Kevin Smokler, an Ann Arbor native whom I met at last years SXSW posts about San Francisco’s annual free garage “sale” called the Really Really Free Market. Awesome.

[This one has been sitting in the queue, unfinished for awhile. Given the recent buzz about GPS, location-awareness and GIS for the people, I thought I’d dust it off and post it.]
I’ve recently been thinking about the implications of the mobile phone as something almost every now has in their pockets (joining keys, money […]

Ed del.icio.us’d this article in the Pittsburgh City Paper. They discuss the lack of bus schedules posted at stops and call for “tagging” stops with schedules as a public service. I had a similar idea for Ann Arbor: get some downtown maps, make some “you are here” arrows, and wheatpaste the maps and […]

Lizz signed a lease today for a place in Greenpoint, Brooklyn’s “Little Poland” neighbor to hipster mecca Williamsburg. It’s close to the Nassau G station (a crappy train, but still, a train) and two big parks with dog runs, McGolrick & McCarren. It also comes with two bedrooms (yay, office!), access […]

Late last night, in a borrowed car (ours, sensing its end, died prematurely last week), I dropped Lizz off with her suit case and a one way ticket to New York City at the Amtrak station in Toledo. She’s on an impossible mission to secure a job and an apartment in less than three […]