shop rehab redux
I've been "re-organizing" the shop more or less continuously ever since I undertook the first major rehab in 2008. Every time my focus shifts to a…
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Mac Terrarium
My brother gifted me a terrarium built into the case of a Macintosh SE. It's a pretty cool little art piece that will fit pretty well into the shop's…
Shop Rehab Redux
New work log alert. I finally started documenting my long ongoing shop rehab work from the last year. It'll be ongoing into 2026. I actually started…
infrastructure
Under construction. I'll be documenting shop and workspace re-organization and storage builds here.
RSS
I added a "ticker' module when I put together the site to act as a news aggregator - something I had in place on previous iterations of the site, and…
Strandbeests
The Many Forms and Features of Theo Jansen's Strandebeests from Neatorama. A nice little article on Theo Jansen's Strandbeests featuring a video by…
soma fm
2025 marks SomaFM's 25th anniversary. If you're not familiar with somafm.com it's an internet radio service currently with over 30 ad-free stations.…
Digging in the Dirt
Back in April and May I spent some quality time rebuilding our wheelbarrow. The tube went flat, and while repairable, the tire was extremely weather…
Tis the Season for Sweet Marshmallow Joy
Everybody knows what time of year it is - that's right - it's Peeps season! And while you're snacking on some flavored novelty marshmallow puffs,…
case mods
Legacy and new case mod work logs. I'm currently working on importing my early 2000's projects from the archives.
shop rehab 2008
When we first moved in to our current house we took on several large renovation projects. One of those was remodeling the workshop attached to the…
rei&asuka
Luggable production rig
dragon
This is the only one of my case mods that I still have. It's currently in storage in the shop. A few years ago I performed a power test, and it did…
mdportal elite
This case is a great example of turn-of-the-century modding techniques- it's all DIY. The availability of off-the-shelf case modding hardware and…
lab notes
Research articles and blog posts, some of it evergreen. Included archived blog posts restored from previous website incarnations.
r & d
Work logs for past and present hobby projects. Case mods, electronics, models, woodworking, vintage audio.
vintage audio
Under construction. I dabble in some audio electronics repair work. I've got a number of stalled projects in-process and I'll be sharing them here.
speaker design
Under construction. Eventual home of my speaker design and fabrication projects. I have several drivers to design around and a few cabinets in need of restoration and upgrades. Nothing audiophile grade.
models & crafts
Experiments with folded and cardstock paper planes, model railroad design and builds, probably some laser cutting stuff, too.
lego robotics
Under construction. Eventually I'll house my LEGO RCX code, builds, and tests here.
The "Useless" Web
As long as the web has been able to display more that plain text, there have been pages that are "useless". Sites that aren't for the dissemination…
The Vanishing Web
I recently read How to disappear completely by s.e. smith at theverge.com and it sent me down a little rabbit hole. The article poses the question…
The Year of the Linux Desktop ... or not
I've been dual booting Windows 10 and Zorin Linux for several months now. As Microsoft's impending support cutoff for unsupported hardware looms,…
Lab notes
Title: A site recovery 15 years in the making Theme: ultrascience_efc Status: public Published: 2024-10-22 Layout: blog Anchor: exclude Tag: research…
ultrascience design notes
A post for organizing my thoughts on the inspirations and resources used for this website's design. Hopefully you find it useful as well. design…
Spring fever
Spring fever
a site recovery 15 years in the making
On the restoration and updating of a Drupal 4.7 based website recovered from archived backups. I didn't keep great notes as I worked through this…
Whitewings - History of Jet Fighters 1992
This worklog covers the fabrication of whitewings type paper airplane models reproduced from original kit designs. If you are uneasy with reproducing…
Whitewings
abstract Many years ago (circa 1994, I think) I was gifted a Whitewings paper airplane assembly kit. Sadly, I don't know which volume, and I no…
Why we are still using 88x31 buttons
introduction If you surf the modern "small web" to any extent you've encountered 88x31 buttons - a staple of late 90s and early 2000's websites under…