Tiny Little Life

This is a farewell to the best and most functional piece of furniture I’ve ever owned: a homemade lofted bed that I built 6 years ago. Over that time, it grew into an important piece of my own life, combining a sleeping space, a work space (although not a home office), and all the […]

Say that you are following someone else’s project on github, and you want to submit a patch to their code. Unfortunately you don’t have access to their repository. Github recommends that you create a fork of their project — which is correct — but from there, their instructions are less helpful.

So, assuming that […]

Adult mayflies live for a very short time — sometimes less than a day. This one was relaxing on the hood of a car.

About 12 years ago, I became a big fan of the art of Digital Blasphemy — digital artwork that was quite impressive for its time. I was a member, and downloaded every bit of media I could get my hands on. One of my favorites was a short video clip of an abstract […]

Both of these pepper grinders broke after less than 6 months of daily use because the grinding mechanism is held together with flimsy plastic.
Through the hole in the centers, you can see where and how the plastic broke. Both times, this resulted in peppercorns all over my food, counter, and floor.

It’s easy to sort a single directory by date in Linux with the ls command. Here’s how to sort a directory and its subdirectories by date:
find Music/ \
| xargs -d”\n” -i{} \
echo “stat –printf=\”%y\t%z\” \”{}\” \
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I got curious yesterday about how many letters peoples’ names have per syllable, so I called it “syllabic efficiency” and graphed it. I’m happy to say that my name is in the highly efficient “nletters = nsyllables + 1″ line.

(With apologies to Aaron Sorkin)
BP: You want answers?
America: I think I’m entitled to them.
BP: You want answers?
America: I want the truth!
BP: You can’t handle the truth! Son, we live in a world that needs energy. And that energy has to be produced by men with drill rigs. Who’s gonna do it? You? Obama? I have […]

Dear Make Magazine,
It’s over. I’m done with you.
I like the idea of a magazine dedicated to DIY culture, but (as of late) the “Maker Revolution” is to “the next industrial revolution” as “breast implants” are to “inner beauty”. I’ll admit: you have your moments now and then. But, standards have fallen; currently […]

On the left is my old Booq bag (Mamba Pack), on the right is the new one that they sent me for free. You see, Booq is an amazing company with an amazingly designed bag… and when my old bag developed a problem, they not only sent me a new bag for free but […]