“Buoys Rock!” is an interactive map reading exhibit. It asks the visitor to interpret a ocean weather map off the Pacific Northwest coast and select the appropriate buoys (buttons) that are experiencing certain weather phenomenon.
May 2nd, 2012
“Buoys Rock!” is an interactive map reading exhibit. It asks the visitor to interpret a ocean weather map off the Pacific Northwest coast and select the appropriate buoys (buttons) that are experiencing certain weather phenomenon.
Apr 21st, 2012
A week after adopting our new puppy, we crammed her in the car for an hour and a half long drive to the coast, made her climb all over this giant hulk of slippery, wet, misshapen, rocking piece of plastic to find her food, and even submitted her to the jarring bellowing monster that is […]
Jan 12th, 2012
Frontier military outposts required lines of communication to other outposts, supply depots, command centers, and field operations. The telegraph was a revolutionary form of communication in the 1870-80’s for the U.S. Army across the American frontier. Starting in 1875-76, the U.S. Army built the first 25 telegraph stations in Texas. In 1882, the U.S. Army’s […]
Dec 19th, 2011
Bella is special; she’s not at all like the labs that I grew up with, or many of the other dogs that either of us are used to having in our lives. For one, she doesn’t play fetch. At all. She can’t even be bothered to chase after the ball and then not bring it […]
Dec 10th, 2011
Little Bug was a part of our family for about two years–until he got hit by a bus. Since he was invisible, there was no funeral and no mourning period. Just like the many times when he would suddenly be present in a room or an active participant in an activity, when he was suddenly […]
Oct 4th, 2011
Over the past couple of months I have been working on creating an exhibit for the Hatfield Marine Science Center Visitor Center in Newport Oregon. The three panels below are part of a larger exhibit aimed at increasing public awareness about harnessing wave energy to create electricity off Oregon’s coast. This is still a work […]
Aug 29th, 2011
The Reason Sometimes projects align. I am involved in frozen produce (Moonshine Park Fish Company), track the local weather while sailing, and have an interest in monitoring energy usage in the home. All three center around logging data, data, and more data. For all of these projects it is time to figure out a way […]