Original Date: 2020-06-15 11:05:49 I have not been using this blog because it was intended to be for serious and professional things, but time for a pivot. So onward with new focus. New vigor.

This tweet by Brandon Taylor from May 14, 2020 has stuck with me.

"The …

Counties colored by their distance from Washington DC.

I searched google images for 'breakfast,' and for 'Frühstuck' and was not surprised that I got different results.

Showing counties by their date of formation. In a few cases I used 'settled' dates. For San Francisco I used the date of the establishment of the Mission. The data is from Wikipedia. I grabbed the list of counties, then grabbed the wikipedia page for each county and pulled out …

Reading Wikipedia I came on this page List of U.S. counties named after prominent Confederate historical figures And so I made a map of those counties.

I plan to make the source data available, at some point, but let me know if you would like it sooner.

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This is a laser cut grating or grill cover. The holes are 1/2". This is a walnut veneer over an MDF core.

Ed then suggested that I make smaller versions suitable for model boats, and he took them to the model boat club where several were snapped up by …

For Arse Elektronika in 2010 I took multi-image high resolution genital portraits. The following essay is in the 'proceedings' of the conference, published in the RESEARCH book Screw the System.

Personal Portraits of Australia

Warning: Images presented in a spirit of exploration/science/art but very explicit

Most of us …

I ordered nifty postcards from . About $15 for 50, they will be a bit cheaper for larger quantities.

The links are mostly broken, contact me if you want to see something here.

• Volcanos in Arizona, Gigapanning Volcanos for NASA DRATS in April 2010.
• BodyTrack: Open Source Tools for Health Empowerment through Self-Tracking.O'Reilly Open Source Conference 2012, With Anne Wright and Candide Kemmler.
• Archiving Space-Personal Digital Archiving Conference …