Woodpress

I took some photos in the front yard Saturday. I’m biased, but I think they’re worth clicking through to view at higher resolution.

I sent my youngest daughter outside today with my pocket camera. Here are a few of the pictures she took.

This Easter the kids opened the egg dying kit and lost the instructions, so my wife just did what she remembered doing in the past, and put vinegar in the dyes. That mostly worked out, but it seems that the magenta dye reacted badly and wouldn’t stick to the eggs. As a result, any eggs […]

At lunch today, I ordered the vegetable side without asking what the vegetable was. I was delighted (seriously) to find that it was romanesco broccoli–the fractal vegetable. It was like meeting an inanimate edible celebrity. Until today, I’d only ever seen romanesco broccoli in pictures (which I have used as my desktop wallpaper) and read […]

On Sunday I spent some time tweaking the font I usually use for programming (DejaVu Sans Mono) to make it work better for me. My version is called Amnesia Sans Mono (a reference to Stephen Wright‘s joke, “Right now I’m having amnesia and deja vu at the same time.”). Here’s a sample at 24 point. […]

Recently I’ve had a lot of opportunities to take pictures of oil and water, and I’ve managed to get some pictures I’m pretty happy with.

A friend shared this amazing macro photo of a bug. I’m not going to embed the image here without permission, so it’s up to you to click the link.

Yesterday I took my waterproof camera into the bathtub, testing its waterproofness for the first time. It worked out just fine. My five year old daughter asked if I was thinking of a horse when I made this splash, because it looks like a horse: