Oh wow. Dude’s made Charles Babbage’s Difference Engine out of Legos.

March 25 The Day of Excess Thanks to jet lag and the sleeping pill I’d taken before bed, I got about ten hours’ sleep, and woke as fresh and ready to meet the day as ever I am. Which is not saying much, actually. I walked out onto our terrace for another look at the […]

Our beautiful carpet has arrived. It’s wool-on-wool, meaning there’s a wool pile on a wool “frame” (warp and weft). It’s a “Sumak,” meaning the pile covers the entire carpet. The pile is hand-knotted into the carpet using the double Turkish knot, with something like 250,000 knots per square meter. The carpet took the weaver about […]

I’ve published my photos of the solar eclipse to my web site, here. I would like to provide photo neep for those interested in such things, but the fact is that these pictures were pretty much sheer luck. I was using a homemade solar filter constructed of cardboard, duct tape, and Baader AstroSolar Safety Film, […]