Brian Mars

Brian Mars

By day I'm a Principal Architect at Nike. By night, I'm a vampire. Or is that a werewolf?

Portland, Oregon
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Jan 19, 2021

Leveling Up

Leveling Up

You know how when you play a video game and then you level up and you get points to put into a skill, but you don’t know what you want, so you

Jan 2, 2021

2021 Resolution

2021 Resolution

For me, 2020 was the Year of the Mind. 2021 will be the Year of the Body. Last year, I quit drinking and seriously addressed some personal issues that had clouded my brain

Dec 1, 2020

One Year Sober

One Year Sober

One year, no beer. No bourbon or booze of any kind. No THC. Hell - not even a diet soda! What a time to pick to go sober! I wasn't going to acknowledge

Oct 8, 2020

Can Dogs Eat It?

Can Dogs Eat It?

This week, Teresa and I released our first app - Can Dogs Eat It? From the app store description: Can Dogs Eat It? helps you determine what foods are safe for dogs to

Sep 27, 2020

Weekly Roundup (2020 Week 39)

Learn to read the room, people... The New York town of Swastika votes to keep its nameA small town in upstate New York voted to keep the name Swastika, saying that the town

Sep 25, 2020

Where now, brown cow?

Where now, brown cow?

First let me say that I fully aware that my thoughts so far on social media are from unique or revolutionary. I've been thinking about these issues for quite some time and needed

Sep 20, 2020

Content

Content

I've mostly used Facebook and Twitter as my examples here and in my own offline thoughts as they are the platforms I am most familiar with. There is, however, a whole wide world

Sep 20, 2020

Weekly Roundup (2020 Week 38)

One thing this format will allow me to experiment with is scheduled posts. These are some things I found interesting this week. McSweeney's is hit or miss. This one was a hit. I

Sep 17, 2020

Friends, Followers, Family...

Friends, Followers, Family...

I think one of the biggest disservice done to us by Facebook was calling the relationship between two accounts "Friends". Services allow us to join a network with other people. Sometimes it is

Sep 15, 2020

Comments

Comments

The first thing that struck me after my first post was the lack of comments. I shared it on Facebook and Twitter and got a few likes and comments, but over here -