Austin, TX · since 2014

The rest of it.

I would be building most of this regardless. Same instinct as the work — notice something, sit with it, make a thing — pointed at raccoons, tarot decks, and the Greenbelt instead of revenue.

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Everything here started as something I noticed

Click a dot

Left is where I only noticed something. Right is where I built something about it. None of this is on the work page — it is the same instinct, pointed at raccoons, tooth zones, and the Greenbelt.

Work Life Built it →
Something you can open
A note, no artifact
02

Things I am part-way through

Nothing here is finished, which is the point
03

The Raccoon Invoice

samievargas.com/raccoon ↗

For five nights I slept badly and could not explain it. I blamed podcasts. I cancelled plans. Then I got up early one Wednesday and found a mother raccoon and her babies nesting on my balcony.

The wearable had the whole story before I did. What surprised me was the tail: the raccoons left on May 3 and it took eight more days to get back to baseline. The nervous system does not get the memo.

Itemized · Apr 24 – May 11 Balance due · nothing

Body battery, out of 100 · hover a day

Apr 24 May 11

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Beyond the résumé

05

Eating here

Hover a place · scores are real

The standing rotation, and the reason the inspection project exists — I pulled 21,160 city records because I wanted to know about exactly this list. Scores are the city's, and lower means fewer violations.

The Caesar salad search continues and may be structurally doomed. Current standard: cold plate, no anchovy, croutons that were bread yesterday. Nothing in Austin has cleared it yet, which is the only open ticket on this page.

How I checked all of them ↗
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On rotation

Things I built for myself

Life OS — the daily dashboard
Life OS · fifteen charts about me
The tarot tracker
Tarot tracker · seven decks logged
Life in Pixels
Life in Pixels · ask my data anything