Danny Hillis wrote a wonderful article about working with Richard Feynman, at Thinking Machines: In the meantime, we were having a lot of trouble explaining to people what we were doing with cellular automata. Eyes tended to glaze over when we started talking about state transition diagrams and finite state machines. Finally Feynman told […]
Some time around late 1994, a friend and I were in a computer lab, poking around the glacial internet. We were alone in the lab, because everyone else had worthwhile things to do. With a flourish, my friend fired up a new program he’d found, and showed me the home page for the Mosaic Netscape […]
My five year old, home-built PC is now running Ubuntu seven point something something. It was that, or reinstall Windows XP. Again. Let’s just say that if I was going to put XP on this machine again, I’d be using an axe to do it. There are limits beyond which no-one should be pushed. So. How […]
Some hairy “life stuff” has seriously curtailed blogging and web time, lately. But fear not! I bring gifts. Via Core 77, we find Indexed, a collection of amusing sketches on index cards. And that’s all I got. Sometimes, life’s like that.
.flickr-photo { } .flickr-frame { float: left; text-align: center; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Post cards, originally uploaded by dgray_xplane. Dave Gray got a document-feed scanner, and he’s been using flickr to […]
As soon as I saw the Make blog’s iPod cassette case hack, I had to try this out. Presenting, the ghetto index card bleachers: No modification necessary. Hey, I bet zip disk cases would work even better….
Via Dave Seah, I bring you the Productivity Geek’s Dating Kit. Dave says: I have to admit I’m a little curious about how they put everything together from a packaging perspective…is it actually useful, or is it primarily a novelty gift? Hmm… I’m guessing, “novelty.” But maybe that’s just me. On the other hand, you do […]
I haven’t really said everything on this list during a design review. The leprachauns don’t like to talk to me. Via boingboing.
Mandatory Apology
Slapping on a theme to fix some random brokenness.
Fixes coming.
So I Sez
“I looked down at the happy dog and something in his eyes said to me, 'Yeah, I met a skunk. Kicked his ass.'”
– Love and Penguins
25 August 2006
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