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Saying goodbye to colleagues

At the graphic design place where I work, we recently said goodbye to some colleagues, and to mark the occasion, each of us designed one page for a farewell book. Here is mine. You will want to click...

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General updates 2011: July (including new Zazzle product)

Everything’s going well in preparation for my upcoming holiday and computer upgrade. The last time I mentioned the upgrade plans was in May, when I’d just started getting prepared. Back then I was...

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Playing with Ganjifa (Part II)

This is the second of two blog posts about Ganjifa cards. In the first, I showed sample cards from my own deck (which I bought from a playing card museum in Germany), suggested suitable English names...

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Gen, and other links

Most of this post is targetted at people who have dabbled in the art of language invention, aka conlanging, and in places it will be a little technical. For everyone else, let me recommend links on...

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Festival in review

In February I wrote about the events that I’d chosen to go to at this year’s Adelaide Fringe Festival, and for general information about those items, please read that post. What follows are my personal...

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Two nodable challenges

Here are two challenges that are completely unrelated except that both involve some sort of nodes. The first challenge is different for every reader. In idle moments, I sometimes create challenges for...

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If we are designing flags…

Every so often, the prospect of changing the Australian flag crops up in the media. Politically, I don’t much care: there are more important things than some piece of cloth on a pole. But creatively,...

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Links: Early February 2013

The Pulp-O-Mizer is an Internet website/meme that’s been doing the rounds lately. It’s a lot of fun, and involves choosing a combination of image elements and text format options to create your own...

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Kán yu andastánd wot aim seiing?

Whatever you think of the complexities and ambiguities of English spelling, reforming it is not a realistic prospect this side of an independently-governed moon colony. Or, to put it another way:...

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A lizard, a wedding and a painting

A least three things have happened in the last week that are worth sharing. The most important is my second cousin’s wedding, which we’ll get to in a moment. But first, here’s a photo of a gecko I saw...

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You may now call me El Kazunkel

On Sunday 26 May at 11:00pm, my sister gave birth to her first child — a 52cm long, 4kg baby girl, who a couple of days later was named Elke Adele Smith. (It can be fun to guess what a newborn baby...

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Links: Early August 2013

Here are some links for you to enjoy. Interesting: The science of military helicopters with halos. Long video of astronomer talking passionately about exoplanets. Fascinating article on island home of...

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Astronomy in conjunction with more astronomy

I’ve recently done two very exciting things that are both of astronomical significance. One of them — which has just happened as I begin writing this — was attending a public lecture by Phil Plait, the...

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Updates to my online store

I recently added a few new products to my online store, and pruned away a few old ones. The current inventory follows: Products with fractals: Coffee mug with two related fractal images on a black...

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More silly pulp covers

Back in February I linked to the Pulp-O-Mizer cover generator, which lets you design magazine covers in the style of 1950s pulp science fiction. One entertaining way to use it is to design spoof covers...

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The Gzarondan language

Among the blog posts I’ve revised in my current archive clean-up is my 2006 article on conlanging. That blog post discusses artistic language invention in a general way, but makes only a passing...

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Fragments of song

There are several old posts on this blog about music that I composed when I was younger. But as a teenager in the nineties I also composed some fragments that never became complete songs, and I’ve not...

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A cruel-coloured scathed crow

Audio pareidolia applied to song lyrics is a potent source of comedy. A single misheard line is often amusing enough, but the illusion is taken to another level when the imposed and original lyrics are...

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Manual variation on the snowflake curve

Ever since I created the following image more than a year ago, it has inhabited that uncomfortable limbo of being too good to delete and too trivial to share. But then, a blog needs the occasional...

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Winning Cosmos

This is the story of a competition I recently won. In an episode of the Skeptic Zone podcast published while I was in Sydney, Richard Saunders announced a competition: to take a photograph on the theme...

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