Category Archives: Oversight

Great work here – I’m really excited to see his software comparison matrix.

Have a Brother HL2270DW laser printer. Great printer, except that the starter cartridge lasted a measly 210 pages. First, I tried this. Which didn’t work. Then I ordered these inexpensive replacement cartridges from Amazon. Wish me luck. Then I found … Continue reading →

Night is rarely so revealing as with light.    The total combination space of a new lock is huge – orders of magnitude, exponents. Log scales. Billion combinations. But a code never changed wears itself in. Specular reflection will buy … Continue reading →

  Opened up a television today and found this “User Manual”. I was surprised at the sheer number of languages represented. In an age of smartphones, there should be a single block of digital data in the middle that auto-translates … Continue reading →

2012 is, roughly speaking, over. It was equal parts sunset and surprise. I learned about wishing. About wanting. About flying high.  Crashing hard, Burning mistakes. About the meaning of preparedness; about always being ready.  About homecoming. But I couldn’t expect … Continue reading →

I’ve been sewing since I was a little kid. I learned on this machine, the Bernina 1130. My mom gave it to me when I moved away from the Dakotas. She gave me a lot of nice tools, including pretty … Continue reading →

Last October, in NYC, I announced a new DIY Book Scanner kit (the “Hackerspace Scanner”). Today, after dozens of revisions, hundreds of hours of work, and thousands of great ideas from the community, the first eight kits are ready for … Continue reading →

Projects don’t exist until you’ve bled on them.   It’s spiritually akin to breaking a bottle of booze on the bow of a ship.

I’ve lived a lot of places. Each had something, special. 12 1/2 North Roberts Street, Fargo, ND 58102 – that place had such night lights. Shadow projectors. I loved nodding off to those sodium sources. You can see the bike … Continue reading →

I am a self-taught 3D modeler, and used to develop game models professionally. Perhaps the greatest skill of a game modeler at that time was to make a low-polygon model with sensible geometry. The lower the poly and texture count, … Continue reading →

The cans say “PROGRESS”. After my time in Russia (and Nicaragua) the smell of burning trash has a special place in my mind. I took this picture on a trip to the dacha with Jochen and Sveta. We spent quite … Continue reading →

Bryan Thoendel and I met in Art School and had a hell of an inspirational friendship. We never, ever stopped talking about art ideas and occasionally explored different media together. In this case, we had a broken webcam (which had … Continue reading →

I’ll never forget our conversation over the lease – “If another $25 is a problem for you, you shouldn’t rent here”. Thanks, Landlord Gary. You reminded me that the right environment has value, and that my stress was groundless. Goddamn, … Continue reading →

Out for breakfast with Dana, this ATM caught my eye. Stateside, most ATMs are anchored to architecture; this one is on wheels. In hostile environments, feet of mobility can mean higher security than being fixtured to the wall. LoJack – … Continue reading →

A year of my life living in Russia. Not nearly long enough. There, I learned so many gorgeous Russianisms from the lips of so many gorgeous Russians. One sticks out in my mind particularly. “In every joke, there is a … Continue reading →