Don Rogerson

LEGO Zoetrope

rogerson — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 21:08:40 +0000

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

rogerson — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 20:50:59 +0000

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 the history of the problem. I never read it. The issue was illuminated for me when I reached college and several of my classmates occupied the college development office in protest of the school’s investments connected to South Africa.

Cry, the Beloved Country was first published in the 1940s, then released again in the 1950s as the Civil Rights movement was gaining steam, then again in the 1980s as international pressure began to build on South Africa to abandon apartheid. It got another boost when it was chosen as part of the now defunct Oprah’s Book club.

Home Grown Tomatoes

rogerson — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 14:39:35 +0000

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 was an experiment, but turned out to be very tasty.