CandleWatch - Rekindling the love for candlelight
![candlewatch desk](/media/1/image/jpeg/tiny/2739_1_986_8.jpg)
![candlewatch lit](/media/1/image/jpeg/tiny/2738_1_986_7.jpg)
CandleWatch is a new jar candle accessory that automatically extinguishes jar candles.
My Industrial Art
![Blue Industry](/media/1/image/jpeg/tiny/2917_1_1045_1.jpg)
![Mental Industry](/media/1/image/jpeg/tiny/2918_1_1045_2.jpg)
Some unusual digital art composed from my photos and a portrait.
Using the Internet
This editorial on education was printed as a Chalkboard column in the Messenger.
The Black Curse has Arrived
The Black Curse board game has now been converted to an online JavaScript-driven web game.
Me, Myself & Mr PC
Unpublished piece on personal computers by Shawn Olson.
November 18, 2009 Newsletter
![de_tension wooden bridge](/media/1/image/jpeg/tiny/3926_1_1453_1_de_tension-wooden-bridge.jpg)
![well shark cartoon](/media/1/image/png/tiny/3924_1_1450_1_well-shark-cartoon.png)
![de_tension wooden bridge](/media/1/image/jpeg/tiny/3932_1_1453_7_de_tension-wooden-bridge.jpg)
![Portrait of a jumping spider](/media/1/image/jpeg/tiny/3904_1_1444_6_portrait-of-a-jumping-spider.jpg)
![Ambush bug extending arms](/media/1/image/jpeg/tiny/3911_1_1445_6_ambush-bug-extending-arms.jpg)
![Hayden Holding Mantis](/media/1/image/jpeg/tiny/3894_1_1443_1_hayden-holding-mantis.jpg)
November 18, 2009 Newsletter with a discussion on social networking sites like Facebook. Links to latest projects.
Ambitions and Weekends
Essay on being self-aware and realizing that the human psyche has some hardwired contradictions and paradoxes.
Photo Edit Competition
I submitted a piece to the SitePoint Photo Editing competition.
Donald George Olson died at 72
Some memories and thoughts about my Dad
![Donald Olson and Brianna Smith](/media/1/image/jpeg/tiny/4115_dad_bri_crazy.jpg)
![Dad shows Hayden thumb trick.](/media/1/image/jpeg/tiny/4122_dad_hayden_thumb.jpg)
![Dad smiles in Hat](/media/1/image/jpeg/tiny/4120_dad_in_hat.jpg)
![Don and Donna Olson.](/media/1/image/jpeg/tiny/4127_mom_dad.jpg)
![don and shawn](/media/1/image/jpeg/tiny/4126_dad_shawn_zoo.jpg)
![Olsons in Grove City](/media/1/image/jpeg/tiny/4125_dad_mom_faith_eric.jpg)
![donald and beverly olson](/media/1/image/jpeg/tiny/4114_baby_don_bev.jpg)
![Olson Wedding Photo](/media/1/image/jpeg/tiny/4130_mom_dad_wedding.jpg)
![Donald and Ethan](/media/1/image/jpeg/tiny/4131_emo_dgo_bw.jpg)
![Olson Boys when Don moved out](/media/1/image/jpeg/tiny/4135_olsons_leave_home.jpg)
![Dad and Harold](/media/1/image/jpeg/tiny/4118_dad_harold.jpg)
![Faith and Dad on Couch](/media/1/image/jpeg/tiny/4128_faith_dad.jpg)
![Dalmas and Donald](/media/1/image/jpeg/tiny/4119_dad_and_dalmas.jpg)
![Shawn's First Birthday with Mom and Dad](/media/1/image/jpeg/tiny/4129_mom_dad_shawn.jpg)
![Olson Brothers in Killdeer](/media/1/image/jpeg/tiny/4132_olson_brothers.jpg)
![Olson Family Portrait.](/media/1/image/jpeg/tiny/4137_olsons_olan_mills.jpg)
![Olsons 1990](/media/1/image/jpeg/tiny/4134_olson_clan_1990s.jpg)
![Shawn, Doug and Donald.](/media/1/image/jpeg/tiny/4136_shawn_doug_dad.jpg)
My Dad, Donald George Olson, died on March 18, 2013... just four days shy of his 73rd birthday.