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September, 2015

The September Roundup

Here are all the pics I took in September of 2015 that didn't end up in their own entry.

Tuesday, September 1st

brett, max, me
Up at 6am to help Brett get Max to daycare. He likes to told me hand while I walk next to him in the stroller.
stroller ˆ walking ˆ washington dc ˆ brett ˆ max ˆ me
brett, max
Bus chat.
bus ˆ brett ˆ max
max
Love this lil dude.
bus ˆ stroller ˆ max
Took an Uber over to...
flux capacity ˆ leagueapps ˆ work
... LeagueApps offices...
flux capacity ˆ leagueapps ˆ work
...and spent the afternoon helping them put together a plan for how they were going to invest their software engineering hours for the rest of the quarter. I love talking and problem-solving and drawing on whiteboards and feel blessed that I've found companies that invite me in to help solve their biggest problems.
flux capacity ˆ leagueapps ˆ whiteboard ˆ work
me
Finished my tarot book on the train home.
book ˆ train ˆ me
Got home and spent some time learning and practicing with the major arcana.
tarot

Wednesday, September 2nd

On Wednesday I biked to Flatiron to meet with with Ilir, the founder of a start-up called MyPizza that had recently raised a small seed-round of funding.
flux capacity ˆ mypizza ˆ office space ˆ slice ˆ work
They had just hired their fourth employee (Jen Burger!) and first full-time sales person. They've since changed their name to Slice are well-over a 100 employees and have $30MM in venture funding! I love that I get to work with baby companies and see them get big.
flux capacity ˆ mypizza ˆ slice ˆ work
Check out the cool view of Broadway, temporarily provided by the recently demolished building next door.
broadway ˆ buildings ˆ nyc ˆ work
A dewy field of French Marigold on the walk home.
flowers ˆ walking
Thirteen-person aikido class. When you start going frequently, you already know who's upstairs by the shoes that are downstairs.
aikido ˆ shoes

Thursday, September 3rd

ticketiq
Thursday morning I went into TicketIQ to help them with their Product process. Right after our meeting, I headed to the Village...
flux capacity ˆ work ˆ ticketiq
jane anne
...to meet up with Jane Anne. We'd agreed to sit in as models...
drawing ˆ jane anne
vin
...for Vin to illustrate for his episode of Sketchbook Skool
camera ˆ drawing ˆ tv ˆ vin
vin
Fun to watch your shy friend be the center of a camera crew's attention. <3.
camera ˆ tv ˆ vin
Danny had some wienery friends at his apartment...
dogs
...and we made fast friends!
dogs

Friday, September 4th

karen
Maybe a pic before our Labor Day trip? No idea!
karen

Monday, September 7th

Every once in a rare while, you still get a glimpse of the New York of yesteryear when you get picked up by a real-world version of MTV's Jimmy the Cab driver.
driving ˆ new york ˆ taxi
Anybody else remember him?
taxi ˆ video

Tuesday, September 8th

grant, lizzy
On Tuesday Lizzy came over to my apartment and we spent the afternoon going through lots of my photos for a book she was working on about the NYC rock scene in the 00s. (The book, Meet Me in the Bathroom, was released in late 2017 and featured five of my photos!). Congrats, Lizzy!
diner ˆ odessa ˆ grant ˆ lizzy

Wednesday, September 9th

me
Thinking about stuff.
me
Asking questions.
tarot

Thursday, September 10th

This is the office next to one of my startup clients. Funny to see the mix of old businesses (clothing wholesaler) next to the new ones (software company).
hat ˆ shopping
Bachelor fridge series.
refrigerator
Spent the evening playing guitar.
guitar ˆ home office

Thursday, September 10th

Got up early to take care of some work.
computer ˆ work
Not a morning person.
me
Robot-brother of mine in an episode of Black Mirror.
doppleganger ˆ tv ˆ me
maddy
Wiener dog in front of a wiener dog sign!
dogs ˆ sign ˆ maddy
I am a kinetic learning. Each time I do a tarot reading and pull a card I'm unfamiliar with, I write down its meaning in my journal and usual even draw a picture of the card. Getting to know you, death.
dead ˆ drawing ˆ skull ˆ tarot

Saturday, September 12th

First Saturday with a bit of an autumn chill in the air!
Walked down to Chinatown to meet up with...
eric p, vin
...Vin and Eric.
chinatown ˆ eric p ˆ vin
eric p, me
We watched Eric do his shaolin kung fu katas. His moves were legit and he drew a decent-sized crowd of elderly Chinese women who clapped and waved at him when he finished! It was awesome.
chinatown ˆ park ˆ eric p ˆ me
eric p, me
Took videos of him running and doing flips across the field.
chinatown ˆ eric p ˆ me

