Ben's Journal

I'm a big fan of mindfully using technology to make our lives better. Sure, zoning out to a movie or video game is fun and has its pla...

Yesterday, I described three steps I took in the pursuit of generating better sounding music. Today I took yet another step: I implemented...

I continue to try to wrap my head around composing little chunks of interesting sounding music . While I still haven't cracked the puz...

At the end of last year, with much assistance from Mom, I finished my first sewing creation . Today I hit another milestone: my first solo...

I missed photographing the last few high profile celestial events, but I wasn't going to let happen with today's Super Blood Moon E...

I was surprised by how successful I was at creating small animations , known as Poetic Computations and wanted to try the same thing with ...

I have a blog post in mind that would benefit from a fresh pocket & murse man-bag dump . The last one I did was posted was in June of ...

I'm working on a new project at shul that I think would greatly benefit from just the right spreadsheet. In my mind's eye, this ...

Earlier this week I experimented with what Zach Lieberman calls Poetic Computation . Over the last few days I've enhanced the framewor...

One day you may find yourself cruising along the coast of Florida thinking, man, I really could go for a tasty and interesting culinary ex...

The team over at Improvised Life highlighted a terrifically interesting talk by Zach Liberman . Zach walked us through his discovery of us...

Yesterday's high temperature was a whopping 60°F. So naturally, it was the perfect day to hit an outdoor ice skating rink. Seriously, i...

Over the last few years I've managed to tune my murse man-bag so that it works as my airline carry-on bag. It's got earbuds, a Bu...

OK, the Bone Museum was fun and all, but nobody goes to Orlando, Florida to learn about natural selection. Including us. Our true mission ...