Story from a fragment of a dream
2:30am I wake from a vivid dream of places I’ve never been, with people I’ve never met. My words won’t sufficiently paint the original sensation but I put them down here with some elaboration. Read and...
Category: About Me
Binocular
I’m participating in an online MOOC course on “How to make a Poem” offered by Manchester City University. There are several hundred participants and 3 professors. It can get kind of chaotic in the comments section. ...
2 Way Speaker Project
Sometime in high school I developed a fetish for designing and building audio speaker systems. My very first effort was a 3’ high, 2’ wide, 1’ deep plywood box with one 10” driver...
How I spent my summer or Camino Synthesis, etc.
Summer is over already. Blackberries have ripened on the vine, hand picked, and turned into jam. I’ve replaced two aging toilets in the house, re-planked the front and back decks, designed and built a curtain drain...
A Leaky Bath Fixture Odyssey
The odyssey actually began about a year ago when the old bath fixture began to leak. I could ignore it for awhile by pulling the shower curtain closed. The drip, drip, drip sound could be temporarily...
Trials of a home plumbing project or “Patience with Nature”
Home plumbing projects are partly about fixing leaks and partly about learning humility in the face of nature. Nature is the universal intelligence that guides all of the activities that mankind does not. As a human...
Life Philosophies for Aging Software Developers
While browsing thru various newsletters that had been piling up in my inbox lately I came across two articles that had similar themes and were written by people in my age group, more or less. Notice...