Saturday, September 12th

Morning glories in the park on Sunday
flowers
Love the pink and light green
la plaza cultural ˆ plants
Morning, Glory! What magic is this?
flower
maddy
Oh, did I wake you?
dogs ˆ pillow ˆ sleepy ˆ maddy

Tuesday, September 15th

On Tuesday afternoon I took the train down to DC to spend a few days with LeagueApps' dev team.
train
After a day of meetings, we headed out as team...
bowling ˆ flux capacity ˆ leagueapps
...for some hot bowling action!
bowling ˆ flux capacity ˆ leagueapps

Wednesday, September 16th

brett, max
Up early on Wednesday for some morning time with Max!
stairs ˆ brett ˆ max
teddy
Misses being an only child.
dogs ˆ teddy
meredith
Returned to New York to find love notes & food from the dog-sitter!
note ˆ meredith
Tarot cards and my little notebook.
drawing ˆ tarot

Thursday, September 17th

Eye see you
cloud ˆ eyes
Had my mind blown watching nine-video series on numbers.
video
The last video in the series was my favorite. Worth watching if you've got 20 minutes.
video
Same goes for this excelling mind-blower about the discovery of the Mandelbrot set.
fractal ˆ video

Thursday, September 17th

Quality time with my favorite houseguest.
dogs ˆ edie
meredith
Meredith stopped by on her way out to a date...
kitchen ˆ meredith
meredith
...and was looking like, whoa! ;)
meredith
john f
I headed out to Brooklyn to celebrate...
birthday ˆ john f
rachel b
...Rachel's birthday!
birthday ˆ rachel b
Taxi fishing on the corner.
brooklyn

Friday, September 18th

Woke up on my couch super early...
e9th apt ˆ living room
me
...hurting from too many drinks the previous evening.
me
This book is BANANAS! If you like the movie Beetlejuice, this is like a real-life BOOK FOR THE RECENTLY DECEASED. Highly recommend it! Less Incomplete: A Guide to Experiencing the Human Condition Beyond the Physical Body
best ˆ book
Saturday dewdlin.
drawing
maddy, meredith
Meredith had recently broken up with Dylan and our HEARTBREAK HOTEL agreement always stands so she came to stay on the couch for a few days and took turns holding the dogs until she felt better.
dogs ˆ e9th apt ˆ edie ˆ living room ˆ maddy ˆ meredith
maddy
Is it my turn for holding yet?
dogs ˆ maddy
In Brian news, I'd decided to try drinking a gallon of distilled water every day for 30 days. Why? Why not? Day Two, Gallon Two here we gooooo!
distilled ˆ water ˆ wtf
Dog walks and later summer skies.
east village

Sunday, September 20th

meredith
Meredith photo-retouching!
e9th apt ˆ edie ˆ laptop ˆ meredith
Swaddled so hard.
blanket ˆ dogs ˆ edie
I dropped my bike off at the bike shop for a repair. I like their biking poster.
biking ˆ poster
adam purple
On the walk home I passed the La Plaza bulletin board and learned that Adam Purple had died.
east village ˆ la plaza cultural ˆ adam purple
Really nice that our community does this
la plaza cultural

Tuesday, September 22nd

On Gallon 3! Gallon 4, on deck!
distilled ˆ water ˆ wtf
me
After just two days, I could see and feel the difference from drinking so much extra water.
me

Wednesday, September 23rd

Met with Ilir & Sam at MyPizza (they have since changed their company name to Slice!)
flux capacity ˆ slice ˆ work
me
Back when Sam was their only developer!
flux capacity ˆ mypizza ˆ slice ˆ work ˆ me
Watched the flowers in the garden on the way home.
flowers ˆ la plaza cultural
I could watch giant bees collect pollen all day
bee ˆ flowers ˆ la plaza cultural
Thumb for scale.
bee ˆ flowers ˆ la plaza cultural
maddy
Held up a piece of chicken in the air to get this photo of these two looking like well behaved dogs.
dogs ˆ edie ˆ maddy
Took them on a walk through the park.
tompkins
brian l
Spent the evening working on a slide deck for LeagueApp's board meeting.
flux capacity ˆ leagueapps ˆ work ˆ brian l
Primarily, I helped them come up and present to their board a new sprint process that would allow them to execute fourteen, three-week sprints for the year.
flux capacity ˆ leagueapps ˆ work

