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Jackson's Mill, near Jane Lew, Lewis County, West Virginia
Special thanks to Jerry Jones for texture www.flickr.com/photos/skeletalmess/
Henry McWhorter is my great-great-great-great-great grandfather; as is John Hacker.
The Henry McWhorter Cabin served the Hacker's Creek community as home, church, school, and post office. Today it serves as a reminder of the courageous pioneers who settled the Central West Virginia area.
The McWhorter Cabin is thought to be among the oldest "family dwellings" in central West Virginia. Constructed in 1793 along the banks of Hacker's Creek of the West Fork River at what was then called West's Fort (now Jane Lew), it served as church, school, post office and community center as well as a dwelling place for Henry and Mary (Fields) McWhorter and their family.
In 1927 the cabin was moved to Jackson's Mill State 4-H Camp where it was placed on what was believed to be the original Jackson cabin site; and, though it is not an exact replica of Stonewall Jackson's boyhood home, it does typify a rural early 19th century (West) Virginia homestead. .
Today it is "preserved as a memorial of the stirring and tragic days of the West Virginia border," and as a shrine to which people of all ages may go to "gather strength and courage from the memories of the rugged virtues exemplified by their pioneer ancestors 'round cabin campfires. ."
Henry McWhorter was born in New Jersey in 1760. While living in Orange County, New York, he enlisted as a minuteman at age fifteen to fight in the Revolutionary War. After his term of service expired, he volunteered six more times in a 22-month span. Afterwards, he lived in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where he married Miss Mary Fields. In 1786, the couple moved to Hampshire County, (West) Viriginia. Three years later, Henry sought a home on McKinney's Run in Harrison County.
In 1793, the McWhorters again moved, this time building this 18' x 24' log cabin near West's Fort where Henry, a millwright, had constructed the region's first large gristmill. The mill operated for more than a century and provided cornmeal and flour for a large portion of the population of the region. A sawmill was added later. The mill was destroyed by fire in the early twentieth century.
The McWhorter cabin was much better than the average pioneer cabin of that day, being built of hewn logs and having a substantial wooden floor. The windows, too, had small panes of glass instead of the customary greased paper. The immense chimney of stones and clay was constructed inside the cabin as a precautionary measure against the attacks of Indians. It took in the greater part of one end of the cabin. In the great fireplace were placed the large irons called dogirons upon which rested the huge back logs.
An iron crane was swung from the center of the fireplace upon which hung the immense iron pot where much of the family's cooking was done. The baking was done in a heavy iron pot set in the hot ashes, with more hot ashes placed upon the heavy lid.
On the right side of the huge chimney was the built-in cupboard, and here were kept the few dishes and cooking utensils carried across the mountains from the old home. On the left side of the chimney was a stairway leading to the upper room where the family had their sleeping quarters.
On one side of this upper room were two small windows, not more than a foot square, through which the inmates could fire at the Indians should they come too near.
Three generations of the McWhorter family were born in this cabin during the forty years they lived there. The family was forced to leave the homestead in 1833 and return to McKinney's Run after a series of security debts left Henry financially embarassed. It was there that Henry died in 1848.
The log homestead and the mill were sold to Edward Jackson, a cousin of "Stonewall" Jackson. The cabin remained in the Jackson family for many years. In time it became the property of Mrs. Walter Neely, a Jackson descendant, who in 1927 decided to remodel or tear down the old cabin to build a home for her son who had recently married. She finally decided to turn the cabin back into the hands of the descendants of the original owner and builder, on condition that the cabin be removed and preserved.
With leadership provided by Miss Minnie McWhorter, a great-great granddaughter of the pioneers, the cabin was moved to Jackson's Mill and dedicated there on August 14, 1927.
The cabin was re-dedicated by the McWhorter Family Association to the state of West Virginia on July 24, 1993, in observance of it's 200th anniversary with more than two hundred persons present for the weekend event. A McWhorter Family Endowment was established for the cabin's maintenance and upkeep. A time capsule was buried under the front step of the cabin on August 14, 1993, during the Eleventh Annual Hacker's Creek Pioneer Descendants Gathering. It contains momentos of the anniversary celebration and other items reminiscent of the year 1993. It is to be opened in 2043 by a committee appointed from the family's younger generation in 1993.
This shows the unexposed film roll. Loading is a bit of a pain, you have to thread it through a small gap and pull it around the film plane, without it jumping out or buckling. I proved the theory with an ancient roll of kodacolor II.
My new Happy Hacking Keyboard Professional 2, imported from Japan.
I do look at the keys occasionally (thankfully, with black labels on black keys, it's not much), so I needed labels. Also, labels are vital because of so many keys that are in non-standard places and only available through the function key.
The keys have a roughened texture (not a camera artifact). For some reasons, Topre-based HH keyboards don't photograph well.
Color adjustment with GIMP, and depth-of-field effect added with Focus Blur filter.
