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Boomerang! (Almost…): 30 Days of Creativity, Day 30

Posted on June 30, 2011 by Andrew Plemmons Pratt

When I was in 8th grade, I had a successful stint as maker of wooden boomerangs. As in, like, I could take a piece of baltic birch plywood and turn it into an apparatus that would fly back to you … Continue reading →

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Review: HTML5 for Web Designers—The wittest technical book I’ve read lately

Posted on June 27, 2011 by Andrew Plemmons Pratt

HTML5 For Web Designers by Jeremy Keith My rating: 4 of 5 stars This is the first eBook that I’ve read cover-to-cover. The publishers say that they want the books to be short enough to digest on a plane flight … Continue reading →

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The Uses of Duct Tape (30 Days of Creativity, Day 26)

Posted on June 26, 2011 by Andrew Plemmons Pratt

I gave a recent birthday gift that included an iPod nano and the Nike Plus kit that turns it into a little run-tracking GPS device. Here’s the thing: the sensor chip component of the set, which is supposed to fit … Continue reading →

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The Red and the Black (30 Days of Creativity, Day 23)

Posted on June 23, 2011 by Andrew Plemmons Pratt

This is a little bit of a re-tread, but elsewhere on the list of #30Days projects is a redesign of this site’s template, and this could serve as an anchor. New twitter avatar:

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Barn At Night (30 Days of Creativity: Day 20)

Posted on June 20, 2011 by Andrew Plemmons Pratt

New venue for creative projects, in the NC mountains:

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Lattice Work (30 Days of Creativity: Day 19)

Posted on June 19, 2011 by Andrew Plemmons Pratt

My assignment: tear down and rebuild the lattice work surrounding the pool pump equipment beside a favorite suburban house in Virginia. (The labor was a birthday present.) The existing structure was rotting, caving in on itself, and had sustained fire … Continue reading →

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Disc Logic (30 Days of Creativity: Day 14)

Posted on June 14, 2011 by Andrew Plemmons Pratt

So I keep a small cache of donated laptops in my room for students to type projects on. Most of my kids are pretty computer literate, though I do throw curve balls at them with my locked-down Mac OS settings … Continue reading →

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30 Days of Creativity – Day 13 – Favicon

Posted on June 13, 2011 by Andrew Plemmons Pratt

“Favicon” is a ridiculous bundle word: short for “favorites icon.” And for the longest time, the one for this site has been a silly default WordPress shield or somesuch. So today, a new one: That is all.

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#30DaysOfCreativity – Day 11 – Embassies in the Park

Posted on June 12, 2011 by Andrew Plemmons Pratt

Day 11 is another running map; route goes by the Czech Embassy and the Indonesian Embassy Residence: goo.gl/maps/DofH View Embassies in the Park in a larger map (I totally tweeted this last night, so it was on time.)

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30 Days of Creativity – Day 8 – Venn Diagram

Posted on June 8, 2011 by Andrew Plemmons Pratt

With apologies to Indexed:

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