http://www.mudstone.com like my garage only a little more organized and on the web Tue, 20 Jan 2009 06:59:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It’s time again to fire the big anagama kiln. We’ve got another good group together and we’ve been going up on weekends working on wood. Lots of cabinet off-cuts to cut down, big wood to split and pots to make.It is lots of work but come unloading day it will ... http://www.mudstone.com/2009/01/18/preparing-for-the-next-firing/ I love to cook, or in some cases, cook with out cooking. Mary has posted to Flickr some pics of some of my best creations over the past two years. We've been getting into raw food (nothing is heated over around 115 deg F) so many of the dishes in ... http://www.mudstone.com/2009/01/17/food/ We've been going to a weekly "hoop jam" and this month we took it indoors for the winter. Its a dance studio in the Health and Wellness Care Center. Mary took up hooping (yes that is with a hula hoop, but adult size and weight) this spring and has really ... http://www.mudstone.com/2008/10/19/hoop-jaming/ Saturday night Mary, Crissy (theinfinitehoop) and I went to a park close by to do some LED hooping, I wanted to try out the ogg hoop mod I've been working on. I attached some oogs (got he oogs at flowtoys) to the outside of the hoop. I'ts an ... http://www.mudstone.com/2008/08/30/led-hooping-in-the-park/ What a treat to see a working Babbage Difference Engine, shown at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View this weekend. The "engine" was never built in Victorian times, but now there are two of them one in London and the other, known as #2, is, for now, in Mountain ... http://www.mudstone.com/2008/05/13/babbages-difference-engine-2/ My teenage nephew and his friend came down from Seattle for the Maker Faire. I probably embarrassed him good by going in costume, Steampunk, Scottish style - kilt, gaiters, pith helmet (hey, I wasn't the only one). Whether it was the costume or just being at the fair I saw ... http://www.mudstone.com/2008/05/07/maker-faire-2008/ The buzz word on every one's lips this year was Cloud computing. Go on look it up, it will mess with your brain. One of my favorite talks was by Clay Shirky, about Cognitive Surplus. You gotta follow the link to the short video of his talk. The after ... http://www.mudstone.com/2008/04/27/web-20-expo/ The Crucible did it again, another great Fire Ballet! This year it was appropriately "Firebird." But much more than a ballet. I'll just summarize the highlights, think of it as Cliff Notes for a fire ballet The Firebird in a flaming tutu (with real fire) The Firebird dancing on stage ... http://www.mudstone.com/2008/04/22/the-crucibles-firebird/ This was a one really fun event. It was this cool, weird mix of burning man, sci fi, space-geek, ravers, raw foodies, and NASA brainiacs. Oh, and Fire! What more could you want? View Photos. This was the first time I got to go and see the hangers on Moffet field ... http://www.mudstone.com/2008/04/13/yuris-night-2008/ It had to go, that old static site has been tossed in the fire, it is no more. I’m starting fresh with this site. I've become much more interested in the fluid open web, CMS's, CSS and Java script tool kits and less interested in Flash driven static, skip intro ... http://www.mudstone.com/2008/04/13/hello-world/