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Inbound from Tomboy Style

dr.hypercube — Tue, 22 May 2012 11:57:22 +0000

Welcome – make yourselves comfortable. The results of a blog search on ‘motorcycle’ are here, there’s some cosmonaut/astronaut (female) art here and a post on Hedwig Kiesler (aka Hedy Lamarr) here. Finally, four recent shots off the phone that will serve as an overview of me & mine.

Worldbuilding.

Messing around with unusual plants.

Hunting/gathering.

Nom.

Two other good place to browse are the ‘Greatest Hits’ and the ‘alt.tentacles’ buckets in the blogroll. Hope you find something interesting/enjoyable!

Beausage – the picture

dr.hypercube — Mon, 21 May 2012 12:53:15 +0000

Beausage. A nice word printed, less felicitous spoken, but the phenomenon it speaks of is the best – the marks of wear that come to good materials through use. Worn bluing where a shotgun is handled. Work boots well treated with bar oil and oak sawdust. And this:

Silent history. Wear your scars and dings proudly, people.

Save the date

dr.hypercube — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 11:31:14 +0000

The International Carnivorous Plant Society comes to New England next August. For carnivorous plant nerds like yrs truly, this is a BFD. Expect reminders and indicators of excitement as the date draws nearer.

Click the flyer or here to go to the main New England Carnivorous Plant Society conference page.

Other appearances here and there

dr.hypercube — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 10:54:42 +0000

I’ve popped up on a couple other web sites recently and wanted to link out for readers that hadn’t seen these posts. First, way back in May (wow, time is flying this summer) I did a Five on Falconry post with Rebecca K. O’Connor over at her Operation Delta Duck. More recently, the Biodiversity Heritage Library featured me in their BHL and Our Users series of posts. I don’t know if this is my 15 minutes or 15 people, but it’s fun.

Tangentially – I received an email from a photographer who is doing a series of falconer portraits. He was in the area and wondered if I’d sit for some shots. The answer was yes and although the weather wasn’t great, shoot we did.

A small world note on the second photograph – as I wrote to peacay (of BibliOdyssey),

…he spent a lot of time on shots of my peregrine on the fist. When we were all done, he told me that he was trying to replicate a picture his roommate had shown him on the internet. Yes, you can see it coming – he pulled up BibliOdyssey (http://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/5765177031/sizes/l/) – I laughed – told him we correspond.

Walkshop Portsmouth NH?

dr.hypercube — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 17:38:36 +0000

Hmm… Worth thinking about. Perhaps in the fall when the weather and fall-off in tourist traffic would make the walk even more pleasant.

Sensory Stimuli

dr.hypercube — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 15:24:42 +0000

Notable addition to the bogroll – Pirate Anthropologie.

I’m an anthropology student studying creative uses of technology, alternative intellectual property, and music.

This blog will also be space for experiments in sound studies, pirate studies, and ethnography as I conduct my fieldwork in Rio de Janeiro.

Thanks @sullivanbc!

Toy of the Day (Twitter subsp.)

dr.hypercube — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 13:42:01 +0000

IS Parade – feed it a twitter ID or keyword and it generates a silly/fun parade of avatars:

Bicycle update

dr.hypercube — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 12:36:39 +0000

Got the new bars swapped in. Molto comfortable so far. Next upgrade – enhance the engine so that it can average 15mph and not be sweating at the end of a ride (street clothes theory of bicycling).

And that’s 4

dr.hypercube — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 10:36:35 +0000

Years of blogging, that is. Hasn’t gotten old yet, so on we go!

New right-side stuff

dr.hypercube — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 12:45:20 +0000

Some additions I’d like to call your attention to.

Two new links under Sensory stimuli:

Hunter/Gatherer – Stephanie Brown’s blog. I’ve mentioned Ms. Brown’s work before – obviously, I like what she does.

Annie Wu – discovered a while ago (via KdeM, maybe?).

And an addition to the Pages section – my Awesome stuff for sale! page – it’s pissah! Go! Buy!