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We vowed to always be awesome.

2008-08-13T05:46:33-07:00

I found the first email thread between Katie and me. It is hilariously cute!

2008-08-07T09:06:22-07:00

Also, this email shows how cooooooool we were back then. SXSW Austinist Neal Pollack and Sarah Lewitinn at a Spin/Vice party?! OMG.

I am getting married in 4 days.

2008-08-05T09:56:02-07:00

Rescue tiny people from giant bugs that are wandering all over THIS WEBSITE.

2008-08-02T10:05:09-07:00

Oh Japan! You make the best things. This website takes any website and makes it into a map for a game where you are saving people from giant bugs. It is teh awesome.

Dear DannyPriapism: You will not win.

2008-07-22T10:01:11-07:00

My wedding ring arrived!

2008-07-21T12:52:46-07:00

I am going to be playing Super Monkey Ball on my iPhone in about 3 minutes.

2008-07-10T05:42:43-07:00

This is my new office.

2008-07-09T03:42:59-07:00

Katie took this picture of me

2008-07-03T09:34:23-07:00

We are grilling a variety of meats and vegetables in my backyard tonight. Dakota is here. Our yard is freshly weed whacked. The doggies are barking at lizards. I am satisfied.

2008-07-03T05:20:42-07:00

We just packed our bed, so tonight is the first night we'll be sleeping on an air mattress. This will last for at least the next 6 days of travel, but may last for several months while we look for a new place in Austin. Sweet Fancy Moses, what have I done?

2008-06-27T12:23:40-07:00

I just bought 14 boxes of varying smallnesses.

2008-06-24T06:34:01-07:00

Today I went to Japantown and did some small box shopping.

I have a weird assortment of smallish things that I need to pack up and take with me to Texas. For example, I found out that I had somehow purchased literally 12 packages of small rubber squid toys, 2 squids per package. I believe my thinking was, "when will I ever get another chance to buy small rubber squid toys? I had better buy a lot now!" Also, I have the world's largest collection of 1-inch pins, seemingly several of them in the back pocket of every pair of pants I own. I do not wear 1-inch pins, but somehow I collect them in my pants. Also, Animal Crossing zipper pulls.

All of my other small boxes have already been filled and filed away into other, slightly larger boxes, but I still had more stuff. More boxes were necessary.

Here is what I purchased:

4 x interlocking small toy boxes / display cases. for small toys.

2 x large toy box / display case. for slightly larger toys.

4 x tiny tupperware-type boxes. for stickers and pins and also for all those random little extra pieces that come with toys now. also, those damned foreign coins that keep showing up in the change jar! and any unused but keepable keychains. everything must have its place!

4 x cardboard "comic book" boxes for anime-sized books. These will contain notebooks and smallish files of 3x5 cards, and also all of the above-listed boxes, as well as some other larger but not that much larger boxes still down on my desk.

I told Katie that my whole plan is that when we unpack, it will be an exciting adventure through recursion as we unpack interlocking boxes filled with boxes filled with boxes filled with boxes filled with tiny pieces of brightly colored plastic, and that every level of recursion will be its own variety of fun because all of the boxes, no matter what the size, will be clever and will contain either: a) smaller, cuter boxes, OR b) toys and/or office supplies. And everyone loves toys and office supplies and small boxes! Or at least I do, and that's what's important.

Katie was unimpressed.

I predict 50% of you will love this, and 50% of you will hate this.

2008-06-23T06:29:36-07:00

Ooo, I just made a prototype of a new feature that I think will be cool... GoTeamTV.

2008-06-22T06:28:51-07:00

Assorted Friends Go Bye Bye!

2008-06-21T12:12:42-07:00

Reviews

2008-06-21T11:30:22-07:00

I redesigned the homepage of the site that people see when they aren't members...

2008-06-17T11:55:53-07:00

Maybe some new people will join now. This won't change anything for logged in people.

Go Team should make a magazine of stories, drawings and photos from members using this new tool.

2008-06-17T01:40:53-07:00

We are off to a lake outside Louisville. Strangely, we are staying with my friends parents. They are also the parents of Liam Lynch of Sifl and Olly, so they could not possibly not be awesome. I am excited. For bourbon!

2008-06-12T10:40:59-07:00

I am taking a red-eye flight to Lousiville, KY tonight. What movies should I rent from the iTunes store to keep me from killing myself on the 8 hour flight?

2008-06-12T04:01:44-07:00