Cheshire Cat Tricycle Redux

Cheshire Cat Tricycle Redux

The Cheshire Cat bike is back to its former glory and bound for the playa this Burning Man 2014. We discovered on a Google image search of “Burning Man Costumes” that a burner snapped a pic of it on the playa in 2012: Thanks Curtis Mekemson! In this two...
9 Steps to Winning a Hackathon

9 Steps to Winning a Hackathon

Here’s a sure-fire 9 step program to winning a hackathon. Or it’s how we managed to squeeze out a surprising win at AngelHack Summer 2012. Perspective is everything. 1. Show up Showing up is the hardest thing to do. And don’t just show up to be...
Motion Sensing LED Wall Fountain with Jackpot!

Motion Sensing LED Wall Fountain with Jackpot!

We saw a huge glass water wall fountain in a restaurant one night. Becca said we should get one for our apartment. Of course, I said why don’t we build one! I had some left over wood from some other projects… so I settled on a design that would make good...
God’s Bookcase

God’s Bookcase

Dream Last year I went to a ten day silent meditation retreat called Vipassana. I’ve resisted writing about it until now because, well… much of my intention for the practice was to embrace the unknowable. It. Just. Was. Writing about it, saying what it was...
Floating Porch Swing

Floating Porch Swing

Burns are a lot of things. They start with 10 principles. But when those principles are applied with particular time and space constraints by a self-selected group of humans, it’s difficult to say what burns ARE. One natural result of a couple principles (namely:...