George Mandis

I was in Lyon this past week to speak about my ongoing adventures with JavaScript, MIDI & tiny computers at MiXiT. I’m happy to report my talk went well, that I was able to show some new demos I was excited about — namely my “tactile” flash cards demo, which I’ll have to…

As a result of circumstances that are murky to me, a paper I wrote as a freshman in college at Portland State University about Leon Termen, inventor of the Theremin, has resulted in my own Google Scholar page. It exists as a single, lonesome title on my author…

Amazon recently had a bit of a hiccup with their S3 service. The key bit from their statement reads:

Unfortunately, one of the inputs to the command was entered incorrectly and a larger set of servers was removed than intended.

For posterity, this post commemorates that time, nearly ten years ago, that I won author Tim Ferris’ jeans in a haiku contest on Twitter.

Learning to Count by Hand in Beijing

This story is about the time I accidentally discovered Chinese number gestures in a back alley…