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…
Jul 27th
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…
Jul 22nd
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…
Jul 14th
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…
Jul 10th
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…
Jun 25th
Star Trek: Tik Tok →
This is pretty much awesome. Via at least three friends on the Facebook.
Jun 24th
Summer is Here →
Jun 24th
Pale Blue Dot →
Mostly, this is here for my own reference. Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot reading.
Jun 22nd
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…
Jun 19th
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…
Jun 17th
Mammatus Clouds in Portland →
Check out these mammatus clouds.
Jun 16th
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…
Jun 14th
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…
Jun 12th
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:
Jun 10th
it’s sad, because it’s true →
I really need to get out more.
Jun 2nd
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…
Jun 2nd
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…
May 21st
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…
May 20th
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…
May 11th
A Day Called X →
May 5th
lord and lady →
Here’s a drawing I made of one of my favorite sculptures in the DIA. Made with iPad.
May 4th
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.
May 2nd
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…
Apr 30th
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…
Apr 29th
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…
Apr 29th
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,…
Mar 26th
Shaka, When the Walls Fell →
Mar 14th
We are Orz. We like *parties*. →
Can you come together with Orz for *parties*?
Mar 11th
Mar 10th
Mar 8th
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.
Mar 8th
Motorbike girl →
Division and 34th
Mar 8th
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…
Mar 8th
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…
Feb 21st
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…
Feb 8th
Wordpress android →
Posting from the new wp app for android, based on the excellent WpToGo. You can even install it by scanning a barcode.
Feb 2nd
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:
Jan 26th
Jan 22nd
580 notes
Wizards vs Everyone →
Earlier today I laid out a hierarchy of awesomeness, and wanted to archive it here for saving through the ages. / CC BY 2.0 Basically what I said there was that Wizards are…
Jan 21st
DJ Earworm – United State of Pop 2009 (Blame It on... →
Earworm is a genius, seriously.
Jan 20th
IIS7 vs OSX →
Compare and contrast:
Jan 20th
Jan 19th
491 notes
Christmas is over →
I definitely wasn’t expecting to see this today.
Jan 17th
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?…
Jan 12th
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…
Jan 8th
Christopher Lee sings with Rhapsody →
Symphonic Rock from Saruman himself
Jan 7th
These are the People Who’ve Died →
via @warrenellis Click to embiggen
Jan 7th
HAPPY NEW YEAR! →
Jan 1st
December 2009
11 posts
Snow in Portland →
Why yes, it is snowing quite a bit.
Dec 30th
Data on Gingerbread IV →
Enterprise, I’ve scanned the sucrose based foliage, and it appears to be edible. Though it is quite stale.
Dec 25th