I think, therefore I am' - René Descartes 1596 - 1650
Was reading an article recently about dialog communications and how texting has replaced talking in a lot of modern communication. (http://alistapart.com/article/conversational-design) It had an interesting diagram that displayed a time line of human communication going back...
Zinc felt out of place. He was on an elevator beginning it’s descent from the 24th floor of a nondescript midtown office building, crowded with business people and customers of business people, He wasn’t interested in...
“All hope abandon, ye who enter here” – The Devine Comedy by Dante Alighieri “Cogito, ergo sum” – René Descartes My name is Aubrey and I created Zinc. Zinc started out as a short character description for...
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...
“What did you do last weekend, @joe2?” asked @Mark “uh, I just dropped into maintenance mode and re-calibrated some visual algorithms” he lied. No way could he talk about how he actually spent his 4 hours...
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...
One spring weekend, a small group of three or four teenage boys hatched some plan to drive to a neighboring town, meet up with an acquaintance which purportedly had free tickets to a movie. As so...