After reading this: Why are they still making guitars with “real” strings that are difficult and boring to learn how to play and really make your fingers hurt? What is the point? Do we still slaughter our own cows? Dig our own wells? Work in the turnip fields for 18 hours a day, six days [...]

When my daughter wants something in the other room, but doesn’t know what it is called, she will say “I need this!” even though there is no “this” at hand. The “this” refers to whatever she is thinking of, and it’s not nearby so she can’t point at it. It’s almost as if she has [...]

But Peggy, I thought you liked Vaxen…

In which I finally write an app for generating Voronoi regions.

This is a very short list and it doesn’t usually take long for albums to fall off it. Saying that I “only” listen to them as complete albums from start to finish is a slight exaggeration — what I mean is I hardly ever approach these albums for a single song. If I’m in the [...]

“Rodrigo Alvarez can’t afford to replace the defective microprocessors on which his PhD depends, and so he’s learning to fix them himself.” Hats off to you sir.

In which I get a new goldfish, and reminisce on fish past.

How I learned to love bees, part 1.

As she goes throughout the house cleaning and tossing, my creative space gets more and more clogged with things that I don’t want her to throw away but she refuses to have in the house.