GavinThink

Yes, I've been obsessed the last year or so. If you're tired of hearing about Bitcoin, check out our Cassowary Tales blog , which we...

We're hosting Christmas for Michele's siblings; this is an email she sent them a couple of days ago. Ok so I learned something th...

I'm happiest when I'm working on One Big Thing. I think I've found my next Big Thing, and I'm excited! Bitcoin is a new...

1. Localocracy . Email lists, blogs and online bulletin boards are all used to talk about local politics, but they're all less-than-ide...

My position at UMass is covered by a collective bargaining agreement, so I got to experience firsthand what it's like to work in a union...

I didn't realize how much I take money for granted until coming here to Australia. A lot of economic concepts like exchange rates affec...

We're living in South Mission Beach, Australia for the next five months, and Michele and I and the kids will be writing about our experi...

So I was driving to the Mall to buy Will new soccer stuff, and had completely forgotten that ExtRavaGanja is happening downtown today until ...

After we remodeled the kitchen in our tiny, 900-square-foot bowling-alley-of-a-house in Palo Alto ten years ago we swore we would never do i...

We have some hard and fast rules about dinner in our house: We all eat dinner together Once you leave the table, you're done. No grazin...

The Tour of California bike race is happening as I write this, and today's stage is a 15-mile time trial in Solvang. That brings back lo...

When I was a teenager and saw other pregnant teenagers at my Arkansas high school, but none at my California high school, I assumed that the...

My family moved to Mena, Arkansas in 1981, when I was a freshman in high school. We were living in a "double-wide" in a mobile ho...

I sent email to my State Representative a couple of months ago, asking for some general information about the State budget. I followed up b...

Maho Bay Camps on St John (one of the US Virgin Islands) is an "Eco-Resort." We stayed there last week, and mostly had a fantast...

We had fun carving pumpkins again this year. My sister-in-law gave us a Martha Stewart pumpking carving kit a couple of years ago, and I go...

I'm allergic to guinea pigs. Also dogs, dust mites, ragweed, English plantain (which is a weed, not a type of banana), two kinds of mol...

I spent $5 on this PayPal Security doo-hickey . Now, whenever I want to login to my PayPal account, I enter my username and password and the...

One of the benefits of having Australian relatives (Uncle, Aunt, and cousins) is that the kids regularly get Australian picture books. The l...

Three years ago today I took the Oath of Citizenship in Boston. I was born in Melbourne, Australia, but moved to the U.S. when I was a wee...