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"title": "Seattle Metropolitan Magazine Likes Me", "url": "https://ellis.fyi/blog/seattle-metropolitan-magazine-likes-me/", "published_at": "2010-07-02T04:20:26+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c50a-a34c-7030-8510-cc9940b2f938", "title": "I want one of these so hard.", "url": "https://ellis.fyi/blog/i-want-one-of-these-so-hard/", "published_at": "2010-07-01T20:43:28+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c50a-a34c-7030-8510-cc99415b2900", "title": "Review: Assassin’s Creed II", "url": "https://ellis.fyi/blog/reviews/assassins-creed-ii/", "published_at": "2010-06-23T19:00:04+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c50a-a34c-7030-8510-cc9941c1cd5f", "title": "guess what", "url": "https://ellis.fyi/blog/guess-what/", "published_at": "2010-06-03T05:12:58+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c50a-a34c-7030-8510-cc9942b56442", "title": "Review: Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune", "url": "https://ellis.fyi/blog/reviews/uncharted-drakes-fortune/", "published_at": "2010-05-11T19:00:03+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c50a-a34c-7030-8510-cc994397d787", "title": "Review: Ghostbusters: The Video Game", "url": "https://ellis.fyi/blog/reviews/ghostbusters-the-video-game/", "published_at": "2010-02-19T20:00:12+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c50a-a34c-7030-8510-cc9943fa6bee", "title": "Review: Pool Hall Pro", "url": "https://ellis.fyi/blog/reviews/pool-hall-pro/", "published_at": "2009-09-09T19:00:52+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c50a-a34c-7030-8510-cc9944d3ff08", "title": "Review: Wallace and Gromit: The Last Resort", "url": "https://ellis.fyi/blog/reviews/wallace-and-gromit-the-last-resort/", "published_at": "2009-05-22T19:00:48+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c50a-a34c-7030-8510-cc9944fad500", "title": "Review: And Yet It Moves", "url": "https://ellis.fyi/blog/reviews/and-yet-it-moves/", "published_at": "2009-04-17T19:00:19+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c50a-a34c-7030-8510-cc9945ce2365", "title": "Review: de Blob", "url": "https://ellis.fyi/blog/reviews/de-blob/", "published_at": "2009-03-20T19:00:21+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c50a-a34c-7030-8510-cc99463db776", "title": "Sonnet 2008", "url": "https://ellis.fyi/writings/our-stories/sonnet-2008/", "published_at": "2009-01-04T20:00:51+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c50a-a34c-7030-8510-cc99463dbaae", "title": "Review: LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga", "url": "https://ellis.fyi/blog/reviews/lego-star-wars-the-complete-saga/", "published_at": "2008-10-10T19:00:20+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c50a-a34c-7030-8510-cc9946c344a4", "title": "Review: Braid", "url": "https://ellis.fyi/blog/reviews/braid/", "published_at": "2008-08-11T19:00:34+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c50a-a34c-7030-8510-cc9947893b5e", "title": "Review: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess", "url": "https://ellis.fyi/blog/reviews/the-legend-of-zelda-twilight-princess/", "published_at": "2008-07-28T19:00:46+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c50a-a34c-7030-8510-cc9948631748", "title": "Review: Assassin’s Creed", "url": "https://ellis.fyi/blog/reviews/assassins-creed/", "published_at": "2008-07-14T19:00:48+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c50a-a34c-7030-8510-cc9949576271", "title": "2007 Year in Review Quiz", "url": "https://ellis.fyi/writings/our-stories/2007-year-in-review-quiz/", "published_at": "2008-01-24T20:00:48+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c50a-a34c-7030-8510-cc9949c6ffe7", "title": "Timothy and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Year", "url": "https://ellis.fyi/writings/our-stories/timothy-and-the-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-year/", "published_at": "2007-01-07T20:00:10+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c50a-a34c-7030-8510-cc994a361bdd", "title": "2004 & 2005 in Review", "url": "https://ellis.fyi/writings/our-stories/2004-2005-in-review/", "published_at": "2006-01-08T20:00:16+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c50a-a34c-7030-8510-cc994b03955f", "title": "Seattle Civil Defense Manual", "url": "https://ellis.fyi/writings/non-fiction/seattle-civil-defense-manual/", "published_at": "2005-07-01T19:00:06+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c50a-a34c-7030-8510-cc994bc16a15", "title": "Buttons", "url": "https://ellis.fyi/writings/commentary/buttons/", "published_at": "2004-07-01T19:00:31+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c50a-a34c-7030-8510-cc994c58b141", "title": "A Walk Through Tim’s Past", "url": "https://ellis.fyi/writings/our-stories/a-walk-through-tims-past/", "published_at": "2003-12-27T20:00:22+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c50a-a34c-7030-8510-cc994d198eaa", "title": "2003 In Review", "url": "https://ellis.fyi/writings/our-stories/2003-in-review/", "published_at": "2003-12-18T20:00:50+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c50a-a34c-7030-8510-cc994d606113", "title": "Read the Signs", "url": "https://ellis.fyi/writings/our-stories/read-the-signs/", "published_at": "2003-07-09T19:00:30+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c50a-a34c-7030-8510-cc994e5e9416", "title": "Dumpster Diving", "url": "https://ellis.fyi/writings/our-stories/dumpster-diving/", "published_at": "2003-02-27T20:00:26+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c50a-a34c-7030-8510-cc994ef9899c", "title": "Tire Blowout Fun!", "url": "https://ellis.fyi/writings/our-stories/tire-blowout-fun/", "published_at": "2003-02-21T20:00:47+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c50a-a34c-7030-8510-cc994f91971b", "title": "J.R. & the Ring", "url": "https://ellis.fyi/writings/our-stories/j-r-the-ring/", "published_at": "2002-12-21T20:00:49+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c50a-a34c-7030-8510-cc99505e6cbd", "title": "Retrospect", "url": "https://ellis.fyi/writings/poetry/retrospect/", "published_at": "2001-07-01T19:00:08+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog
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2026

