Focus Points for 2024
As 2023 races to a close, I find myself looking to 2024, and what I want to accomplish. I don't particularly subscribe to resolutions. I hate goal-setting at work. But…
2023: well that happened
In order to understand my 2023, you really have to start with my 2022. 2022 was the year the wheels kinda-sorta came off my life. I spent months going to…
Musings on Creativity
The past week or three have been so full of hot takes about creativity and innovation - or the lack thereof - that it's feeling like the rhetorical equivalent of…
Don’t Buy These Wheels (They Suck)
I'm not a fan of vinyl tires. Never have been. Awful paint adhesion, difficult to remove mold seams, awkward gaps and fit with the wheels, all of it. Generally, if…
Strange Things Afoot at the NCC…
In most years, the usual post-Nats churning would be settling down by now. But 2023 is simply not most years. We've had sub implosions and Hawaii burning and orcas waging…
Theory of the Case
In March and April of this year (2023), things got bad. Life felt unrelenting, work was stressing me out, and I could feel myself bogging down on the Wild Weasels.…
A Story of Volunteers
Post-Nats takes are almost as much of an event as the Nats itself. And this year things have coalesced around two main points of contention - the perennial back and…
Flip Your Shit ’24: A Proposal
By now, most of us have seen the photo of a judge at IPMS Nats holding a Char 1B aloft like it's fucking Simba in the Circle of Life. This…
Against Storytelling
NOTE: I know, I know. This is a meandering post. It's an idea that's been banging around in my head for months and I've been trying to land on a…
Spit Take
So I've tried to write this review a few times now. And every time I do, I end up on some weird tangent talking about Kotare's place in the larger…