Peeking into my super secret and personal electronic inbox, as of 22 minutes ago, it looks like I have 648 unread emails, and have sent out 0 emails so far today. I've received a piddling 0 earnest missives since midnight. As of right now, the battle against email looks pretty hopeful.

What I'm doing on Sun at 12am

Browsing 17% of the time Lounging 17% of the time Reading 17% of the time Drinking 17% of the time Working 17% of the time Wedding 17% of the time

This week's concerns

Eating/drinking 52% of the time Leisure 41% of the time

How I'm feeling this week

The paparazzi found me in these photos from 7 days ago


More

Pictures I took as recently as 41 minutes ago


More

Where I've been in the last 7 days or so

Sat, May 25: 11:46am 02:01pm 07:25pm: Haven 08:06pm 08:06pm 09:03pm: Gather 09:03pm 10:38pm 11:36pm: East Bay Spice Company 11:36pm 11:36pm
Fri, May 24: 08:54am: Parisoma 08:54am
Thu, May 23: 03:55pm 06:26pm 06:26pm 06:42pm 06:42pm 08:41pm: Chop Bar 08:42pm 08:56pm 10:49pm: Heinold's First & Last Chance 11:30pm
Wed, May 22: 07:20pm: Storify HQ 07:20pm 07:56pm 08:06pm 10:14pm 10:31pm 11:19pm
Tue, May 21: 07:18am 07:59am 08:03am 09:16am 01:29pm 07:50pm 08:12pm 08:37pm 10:12pm
Mon, May 20: 08:08am 08:09am 09:11pm 09:42pm
Sun, May 19: 05:27pm 05:32pm 07:20pm 08:40pm 08:40pm 10:33pm 10:37pm 10:40pm

Kinds of places I've been

New American Restaurant
Restaurant
Indian Restaurant
Tech Startup
Coworking Space
American Restaurant
Bar

In the last 13 days, I've posted 19 posts and photos. Mostly to Twitter, Flickr, Foursquare

Since I started writing online in October of 1999, about 13.64 years ago, I've posted 34,593 bits of nonsense. Yeah. And the problem is only getting worse.

About me

I live in Berkeley. I am married to the amazing Kellianne and am the father of little Niko. I am helping build interesting things at Twitter. I have a few side projects, like Peabrain and 750 Words. I used to be Buster McLeod, and before that I was Erik Benson. I previously co-founded Habit Labs, The Robot Co-op as well as the now sleeping McLeod Residence. I self-published a book called Man Versus Himself. I have otherwise been occupied on this planet for about 36.99 years.

Three of my favorite projects

8:36pm

For the last 1,829 days, at 8:36pm, I have taken a picture of what I'm doing. It's sort of a weird obsessive photo project that I plan to do for the rest of my life. You should do it too, it's fun. (here are some other people who are doing this)

About about 4 hours ago, I said, "8:36pm Biking birthday pub crawl in the East Bay"

 

Health Month

Health Month is a simple game that lets you choose your own health-improvement challenge to play with friends for a month.

 

750 Words

750words.com is simple website that gives you a way to write 3-pages privately every day, and learn about yourself in the process.

A few rules that I try to live by

1. You must not dilly-dally. 2. You must be your word. 3. You must have good intentions. 4. You must admit to being the maker of meaning. 5. You must not feel sorry for yourself. 6. You must have a vision that you are striving for. 7. You must tie creativity and experimentation with survival. 8. You must be the change you want to see. 9. You must rally others with your vision. 10. You must stake your reputation on your better self. 11. You must be comfortable with the consequences of being who you are. 12. You must share. 13. You must make your own advice and take it. 14. You must manage your stress, health, and clarity. 15. You must study your mistakes. 16. You must retry things you don't like every once in a while. 17. You must make time to enjoy things.

