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A collection of 6 posts

a hedgehog with an orbiting planet and stars

Winter solstice 2022

Happy winter solstice! I doodled a hedgehog:

Laced Reflections

Laced Reflections

My mind was on snowflakes tonight, which brought me down a rabbit hole of reflections, lace, and play. The code here is simple but fun. Enjoy making snowflakes, lace, stars, or whatever comes to mind. If you wish to fork the code or play it is here. My CodePen is below. Press the spacebar (or […]

a grid of hexagon pieces for a game with penguins and a rotational sign of 3 hearts to none

Hex-a-Huddle Board Game

This week Quanta Magazine published an article on penguins and their hexagonal behavior. I shared this article with my 14yr old daughter, Opal, and we started discussing how this would make a great board game. We designed pieces, drafted our prototypes in Affinity Design, and then utilized a Glowforge to

a magpie (corvid) with tag 19 and a map with red dots

Kitty is dumbfounded as to why a bird map causes panic…

With mom in chemo and sitting in the hospital 2-4 times a week lately, we have found the lack of access to masks and all the craziness a bit much. Humor is how we cope.

a comic showing the math of how bushtits explode with they hit critical mass on the feeder

Kitty Counts Birds – Critical Mass

a kitty with a white board showing kittens attacking laserlights

Laser Lights – Plan of Attack! 500,000 Kittens

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