Author: theazureshadow

I\’m not usually one for posters, but I want this.

I\’m going to be busy until next Monday or Wednesday. That\’s why I haven\’t been posting much recently. But don\’t worry, I\’ve been reading all your fine posts. See you all soon.

Sarah just sent me a link to a preview of an amazing game called \”Auditorium\”. I love little puzzle games, and this one is simply elegant and beautiful. It doesn\’t even need instructions. I would tell you more, but it\’s more enjoyable to just go play it. You should do so.

Lawrence Lessig, a well-known copyright activist and digital freedom fighter, has put together open-government.us, a web site that urges the Obama transition team to commit to making their content free and accessible. Policy statements, speeches, and other content should allow free sharing, excerpting, and remixing. This would demonstrate Obama\’s principle of open, transparent government, and…

Sarah likes my beard. I mostly keep it because she likes it. But there are sometimes unforeseen consequences to my beard-wearing. For example, tonight Josh suggested a short walk along the river. We went outside into the cold Spokane night and discovered a thick fog, where St. Al\’s twin crosses hung like phantoms in the…

I\’ve been playing with the dangerous combination of Photoshop and NASA again. [ sun surface original ] [ earth night original ]

Google search suggestions: Can anyone come up with a better set of search suggestions?

The tiny humpback whale and the giant elephant are neighbors.

\”The lines in your eyes look like networks of something.\” — Sarah, whose spontaneous poetic skills suffer somewhat under the effects of sleepiness.

The last day of the Yellowstone trip we got up and packed quickly. The tent was soaked, so we just rolled it up and threw it in the back of the car to deal with later. We drove north until we reached the Old Faithful region. While the previous day had been a mixture of…