Recent Updates
Shared: Chart of the Day
March 9th 12:47pm
Tweeted: 15 years ago today: first date with my wife
March 9th 12:11pm
Tweeted: About to start an 8 hour project. I've given myself the week to do it.
March 8th 3:31pm
Shared: iA’s 2006 Facebook Designs, Redesigned
March 8th 1:42pm
Bookmarked Free Online Graph Paper / Plain
March 8th 9:27am
Tweeted: I just slept for 12 hours.
March 8th 7:14am
Tweeted: Wow, Sunapee is a really great mountain.
March 7th 6:33pm
Tweeted: Interesting introduction to Livecoding (a music genre totally new to me) and Lisp - http://vimeo.com/9790850
March 6th 9:38am
Shared: Algorithms are Thoughts, Chainsaws are Tools
March 6th 9:36am
Tweeted: Looking for a new TextMate theme...
March 5th 10:22am
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Knitting Projects
Real men knit. Click photos to elarge
Hot Head Hat for Charlotte Hat, October 2008
Hot Head Hat for Chloe Hat, October 2008
Hot Head Hat for Me Hat, October 2008
Brown & Orange One-Stripe Scarf, December 2007
Small knitted kitten, October 2007
Portfolio
Most of my time spent building web sites these days is through my company, iMarc. Here are some little personal sites I’ve built for friends and family.
- marshallbroslandscaping.com — My neighbor's landscaping company
- sandytufts.com — My wife, the doula
- petersenengineering.com — An engineering firm focused on sustainability
- tidewaterschool.org — A lot of talented parents, faculty, and I built this site for the school our daughters attend.
- greenadvantageinsulation.com — A friend who owns a spray foam insulation company
- charlottetufts.com — Sandy’s and my second daughter
- chloetufts.com — Our first born
- joshcole.com – Josh Cole is a rock ‘n’ roll God of Thunder.
- professorofscience.com — I have no idea what I’m going to do with this domain.
Mortgage Calculator
When looking for our first house, I wrote a PHP-based mortgage calculator to better understand how mortgages work. It seems to be fairly accurate.
Use the mortgage calculator now Download PHP Mortgage Calculator: Requires PHP 5
External Links
As a partner in a web firm, I try to stay current on all the other social web services. My profile on these services...
Some old, yet still interesting articles, by other people.
- The Wal-Mart You Don’t Know, Fast Company’s 2003 article about how Wal-Mart can sell a year’s supply of pickles for $2.97.
- Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal, by Joel Salatin. Virginia farmer, Joel Salitin, writes about bureaucracy and limitation of rights.
- The Problem With Music, by Steve Albini. This article cronicles how a band can sell 1/4 million records and be $14,000 in debt while the record company keeps $710,000.
- FreeBSD: It’s What Your Server Wants, An article by me promoting the joy of FreeBSD
- Run Your Own Unix Web Server, A three part tutorial by me, detailing FreeBSD installation and set up
- This Steer’s Life, the story of one steer from 8 months old to steak.
- JA: Graffiti Legend
About
I live in the great state of Maine with my wife and two daughters. I work at iMarc in Newburyport, Massachusetts. I make websites.
Contact Me
If you have questions or feedback, email me at davetufts@davetufts.com
Photos
Songs
Audio Archive — live shows and digitize cassettes.
Here’s a sampling of some bands I’ve been in dating back to 6th grade (1985).
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Coleman’s March, Jan, 2005
This is me playing a traditional American fiddle tune on the guitar. Jan, 2005
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Crossing No. 9 / Church Street Blues, Jan, 2005
I’m playing guitar on this one. It’s a medley of two Norman Blake songs.
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Wildwood Flower, Feb, 2004
This is a off-time-Tony-Rice-wannabe version of the Carter Family classic.
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DBS: Freestyle #1, Summer, 1995
That’s me on the wheels, Zert on the mic, and Dr. Michael Carty with the Ballantine Ale, 1995
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DBS: Freestyle #2, Summer, 1995
Again, me on the 12s, Zert and Nonchalant hogging the mic.
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Friends of Ed: Still (acoustic), Winter, 1995
By this time, FOE was pretty much done. J, Mike and I recorded seven songs in the winter of 1995 in J’s living room.
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Friends of Ed: Rain, 1994
Live to two-track recorded at Berklee College of Music for a friend’s sound engineering mid-term project. These are easily my favorite FOE songs.
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Friends of Ed: Kung, 1994
Same session as above. These are easily my favorite FOE songs.
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Friends of Ed: Still, 1994
Same session as above.
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Friend Of Ed: Skyscraping, 1993
Recorded at Long View Farm on 24-tracks to 2" tape.
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Friend Of Ed: Hand Full, 1993
Same as above. For this session, we had the same engineer who recorded Bad Brain’s I Against I.
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Friend Of Ed: Three Thirds, 1992
Recorded live from the mixing board at Worcester Artist Group, summer of 1992
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Friend Of Ed: Big Orange Hat, 1992
Same as above. This was the summer before we all went to college.
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Friend Of Ed: Skunkin, 1992
Same as above.
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Friend Of Ed: New Direction, 1992
A Gorilla Biscuits cover from the same show as above.
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Friends Of Ed: Eye of the Tiger, 1991
The first FOE song ever recorded.
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Friends Of Ed: Judgemental, 1991
Recorded in Pete’s basement on a boom box.
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Allen, Crawford & Tufts: Day Ditty, 1991
Me and two friends did an acoustic show at Worcester Artist Group in 1991. This is a Shudder To Think cover recorded while practicing for that show.
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Allen, Crawford & Tufts: Sky Flying By, 1991
A Samiam cover from the same practice session as above
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Allen, Crawford & Tufts: Please Let Me Get What I Want, 1991
A Smiths cover from the same practice session as above.
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Today’s Trash: Crazy Lover, 1991
A Henry Rollins cover with Pete Degraaf helping out on vocals. Recorded March 1991 at Worcester Artist Group.
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Today’s Trash: Undeserving Song, 1990
Recorded in an 8-track studio called Mendon Road. Note the Repo Man samples
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Today’s Trash: Fence, 1990
Recorded at Mendon Road when I was in 10th grade.
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Today’s Trash: Down In Storyland, 1990
Same as above.
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Today’s Trash: Hickory Lane, 1990
We record 7 songs at Mendon Road and put out a cassette tape called Hickory Lane. This is the title track.
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Today’s Trash: Down In Storyland, 1989
By 9th grade we discovered the 4-track, and started writing our own songs.
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Today’s Trash: Gum On Sunday, 1989
I think this was the first song we wrote.
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Today’s Trash: Ceremony, 1988
A Joy Division cover live from St. Luke’s Parish Center, where all the best punk rock shows were
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Today’s Trash: Holiday Inn Cambodia, 1988
We thought we were so cool to be doing Dead Kennedy’s cover songs in 8th grade.
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Today’s Trash: Should I Stay Or Should I Go, 1987
Today’s Trash was a band I was in from 7th grade – 11th grade. Here we are coving the Clash at a talent show in 7th grade.
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All Purpose Potatoes: Johnny B. Goode, 1985
That’s me on the awfully out-of-tune guitar, but I’m not worried because I was only in 6th grade. Mello had 28 pillows in his bass drum because the music teacher though were were too loud for the talent show.