Five Ways Harry Houdini and I are Exactly Alike

May 27, 2012

This kind of post is what happens when I’m not doing engineering work and I’m too lazy to do something …

What I Learned From Two Vampires at a Local Deli

May 22, 2012

Last weekend, I visited a new deli for the first time, and inside I saw two vampires. They were young-looking, …

May 8, 2012

That’s how the Robert Johnson Blues Foundation website describes Delta blues guitar legend, Robert Johnson. Robert Leroy Johnson was born …

April 21, 2012

First, I’ll say that I’ve missed mapping the edges! It’s been almost a month since my last post. Seems like …

December 3, 2011

My wife, Alane, and I spent a few days exploring Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley a few years ago. As I did …

November 12, 2011

And now for something completely different… Chaos theory is the study of disorder or randomness or unpredictability in what otherwise seems …

October 14, 2011

There was a wonderful magic store I loved to visit when I was a teenager. The salespeople were working magicians so they …

October 3, 2011

This is a wet plate collodion image is of my adopted sister, Anna, and her boxer fiancé. She is a …

September 1, 2011

About ten years ago, Mark Osterman,Photographic Process Historian at George Eastman House, and one half of the Scully and Osterman …