A miscellany . . . from 44°N55' decoration 73°W07'

• domain created: 19 December 2011
•

Creating Video Lessons decoration
Using new technologies to improve learning in and out of the classroom. Prelude to flipped classrooms.

NLP, NLTK, and ngram decoration
A brief intro to the pleasures of Natural Language Processing.

Sebastian Thrun and udacity.com decoration
Stanford prof starts up free online university--for geeks!

Letterpress Pages: Fairfax Press decoration
Thirty plus years—1970-2004, of collecting lead type and letterpress printing equipment ended when I had to sell all to pay property taxes. I started putting the history of Fairfax Press on the web in 1997. (Opens in new window and some external links may no longer work.)

Raspberry-Pi is coming!!!! decoration
The ~$35USD computer to be released March/April 2012. Listen up—you don't want to miss this.

Notes on Things Visual decoration
Interesting bits to tweak your visual mind and exercise your brain.

Me and My Arduino Uno decoration
By way of discovering the Processing language and its digital art capabilities, I also discovered the Arduino world. And I'm realizing I was born 20 or 30 years too early. (They wouldn't even allow me take Mechanical Drawing in High School because girls weren't allowed.) BTW, I am now a graphic designer.

Harry Potter Fan Fiction: Magicsoft by Richard Heurtley. decoration
This is for any geek with a passing interest in Harry Potter! My friend Richard has written a real fan-fiction, page-turner (and there are maybe 40 of them) about the convergence of Muggle computers and Hogwarts magic. A must read! (9 May 2007) [Opens in a new window.]

The Color Game decoration
challenging quiz for the eye and brain.

Notes on the Study of Astrology decoration
What I hope will be helpful notes to anyone thinking about the study of astrology.

Adventures in Processing decoration
This is a page I made after I discovered the processing language late in 2011. Processing is a language that makes programming easier for designers and artists who want to fiddle with pixels.[Opens in a new window.]