Category: Origins

I was probably only 4 or 5 years old when I ran across my first Rube Goldberg cartoon. Yay! What fun it was to see the impossible and impractical contraptions that sprang from the genius of Rube Goldberg!
I suppose that I had been primed for the occasion - some of my favorite puzzles […]

Wayne Lytle is my hero.
No, really. My hero. Here’s why:
Wayne had an idea that landed completely off the beaten path. Wait, more than idea, almost an obsession from what I can tell. Then again, maybe it was just the isolation resulting from being snowed in all those winter nights at Cornell […]

Welcome to Making Mirth!
I’ve spent the last two days getting lots of images ready for this site, and thinking about all the many things that I’d like to blog about. And of course, lots of decisions to be made before even beginning to capture a single real iota of content - things like […]