The NorMill
Online since November 8, 1996
Proprietor: Norman T.
White
celebrating 42 years without a full-time job
Here in the Normill, I design and construct appliances which, unlike
toasters, are clearly pointless and useless. Hopefully they are
every bit as efficient, loaded down as they are with new technology. Here's
what interests me:
- Art -- I'm an artist, sort of. Check out my
art page and decide for yourself.
- Fussy Logic -- I'm a pioneer in this. But,
sorry, I can't talk about it yet... It's still in the Development Stage.
- Teaching -- Until I retired in 2003, I taught
at the Ontario College of Art & Design,
in the Integrated Media Program. My courses were in Digital Electronics,
Computer Programming, and Mechanics for Real-Time Sculpture. Incidentally,
I started teaching these subjects at O.C.A.D. in 1978.
I now teach similar subjects at Ryerson University, School of Image Arts.
- Rawbotics
and Sumo Robots -- One of the ways in which my friends, my students,
and I mix computer software, electronics, and mechanics -- and have fun
doing it -- is building machines which bash, taunt, and insult each other.
- Rat-packing -- Being
attracted to obsolete tech, I collect computers which people have thrown
out. Last time I counted, there were fifty-one vintage personal computers
lying around, of various brands and working states. But that was a long time
ago and I've stopped counting. Anyway, someday I hope to bring them all back
to life in my NorMill Personal Computer Museum.
For now I'll just keep them in a big unheated room out back.
Cheese
Paradees