On its page for Obituary, Wikipedia states: An obituary is a death notice which often includes an attempt by an author, publication, or news organization to give an account of the life of someone considered significant who has recently died. It can, however, be simply a death notice (also known…

I've written about Girard before, and always glossed over some of his ideas that mean the most to me.  Today is Good Friday, and as I ponder the meaning of it for my own faith, I decided to post an old lecture I gave as part of a lecture series…

Walking into my office today, I passed a student waiting at the front door of our building, listening to his cell phone as though it were a stereo.  The song that met me as I moved through the breezeway was Rihanna's Rude Boy.  One line in the chorus caught my…

As we get closer to finishing Processing.js, it's awesome to watch people doing new things with it.  Building a technology on the open web means new ways of interaction and deployment suddenly become possible.  Take, for example, Robert O'Rourke's newly released PJSBox bookmarklet, which allows arbitrary processing code on…

Today we finished final testing for Processing.js 0.7 and released it for download.  It represents a lot of hard work by an ever growing community of developers.  This release once again focuses on feature parity with Processing, as well as bug fixes.  We've added some big new features,…

Yesterday, Daniel and I spent a bunch of time optimizing his patch to add PImage to processing.js.  One of the many things it allows you to do is operate on the pixels of an image "off screen," then draw all or some of the resulting image.  To…

I'm sick, and have been for more than a week, so this isn't going to be as well written as I would like.  And yet, I've not been able to get a thought out of my mind for the past few days, so I'm going to begin to work with…

Through the baggage claim doors, passing a security guard in a swivel chair typing on her phone, a crowd waits on the other side of the glass and railing: "Welcome home Dad!"; "Mr. Peter Yanovik"; "Congratulations Denise"; A large red banner filled with gold…

I've written before about the prevalence of Snow Buntings in our area.  It turns out I didn't know the half of it.  My wife recently connected with a neighbour who bands them.  Each morning during the winter, whatever the weather, he goes out to a road a few over from…

We've just released Processing.js 0.6, and with it a bunch of bug fixes and more WebGL-based 3D support.  You can download it here, and read the full blog-post here.  We had hoped to get a rewrite of the color implementation in this time, which will bring with it…