Hacking a digital bathroom scale to use as a general-purpose weight sensor or input device.
Explained in more detail at:
Haseo cosplay by CyberBird
Photo is 6 images stitched together (I don't own a wide angle lens so thank you 50mm xD)
We often let nine months old Lucas play with Alpha Baby - it's fun for him to hear the sounds and see the coloured polygons appear when he presses keys on the keyboard. And with the security built in, his parents can relax about Lucas messing up the computer... Except, in this clip, Lucas manages to exit from Alpha Baby by turning the keyboard around, then activates Front Row, followed by a visit to System Preferences where he accidentally turned on speech for the visually impaired. It took a while to reset the computer so it didn't read web pages out loud.
I need to write fun and accurate job descriptions. I fell into the lazy trap - write a corporate job description - and surprise... near zero applicants.
Time for a hack!
We're CSS/HTML'izing what you see above (complete with hand-written notes et al)... this is what folks will see when they go to the job posting.
Stay tuned. It should be CSS'ified by Monday.
Thanks to Paul for his neat handwriting and Mike for his CSS jedi skillz... Mike, Paul and I co-authored the hack.
During PBS’ NOVA “Memory Hackers” session at the Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour in Pasadena, CA on Tuesday, January 19, 2016, pediatric neurologist and neuroscientist Nico Dosenbach, 12-year-old with HSAM (Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory) Jake Hausler, professor and psychologist Dr. Julia Shaw, professor Dr. André Fenton, producer, director and writer Michael Bicks and series senior executive producer Paula Apsell explore how researchers on the cutting edge of mind-control can implant, change and even erase memories. On this thought-provoking journey into the mind, NOVA investigates the mysterious nature of how we remember.
(Premieres February 10, 2016)
All photos in this set should be credited to Rahoul Ghose/PBS
Hacking a digital bathroom scale to use as a general-purpose weight sensor or input device.
Explained in more detail at:
The goal was to create a super wide and cheap APS camera.
Step 1: Take a Canon IXUS FF - file down and glue on a 67-72mm filter step-up ring - paint black to hide all the messy glue (and also to cut down on internal reflections?).
Step 2: Screw on a 0.43x wide angle converter lens that I found for a few pounds on ebay.
Step 3: Realise that you just more than doubled the camera's weight (175g -> 400g!)
Step 4: Shoot and pray it worked out OK.
It came out with a focal length of about 25mm (35mm equivalent) which isn't bad. The bonus is that you get the macro lens thrown in (by unscrewing the wide angle bit).
“Rainbow Teddy made shorts from Swatch” #LGBT #Crazyisgood #hacks
Someone on Instagram commented that Rainbow Teddy (RT) needs a rainbow tshirt [1]. Until then, RT had no idea that he had been a nudist all his life. “Why wear anything if no one complains?” RT said. “I think that I will make myself a pair of rainbow shorts instead.”
Being a total hacker that he is, RT went to SML’s Swatch drawer and connected all of them together into a chain around his furry body. “Well SML can’t wear of them at any time anyway, so I might put them to use. Besides, I would never forget the time this way.”
“I can make sizes available for human also. I will need a lot of Swatch but if you are too lazy to do it yourself you can email me,” RT said.
Rainbow Teddy can be reached at rainbowteddy@crazyisgood.com or for those who are too lazy to type, he can also be reached at rt@sml8.it
Captured with iPad 3, processed in Snapseed.
# Notes
1. “Teddy should have a Rainbow Tshirt ;)”—@lovelouiseb instagram.com/p/UfhqwZlXFW/
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/ #RainbowTeddy #ToyStory #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #SMLHacks Crazyisgood #LifeCelebratesDiversity #SMLProjects
/ LGBT #同志 #gay #bear #toys #Swatch #diversity hacks #hackers #shorts #fashion #design #crazy #wtf #lol
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Time warp to 1995. Head-to-head "Wipeout XL" video games being played on a Playstation, alongside dancers grooving to DJs playing electronic 90's-era tunes.
Mmmmm, hacking my brain feels a little spastic at first, then it can actually feel pretty relaxing. Lots of crazy patterns going on here.
I have a theory on why the patterns appear the way they do. When you stare at a bright light your eye compensates for that light by creating a spot (even with eyes closed). I found that when I kept my eyes still, those spots filled in and nothing out of the ordinary happened. However, when I moved my eyes rapidly, those spots created crazier patterns. The white noise sound from the earphones serves to pull you into a meditative state. Now, I was doing this in the middle of a party, so the white noise faded into the background and I concentrated on the party goers instead. What was particularly interesting was that the colors were bright red at first, but as I neared the end of my 15 minutes, the red faded to a grey. I was seeing the same patterns, but in black and white instead of color. It was as if my eyes compensated for the intense red and canceled it out.
A pretty cool experiment/project.
Check out THIS MAKE VIDEO PODCAST to learn more about the Brain Machine complete with info on how to make your own.