Pat Castaldo
patc@pdx.social
<p>Directly supporting independent artists for 30 years. </p><p>Co-Founded buyolympia.com, Land Gallery and Shippr. Designed a bunch of indie record covers in the 90s/early 2000s. Won an Apple Design Award in 2004 for Endicia for Mac when it was still named after a Dead Milkmen song.</p><p>Just a dad in a pinball gang, who own a tractor, a kei truck and a motorcycle as old as him. Needs to be outside and loves his friends.</p>
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The desire to control payment rails is a helluva drug. Why banks keep trying to reinvent things that no consumer will want is kinda amazing to watch.
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“Should we hire people that can tell if an email came from outside the organization, or show them how?” “Naw, let’s just put a giant yellow banner in every single email they receive.” “Sounds good.”
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Some mornings when I “workshop” bad joke ideas my wife just sits eating her yogurt slightly confused, maybe annoyed, and lets out a deep sigh. This morning I was trying to workshop a food cart that is only open at night that serves bowls with a bright red sauce on it called “Anne Rice.” You can sigh, too, dear reader.
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SR5 is my favorite Toyota trim.
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&quot;Oh, I love your new place — but why don&#39;t you have any furniture or anything?&quot; &quot;Well, funny story, you know that moving company I hired? Apparently they died of dysentery.&quot;
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Music Apps iOS: Let&#39;s put a search bar everywhere, this time at the bottom, no matter what app you&#39;re in you&#39;re gonna tap it by mistake. Mac: Let&#39;s hide the search bar even though we have plenty of room for it and make sure they have to click every time.
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Huge swing and a miss on these “queso tell me more” goodles. Their attempt to add “salsa” flavor to the queso just reads as regurgitation in the back of your throat. No one in our family likes it. The “twist my parm” is a solid mellow taste and I’d buy it again.
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I can’t be the only one singing the Larry David theme song when making these.
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The b-roll footage in the documentary series Monsters or God is some of the best I’ve ever seen (and I watch a lot of documentaries).
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Sometimes the algorithms really get me.
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I feel like I&#39;ve been sufficiently warned not to eat my new camera. Like yes, it is a small camera, and yes, I have a big mouth, but, I mean, please.
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@aiefel They literally copied the musical. It’s a whole thing.
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In times like this and when I’m playing with the configurator and being astonished at prices, I remember that I spent $7,653.00 in 2017 on my decked-out iMac Pro and have used it every single day since.... so like $2.50 a day?
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I’m not saying I’m old, but my High School had a smoking area where kids and teachers would both hang out and smoke in-between class. It was called “the link” and it was a hallway between the old part of school and the new part, a back way into the cafeteria.
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So proud of my friend Devlin for (re)opening Bizarro Comics. If you live in Athens, GA and like comics, you already known Devlin. He ran Bizarro-Wuxtry Comics for decades and when Wuxtry changed he didn’t miss a beat.
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Tim needs to get his shit together. His chips are often burnt and always flavorless.
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Pre-School ending for my daughter has me a little melancholy; not just for her and her moving on and growing up, but the parents I met and friends I&#39;ve made that I won&#39;t see everyday anymore. One runs a local restaurant and gifted me some of his amazing homemade blackberry jam. Making *new* friends as you get older is a real gift, and one I don&#39;t take for granted.
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I really recommend getting a business partner who doesn’t seem to mind you singing along to The Velvet Underground... and has done so for almost 30 years.
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Apparently my phone has a feature that lets me know if the Ghost of Prince is within 1.5 miles.
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I think about growing up and watching crime shows where foot prints were often used as evidence. In Portland, a size 10 or 11 Vibram sole would account, easily, for 70% of males.
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I read somewhere that people think this is a dilution of the brand, but they’re pretty good — you can tell they’re not chips made with “regular” oil. I think the EVOO has a nice taste to it, and they’re cut super-thin.
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Proof you don’t need AI to make something that completely terrifies me.
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I’m in the greeting card business (it’s weird, it’s 2026, but people still send them) — and one greeting card that always feels weird to “run the numbers” on is one that basically says “sorry your dog died.” It’s a very morbid graph.
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I am really glad they priced this at $500 because if it was under $200 I would probably buy one and hate myself. https://www.dyson.com/oral-care/electric-toothbrush/camerajet/ceramic-ultra-blue
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I think this is all the equipment I need to finally kick off my podcasting career.
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Excited to launch my wife Emily’s new site. She wanted to keep it super simple, so we did. But couldn’t help but add a fun surprise to the add to cart buttons and cart icons. https://girlsandcats.com/
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More Evidence Olivia Rodrigo Is A Scientifically Designed Psy-op To Appeal To Gen-X Dads: Wife comes down stairs, "Who is this? They sound like Taylor switft but they're singing to music from the Sundays," later, "Wait, is this a Cure song?" Five-year-old daughter exclaims breathlessly, "It's Olivia!" "Um, yeah," I mumble, shamefully, "she's also done stuff with David Byrne."
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Adobe is just fucking trolling at this point. Listen to my PDF as a podcast? What the fuck are you even talking about. This is a “no bad ideas” whiteboard session about “creative uses for AI” come to life, and it sucks.
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Oh, shit, I think Cathy just parked out front.
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I dropped my car off at the mechanic early this morning, took a Lyft home. Went out to go run and errand just now and 100% thought my car was stolen.