Journal | A genius, so to speak, for sauntering

We are finally over the hump and days are getting longer once again. We've earned an extra 23 seconds today, tomorrow it will be 36. I'll be traveling a bit for the holidays so the posts are going to be ...

Math and visual representations of mathematical ideas is something of a hobby for me. One of my favorite tools for this is Nodebox, which is a Mac OS X application that gives you a basic canvas and some simple python ...

Northrop Frye, from Anatomy of Criticism: >>Poetry is a vehicle for morality, truth, and beauty, but the poet does not aim at these things, but only at inner verbal strength. The poet qua poet intends only to write a ...

Although I've been in this house since early summer, I still have a couple unsorted boxes of negatives from the move. I came across this image of Tom Harrell from a recording session several years ago at the Jazz Showcase ...

I've finally uploaded enough photographs to the Lake Clark National Park gallery for it to be a legitimate gallery, complete with link in the portfolio page. So far the gallery contains fifteen images and it's a little light on photos ...

Over the weekend I cobbled together a comment system for this journal. You should see links near the headlines and a comment form on the main entry page. Hopefully it is self-explanatory. I've allowed what I think is a reasonable ...

There goes the weekend. I had the best intentions of making productive use of my time over the next few days and then discovered that the German Federal Archive has agreed to donate 100,000 historic images to the Wikipedia Commons ...

The French painter Claude-Joseph Vernet died on December 3, 1789 exactly one month and one day before the the second congress of the United States passed the first federal copyright act. The original act granted authors 14 years (extendable to ...

I've added a couple new images to the database today from Wyoming. (They are in recent images) Both images are taken from the border between the Teton and Washakie wilderness areas near the Borner Fork of Butte Creek. The image ...