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Can I give a PowerPoint presentation while wearing a burlap robe? Okay, so some excellent names have been suggested: “Spic-n-spannual”, from Kate, or “Extra-Censory” from Jonathan Stern. However, I need something that can be totally deadpan for when we go on Oprah and talk to PTA meetings in Texas (travel expenses to be paid up…

Okay, I’ve got an idea for a new business. You ready? High-School Yearbook Obscenity Consulting. You know how every graduating high-school class has a couple of guys who like to give the finger in the swim team photo? Or how the art students will scratch tiny four-letter Hirschfeld statements into their senior page drawings? This…

Dude, I’m huge in Columbus I’m very slightly more Zaphod Beeblebrox-y today, as Columbus, OH-based rock and roll band DB3 has released a new album featuring my badass six-year-old bigwheel-riding self. The good news: This helps me convey that crazy, madcap, laugh-in-the-face-of-death persona that keeps the Naderites at bay. Feet off the pedals! Badass at…

In defiance of every ‘watched-pot’ axiom on the books, my dad and Risa went to visit my sister in Seattle for the week of her due date. Naturally, the inevitable occured: everyone sat around looking at each other for a week, the family went for long walks on the beach, and the station wagon sat,…

Like watching two French courtiers slap each other with hankies I’m not proud of saying “fuck you” to a couple of Nader petitioners on the Exton train station platform this morning, but it was a knee-jerk response. In fact, I’d probably do the same thing again, except hopefully without the overwhelming aura of Pissy White…

What I Did on My Memorial Day Vacation (click the list items for pics.) Kate and I went for a long Memorial Day Weekend to visit my mom and other Baldwin relatives with new babies (picture from Robin’s site) in Belfast, Maine. While there, we: Took cousins letterboxing (link) Took the baby to visit uncles…

Bouncing from project to project, I’m trying to figure out how a time traveler could derive standards of time, distance, and mass accurate enough that common physics and engineering formulas (G = 9.8m/s2, for example) would be accurate and reproducible. I like the idea of publishing the exact length of Cheops’ sarcophagus, so a time…

I’ve been trying to get the Retropod store up by Memorial Day weekend, so that I’ll at least have finished one recent project. I wanted to make a nice gasket to hold an iPod in half-inch neoprene. Measuring and cutting with an Xacto knife leaves a wandering, haggled cut. After Googling on “neoprene gaskets” for…

Sooner or later, everybody you Blog about reads the post. It’s because of Google, of course — everybody does a search on their own name and their friends’s names occasionally. Here’s a list of various people that have contacted me after finding various bits of this site: The owner of the first-ever Mozzarepa truck in…

I’ve ordered a steel rule die so that I can start marketing the Retropod in a few weeks, but nothing I can say can compete with those BABY PICTURES!