Author Archives: Patrick Connors

I’m reactivating my blog after a number of years. This is another test post, made after adding functions to cross-post to Facebook and Twitter. I can’t post to MeWe yet…

My wife got rid of a bunch of her magazines and gave me the magazine boxes she had been keeping them in. I filled those boxes with my magazines and went and got more. They are much easier to handle … Continue reading →

So: A little while ago, Randall Munroe posted an xkcd cartoon called “Up Goer Five“, which is a diagram of the Apollo/Saturn V stack, annotated using only the thousand most common words in current English. Inspired by that, Theo Sanderson … Continue reading →

We buried my father-in-law last month. They’ll never find him.   My wife laughed and laughed, so it’s OK.

Saw an actual “Vote Saxon” bumper sticker on an actual car today. I should have taken a picture, because the design of the sticker I saw matches none of the designs I can find on the Web. (Who is Saxon? … Continue reading →

…every Tuesday at his new site (in addition to xkcd), which is called What If? Go read the first couple.

I’m playing with making a Kinect into an affordable digitizer. So here’s the first shot: A single scan from a single angle. Almost no cleanup: pulled into Lightwave and minimal color added.This particular scan is actually full of holes, most … Continue reading →