LEGO Zoetrope
Posted about this LEGO Zoetrope that I finished this weekend over at 62 Bricks. Harris brought over his video camera and we’re going to make some higher-resolution video of the machine in action.
Currently Reading: Cry, the Beloved Country
| September 22, 2011 | Currently Reading |
When I was in high school Ms. Nancy Colton, my math teacher, gave me a copy of this book with the thought that I might enjoy it. It was the 1980s and South Africa, Mandela, apartheid and divestment were in the news every day and I think she thought it was a good introduction to…
Home Grown Tomatoes
| August 18, 2011 | Making Things |
As Guy Clark says, there are only two things money can’t buy: true love and home grown tomatoes. Well, my true love let me grow some tomatoes in her yard this year and we have been putting up the harvest in jars. We have chopped tomatoes, tomato juice, salsa and even some tomato-basil jam, which…