This corner of the ancient, sprawling Microship site was created in August 2011 to provide a place for the Deep Archives of my gizmologically intensive life… including my old magazine articles, media coverage of the bicycling epoch, snippets from the Microship project, photos, videos, random geekery, system documentation, and much more. Since this covers such a wide range of topics, I decided to use a blog with categories and tags to help with navigation. Each post shows three randomly chosen links at the bottom, with thumbnails, to encourage browsing… and you can follow a timeline with the next and previous links at the top and bottom of each post (or via the automatically generated table of contents).
I’m using a sweet little Fujitsu ScanSnap S1300 to convert print articles into Searchable PDF, then I tell Automator on the Mac to extract text and image files from those (which beats multiple scans). Every article thus has readable text, page images that you can click to embiggen, and in some cases a downloadable PDF… along with related resources and comments wherever relevant.
Moving to a sailboat, this is an important part of my tonnage reduction, since I have a mountain of precious archives that I’ve been dragging around for decades. Sharing it here will be fun… and help ensure its longevity. A few hundred are in the queue, so this will take a while…
There is a complete Site Map that is automatically updated as articles are added, or you can click here for a random item in the archives.
Copies Available
I have extras of a few of these articles, which I’m happy to sign (if you wish) and mail for a few bucks in the boat-parts kitty. Articles tagged with Copies Available carry a PayPal button and specifics.
The Technomadic Substrates
Here are my gizmological contraptions in reverse chronological order. Each is clickable for a larger version…
Microship docked in Bainbridge Island during 2001 mini-expedition (photo by Steven Roberts)
BEHEMOTH somewhere in North Carolina, circa 1991 (photo by Bob Ponzoni)
Winnebiko II in Florida sometime in 1988 (photo by Dan Burden)
Winnebiko passing through Palatka, Florida, in March 1984 (photo by John Delzell)
