In the spirit of Pi day, I thought I’d share how I managed to memorize 100 digits of Pi five years ago. I no longer remember it — but I know this is the way in which I memorized it. … Continue reading
In the fall, I started taking pictures of back alleys, lanes, in-between city spaces. There are no postcards of these places, but we spend so much time in them and moving through them in our day-to-day. I think I was … Continue reading
I have had jobs in which I had to do a lot of filing, but eventually it began to drive me crazy. There seemed to be no end to it: stacks of paper that seem to grow larger, no matter … Continue reading
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.