Kris 🧙‍♂️ Kowal

@kriskowal.com

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Antenna / Coaxial switch
PS/2 to AT adapter.
Business card, reading “Kris Kowal: Sourcerer (Apple)”
Don Quixote, when the wind farm became animate, like Martian tripods run amok.
proof of work
My father with me, driving the replica he built of a 1901 Locomobile in the Simi Valley in the 90s.
Mr. Can, in a very digital voice: “I would serve you better if you gave me legs and Internet access.” This being made in 1999, I have taken the liberty of spelling Internet as a proper noun, as has fallen out of fashion since.
Cowbert’s pencil, “So far, it’s scared away all our visitors and electrocuted the goldfish.”
Cowbert, with an anthropomorphic pencil in his nerd pocket, “At this time, I proudly announce Bovine Labs latest invention…”.
A cartoon bovine coat of arms. A shield blazoned geometrically. A sword in one hoof, a pencil in the other, with one hoof standing on a keyboard sufficient only for typing variations of “moo”. One foot in a bucket. Captioned, “Cowbert, by Kris Kowal”.
Dan Abramov, at the back of the orchestra, holding one of a pair of cymbals, saying “This time I won’t screw up! I won’t, I won’t, I won’t, I won’t…” and the Narrator, “Dan Abramov Makes a DSL”.
Grantees Kris Kowal & Mark S. Miller, Decentralized Cooperation Foundation, “Safely empowering AI-written code with Endo”, Foresight Institute, Secure AI, with profile photos.
A 3D printed Menger sponge (a fractal through the omission of cubes within cubes) where one face has ENDO recessed into it and an internal face has JS embossed upon it.
Instead of encapsulating a horse’s organs, this scene from the film The Cell, with Jennifer Lopez in 2000, depicts organization of a horse into cross sections.
A witch of the desert.
“It is inspired by the name of the mage Nemmerle in Ursula K. Le Guin's book "A Wizard of Earthsea" (spelling with a single 'm' is a design decision ;-) )”
Front and back covers of Basic Binary Board Book featuring the numbers 0 and F, with a depiction of the binary bits as concentric rings with a quantity of segments denoting their place value, with each segment having the same area.
You wouldn’t alter a builtin meme.
| interogative | proximal demonstrative | distal demonstrative | | - | - | - | | where | here | there | | whence | hence | thence | | whither | hither | thither | | when | +hen | then | | which | +hich | +thich | | what | +hat (this) | that | | why | +hy | +thy |
Richard Harris, best known for playing Dumbledore in the first installment of the TERF WARS, but for his best moment in The Count of Monte Cristo, where the protagonist brags that he’s counted all of the bricks in his cell and he response, “Ah, but have you named them?”.
Map of the Lonely Mountain and its environs, with conspicuous web app components.