Jan 24, 2012

For a few months in 2011, I had a regular customer named Chris. Chris was an interesting guy, an unusual guy, and a sometimes pathetic guy. A veteran of the first Iraq war, Chris reminded me of that character on The Simpsons. You know the one, the surly Army Surplus store owner with a missing arm. Chris had all of his limbs, but in all other respects, they...

Nov 10, 2011

Oh, what a day. What a week. No sooner did the ink dry on our formation documents and we get two clients. One, an Android app in-development, the other, an editing job for a cable television network. Now, my day breaks down to something like this: 6am – 4pm: Coding and Editing, with one or two driving calls to break up the monotony 3pm – 8pm:...

Oct 20, 2011

So, a guy jumps in my cab at 2nd and Blanchard in Belltown, and tells me to take him to 1st and Lenora … a ride that is literally two blocks long. He was a black guy with a tattered army jacket and disheveled hair … come to think of it, he looked a lot like Ol’ Dirty Bastard (rip). When I hit the gas to turn the corner, the guy said, “I’m...

Oct 18, 2011

All the way to Mexico. Ahhhh, hipsters. Can’t live with them, can’t disembowel them and dump their corpses on the banks of the Green River. At least not legally. Gary Ridegway, if you ever get out of prison, I have a job for you. Anyway, for those who have yet to notice, the transplanted twenty somethings of the greater Seattle area have stolen...

Oct 13, 2011

So, I get called to the Sheraton in beautiful Bellevue, WA and when I get there, a woman hops in. She’s alright looking, maybe a 7, early 30′s, with high heels and messed up hair … and she smelled like she just swam 12 laps in an olympic sized pool filled with perfume. Apparently, the woman was an upper-middle-priced call girl. If you ask me...

Oct 12, 2011

When it comes to employment, I’ve been fortunate. For the majority of my life, I’ve been able to make a living while enjoying a great deal of autonomy. In my younger days, I was a musician who helped make ends meet by working as a bicycle messenger and photojournalist. I got out of those endeavors just in time to get into tech where I created a popular...