Once I’d made the previous piece, I kept imagining those little black rectangles in motion, so in today’s p5.js exploration, I animated them.

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For today’s p5.js exercise I went with inspiration from an art piece, specifically, Piet Mondrian’s Composition in Color A.

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Today’s p5.js exploration went somewhere weird…

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A query for computer keyboard people.

After a few days with an ErgoDox EZ I borrowed from a friend, I’m realizing that I:

• like the split and the tenting.
• also like the added flexibility of an additional layer or two.
• currently don’t want to change from the standard layout of keys that I’m used to.
• continue to like mechanical keys, and am open to non-clicky ones.
• could give or take ortholinear layout.

What keyboards are available that would fit these attributes? I’m open to assembling if needed.

Playing around with p5.js again…

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Playing around with p5.js.

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Springy

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A little over a year ago Jenni and I made this wall mounted cookware hanging rack.

We’ve been wanting a place to put our pans for a while It’s tedious to manage them in a drawer or cabinet, if you can even fit them in there. Often some would just stay on the stove and need to be moved out of the way when cooking. Whenever I would see pans hanging, in person or in a photo, it seemed like the best solution. We had space on only one wall in the kitchen, so that decision was easy.

Pans can be heavy and our walls are lathe and plaster, so mounting just about anywhere was out of the question. And so the construction method was narrowed down to boards mounted to studs, with hardware to hang the pans.

We went to the amazing local woodworking store where they have finished dimensional lumber and narrowed down our choice based primarily on cost. We wanted a dark color, and I already had dark walnut stain from the mail and keys organizer I made a while back.

Back home, I cut the boards to length. We wanted a tight fit and the two ends, door frame and wall, weren’t super plumb so there were a lot of measurements and dry fitting before we had a set of boards that were just right. It was time to apply the stain and let it rest.

After that it was a straightforward process of screwing in the boards to the studs while using a couple of small blocks to space them evenly.

Once that was done, we installed a couple of IKEA rails that we had and the rack was ready to use. In the days that followed we sourced some nice hooks and Jenni put up a couple of planters and some homegrown produce.

It’s been over a year and this has totally been worth it. I highly recommend utilizing vertical space in the kitchen where you can.

P.S. This blog post should’ve been written about a year ago. Anyway, it’s been written now.

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Grooming.

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Neighborhood dogwoods in the gray.

As I was taking these photos I was thinking how I prefer the 2x for compositions when it comes to zoom. 3x is handy but I have so many years of composing in ~50mm (2x on iPhone). Alas, iPhone 13 Pro can only do 2x with a crop on 1x image. Here I thought the tradeoff was worth it.

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