About this site
Factoids galore about the author, Eli McIlveen:
Composer and occasional songwriter; I’m the bassist and arranger for acoustic pop band Flickershow and do more electronic work under the name Geometer (a geometer is someone who specializes in geometry, of course, but it’s also the name of a family of moths, namely the inchworms). I live with my significant other and two cats in a little house in Leslieville in the east end of Toronto, and work as a web developer at Evergreen, an organization focused on environmental stewardship and education in urban areas across Canada.
This is largely a blog about making things: Music. Buildings and other human spaces. Art. Gadgets. Connections.
It’s split into three sections: the main blog, The Lab, about electronics and other DIY pursuits, and The Big Here, about civic issues, buildings and the environment.
As I said in a post back in August 2006:
Building things from materials at hand - it’s a trait I inherited from my parents, and I think the whole attitude is one of their greatest gifts to me. Almost every piece of furniture we had was either a hand-me-down, bought used, or home-made. We just didn’t buy new things unless we really needed them.
That’s my sort of hacking: improving or repurposing things that already exist; occasionally building things from whatever I’ve got at hand.
Thus, “Forgery League”. The idea of forging—making things, and making one thing into another—a dark workshop full of smoke and fire and loud hammering noises. I liked the the slightly illicit connotations it had too. We’re all making it up as we go along.