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Guestbook

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 07:36:27 -0400

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

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 21:37:15 -0400

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

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 03:30:31 -0400

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

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 21:58:37 -0400

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…

Earthquake data

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 11:54:17 -0400

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

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 12:40:41 -0400

Star Trek: Tik Tok:

This is pretty much awesome. Via at least three friends on the Facebook.

Summer is Here

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 00:36:41 -0400

Summer is Here:

Pale Blue Dot

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 02:56:30 -0400

Pale Blue Dot:

Mostly, this is here for my own reference. Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot reading.

Velosynth

Fri, 18 Jun 2010 21:56:56 -0400

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

Wed, 16 Jun 2010 23:32:31 -0400

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

Tue, 15 Jun 2010 21:22:38 -0400

Mammatus Clouds in Portland:

Check out these mammatus clouds.

Botticelli and Jimsonweed

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 14:26:37 -0400

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

Sat, 12 Jun 2010 03:06:37 -0400

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

Wed, 09 Jun 2010 23:32:58 -0400

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:

Encrypted Phone calls and texts for Android

Wed, 02 Jun 2010 02:34:24 -0400

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…

it’s sad, because it’s true

Wed, 02 Jun 2010 02:34:24 -0400

it’s sad, because it’s true:

I really need to get out more.

Holiday

Fri, 21 May 2010 00:28:47 -0400

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

Wed, 19 May 2010 23:52:21 -0400

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

Tue, 11 May 2010 01:54:33 -0400

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

Tue, 04 May 2010 23:36:46 -0400

A Day Called X: