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Thing-A-Day Day Two: Hollow Book Continued
I’ve mostly finished the hollow book I started yesterday. I cleared the pages down to back of the book, except in the corners where my dull exacto knife couldn’t cut. It doesn’t look that great, but...
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Thing-A-Day: Day 5
On day three I tried to make banana muffins, but when I started preheating the oven a nasty smell filled up the apartment. This is the brand new oven in our new apartment, so we were understandably...
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Thing-A-Day Day 13: Compass Night Light
This past week has been pretty hectic at work, so I haven’t been keeping up with Thing-A-Day, but I’m getting back on track as of today. The basis for today’s project was a Chanukah present I got from...
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Thing-A-Day Day 15: Vertical Garden
I’ve been building a vertical garden with my brother, on and off, for the last couple of weeks. We’d already assembled the frame, and today we installed the watering system. Below is a video from...
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With our powers combined: the best breakfasts from Ireland and Israel
We recently (and not so recently) visited Ireland and Israel. We had a great time in both places and brought back some of our tastiest breakfasts from each place. From Israel we took shakshuka, which...
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Ferrofluid table (WIP)
When Nick and I made ferrofluid a while back we knew we wanted to do something cool with it. This project is what we eventually started work on. The basic idea is to build a table top that is filled...
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How I failed the Stanford online NLP class
One of the most frustrating aspects of my professional life are projects that are unplanned and unmanaged. Even the most interesting project can quickly become a painful burden if no one takes the...
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Pickled
Today we visited my brother at the Growing Home farm in Merseilles, IL (that’s pronounced “Mar-sails”) and pickled our brains out. Everything we pickled was fresh from the farm including the wild plums...
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Simple trick to help learn a foreign language
Deana and I are currently teaching ourselves Spanish in preparation for our trip to Argentina. We’re using a couple of tools to help us learn, but there’s one low tech technique I really like that I...
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Learning Linux: Switching Wireless Drivers
Before I get to the meat of this post I’d like to introduce what I’m hoping will be an ongoing series here I’m calling “Learning Linux.” I’ve been using Linux (Ubuntu, to be specific) as my main OS...
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New Year, New Ginger Champagne (Bonus Round: Ginger Gin Infusion)
This year my brothers and I continued the tradition my oldest brother started four or five years ago: brewing up a batch of ginger champagne on January 1st. Ginger champagne takes a year to ferment at...
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Building a WindowFarm (Part 1)
This weekend I started building a WindowFarm with my brother. Building it together is actually his Channukah present (just don’t ask which year’s). We used the ‘mini’ version 2 instructions that will...
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Building a WindowFarm (Part 2)
After the decoupage dried my brother and I got together again and started to hook up the airlift watering system. As I mentioned in part 1, we did a bit of improvising with the tubing sizes. After...
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Be Careful What You Wish For
A couple summers ago I went on a lovely bike ride through the forest preserves to the Botanical Garden with my girlfriend Deana. As we usually do on such an outing, we packed a picnic like it was a...
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Chicago Food Inspections Explorer
As a first foray into playing with some of Chicago’s public data I decided to take a look at the food inspections data. I started off by making a proof of concept — a basic web form for searching by...
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Hello Birfday!
My birthday was this past week and Deana got me an excellently geeky gift: a Pebble! After playing around with watchfaces and installing apps, I did what any self-respecting nerd would do: I decided to...
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Kombucha time
I’m putting this here mostly so I don’t have to keep texting my brother for his kombucha recipe every time I want to make some. His recipe makes a gallon but that’s a bit too much for us to go through...
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Year in Review 2013
Too much happened in 2013 and too recently for me to try and review everything that happened, so I’ll stick to the things most relevant to this blog. Namely my projects and this blog itself. First,...
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Ginger Champagne 2014
Another year another batch of ginger champagne. The 2013 batch turned out pretty well but a little sweeter than we expected. A couple bottles didn’t carbonate but made for a decent liqueur and mixer....
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Steganography: A First Foray
There’s something satisfying about the thought of a message hidden in plain sight. A puzzle whose very existence is the prize to find. A maze with cheese at the end. Good cheese. None of that Kraft...
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