunteered. In a normal escape room, you and some friends are put in a room with clues you have to find and...

Here’s a tip to help you get more of what you want. If you you need something from someone (to make a sale or otherwise persuade) and you have a feeling they might say "no", don't ask if you "can" ask "how" you can. If feel there's a high liklihood your prospect/counterpart will shoot down your requ...

I had taken on too much during the 202020 Secret Experimental Events Series for the Austin Events wall calendars. With the pandemic, I’m not even sure if I’ll do any promotional things for the 2021 title. But I let myself think about it a couple days. Here’s some notes from the brainstorming session...

Getting Buzzed When my dryer has finished, it buzzes. It makes the same buzzing sound every time it finishes. Yes, the dryer is 25 years old and new, more modern dryers beep. (Funny fact: today as I update this post my dryer is broken). In the 25 years it took us to go from landline to smartphone, w...

As I’ve said elsewhere, everything’s shitty when you start.  If you’re starting something meaningful then that usually means it contains a component of personal growth. Since personal growth involves getting to where you can do something that you can’t currently do, the odds of you doing someth...

This morning I hit 200 days in a row of meditation. The habit started with doing the Headspace app after reading the founder Andi Puddicombe's book, which I discovered on Bill Gates' blog. After using the app for some weeks I had the routine memorized and started doing it on my own. So what effect h...

I spent 2-3 hours listening to my music today. I was wondering if it would sound worse than I remembered but other than the rushed tracks I’m actually really happy with them. Here’s a link to the playlist for reference. It’s hard to say which are my favorites. The electronic ones are the cleanest bu...

Today instead of the usual post I’m going to just write the timeline of what happens in the ICS experiment. It’s noon right now, which means I have until noon tomorrow to finish songs. I’m going to start with some instrumental Eureka Room ideas to minimize the complications (no lyrics, no stringed i...

I worked on the ICS prep more yesterday. Here's what I did and what I learned. Things I Tried I listened to most of the hundreds of drum loops and picked out my favorites. I also went through all the old Eureka Room and singularity instrument patches and saved those off to folders that I could acces...

I’ve studied spanish off an on throughout the years, sometimes here at home, other times in Latin America. I’ve approached it a lot of different ways, but one of the main ways I learned was through Fluent Forever, a book about language learning that evolved into the highest-earning app ever on Kicks...