Category: Personal
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Notes from Underground: Digging Out
To ensure your future, some freedoms must be surrendered … We will save you We will save you We will save you From your selves — Robot Revolution (Say no to SOPA remix), Virtual Light vs. Wizack Twizack vs. ?, San Francisco over the holidays was a lot of fun but by early January we…
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Quite a contrast, which seems like a good thing to me: New Year’s Eve 2011/2012
2011 wasn’t the year I expected it to be. But while it’s easy (and depressing) to look at what didn’t happen, one of my resolutions was to take a more asset-based thinking approach to life. If I look at what I — and we — accomplished this year, it’s pretty impressive. — NanoEvolution In keeping…
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Notes from Underground: IllumiNation, Travelling, and Transition II
Why yes, I have been quiet for a while now that you mention it. We spent almost a month on the road, starting with Sacramento for a privacy coalition meeting, and SF for Olli Wisdom at Space 550. We had juggled our plans to be at IllumiNation, and it was totally the right call.  …
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Notes from Underground: Equinox+One and Solitude
Summer ended quickly in Seattle this year. One day it was sunny and 80 degrees; the next it was cloudy and 60. DJ Anomaly’s Thursday night Equinox+One marked the official start of fall with a great set — and some familiar faces. “Hey, I remember seeing you years ago at Infected Mushroom and Astral Projection…
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Notes from Underground: Interim
It had been a week of solid work so by the time the weekend came around we were both more than ready for a break. Friday night was 80s night at The Atrium … the champagne flowed freely and the hits just kept on coming, everything from Head over Heels to Two of Hearts (!),…
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Notes from Underground: Intention and Transition
After last Saturday’s inflection point, the week was filled with writing, outlining, and business modeling. Oh and Google+ of course.  Anxiously masculinity under threat, structural oppression, and nymwars … no shortage of interesting topics! In a depressing kind of way, that is. So once again I was ready for the weekend. Friday night, we dropped…
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Notes from Underground: Darkness and Inflection
“When a corporation acquires great power, the use — or misuse — of that power is everything. Will it be used for the greater good, or for selfish and destructive means? Now this is a question we must all ask ourselves. Why? Because we are Google.” —Evolution (nymwars remix), Skyloops, remixed by anonymous It was…
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Notes from Underground: Inoculation
Once again it had been a long week. Friday afternoon we went out to happy hour, then took a nap and danced for a few hours at Gibbous. And lucky us: Saturday night, DJ Anomaly was back at the Atrium for Inoculation. w00t! Like a snake that simply uncoils itself form its own not, passion…
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Notes from Underground: The Union of Bliss and Emptiness
A lot’s happened since Anomalous: Seattle Startup Weekend, a friend’s wedding, Pink Saturday and Pride in San Francisco (with sets by Liam Shy and Psysas!), Death Guild, Spook at Synchronize, Strangelove, the SF Mime Troupe in Dolores Park on the Fourth of July … after 10 days in San Francisco, we drove back to Seattle…
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Notes from Underground: Anomalous at the Atrium
Tonight’s the Atrium’s official opening night, with DJ Anomaly headlining. The venue’s really taken shape over the last few months and it’s been great to be a part of it.  There’s so much to like about it, including the way the lighting makes everybody look good. Four friends drove up from California, reminding us of…
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The first Facebook skirmish of the 2012 election
Not too shabby at all. The Town Hall itself seems to have gone well (Ryan Singel’s Softball questions, familiar themes has the details in Wired, and Sharon Gaudin’s A Sign of Things to Come in Computerworld puts it in context), but there’s no question that ForAmerica showed a lot of strength on what used to…
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Save the Rave: Stop Surveillance in San Francisco
Hot on the heels of last month’s joint San Francisco Youth and Entertainment Commission’s hearing on electronic dance music, we’re back with a sequel.  Now, in what Jim Harper of Cato calls a “jaw-dropping attack on privacy and free assembly“, the San Francisco Police Department has proposed onerous new conditions for permitting for all…
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Notes from Underground: DJ Anomaly and the Mysterious Voice of Ra at The Atrium
Wow! We were bumming about missing last night’s PULSE in San Francisco with the legendary Green Nuns of the Revolution and Dutch. But then we discovered that DJ Anomaly’s in the Seattle area tonight at one of our favorite venues. I heart psytrance. After spending almost a month in SF, we were both glad to…
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Notes from Underground: April Fool’s Day
It’s been a hectic few weeks.  It started with cleaning out our SF apartment, creating more space in the apartment — and attacking the storeroom from Hades in the garage.  We had put some stuff in there in 1991 when we moved into the apartment and then more in 1999 and then our Burning Man…
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Notes from Underground: DJ Anomaly at the party without a name
It was so underground that there weren’t any flyers and it didn’t even have a Facebook group. A tiny venue with headliners who we’ve seen at DNA Lounge and Barnevald, with DJ Anomaly opening and closing. The music was fantastic, amazing visuals, incredible depth, great colors. I heart psytrance. I was in a great mood…