Please, please, please, please

February 10th 2011
Translation Party [http://www.translationparty.com] (which takes an English phrase, translates it into Japanese, then back into English, then back into Japanese until an equilibrium is reached) had its 15 minutes of fame [http://boingboing.net/2009/08/17/machine-translation.html] some months ago... read more

Android fleece hat

January 25th 2011
Android hat [http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5254/5388767106_8d9a810843_m.jpg]http://www.flickr.com/photos/quinnanya/5388767106/Last week was miserably cold in Chicago, so over the weekend I set about making a winter hat... read more

In memoriam: Rick Peterson

January 13th 2011
Rick Peterson at Project Bamboo Workshop 4 [http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5163/5352576607_c92d669c29.jpg]http://www.flickr.com/photos/quinnanya/5352576607/I was deeply saddened to get word that Rick Peterson... read more

January 2nd 2011
The Bamboo Planning Project [http://www.projectbamboo.org], which consumed my life from 2008 to 2009 [http://www.flickr.com/photos/quinnanya/sets/72157606216151053/], officially concluded on December 31... read more

Trotsky salad recipe

December 24th 2010
Trotsky salad, ready to be served [http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5290/5286980202_632a1a1849_m.jpg]http://www.flickr.com/photos/quinnanya/5286980202/I recently decided to make beet salad, but managed to forget to pick up every single ingredient in the recipe... read more

Blocking Jimmy Wales

December 20th 2010
Jimmy Wales has been driving me crazy. I've donated to Wikipedia before, and I've been on board with previous donation solicitation campaigns, but I'm really sick of looking at Jimmy Wales, his urgent appeal... read more

Google Ngrams and religion

December 19th 2010
Google Ngrams has been the death of my productivity since Friday morning. Google Ngrams are the new word clouds, but more exciting because the output is a chart-- and, as I discovered when I did a mock scientific analysis of university library graffiti... read more

Work-safe xkcd shirt

November 23rd 2010
xkcd shirt [http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5049/5205808280_563c7deac0_m.jpg]http://www.flickr.com/photos/quinnanya/5205808280/This summer, after I had amassed a delightful collection of geeky t-shirts... read more