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Museletter the 120th
Museletter the 120th
Why do humans make and listen to music? I mean, sure it's fun, but it's kind of a bizarre thing to do if you think too…
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Museletter the 119th
Museletter the 119th
"What's going to happen to my website after I die?" I still remember sitting in a little neighborhood cafe in 1996…
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Museletter the 118th
Museletter the 118th
Perhaps you mistake me for a merely reasonable person. Oh, I am far more than that! In fact, I am a Fundamentalist…
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Museletter the 117th
Museletter the 117th
One of the best things I got in life, for which I'm forever grateful, is multiple dads. Of course there's just one…
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Museletter the 116th
Museletter the 116th
You don't hear the word "toggle" much anymore — like, "toggle that light switch" or "toggle between those two windows…
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Museletter the 115th
Museletter the 115th
It sounds silly, but one of the most important forces in our universe is a tendency toward clumpiness — the fact that…
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Museletter the 114th
Museletter the 114th
You know how some people are annoying know-it-alls? I have a different problem: I'm a question-it-all. I love…
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Museletter the 113th
Museletter the 113th
When our expectations are shattered, or our norms upended, we call it "disruptive." I think we can all agree that we…
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Museletter the 112th
Museletter the 112th
I'm reading about business leaders who insist that AI can do graphic design just as well as humans—and so they fire the…
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Museletter the 111th
Museletter the 111th
The funny thing about having a psychiatrist for a dad is that you often have no idea what he's talking about at first……
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The number of newbie #InDesign users (and some a bit more experienced) who are not sure of the difference between Nested Styles and Next Styles is…
The number of newbie #InDesign users (and some a bit more experienced) who are not sure of the difference between Nested Styles and Next Styles is…
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DAY 1 of YEAR 4. Done! Just finished teaching my first Illustrator class of the semester. Fridays, 8am-1pm at Pima Community College (EPIC!) I was…
DAY 1 of YEAR 4. Done! Just finished teaching my first Illustrator class of the semester. Fridays, 8am-1pm at Pima Community College (EPIC!) I was…
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Got one of those client emails yesterday: “Our client only found a really old 100 dpi PDF. We tried opening it in Illustrator, but links are…
Got one of those client emails yesterday: “Our client only found a really old 100 dpi PDF. We tried opening it in Illustrator, but links are…
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Licenses & Certifications
Volunteer Experience
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Board of Trustees
WOODINVILLE MONTESSORI SCHOOL
- 3 years 2 months
Education
Board of Trustees for Woodinville Montessori School, an accredited preK-thru-12th school.
Publications
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Spectrums: Our Mind-Boggling Universe From Infinitesimal to Infinity
Bloomsbury/Walker Books
See publicationHow can we understand the world of the atom or the size of our galaxy? How do we grasp a billionth of a second or a billion years? Spectrums tackles these questions by exploring realms far outside our everyday experience that boggle the mind and inspire a sense of wonder. With easy-to-read, engaging, and insightful observations, Blatner re-introduces us to six fundamental spectrums in the world around us: numbers, size, light, sound, heat, and time. Offering fascinating glimpses of hidden…
How can we understand the world of the atom or the size of our galaxy? How do we grasp a billionth of a second or a billion years? Spectrums tackles these questions by exploring realms far outside our everyday experience that boggle the mind and inspire a sense of wonder. With easy-to-read, engaging, and insightful observations, Blatner re-introduces us to six fundamental spectrums in the world around us: numbers, size, light, sound, heat, and time. Offering fascinating glimpses of hidden realities, Spectrums is full of hundreds of facts, quotes, illustrations, and anectodes that lead to a greater appreciation of the bizarre and beautiful world in which we live.
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The Joy of Pi
Walker Books/Bloomsbury
See publicationNo number has captured the attention and imagination of number fanatics and nerds throughout the ages as much as the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter--a.k.a. pi. With incisive historical insight and a refreshing sense of humor, The Joy of Pi brings us the story of pi and humankind's fascination with it, from Archimedes to da Vinci to the modern day Chudnovsky brothers, who holed up in their Manhattan apartment with a homemade supercomputer churning out digits of pi into the…
No number has captured the attention and imagination of number fanatics and nerds throughout the ages as much as the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter--a.k.a. pi. With incisive historical insight and a refreshing sense of humor, The Joy of Pi brings us the story of pi and humankind's fascination with it, from Archimedes to da Vinci to the modern day Chudnovsky brothers, who holed up in their Manhattan apartment with a homemade supercomputer churning out digits of pi into the billions.
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Creative Coding Collective News Some news regarding the CCC: - I've set up a brand new Slack for the CCC. Have a read first, then contact me if you…
Creative Coding Collective News Some news regarding the CCC: - I've set up a brand new Slack for the CCC. Have a read first, then contact me if you…
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It is hard to believe that today is the 25th anniversary of Silicon Publishing. Alissa and I really didn't fully know what we were getting into back…
It is hard to believe that today is the 25th anniversary of Silicon Publishing. Alissa and I really didn't fully know what we were getting into back…
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On the 186th anniversary of the announcement of photography to the world, I often return to photographs I’ve made that have proved pivotal for me. I…
On the 186th anniversary of the announcement of photography to the world, I often return to photographs I’ve made that have proved pivotal for me. I…
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