Friday, September 25th

maddy
Dachshund yin & yang.
dogs ˆ edie ˆ maddy
"Now I've got to feel again your hot feet on my skin" For a while Spotify had an awesome feature where you could turn on Lyrics to the music, karaoke style! I turned it on listening to The Virgins and it had no idea what the words were either.
lyrics
Cool mural walking around on Friday
graffiti ˆ mural
Noticed that the clouds seemed extra powdery and wispy while I was walking around.
cloud ˆ wtf
Very strange.
clouds ˆ wtf
Probably just water vapor, though.
clouds ˆ wtf
It's not like our government wouldn't tell what's happening!
clouds ˆ wtf
Digging on this CLINT MARIO IS EVERYWHERE street art poster that he slipped into the bus station advertising cabinet (based on the THEY LIVE movie poster)
art ˆ graffiti ˆ poster
amanda, cynthia, katie, siege
Went to Siege and Katie's on Friday night.
amanda ˆ cynthia ˆ katie ˆ siege

Saturday, September 26th

Some of the designs they use to help computers track things are really pretty.
design
adam purple
On Saturday morning I went over to La Plaza for Adam Purple's memorial.
RIP ˆ east village ˆ nyc ˆ adam purple
adam purple
They had out purple juice...
RIP ˆ la plaza cultural ˆ adam purple
adam purple
...and someone dunked their feet in purple paint and made footsteps that go between the two community gardens. (Adam Purple pretty much single-handedly created every garden in the Lower East Side by riding his bike up to the central park horse stables, collecting manure, and carting it back downtown to mix into the soil around all the empty lots where they'd torn buildings down. Over the years and through thousands of trips with manure, he turned all the empty lots into fertile topsoil where plants could grow!
best ˆ east village ˆ footprints ˆ la plaza cultural ˆ nyc ˆ adam purple
Spent the late afternoon geeking out with SQL queries trying to help my new client understand where their traffic is coming from and where it's converting best. Sketched it out first...
drawing ˆ flux capacity ˆ mypizza ˆ slice ˆ work
...then made slides.
flux capacity ˆ mypizza ˆ slice ˆ work
jared, jenny, josh adcock, karen, matt, sarah
Saturday night I walked over to the West Village for a friend-party at Ellen & Hans!
jared ˆ jenny ˆ josh adcock ˆ karen ˆ matt ˆ sarah
Mixed drinks in a juice thingy? We are adulting so hard.
drink ˆ juice
Hans' pretzel bread is to die for.
bread ˆ pretzel
hans, jenny penny, josh adcock
Somehow managed to save room for dinner, despite half-a-loaf in my belly.
hans ˆ jenny penny ˆ josh adcock
Thanks for having us!
food
After dinner, we watched HACKERS on the big screen.
movie

Sunday, September 27th

Eleven-person Sunday morning aikido class.
aikido ˆ shoes
After sweating it out, came home and finished my last few slides in preparation for the upcoming week.
flux capacity ˆ mypizza ˆ slice ˆ work
adam purple
Headed out into the world. Digging the newly-painted purple footprints.
east village ˆ footprints ˆ la plaza cultural ˆ paint ˆ willow ˆ adam purple
While walking Maddy, passed these three giving a concert in the garden.
band ˆ garden
jared, jeet, karen
Walked up to Karen's to hang out with these guys who had made a plan to watch SPORTS!
thumbs up ˆ jared ˆ jeet ˆ karen

Monday, September 28th

me
Monday morning thinking in my green chair.
me

Tuesday, September 29th

amanda, grant
On Tuesday evening I went over to Amanda's...
amanda ˆ grant
...for a lovely dinner and a hang.
food
grant
Grant borrowed Amanda's hat as part of his new "Magician look."
hat ˆ grant

Wednesday, September 30th

Was going through an old box of papers and found this FORTUNE magazine that I was featured in as part of Spring Street Networks back in 2002!
fortune ˆ magazine
brian c, louis kanganis, me, rufus
We were one of the featured "Cool Companies of 2002." (I was 26 years old and already working at my 3rd start-up!) Happy September, 2015!
best ˆ magazine ˆ spring street networks ˆ brian c ˆ louis kanganis ˆ me ˆ rufus

1 comment

  • jason merhautmarch 6, 2018

    Jimmy the Cab Driver is played by actor Donal Logue (Gotham, Blade, etc.).