Colin Sherrill
Senior research data scientist at Google
Off the clock I make small, self-contained things for the web. This site collects them, along with occasional notes.
Data science
Public write-ups and side analyses will land here. For now, most of my after-hours energy goes to the projects below.
Fun projects
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Pindifferent
Like Pinterest, but at peace with it. A pixel-faithful parody whose guided tour slowly, gently talks you out of the entire concept.
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Just Press Right
An award-winning game. Press right, and a man walks right. You will be interrupted. You will be celebrated. Mostly interrupted.
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FOSAIC
Set any picture in stone. Drop in a photo and it comes back a Roman mosaic: irregular tesserae, grout and all, computed entirely in your browser.
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Alder Box
A quiet interactive story: someone else’s keepsake box, opened one object at a time while an old friend tells you what each one meant.
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What’s the Price of a Stamp?
A different famous website every time you load it, with the current price of a US postage stamp hidden somewhere inside.
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man.cat
man cat is a real command. The site is what it prints: the manual for the household cat, and one for you, as maintained by the cat kernel team.
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FISHMASH
FaceMash, except the candidates are fish and several of them are dinner. Ten verdicts, one housing ledger, no appeals.
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JokeJudge
Jury duty for jokes. Nine cases, two exhibits each. Every verdict you return is quietly entered into evidence, and when your service ends, the court rules on you.
jokejudge.com
Writing
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Mise en Place
Last meals. Not for prisons. · 13 min
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Twenty Minutes of Wanda
A godmother, Class C, part-time. · 20 min
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Heavy Sleeper
A friend who’s finally been doing better. · 6 min
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Grand Larsony
The same twenty minutes, told four times. · 10 min
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iTrip
A short story about a long drive. · 8 min
Notes
A microblog: short posts on what I’m working on, links worth keeping, and the occasional aside. Click a title to expand it.