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The New Teapot Site. Palm OS Puzzle Game. Fogbound.net v.2.1. Ancient Site, replete with broken links and obsolescence. Page 1 of 29. Mon, 16 May 2016. 8212; SjG @ 6:13 pm. The Goodyear Blimp was passing overhead. It’s noisy! Since it was pretty low, I tried to take an iPhone picture. In the shot, I got a serendipitous cameo by one of the local Anna’s Hummingbirds. Click to see bigger. Sat, 19 Mar 2016. 8212; SjG @ 9:08 am. Equinox in the Garden. Sat, 20 Feb 2016. 8212; SjG @ 10:17 pm. After the initial ...
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The New Teapot Site. Palm OS Puzzle Game. Fogbound.net v.2.1. Ancient Site, replete with broken links and obsolescence. Sat, 8 Nov 2014. A Maker-ing We Will Go. 8212; SjG @ 6:54 pm. When I was growing up, I was encouraged to make things. Well, rewind a bit. I was known for “putting things to the hammer,”. 8220;He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.” — J.R.R. Tolkien. Like me. I’ve gone to “Maker Spaces,” learned about 3D printers and laser cutters...I’ve been mea...
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fogbound.net v. 3.0 » Ceramics
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The New Teapot Site. Palm OS Puzzle Game. Fogbound.net v.2.1. Ancient Site, replete with broken links and obsolescence. Mon, 28 Mar 2005. 8212; SjG @ 9:36 pm. After trying a lot of different approaches, I am now getting close to the results I want when photographing teapots. I figured it would be worthwhile to share my system in the hopes that it’s helpful to someone else, and with the idea I might get some suggestions from others. First, the goals:. A clean image that shows detail of the piece. This eve...
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The New Teapot Site. Palm OS Puzzle Game. Fogbound.net v.2.1. Ancient Site, replete with broken links and obsolescence. Page 1 of 3. Fri, 27 Nov 2015. 8212; SjG @ 1:48 pm. This is a post from the end of September. I didn’t finish writing it then, but recent events made me revisit it). I just finished reading Camp and Community: Manzanar and the Owens Valley. Another theme is essentially the William Goldman adage to “follow the money.” People like newspaperman Manchester Boddy helped estab...You can’...
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The New Teapot Site. Palm OS Puzzle Game. Fogbound.net v.2.1. Ancient Site, replete with broken links and obsolescence. Tue, 7 Jun 2016. JavaScript compares things weirdly. 8212; SjG @ 2:52 pm. We’ve already established that PHP compares things weirdly. It shouldn’t surprise us that JavaScript does too. Now, purists will point out that that’s an “equals” operator not an “identity” operator, but I mean seriously? We’re just going to pretend that. Mon, 28 Mar 2016. PHP Compares Things Weirdly. 8212; SjG @ ...
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The New Teapot Site. Palm OS Puzzle Game. Fogbound.net v.2.1. Ancient Site, replete with broken links and obsolescence. Mon, 25 May 2015. 8212; SjG @ 11:40 am. We start with an piece of a photograph. This picture is sepia toned and not extremely contrasty. The second step involves superimposing a pattern over the picture. The pattern should have be a continuous repeating variation between light and dark — when we superimpose, we multiply the two images, so that the darker of the pattern or the ...The rem...
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fogbound.net v. 3.0 » Typography
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The New Teapot Site. Palm OS Puzzle Game. Fogbound.net v.2.1. Ancient Site, replete with broken links and obsolescence. Wed, 30 Jan 2013. Failures in Typographical Experimentation. 8212; SjG @ 8:35 pm. This started with an idea. Perhaps it would be interesting to create a family of type faces where the density of the characters was related to the frequency of their use. This font, to be called. Would have variants based upon the text analyzed. For example,. What would this accomplish? Is wont to say, it ...
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The New Teapot Site. Palm OS Puzzle Game. Fogbound.net v.2.1. Ancient Site, replete with broken links and obsolescence. Fri, 26 Dec 2014. Makering of Physical Digital Stuff. 8212; SjG @ 6:11 pm. I’ve been playing with moving from digital space to physical space. Thus far, I’ve been doing it the easy way — I’ve been building models using OpenSCAD. Or Moment of Inspiration. And have been relying on Shapeways. To perform the actual translation from digital to physical. And it looked like it was good. I had ...
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fogbound.net v. 3.0 » Quotations
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The New Teapot Site. Palm OS Puzzle Game. Fogbound.net v.2.1. Ancient Site, replete with broken links and obsolescence. Sun, 18 Nov 2012. 8212; SjG @ 11:14 am. 8220;The superficial aspects of any popular art can be dislocated from the gut of it, marketed, and trivialized. That is the inevitable American artistic dilemma.” — Janet Coleman,. Fri, 16 Nov 2012. 8212; SjG @ 2:09 pm. Mdash; Joseph Conrad,. Tue, 13 Nov 2012. 8212; SjG @ 9:10 am. A Collection of Unusual Teapots.