From top to bottom: “Yuletide Greetings”; a marriage announcement, 1902; an assortment of empty envelopes; an assortment of letters and other handwritten scraps; three hand-embellished hankies; a collection of bone buttons; a lace collar; three calling cards; a … Continue reading →

As usual, I turn to the OED for a definition/title of my blog post — and while I could have selected the verb of “file” we’re discussing this week, “to place documents on a file” (on? interesting, OED…), I realized … Continue reading →

Jeff and Jimmy   On March 22, 1968 in the Thua Thien province of Vietnam outside of Hue, a sniper’s bullet killed my uncle. His name was Jeffrey G. Hamilton. In the same small arms exchange, Jeff’s friend and fellow … Continue reading →

It was about two weeks ago when Melissa and I were walking home from school when, lugging bags over our shoulder up Forbes toward SqHill, she suggested that I turn my current utterance into my file project. My utterance was … Continue reading →

  Being able to convert the horrors of a missing aircraft into a silly, aeroplane-shaped word cloud seems horrific and insensitive, after the fact. Prior to this activity, I had spent two hours creating a technology-manifesto-word-cloud on Wordle, but Java … Continue reading →

CONSTI2GO – A device that prints the US Constitution via a receipt printer.

Here’s how you make Nutella cookies. They’re really easy and take maybe half an hour, including chilling the dough. If, like me, you stress-bake, then I foresee many of these in your future.

I like don’t even get Twitter so I couldn’t really wrap my head around a bot and also I don’t have a spreadsheet program and it all seemed quite challenging so I just made a thing. I wanted to provide … Continue reading →

I made a Roy Batty Twitterbot @RoyBatty_1982 using the Zach Whalen instructions. (And thus whatever algorithms allow “Twitter Apps” to generate and post my tweets automatically; I have not yet decided whether my “vocabulary” and syntactical ingredients counts as parts of … Continue reading →

A composer friend recently wrote a piece of choral music using a procedure that resulted in a procedure for the choir to follow. This list of directions was the “score,” and the result of following the directions was the piece. … Continue reading →