July 2010
4 posts
Guestbook →
I decided to make the guestbook for my wedding, right down to cutting the pages out from a roll of paper and labeling them tri-lingually in English, Spanish and Quenya. Here’s a sneak preview…
QR Code Artwork →
QR codes are pretty neat. Basically these are 2D barcodes that can encode a lot of data, including URLs and text and phone numbers and such. I had a thought that if something other than just black…
Bored with Foursquare →
Well I’m officially bored with Foursquare now. It’s just too much work to maintain mayorships, and it seems like there must be some way other people are gaming the system to hold down…
Writing and more writing →
Even though my spare time has been becoming less and less these days, I have actually been writing quite a bit more often. I’ve made a concerted effort to write something every single day…
June 2010
12 posts
Earthquake data →
There’s a lot of pretty interesting data available at the USGS website, including maps of witness reported earthquake intensity. The 5.0 magnitude quake that hit the Ottawa area generated about…
Star Trek: Tik Tok →
This is pretty much awesome. Via at least three friends on the Facebook.
Summer is Here →
Pale Blue Dot →
Mostly, this is here for my own reference. Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot reading.
Velosynth →
I really want one of these Velosynth devices to play with. It’s a smart, hackable glitch noisemaker you can attach to your bike. It’s like the super nerdy version of the playing cards in the…
Comments →
The recent posts over on Daring Fireball about comments have gotten me thinking about just disabling them and throwing them all out here. Not on LJ or Facebook, that seems to be where comments are…
Mammatus Clouds in Portland →
Check out these mammatus clouds.
Botticelli and Jimsonweed →
Rebecca pointed me at this article from NPR in which art historian David Bellingham posits that the Botticelli painting “Venus and Mars” depicts Mars in a state of intoxication from…
The Forest →
I finally got around to uploading some pictures from our last couple of camping excursions. These are all from the Hood Forest.
This one I think is crazy how green it is. Rowan practically blends…
Locals vs Tourists →
Laughing Squid posted about a project that’s mapping geotagged photos taken by tourists vs those taken by locals.
Here’s Portland. The blue dots are locals and the red are tourists:
it’s sad, because it’s true →
I really need to get out more.
Encrypted Phone calls and texts for Android →
Honestly, I think end-to-end encryption should be the default behavior for all phone calls. Whisper Systems have released a pair of apps for beta testing that add this privacy…
May 2010
6 posts
Holiday →
Last night we watched Holiday on Netflix. I’m pretty sure I had never seen this movie before, though I have seen many a Cary Grant picture. I’m a big fan. This is seriously one…
Google Web Fonts →
This is pretty cool. Amongst other things released today, Google announced an API for loading some free web fonts. They maintain a repository of fonts that can be loaded directly from…
Tall Timber Country →
For Mother’s Day this year, Rebecca decided she wanted to go camping. So we left on Saturday, stayed the night in the Hood Wilderness National Forest and came back Sunday afternoon. It was amazingly…
A Day Called X →
lord and lady →
Here’s a drawing I made of one of my favorite sculptures in the DIA. Made with iPad.
Ladybug Chowing on Aphids →
On a leisurely walk today through Ladd’s Addition I spotted a ladybug going after some lunch on a rose bud. This thing must seem like a T. Rex to an aphid I imagine.
April 2010
3 posts
wedding night →
I’m not one for astrology or other superstitions, but i have to say i do like a good portent in the sky. I got an iPad recently, and one of my favorite apps for it is the amazingly sweet “Star…
Dashcode questions →
As I am wont to do in a cyclical fashion, I’ve started running through some programming tutorials. I decided I would take a swing at some Dashcode, but even the basic walkthrough is failing…
iPad app recommendation →
A small request: does anyone know of a decent photo editor for iPad? What I’m looking for is something real basic that can resize, crop, rotate and maybe do other basic stuff. Preferably and then…
March 2010
8 posts
Digital: A Love Story →
I was alerted to the presence of this game by Aqouli over here and immediately downloaded the thing and dug into it. It’s a text adventure executed entirely in an Amiga Workbench like interface,…
Shaka, When the Walls Fell →
We are Orz. We like *parties*. →
Can you come together with Orz for *parties*?
Morrison Bridge Opening →
Check it out, we saw the Morrison Bridge opening up while we were out and about in the city today. Kinda long but still, neat. It’s the first bridge I’ve seen open here so far.
Motorbike girl →
Division and 34th
Anathem →
Photo by kevinkemmerer / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
I’ve been reading Anathem by Neal Stephenson and it’s pretty great. An exchange that kind of sums up the book for me so far very well is…
February 2010
3 posts
Powell Butte and Larch Mountain →
Yesterday we had quite a bit of an adventure. Since it was such a beautiful day (60’s and sunny!) after breakfast we drove out to Powell Butte, a park with lots of hiking trails on top of an…
Mount Hood →
I was going through some photos today and it occurred to me that I didn’t have a set of Mount Hood stuff. So here it is, in slideshow format. I got engaged up there, and come August I will be…
Wordpress android →
Posting from the new wp app for android, based on the excellent WpToGo.
You can even install it by scanning a barcode.
January 2010
12 posts
Computer What Happened? →
From now on, whenever I get any kind of errors I will be thinking and/or saying the following:
Wizards vs Everyone →
Earlier today I laid out a hierarchy of awesomeness, and wanted to archive it here for saving through the ages.
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Basically what I said there was that Wizards are…
DJ Earworm – United State of Pop 2009 (Blame It on... →
Earworm is a genius, seriously.
IIS7 vs OSX →
Compare and contrast:
Christmas is over →
I definitely wasn’t expecting to see this today.
Laughing Squid Drinkup in Portland →
There’s a Laughing Squid Drinkup this Friday at the Lucky Lab on Hawthorne. Come on down and hang out with us. You can RSVP here if you’d like to.
What is a drinkup you ask?…
Writing Stuff →
Well it’s been a busy couple of months. Sadly, I failed to complete the Nanowrimo due to some extended traveling in November. I vowed to make it up by taking an online writing class, which turned…
Christopher Lee sings with Rhapsody →
Symphonic Rock from Saruman himself
These are the People Who’ve Died →
via @warrenellis
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HAPPY NEW YEAR! →
December 2009
11 posts
Snow in Portland →
Why yes, it is snowing quite a bit.
Data on Gingerbread IV →
Enterprise, I’ve scanned the sucrose based foliage, and it appears to be edible. Though it is quite stale.