Pirate Debrief: Reboot 2024 ProtestThe weeks leading up to the protest were a variety of bad faith online interactions with supporters of as well as the org that organized…Sep 7Sep 7
Atheist ApostasyA fun story I like to tell is about when I was running one of the first horror fiction websites on the internet to pay a professional rate…Aug 29Aug 29
A Protest of Weirdos by a Weirdo.The current popular meme in politics these days is that right-wingers are “weird.” I am compelled to write this because I myself am quite…Jul 30Jul 30
Fuck that Crazy Hacker DudeDisclaimer: I describe something that happened that I did that is illegal in some way, involves the hacker convention DefCon, which…May 16May 16
San Francisco’s Homeless HistoryThose of you who follow me may know about my historical fiction novel based on the events in San Francisco History. I’ve published the…Mar 141Mar 141
Garry Tan will never have a skyscraper.James Lick is probably one of the most well-known names in the Bay Area. He had landed in Yerba Buena several days before Sam Brannan…Mar 10Mar 10
KinkBNB in 2024We relaunched KinkBNB in May of 2023. In the months leading up to 2024, we rebuilt a lot of our database which was decimated by the…Jan 191Jan 191
NaNoWriMo and my Seasonal Affective DisorderUnless you’ve been under a rock for years, you may know that November is National Novel Writing Month. November is also when my (and most…Nov 14, 2023Nov 14, 2023
I moved to San Francisco for the Doom LoopI moved to San Francisco in 1996. I quickly became part of a group of people led by my friend Desmond Crisis called the Otaku Patrol Group…Oct 31, 2023Oct 31, 2023
KinkBNB Summer UpdateOur first three months back were an interesting roller coaster. The current number of people working full-time on KinkBNB is exactly two…Aug 24, 20231Aug 24, 20231