I know I have said this before, and I hate to belabor the point… but I love the web! While digging around on the web for information about the construction of organ pipes I ran across a unique individual who must truly be considered a Mirth Maker Extraordinaire!
Professor Johan Liljencrants mirth making […]

As I’ve been working to bring Topfer PipeCAD up to snuff I’ve gotten a tremendous amount of useful feedback from George Bozeman. One of his many suggestions was to implement the capability to produce logarithmic graph paper which could be used in conjunction with the voicer’s proportional dividers to transfer measurements directly from a […]

Once again the good folks of BoingBoing have brought our attention to a collection of rube goldberg machine videos scattered across the web. I’ve seen some of these before, but they’re just so mirthful that I’m including a link to the entire list as posted by Cory Doctorow. I think my favorite video […]

I am very proud to announce the next release of Topfer PipeCAD, version 0.82.

Based on some great feedback I’ve enhanced the functionality in PipeCAD, as well as added some new features.
PipeCAD is still in BETA, so you should expect to find some bugs lurking about. And currently I still haven’t completed the full printing […]

I’m proud to announce the Beta release of the Topfer PipeCAD organ pipe design program. This new product of Universal Mirth & Magic was created to help pipe organ designers with the sometimes repetitive task of capturing design data for the fabrication of organ pipes.

A note to the user: This is a […]

For the first time in a long time I happened across the website of
Matthias Wandel. I had run across his site several years before, and had been delighted with his many wonderful hobbies, but the memory of his accomplishments had faded through the years. Thus I was delighted to stumble across his site […]

One of the interesting side effects of the digital age in which we live has been the rapid obsolescence of any given data storage format. For instance (not to give my age away, but…) I only recently threw out a stack of old punch cards that I had used in my college years while […]

Turns out that lots of folks have thought about modeling solenoids. Just hop over to Google for a quick search and you’ll turn up dozens of hits. They all make for very interesting reading, but as for me I’d rather not reinvent the wheel.
So, after perusing the literature for awhile, I came to […]

In downtown Birmingham, Alabama, you can take a refreshing break from the heat of the day by ducking into the lobby of the McWane Center. If you explore bit, you’ll quickly run across George Rhoads’ audiokinetic sculpture Vulcan’s Dream. It sits near the 2nd Ave N. entrace, between the Cafe and the Imax Theater.
This […]

If for any reason you happen to find yourself in Montevallo, Alabama, and you’ve got some time on your hands, then I recommend you take a trip to Orr Park. Now I’m sure you’re wondering what’s so darn impressive about a tiny park in a small town. Is it some rare ornamental planting? […]