My interest in the history of technology has lead me to regularly cross disciplinary boundaries in and out of academia. By hobby I am a woodturner, I dabble with blacksmithing, and embrace MAKE magazine's motto: "If you can't open it, you don't own it." My current THAT-type project is a nascent historical geospatial commons for my community. I am not a digital generation native, but using PhotoShop, ArcGIS, and Google Earth, I have built a proof-of-concept and am inching toward a launchable site in the near future. Now I am pondering ways to make digital humanities part of the classroom engagement for my students. On Nicholas Carr, it's kind of ironic that there is a Wikipedia page on him, eh?