Nov 14NaNoWriMo 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 people’s) Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) kicks in. The shorter days, combined with the fact that my parents are dead make for what they call “situational…NaNoWriMo7 min readNaNoWriMo7 min read
Oct 31I 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. We were all radio enthusiasts and technology fetishists who also wore a lot of leather. Desmond had kind of spliced a lot of…San Francisco7 min readSan Francisco7 min read
Aug 24KinkBNB Summer UpdateOur first three months back were an interesting roller coaster. The current number of people working full-time on KinkBNB is exactly two, and we’ve added some other folks to help out as well. …Sextech4 min readSextech4 min read
Jun 4Member-onlyweb3 is Growing on MeSeven days ago, we relaunched Kinkbnb.com to use a web3 wallet and token gating to control access to our website. This is an attempt at a launch post-mortem. Back in November of 2019, the world was a lot different — but not really. In December we’d been de-platformed from Stripe…Ethereum5 min readEthereum5 min read
May 27Show and TellA guide to listing your adult playspace on KinkBnB In the past three years, the world underwent a lot of changes. This includes KinkBNB! We experienced the rising tide of discrimination against the sex-positive movement at the same time as we decided to rebuild our platform because of the pandemic…Sextech4 min readSextech4 min read
May 27Announcing KinkBNB’s Return!Social Token Launch and Opening to Host Applications Our roll-out is happening! We spent the past seven months building the infrastructure for the new KinkBNB, and we’re happy to start showing you what we’ve built now. The foundation for all we’ve done is the KinkToken (KINK), a social token deployed…Sextech3 min readSextech3 min read
Aug 9, 2022An Introduction to the new KinkBNBOur old system was subject to a number of real problems that we were never able to solve satisfactorily with the technology at hand. We had a lot of costs and bottlenecks associated with three people running a brand known around the world from almost the day it was born…Ethereum6 min readEthereum6 min read
Aug 9, 2022KinkBNB Hibernation — an end in sight!As anyone who has visited our website since the start of the pandemic knows, KinkBNB has been “hibernating”. This basically means that we’ve had a single static page with our two oldest listings on the front and not much else. We did this to cut down on costs as well…Kinkbnb5 min readKinkbnb5 min read
Published inCryptoStars·Jan 11, 2022web3’s Killer AppIt’s not what you think it is. Whenever a new technology comes along, people usually talk about how it founders and struggles to find its footing until some “killer app” comes along that shows its value. …Web36 min readWeb36 min read
Apr 5, 2021Member-onlyAmerica’s Last Emperor: BulletinChapter Nineteen September 17th, 1859 Norton awoke this morning, feeling clear-headed for the first time in a very long time. He went through his morning ablutions as he had for the previous ten years, but today there was a significance about the ritual he hadn’t expected. He looked at himself in the…Fiction12 min readFiction12 min read
