Author Archives: Patrick Connors

Don’t freak out the celebrities: Representing Orth and Fluccish on screen

I’m a big fan of Neal Stephenson’s Anathem. I also tend to read novels and work out how to film them, even if the novel will never ever be filmed. Massive spoilers for Anathem and other works will therefore follow. … Continue reading

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But enough of this fooling around

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…

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I seem to be back

I have a few ideas so I upgraded the site.

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The Office

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

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Up Goer Five

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

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The comedy version of the last two weeks

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

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If Obama weren’t running I might consider it…

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

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Mr Munroe Explains It All…

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

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Just upgraded WordPress. Using the Aside format for this post.

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Kinect

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

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