Requiem for a real estate dream: a Redfin retrospectiveoriginal ↗
1 Jul 2026

2025

A few words for my fellow believersoriginal ↗
27 Oct 2025
What I learned making 300 episodes of my podcast “Dispatches from the Multiverse”original ↗
20 May 2025

2024

🪦 R.I.P. My Tech Career: 2010-2022original ↗
24 May 2024

2023

The Tough Reality of Running an Independent Retail Shop in Downtown Everettoriginal ↗
5 Jun 2023

2021

The Best Time Loops & Why Time Loops Aren’t Time Traveloriginal ↗
2 Feb 2021

2019

Even more collisions and near misses at the intersection the City of Everett refuses to fixoriginal ↗
22 Nov 2019

2017

Listen to the tugboat’s stuck fog horn at Port of Everett that kept my neighborhood up all nightoriginal ↗
28 Jun 2017
I logged every cup of tea I drank in 2016original ↗
18 Jan 2017

2016

City Of Everett Continues To Declare Dangerous Intersections “Appropriate”original ↗
2 Nov 2016
Ellises Get Approved!original ↗
4 Aug 2016
Dangerous Everett Neighborhood Intersections Result in Predictable But Avoidable Collisionsoriginal ↗
26 Apr 2016
More Hoopsoriginal ↗
26 Jan 2016

2015

New things are happening!original ↗
19 Dec 2015
Instead of refunding my money for a defective DVD, Target lied to me about “copyright law”original ↗
10 Nov 2015
Best Protein Shake Everoriginal ↗
26 Oct 2015
Giant Cedar Tree Repurposed as a Little Free Libraryoriginal ↗
16 Oct 2015
Changing Directionoriginal ↗
4 May 2015
New Bed Set Uporiginal ↗
25 Jan 2015
New Furnitureoriginal ↗
21 Jan 2015
First Home Study Visit Completed!original ↗
15 Jan 2015

2014

Home Study Appointment #1original ↗
20 Dec 2014
Case Worker Assigned!original ↗
17 Dec 2014
Waiting with a little confusionoriginal ↗
20 Nov 2014
Forget Red Light Cameras, We Need Yellow Light Linesoriginal ↗
13 Nov 2014
Everett to Seattle Traffic Is Blowing Uporiginal ↗
5 Nov 2014
Not my planoriginal ↗
24 Oct 2014
One Step Closeroriginal ↗
15 Oct 2014
Windows 10 No More Nonsensical a Name Than Previous Versionsoriginal ↗
30 Sept 2014
Plugging Alongoriginal ↗
28 Sept 2014
Why I’m Skeptical of Jibo, the Overly Cute Robo-Servantoriginal ↗
12 Sept 2014
CCT Complete!original ↗
24 Aug 2014
How Much Paint Would it Take to "Cover the Earth"?original ↗
28 Jul 2014
Part 1 of CCT doneoriginal ↗
27 Jul 2014
Where we’re at in the processoriginal ↗
24 Jul 2014
Adoption Updatesoriginal ↗
24 Jul 2014
Which is More Dangerous: Climbing Rainier or the “Deadliest Job”?original ↗
21 Jun 2014
Introducing META: The Idea Generatororiginal ↗
1 Apr 2014
Gordon Sands Threatens Seattle Bubble with Google Disavow in Misguided Attempt to Clean Up BankruptcyAction.com Comment Spamoriginal ↗
4 Mar 2014
Don Adams, 86 in Get Smart & Inspector Gadgetoriginal ↗
8 Jan 2014

