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...
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:...
Building a presentation with Impress.js

Building a presentation with Impress.js

A few weeks ago, I decided to make a slide presentation to help explain the fairly complex vision of Datacosmos. I was tempted to buy Keynote for my mac, but wondered if there was some cooler web-based presentation software out there. After some searching I found...