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Anniversaries

Posted on 2024.11.262024.10.29 by Elliott Evans

It has been five years since I restarted this blog, and roughly thirty years since I put my first pages up on the World Wide Web. Some of those original pages are still on this site, in essentially their same form. One of these decades I should get around to upgrading them from HTML 2 to whatever version of HTML we are using whenever that actually happens.

Thank you to all of my regular, irregular, occasional, and one-time readers. Mostly, I do this for my own benefit, so that I have some place to look up when I made certain projects or did specific things. It is always gratifying when I get email from somebody, especially somebody who finds my site through a search on some esoteric topic, even if it is just the board game Sorry!.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. You have all made every one of the last 10,957 days worthwhile.

Loop Braiding Resource Added

Posted on 2022.09.01 by Elliott Evans

Years ago, I printed out every issue of the Loop-Manipulation Braiding and Research Information Center News and put them in a binder as an analog reference work. Later, this reference became invaluable when the original website became unavailable. Recently, I was informed that the site’s author, Masako Kinoshita, had passed away.

https://ithacavoice.com/2022/08/obituary-masako-kinoshita/

I scanned in my printouts, and made them available to Ms. Kinoshita’s daughter who is rebuilding the web site. She has given me permission to keep them on my site as well, and I have put together an index page to help people find the PDFs.

https://www.ee0r.com/lmbric.net/

Please make sure to credit the late Masako Kinoshita and the authors of the individual articles if you use this information for anything.

Chris Hall

Posted on 2020.04.09 by Elliott Evans

I am posting this with great sadness. Those of you who know already who Chris Hall is probably also know already that he passed away the day before yesterday at the end of a long battle with cancer. Chris Hall was a woodworker who I never met in person, but who I got to know through his Internet presence and real world product. Chris’ work always showed extreme effort and serious attention to detail. He always showed, usually step by step over the course of several months, exactly how much beauty a person can create through relentless dedication to craft. He shared so much of himself with the Internet, and everybody I know who recognizes his name will always mourn him.

Several years ago, he rebuilt the entrance gate to the Tenshin-En Japanese garden at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. I finally had a chance to visit the garden and its gate back in May, and the peaceful nature of this garden will always serve as a memorial to Chris for me. Here is one small detail of the gate, to show the nature of his precision and attention to even the smallest parts of every project.