Teasing out my cultural connections through genetics
Special note: Talking about personal genetics is difficult: what you say not only reveals so much about you, but also your parents, your siblings, and your chil...
Category: The Narrative
“The road less traveled”: getting it wrong, but getting it right
Back in 2014, I was invited back to my graduate school as part of a professional development series for science grad students. Most of the speakers before me we...
My greatest story, never much told: Nokia Cloud
In early 2004, I joined the small Nokia Lifeblog team to lead sales and marketing. Over the roughly 18 months I was with the team, I learned so much about the f...
Riffing off a rant about technology
I stumbled upon a brief rant on technology by Ursula LeGuin via The Prepared. Great stuff. Alas, I required a bit more than a tweet for me to riff off of it. &#...
Building this gyro watch winder was like jazz
Isn’t making one big jam session? Many decades ago, my mother bought my father a Tissot Seastar Seven. A very simple watch, which also has its own pendulu...
You think you know how EEPROMs fail? Think again.
The Death and Deathlessness* project was my exploration of life, death, and immortality. EEPROMs, the permanent memory in some chips, have finite life for writi...
Looking back at a challenging challenge year
I recently completed the final project of my year-long challenge to make a project a month from 15jul20 to 15jul21. This marks the end of my second year of maki...
Last challenge project: Tree of Life, with a twist
Here is my final project of my year-long challenge. I was on target to finish it on time, but life has a way and I ended up finishing it about a week late. But ...
Project: Firefly
My latest challenge project was selected already last year when I set the challenge. As this had to do with fireflies, I knew I had to have it ready for early J...
Challenge update: entering the last month
This past year, I’ve challenged myself to do one meaningful project a month. While building embedded electronics and printing objects can be fun, I wanted...