Posts under ‘Catch-all’

It was an intense, but interesting, semester.  Just waiting on one rather late project before submitting grades.  Grades on the finals were typical–the 75.17 average was exactly what one would expect, with 94% being the high score (of which there were several) and 48% (thankfully only one) the low.  Have a great summer everyone!

Jay Silver’s Drawdio homepage.
There is a kit available from LadyAda’s Adafruit Industries…

Minuteman Press in Arlington Texas has a great page to help unravel the weird system of U.S. paper weights (like 8.5″x11″ 24lb bond paper).  It turns out that the weight, expressed in pounds, is for 500 sheets (a full ream)–not of the size of paper you are buying–but of the “parent sheet” that the paper [...]

Team Brain Storm’s presentation on typewriters piqued my curiosity about old typewriters, especially those with mechanisms which didn’t survive to the present day.  Here are some of the more interesting sites I came across.

Collection of the Virtual Typewriter Museum
The Martin Howard Collection’s Visual Index
The Classic Typewriter Page
Flickr stream of Antique Typewriters (some gorgeous images here)

Seth Brock
Rupa Chadha
Kaitlin Derespino
Shannon Groves
Kaitlyn Loos
Lenore Messler
Ellen Ornato
Malahat Qureshi
Dana Robinson
Rae Siciliano
Sarah Spencer

I will be at CAA/points east until late Wednesday. Please meet with your teams to help prepare for your proposals. If you have not heard from people on your teams, now would be a good time to track them down.

…so that’s where we are if you showed up and we’re not here.  Kellogg Research Building basement–across from Panchero’s.