Because I’m a sucker for memes, I’ve visited 45 states (88%) and 16 countries (16%) with a woeful lack of Southern Hemisphere.

Originally posted to ydnar.vox.com in June 2006.

As the battery on my laptop runs down, I reflect back on another day at Six Apart and think, yeah, it was good. We did a couple pushes (go Beau!) and everything sits just pretty.

Time to go feed the puppy, cook some dinner, and enjoy the sunset over the low skyscrapers filling up my view. According to Jamison, I should be expecting yet another really tall building (or three) to fill up the view even more in the next couple years. Assuming the Transbay Terminal ever really gets started…

Originally posted to ydnar.vox.com in June 2006.

Construction in my neighborhood is at an all-time high. A block away is very large hole in the ground that used to be occupied by the Clock Tower building. It was paved last year to make room for One Rincon Hill, which (I believe) will be the tallest residential building on the west coast in California.

Attn stalkers: That’s my building in the lower-left.

Originally posted to ydnar.vox.com in June 2006.

So the project we’ve been working on for over a year (almost two, depending on where you want to start counting) is finally out. This has been an amazing experience. Thanks to everyone who made this possible: Ben, Mena, Andrew, Rachel, Mike, Michael, Barak, Byrne, David, Chris, Garth, Beau, Nick, Kevin, Miriam, Lilia, Winnie, Jamison, Tatsuhiko, Yann, Anil, Jay, Kristine, Brenna, Shelley, Steve, Patti, Junior, Brad, Whitaker, Artur, Mark, Paul, Serdar, Lisa, Harold, Gladys, Scott and everyone else (I know I spaced some people here, and this list is not exhaustive).

I’d like to give a special shout out to the Comet engineering team: You are all awesome. It’s been a privilege working with such a talented, hard-working group of people. This has been by far the product I’ve been most happy creating, from beginning to now (it’s not over yet).

Thanks.

Originally posted to ydnar.vox.com in June 2006.

I’m happy to announce the unveiling of the project that’s been consuming most of my time for the past year: Vox. Thanks to everyone at 6A who made it possible.

Pista’s popular. She loves to play Chase Me.

Originally posted to ydnar.vox.com in May 2006.

I like lots of board games. The first one that comes to mind is Backgammon, but I assume like Chess and Dominoes, this can be ruled out on a technicality that it isn’t truly a board game.

That said, Scrabble probably edges out Monopoly, but the Eurails “train game” comes in a close third.

Or Trivial Pursuit. Or my latest obsession with the game Set. Does Poker count? What about Candyland?

Sigh.

Originally posted to ydnar.vox.com in May 2006.

Liz and I rode over to the Panhandle, saw a Katamari get rolling on Bay to Breakers, cooked some albacore, and then rode back through the Mission. It started raining, so we hustled back to my house. Unfortunately the bike doesn’t like moisture all that much–it stalled out twice on Folsom and refused to start again a block from my house. Got real acquainted with its weight pushing it up my hill. :)

Originally posted to ydnar.vox.com in May 2006.

Rode around Potrero Hill, the Mission and SOMA. Still alive. Thanks Patti !

Originally posted to ydnar.vox.com in May 2006.

An architect, or at least glue bricks together at Legoland.

But if you think of “grown up” as a fungible state, not one that starts at 18 or 21 or 25 or whenever, then what I wanted to be when I grew up was exactly what I did: Pretty much everything I enjoy doing (save cycling) I’ve done professionally at one time or another. It’s a work in progress…I’ll be a grown up someday!

Originally posted to ydnar.vox.com in May 2006.