For a while now I've been thinking I've been kicking an insufficient amount of ass. I have all sorts of ideas for wacky, pointless, and/or over-engineered WhatNots, but usually I do an initial burst of planning and then things sort of peter out.

No Longer!

With apologies to Jonathan Coulton for shamelessly ganking the name "Thing-A-Week", Project My-Own-Personal-Thing-A-Week means that starting June 1st, 2007, each Friday for the next year I will post the specifics of some sort of projecty thing that I've made over the previous week. I have only the vaguest idea of what sorts of projects. A while back I tried making Bismuth crystals, so I'll probably start out recycling that one by doing it again. Maybe it will be electronicsy, maybe computery, maybe close-up pictures of funny little bugs I find in the garden, maybe stupid lego tricks, maybe crappy abstract art, who knows?

This is absurdly ambitious, so much so that I was prepared to give up on the idea since it seemed so very, very likely I wouldn't keep it up. As soon as I caught myself thinking "you'll probably fail, so why bother trying" I realized I absolutely had to do it.

Step one, of course, is making an ostentatious and public declaration of intent, so that I have fear of never living this down to keep me motivated.

I don't have any particular expectation that people will find any particular project interesting, but you never know. Anybody who wants to pitch me an idea, lend assistance, or help me make a Science Helmet(tm) is quite welcome to do so.