The Malaise Weeks

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It's the middle weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas, also known as The Malaise Weeks. (Not really, I just made that up.)

Let's un-malaise it with some fun stuff.


I love this - 75 hours of illustration in a 2-minute video.

Nancy sent me a link to this puzzle, saying she didn't want to solve it herself. I almost finished it, but have some errors, and I think I've spent enough time on it for a while. I was hoping it would work with the errors in it, but it doesn't. I am being a little cryptic in my description of it in case you want to try to solve it yourself. If you finish it, and don't know what to do with the results, let me know. Dad, get started...

Some of you know I'm a fan of Edward Tufte for his information-related graphics. Here's more of the same.

A rubber-band powered locomotive, made from laser-cut pieces. Cool!

It's always been a dream of mine to play the subcontrabass flute. It may be too late for me to put one on this year's Christmas List.

Christmas Vacation for the kids (and me!) start soon. Nothing busts the malaise more than a little time off work and school...

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