All the Pages Are My Days - the first 12 years
the (archived) online world of Mike Rodriquez 2002-2012
One of the few things I miss about the midwest (besides family) are the late spring and early summer thunder storms. Towering clouds, building up all day, explode with a blindingly bright, deafeningly explosive fury of lightning and then … wait … thunder, for which there is no comparison. Or is there? While I had … Read more
Just the thing for Monday: an exploration of The Principles of Artistic Illusions. This site, enriched with many illustrative examples, reviews a few classic Escher works as well as exploring the general topic by describing a wide variety of visual illusions. The review is continued on a second page which focuses a bit more on … Read more
From Tom comes word of yet another example of the limitless creativity and cleverness which serve as hallmarks of the human race. To be honest, I’m not 100 percent convinced this isn’t a hoax; vinyl record sound production via a scanner and a custom program? With no turntable and no needle? You be the judge.
Bookfilter is a blog devoted to books and all things book related. It’s a rich, though text-only, site which I found while browsing over at I Will Dare. I love books and bookstores, and so far during my quick visit to the site I feel like I’m in a large, wondrous bookstore, with many alcoves … Read more
This would be bad: I remember these from when I was a kid: We all love turtles: See larger images of all the above, plus many, many more at crackerpacks, a site devoted to cataloging Asian firecracker artwork from the 50’s through the present times.
It seems that there isn’t a topic or concept that isn’t represented on the web. That’s a good thing; a technological ark in some ways, it seems to me. Here’s the latest such site I’ve run across: the Degree Confluence Project. In their own words: “The goal of the project is to visit each of … Read more
Well, at least not directly. Though when one considers how seriously card playing is taken by some folks, you might wonder. But this is more just for fun. Seems Bob Lancaster has undertaken to create an online museum of playing cards. Though the collection is currently not very large, there are some fascinating cards on … Read more
Imagine a book, vividly and somewhat bizarrely illustrated, written in a language for which there is no known translation. Imagine further that the pretext for the book is a travalogue or scientific study of an alien world … one that is a perverse reflection of our own! You would have imagined Codex Seraphinianus, a collection … Read more
I don’t watch much TV, but West Wing caught my eye last year, and I’ve enjoyed it ever since. If you like the show, or are just curious about it, the West Wing Watch is a good place find reviews of past episodes, gossipy comments about the shows’ actors, and the gaffe watch, where errors … Read more
