This is a bit random, but I love it. I was searching for some information about Edward Tufte and ran across this discussion on his personal web site. Scroll way down to see the image. In addition the page title is “Ask E.T.” which made me chuckle. It’s been a long day…

This weekend was beautiful. The temperatures in the valley peaked Saturday close to 100. This is considered surprisingly hot for the Portland area. It is even more surprising when you consider that less then a moth ago it was still threatening to snow. The long winter and quick warm up has caused the rivers to […]

My friends Jamie and BK just became the proud parents of four baby ducks. These particular ducks will grow up to be Indian Runner Ducks. The breed is characterized by their peculiar stance. They tend to stand straight up on their hind legs – rather then the squat position usually associated with ducks. Anyway, here […]

I spotted this in the bargain bin of a local store and took this fuzzy picture. At first, I thought that it was an unfortunate translation issue (non-native speaker confusing rotten for fresh or ripe) – but then I noticed who the manufacturer was. David and Goliath makes a whole line of halirously named products. […]

Little Mona’s Big Sister

Even after giving Rob some guff about not optimizing his image – he was kind enough to append my comment to the original 1K Competition post. So, I decided to take the challenge and create a real 1K entry. Tiny Mona I wanted to take the competition as literally as possible, but I am no […]

Over on BoingBoing Gadgets, Rob Beschizza lets us know that hard drive manufacturer Seagate has just shipped it’s 1 billionth drive. To commemorate the event, he asked readers to create something less then 1K: 1 kilobyte. 1 kibibyte. 1 kilobit. 1,000 ASCII characters. Source code, file size, tile size, the number of letters in a […]

February and most of March had been unseasonably warm. Many days it felt like springtime. But during the past two weeks, winter has been playing catch-up. During several days last week, I stepped out of the office to find that it was snowing – big fluffy flakes. Then this weekend we had snow followed by […]

Our good friend Fish recently left the Pacific Northwest and moved to sunny, sunny Florida. He just sent me an email about his fishing trip (something that I guess people down there do on a Thursday). He included a great shot of his gear and an even better one of a danger sign. It is […]

I try to ride my bike whenever possible. Over the years, it has become obvious that drivers are trained to see other cars. I have narrowly avoided several accidents where drivers later claimed that they “did not see me”. When this happened to me on bicycle – I thought that it might my relative size […]