progress means not having to finish things

A few years ago, I started a project to build something I’d wanted for a long time: a simple device that could read Wikipedia articles and Project Gutenberg texts. I called it a WikiBub. The point was to create something dirt simple on the cheap, instead of the usual “convergence device” that does everything (and [...]

Posted by Chris in Making Stuff, Technology on October 28th, 2009 | 1 Comment »

and I like to do drawerings

I’m having entirely too much fun uploading my meeting doodles to Flickr. Sometimes it’s refreshing to do something of absolutely no consequence. Next up: color drawings, thanks to some colored pencils Jesse gave me. (OK, he actually gave them to Ben, but I’ve appropriated them in the name of meeting sanity.)

Posted by Chris in Art, Plain foolishness, Shameless Promotion on October 16th, 2009 | Comments Off

Happy 40th birthday Deana!

Sigh.

Posted by Deana in Holiday! Celebrate! on October 9th, 2009 | 3 Comments »

tomayto tomahto

I often see a word in print long before I hear it pronounced. That’s fine for most words—”antidisestablishmentarianism” isn’t actually that hard to deconstruct—but it can get me in trouble sometimes. For years I thought misled was pronounced “mizzled”, and I never did decide how envelope should sound. Now that’s going to be a lot [...]

Posted by Chris in Language, Technology, Web 2.0 on October 6th, 2009 | Comments Off