Sat May 25, 2013

17 posts

Visited 3 places

  1. 7pm Haven
  2. 9pm Gather
  3. 11pm East Bay Spice Company

Email from this day

  • Unread count: 643
  • Total received: 88
  • Total sent: 0
  • Getting: worse

11:36pm from Flickr

Thums up!

Tags: foursquare:venue=516a2f0ae4b0e8899b289f65, instagramapp, iphoneography, square, squareformat, uploaded:by=instagram, xproii

11:36pm from Twitter

Tweet at 11:36pm

Thums up! @ East Bay Spice Company http://t.co/qgJgZBIsfi
Neighborhood: Berkeley, CA

11:36pm from Foursquare

6:05am

Checked in at East Bay Spice Company (Indian Restaurant)

Thums up!

Tags: Indian Restaurant

10:38pm from Twitter

Tweet at 10:38pm

@mmcgovern Let's talk! Email me at busterbenson at gmail.
Neighborhood: Berkeley, CA

9:03pm from Twitter

Tweet at 9:03pm

Stop #2 with @the_april, Kellianne. (at @GatherBerkeley w/ 3 others) http://t.co/JxAshdC9kn
Tags: 2
Neighborhood: Gather, Berkeley

9:03pm from Foursquare

4:05am

Checked in at Gather (Restaurant)

Stop #2 with April, Kellianne.

Tags: Restaurant

8:47pm from Twitter

Tweet at 8:47pm

@mikeindustries It was different but really good. Made from homemade beet-infused ginger beer. Felt healthy.

8:46pm from Flickr

8:36pm Biking birthday pub crawl in the East Bay

Tags: instagramapp, iphoneography, square, squareformat, uploaded:by=instagram, xproii

8:46pm from Twitter

Tweet at 8:46pm

8:36pm Biking birthday pub crawl in the East Bay http://t.co/A3SmD7aEtd

8:06pm from Flickr

Beet-Infused Moscow Mule

Tags: foursquare:venue=4eb430af991165b761ddd966, instagramapp, iphoneography, square, squareformat, uploaded:by=instagram

8:06pm from Twitter

Tweet at 8:06pm

Beet-Infused Moscow Mule @ Haven http://t.co/not7G3mlsj
Neighborhood: Oakland, CA

7:25pm from Foursquare

2:05am

Checked in at Haven (American Restaurant)

Tags: American Restaurant

2:39pm from Twitter Favorites

Tweet at 2:39pm

Faved @jayzombie's tweet: This. 1,000 times this: http://t.co/pKb1KWvfxR Thank you for capturing exactly what Instagram means to me, @technopaul.

2:01pm from Twitter

Tweet at 2:01pm

Holding the golden ticket http://t.co/wsKOi6XhUG

2:01pm from Flickr

Holding the golden ticket

Tags: foursquare:venue=4fde5cfae4b044d93c0025a9, inkwell, instagramapp, iphoneography, square, squareformat, uploaded:by=instagram

11:47am from Twitter

Tweet at 11:47am


11:46am from Flickr

Cuties

Tags: foursquare:venue=4a0f2588f964a5202f761fe3, instagramapp, iphoneography, square, squareformat, uploaded:by=instagram

Fri May 24, 2013

2 posts

Email from this day

  • Unread count: 613
  • Total received: 144
  • Total sent: 2
  • Getting: worse

8:57pm from Twitter

Tweet at 8:57pm

8:36pm @the_april is in town for my birthday weekend. Who wants to get a drink with us tomorrow night? http://t.co/NcBX4HUY1t

8:56pm from Flickr

8:36pm @the_april is in town for my birthday weekend. Who wants to get a drink with me tomorrow night?

Tags: instagramapp, iphoneography, square, squareformat, uploaded:by=instagram
See more entries →

Find me

Find me in person or contact me on Facebook, Twitter, email (guess it or ask someone), or some other way if you want to hire me, collaborate, toss ideas around, work together on something amazing, or get a drink. I'm available.