Lately I had the good fortune to hear from an old friend of mine, Richard “RJ” Jergenson, who, along with his brother Phil is one of the pioneers of the grid beam construction and prototyping system. I’ve written about this … Continue reading
Category Archives: Best Practices
What follows is a document that I hope to publish as a short booklet. The purpose is to suggest making the institution of a “Scholar-in-Residence” a regular part of church parish life. Although this document is targeted at an ecclesiastical … Continue reading
By Sheldon Greaves Note: this post originally appeared on the Citizen Scientists’ League website. With few other possible exceptions, the digital camera is probably the single most useful tool available to the citizen scientist. Both in the workshop and out … Continue reading
By Sheldon Greaves Previously posted on Unexpected Leisure, 03 March 2011 My spouse and I have moved several times in our married life and each time it happens I am stunned by how much stuff has accumulated. This is a … Continue reading
By Sheldon Greaves This post appeared previously in Unexpected Leisure, 02 February 2011 The imperative to keep up with the Jones’ has driven many a consumer to spend beyond their means. Purveyors of stuff, particularly expensive stuff know this and … Continue reading
For many years I have been an enthusiastic collector of files off the web, saving them on my local machines. My reason for saving them is simple: web sites go away. Content gets lost. Better to keep your own private … Continue reading
By Sheldon Greaves I was just made aware (hat tip to Peter MIller) about an excellent blog post with some very good ground rules for evaluating big stories that are just in the process of breaking. Considering how bad the … Continue reading
It’s long past time that I describe an extended experiment in group learning conducted over the last few years. The setting was Christ Church Episcopal in Portola Valley, California, where my spouse and I were Scholars in Residence, conducting seminars … Continue reading
The recent revelations of NSA warrantless data collection is of interest mostly because one has to wonder why so many people seem surprised about this. It wasn’t a matter of reading tea leaves or anything, it was right out there … Continue reading
For along time I’ve noticed that I seem to do better writing when at least some fraction of the work is done on paper with a pen or pencil. I particularly like using a nice rollerball pen or, better still, a fountain pen.
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