Author Archives: Dane

Analog Interactions

Life has been wonderful and busy. As a hobby I’ve recently gotten into physical computing, and now properly armed with an Arduino board and a pile of spare parts from Sparkfun and Radio Shack alike I’ve started kinda hacking electronics and building junk. So far I’ve got nothing impressive to show for my efforts, but […]

Why Today Was Awesome (a list)

Drove across the Golden Gate Bridge with Chris and John. Saw houseboats. Saw redwoods. Ate a tasty smoked turkey and pesto sandwich. Hiked around Point Reyes. “Hipsters in the woods.” Ran down a hill leaping off jumps, pretending I was on a dirt bike. Photographed tiny flowers. Saw a quail. Climbed an enormous eucalyptus tree. […]

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Sally and Tommy Are Biking Across Thailand!

And you can watch! Wow!

Ben And Travis Send The Nose In A Day

Meanwhile, all I’ve done this summer is fly over Yosemite. In a jet. Even from there, it looked pretty cool. I couldn’t see these guys from my vantage point 20,000 feet in the air, though, and since they did this a month ago and I flew over Yosemite this weekend and I cannot see back […]

“The Other Chris”

Huzzah! This morning I published my first post to the Adaptive Path weblog, and people have been stoked on it all day. I’ve been working on designing the iPhone application to go along with the smart.fm learning website, and a large part of my contribution to the project so far has been sketching. Sketching, sketching, […]

Origami Frogs

Not to mention knitting graffiti. Cool stuff.

Proof that the new iPhone has a secret front-facing camera!

That Apple can activate remotely! …why else would they tell you to wave your phone around like an idiot?

Meanwhile, back at the farm…

I flew back to Minnesota for the weekend to catch Rock the Garden with Kate. We were too busy filling up on beer and wine to catch much of Solid Gold and Yeasayer, but Calexico was a sweet breath of hot desert air blown in from the Great American Southwest. Then, The Decemberists played The […]

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