Went to a show at the Doug Fir last night. The opening band was The Cabin Project. The lead singer's vocal stylings reminded me a bit of Neko Case, and there was a lot of vocal harmony. (All four members sang.) I can't say much about the songwriting, because nobody mixes vocals so you can understand them in this town. But I bought one of their CD's ( Read more... )

Hinged Polyforms:

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Constellations

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New Puzzle Zapper Blog posts:

First, a little squib about 24-gons:


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The Lark was a ship of John Astor’s concern ( Read more... )

Back from Conflikt 6. I had a bit of a realization about filk. On the one hand, I truly loathe badfilk, but at the same time, if it weren't around, I wouldn't get nearly as much out of the filk circle experience. The filk circle that closed the con contained an unusual number of Real Musicians™. I am a very good singer, and my songwriting has ( Read more... )

Speaking of blog posts, I just posted a new one:

More Fun with Binary Words: De Bruijn Sequences

This is a sequel to the previous post, Symmetry Variations on Binary Words, which it looks like I neglected to mention here when I posted it.


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I think I got my current computer in 2005 or thereabouts, and it's become abundantly clear by the slowness of the things I try to do on it that it's time for a new one ( Read more... )

I've put up a new blog post on Crossed Stick puzzles here, with an addendum here. I've already come up with a puzzle design based on the configuration of pieces in that addendum.

Also, I'm in the process of revamping my puzzle selling page, which has three new puzzles for sale.