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The Tribe of Woolgatherers
In 1992 I got my first email account (@tuba.aix.calpoly.edu) and like everyone at the time, whenever I’d open up Pine at one of the university provided terminals, I’d have an inbox full of jokes someone forwarded to me. I loved the jokes, but I was always annoyed by the endless scroll to get down to…
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Ransom Letters
One of my earlier web experiments was to make an “image font” of the letters used in stereotypical ransom letters (see Ransom Letters). These were letters of the alphabet cut out from magazines. I still remember the old card table I had that was covered with these letters I cut out of old Wired magazines.…
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The New Baby Name Index
One of my earliest websites that had its own URL and press was The New Baby Name Index. It was one of the first of its kind and someone with less ideas would have run with it and found a way to translate the press it got into money. But alas, I had many other…
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The Society of Postmodern Archaeologists & Mailcarriers
Ever have a word and you try to come up with it would mean if it was an acronym or initialism? I have found myself doing that quite a bit. One time I found myself wandering the city of Boston, entering random CVS stores and asking the people working there if they knew what the…
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Prompties
While working on creating images for this website, I thought about asking the AI (in this case Google’s Gemini) to create a selfie image. These are what it created: As it stated quite clearly at the start of this effort “Since I am an AI and don’t have a physical body, I can’t actually take a selfie…
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Punk Entomology
While in college (1992-1996), I took a science class where our final project was a bug collection. We had to find, capture, and kill specimens of various types of bugs then mount them on pins. This macabre assignment dovetailed with the spikey, bleached hairstyle I had at that time. I had visions of creating a…
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A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
The previous version of this site was lost due to some technical glitches that occur over time (imagine glaciers destroying data centers), but as I rebuild it with all the previous ideas, I now have the power of AI to help me illustrate things which were just words before. It’s been fun to experiment with…
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No Bell For You!
In the process of updating this website, I reviewed all my old ideas and one struck a timely nerve (The Onion Article That Wasn’t) as it featured unlikely recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize. At the time I wrote it, it was considered something only The Onion would write an article about, but today, I’m…
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Cloud Backup…
I’m standing on the train platform where yet another cloud backup for your photos is being promoted. All great…but they just never seem to work as they claim. So I’ve tried google photos and iCloud backup for photos on my iPhone. It’s a nice thing to have extra space, to have the ability to back…
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My Order Code
With the prevelance of POS systems tied to the internet and available to anyone with a smartphone, why are we still ordering our meals like Neanderthals? There’s always been an issue of with near infinite options, one has to repeat a long list of preferences to match the long list of options. No mayo, GF…