My father, who never used the internet, and who died six years ago this month, just sent me the link to this article from beyond the grave

Photo credit Joe O’Ceallaigh

Before this time, nobody ever encouraged me to write as myself. For myself. Like myself. Two years in, I’ve barely begun to see who that even is.

You never find out what you don’t ask. Not only other people, even yourself. I wish there was a Wikipedia for me and my family and friends. Why did she get divorced? Why don’t those friends speak any more? Why did I spend five years with that guy? Why did my grandparents get married?
i want to Google my parents and find out just what the hell the plan was. I want to see if my father had gone on record anywhere about why he built that boat, and when, exactly, and how many moves it survived before finally crumbling into dry rot, never once to break the surface of water.

I was untangling my wired headphones with my eyes closed because that’s the way I like to solve what I consider tactile puzzles. Then I wondered if there were any cool tactile puzzles for the blind that I could play with, like to relax. I started searching on 3D puzzles for the blind and tactile puzzles for the blind, and there was kind of nothing because all the sites and all the designs were about modifying puzzles and games designed for sighted people for use by blind people, which is not the same. I started wondering if anybody is designing toys or puzzles or games where being sighted is not necessarily an advantage, or is an actual disadvantage. And then I’d like to see that toy modified for sighted people to attempt to use.

​just one example

this is just concepts in a design newsletter

​ ok these seem pretty entertaining

It’s all futile in the end, but some futile things bring joy