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I've been "re-organizing" the shop more or less continuously ever since I undertook the first major rehab in 2008.

My brother gifted me a terrarium built into the case of a Macintosh SE.

New work log alert.

shop rehab redux This year I started the arduous task of re-organizing my shop.

I added a "ticker' module when I put together the site to act as a news aggregator - something I had in place on previous iterations of the site, and something I find very useful.

The Many Forms and Features of Theo Jansen's Strandebeests from Neatorama.

2025 marks SomaFM's 25th anniversary.

Back in April and May I spent some quality time rebuilding our wheelbarrow.

Everybody knows what time of year it is - that's right - it's Peeps season!

legacy case mods mdportal elite Started as a DOS/Win95 gaming machine powered by a 486 DX 80 from ST Micro.

When we first moved in to our current house we took on several large renovation projects.

This project was very short lived.

This is the only one of my case mods that I still have.

This case is a great example of turn-of-the-century modding techniques- it's all DIY.

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vintage audio repair Quadraflex 777 Pioneer SX-434

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paper airplanes WhiteWings - Pre-cut Volume 2 Excellent Gliders 1992 I'm currently digitizing paper and balsa WhiteWIngs models so I can cut components on my laser cutter.

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As long as the web has been able to display more that plain text, there have been pages that are "useless".

I recently read How to disappear completely by s.e. smith at theverge.com and it sent me down a little rabbit hole.

I've been dual booting Windows 10 and Zorin Linux for several months now.

Title: A site recovery 15 years in the making Theme: ultrascience_efc Status: public Published: 2024-10-22 Layout: blog Anchor: exclude Tag: research papers, web development, the web On the restoration and update of a Drupal 4.7 based website from archived

A post for organizing my thoughts on the inspirations and resources used for this website's design.

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On the restoration and updating of a Drupal 4.7 based website recovered from archived backups.

This worklog covers the fabrication of whitewings type paper airplane models reproduced from original kit designs.

abstract Many years ago (circa 1994, I think) I was gifted a Whitewings paper airplane assembly kit.

introduction If you surf the modern "small web" to any extent you've encountered 88x31 buttons - a staple of late 90s and early 2000's websites1 undergoing a bit of a revival.