One day I decided to read some spam just for the fun of it and I happened to find that about half of the spam email I received had a little story or quote that didn’t make any sense at the bottom. So I decided to put together a story using only bits and pieces […]

I turned my extra bedroom into a camera obscura. Here is the resulting image (click for larger image): You might not immediately understand what’s going on in the photo, but a closer look reveals that I am standing near the top of the photo upside down. This makes for a very interesting self portrait. -nic

Over a year ago when I was just moving in to my apartment in Brookings I decided to turn my empty room into a giant camera. Here is the result. (click for larger images) Now, there’s no Photoshop magic happening in these photos (besides resizing of course). What you are looking at is a “Camera […]

So, my host had some hard drive problems and happened to loose the primary partition on one of the hard drives on the server that this site is hosted on. When i talked to them they said they had to restore around 500 domains and 350 accounts from this one server alone, that would suck. […]

Today at college I learned a great business skill, how to lose paying customers, and I didn’t even have to step a foot into a classroom. Evidently my car was parked in a unauthorized parking zone so my landlord took the liberty of letting me know, not by calling me or warning me like a […]