Chronicles

The Apple Watch Beats the iPhone. Fight Me.

Why the hell has it taken you this long to just put a cell phone in the thing” — my actual reaction the day cellular finally arrived. Plus the MTM watch Jack Bauer wore on 24 that I was too scared to buy, and why Apple Watch Cellular is the single best product Apple has ever made.

Chronicles

The Guy on the Sidewalk with the “45”

Rolling past a guy sitting next to what looked like a loaded 45 will rearrange your priorities fast, especially when concealed carry training is part of how your brain processes it — turns out it was “just” a BB gun, and he’s lucky nobody found that out the hard way.

Chronicles

The Rat-Rod Skunkworks

A bar in Madison, a band called Flat Atom, and a single beer that changed everything. Two decades later, Recluse Studios is a rat-rod skunkworks building local-first audio software with the philosophy that the tool should belong to you.