Woodpress

I recently took this picture on the commute home from work. I’m using it as my desktop wallpaper at the moment.

My seven year old son folded this hat recently, then I drew Snoopy on it for him: After drawing Snoopy, I realized there was an opportunity for more, so I unfolded it: My favorite part was making Snoopy say “Dude.”

This post probably doesn’t interest many people, because it’s about a new toy I ordered, and is mostly devoid of actual information. There will probably be a similar (but more informative) post after the camera arrives. I’ve had my current pocket digital camera (a Sony DSC-T1) for several years. It’s not a high-end camera, but […]

My friend Brian Jarvis usually introduces himself as “Walrus” — it’s a wonderful nickname. Among his many interests, he’s a cub scout leader. For Christmas, I commissioned another friend, Darrin Perry, to draw this for Brian:

A friend of mine, Thom Boyer, recently told me (and a few other people) about platonic solids — three dimensional shapes whose vertices all have the same number of adjacent faces. Plato theorized that these were the building blocks of the universe. Thom went to a game store and bought a pound of dice (I […]

… interesting choice of font.

On Saturday we went to a dinosaur/natural history museum where my friend Darrin did some of the mural work and other artistic things. I took some pictures. This one turned out well, I think:

Today I found a spider eating a fly in my house, and took pictures. Here are a couple of the better ones.