2013

Kickstarter Idea Generatororiginal ↗
12 Dec 2013
The Amazing ’80s Technology Gems of the Markline Catalogoriginal ↗
19 Nov 2013
Mmm… Flies!original ↗
11 Nov 2013
The Incredible Shrinking PAX Medalsoriginal ↗
19 Sept 2013
Video Games + Home Improvement = Porch Launchoriginal ↗
17 Sept 2013
“Double Stuf” Oreos Actually Only “1.89x Stuf”original ↗
21 Aug 2013
Sharknado: Has the “Shark Genre” Reached its Logical Conclusion? NOPE.original ↗
13 Jul 2013
Salmon, Sun-Dried Tomatoes, & Eggs – Tim’s Daily Paleo Breakfastoriginal ↗
13 May 2013
LA Man Collects Data on 6,000+ Chinese Restaurant Visitsoriginal ↗
24 Apr 2013
The 100 Peeps Challenge: “How can something so simple be so delicious?”original ↗
5 Apr 2013
Wallet Overload on Kickstarteroriginal ↗
14 Feb 2013
1000Bulbs vs. Amazon: A Tale of Two Ordersoriginal ↗
11 Feb 2013
Why do most microwaves have such a terrible user interface?original ↗
7 Jan 2013

2012

All-Mail Elections Need to Gooriginal ↗
6 Nov 2012
PuffTris: Most Insane Tetris Clone Everoriginal ↗
3 Jun 2012
Can Seattle Support Six Major Pro Sports Teams?original ↗
18 Apr 2012
Mint.com staff have a reading comprehension problem.original ↗
16 Apr 2012
Some Kinda Big News Guy or Somethingoriginal ↗
31 Mar 2012
YouTube Doesn’t Care About Original Indie Contentoriginal ↗
22 Jan 2012

2011

Appreciating Cheap Tech Toysoriginal ↗
31 Dec 2011
Epic Commute: Tim’s November 22, 2010 Snow Trekoriginal ↗
23 Nov 2011
“He was playing music… while I… did stuff.”original ↗
6 Sept 2011
How (and Why) to Dye a Barrel of Monkeysoriginal ↗
3 Sept 2011
I Got a Keen New Cameraoriginal ↗
7 May 2011
I guess I’m a famous videographer now?original ↗
18 Mar 2011
de Blob: Best Video Game Music Ever?original ↗
16 Feb 2011

2010

Eagle or Bottle Cap?original ↗
25 Nov 2010
OMG, Facebook is Destroying Marriages! (Yeah Right)original ↗
19 Nov 2010
How do you win a major political campaign? Make crap up!original ↗
6 Nov 2010
Our Processoriginal ↗
5 Nov 2010
Winner: Most Outrageous Campaign Maileroriginal ↗
29 Oct 2010
Growing our Familyoriginal ↗
26 Oct 2010
Insanity Pricing: Crayola Crayons at Targetoriginal ↗
22 Aug 2010
Seattle Metropolitan Magazine Likes Meoriginal ↗
2 Jul 2010
I want one of these so hard.original ↗
1 Jul 2010
Review: Assassin’s Creed IIoriginal ↗
23 Jun 2010
guess whatoriginal ↗
3 Jun 2010
Review: Uncharted: Drake’s Fortuneoriginal ↗
11 May 2010
Review: Ghostbusters: The Video Gameoriginal ↗
19 Feb 2010

2009

Review: Pool Hall Prooriginal ↗
9 Sept 2009
Review: Wallace and Gromit: The Last Resortoriginal ↗
22 May 2009
Review: And Yet It Movesoriginal ↗
17 Apr 2009
Review: de Bloboriginal ↗
20 Mar 2009
Sonnet 2008original ↗
4 Jan 2009

2008

Review: LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Sagaoriginal ↗
10 Oct 2008
Review: Braidoriginal ↗
11 Aug 2008
Review: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princessoriginal ↗
28 Jul 2008
Review: Assassin’s Creedoriginal ↗
14 Jul 2008
2007 Year in Review Quizoriginal ↗
24 Jan 2008

2007

Timothy and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Yearoriginal ↗
7 Jan 2007

2006

2004 & 2005 in Revieworiginal ↗
8 Jan 2006

2005

Seattle Civil Defense Manualoriginal ↗
1 Jul 2005

2004

Buttonsoriginal ↗
1 Jul 2004

2003

A Walk Through Tim’s Pastoriginal ↗
27 Dec 2003
2003 In Revieworiginal ↗
18 Dec 2003
Read the Signsoriginal ↗
9 Jul 2003
Dumpster Divingoriginal ↗
27 Feb 2003
Tire Blowout Fun!original ↗
21 Feb 2003

2002

J.R. & the Ringoriginal ↗
21 Dec 2002

2001

Retrospectoriginal ↗
1 Jul 2001
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