A proposal for making tennis more accessible, competitive & fun for Oregon HS athletes. — Talking about a high school tennis format is a pretty niche discussion. Nonetheless, since I began coaching high school tennis in Oregon a few years ago — as a hobby — I’ve made a side quest of activating anyone who cares to fix what’s broken about the issue that makes…

I traveled to Vimpeli, Finland for pesäpallo playoff game. Vimpeli, who are two years removed from back-to-back Finnish championships were taking on the defending champs from Joensuu, about 4.5 hours to the east. As this was the third game of the best-of-five series, tensions at Saarikenttä — Vimpeli’s home ballpark…

This has been the weirdest year of albums for me. Normally, I’m consuming as much of the newest music that people release as soon as I can get my hands on it. This year? …

News feeds & discovery — Since the demise of Rdio (RIP), there hasn’t been a great place online besides forums and random slack channels to talk about music. The problem with most of these existing places are the difficulties involved in joining conversations, memes, and the cultural mores of networks that you join too late…

A few times a year, I will binge on simulator computer games. …

An unlikely story of fandom from afar — I’ve been trying for a while to tell anyone who’d listen about Pesapallo, the sport that’s a close cousin to American baseball. The sport has developed independently in Finland for 100+ years and it’s only now that Americans are slowly discovering it exists at all thanks to a succession of…

Social’s newest app — Peach — exposes faulty tech thinking, that we should be talking to only to people we already know. — Networks are nifty. When you do the work to cultivate one, that is. For some of us, that work starts in high school or college. After a few jobs, you cobble together a nice network of folks who you stay in and out of touch with over the years. When…

During my senior year, my high school tennis coach and I were talking about our season and his legacy. I joked that because of our hot start that year (1997) that he might end up with Coach of the Year honors. …

An obituary for the content management system — This post is really a more fleshed out reprise of my ‘3am keynote’ from #psuweb and thus is primarily focused on higher education websites. But if anyone is using a CMS, it applies. Most colleges started with a webmaster. One person in a room someplace updating a web…