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Today I went down to Providence to visit the Retro-Computing Society of Rhode Island. There’s in the old Atlantic Mills building. They’ve got a pretty amazing collection of old DEC equipment. A lot of...

Time to run over to the Lyman Estate and get some herbs to plant in the garden.

Here’s what I’ve been printing lately. https://flic.kr/p/ZPbSRL These are called Girih tiles. They’re a set of five different shaped tiles that are used in Islamic architecture. As you can see, when you fit them...

Here’s another oddity I found while digging through boxes the other day. Many years ago, I worked at the greyhound track in Seabrook NH for a while. I helped with the totalisator, which was...

I was digging through some boxes this evening to find some old paperwork on some shares, and I found this old Polaroid. I’m pretty sure it was taken when I was at Exa, so...

I know I just posted a video from Tested, but this one’s awfully good too. Here’s Adam Savage visiting our local makerspace:

One tool I haven’t owned is a vacuum pump. That’s because good vacuum pumps are expensive, and cheap vacuum pumps are – well – they’re not good vacuum pumps. So I finally decided to...

Massachusetts has implemented early voting this year, so we went down to Cary hall and voted today.

I don’t know whether you saw this post I did on my MathWorks blog, but I find the NOAA weather buoys pretty fascinating. You can look up a buoy and get all sorts of...