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8 June 2008 @ 10pm

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Staying Cool

Staying Cool, originally uploaded by jazzmasterson. A rabbit sits in the one cool place the apartment has, in the draft from the window fan.


Piles of Ball Bearings

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 […]


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26 May 2008 @ 10am

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Ridiculously Brave Squirrell

Ridiculously Brave Squirrell, originally uploaded by jazzmasterson. If you look close, you can see the squirrell in the tree, eating a maple seed that he took from the steps I’m sitting on. He sat and watched me from a foot away after getting his prize.


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18 May 2008 @ 8am

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Bunny Card

Bunny Card, originally uploaded by jazzmasterson. A card, made by a thoughtful colleague when I was having a rough day.


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15 May 2008 @ 6pm

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Lounge

Lounge, originally uploaded by jazzmasterson. Here, have a cute bunny photo. The Internet doesn’t have enough of those.


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14 May 2008 @ 6pm

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Constraints

Constraints, originally uploaded by jazzmasterson. Design is the successive application of constraints until only a unique product is left. — Richard W. Pew, from The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman. Not quite as recursive as “Design is to design a design in order to create a design,” but I like it.


Sitting on the porch

.flickr-photo { } .flickr-frame { float: left; text-align: center; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Sitting on the porch, originally uploaded by jazzmasterson. With the dot grid book and a stack of index […]


Midnight snack NOM NOM NOM

.flickr-photo { } .flickr-frame { float: left; text-align: center; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Midnight snack NOM NOM NOM, originally uploaded by jazzmasterson. Plus hummous.


Bunny Racetrack

.flickr-photo { } .flickr-frame { float: left; text-align: center; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Bunny Racetrack, originally uploaded by jazzmasterson. Shown here, the Oni model racebun cools off after a grueling marathon race […]


Beverly Cleary can bite my ass.

Cecily and I recently moved to a new apartment in an old, multi-family home. It’s had many, many occupants, some of whom have treated it better than others. The owners have been diligent and conscientious in their upkeep, so the wear on the apartment has tended to take the form of character, rather than neglect. […]


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