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Category: Creativity
  • Making Music, part 2

      Rob checks levels as Jesse strums my ukulele and Swinky vocalises in my bedroom. Months have elapsed in the quest to make a song for the World Hoop Day Dance project. Shortly after writing the previous post in mid-March, I gave up on the lyrics and turned to the music. Huw and I created

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  • Making Music, part 1

    A couple of weeks ago I started casting around for someone to write me some music. I want an original tune for this year’s World Hoop Day Dance project and so I was telling to my musician friends about it. I never thought this would happen but my ukulele teacher, Huw, suggested that we work together to

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  • Technical Drawings

    Tod asked me to help him create an illustration of latency for an executive report. I love finding ways to encapsulate complex stuff into drawings, so of course I made some sketches. I think these illustrate the points very well, and also explain why I am not well suited to the corporate world.

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  • 9 Way Indoor/Outdoor Scarf

    Utter beginner’s one skein crochet project.

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  • I am a Novelist

    Book-length fiction completed.

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  • Handy phrases for vegetarians, near-vegetarians, and picky eaters in Japan

    How to get what you want to eat.

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  • One Product to Rule Them All

    A concept for happy summer mornings

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  • The False Promise of Common Sense

    Uncommon sense opens doors to interesting things.

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  • alternate “greater than” symbols

    More useful than a speeding word problem

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  • Completed

    The last batch of Morsbags from Tokyo.

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