Mike Olson·May 4UQBAR clock surgeryI wrote about the clock I built for UQBAR café, and about its design and construction. Café visitors like it! It gets a lot of attention.
Mike Olson·Mar 26Building the UQBAR ClockLast year, the owners of UQBAR Café in West Berkeley invited me to build a metric clock for their restaurant. I’ve been preoccupied with…
Mike Olson·Mar 26The UQBAR Clock!I built a clock for UQBAR, my favorite café in Berkeley, California. Full disclosure: My daughter and son-in-law, Jennie and Benji Smith…A response icon6A response icon6
Mike Olson·Aug 10, 2025LunacyIt was a full moon last night, and clear at Table Rock Lake, where I am right now. I decided to get the Seestar out and take some shots.A response icon2A response icon2
Mike Olson·Jul 22, 2025Ring Nebula and SaturnShort one today, in the spirit of doing science in public. See here and here for prior posts on my consumer-grade astronomy habit.
Mike Olson·Jul 21, 2025Lakeshore stargazingA few weeks back, I wrote about a new telescope I’d bought. I’ve been traveling and skies at my place have been mostly overcast lately, so…
Mike Olson·Jun 24, 2025A new toy!We went on a cycling trip in the Northumberland region of the UK last month. We followed the path of Hadrian’s Wall for four days on the…A response icon1A response icon1
Mike Olson·Jan 18, 2025Street artSome years ago, my wife Teresa and I rented an apartment in Amsterdam. I had spent some time in the city in the 1980s. We traveled there…A response icon1A response icon1
Mike Olson·Nov 19, 2024Thinking about Alzheimer’sI have a marked family history of age-related neurodegenerative disease. Relatives in the two generations above me have suffered from…
Mike Olson·May 10, 2024How onAppear/onDisappear closures work in iOSThis post is to document some obscure stuff I learned about UIKit in iOS. I spent a bunch of time puzzling this out, and hope to save…
