Category Archives: Travel

Wildlife in the San Juan Islands

Posted on July 14, 2012 by

We’ve lived in the Pacific Northwest for over 20 years and have never been to the San Juan Islands.  We remedied that over the Fourth of July weekend, when our newest inlaws, the Shellys, invited us to spend a couple … Continue reading →

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Visualizing the Taste of Wine – Shape Tasting

Posted on February 1, 2012 by

A couple of years ago, my wife and I attended a wine blending seminar put on by one of our favorite winemakers, Anna Matzinger of Archery Summit Estates. As Anna was describing the art of wine blending, she commented: “As … Continue reading →

Posted in Human Centered Design, Travel, User Experience, Visual pattern Language, Wine | 3 Comments

Cameron Crazie for a Night

Posted on January 19, 2012 by

I am an over the top obnoxious Duke Men’s Basketball fan.  I have to be as the rest of my siblings and my wife and her siblings are Carolina graduates (now there is an oxymoron). Ever since I entered the … Continue reading →

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Beautiful Day at Duke University

Posted on January 18, 2012 by

What a quick way to drop away forty years of my life as I revisited Duke University this week.  As I walked around the quadrangles, so many memories from my four years as an undergraduate came flooding back.  Thoughts I … Continue reading →

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The Cricket

Posted on January 9, 2012 by

After an intense weekend of group process at a McCarthy bootcamp, I wanted to spend some time reflecting on the process and the insights.  As part of searching while “On the way to Somewhere Else” to aid those reflections, I … Continue reading →

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Don Norman would be proud

Posted on January 6, 2012 by

Don Norman is a delightful professorial curmudgeon who collects and publishes examples of good and bad design in books like The Design of Everyday Things and Living with Complexity. On my walk through the Seattle Ferry terminal yesterday I finally took … Continue reading →

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Exercising Again with Technology

Posted on December 31, 2011 by

In August I made the mistake of trying to run in some of the new “Born to Run” NB Minimus shoes from New Balance.  I thought I had made all of the appropriate stride and upright stance running changes.  At … Continue reading →

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Ferry Capacity – Obesity Strikes

Posted on December 31, 2011 by

You have to love some of the things that the government spends time and money on.  This week we learned that the Washington State Ferries passenger carrying capacity has to be lowered considerably due to the average weight gain of … Continue reading →

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Burgundy – Visiting the Cradle of Pinot Noir

Posted on December 20, 2011 by

Several years ago I walked into the office of Skye Hallberg who was the Chief Marketing Officer at Benziger Family Winery and confronted her with the question “Why can’t you folks in California make a Pinot Noir as good as … Continue reading →

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